New Features - Fight Hype, Card Grade, City Demand, Attendance, Event Size, and Venues have been rebuilt as one unified system. Each matchup receives an intrinsic Fight Hype. Those fights influence the Card Grade based on their position on the card. The Card Grade combines with your promotion and local City Hype to create attendance demand. - Fight Grades have been retuned to better distinguish…
New Features - HQ contract alerts now list every fighter with an expiring deal, show their remaining fights, and provide direct links to their profiles. - The Record Book now tracks Most Title-Fight Wins instead of Youngest Champion. - HQ now alerts you when TV opportunities are unlocked but you have no active deal. Improvements - The Event Results Ladder now accurately presents why a fighter m…
The fight world is bigger, more connected, and more alive. Fighters create rivalries. Gyms create friendships, grudges, and new prospects. Rival promotions build champions, compete for talent, and fight you for their place in the sport. Rivals brings those systems together. A great fight can ignite a feud, that feud can grow through press conferences and faceoffs, and the final chapter can head…
Just put out a tiny patch that should solve the sluggishness that's been reported when building a card or fight. Let me know here or in Discord if you are still seeing slowness.
Improvements · Fighter reactions to proposed bouts now better reflect personality, career goals, matchup history, and opponent appeal. · Advancing weeks and simming to the next event should feel much faster, especially in large or mature saves with thousands of fighters and long fight histories. · Title fight negotiations are smarter. Champions now recognize legitimate contenders more reliably,…
New Features · Bout negotiations now include offer packages, giving you clearer ways to improve a fighter’s interest in accepting a matchup. Improvements · Smart Fill is faster and now fills unlocked prelim slots, making card building smoother when you want help rounding out an event. · Fight outcomes have been tuned for a more realistic mix of decisions, submissions, knockouts, and TKOs. · Fig…
New Features · Smart Fill is back in the Card Builder. You can now have the game fill required card slots with valid fights while respecting fighter requests Improvements · The schedule now shows the full 30-week booking horizon, giving you a longer view of upcoming events instead of only the next 12 weeks. · Fighter generation now uses more realistic gender-aware surnames, including better han…
New Features - Fighters can now make more specific opponent demands based on title-path opportunities or revenge. These motives also influence whether a fighter is more willing to accept a bout even when they have not formally demanded it. Improvements - Autosaves now happen more smoothly in the background, reducing interruptions during normal play. - Fight weeks and new-game generation should…
Fighters Have a Voice Fighters Have Their Own Agendas Your roster is no longer just waiting to be booked. Fighters now have their own goals, frustrations, demands, and career plans, and they expect your promotion to take them seriously. Contenders may push for title shots. Veterans may demand better placement. Rivals may call each other out. Underpaid stars may ask for raises. Fighters who feel…
Improvements · Venue previews now match your actual attendance projection more closely, including location-based hype and hometown hero effects. · Smart Fill does a better job completing cards with fighters who can actually be booked for that event date · Title fights now have more restrained commentary, reducing repetitive lines during championship bouts. Bug Fixes · Fixed cases where auto-boo…
New Features · Your save files are now protected against unexpected failures. The game keeps a backup of your previous save, and if something goes wrong while saving, you'll be notified with options to retry or manage your save files. Improvements · Fight commentary has been improved with proper post-fight recaps, title fight-specific dialogue, and context-aware main event and championship roun…
- Fight week progression now correctly recognizes events scheduled for the current week. - Five-round non-title main events no longer get championship-specific commentary. - Fixed a crash that could occur if you pressed Escape after a pop-up had already been closed by scene navigation. - Tied categories in the fight recap now display correctly instead of incorrectly highlighting one fighter as…
- Fixed issue where Tier Upgrade screen would not display in certain scenarios - Fixed issue where TV Deal screen would not show proper consequence for unmet requirement
New Features - "This Week in MMA" has been completely rebuilt with a tabbed interface (Events, Free Agency, News, Your Promotion) showing activity across the entire MMA world, not just your promotion. Fighter info cards throughout the screen use a new full-bleed portrait design. - The alerts panel now sorts notifications into Priority, Notice, and Info tabs with count badges. Clicking an alert…
Post Fight Interviews Update Happy to announce that Post-Fight Interviews are now live in the game. After each Main Event and Co-Main Event, the winner will now be interviewed following the fight. This marks the beginning of a major feature expansion as we start adding real personality to the fighters in the game. In the coming weeks, we’ll be introducing weigh-ins, pre-fight press conferences,…
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