thats one helluva injury

Seems to be a few players online unlike the last game, though i'm sure that won't last. Bloody annoying when you get to play some arsehole who's lagging as it seems to make your systems framerate dive down to half what it should be for some reason, like playing in slow motion almost.

Doesnt everyone just use running grabs over and over anyway?

There's a few different type of Cunts that play this game:

Cunt A basically does the running grapple over and over and is either ocd as fuck to the point he's got it down to a pathetically fine art, or is running some type of hack to ensure he gets it time and time again as its virtually impossible to reverse. Likewise when you actually get a grapple attempt on him 99% of the time he counters it.

Cunt B is the asswipe that bails out of the ring every time he gets hit and starts circling the ring to try and make the ref collide with the opponent to trigger that "referee hold back" animation so he can run in and get a cheap hit\grapple.

Cunt C is the laggy bastard that is somehow at home playing with a shit framerate and playing the game in slow motion, just an annoyance to play against.

Cunt D is the Cunt that's somewhat new to the game and actually plays it "normally" so you can have a decent match once in a while, this breed of Cunt is very rare.

That's about it, so far i can only seem to find 1-1 matches much like 2k17, anymore than that seems to take forever to gather up the players needed.

If you want to play online, use Road to Glory. Different gimmick every day and there's a proper progression.

I honestly think goat simulator may be more stable than this.

Don't think you can until Oct. 20, 3AM/12AM (EDT/Pacific)...or does it just take forever and half a million years to find an opponent?

Yeah, it's playable right now. In fact, you have to play it before Friday to qualify for TLC.

Hearing there are a lot of really great CAWs that are using Angle, RVD, or Batista images/moves so it's blocking people from downloading them.

Same thing happened last year, but people were nice enough to copy said CAWs and remove the DLC-related stuff so everyone else can download them. But this year a lot more people are apparently putting their shit on lockdown so they can't be copied. So if you don't want to shell out extra money, too bad.

I know "beggars can't be choosers" and all that but still seems kinda shitty.

When is the DLC with Beth Pheonix, etc available? I bought the Deluxe Edition on Steam, so I have the Season Pass. It's either not available yet, or I just dont know how to access it

Oh... So I just have to sit and watch the loading circle until one of the 3 other people in the known universe jumps on against me. Wonderful.

UPDATE: HEY HEY, I actually fought someone! Not crazy about backstage brawls, but at least it seems you get XP and stars after matches regardless of win or loss, so that's something I guess. up to 3/20 🌟 and 1200/2400XP.

Mr. E. has punched his ticket to TLC! Anyone else qualified? JW.

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Really destroys the whole "one legged man in an ass kicking contest" saying

Apparently, John succumbed to the infamous Hogan Sofa Syndrome during that match. It's nasty stuff, I tell ya.

Apparently you earn XP beating on The Miz in Road to Glory mode and can just repeat the match. Sweet.

I honestly wonder if that's by design or not, because on their and CatDaddy's mobile game WWE SuperCard, you can now exploit the ad glitch for EVERYTHING and without resetting the Google advertising ID.

People will soon be running rampant with SS '17 event pros from the RD and RtG events and from MitB, I'd bet. RIP SuperCard, it's been way too long coming anyhow.

Finally won after like 6 or so tries...that "press R2 to get the red ball into the broken circle when they're lined up 8x" mini-game such a pain in the ass.

Up to prospect level 8, might as well grind out a bit more XP for the prospect level 10 trophy.

Any sign of a patch for the most broken stuff?

I didn’t buy the game last year, first game in the SmackDown/vs Raw/WWE series I haven’t purchased so I was hoping this year might draw me back in but if the career mode is so broken...

I spoke to someone at 2k support snf they were surprisingly nice, but said they have to investigate all this.

I've bought this for my sons birthday and had to 'check' it was working properly just in case I had to take it back.
Some of the entrances look amazing , particularly impressed with Roodes.
Played a six man tag match and it was so slow, took a while to focus on another wrestler and noticed there was lag between pressing the button for the reversal and the notification on screen, so found it hard to reverse.
Ultimately the kids will love it, so it's done is job for me.

When I've moved in to the new place and the present is opened you should come round and test it out.

I’ll probably get it when the price drops.

All in all, it isnt a bad game. Aside from entrance music not playing occasionally, I haven't experienced any real glitches yet. I love some of the music tho, particularly George Thorogoods "One bourbon, one shot, one beer".

Might I interest you in this thread?

So, you can have 1.5 star <1 min. matches in Universe, and then "Break Out", get and use your signature and finisher, and the match rating skyrockets to 4 stars. :lol::wtf:

MITB is rigged to shit. Been able to hit the OMG in two attempts but all which I lose because of the stupid "Roman's Sleeping" mode and idiot opponents.

Also, I'm totally with Purgatory on the soundtrack, in that I actually kinda love it.

It's just a shame we cant use those songs for entrances. Thank you for that link, man.

I had my first Rumble a little while ago and I was legit pissed when I got tossed by Slater. He was near the ropes and I rushed him to clothesline him over and the fucker ducked and back-tossed me over the top. Totally surprised me.

Does anyone know why they swapped out Ravishing Rick Rudes theme? It was wrong in WWE 2k16, they got it right in 2k17, then changed it again in this one. It just annoyed me.

Every fucking year with this. Bad enough that you can't use custom themes, but then they put more music in that you can't even use for anything.

One of those many weird decisions that 2k makes.

Yeah, I know. This is the first year I've been able to buy it on Steam, since I finally broke down and bought myself an Alienware R15 laptop a few months ago. I don't even use my Xbox One anymore.

Theres a music injector program out there that lets you replace songs, namely the odd, generic ones (Western 1, Western 2, etc) with anything you want. I'm not sure exactly how it works, but I'm also not totally sure I wanna risk ruining the game.

Theres enough music in there to get by, tho. I'm trying to build a WCW roster

That the functionality to use custom music in games on PS4 exists but only MLB The Show (created by Sony) are allowed to use that feature is just infuriating to me. Never ceases to take me out of the game when someone comes out to a generic theme.

At the end of the day I find myself turning off entrances after a while because A) seeing people enter to fake music is annoying and B) it takes less time to load when you skip entrances.

It's not that they're the only ones allowed to use that feature. File import is fine, PES does it. It's just that it's not baked into the OS anymore so Yuke's would have to actually develop a solution.

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So that's never happening.

Operation Sports have come out with an attribute guide which makes full use of the rating system, as opposed to 2k's lazy ratings which are overinflated and only assigned in increments of 5. It does a great job of actually making everyone play more like their real life counterparts, and it gives you a greater chance of having realistic sim results along with competitive matches from guys of similar levels. The spreadsheet includes basically everyone currently in WWE including people not in the game so you can sync up your CAWs, and they're working on getting all of the legends synced up too.

As it says though, don't be blinded by the overall ratings. 80 is essentially the new 100, but the bulk of the main WWE roster fall within 40-60. It's the actual attribute ratings that set them apart.

The downside of course is that it takes ages to update everyone, but you could always update as you play along in Universe and only edit people as they come up in matches.

You're welcome. I actually like his original theme which was used as his entrance (he was DLC) in SvR '08...the tights he wears in it also awesome.

The only glitch i encounter is The ref not counting the pin in the 8 man tag matches (any variation)

Bam Bam's music is different too.

The Scientist Rick Sanchez is now Mr. Money In the Bank. Or is it Dr. Money in the Bank? Whatever (burp)

Yeah. I still dust off my copy of 08 and fire up the ol' 360 just for old times sake. 09 also...my best (IMO) CAW I ever made is still on there...a pretty spot-on Santina Marella. Only nitpicky thing I don't like is since I couldn't find the version of You Look So Good To Me with the intro she had so I ended up YT -> MP3'ing Billy and Chuck's version and using that instead. Also, think I changed Doink from face to heel and swapping his more awesome and sinister theme in.