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2 hours ago, odessasteps said:

I can see both sides: “realistic” vs “fantastic.” 
 

If you say it’s a fantasy game, why not see Rey slam Andre? 

They have a toggle for that in the options. Arcade mode and weight detection.

As for the moves, I dunno, got me there. Lazy devs?

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Toukon Road 2 for N64

The game has no Edit mode but レスラーシャッフル or in english Wrestler Shuffle, so you can choose one of the fighters in game as a base, like for example Chono and give him some random Tenryu moves. And more changes mixing with movesets from the 26 wrestlers. About 6 extra special listings to change moves. It's a weird but amusing gimmick.

CPU can learn the players attack patterns via sparring in the training mode.

Handicapping the fighters, on the fighter screen, press the bottom of the C button and move the 3D stick left or right to set the handicap to where you want.

You can play matches with the entrance attires, by holding Z L R and Cdown when you select the exhibition mode.

Grappling consists of regular grapple, small groggy, med groggy, large groggy, taunt/moves for finishers.

Baseball bats and chairs are in the game.

In MVP mode, Unit switching exist. So any fighter in game can belong to NJPW Army, nWo, Heisei Ishin army, or free. The nWo typhoon event and Inoki and Choshu retirement ceremonies are in the MVP mode. Players can use the silhouette body which shows injuries to see what body part to work on in MVP mode before the match.

Anyway i left out a bunch of info

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I dunno about anyone else but I’m having fun with MyFaction and Universe in 2K23. I’m slowly working on a combined AEW & NJPW save, since good CAWs for most of their rosters haven’t been released or made yet. I have another save that’s some weird merger of 1980s and 1990s All Japan with some WWF & WCW guys from that time period thrown in. First show and Bruiser Brody starts a feud with the Triple Crown Champion Kawada. I’m digging the new rivalry actions.

MyFaction is only fun because I got a head start since I preordered, and it came with some good cards. Already evolved a Cena and Liv Morgan from a Gold to Emerald or whatever.

But holy shit fuck Showcase (when you play it on Legendary difficulty). And it’s kind of bullshit you can’t use stuff you unlock in Rise & Showcase in anything but Exhibition matches. Hopefully they patch that.

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I have been playing My GM mode more than Universe and was doing so bad that HHH gave me a card to sign a legend for free. So I signed Austin and then started a feud between Austin and KO. And then I had their match. Normally I would just sim everything, but KO vs Austin on here I wanted to watch to see what they did for Austin. Within 5 seconds Austin hit a powerbomb on KO. Yeah, uh, that shit ain't cool. I'm going to need a moveset edit for Austin because that is fucking dumb.

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I feel like the CAW creation has gotten way out of hand. Don't get me wrong,  its possibly the best CAW creation suite ever,  but it takes a full day to actually fully craft your character,  moveset, entrance, etc. The there are approximately 35345688754236889 different moves to go through,  and a good 356549533 of them are different variations of a complete shot/downward spiral, a TKO, or a contrived version of a Michinoku driver. 

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13 minutes ago, supremebve said:

I. The there are approximately 35345688754236889 different moves to go through,  and a good 356549533 of them are different variations of a complete shot/downward spiral, a TKO, or a contrived version of a Michinoku driver. 

Throw in Canadian Destroyers and you have pretty much an accurate assessment of Current indy Wrestling.

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9 hours ago, RIPPA said:

I was watching a playthrough today and I love that the very first thing that pops up on social media in MyRise is Matt Riddle needing a ride to the arena

I mean, he’s probably holding.  He’d be walking to the arena if he asked me for a ride.  I’d quote Hulk Hogan and tell him “that don’t work for me, brother” right before I rolled up the windows and locked my doors.

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13 hours ago, Craig H said:

Within 5 seconds Austin hit a powerbomb on KO. Yeah, uh, that shit ain't cool. I'm going to need a moveset edit for Austin because that is fucking dumb.

Isn't the powerbomb lift a generic thing that everyone in the game has, like the fireman's carry and something else I am blanking on?

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Yeah, if you hit RB while in grapple and whichever direction it has those lifts for most characters.  I don't know how much variety there is for those moves and I don't recall if you can change the AI tendency so he never does that.  But it's one of the tradeoffs that I learned to accept with these games even though I should look into downloading accurate movesets for those I care to play as.

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I have been losing my shit over some of these arenas.  The airport one had us in stitches though the empty arena matches were pretty amazing.  Too bad I couldn't use the chairs in the crowd but you can still use weapons from ringside.

https://twitter.com/WhatsTheStatus/status/1639359105960665109?s=20

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WhatsTheStatus is a god send if you care about the stuff that'll be released for MyFaction or the cut content that's still in the files. And then you've got people like Iconic2K or Omegaman or DreGaming just pumping out incredible CAWs that look like official models, and they've only gotten better compared to last year.

But with a 1000 image limit, I'm just focusing on AEW stuff for my Universe mode. Which is slowly but surely coming together. I love love love that they put the ability for creators to have custom renders included with the download this year, unlike last year where you had to do it (which you still can, but still). It's also a lot faster loading the Image utility tool, and the renders in the Edit Superstar mode.

Sidenote, my buddy from work has been re-watching the Attitude Era (started at the Screwjob, is currently at the end of the Invasion) and decided to buy 2K23. We played some matches online on Monday night, and while it's pretty stable, there's still a lot of lag, some freezing and the rare case of outright game crashes (but the crashes are just in general, it's happened to me in Universe and in Community Creations). Online lobbies are weird - he didn't appear in my invite friends list, so I had to invite him to the lobby through the PS5 party feature. And one you select the match type and everything, you can't just backtrack and edit it. You have to back all the way out and start a new lobby, even if you want to change something as simple as turning entrances on or off. So weird.

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On 3/30/2023 at 4:16 AM, Casey said:

WhatsTheStatus is a god send if you care about the stuff that'll be released for MyFaction or the cut content that's still in the files. And then you've got people like Iconic2K or Omegaman or DreGaming just pumping out incredible CAWs that look like official models, and they've only gotten better compared to last year.

Haha I've just seen the payload of Sting/Flair/Giant/Adam Cole content WhatsTheStatus dropped, Sting and Giant's old voice samples triggering, crowds actually chanting "Adam Cole Bay Bay", absolute king shit

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From reading the all-over-the-place interview, he seems to be saying that the game is "done" in the sense that its fully playable but its still being QAed and then they have to go through all the approvals, etc.  I would be surprised if it doesn't come out in the next six months, probably smart they didn't announce a release date as everyone has been missing their dates the last few years anyway it seems if they are announced too much in advance. I don't believe 2K announced a release date for WWE 2K23 until January and then it came out two months later.

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On 3/17/2023 at 1:09 PM, Craig H said:

It's only been a few days of playing 2K23 and I'm about ready to uninstall it. So I'm playing Universe mode as Kevin Owens. Not an exaggeration, my first 10 matches were against the Miz. Then I got the prompt to start a rivalry or something and I was like, challenge for a title. So it puts me in a title match against Seth Rollins for the WWE Championship, which I win. The next show, another singles match against the Miz. Next week after that, another singles match against the Miz on a PLE. Then on Raw it auto starts a rivalry for me with Finn Balor, which was neat. But then the next 4 or 5 matches were ONLY against Finn Balor. I win all of those matches, it gives him a title match on a PLE, I lose that match because I fucked up kicking out on an attempt to try and boost the star rating, and the next 3 shows have all been against the Miz. 

This is so fucking dumb. I don't have any interest in playing random singles matches, I don't really have the time for online mode, I played MyRise and it's the worst Vince McMahon nonsense you can think of, and so that basically leaves Universe and GM mode.

I haven't bothered to check and see if anyone else has experienced the same issue with Universe mode, but this needs a patch or something because it's beyond ridiculous. Why keep playing when every match is against the same fucking opponent?

For fucks sake, not to beat a dead horse with No Mercy, but the storyline mode there was so fucking good with multiple outcomes and branching paths. Fucking do that again. No, instead you play a dude named The Lock or you play Universe mode against the same opponent over and over again.

The other part about Universe mode, which is the same problem it's had since its inception, is that the booking for the shows makes no sense. I have seen Roman Reigns win maybe a couple times. He loses all the time to Happy Corbin or Rollins or Jimmy Uso or whatever the AI decides to put him up against. The tag titles change hands probably every other show. I haven't even seen the US or IC title get defended once and haven't even seen Gunther on any of the shows. It's all basically just the most randomized shit where there's no rhyme or reason for anything.

 

On 3/19/2023 at 7:34 PM, Firebreaker Chip said:

I just bought that pack this evening because I decided to do a 2002 WWE Universe mode rather than wait ages for all the good AEW or WCW edits to be ready. There's a Deacon Batista alternate attire for the Leviathan on CC that I'm gonna push with Devon as a manager. WhatsTheStatus has also managed to make a 2005-era non-bald Bastista alt attire available (you attach it to the Batista '08 unlocked in Showcase) as well.

I had to do a lot of wrangling and restarting to get the first Raw show to not be gibberish booking (and Scott Hall randomly decided to make Jeff Hardy come out as his manager as an angle instead of bringing Bischoff lol), but the in-ring in this game is so great.

 

I had great matches with Syxx vs Hurricane (Syxx on top suckering Hurricane with a fakeout handshake, weathering a feisty comeback and tapping him out with the chicken wing after Hurricane had splatted missing a suicide dive), RVD vs Kane (RVD jumping Kane at the start to try and get an advantage, but missing both frog splashes he went for at the crucial points of the match and going down to two chokeslams in a row) and then a barn burner main event with Shawn and HHH vs Lance Storm and Test that I let the AI run.

Both sides were taunting each other and exchanging blows a lot, Storm and HBK kept on having their superkick attempts dodged or interrupted, and when Shawn finally went for a superkick with a clear-cut window on Lance, Storm quickly went for a rolling boston crab at the same time and it interrupted the superkick startup totally smoothly and locked him in the submission. There were a couple of big nearfalls off HHH's spinebuster and Test's elbow drop, the pinfalls from the main finishers got broken up and the finish was a bloody triple H running along the apron with a jumping knee to knock Test off the apron to the floor where he was KO'd, then returning to the ring to drop a bloody, kneeling, helpless Storm with a vicious right hand for 3. A pedigree would've been better, but it had a kind of All Japan "doctors about to jump in the ring as soon as the bell goes" finality to it (and Michaels was in fact revealed to have sustained a minor leg injury after the match). Then Hogan and Nash came out to laugh at them.

I don't know if it's having the "disrespectful" or "egotistical" sliders up high, but certain wrestlers taunt very often earlier on in matches, and it almost leads to a kind of story-driven aspect to AI matches where someone hits a big running attack, stops to taunt, and then their opponent pops up and hits a running move to them and does their own taunt afterwards in a tit-for-tat kind of way. And the announcers are always like "he's not going to lie there getting insulted like that!", it's kinda fun. I'd still prefer my early pace-setting to be in the form of actual chain wrestling but I'll take what I can get

 

You can turn off the camera cuts and/or the shaky-cam individually. The camera cuts in the game are way less maniacal than Mr KD's though, other than the occasional one entirely taken up by a shot of the ref's ass

 

 

On 3/23/2023 at 5:27 AM, Casey said:

I dunno about anyone else but I’m having fun with MyFaction and Universe in 2K23. I’m slowly working on a combined AEW & NJPW save, since good CAWs for most of their rosters haven’t been released or made yet. I have another save that’s some weird merger of 1980s and 1990s All Japan with some WWF & WCW guys from that time period thrown in. First show and Bruiser Brody starts a feud with the Triple Crown Champion Kawada. I’m digging the new rivalry actions.

MyFaction is only fun because I got a head start since I preordered, and it came with some good cards. Already evolved a Cena and Liv Morgan from a Gold to Emerald or whatever.

But holy shit fuck Showcase (when you play it on Legendary difficulty). And it’s kind of bullshit you can’t use stuff you unlock in Rise & Showcase in anything but Exhibition matches. Hopefully they patch that.

 

On 3/29/2023 at 11:16 PM, Casey said:

 

It's absurd the amount of glitches in UM and CAA AGAIN this year - absolutely furious I fell for 2K's bullshit again after keeping my word and skipping '20-22. But until UM is patched (IF they can dedicate some of their precious MyFaction resources) recommend you guys scope this video out on how to fix a lot of the Universe issues this year:

 

https://youtu.be/CgM_bo-VqCA

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I've kinda given up on 2K23. I downloaded a ton of AEW and NJPW wrestlers and setup a Universe with them all and it's just a shit show. It doesn't help that the game is pretty easy even with sliders adjusted. Although it seems like the real solution is to adjust all of the wrestler tendencies, but there's no way I'm spending hours to do that.

For so many years now MLB: The Show have allowed you to download complete rosters and in depth sliders and here we are with this where you can't do any of that. Every game should take a page from their book and just make it as simple as possible to update rosters for whatever you want. It's also annoying to know that Fight Forever is likely not going to have the ability to download CAWs.

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