Universe Mode Discussion

[Zeokage]

Originally posted by Steam Store Page:

YOUR UNIVERSE, YOUR WAY

New upgrades give greater control over your Universe experience featuring commentary-driven promos with new cutscenes, branching choices, and multiple outcomes.

I hope they give a full tutorial on how to make these new upgrades work.

[Rossflex]

why have we still not got a CO-OP universe?

imagine playing a full career with friends

[NLp]

imagine having friends to play with

[JEmbers87]

A working and user friendly Universe mode?

I love the WWE 2k games but I mostly play Universe mode and it's hard to see the same issues and lack of updates persist through new iterations of the game.

I'd love to see some real time spent on Universe mode - bringing pack in promos, giving us freedom to build our own storylines through cutscenes and more freedom around what happens outside the matches.

BUT even without that, I hope there's some work that's been done on making what is already in there work more easy to use compared to 2k22, 2k23 and 2k24. For example:

- MITB: Can I have multiple MITBs across two or three different shows and have them actually work with the matches and titles I assign them to? And a way to cash them in across different match types whenever I want without having to use tempremental menu prompts or rivalry options?
- UI: The number of menus is mind boggling. Most noticable for me: why do I put people in divisions if, when booking a match, I have to go back out through 3 menus to remember who's in what division (I have to make physical notes to refer to) - when setting up a match, I'm almost never picking between the existing "weight class" filters, but I would love to be able to filter my wrestlers by division at that point.
- Cross-brand: Can I have filters for individual brands too when setting up a match but still have the option for (e.g.) people from Smackdown to come into a Raw match (not in 2k23)? What is not user-friendly is only being able to pick e.g. RAW superstars on RAW, but still having to scroll through all the other greyed-out superstars to get there.
- Rivalries: I'm OK with what I've got, but can I rely on people actually getting injured/leaving a brand if that's the stipulation, or the rivlary even ending, or am I stuck with them randomly continuing/having no effect for seemingly no reason?
- Coordination: If I put a tag team together in UM only and give them a new entrance and new costumes, will it recognise that or default to old (or even random) entrances/costumes?
- Cutscenes - Even without bringing promos back, can we have some customizable cutscenes and have those titled or grouped sensibly (e.g. not just "Scene 1" to "Scene 87")

These are a few admittedly little annoyances I've experienced and may be really picky, but even absent a new or overhauled Universe Mode, they seem like easy fixes that would just make the whole experience feel better.

Love to hear others' thoughts.

[Zeokage]

Wouldn't Remote Play Together or something like Parsec do that?

[Gadden84]

Imagine them fixing universe mode.

[Gentoo]

Universe mode as is... isn't much better than playing the basic play now mode with a notepad and your imagination.

[qsnoopyjr]

Originally posted by Rossflex:

why have we still not got a CO-OP universe?

imagine playing a full career with friends

Co-op would be fun. I'm guessing you would do sync world?
Like Palworld does with its Co-op? Not on a server but you sync somehow, idk how Palworld but their Co-op not on a actual server with other randoms, is really nice.

I think this would be good for matchmaking too. Competitive play. Maybe like 1 ranked game a day. Slow pace yet not too slow? Competitive play probably better in a mode like MyPlayer.

[Humbl3_247]

Confirmed wwe 2k25 Promos have no text or dialogue

its just cut scenes with choices after.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6eawy1Yxsc

[ReverseLegSweep]

Honestly, I like the approach they've taken. As much as I used to enjoy using the Promo Engine, the dialogue was clunky and often confusing. This way, the branches seem to be really well defined, and I can just imagine the actual promo dialogue in my head.

[Zeokage]

Universe Discussion

I think the embargo on content creator videos is today for this mode. So please feel free to share videos from those at Creator Festival (not video reactions to them).

Of course, post your opinions here too (not videos).

[Righteous Avenger 993]

Originally posted by Zeokage:

I think the embargo on content creator videos is today for this mode. So please feel free to share videos from those at Creator Festival (not video reactions to them).

Of course, post your opinions here too (not videos).

There's a lot to like about universe mode, but I'm leaning hard on a sale. I don't get why they can't just let us type our own promos out. We'd just keep it offline.

[Zeokage]

Originally posted by Righteous Avenger 993:

There's a lot to like about universe mode, but I'm leaning hard on a sale. I don't get why they can't just let us type our own promos out. We'd just keep it offline.

It sounds like what you're asking for is Story Designer, which is something I would love to see implemented into Universe of and when it's finally ready for the game.

While you can book things, the basic gameplay loop of Universe is closer to a Season Mode (its original description was Exhibition Plus) seeing as the mode books itself by default.

Also, imagine typing out whole promos on a controller every show!

i like it looks much better than 24

[gtjbm]

I was having a look into this mode today but rather interested in how the Superstar version of the mode was this year but I couldn't seem to find anything.

I don't have time to invest in the full classic mode, so just wondered if anyone knows of any progression made on the Superstar side?

I did have 2k24 but was quite disappointed and could never really get into it. Hoping it might have been improved upon since then?

[Righteous Avenger 993]

Originally posted by Zeokage:

Originally posted by Righteous Avenger 993:

There's a lot to like about universe mode, but I'm leaning hard on a sale. I don't get why they can't just let us type our own promos out. We'd just keep it offline.

It sounds like what you're asking for is Story Designer, which is something I would love to see implemented into Universe of and when it's finally ready for the game.

While you can book things, the basic gameplay loop of Universe is closer to a Season Mode (its original description was Exhibition Plus) seeing as the mode books itself by default.

Also, imagine typing out whole promos on a controller every show!

The promos on this universe mode do not have text or voice over. It's just A superstar speaking and then some prompts with 4 decisions come on. The least they could do is let us type out some things to say on a USB keyboard and mouse. For me it's looking like a sale.