EA Sports UFC 5 Adding New Fighters Every Month

[Steve_OS]

https://www.ea.com/games/ufc/ufc-5/news/ufc-5-additional-fighter-info

As part of our new Fight Week live service program, we plan on adding new fighters to the roster every month, starting in December. We want to keep hearing which fighters you’d like in the game, so please keep giving us your feedback and tell us who you want to see and in what order. Here is who we are planning on adding over the next few months:

December: Yan Xiaonan and Amir Albazi
January: Ian Machado Garry, Mike Malott and Charles Jourdain
February: Bryce Mitchell, Maycee Barber and Joe Pyfer

Also connected to Fight Week, we will add new Alter Ego fighters every month. This will give you new ways to play with your favorite fighters based on iconic moments in their careers.

[bmlimo]

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great hope they put michel pereira as well, such a different style, manel Kape is a need since his div has almost anybody

also I would love the legends like rampage, shogun, forrest and etc with their legendary outfit as alter ego

[AleBrew]

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Glad to see Garry, Mitchell and Pyfer upcoming. Not loving the December release, but makes sense (I just don’t use the women much).

Jailton Almeida (sp?) is the only glaring omission. I’d also love to see Sean Brady added sooner than later.

[Milano3093]

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Marcin Tybura, Jailton Almeida, Ion Cutelaba, Ryann Spann, Sergey Spivak

Funn legends/icons:
Mirko Cro Cop
Brock Lesnar (please re-add him)
Frank Mir
Josh Barnett
Rich Franklin
Frank Serra

[AleBrew]

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Do we think this announcement is just based on the feedback they’ve heard? Or did Dana make a call after being confronted about the roster?

Seems like the plan all along was to add fighters monthly, I think they just pivoted on the transparency of who will be added and when.

[The_Waterboy92]

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Francis ngannou 😂

[Trillz]

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So we will be getting patches with these new characters every month?

[TheRizzzle]

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Do we think this announcement is just based on the feedback they’ve heard? Or did Dana make a call after being confronted about the roster?



Seems like the plan all along was to add fighters monthly, I think they just pivoted on the transparency of who will be added and when.

The second part. You can even see the seams in the plan.

Garry before his fight at UFC 296.

Two Canadiens before the Toronto PPV.

Mitchell, Barber and Pyfer feel like the fan favorites they haven't been able to attach to an event for a while and finally decided to add.

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[rob3563]

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EA are so detached to what is going on that they are adding IAN GARRY in January yet he is fighting on Dec 16 at UFC 296,surely they can bring him forward to December

[sdpdude9]

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I’m sure it was always planned to release fighters as they have done in the past. Announcing it beforehand is obviously a response to the criticism. There’s no excuse for not adding anybody to the base game, that really should be considered bare minimum when making a sequel. Especially when most fighters are generic using the same animations, it’s basically just skins.

[tissues250]

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no referee??? Herb dean is only ref in ufc5??? insane.

[Skynet]

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I’m sure it was always planned to release fighters as they have done in the past. Announcing it beforehand is obviously a response to the criticism. There’s no excuse for not adding anybody to the base game, that really should be considered bare minimum when making a sequel. Especially when most fighters are generic using the same animations, it’s basically just skins.

From the article:

"When UFC 5 was in early development, we made the decision that we wanted to keep supporting UFC 4 players as we began to develop UFC 5. Rather than halt live service support for UFC 4, we’ve been updating the roster until July of this year with the goal of delivering fresh content to our community."

[Blackman316]

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From the article:

"When UFC 5 was in early development, we made the decision that we wanted to keep supporting UFC 4 players as we began to develop UFC 5. Rather than halt live service support for UFC 4, we’ve been updating the roster until July of this year with the goal of delivering fresh content to our community."

I predicted here that this will backfire as there will be lack of "new" content, which is a main expectation for fans in a "new" game. Weird decision for EA as several of these fighters might have helped sell the game.

[lbnt149]

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Surely new refs are coming imminently, how hard can it be to put them in.

It's not even as if they have individual body shapes everyone morphs to the same size on the post match cut scene anyway, bantam weights the same size as herb dean smh

[TheRizzzle]

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From the article:



"When UFC 5 was in early development, we made the decision that we wanted to keep supporting UFC 4 players as we began to develop UFC 5. Rather than halt live service support for UFC 4, we’ve been updating the roster until July of this year with the goal of delivering fresh content to our community."

I figured there'd be a significantly lower amount.

The decision to have none though...that is quite a decision.

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