EA SPORTS UFC 4 EA PLAY PS4

This intuitive design extends to the ground game and submissions where the developers have overhauled the previous system with two new submission mini games, one for chokes and one for joints. With more intuitive controls, players should now be able to focus more on striking or blocking in the clinch, and less on spamming button inputs to get out or block escapes. When you’re in a fight the last thing you should be doing is overthinking.

If you’re trying to get out of the clinch you’re just going to try and pull away from me, and if I’m trying to keep you in it I’m just going to try and follow you all the way to the cage.Īlthough I’ve yet to go hands-on with UFC 4, this sounds like a major improvement.

It's just about using locomotion to get in and out whereas previously you’d have to use a grappling mini game to go for a break input that your opponent could deny. If they want to get out, they need to pull away from you or try and pull away to either side, sort of matador you. Keep maintaining that distance towards them. If you grab your opponent in the clinch, and you want to stay in the clinch, just push towards them. As Hayes explains, this will be replaced by the Real Player Motion technology from EA that utilizes locomotion.Īs far as staying in the clinch and getting out of the clinch, the great part about the expansion of RPM tech into that system is that it’s just using locomotion. Previously, getting out or even maintaining a clinch required pressing certain buttons to try and escape, and if you wanted to maintain the clinch, timing a block properly. Well, if the developers deliver on their intentions, things should get much better for the average player come August 14. What I struggle with is the connection between my brain and elaborate button inputs previously required to be successful online. The problem isn’t that I don’t know what to do I’ve been watching MMA as a hardcore fan for more than a decade and can tell you what guard someone is using, identify submissions by name, and explain the importance of under hooks in the clinch. I can get up off the ground, or defend a submission, but the wrestling and BJJ specialists in that space snap my limbs like twigs. I’m usually comfortable with stand-up fighting, but I’ve struggled against the Khabib’s of the video game MMA world in the clinch. As an average player at best, this never lasts and ultimately leads to me putting the game down for good. Typically, I spend most of my time in the Career Mode, but I always dabble with the online components when I get a bit bored of fighting the AI. I’ve played every EA Sports UFC game released and, in one way or another, enjoyed them all.

I recently had a chance to sit down and talk specifically about gameplay changes with Creative Director Brian Hayes, and the common themes surrounding those changes are accessibility and intuitive controls.

EA SPORTS UFC 4 EA PLAY PS4

EA Sports UFC 4 is set to release on PS4 and Xbox One on August 14, 2020, and in the lead up to launch EA has been showing off a huge collection of changes players can expect to find.

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