WMMA5 Developer's Journal Discussion Thread

[AlexB]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="SirMichaelJordan" data-cite="SirMichaelJordan" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="44307" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>It’s still early in the journal but IMO the booking advisor is definitely a groundbreaking feature. I agree the first 1 or so of the journal wasn’t that eye catching but it’s always been that way...</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Just to clarify my post was meant as praise for the changes - I think they will make the enjoyment of the game better and it’s a day one purchase for me.</p><p> </p><p> It’s sounding a bit like a ‘best of WMMA’, which is superb news! Be interesting to see the booking advisor in action, sounds a bit like a combination of the filters from the WMMA4 booking screen and the return of the old ‘heat advice’ system many had clamoured for</p>

[klnOmega]

The screen position remaining frozen was my suggestion. So glad you listened. Now I can put the game up in a corner and do other things on the rest of the screen.

[jsilv0]

I rarely use it to find fighters that haven’t fought in half a year. But if your roster is bloated it’s handy to filter on streak.

 

I just scroll through and look at their last fought dates

[Blackman]

The screen position remaining frozen was my suggestion. So glad you listened. Now I can put the game up in a corner and do other things on the rest of the screen.

 

Yeah I love that as well, given I tend to watch wrestling while playing these managers.

[Tag01]

#43 Screen Position

 

The game window now remains in one place and does not reset back to the center of the screen with each new day. The user can therefore put it where they want and not have to move it again.

 

YAAASSSSS

[Tag01]

I wouldn’t say they are groundbreaking changes, but how can you have a seismic feature in a game where you essentially hire fighters and tell them to fight each other?

 

The quality of life changes will allow the game and the game world to be so much more enjoyable, which is the point: some of the processes began to make the game a chore after a few game years, and it would appear that if implemented well (which I’m confident they will be) WMMA5 will be much more immersive and fun because of the sum of these many smaller tweaks.

 

WMMA 5 will allow for enormous tweaking of the fight engine. That's a giant feature; assuming it works well it will give players the ability to negate a ton of complaints about the game. There's a lot of good quality of life improvements both small and large, but this alone is one of the biggest features WMMA has ever had.

[robsoccerpro]

Love the new features, basically everything I wanted from this game is happening plus more. One last thing I’m waiting on is the strength of local fighters increasing so we don’t see every awful fighter raking up 20-0 records (but maybe this will be included in things you can customise)

[scuz]

I'm excited by the changes listed so far. Many of the requests that players have made have been responded to. For me however, the biggest proof of the pudding will be in the fight engine. I thought WMMA3 handled the fights amazingly, whereas WMMA4 felt a bit flat and less exciting.

 

I am a big fan of the little things that are being added to make the game more interesting. I'm also hoping for minor things like late stoppages, fighters hitting after the bell, unseen (by the ref) eye pokes and other fouls, in fight taunting etc etc.

 

I'm really praying for pictures to return to the ranking screen too.

[BuddyGarner]

Phillip Miller and bas rutten out of retirement here we come.

[mattu29]

hoping we get a more in depth TV show for WMMA5, can fully understand that it wasnt massively deep in WMMA4 as it was its debut but hopefully the feud/call-out system can be intergrated into it, aswell as storylines of some sort

[javier_83]

<p>awesome, i love the </p><p>

#43 Screen Position</p><p> </p><p>

I have an external monitor, i will enjoy this one <img alt="" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/smile.png.142cfa0a1cd2925c0463c1d00f499df2.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p>

[Phalanx]

Will this "Combatative AI" also be able to buyout other companies? Or anything of that nature?

[Blackman]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="mattu29" data-cite="mattu29" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="44307" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>hoping we get a more in depth TV show for WMMA5, can fully understand that it wasnt massively deep in WMMA4 as it was its debut but hopefully the feud/call-out system can be intergrated into it, aswell as storylines of some sort <img alt=":)" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/smile.png.142cfa0a1cd2925c0463c1d00f499df2.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Yeah I'm awaiting that one as well. <img alt=":cool:" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/cool.png.f00d2562b2c1d873a09323753efdb041.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p><p> </p><p> As for company buy-outs: the real question is whether it's possible to actually lose money below 0$. <img alt=":p" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/tongue.png.ceb643b2956793497cef30b0e944be28.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p>

[Makhai]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Blackman" data-cite="Blackman" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="44307" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Yeah I'm awaiting that one as well. <img alt=":cool:" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/cool.png.f00d2562b2c1d873a09323753efdb041.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><p> </p><p> As for company buy-outs: the real question is whether it's possible to actually lose money below 0$. <img alt=":p" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/tongue.png.ceb643b2956793497cef30b0e944be28.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Here here, once the PPV money rolls in you have to try really hard to not make obscene money. I'm hoping that fighters start asking for huge money when you start rolling in it. And I hope finances in general are looked across the board tons of cool stuff could be done here to increase replayablility and make it a better sim.</p>

[Fezoman]

<p>There's still plenty of stuff I'd love to see, but I have to say I'm already thrilled with most of the changes I seen so far.</p><p> </p><p>

I guess the most important thing for me though is the final product - the presentation, user-friendliness, and overall stability of the program. And these are things that we can never really know about until the game comes out.</p><p> </p><p>

The other issues I had with WMMA4 seem to have mostly been addressed.</p>

[SirMichaelJordan]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Makhai" data-cite="Makhai" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="44307" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Here here, once the PPV money rolls in you have to try really hard to not make obscene money. I'm hoping that fighters start asking for huge money when you start rolling in it. And I hope finances in general are looked across the board tons of cool stuff could be done here to increase replayablility and make it a better sim.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Same for TEW. I would love to see a better financial system in both games. AI should take advantage of the money a company may potentially have when it comes to contract negotiations.</p>

[scuz]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Makhai" data-cite="Makhai" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="44307" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Here here, once the PPV money rolls in you have to try really hard to not make obscene money. I'm hoping that fighters start asking for huge money when you start rolling in it. And I hope finances in general are looked across the board tons of cool stuff could be done here to increase replayablility and make it a better sim.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Yeah, I'd love for some kind of diva personality flaw that can occasionally be activated when a character reaches a certain level of fame depending on the characters personality type. These kind of characters might be making money from some other avenue and so threaten to walk away unless their demands are met. Or just some of the characters to have an attitude about whether certain opponents are worthy of their time (like the Diaz brothers).</p>

[RedsRule]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Phalanx" data-cite="Phalanx" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="44307" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Will this "Combatative AI" also be able to buyout other companies? Or anything of that nature?</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Being able to buy companies is one thing I wish was changed from previous versions. That and more control of the companies you own. Nothing like buying a feeder org only for them to put on one show a month with 125 fighters on the roster.</p>

[Blackman]

Being able to buy companies is one thing I wish was changed from previous versions. That and more control of the companies you own. Nothing like buying a feeder org only for them to put on one show a month with 125 fighters on the roster.

 

I would love to see something like a "Fight Pass" network where you endorse other shows by giving them air time, like UFC did with Invicta and CageFight. It's a win-win in the end as some fighters will end up on your cards sooner than later.

 

Reality show info is still incoming. Here's hoping it interacts with the announced press conferences and social media wars. Even EA UFC 3 had implemented that.

[GUINNC]

After watching the fights tonight and then reading through the journal, I honestly can't wait for this game. I'm more excited to play this than the new UFC video game coming out around the same time.

[Donners]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Makhai" data-cite="Makhai" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="44307" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Here here, once the PPV money rolls in you have to try really hard to not make obscene money. I'm hoping that fighters start asking for huge money when you start rolling in it. And I hope finances in general are looked across the board tons of cool stuff could be done here to increase replayablility and make it a better sim.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Hopefully the boosts to fighter popularity (which was terribly static in 4) and the AI actually putting up a fight to sign fighters will result in fighter fees going up significantly for larger companies.</p><p> </p><p> It is pretty bizarre to be earning 60+ million profit per show when fighters are getting a few thousand per match.</p>

[Synticha]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="GUINNC" data-cite="GUINNC" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="44307" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>After watching the fights tonight and then reading through the journal, I honestly can't wait for this game. I'm more excited to play this than the new UFC video game coming out around the same time.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Had to start one final game of WMMA4 while watching UFC 217. Way too hyped for the next installment! I'd be happy with WMMA4 with just some QoL changes, but thus far the journal has delivered.</p>

[Blackman]

Had to start one final game of WMMA4 while watching UFC 217. Way too hyped for the next installment! I'd be happy with WMMA4 with just some QoL changes, but thus far the journal has delivered.

 

Yeah that event was great pub for both upcoming MMA games. A true "Holy sh/t"-card according to Dana White.

[Makhai]

Olympics and ADCC boys. A little worried about the description though, no fighter has stopped their career to make a run at the Olympics. Not even guys like Ishii or Yoshida guys who probably could have made their teams. Canada asked GSP and he thought about it and declined. The advantage of the Olympics is scouting and throwing money at the best athletes in the world and coaxing a few every cycle to make the jump. This could be super fun, or super annoying. Fingers crossed.

[Sco xY2Jx]

<p>I enjoyed WMMA4 for the time I had access to it. Took Gamma from Jan 01' till about Oct 05' and really enjoyed it, before I lost access to the game on a previous laptop that was knackered and couldn't get it back.</p><p> </p><p>

Reading through the journal for this one has got me excited for the latest instalment and I can't wait till release. Never been a huge MMA fan, more of a casual one, but look forward to the new one with all the improvements.</p>