one of the new patches broke my universe

[arflexit2]

So annoying; since I installed one of the latest patches my universe mode has been an utter mess. I am so pissed as I don't want to lose my progress. But I am stuck in a game breaking bug.

Since the update universe has been a mess for reversal windows during matches; the amount of time you have to reverse moves is almost zero; and the amount of reversals against you have become a joke. I mean if they are close to being stunned they literally will reverse every move. It is like it is not even bothering with sticking to the gameplay settings.

Now I set a match in universe classic mode during a PPE match; switched to superstar mode so I have my superstar's win lose ratio being tracked. The freaking match lost all win conditions. So it is impossible to finish the match. This bug I hear has popped up many times since 2k18; I don't know I never played any of these games until 23.

Anyway this is not the first time I have experienced this but I found a fix; if you are in a PPE that is broken in superstar mode you could go to edit your superstar and change shows. doing this would immediately end the PPE and skip to the next week's show. well one of the patches has 'fixed' this. Now if you change shows it doesn't matter it will not skip the ppe AND you can't select the minor show as your assigned show either to get off the PPE shows. So now because they 'fixed' this I am now stuck with no way to get out.

I am glad I got this game as a gift and didn't pay for it. I wouldn't pay for this crap of a product.

[Greenboy007]

Best one is that you can get your finisher reversed while they are stunned, Or this may only be in the live events can't remember.
As for the reverse just before becoming stunned, this as always been the case. Just make sure you do a high stun move as it nears this point, this way it jumps full to stun without the reverse on 95%.

[arflexit2]

Originally posted by Greenboy007:

Best one is that you can get your finisher reversed while they are stunned, Or this may only be in the live events can't remember.
As for the reverse just before becoming stunned, this as always been the case. Just make sure you do a high stun move as it nears this point, this way it jumps full to stun without the reverse on 95%.

it was certainly not this extreme with the reversals until the recent patches. it has become egregious. I was just playing on 1.02 and had no issues; upgraded to 1.08 and suddenly the reversals from the AI are at least 10 times more and the reversal window for the player is way reduced (not as bad as how increased the AI reversal is but still noticeable).

[Greenboy007]

You do know for Universe mode you can change all the reversals settings in the options to make it easier/harder or longer/shorter. you can even make the mini games easier by slowing flag speed and zones.
If still struggling use lower game difficulty then boost AI. This gives a level between Hard & Legendary that may suite you.
Game satisfaction is all about Player preference and this years does have some tools to customise it to players own taste.
You can never make a game difficulty level that makes all players happy but as said you can customise to own taste.

Play around with the settings till you find your perfect spot.

Hope this helps mate.

[arflexit2]

Originally posted by Greenboy007:

You do know for Universe mode you can change all the reversals settings in the options to make it easier/harder or longer/shorter. you can even make the mini games easier by slowing flag speed and zones.
If still struggling use lower game difficulty then boost AI. This gives a level between Hard & Legendary that may suite you.
Game satisfaction is all about Player preference and this years does have some tools to customise it to players own taste.
You can never make a game difficulty level that makes all players happy but as said you can customise to own taste.

Play around with the settings till you find your perfect spot.

Hope this helps mate.

You cannot adjust those setting inside my universe; you have to adjust them in the regular game menu; and I did. I have set to highest reversal window/mistake threshold for player and lowest for AI. These are the same settings I had prior to the patch and it worked perfectly fine. Something in the patch fundamentally broke something. It is so bad it is basically unplayable.

[Greenboy007]

Originally posted by arflexit2:

Originally posted by Greenboy007:

You do know for Universe mode you can change all the reversals settings in the options to make it easier/harder or longer/shorter. you can even make the mini games easier by slowing flag speed and zones.
If still struggling use lower game difficulty then boost AI. This gives a level between Hard & Legendary that may suite you.
Game satisfaction is all about Player preference and this years does have some tools to customise it to players own taste.
You can never make a game difficulty level that makes all players happy but as said you can customise to own taste.

Play around with the settings till you find your perfect spot.

Hope this helps mate.

You cannot adjust those setting inside my universe; you have to adjust them in the regular game menu; and I did. I have set to highest reversal window/mistake threshold for player and lowest for AI. These are the same settings I had prior to the patch and it worked perfectly fine. Something in the patch fundamentally broke something. It is so bad it is basically unplayable.

Sorry don't know what else to suggest. All works fine with difficulty settings in my game. Even have prompts switched off to make hard. The sliders do alter the game for me at the moment. You might be right and it broke your save. have you tried setting different save and compairing or use exhibition match to see if its the same?

As said you could set to hard or normal, if that feels to easy then boost AI players to make that mode more challenging and see if you like that

[arflexit2]

Originally posted by Greenboy007:

Sorry don't know what else to suggest. All works fine with difficulty settings in my game. Even have prompts switched off to make hard. The sliders do alter the game for me at the moment. You might be right and it broke your save. have you tried setting different save and compairing or use exhibition match to see if its the same?

As said you could set to hard or normal, if that feels to easy then boost AI players to make that mode more challenging and see if you like that

Yeah not sure what is going on; but I attempted some settings changes and played in exhibition and the same thing is going on. adjusting the sliders on the reversal windows does not appear to have any affect at all now. As far as I can tell none of the sliders are having an impact. Something is just flat out broke with the game settings.

[arflexit2]

Originally posted by Greenboy007:

Originally posted by arflexit2:

You cannot adjust those setting inside my universe; you have to adjust them in the regular game menu; and I did. I have set to highest reversal window/mistake threshold for player and lowest for AI. These are the same settings I had prior to the patch and it worked perfectly fine. Something in the patch fundamentally broke something. It is so bad it is basically unplayable.

Sorry don't know what else to suggest. All works fine with difficulty settings in my game. Even have prompts switched off to make hard. The sliders do alter the game for me at the moment. You might be right and it broke your save. have you tried setting different save and compairing or use exhibition match to see if its the same?

As said you could set to hard or normal, if that feels to easy then boost AI players to make that mode more challenging and see if you like that

It looks like the main difficulty setting (easy,normal,hard) still properly register; but the sliders on things like reversal settings and windows have no impact. Even on Easy they are reversing almost everything. I would say there are certain moves where the CPU will reverse it at least 75% of the time meaning you basically can't use those moves. Some other moves it looks like it doesn't reverse as much but it is just ridiculous to have moves reversed like this. totally breaks immersion and basically limits your move selection to half of what it should be.