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Yoru34Kenshi
2 years ago
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Offline Career Longevity

As a new player, at first I liked the idea of the longevity feature because it's realistic. However, it doesn't work properly at all! Sometimes I lose way too much longevity although I barely get a bruise in a fight. It's extremely punishing for no reason.

What's even more annoying is that I grinded with all the trainings, marketing, leveling up my fighter, etc... but I had to retire in prime during my early 30s with low-medium damage received per match while fighters like The Korean Zombie and Max Holloway were still active in their 50s in my career mode. This is ridiculous and not "as real as it gets".

I see two logical solutions.

1- Let the players turn it on or off.

2- In any case, players shouldn't have to retire as soon as their longevity hits zero. Instead, the fighter's attributes and skills, especially cardio and power attributes, should go down over time after longevity hits zero. Just like in real life.

I mean, how did nobody think about it when you were developing the game?? This is so obvious.

I hope changes will be made because I genuinely don't want to play the game anymore after what happened.

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  • EA_Mako's avatar
    EA_Mako
    10 months ago

    Hey everyone,

    We've just released the patch notes for this month's update, which arrives tomorrow! 

    This does include changes to longevity based on the feedback that's been provided, so please give that a try tomorrow and let us know how that feels after the update.

    • Career Mode Longevity Attribute decay will now be affected by the chosen Fighter Style and the overall impact has been reduced.

    Thank you for the continued feedback and check out the full patch notes here!

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  • patrickb1973's avatar
    patrickb1973
    New Hotshot
    2 years ago

    WTF EA we ask for an option to disable longevity or make it so we don't have to retire when it hits 0 and improve it and what do you do ?? In the first update after we requested it you made it even more punishing by now making our attributes go down after each drop in longevity and we still have to retire when it hits 0. Seriously you guys do the opposite of what people are asking for and then you guys wonder why the community gets so mad at you.

  • patrickb1973's avatar
    patrickb1973
    New Hotshot
    2 years ago

    O and the drop in attributes now goes so fast that it is not even fun to upgrade them anymore at all. It has become pointless to even bother that is how fast it goes down

  • patrickb1973's avatar
    patrickb1973
    New Hotshot
    2 years ago

    Longevity is even shorter now and drains quicker. Terrible move by EA to make the mode even less fun.

  • 13c11b611cc8f15's avatar
    13c11b611cc8f15
    2 years ago

    They really need to patch this crap. First round finish, no damage, lose a ton of points and longevity. Then, have to patch up player with over 200 points which are horribly earned for all the work that goes into receiving them with dumb 50 to 90 point “promos” causing issues with training properly for health only to lose everything in the next fight again.

    needless grinding and unnecessary torture.

  • 13c11b611cc8f15's avatar
    13c11b611cc8f15
    12 months ago
    So here is something that happened to me last night, and I find absolutely intolerable at this point concerning longevity. 
     
    I have all categories of skills maxed out. Prestige on two of the skills. Trophys that are almost impossible to obtain and observed my longevity rapidly decreasing by 4.4 to 4.6 in fights that were ended in first round knock outs with no damage to my fighter. I was slowly defending my title and was just ONE stone away from completing the full belt of title defense and BAM!~ My fighter was forcibly retired with the last match obtaining the second to last stone. 
     
    If there was another reason to hate the fact I paid over $100.00 for this travesty of a game, this one tops the list!!
     
    What point is there to doing career mode with that kind of restriction?

    Even if you max out all of your skills, when you go to use your fighter in an exhibition match, it kindly moves all of your skills to just 4 star ratings while also messing up your carefully configured fighter of moves and strategies only to be placed under a four block selection of generic skill sets that were not even part of your fighters class to begin with.
  • Mrg5653's avatar
    Mrg5653
    12 months ago
    @13c11b611cc8f15a That’s what I’m saying my fighter is literally 26 n is losing more points than I can gain it’s dumb asf you barley get enough points for training the weeks as it is and learning new moves don’t help whoever said this would be a good idea for the game needs to be fired ufc 3 is better than 5 imo n that game came out in 2018
  • 13c11b611cc8f15's avatar
    13c11b611cc8f15
    12 months ago

    Perfectly stated.

    The "economy" of the game is to simply wear you down to the point you hate the game. Seriously. What happened to having fun in games? Relaxing satisfying enjoyment knowing you spent hours and hours grinding away to have that ultimate character do serious damage to their opponents offline? That character where all stats were at 100 and it was only in your house, on your console, not online and there for your total enjoyment?

    Why do I spend $100.00 on a game, only to feel like a little child being lectured by EA  on how I play the game I bought?

    The whole premise of making games so difficult and absolutely worthless for enjoyment value or entertainment is killing off the industry. Well, that and the woke BS but thats another topic altogether. 

    To be honest, I have NOT turned UFC back on after I posted that. I could care less about new characters, clothes, intros....tournaments....no thanks.

    I picked up a few other games such as Street Fighter 6 and have been completely addicted to it. That my friend, is how you create a game. Now..dont get me wrong, there were plenty of times where I just about threw the controller through the TV screen because some of the matches and level differences didnt seem to matter with a cracked out AI opponent who could not be touched for nothing, but none the less, the game is amazing. 

    Mortal Kombat 1 í another sweet game, and IM looking forward to WWE ultimate package here in March...

    But..here EA is, sitting with a golden franchise and basically ruining it with stupid crap like what we have described and not one person from their staff or team has responded and there has been no updates to fix it either. 

    Basically, EA created a "chase the pink dragon" game (South Park reference) and there is no hope for it at this point. 

    ON that note, this will be the last EA game I ever buy. Once bitten, twice shy. Eveytime I give EA one more chance, I realize they dont deserve it. 

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