EA Reveals December DLC Pack For Fight Night Round 4 (Press Release)

[SHAKYR]

Brizzo wrote:
Because I am sure some of you would like some more details:

Adjusted the locomotion speed at close proximity so that your opponent can no longer trap you with glued feet

This is pretty straightforward. Previously, when the boxers were standing toe-to-toe their locomotion speed was slower than when fighting at a distance. We fixed it so that if you are moving laterally or backwards, your movement speed is a little bit faster. The glued feet effect has been eradicated.

Reduced locomotion speed when throwing punch combos

Part of the glue feet and spammer solution. The boxers do not move as much while punching. Previously, it was too easy to stay in your opponent's chest and keep punching, even when they successfully blocked a punch or two and tried to escape.

Increased the stamina cost when continually punching

Further tuning on the stamina to address punch spamming. When punches are thrown in combination for a certain amount of time the stamina loss increases to approximately 4 times the normal rate and stays that way until the boxer stops punching. The increased stamina loss also takes a few seconds to wear off.

Increased stamina loss when continually weaving

Same as above. If you spam the weave too many times the boxer will get fatigued faster and take a few seconds to recover.

Increased stamina loss for users that spam upper body movement.

As above. Continuous upper-body movement for a prolonged period of time will drastically increase stamina loss. "Spinning" will make a boxer tired quickly for as long as the behavior is maintained and will take a few seconds for normal stamina loss to resume.

Can no longer perform a perfect block when spamming the block.

Spamming high-low-high-low-high-low on the Block will no longer reward the User with a Perfect Block. Once the Boxer's Block Strength drops below approximately %65, Perfect Blocks will no longer happen.

Increased the stamina cost when continually running away from your opponent.

This was kind of a pre-emptive decision in anticipation of future "cheese" behavior. With the updates we made to locomotion speed, punching and stamina - we wanted to make sure that a boxer couldn't get his track shoes on, non-stop, for 10 straight rounds.

Stamina loss increases when a Boxer moves laterally or backwards continuously for a prolonged period of time. When stamina is low, movement speed is decreased. It's not hard to box, but its not easy to run.

No illegal blows can be thrown by either user when one user is in a stun state.

Yeah. We are forcing you to be sportsman-like and only throw low blows and headbutts when you are both feeling alright.

Increased stamina cost of Haymakers

Pretty self explanatory. Throwing more than two in a row now will really tire you out.

Tuned punch accuracy when opponents are moving their head.

To be less accurate. Slipping, dodging and weaving is a little more effective. Punches no longer track a moving target the same way they did before. In addition, we increased the default Punch Power setting and decreased the default Counter Window setting.

[Bamtino]

Quote: Originally Posted by BlueNGold

I think the 39.99 price drop will help bring people back to the game that got rid of it before. Patch looks really nice. Being able to edit the real boxers is cool and not getting stuck when the body spammers are hitting you is awesome. EA is doing an amazing job supporting this game. Maybe this could be proof that 2 year cycles do work when done right?

Amazing job supporting this game? the least they could do is try and fix this mess of a game if they're planning on making a round 5...Fact is they released a game that is severely broken especially the online component...they bragged and bragged for months about how much more they did in comparison to the other team and at the end of the day we were still stuck with the same arcade oriented sham of boxing game we're accustomed to getting from EA...On top of that they're now making us pay extra for boxers who should of been on the disc...

You can call me ungrateful for this post but i refuse to give kudos for this...they owed us this patch if they expect us to shell out $60 next time around...If they didn't support the game by trying to fix it they damn well know they were going to lose the community when the next Fight Night comes around...they already lost a huge chunk of it, id on't know what the deal is on 360 but the PS3 online community is a ghost town...

[statum71]

Was waiting for B-Hop and Holyfield both.

[parker002]

Quote: Originally Posted by chefdad

Gotta link? I hope this is true. One of the only reasons this is shelved is the online cheese.

Fight Night Round 4 DLC Gameplay Updates Revealed

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- Adjusted the locomotion speed at close proximity so that your opponent can no longer trap you with glued feet - Increased the stamina cost when continually punching - Increased stamina loss when continually weaving - Increased stamina loss for users that spam upper body movement - Can no longer perform a perfect block when spamming the block - Increased the stamina cost when continually running away from your opponent - No illegal blows can be thrown by either user when one user is in a stun state - Increased stamina cost of Haymakers - Tuned punch accuracy when opponents are moving their head - Reduced locomotion speed when throwing punch combos Create Player Updates - Allow users to duplicate and edit ratings of licensed boxers Online World Championship Updates - Improved cheat detection logic General Updates - Various Bug fixes

Unfortunately for me, I don't play online. To me, this looks like a waste because they didn't touch Legacy mode.

[parker002]

Quote: Originally Posted by BlueNGold

I think the 39.99 price drop will help bring people back to the game that got rid of it before.

I don't know if I believe that.

For one, this is only going to interest the people that dropped it because of the online issues. It doesn't appear to affect offline much at all.

The new game modes don't really look appealing. I mean, most of us here are "hardcore" boxing and FNR4 fans, and I've seen a majority of us post that we'd like to see more CURRENT fighters in the game. Instead they add an "old school" mode so that we can apparently recreate the roaring 20's. And Ring Rivalries? Unless they're going to add more boxers, they're not adding anything we can't already do in Fight Now. The only thing keeping me from recreating Marquez-Pacquiao or Corrales-Castillo right now is that neither Marquez nor Castillo are in the game.

I'd have to go back and look, but I think we discussed it about the time that the button-config DLC dropped. The numbers at the time seemed to suggest that a large majority of people that didn't buy the game because it didn't have buttons still didn't buy it after they were added. And that was a singular, specific issue. If that DLC didn't bring them back, why would this?

[drewbaby1414]

Looks like I might have been premature in trading this one in....looks like I will trade in ole UFC 09 which is played out now and give this another try

[chefdad]

regardless of the negativity, I'm super looking forward to getting back into this!
The description on those fixes has me drooling.

[chefdad]

Quote: Originally Posted by parker002

Fight Night Round 4 DLC Gameplay Updates Revealed Unfortunately for me, I don't play online. To me, this looks like a waste because they didn't touch Legacy mode.

Yeah I can see where that would suck for those non online players.

[swiftychampleone]

Honestly, I think $10 is too high for this DLC.

[sva91]

While Im pleased with the new improvements and DLC, I still think the main problem with this game is the counter system. I like to move around the ring, and effectively jab my opponent, and set up hooks and uppercuts. I can't stand how the game lets you counter a jab. You cant win unless you counter all day. They really need to just get rid of the counter system all together.....BTW I play with the counter window slider all the way down.