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by Chris Faylor, Nov 25, 2009 11:10am PSTEvander Holyfield, Sonny Liston and Bernard Hopkins star in the latest batch of Fight Night Round 4 screenshots, meant to promote the new downloadable content pack coming to EA Canada's PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 boxer in early December.
Priced at $10 / 800 Microsoft Points, the add-on delivers the three boxers listed above along with two new gamplay modes: Old School Rules and Ring Rivalries.
In addition, December will also bring a free gameplay patch that includes:
- Game Play Updates
- Adjusted the locomotion speed at close proximity so that your opponent can no longer trap you with glued feet
- Increased the stamina cost when continually punching
- Increased stamina loss when continually weaving
- Increased stamina loss for users that spam upper body movement
- Can no longer perform a perfect block when spamming the block
- Increased the stamina cost when continually running away from your opponent
- No illegal blows can be thrown by either user when one user is in a stun state
- Increased stamina cost of Haymakers
- Tuned punch accuracy when opponents are moving their head
- Reduced locomotion speed when throwing punch combos
- Allow users to duplicate and edit ratings of licensed boxers
- Improved cheat detection logic
- Various Bug fixes
Comments
1. Either remove or, more desirably, greatly overhaul the counter-punch system.
2. Fix the manual training mini-games. They are awful and the goals are far too difficult, long, and repetitive. Like almost everyone else, I used the auto-train points instead of the manual mode.
I loved it. It was great.
I then went online and did one fight. I got crushed. Every tactic I tried that worked on GOAT difficulty bad guys was useless against what seemed like a cheating opponent because he was spamming punches so fast I couldn't avoid everything and when I punched back, even with haymakers, I couldn't put him into the "knockdown" status. It was terrible and I never tried again.