I hadn't played FNC in a couple of months because offline gets way too easy so I stop playing to renew the challenge. I fired it up two days ago and did a quick match (offline). I did a random WW match and it was me (Mayweather cab) vs an Amir Khan cab.
I wasn't thinking too much when the fight started and within 3 rounds all I can say is that the fight against Amir Khan surprised the living hell out of me. For the first time in any Fight Night I had to stay 100% focused every round and going into the 10th I realized I was actually losing to the cpu. UD win for Khan.
I didn't think much of it until I played again today and picked Cotto and randomize again led me to Khan. I lost the fight via split decision 114-113, 113-114, 113-114. It was easily the best FN fight I've ever had. Paying more attention to the whole Khan part of things this time because of what happened in the Mayweather fight. I was unbelievably surprised (pleasantly so) to see that Khan outlanded me 39% to 33%. I pride myself on picking my spots and throwing the right punches at the right times. My biggest weakness is conserving stamina for the later rounds and not throwing enough combos. Yet I got outlanded by a solid margin as well as percentage and the dude threw about 200 punches less than me.
So I figured next time I'll pick someone I'm pretty good with and go at Khan again. I used Sugar Ray Leonard and beat Khan but it was once again very close. a 115-113, 115-113, 114-114 majority decision.
Now here's my thinking. Either EA changed something and I don't know about it, or no one knows about it. Or, whoever made the Khan cab ended up making him so that he fights realistically and harder than anyone else in the game. Whether by intent or accident is beyond me as well as irrelevant.
I am about to dive into experimenting to figure out wtf is happening. I've only done two fights outside of Khan being my opponent so far and won both fairly easily. Before I started though I felt like I needed to ask the OS community if things have changed and I'm out of the loop, if anyone else has noticed this, or what their thoughts are regarding what it could be.
I realize there's probably about 25 of us still playing this game but to me that's worth this long a$$ post to let the die hards know, something happened. At no point in any single one of the Fight Night's (and I've owned or played them all since the original Knockout Kings) have I caught myself gawking at my fight and thinking "Wow, this is so realistic", because it's never happened. This Khan cab fought unbelievably strategic, realistic, and intelligently. I've never seen anything like it in any boxing game. I also never use the instant replay in this game, ever. In the Cotto fight I must've gone into replay mode about 3 dozen times because some of the things he was doing were brilliant and some of the other moments were equally stunning.
If anyone ends up wanting to try it out I'll attempt to find who I downloaded the cab from (if that's even an option to look it up), post my sliders and of course the khab (lame, sorry) attributes and tendencies.
I know there's not many of us playing this game anymore but I felt as though if I've stumbled across something that makes this game as realistic as I've ever seen any boxing game get and no one knew about it, that I needed to figure it out (here goes nothing) and let you guys know how to achieve the same result.
Easiest way to put it is the game just went from bottom of my video game stack to completely geeked out about the possibility of having all fights be like that in the span of 4 fights. Thanks in advance for your help.