AEW: Fight Forever

[apsham]

The best we can gleam is from the leaked achievements, I think - specifically the ones that I underlined here.

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• Promising New Team: Create a custom team that includes a custom wrestler, and complete a tag team match
• Arena Architect: Create a custom arena and complete a match using it
• Making Their Debut…: Create a custom wrestler and complete a singles match using them
• Professional Gamer: Play through 5 different minigames
• Casual Gamer: Win a minigame within Road to Elite
• Triple Crown: Hold 3 titles simultaneously in Road to Elite
• Train to the Max: Perform 30 or more successful intense trainings during a single play-through of Road to Elite
• Food Critic: Select dining 16 times in a single play-through in Road to Elite
• Shirt Collector: Earn all t-shirts that can be earned in Road to Elite
• Hall-of-Famer: Earn a career grade of A+ in Road to Elite
• Livin’ the Wrestler’s Life: Complete Road to Elite 10 times
• Welcome to the Elite: Earn the AEW World Championship while playing Road to Elite
• On The Road to Elite: Complete Road to Elite
• E-Shopper: Make a purchase using AEW Cash
• No Feat Too Large: Complete at least 30 challenges
• The King of Harts: Complete 100 total singles matches in Exhibition
• Beat the Best: Defeat a COM opponent on Elite difficulty in a singles match in Exhibition
• Equal Opportunity Players: Play through a match with at least 50 wrestlers
• Watch your Footing: Push over a ladder an opponent is on to knock that opponent down in a Ladder match
• All Shall Cower Before Me: Defeat a COM opponent by submission in Exhibition
• Corner Wizard: Using the corner recoil attack skill, land 2 recoil attacks in a match
• Rope Wizard: Using the rebound recoil attack skill, land 2 recoil attacks in a match
• Fearless Rocket: Using the tope offensive skill, land 2 tope suicida attacks in a match
• Adept Flyer: Using the springboard offense skill, land 5 springboard attacks in a match
• Ring Cleaner: Put 10 wrestlers over the top rope in a Casino Battle Royal match against all COM opponents
• 4-Way Dominator: Win a 4-Way match with all COM opponents on Hard difficulty or higher in Exhibition
• Dexterous Dervish: Using the desperation impulse skill, win a match with a roll-through move
• Who Needs Hands: Using the sloth style skill, win a match by pinfall with hands in pocket
• Full Course Beatdown: Win a singles match after hitting the opponent with a signature and finisher
• Belt Collector: Hold a title match in Exhibition and win a belt from a COM champion
• KABOOM!: Trigger 3 rope explosions on an opponent during an Exploding Barbed Wire Death Match in Exhibition
• DANGER: Contents Under Pressure!: Attack an opponent using a barbed wire bat in a Lights Out Match in Exhibition
• Finisher Thief: Using the gimmick infringement skill, win a match using the opponent’s finisher
• Smooth Footwork: Using the kip-up skill, recover from the ground 5 times in a match
• Nice Catch!: Using the anti-air defense skill, catch a dive attack
• Off the Guardrail: Using the guardrail drive offensive skill, land 3 dives from the guardrails in a match
• First Win: Defeat a COM opponent for the first time in Exhibition

It makes it seem like;

1. There's probably going to be something Smackdown Mall-ish with there being an in-game earnable currency linked close to the Road to the Elite mode.

2. It's going to be replayable, if you're expected to play it multiple times and have it be gradeable

3. It's probably a bit more open ended than No Mercy was if we're going to be able to hold multiple titles at once.

[zero]

No word on a launch roster, but if reports are to be believed, the game is supposed to receive ongoing updates rather than yearly installments. I'd imagine that is entirely dependent on the game being a success though. I'd brace for the initial roster to be very out of date with guys like Cody Rhodes in (hey neat) and guys like FTR out (boo, hiss).

Also: 

 

[Skummy]

In terms of having people like Cody in, a long time ago they mentioned that the career mode would effectively begin at the start of AEW, so they didn't see it as being a drawback to have older names still in the game. No idea if that's still true, or if it was just a bit of spin in the first place.

"Play through a match with at least 50 wrestlers" suggests that, assuming it's not expecting you to flesh that out with CAWs, the game will include at least 50 wrestlers, anyway! 

FTR are apparently going to be DLC - wrestlers who debuted later than them have apparently been confirmed, too.

 

[DFF]

I guess one way they could keep the game going is doing (affordable) paid DLC to add more and more roster members over time. 

[The Buscher]

RE:  FTR, all of the following debuted after them but are confirmed to be in either through screenshots or the talent themselves:

-Adam Cole
-Bryan Danielson
-CM Punk
-Jade Cargill
-Miro
-Paul Wight
-Sting
-Thunder Rosa

Plus while not listed, I'd be stunned if Christian Cage isn't in.  Pretty sure Fightful said Ruby Soho was planned to be in the game as well so that would be another one.

It's not hard to argue why any/all of these names are in ahead of FTR.  Danielson and Punk are obviously gigantic names you have to put in.  Cole might not be a household name but his debut is tied to Danielson's, plus All Out 2021 is when AEW had its highest level of momentum with all those names coming in.  Sting is Sting.  Christian and Wight are legends that even lapsed wrestling fans would know.  The women all make sense to include because they are key parts of the division and you want to have a good-sized women's roster available, which is also why even Abadon and Yuka Sakazaki are in despite not featuring on TV much.

Miro is probably the closest comp to FTR on that list.  Debuted only a couple months after them, ex-WWE guy everyone was excited to see in greener pastures.  But even then, at the time they were likely doing final cuts, Miro had tons of momentum as The Redeemer while FTR were kinda floundering.

I think FTR will end up being the most glaring omission from the base game, but it might've just been a perfect storm that kept them out.

[DFF]

Has anyone seen the game available to pre-order anywhere in the UK yet? Checked the Xbox store yesterday and it just said "Not Currently Available"

[Baddar]

https://www.shopto.net/en/xbxae00-aew-fight-forever-p1175447/

[KJE]

I don't really play video games much so I apologize if this is a dumb question, but when you pre load the game, do you not get a physical copy?

And what happens if your machine breaks? Do you have to buy it again?

[Gabriel]

2 minutes ago, KJE said:

I don't really play video games much so I apologize if this is a dumb question, but when you pre load the game, do you not get a physical copy?

And what happens if your machine breaks? Do you have to buy it again?

I believe you can only pre-load if you buy digital, because the download option should not show up unless the console knows that you own the game.

Digital downloads for Xbox and Playstation are tied to the account, not the system. Nintendo may have changed, but last time I checked, digital downloads are a little bit trickier on their platform, as they are tied to the console itself. I do believe that there is a way to reclaim digital Nintendo games if your console fails on you though.

[DYSI]

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Some more tidbits and minor reveals in this Twitch stream Uno and Orange did. 

[The Buscher]

Not saying this inclusion is likely, but just throwing out a wish.  If they're trying to make the size of the women's roster as close to the same size as the men's roster as possible (and again, inclusions like Abadon and Yuka to me signal that it'll a pretty robust women's roster), plus knowing that they're going back to the beginning of company history...

Fuck it, give me Awesome Kong.  I would wreck so many people as Kong.  I'd give her all the titles.

[METALMAN]

I don’t mean to burst your bubble, but there has not been a good wrestling game released this century that doesn’t feature Triple H. The statistics don’t lie.

[Schlitzbrille]

6 minutes ago, I Think You Should Busch said:

Not saying this inclusion is likely, but just throwing out a wish.  If they're trying to make the size of the women's roster as close to the same size as the men's roster as possible (and again, inclusions like Abadon and Yuka to me signal that it'll a pretty robust women's roster), plus knowing that they're going back to the beginning of company history...

Fuck it, give me Awesome Kong.  I would wreck so many people as Kong.  I'd give her all the titles.

Awesome Kong v.s Maki Itoh?

[zero]

It's like they heard the hemming and hawing on social media and flung a copy at OC and Evil Uno. 

Honestly, it looks so fun and a great complement to 2K23, which I've been enjoying a whole lot... until my save somehow got corrupted and I lost all of my downloaded CAWs. 😐

If the plan is ongoing updates, I am curious how often those will trickle out. Quarterly? Twice a year? Yearly? And hopefully including new matches as well since ladder and cage are obviously huge omissions for launch. 

[King Ellis]

Ladder matches are mentioned in the achievement list, aren't they? Are they patching them in then?

[The Buscher]

20 hours ago, zero said:

If the plan is ongoing updates, I am curious how often those will trickle out. Quarterly? Twice a year? Yearly? And hopefully including new matches as well since ladder and cage are obviously huge omissions for launch. 

I feel like twice a year would have to be the bare minimum, but it would also depend on the size of the updates.  People do have an opposition to DLC so I'd hope whatever packs they do (whether it includes wrestlers, modes, etc.) will be worth their while.  Having bought all of the Fire Pro DLC over the years, it quickly got to the point where the total DLC costs exceeded the original price of the game, but I didn't mind paying it because adding all of those moves, parts, and features gave me even more replayability and endless customization than I already had.

[The Buscher]

A new roster confirmation:

 

[Rocky]

On 25/05/2023 at 00:04, DFF said:

Has anyone seen the game available to pre-order anywhere in the UK yet? Checked the Xbox store yesterday and it just said "Not Currently Available"

I can’t even find it on the PlayStation Store via console but I can on the mobile app. Still says “No Release Date” 🤷🏽‍♂️ 

[zero]

Allegedly this is the first look at a CAW:

 

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Ohhhhh spelunk me daddy

 

[probablyoliver]

21 minutes ago, zero said:

Allegedly this is the first look at a CAW:

 

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Ohhhhh spelunk me daddy

 

Nope, that guy's real, he's been on Dark Elevation loads. I think Matt Hardy won his contract or something.