Exhibition vs. My Universe notes, opinions, yadda yadda

[The Chupster]

Okay folks, here's where today has been focused.

I've been testing using My Universe as a simming mode instead of Exhibition. Here's some quick pros and cons. Now, I haven't touched My Universe mode like at all before today, so if you have more experience and have seen something I haven't, PLEASE let me know!


Exhibition -
Absolute control over matches and shows. (Simming 1 match at a time gives you that.)

My Universe -
Better and more show-like presentation.
When set up right, lets rivalries, allies and enemies make a difference in entrances, run-ins, and other cool stuff like that.
Lets you set up run-ins manually.
In-show promos are half useless, but could maybe still be used somehow? Maybe with video editing?
Only allows so many matches per show. (Could be controlled somewhat by duplicating shows.)
In-game schedule is SET at 4 weeks of shows, then 1 PPV - would be difficult to bypass straight to PPV.



That's pretty much where I am so far. I would love to use My Universe mode for the more realistic bits, and letting rivalries and teams and all that jazz do their thing, but Exhibition mode just gives us control over every little thing. Of course, we could also do a mixture of sorts- maybe do regular shows in My Universe and when it's time for a PPV, just do the PPV exhibition style, and maybe do a PPV in My Universe whenever it pops up.

I'm just spitballing, trying things out. Has anyone ever seen a rivalry or anything like that pop up in Exhibition? Pretty sure Exhibition doesn't use that data at all. Thoughts, opinions, stories?

[Werwulf]

I haven't even scratched the surface of attempting to play universe, still working on the create stuff, however, I'm eager to run testing as soon as I can. Do you currently have any of the main option sliders tweaked, or are you just running base?

[Mizer]

2K17's Universe isn't as bad as some of the older ones, but it has it's own weird little quirks. If you just let it go and play by itself, it loves to book all shows based around what PPV is coming up. If Extreme Rules is the next PPV, every rivalry match on Raw and SmackDown will be an extreme rules match. It also just randomly breaks up tag teams. When I first played the Universe Mode, American Alpha turned on each other on the first NXT show. And it likes to play with people's alignments. One time on my game Goldust turned heel, only to turn face again the next month. So obviously most of these things can be fixed and avoided with editing the universe, but if we are going to do that much fine tuning, why not just sim the individual matches on exhibition?

[The Chupster]

There's another downside. The game mucks with alignment, alliances, teams, adds injuries and perks- and granted, I could go through and reset/clear all of that jazz before each show, I just wish there was a way to completely clear out the WWE roster from the list of superstars, but that's just one more thing to look at. Gonna try for some more testing tonight, if I don't end up working on something else. lol

[MattyAC]

Would it be an idea, for now, to download say 10-20 random CAWs from online and try them out in My Universe? (I'll admit, I'm not all that familiar with the mode, I've barely touched it over the last 3-4 games that it's been on so I'm not entirely sure how it all works, and what can be adjusted, to say making it a CAW only roster)

[The Chupster]

That's what I've been doing. Got a bunch of random dumbass superheroes beating each other down and shit. You can see a couple of clips on my XBox Live- I had to post when someone (I think it was Batman) knocked a chair out of my hands and then powerbombed me on it. LOL, good times

[MattyAC]

Batman don't mess around xD

[The Chupster]

Yeah no shit, he straight up twisted just to powerbomb me on that chair. Friggin' bastard. lol

[The Chupster]

Okay, here's the skinny.

We're definitely just using exhibition mode to do shows.

While My Universe has some great additions, like little cutscenes and run-ins and everything, there's one major flaw that I didn't realize was a flaw until it happened.

Ol' Chups got injured. Now, I figured since there was an "edit" function for each wrestler, I could go in and deactivate it. NOPE! So any statuses that the game assigns you, you're stuck with those.

That's a lack of control we just really can't have, so unfortunately, we're going to just go straight Exhibition mode. Which is cool, because it actually means less work on keeping track of things. On the plus side, it also means that we can pretty much eliminate (or at least, highly shorten) match entrances whenever we want to- which we might need to do unless we can find enough decent royalty-free music for everyone to choose from, which is something else I've been looking into. The only real downside to THAT is, most of the music isn't exactly that great for, y'know, wrestlers. But still.

Anywho, that's where we be on that.

Also thinking about setting some new color styles for the forums. They could definitely use a facelift.