14 DAY TRIAL // Sports games are extremely popular these days, as almost every type of sport has seen a video game adaptation of its core concept. This is especially true when it comes to fighting games, as they combine a lot of appealing elements for regular gamers.
One of the newest and most popular titles is THQ's UFC 2009 Undisputed, which lets players take part in the prestigious and quite popular UFC competition. It already managed to sell well over 1 million units in its first month, and is still going strong in the sales charts for both the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.
Now, the producer of the game, Neven Dravinski, says on the official website of the title that the development team is currently working on a patch. He reveals a few of the major changes that will be made in terms of premature match quitting in the online mode or smaller tweaks to the single player mode.
“1. We recognize premature match quitting as the biggest online issue and have taken steps to fix it. The Patch will have integrated code that detects who pulls the cable and will assign a Loss as well as a Did Not Finish to that player. The DNF is only counted for the player who executes the disconnection. The DNF rate will be displayed on the fighter selection screen of the Online Ranked Match. When disconnected the Winning Streak is also reset to 0.
2. We’ve adjusted Ranked Matches to match up players with better connections, which will improve lag issues we’ve seen to date.
3. We’ve adjusted the difficulty of performing submissions against AI opponents to improve the balance of subs vs. striking when playing against the AI.
4. We’ve adjusted the Flash KO rate so that they are less frequent.
5. We’ve increased maximum number of points awarded in online play from 99,999 to 999,999 and we’ve increased the Max Level from 100 to 200.
6. We’ve lowered the Winning Streak Bonus Max from 5 to 3.
7. We’ve removed the decimal places on the Leaderboard Winning Percentage so we only show whole percentages.
8. We’ve addressed the CAF cheat so the skill levels in CAF cannot be cheated and increased. Also any CAF with unfair point values will no longer be able to be used Online.
9. For PS3 users we’ve also fixed a bug that causes a freeze during auto-save; whichever controller was used to Press Start on the Title Screen will be identified as the main controller.”
Overall, the game is in for quite a lot of changes, which will hopefully deliver a more balanced and entertaining experience. Are you pleased so far with UFC 2009 Undisputed or do you think that the game doesn't match other fighting titles? Leave us a comment with your thoughts.