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WWE 2k18 Career Mode Details

H

Hasney

Member
Well, the entire mode has been a dull slog every year since they introduced it, but they promised it would be more refined and have a multiplayer endgame, so let's see what they've done.

2K today announced details for WWE 2K18’s MyCAREER mode, which will enable players to live out their dreams and experience the lives of WWE Superstars through strong story narratives.
This year, players will choose from two very different paths – Company Man or Fan Favourite –and decide how their roads to WrestleMania (and beyond) will unfold through match performances, promos, alliances and other actions. Additionally, this year’s MyCAREER mode introduces a free-roaming backstage, an updated promo generator, and enhanced MyCAREER invasion, where the MyPLAYERs of friends can still populate a player’s MyCAREER save but now play a bigger role through face-to-face interactions, tag team alliances, side quests and more.
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In WWE 2K18, we wanted MyCAREER to focus on a strong story narrative. We felt the addition of backstage could afford us some cool new ways to experience a day in the life of a WWE Superstar. For us to accomplish this, we needed to develop unique and compelling storylines that are no longer shared from Universe Mode so the journeys that MyPLAYERs go through are unique and fresh.

This year, you’ll have two very different paths you can take en route to your own WrestleMania moment (note: you will be able to play past that WrestleMania moment; your story won’t end there). Here are the two paths:


Company Man – Going down the Company Man path means you’re all about helping the general managers (GMs) get what they want out of the roster on any given show. This involves conspiring with the GMs backstage, ambushing other WWE Superstars in the locker room or during their interviews and basically doing whatever it takes to maintain that GM’s power, both in the ring and backstage. The rewards are hefty, though! Continue helping the GM succeed, and you’ll gain access to awesome upgrades, such as the ability to orchestrate a run-in to help you win a match. You can also access Vince McMahon’s office to lobby for match card changes and title rematches.

Fan Favorite – Being a Fan Favorite means you don’t play the whole company game and you’re all about putting on the best matches and promos. You have a locker room full of WWE Superstars and Legends backstage. This route involves earning their respect by taking on different match types – night-in and night-out. You’ll also have WWE Superstars test your in-ring aptitude and skills on the microphone, but if you succeed at this, you will earn the whole locker room’s respect – and with that comes some perks. WWE Legends are always backstage during events. If you earn their respect, they’ll start to give you in-ring bonuses for your matches and promos. If you become the complete package – the guy who can walk the walk and talk the talk like Stone Cold Steve Austin or John Cena – you’ll be able to have your own customized WWE Championship or Universal Championship. This honor is only given to the best of the best.
In short, it’s ultimately your choice how your MyPLAYER’s road to WrestleMania will unfold. We definitely put a bunch of twists and turns to make it feel like it’s your own story, and we hope you’ll be surprised by a few of the WWE Superstars and events that will pop up along the way!
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The first part already sounds like constantly praising the authority like the last games....

Free-Roaming Backstage

This is something fans have wanted for a while, and it’s something we have wanted to do for a while as well. With a MyCAREER laced with storylines that involve both in-ring and out-of-ring action, it made sense to bring a free-roaming backstage into MyCAREER.

We wanted MyCAREER to be experiential this year. We wanted players to spend more time interacting with WWE Superstars and supporting personnel to better experience all their unique personalities. Rather than looking at menus to determine who you should align with or who you want to make your rival, you can simply go talk to them or ambush them backstage. Want an interview with Renee Young? Simply go up to her and ask for an interview. Don’t like the WWE Superstar she’s interviewing? Go up to him during live TV and interrupt that interview.

There will be no shortage of personalities backstage, from WWE Superstars and Legends to GMs, apparel tailors and more. Sometimes the interactions will also present side quests that are separate from the main storylines. Think of them as mini-stories that aren’t as involved or crucial to your Road to WrestleMania. For example, some WWE Superstars might ask you to ambush a rival or go toe to toe with them in a promo.
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See, now that part sounds good at least as long as there's a lot of variety!

Last year, we added promos to MyCAREER for the first time. While we were happy to finally let players get on the microphone, we knew we could deliver more in the second year of designing the promo feature in WWE 2K18. The two clear improvements we set out to accomplish were making WWE Superstars feel more like themselves and improving the scoring system, as it constricted players from telling the promos they wanted to tell.

It was clear that some of the more unique WWE Superstars needed to be represented better when cutting a promo in MyCAREER. WWE Superstars like Undertaker and Enzo Amore come to mind when discussing this. We created nearly 200 new animations – spread across multiple WWE Superstars – to make them feel more like themselves while on the microphone. You’ll notice Shinsuke Nakamura moving in that unique way that he does while talking. Bray Wyatt will fidget maniacally while preaching on the microphone. The New Day will dance their way to the ring instead of walking. We wanted promos against these WWE Superstars with unique personalities to feel very special. We wanted your MyPLAYER to really feel like you’re going face to face with them in a battle of words.

One of the more fun components of promos was the combo system, so we looked to shift scoring to focus on that rather than trying to find the best fan favorite or bad guy answer. Last year’s scoring model was very rigid and made players feel like they had to make choices they didn’t want to make in order to get high marks. This year, rather than trying to score the highest value, we wanted to score players on promo cohesion. This means as a player, you’ll be able to pick the point you want to make while on the mic. After making that point, you’ll be scored based on how well you stick to that point. You no longer have to worry about if this is what you should say as a crowd favorite or a bad guy. Promo this year is about saying what you want to say and sticking to your word.
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They haven't mentioned the awful script of last year though, but at least the scoring sounds fixed.

MyCAREER Invasion

With the addition of free-roaming backstage, naturally we started thinking about the possibilities for MyCAREER invasion. Just like last year, your friends’ MyPLAYERs can populate your MyCAREER save. However, this year, you’ll actually see them backstage. They act just like any WWE Superstars you’ll see backstage: you can talk to them, pick them up as tag partners, get side quests involving them and even ambush them. It’s up to you what role your friends’ MyPLAYERs will have in your MyCAREER.

In closing, we are looking forward to letting you try out all this new stuff in this year’s version of MyCAREER in WWE 2K18. A lot of hard work went into making this year’s MyCAREER feel different from previous iterations, and we hope you all enjoy it!
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Sounds about the same.

Sounds like more iteration that revolution AGAIN. I just hope it doesn't have the same stupid milestones like holding a belt for a year or whatever.

https://wwe.2k.com/news/entries/wwe-2k18-mycareer
 
Rellik

Rellik

Member
In closing, we are looking forward to letting you try out all this new stuff in this year’s version of MyCAREER and you giving us all that glorious VC money.
 
The Elite

The Elite

BOSS
I completely agree that it has been a slog. I have barely played through it every year.

Rellik said:
In closing, we are looking forward to letting you try out all this new stuff in this year's version of MyCAREER and you giving us all that glorious VC money.
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They don't actually charge for more VC money in this. I believe there is a single booster pack though.

Every year Hasney's CAW invades my game and beats my ass. This year I will get revenge.
 
H

Hasney

Member
Proteus said:
Every year Hasney's CAW invades my game and beats my ass. This year I will get revenge.
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The face that haunts you

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The Elite

The Elite

BOSS
Hasney said:
Yet right now, the most interesting storyline has a heel facing up to the bosses :lol
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Yeah, I was just thinking about that. On both shows the GM is technically not a heel. They are playing up the old Authority angle but it doesn't quite line up with current WWE. I will forgive them for that since WWE has gone to the heel authority figure angle so many times.

I may just end up saving MyCareer for the Switch version if I double dip. Seems like the type of thing that works best on the go.
 
A

atomsk

Party Pooper
Spent 70 hours on last year and couldn't even finish it because the game kept bugging out and wouldn't let me finish feuds. (Disclaimer: it was for my YouTube channel, so at least I was getting ad revenue)

I don't have much faith in it not being broken, but we'll see.
 
shanafan

shanafan

Member
I wish there could be a career mode that allows you to play through as a current superstar, like in the older games. WWF Wrestlemania 2000 had such.

I really don't care to make my own superstar.
 
E

enewtabie

Member
Wish these games had a more of Booker type feel to them(no not Booker T)
I would like to sign contracts, release talent, bring up from NXT etc. Hire the ghost of Adam Cole. I'm sure I'll buy it like the last 4.
 
Z

ZedLeppelin006

Banned
shanafan said:
I wish there could be a career mode that allows you to play through as a current superstar, like in the older games. WWF Wrestlemania 2000 had such.

I really don't care to make my own superstar.
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I really miss this as well. It's hard for me to make a connection with some goof I haphazardly cobble together.
 
D

Darrenf

Member
shanafan said:
I wish there could be a career mode that allows you to play through as a current superstar, like in the older games. WWF Wrestlemania 2000 had such.

I really don't care to make my own superstar.
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You can play as a current superstar. You just need to import whatever wrestler you want to be when creating your superstar.

This is all sounding really good. Hopefully it's not as boring as it usually is.
 
shanafan

shanafan

Member
Darrenf said:
You can play as a current superstar. You just need to import whatever wrestler you want to be when creating your superstar.
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Import from where? Do you mean download a superstar from the community creations and then import that guy?
 
B

BiggNife

Member
The idea of exploring the WWE backstage and talking to other wrestlers like the wrestling equivalent of The Normandy from Mass Effect actually sounds really dope

But this is Yuke's so they're gonna fuck it up
 
G

giancarlo123x

Banned
I like the free roaming backstage portion. I think here comes the pain did that last? As usual all the stuff sounds good but I hope the execution is also.
 
R

Retro Edge

Member
I absolutely don't care about my career, not until it's exactly like in HCTP or SYM, these modes, specially in HCTP were perfect. Real simulation of the whole roster, including title history, match history for every single guy and you could change your character after every year while the CPU in the background continues to play it. Plus it had amazing storylines.

My Career is still a joke in comparison cause it always felt like a story mode rather than a real career mode.


After HCTP I fell in love with the GM mode but after 2006 it got worse year after year until they replaced it with the even more worse Universe mode.
I really have no faith anymore after last year that we will ever get a good Universe/GM mode again.

I mean I'm begging for 4 or 5 years now to finally been able to look at the past match cards to get the story's back into my head.
But this never worked in the universe mode, never but always worked for one whole calendar year in the GM mode.

But, how could it work in the first place? Unlike the GM mode which had a real calendar with dates, the Universe mode doesn't even have that. It still has a fantasy calendar where every month has magically 4 weeks and always 4 weekends.
I'm so frustrated with this series I could continue with stuff like this for hours....

I hope they really worked on the Universe mode and we get a big news next week.
 
jobber

jobber

Would let Tony Parker sleep with his wife
I got that NXT version of 2k17 last year and I played it a total of an hour. The whole promo battle stuff was awful. I had Nakamura saying things I could never hear he say..even in japanese.

Retro Edge said:
I absolutely don't care about my career, not until it's exactly like in HCTP or SYM, these modes, specially in HCTP were perfect. Real simulation of the whole roster, including title history, match history for every single guy and you could change your character after every year while the CPU in the background continues to play it. Plus it had amazing storylines.

My Career is still a joke in comparison cause it always felt like a story mode rather than a real career mode.


After HCTP I fell in love with the GM mode but after 2006 it got worse year after year until they replaced it with the even more worse Universe mode.
I really have no faith anymore after last year that we will ever get a good Universe/GM mode again.

I mean I'm begging for 4 or 5 years now to finally been able to look at the past match cards to get the story's back into my head.
But this never worked in the universe mode, never but always worked for one whole year in the GM mode.

But, how should it work in the first place? Unlike the GM mode which had a real calendar with dates, the Universe mode doesn't even have that. It still has a fantasy calendar where every month has magically 4 weeks and always 4 weekends.
I'm so frustrated with this series I could continue with stuff like this for hours....

I hope they really worked on the Universe mode we get a big news next week.
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GM mode was soooo good. You had a salary cap...you had to be realistic with setting up matches. You couldn't put someone in big matches over and over without risking injury..you could do video packages for new/returning superstars....ugh...why did they take it away
 
A

adj_noun

Member
The goal every year for MyCAREER in WWE 2K is enabling our fans to live out their dreams as WWE Superstars. This is no easy task, as everyone has a different vision for his or her WWE Superstar.
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Name ONE person whose dream was to wrestle match after meaningless match, only to have Vickie Guerrero constantly say creative has nothing for you.
 
K

Kensation

Member
The career mode should be you trying to get a push by getting yourself branded and making sure you do enough weird shit to impress Vince.
 
Lashley

Lashley

Why does he wear the mask!?
2K make my mind up for me tbf

If it released day and date on PC, I'd buy it, but since it doesn't come until February, it's easy not to get it.

Thanks, 2K.
 
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