I have been playing exclusively offline in career and exhibition mode to upgrade my stick skills for the game. Today, I feel like I finally had a breakthrough. I'm finally able to effectively transition off my back when I get taken down. My take down defense is getting better, but, at the higher difficulties it is much tougher. I had a back-and-forth 3 round battle against Matt Hughes as GSP. I finally won when I got a take down and transitioned to side control and just beat his face in.
Anyway, I am just wondering if anyone else is still "learning" how to play the game. For me, I think it has a pretty steep learning curve, but, I am enjoying the challenge. I have also found that some fighters just don't fit my skill-set yet (i.e. Lyoto Machida). However, some fighters I can have a lot of success with (i.e. GSP, Matt Hughes, Thiago Alves).
I also did the headline match and main even for tonight's PPV.
Matt Hughes (user) V Matt Serra (cpu)
Winner: Matt Hughes - KO 2nd
Lyoto Machida (user) V Rahad Evans (cpu)
Winner: Rashad Evans - TKO 2nd
I enjoyed playing the Hughes/Serra match a lot more. It was a much more technical match. A lot of reversals and ground work. The Machida/Evans match was pretty much a slug-fest. I was lucky to make it out of the 1st with Machida. Evans was just eating me up and I couldn't do much against him.