eSports Boxing Club Provides Another Update on Gameplay, Launch Plans & More

Haha, they heard y'all getting a little freaked out about some of the punches and wanted to squelch that right quick.

yeah, I'm glad they are noticing that. To me regardless of mocap and the rest of it, in the end it needs to look appropriate in-game, sell the action and feel good. 1:1 in comparison to reality won't work most of the time imo. whomever is in charge of animation needs to have good taste and be very perceptive

Agree and to piggy back the cpu logic is the key to
this whole thing. One thing held past games back and that was the pace and logic of the ai was always the same and each fight turned into rock em sock em fights. If they can get the pace of the fight right it’s going to be special. I would love to have a realistic slowed down technical fight with a cpu boxer than a constant button mashing combo fest..

I look forward to not having opponents sneak pick Issac Frost.

The roster so far is fantastic. And we still have another round of reveals.
Would love to see any of the following guys:
Canelo
Manny
De La Hoya
Foreman
Pernell Whitaker
Hearns
Hagler
GGG
Loma
Mikey Garcia
Ryan Garcia
Lennox Lewis
Hopkins
And of course Ali or Tyson
But if ANY of these guys are on this roster It would be ridiculous.
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for sure that's key as well. In the dreams platform I created some AI for the CPU where he rushes you but in initiates a clinch - which is a great change of pace and breaks up the rhythm. Imagine if in fight night you randomly fought a cpu opponent that just kept trying to tie you up (and not just when he's about to get ktfo)... it's a good change of pace. Another example would be someone just doing their best to stay on the outside dancing away and flicking jabs out and mercilessly staying out of range, and obviously a mix of those plus the standard terminator aggressive style.
I know a lot of guys want to play as or against Roy Jones and will want THAT to feel authentic - but for me more importantly than that is like you said a variety of styles that can work and mix it up and have it feel fluid and make sense.
haha, but I'm sure many (including me) could go on endlessly about this, like we're not even into punch accuracy, head moment and damage yet. It will be fun at least to see all of this play out as the release gets closer.

The Jab. It really needs to be done right. More than any other punch.
I don’t recall a game, boxing or mma, that made the jab as realistic as it should be.
A stiff jab should really sting, it should be a viable tool to keep aggressive fighters at range.
Too many games don’t give it the stopping power it should have.
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What's odd is that during the FN Community event, the build we played had a great jab and the right-cross had pop to it.
It was nerfed in the retail build. Very disappointing.
I hope eBoxing does this right.
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Just based on how good this game looks and how many fighters they already have on board, I'm sure we'll get a lot more big names over time. They're in this thing for the long haul, so who knows what the game will like years from now.
I just hope they also continue signing a lot of these lesser-known (but talented) fighters because that's one area I thought Fight Night got wrong. For the sake of an interesting career and just to have more options, it's nice to have a big roster. I don't need everyone in the game to be a superstar.

I don't think they currently have any Top Rank fighters signed so who knows how uncle bob is trying to play it, he can be the biggest pain in the *** in the sport sometimes, or I wouldn't even be surprised if they are holding out for EA to approach them about something. There have been rumors pop up here and there about EA getting back into boxing.

They wouldn't dare - one look at ESBC and they run for the hills or risk total embarrassment

This looks really good, but I'm not getting too hyped over some videos (been there, done that).
Even though I'm not that into boxing, I feel like this could give me my combat fix, and I can leave the EA crap gathering dust.

Yeah I think we're safe lol.

I really hope for a title called E-Sports Boxing Club, they optimize what they can as far as netcode goes. And the only way to do things is with rollback netcode. I'm tired of EA not giving us what should have been the standard years ago.
I hope there will be some demand for that because it is going to be pretty important to keep the game fun in all regions.

Bud Crawford has been officially announced as in the game and I believe he is still signed with TR.

Graphics are incredible, roster is well beyond what I expected.
But, it’s going to come down to gameplay. And not just animations. But the nitty gritty, under-the-hood stuff. Like how smooth flurries between fighters that are throwing at the same time, vulnerable windows, rocked fighter sequences, hit detection, etc..
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I really want to know more about who is behind this. Steel City Inc. has no prior games at all. I understand the developers are passionate about boxing, but I would really like to hear more about their background because it is quite impressive what they managed to put together and even involving big names and all.

Probably people who have been in the industry for some time and decided to do their own thing instead of being on the payroll for a massive publisher, like most indie developers.