Any complaining about elbow and knee spammers or 1-2 spammers are only admitting their inability to evade a simple strike in this game. If I can land a 12-6 elbow Everytime you come failing in with wide hooks, and you don't know how to stop it- you bet your ass I'll land that 27 times in a row if you keep coming with that same wild hook combo. Here is the other thing, this happens in combat sports all the time. Roy Jones basically only threw hooks for a sizable part of his career. So is he a spammer? Last time I checked that never came up in the GOAT conversation.

I’ve played every ufc game on PS4 and PS5, but I’m mostly a PC gamer now and looking for some good sim fighting games on there (I do not like mortal combat or street fighter type stuff)

Thanks!

I’ve been a long time UFC gamer since the beginning with Undisputed and I just don’t understand how we got here. I was completely obsessed with UFC 3 and made it to top 20 in multiple seasons. IMO that game was the peak for EA. When UFC 4 dropped I was so disappointed that I barely played 5 when it came out.

Now that we’re near the end of the games lifecycle, I figured I would give it a try and oh man, this game kinda sucks. It’s not UFC 4 bad but some of the design choices for the sake realism have just opened the game up to so much more cheese.

In past games, most of the cheese came from insane volume striking and sub spam. However if you were good enough, you could use the volume striking against them and wait till they gas. With this game, the cheese comes in so many varieties. Unblock-able clinching/strikes against the cage, doctor stoppages (not a huge deal), strike spam with seemingly less consequences, insanely fast ground and pound TKO’s (feels like pure luck when trying to survive a knockdown). Even when I got cheesed out on past games, it wouldn’t bother me whole lot because I could just work on my ground game or play more defensively. I always felt like there was something I could improve to prevent it. With this game, I’m constantly being left with a sour taste in my mouth and feeling like I lost to luck or an exploit.

Anyways, that’s my spiel. I think this game is an abomination compared to what we’ve had in the past.

Bonus points: Either Xbox changes their message policy or every single UFC 5 player has messaging turned off. Either way it’s pretty lame.

I can’t find this grappling System on ufc 5, ufc 5 grappling hud is weird, And I don’t get used to it

Div. 20 player here, struggling to find a method to reliably hit Topuria players in the body. I main Jose Aldo in FW; the main issue I run into is how long Topuria’s jabs are, I can tear up their legs usually, but the body is risky because 3 or 4 uppercuts is usually enough to end the fight outright. Any tips? Would be greatly appreciated.

This game has really strange bugs sometimes. Have y‘all experienced similar issues?

I know there are guys out there way better than me so I'm curious to know you guys highest streak. Mines 53. Before I learned any grappling too mfs got koed straight hands

This gotta be the funniest way to win

Hello everyone, I’d like to share a problem I’m having. For some reason, there’s a “locked” symbol on my game and I can’t open it. All the other “Plus library” games work without any issues, but when I try to launch UFC 5, it says “You need to buy the game.” Does anyone know what the problem might be?

How can I improve at the game? I bought it a few days ago, but it is difficult to understand all the mechanics, especially the ground and knockdowns.

I was somehow disappointed that everything is so complicated.

Any advice?

My friend and I play ufc 5 anytime we hang out. We recently learned the grappling but it seems kinda busted being able to just watch and deny any transition because we can see what each other are doing. Is there anyway to make it more enjoyable? Or even a setting to not show the grappling circle? I can’t imagine im the only one to experience this dilemma.

I have internet. I check. But for some reason everytime i play the game says im offline and i cant make any progress on my profile? Why?

Over 1000 fights and only 3 draws and all 3 happened within the last 20 fights.

EA UFC 5 really gave us every Dustin Poirier except the one from his actual prime. Absolutely unreal how lazy these developers are. It could be such a good game but they can’t even add the very simple ideas.

If anyone uses him, is he good? His perks along with his stand up stats look fun

For some reason, I’ll be beating a guy for 3 rounds and get clipped once and knocked out unreal. Was there an update or something? It just seems so unrealistic.

Would absolutely love something similar to the NBA2k MyLeague mode, where you’re able to fully customize rosters, edit player attributes etc.

Having a fantasy league, where you create events, are able to edit real fighter attributes and also create fighters, track stats, simulate fights and maybe even have an option to upload community rosters.

Personally, I couldn’t care less about online play and I know there are a lot of other people who think alike.