Little hints to make career mode easier
Basics
Basic career guide
First, be sure of what punch style you want to use, especially if it’s a unique style of a real life fighter, because after you start your career ( I think it’s a bug) if you decide to change styles, uniques are no longer an option.
2: the games punch power has increased yet again, and what they don’t tell you is that while you can increase health by training, all resistances, chin, body, and such can only be increased by completing fight objectives. That and temp buffs From your cutman.
So I suggest maxing your head and body resistance to 60 at the start of your career because even in the beginning, it won’t be long before your opponents have Punches in 60s,70s, or even 80s. Won’t matter if your head health is in the 70s if your chin is a 45.
3: time between fights. I’m not sure what makes your readiness bounce around so much in the beginning of your career, but A: you don’t have to take a fight negotiation if you don’t want to or aren’t ready
B: I found that fight readiness, weight reduction, fr, wr, in that order for the four weeks keeps my weight down and fight Readiness at 70.
4: click on the fighters in the negotiation menu and use Whatever button it is to scout them. I found that Fighters with higher stars in ring skills tend to be more spontaneous while lesser starred Fighters are more robotic (this is on undisputed difficulty).
5. Training camps take some getting used to, but know that
Media missions take no energy but drop fight readiness 5.
Recovery increases energy 50, reduces fight readiness 5, and you gain weight.
Dietary missions cost 10 energy, but Don’t cost any fight readiness and you drop a few pounds.
Also, some training sessions focusing on power make you gain weight while speed and endurance sessions can cause weightloss.
And never train Under 50% energy, you are more prone to injury.
100 fight readiness and charged energy gives you health and stamina bonuses in your next fight, being undertrained and sluggisg gives you penalties.
6: your crew. First, cutman are important because of the previously mentioned lack of chin and body resistance training. A cutman with just a C in resistance buffs your chin and body resistance +10 (huge benefit).
Your trainer, map out by looking at all trainers which traits u want. You unlock traits by earning affinity with a trainer (affinity increases by doing well in fights).
Certain Levels of affinity unlock new coaches traits. However, if you switch coaches….you lose those traits.
But you can lock in a trait if you want to come with you, but you had better be sure because it coats 1 million bucks to unlock that slot again.
I am currently in a career on undisputed difficulty using a hw swarmer with Fraziers punch style. I’ve just held on to my first trainer and leveled up all her stats to c across the board until I am ready to get the coaches I actually want with level 3 traits that I will, gain, lock in permanently, then move on to the next trainer with a t 3 trait I want.
Hope some of that helps, because the start of a career with no resistance was so infuriating I restarted Catching on to all of this. The beginning of the career is still hard, but now that I am in the high 70s stat wise I am getting a lot of early knockouts, with like 25 wins, 23 by ko, 0 losses or draws.
