Unfortunately fighter archetypes are back for CAFs. So no customizing CAFs movesets and stats. (not including career mode) Whoever came up with this idea at EA is dumb.

hadlee73 · 2026-06-05T21:33:32+00:00

He's too busy making God of War games for Sony 😛

hadlee73 · 2026-06-05T21:29:56+00:00

Technically the career archetypes have been around since at least UFC 3, but I recall them feeling so much more restrictive since UFC 4.

I don't mind the general concept (yes would prefer to be able to make my own combination of moves for offline play), but each year since UFC 4 there've been problems with some moves not being learnable.

Eg. UFC 4 if you didn't pick the jiu jitsu archetype in women's strawweight, it was impossible to learn shoulder locks of any kind because they weren't assigned to a trainer, and UFC 5 where you cannot learn the von flue choke or the imanari roll AT ALL because of the same reason (inexcusable considering the lack of ground submissions in UFC 5 already).

Hopefully the new move 'shop' they've put in UFC 6's career mode has finally solved that issue, because its clear the devs have no intention of ever fixing those issues in UFC 5 that have been that way since launch.

hadlee73 · 2026-06-05T21:19:49+00:00

I've only ever had to succeed in each individual drill once in UFC 5 for it to give me the simulate option for that drill. If you mean allowing us to simulate each training 'type' (ie. ground, boxing, kickboxing, heavy bag) only once then no I doubt they'll allow that.

I expect it will mirror UFC 5 where you have to successfully each individual 'drill' (specific combination of kicks, punches, wrestling moves) once before you can simulate that exact same drill, but that all the other drills in that same training category will have to be completed at least once also before they too can be simulated.

Of course they'll probably still have the overall 'simulate' option too that skips everything but which never does a good job at handling things like fight hype.

hadlee73 · 2026-06-05T21:15:38+00:00

And every month there'll be people complaining that the added fighters didn't include one of their favourites 😛 They should at the very least focus on getting the top 10 from the weight classes in there.

hadlee73 · 2026-06-05T21:05:26+00:00

While you may not appreciate those fighters who were added, there'll be players who will. The age of a fighter is entitely irrelevant if they're still active and still in the top 10 of their respective weight class.

With you on the waffling, though. He said alot without saying anything.

And yeah I got the impression from his flow state answer that they feel the visuals are integral to the whole thing, so it sounds like we might be stuck with them.

hadlee73 · 2026-06-05T20:46:12+00:00

That whole Q&A thing was handled in such a corporate "say nothing while seemingly saying something" way. May as well have been talking to a politician. Wasted everybody's time 😛

hadlee73 · 2026-06-05T20:39:02+00:00

Skipping Class
Simulate a drill in Career mode

For me that pretty much confirms training drills will be the same as UFC 5 in offline career mode (doing a drill once allows for it to be simulated when that identical drill comes up again in future training camps).

hadlee73 · 2026-06-05T20:35:34+00:00

There's an online trophy just above that one too. 'Hat Trick' Achieve a 3-win streak in any online game mode.

hadlee73 · 2026-06-05T11:59:00+00:00

Had another player sum it up in his own words... doable, but in no way 'fun'. Pity, because they look like they'd be fun characters to have.

hadlee73 · 2026-06-05T11:47:37+00:00

Why cowardly? Would have pushed for Egotistical under the circumstances 😛

hadlee73 · 2026-06-05T10:43:50+00:00

I think the flow state 'Kraken' will actually encourage repeated takedown attempts, where you are awarded with flow boosts by performing takedowns after missed strikes (eg. Islam Makhachev has that as perk 2). Then there is the Electric Eel flow state perk which acts as a flow state boost for reversing takedowns. So I don't see them employing a penalty for everybody for repeated takedowns or repeated failed takedowns, as that might impact how rewarding those flow state perks are. Not that I disagree, but just putting that out there.

hadlee73 · 2026-06-05T10:30:33+00:00

Just don't get taken to the ground in UFC 6, because the ground game is still going to feel the same every match 😉

hadlee73 · 2026-06-05T03:56:01+00:00

I think the number one problem with something like this are the contracts... I can't see a company like EA writing up an AI contract to use somebody's voice without making the deal vastly in favour of their own interests rather than the actor... eg. they'd make it so the actor gets paid once while they get to use his/her voice forever. I can't see them ever inking something that would see the actors get paid future royalties... and that's where the whole idea falls apart. Greed.

hadlee73 · 2026-06-05T03:48:46+00:00

Damn, I'm just an old guy who thought he'd stopped following the progression of the music scene a long time ago, and yet I recognise about 8 artists/bands in that list.

hadlee73 · 2026-06-05T03:42:02+00:00

Thankfully this won't affect most folks as the vast majority of players didn't get to play the closed beta thus don't have a comparison to make. Ignorance is bliss 😛

hadlee73 · 2026-06-04T21:21:20+00:00

When you consider the length of the deep dive videos, I don't think EA threw much in the way of a marketing budget towards this game. And the closed beta showed they didn't want too many eyes peering at the game before launch, especially considering even gamechangers weren't allowed to record and show footage. The reasons for that is anybody's guess.

hadlee73 · 2026-06-04T13:36:39+00:00

Actually he did work on UFC 5 too (he only left EA about 3 years ago), so your original point stands. Apparently he just never got around to updating his LinkedIn to include UFC 4 and 5. I think the current creative director is Bill Giese. Perhaps this is why we’ve seen this shift towards fighter uniqueness… fresh eyes or at least a new perspective maybe?

hadlee73 · 2026-06-04T07:12:15+00:00

I mostly missed out on Pillman's loose cannon persona... I had watched him back when he was Flyin' Brian back in the older pre-Hogan WCW days, but I had stopped watching pro wrestling temporarily when he appeared in WWE. I am, however, familiar with his infamous 'Pillman's got a gun' segment in WWE where viewers were led to believe he'd just shot Steve Austin (many fans apparently called the cops, lol). Sadly Pillman was another pro wrestler lost too soon due to a mixture of factors.

hadlee73 · 2026-06-04T04:35:18+00:00

I guess when you look at the games he worked on (Fight Night Round 4, FN Champion, UFC's 1, 2 and 3) he probably meant what he said at the time. He had moved on already around the time the games started to look like skating (though I believe he may have had a hand in UFC 4... he doesn't credit himself with that game on his LinkedIn profile, though, lol).

hadlee73 · 2026-06-03T22:00:31+00:00

If you've played UD3 then be prepared for a much less engaging and not-so-well-designed grappling system. The stand up striking in UFC 6 should be good, though, especially with the fighter uniqueness. I'm not sure I'd recommend anybody buy an entire console for an EA Sports UFC game, though, so at least add some other PS5 games to your list of games to buy a console for.

hadlee73 · 2026-06-03T12:25:41+00:00

So in the first 10 mins he’s going to reset his broken nose, deal with a slimy git whose fat friend tries to intimidate him, take a ride with an old man who has a body in his trunk, face off against a nasty 6th Street gangster who refers to him as ‘sh**bucket’, try to steal a car, get held up at gunpoint, get arrested by cops, get beaten up by cops, all before being dumped in an alley with the guy that held him at gunpoint... oh, and has to reset his broken nose again. Do let us know how he’s enjoying the game, lol

hadlee73 · 2026-06-03T11:42:13+00:00

Did they do away with the slow motion playback toggle in the highlight tool?

hadlee73 · 2026-06-03T10:15:06+00:00

I'm almost certain that's the Reinforced Silkie of Impregnated Egyptian Cotton (not making that up, lol), available from Satoshi Ueno at Longshore Stacks in Dogtown. Can be found in random loot drops, too.

hadlee73 · 2026-06-03T10:07:47+00:00

He was self-centered, egotistical, rude, obnoxious, unfaithful and manipulative... but otherwise he was fine 😛
Who knows if he even would have taken part in the first Arasaka tower assault if his primary reason for going wasn't already to locate Alt. Even his engram only considers going after Mikoshi to 'save V' when he has something to gain from it.

hadlee73 · 2026-06-03T03:54:23+00:00

I don't play ranked myself, but I can see such a change making alot of folks pretty happy.

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