Losing in career mode?

[Mister_No_Name]

Everyone probably beast in their career mode with no losses or 1 at the most. But what happens if you lose a lot?

Will your longevity decrease faster? Has anyone lost more than two times?

[MeowingForVengeance]

Re: Losing in career mode?

I think losses take more off your longevity than a win would've where you took the same amount of damage. But I'm not sure.

You can take some losses, but fulfilling non-optional contract goals definitely matters. You can fail once and they'll give you one more contract to do it, but if you fail again it's literally game over. I lost twice to a rival (Felice Herrig) in my first crack at career mode and was forced to retire with a 9-2 record. There's no getting sent back down to WFA to hone your skills - you're just done. Seems stupid to me, but whatevs.

It'd be nice if the game told you ahead of time when a loss would result in your career being permanently ended.

[The_Waterboy92]

Re: Losing in career mode?

Everyone probably beast in their career mode with no losses or 1 at the most. But what happens if you lose a lot?

Will your longevity decrease faster? Has anyone lost more than two times?

My first play through I did on pro and I was not as experienced at the game yet. Needless to say I lost quite a few (final record was somewhere around 16-7). I hit a stretch where I lost I think 3 in a row and was informed that another loss would result in the end of my career. I believe Dana White sent a tweet at me during my training basically saying I had one more shot to prove I should be in the ufc. And In the loading screen before the fight I was getting tweets saying “one more and he should be gone” or “he won’t be in the ufc with another loss”. I ended up losing the fight by decision and my career was ended. It was actually pretty satisfying to see that

[dfab14]

Re: Losing in career mode?

I was wondering what it took to take the ultimate fighter route

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[scyth223]

Re: Losing in career mode?

Everyone probably beast in their career mode with no losses or 1 at the most. But what happens if you lose a lot?

Will your longevity decrease faster? Has anyone lost more than two times?

Yeah, it sucks. I handn't even won the title and was down to less than 50%. You'll get forced to retire and have to start all over again.

You know how most people in the UFC have a bunch of losses? I think Hendersin has 15. Bisping has 9. Victor Belfort has 13. Yeah, you can't play like that. The game doesn't want you to. You have to put the game on easy and never lose then you can play as long as you like.

Otherwise you are forced to retire, and start from the beginning. Why? No idea. I wanted the longevity meter to be optional, but apparently its realistic this way.

[dbacksfan23]

Re: Losing in career mode?

My very first career I actually finished with a record of 15-13. I think they kept me around in the UFC because my popularity was fairly high and somehow my fights kept generating medium/high hype despite losing. I actually finished my career with a win, and was forced to retire due to longevity. However, in my second career, I'm currently 30-2 and still have over 40% longevity left, so losses definitely do hurt your longevity a lot.

[TheJamesKraus]

Re: Losing in career mode?

You can lose as much as possible, aslong as you win the feature fight in your contract/fulfill your contract goals.

I completed career mode with a record of 48-8 or something like that.

I was deliberately losing in the end to try and kill off my longevity.

A gripe I have with career mode is I faced Werdum 5 times, Overeem 4 times, Ngannou 3, Hunt 2. I started at LHW aswell, so I worked my way up from that division.

Overeem has some ridiculous record with 120+ wins, and he is like 50+ aswell lol.

Career mode is lacking depth. It’s just a bunch of cutscenes and flashy contract goals to achieve.

Also, the only way you can win PoTN - well as far as I know, is to KO your opponent within 30 secs. ?!?!?!

[AeroZeppelin27]

Re: Losing in career mode?

Losses don't mean much at all from my latest play.

Decided to try legendary mode, is fun, but I still got onto DWLFAF at 2-1, 4th fight was vs Ishihara as a UFC debut, lost a 1 sided dec.

Proceeded to become ranked, got ten fight streak, won rivalry fights but lost my no.1 contender fight.. then got title shot directly after billed as no.1 contender, despite not even being top 5 (I was 6th)

As someone else said, not much matters provided you win that rivalry fight, if you lose that you basically just repeat that "contract" again.

[Solid_Altair]

Re: Losing in career mode?

I think I went 12-3. The losses don't seem to count much, unless they're against the rival. I had one normal loss and two losses to the second rival (who had a gigantic stats advantage on me) and that was game over.