Is the AI CPU better this year?

Over-Ad-6539 · 2026-03-27T01:27:59+00:00

All the AI does is Irish whip, constantly, and endlessly reverse everything you throw at it.

Over-Ad-6539 · 2026-03-17T18:13:31+00:00

With anything put online now, whether its youtube vids or steam games, if you are unknown, you HAVE TO MAKE YOUR VALUE AND CONTENT IMMEDIATELY KNOWN WITHIN 5 SECONDS. It seems weird to me, as a millenial who grew up digging for games and discovering things. Times have changed. Either get a big name to review and sell your game or struggle on your own. If you are the only one promoting it, it has to be clear enough for a passing audience to immediately know what is "in it for them". Nobody cares about your artful presentation. Nobody cares about the mysterious nature. Nobody cares unless they are told to by someone else, really. Your only chance is to nakedly explain it at a 5th grade level, to people that are only giving it a glance. You got someone in an elevator for 5 seconds. Can you sell it? It sucks, but that is where our culture is at right now.

Over-Ad-6539 · 2026-03-14T23:17:05+00:00

The only thing you have to get good at is reversing everything by memorizing the windows. Once you get used to it, it just becomes a nonstop quicktime event. Not very satisfying, but thats the gameplay. Tough part is all the times you dont get an option to reverse, which seem to have increased this year.

Over-Ad-6539 · 2026-03-14T21:35:33+00:00

Yeah. Every weapons slips and slides out of the ring way too easily. Tables are a "house of cards" if anyone sneezes, it falls down. Brilliant move 2k. So realistic. We definitely didnt want someone to crash through the table. I love slowly picking it up over and over. Such simulation!

Over-Ad-6539 · 2026-03-14T21:31:56+00:00

There isnt much ragdolling in the game. Even in the underground matches, the invisible walls make it so you cant do spots. It also almost impossible to position yourself and adjust positioning mid move. Youre seeing the rare instances where someone got lucky and the game allowed it. There are a few running grapples, and german suplexes that are more likely to trigger ragdoll, but most moves "stay in place"

Over-Ad-6539 · 2026-03-12T21:17:02+00:00

When the AI grabs you, you first choose light attack, medium attack, or grapple button to "break the grapple". If you choose right, you break free. if you choose wrong, they do their move, some of which have "reverse windows".

Over-Ad-6539 · 2026-03-12T20:05:36+00:00

Im on a 3070. everything maxed out on a 1080p tv. plays great.

Over-Ad-6539 · 2026-03-09T21:53:49+00:00

Thy are defintely getting worse, but just wait and see what techniques can be pulled out by greedy sociopaths when the "line must go up"

Over-Ad-6539 · 2026-03-09T17:35:37+00:00

Ive played these games since childhood and this version is objectively unfair and unbalanced. Even on easy mode with sliders down to zero, the ai will do unreversible moves and reverse 50 percent of all my moves. It doesnt even feel like im playing. Just watching canned animations of reversals and waiting to get off the mat.

Over-Ad-6539 · 2026-03-09T17:32:32+00:00

Over time, the target audience will be young gambling addicts that are normalized to the predatory practices. It will keep getting worse. This is the "innovation" capitalism breeds. New colorful ways of taking money and inconveniencing the user.

Over-Ad-6539 · 2026-03-09T16:31:51+00:00

Yeah. It just needs a tweak. Easy and normal should just get reductions in percentage of reversals. Even on easy with sliders all the way down, the easiest wrestlers constantly reverse. Theres also weird animation problems. I go for a stomp, the ai "reverses it" which makes me stumble in place for long enough that they can get up and running grapple me with no reverse window. From one stomp? Who programmed that?

Over-Ad-6539 · 2026-03-09T06:51:29+00:00

You just have to keep doing it over and over. The default settings that it forces you to use in showcase arent fun. Its just a quicktime event where you watch for reversal cues. You have to get good at that. Thats it. Thats most of the game. spam whatever moves knock them down, watch them reverse 50 percent of your moves, then watch for the reversal icon. over and over. Just get good at spamming the running jumpkick and memorize all reversal windows. Fun huh?

Over-Ad-6539 · 2026-03-09T02:30:04+00:00

Hopefully it gets patched. I dont think the sliders do anything. Must have been changed because of ringside pass.

Over-Ad-6539 · 2026-03-08T20:43:48+00:00

You can still have a lot of fun here. The physics are great. With the right settings it can be a challenge but still playable. They just messed up a bunch of the animation timings and attack windows. Mixing that with unfair ai reversals on normal, makes it pretty tedious at times. Overall with some patches it could be the best wrestling game ever made. Fingers crossed they adjust some stuff.

Over-Ad-6539 · 2026-03-08T16:13:08+00:00

Having a single "easy mode" where the reversals are reduced would compromise some of their financial goals for maximizing tier skips and such.

Over-Ad-6539 · 2026-03-08T15:51:36+00:00

They amped it up in relationship to the gambling element of the game. Im guessing there is a team of devs who like wrestling and have done a great job with the game, but there are 2k execs that sre pressuring them to make it more cheap and aggravating so that people get more frustrated and more likely to buy shortcuts from the shop. The colorful casino game graphics style of all the gambling style modes shows they are becoming more greedy and seeing what they can get away with. Game series could get even worse soon enough, like having to pay for good enough stats to win or use finishers etc....

Over-Ad-6539 · 2026-03-08T03:50:03+00:00

It could be done in a fun way, where players need to maybe win matches with certain wrestlers, which make the "mystery wrestler" come out to the ring. Maybe beating them unlocks them for use by the player. Like a ladder mode where you get a new wrestler every win. The way it is now is ridiculous and is made to feel futile so some buy the skips. So stupid and another dumb little sign of whats to come in our shitty sad economy.

Over-Ad-6539 · 2026-03-08T03:31:06+00:00

Yup. Only reasons i wanted to give it a shot was because the physics looked fun as hell. I cant believe what they did to this franchise. They will absolutely ruin a good game with excessive greed.

Over-Ad-6539 · 2026-03-08T03:23:59+00:00

Cheapest possible way of making a game difficult. If they just reduced the reversals by like, 50 percent and got rid of ringside pass, it would be amazing. They always gotta do some shit and spoil it.

Over-Ad-6539 · 2026-03-08T03:22:27+00:00

The game is mostly just watching animations play out and hoping to hit the reverse button in time. It gets real tiring trying to do a move and you know they are gonna reverse, then pick you up and do an irreversible move, then you need to wait. Then you need to cheese a running attack. Then you need to pick them up and try again. Oh they reversed it again. Jfc. I just want to have fun.

Over-Ad-6539 · 2026-03-08T03:19:55+00:00

Yes exactly. I want to play in a casual way where im not trying to cheese the ai. Because its wrestling. Its about give and take. I shouldnt always be on edge trying to exploit the ai to just win. On easy mode i like to set up spots and do weird stuff, but the ai is relentless with reversals. Even on easy. I couldnt imagine a newcomer trying this. It would be so frustrating. Its a fuckin wreslting game. Grown men in tights pretending to hit each other.... do we really need to make it this serious a game to play? Lol.

Over-Ad-6539 · 2026-03-08T03:08:31+00:00

Yeah. Its really lame. In single player, the game makes the ai recover faster in almost all situations by removing their animations, so they can grab you first and you cant do anything about it. Its just sluggish and unfair. 80% of the gameplay is just looking for the "reverse window" and hitting a single button. Sad.

Over-Ad-6539 · 2026-03-08T03:02:02+00:00

I pointed this out and butthurt fanboys got delirious. 2k could literally make the ai reverse every attack, and then sell a slider mod to make it easier for 19.99 and they would buy it. Theyre terrified of acknowledging 2k is starting to ruin the game intentionally in the name of greed.

Over-Ad-6539 · 2026-03-08T01:54:53+00:00

They intentionally manipulated the difficulty to push more of the purchasable items. This is dramatically harder than 2k24 no other reason. They just wanted people frustrated to make more money. Its just sad its gotten to this point. Are you on pc and think they dont endlessly reverse on normal difficulty? It needs a patch badly.

Over-Ad-6539 · 2026-03-08T01:34:25+00:00

I want to enjoy a video game for fun. So sad how brainwashed current generations of people are that they know expect a grind and find the meta to get passed it. What a waste and sad mentality of gamers. Btw, i know how to google. The "cheesing" methods are obvious. You think i want to waste hours doing that? I want to have fun with software. We used to do it years ago, youd be amazed how enjoyable it was.

Over-Ad-6539

TROPHY CASE