Tips for a longtime WMMA player?

[JackH2020]

Hey all, long time since I've used these boards but found myself lurking more and more with the approach of TEW20, congrats to all involved on the release by the way!

 

So I was born in 91 and with a couple older brothers, I was utterly in love with wrestling (was only ever aware of the WWF except for playing the WCW games at a friend's house a couple of times). By the early 2000's I discovered wrestling was "fake" and a thing called the UFC existed. Apart from continuing to play the games till around SVR 08 that was it for me and wrestling. Over time I've redeveloped a love and respect for it and the influence it has on sports with absolutely no desire to watch it.

 

Then quarantine hit and well after exhausting just about every other interest via youtube I came across a video called Dark Side of The Ring (Montreal Screwjob). I knew the story loosely - just to add some flavour HBK was my favourite and Bret was my brothers - but wow seeing it laid out like this and talked about by the people involved. From there I have just been utterly engrossed in learning the actual business of wrestling and all these fascinating stories behind these figures from my childhood. I've also signed up to the Network and have just started watching from the 96 Rumble (next PPV is the Screwjob) whilst also reading up / watching what was really going on behind the scenes at this time. I watched those rise and fall of ECW/WCW docs and thought they were utterly compelling! So yeah, life is just one big hot sticky obsession with rasslin at the moment and I wouldn't have it any other way!

 

Ohhh yeah why I posted this! So I'm a fairly longtime WMMA player 3/4 being where I was most interested in MMA, weirdly enough RW mods have never had any interest to me in that. Often taking a fictional mod or simming through vanilla to get a world I know nothing about and building a company that caters to the hardcore fans (pitting the best against the best rather than the most popular making very little use of hype). Obviously based on everything I just wrote that is the OPPOSITE of what I want in TEW! I can't wait for that 97 mod to be released and play as WWF and make Owen Hart into the star he deserves to be! I think he would have been pretty much near the top of my list of people I had no interest in as a kid and rewatching now I'm seriously blown away by everything he does in and outta the ring!

 

I'm aware this post is incredibly vague in relation to the title, I had to get my new love affair with wrestling out somewhere! I am checking out a bunch of vids to learn it and messing around learning with the default DB till an attitude era mod is out. So no worries if you got nothing for me, this is more of a share than an actual question! One specific thing I would like to do though is bring some of those ECW stars across (I've fallen in love with Sabu) and put a little of that flavour into the show while still retaining that attitude era product. So any tips on how to best go about that would be hugely appreciated.

 

Thanks for anyone who did make it this far!

[Jaysin]

As a veteran TEW player, the Handbook included with the game has been insanely helpful to me so far so I suggest reading through that. It can be found by clicking the ? in the top right corner of the game.

 

Don't get bogged down by ratings right away. This is one of those games that the more you play, the more you understand and the better you get.