WWE 2K17 |OT| It's the same game, yes it is!

DoctorWho said:
What does having the "brand split" even mean?

You want to be able to specifically assign superstars to Raw or Smackdown (or anything else for that matter)? Well, that's been in for years.

You want separate titles for each show? That's in.

There is no draft system but you could just do that yourself anyway.

I am speaking about Universe BTW.
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You'd think that they'd make the effort to patch stuff in throughout the year like they do in their NBA series, or sit someone down with a text editor or even a joypad just before the final QA test to get the brands right and take the effort away from the user. You know, like a competent developer would.

No idea why they removed the draft feature anyway. It's not like they've changed Universe enough to break it and I'm sure someone found the setting in the PC version, but I can't find that post anymore.
 
atomsk said:
I got the normal "pick up your order" email yesterday.

Going to be pretty pissed if they don't have it when I get there at 10am.

Pretty sure they left the page up wayyyyy too long, I got in my order the day it went up.
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Let me know if they have yours. Thy gave me the digital deluxe version for free after being on the phone with them for 45min. They are still sending me the nxt edition when it arrives. Is nakamura in the digital deluxe or do I have to wait now?
 
Not as bad as last year at least?
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Hasney said:
You'd think that they'd make the effort to patch stuff in throughout the year like they do in their NBA series, or sit someone down with a text editor or even a joypad just before the final QA test to get the brands right and take the effort away from the user. You know, like a competent developer would.

No idea why they removed the draft feature anyway. It's not like they've changed Universe enough to break it and I'm sure someone found the setting in the PC version, but I can't find that post anymore.
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I can't remember the last year the draft feature was in.

For the graphics they really could include the new Raw and Smackdown logos and music without much issue, I'm sure. The arenas themselves were introduced after Summerslam so there was no chance in hell of them making it.

Updating attires shouldn't be that difficult for them. At least we have the option to do it ourselves.

I don't think they know what QA is.
 
Yeah, I wasn't even thinking about attires or arenas, or something that involves modelling work, no chance there. Just the right people in the right places would be a start.

Never mind, we'll never see it in our lifetimes.
 
Picking this up tonight after work. I'm sure It'll be better than the wrestling games I played in the 80s.

I also really enjoyed last year's game, played it until around Wrestlemania then got burnt out, but anything was an upgrade after 2K15.
 
Zen Mu said:
Well to be fair she mostly wrestled barefoot with kick pads in Japan.
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I know but she hasn't done that once during her entire NXT run. For a developer constantly striving for that authentic TV product experience, there fuck up the small details.
 
so hows the netcode?

i wanna buy a wrestling game since svr 2011, but the netcode was always shit.

would play it mainly with a buddy online.
 
Codiox said:
so hows the netcode?

i wanna buy a wrestling game since svr 2011, but the netcode was always shit.

would play it mainly with a buddy online.
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Game desyncs quite a bit it seems with people ending up in entirely different matches. Avoid CAW parts to mitigate it, but it can still happen even without.
 
Codiox said:
so hows the netcode?

i wanna buy a wrestling game since svr 2011, but the netcode was always shit.

would play it mainly with a buddy online.
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I will assume it's shit based on the fact that they didn't talk about online at all during the ramp up.

Their community creation downloads are really fast this year but I think that's more menu optimization than network.
 
Lashley said:
Wait

It doesn't have the brand split? Ahahahahahahaa I'll stick to 2k16
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Are you annoyed over whether or not a little Raw/Smackdown logo is next to the wrestler's names? Because that's all the brand split means in these games outside of Universe mode and Universe mode always did brand splits even when that concept went away in the real shows.
 
Dick Justice said:
Not as bad as last year at least?
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The post interview script is the same, I'm assuming the audio is also?

It would be cool if they were to actually send it to the commentators and they reacted to your interview. Or, even the stadium shot with the show music playing and discussions about your match/big matches later in the show. It would help a lot with the immersion and the jarring end to those segments.

Edit: I haven't played this year's entry, I'm just reading impressions.
 
Jamie OD said:
Are you annoyed over whether or not a little Raw/Smackdown logo is next to the wrestler's names? Because that's all the brand split means in these games outside of Universe mode and Universe mode always did brand splits even when that concept went away in the real shows.
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People expect more from games, except for the repeat purchasers of the WWE 2K series. Madden and NBA 2K aren't perfect games, plenty of flaws in both and big things that need improvement, but both are going above and beyond being acceptable this year with being relevant to the time period that the game is set... e.g, the 2016/2017 NFL football season. The announcers in Madden talk about things that happened in real life from this week, NBA 2K and Madden both release updated uniforms (home and away) for 32 teams throughout the year when they're revealed by Nike/NFL/NBA, NBA 2K has multiple studios doing broadcasts depending on what type of game you're in (regular season, playoffs, Friday night game, etc).

Yukes and 2K spent all of this hot air talking about how they want to make a "simulation" wrestling game (even while that concept is ridiculous...), and yet they don't make any attempt to simulate the very things that make wrestling interesting for fans. Characters are months and months out of date, wrestlers who have been on the roster for a year are sold as premium DLC, ring attire is usually old, factions and character personalities are old. As someone else said, the previous year's Wrestlemania is generally the cut off date for what you can expect when it comes to something being accurate. That's the equivalent of Madden, NBA, Fifa, or what have you, ignoring any roster moves made during the off season, or selling rookie players as premium DLC.

Shinsuke Nakamura is premium DLC this year, right? A guy who was a big signing in ... January in WWE? Many people are upset or disappointed by this, but plenty of others have been having this kind of BS happen for years in this series that they're conditioned to accept it as normal. It would be like if Madden '17 made you buy premium DLC to get Carson Wentz or Ezekiel Elliot, the top draft picks from the April 2016 NFL draft.

If Yukes/2K wants to not update the roster or not make any attempt to simulate what's on TV, then that's their prerogative. But when they make all this hot air about how they're pushing the game into being a simulation, then they can't release a game that isn't relevant to the year that they're trying to simulate.
 
Damnit, Universe Mode is what made me buy this again. Probably my favorite part of Universe is mixing in the Legends with the current roster just to see what happens.

I'm loving the lineup this year. You can re-use the hell out of those legends as long as I get DDP and Mr. Perfect in every game.
 
Game seems to be getting a lot of negativity before being played, I picked up my copy earlier and will give it a go tonight after work, but Universe seems so so so much better. The ability to use promo's to further rivalry's is huge, you can even use them to further your own made up rivalries that the game doesn't track.

I'm excited, adds a whole new layer that I'm really looking forward into diving into.
 
Do we have authorization to post screencaps of our own personal creations?
Be it hilarious freaks or genuine wrestlers that aren't already in the game?
 
So for anyone who currently has the game and has played MyCareer, I have a question.

They played it off that you could choose between starting in NXT or going immediately to the main roster, but from videos pre-release it seemed like if you performed well in the tutorial portion you automatically get put on the main roster. Is the only way to get on NXT to completely screw up the tutorial? Because that's a little offsetting to me.
 
KyroLen said:
So for anyone who currently has the game and has played MyCareer, I have a question.

They played it off that you could choose between starting in NXT or going immediately to the main roster, but from videos pre-release it seemed like if you performed well in the tutorial portion you automatically get put on the main roster. Is the only way to get on NXT to completely screw up the tutorial? Because that's a little offsetting to me.
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Nah you still get a choice
 
Jamie OD said:
Are you annoyed over whether or not a little Raw/Smackdown logo is next to the wrestler's names? Because that's all the brand split means in these games outside of Universe mode and Universe mode always did brand splits even when that concept went away in the real shows.
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Its just funny how the games are always outdated
 
Disagree Guy said:
Nah you still get a choice
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How does that work? Because in the videos after your tutorial of fighting Samoa Joe and doing some promo work, Albert basically says "we've decided your good enough for the main roster" or something like that, so when is the choice given?

And thank you for your response.
 
KyroLen said:
How does that work? Because in the videos after your tutorial of fighting Samoa Joe and doing some promo work, Albert basically says "we've decided your good enough for the main roster" or something like that, so when is the choice given?

And thank you for your response.
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In that case maybe I just did badly enough in the training that they still gave me the choice haha.

I had the option of both so maybe it does depend on how well you perform in the tutorial.
 
Disagree Guy said:
In that case maybe I just did badly enough in the training that they still gave me the choice haha.

I had the option of both so maybe it does depend on how well you perform in the tutorial.
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Good to know, thank you appreciate the quick response.

How are you enjoying the game so far?
 
KyroLen said:
Game seems to be getting a lot of negativity before being played, I picked up my copy earlier and will give it a go tonight after work, but Universe seems so so so much better. The ability to use promo's to further rivalry's is huge, you can even use them to further your own made up rivalries that the game doesn't track.

I'm excited, adds a whole new layer that I'm really looking forward into diving into.
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Universe has barely changed. The promo is a nice visual, but because the underlying framework has barely changed, it doesn't do much from what I've seen.

There's also an annoying bug where random matches happen. it'll say normal on the matchup screen, then you go in and it has the stipulation from the next match leading to hilarity like tag team last man standing matches, or if it's the last match on the card, no stipulations at all.

Thought it was just a bug after MITB cash ins (where you still don't have the match before the cash in happen), but I've now seen it happen seemingly randomly.
 
Honestly this year is going to be a tough one for me to even want at a cheap price. I picked up the past years when they lowered in price to enjoy the Showcase mode. Without it this year I really don't think I see much for me to enjoy at all. Don't enjoy wrestling like I did many years ago and don't have time to play much at all anyway.
 
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