OctoberRaven

I don't care about the keyboard. However, Bohemian Rhapsody in Rock Band? DO WANT. Hopefully they'll give us We Will Rock You/We Are The Champions (as in, both songs back to back, as they're meant to be), and possibly The Bicycle Song and/or Ogre Battle. Also hoping they'll throw us death metal fans another bone. Hammer Smashed Face is not enough!

I'd have to go with "I Hate Love Songs" by GWAR for now, but it could also be "Blind and Gagged" by Six Feet Under.

Is it just me or is the Rock about to pull some Kinnikuman shit on Cena there?

Tonight's ep.

I occassionally get a breif pause in gameplay... like a second maybe... for my PS3 version of UFC. The only game that really gets laggy for me offline on my PS3 is Fallout 3. Occassionally it will freeze up during VATS sequences in the wasteland. So I've made it a point to autosave fairly often while roaming. Sometimes though I have to do a total reset in The Pitt or Point Lookout though. Point Lookout isn't that bad, though, except when you're heading to the hotel.

Good strategy against a take down artist is to fight with your back towards the cage, and hold the right stick backwards when he presses you up against it. Won't always save you, but sometimes you'll be able to get him in a sprawl position and do some damage.

I'm playing as a LHW now, with a European named Ivan "Drago" Wagner. Heeling it up with him too. Sadly no option to say "If he dies, he dies". Some of the disrespect dilouge options are mild, but some are just not that disrespectful. Saying you plan on being champion for a long time is disrespectful? Interestingly enough, I've gotten maybe one 'let's look at this cut' since installing the game, that was when I was first doing career mode. Despite giving wounds that close eyes since then, the refs haven't stepped in since.

You can only do that when they're on the fence though. And you can do it with punches too.

Easiest way to do it is get in close and hit elbows, or do leg kicks, maybe some clinch striking. You don't have to do the move to learn it a lot of the time. Also, here's an easy "How to" learn submissions in Career mode: 0. ALWAYS SAVE BEFORE TRAINING SUBS, so if you struggle you can quit out to main menu and reload your career. 1. Learn the suplex to side control, salaverry, and salaverry elbow. 2. Train the salaverry armbar first. 3. When you start submission training, suplex, salaverry, elbow the partner until he's rocked, click R3 and shine. If you have 50+ sub offense, you SHOULD make him tap. 4. Repeat 3 until your session is up.

It's omoplata. Easy way to remember it is to think of Moe from the Simpsons applying it. "Oh, Moe, you can't lock in that omoplata". Not really... though I do remember Gogoplata by thinking "Go go gadget plata". No, I'm not on drugs. But people think I am all the time...

I got the PS3 trophy of the same name, you need to win by Flash KO. Go for counterpunches I guess.

At least I now know the lag isn't just me...

Actually, in my first run I made a pretty good HW who ended up with very high striking abilities (all 100 in the standup skills, 95 in ground striking offense) and respectable ground and takedown defense. The key is to specialize. That, and do use focused sparring only when you have stats in the 80s or 90s where it's actually more effective. You might get 20 points in regular sparring, whichcan bring a 90 to a 95, but with a good focused run you can get 10 bonus points which can get you from 90 to 100. Also, don't worry about resting to maintain your attributes. The best way I find to keep conditioning up pre-fight is to do a camp invite with 2 weeks left, then rest. You'll almost always end up with 80 conditioning and 40 stamina which is actually pretty good for a fight. I find the micromanagement aspect pretty challenging in a good way actually. EDIT- Though I think it'd be better and more accessible if the break levels were 30, 45, 60, 75, then 90.

Which makes me wonder if referees have different logic to them when it comes to standups...

The omoplata is another move I bet lots of people will use online too. Not because it's a particularly effective submission, but because there's one of three outcomes with it: 1. You win by submission 2. Opponent is standing and you're still down, making it easier for you to stand back up. 3. Opponent has you in side control, which you can use to transition to standing easier. Submissions are still a pain in the ass to do on CPU opponents in any difficulty except beginner which irks me. It means you pretty much HAVE to make a submission specialist in Beginner if you go to career mode unless you copy a retired fighter to create mode (which they might put a nix on via patching...)

Do TKOs count? Because I've gotten several in under a minuite by suplex to side control, salvaverry then elbow to oblivion. Won't work all the time of course but it's a strategy that I've found works wonders against the CPU. Online not so much.

2022. By the way, if you guys haven't noticed yet, you can unlock more stuff for your edits by doing the title mode (and then title defense mode, which gives you a LOT more of the games currency) then go to game progress and select the unlock shop. There's extra nicknames (including Last Emperor!), new taunts, new fighter intro animations, and new win animations. Also lots of new patterns for custom shirts. Sadly, no ability to have an American Flag banner for my Kenny Sasaki... Also it's a bit lame that you can't have custom banners in exhibition mode. Granted the banners themselves aren't really much to write home about, but come on... EDIT- It's because he needs to prove that his judo throws are the best, best throws in the world, and that all the other throws are done by little girls.

If it were possible, this game makes me hate Boring Jay Penn even more... took me like four tries to beat him in career mode... Oh, and I think I have the unofficial record for fastest sub in online play. 30 seconds with an omoplata with my main edit, against someone playing as Arlovski. The fight was literally Arlovski shoots, gets the takedown, I go for the Omoplata, submission.

44-8 in my entire career. Never got Fighter of the Year, or any of the year awards. Despite 43 of my 44 wins being (T)KOs, I got ONE KO of the night. And despite learning mostly kicks, knees and elbows, they still call me a boxer

ATT has a lot of the non-clinch Muay Thai stuff, I'd consider going there.

^For PS3ers, replace "X, Y, Y, X" with "Square Triangle Triangle Square". Yeah, Shaq isn't that great stats-wise.

Still having problems with submitting people, but otherwise, won the title in Career mode. Interesting that unlike in 2009 you actually have to win a contender match to get a title shot, and there's a weigh-in cutscene too. Unlocking stuff is also really easy in Title Defense mode, just keep winning and you get tons of points.

I forgot to ask in my last post, but has anyone figured out how to unlock one of the fight camps as a sponsor? For no other reason than it'd make sense for my CAF to be with ATT...

So, after having a trilogy with Cro Cop (and another one with Arlovski), I got my character really rolling now, next opponent being #3 ranked Brock Lesnar. Funny moment, I get a message saying a legend is coming out of retirement and wants to face "one of the new guys". That legend... Mirko Cro Cop. Long story short, I G&Ped Mirko into oblivion and now I'm 3-1 against him. Also, doing title mode to unlock stuffs.... fuck Anderson Silva.

7-1 right now with my first attempt at career mode. Took on Cro Cop and slaughtered him in under three minuites. Like the post-fight interviews, nice touch.