Smackdown Survery

[Mr.Sensation]

http://www.ocwfed.net/miscpics/WWEHomeRightPromo_Survey2.jpg

 

This is from the Smackdown Website,

 

You guys talk a big game, now is your chance to back it up.

 

I put my cynisim aside and filled out exactly what I have been talking about for over 5 years, I advise you to do the same. Things wont change unless we make them change.

 

[Trevor McManus]

Think it'd be helpful for people to post in here what they replied in relation to the survey.

 

If more people ask for the same thing there's more chance to get it.

[Seth Morrison]

I filled mine out. I simply put how making it more of a realistic, sim type game, will make it better. I also noted that if they could ban Hazard's IP address ,thatd be simply wonderful too.

[Mr.Sensation]

I had very long answers, but i gave them examples on how to add more grapples with there current scheme, and also to narrow the margin for chain reversals, and remove the reversal indicator online, in addition to adding 2 reversal buttons, and reworking submissions to be like 2k6, and went on a tirade bout groggy grapples, and lack of moves.

[Useless Dane Xavier]

I did this last week, but I'm going to redo it because I remembered a shit load of stuff I left out.

[Trevor McManus]

The removal of blood online was a silly decision and I cannot understand why this has been done.

Offline the blood feature can be used still and the game is a 16+ rated game, many 15 rated film have violent content. I fail to see who is being protected with the abolition of blood online.

 

 

The selection of moves available from the chain grapples is very small. When trying to match moves to a character it is very difficult and two similar characters end up with mostly the same moves.

My created wrestler has a technical style and I have had to give him every single type of suplex as there are so few moves that fit with this style.

Also the countering from within chain grapples is far too easy, Competitive forums which use this game have had to ban countering within chain grapples because the moves cannot be hit otherwise.

 

 

This is a good feature but it can be implemented much better.

The window for directing the throws is often too small and makes it difficult to accurately direct the throw to where you want.

Also the look of the directional throws is rather poor. The wrestler doing the throw does not adjust his feet or body in relation to the new direction. He just 'slides' around without actually moving his feet, it looks silly.

This is a good feature, though it needs improving visually.

 

The submission system is terribly important and terribly poorly executed.

Simply put, it doesn't work right.

If The Undertaker can be made to tap out to an arm wrench applied by Cody Rhodes then there's an issue there somewhere.

Losing via submission, even if it is a finisher, always leaves a sour taste. Pins are much easier to escape and in the reality of a wrestling match this is not the situation at all.

It is much more common to see someone escape the walls of jericho than it is to see them kick out of the codebreaker.

Many good matches have been ruined by the poor submission system.

 

 

I personally favour a button mashing system for submissions where the ease of submission attainment/resistance is varied depending on the submission stat of the wrestler. (Much like in previous games).

However. I think it is also worth considering a second stat in relation to submissions.

Kane is rarely going to make an opponent tap out, but he's also going to rarely tap out himself.

So to accurately reproduce Kane's submission ability there would need to be two stats, one relating to his submission offence and one relating to his submission defence.

I also think it would be helpful if there was some variation to the difficulty of gaining a submission based upon the type of submission.

As it stands now, the match can end easily on a chinlock submission. This has to be altered. Perhaps some variant which allows for easier submissions to be achieved with moves such as The Crossface as opposed to a chinlock, which is basically a rest hold.

I also think it would be helpful if submissions could be used as 'rest holds.' Perhaps to gain some slight recovery in relation to limb damage. Or even to regain stamina. This would also require a new stamina system as the current system does not allow for this change to be significant.

All these changes would require an increase in the volume of submission moves included in the game. If you make a character and wish to give him an arm or leg based submission finisher then you're giving yourself a very large challenge as the amount of moves to damage these areas and to convincingly finish these areas is very small indeed.

 

Storing finishers is a good option to have. It allows for shock finish moments. As it is now, as a spectator you can pretty much predict when a match will end and how it will end.

With stored finishers this changes.

It opens up situations where two opponents can have finishers stored and it becomes a guessing game as to who will hit their finisher first.

How often has it been the case that Randy Orton has been taking a beating and hits the RKO from nowhere? Without any momentum. If you want to create a realistic wrestling experience then you have to allow moments like this to occur in the game and storing finishers is the way to do that.

I also think that countering a finisher should result in the attainment of a finisher. As was previously the case.

 

 

 

 

My answers to the questions:

 

Yes I play and use community creations.

 

8

 

Both

 

I prefer the old method

 

4

 

10

 

I prefer storing finishers

[Seth Morrison]

I had very long answers, but i gave them examples on how to add more grapples with there current scheme, and also to narrow the margin for chain reversals, and remove the reversal indicator online, in addition to adding 2 reversal buttons, and reworking submissions to be like 2k6, and went on a tirade bout groggy grapples, and lack of moves.

 

You should have directed them to OCw, and show them the amount of peopel they could be selling too. I bet they lost out on at least 10-12 buys from people on this site, alone.

[Hazard]

I sent a note if they could take all of Double A's money (including his lifesaving) as an donate, and sent every last penny to Yukes and make us a decent WWE game.

[Seth Morrison]

I sent a note if they could take all of Double A's money (including his lifesaving) as an donate, and sent every last penny to Yukes and make us a decent WWE game.

 

GAWD you fit that "Fuckboy" status well and proud.

[Hazard]

GAWD you fit that "Fuckboy" status well and proud.

 

You need to stop fucking boys because you are not bisexual like Baxter.