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Grayson Waller being in so awesome, as is Nykita Lyons, was worried we might have to get them from a DLC pack.

I mean you was angry when they made the change to arcade style and wanted simulation, now they're slowly trying to go back to simulation and you're mad they're not going more arcadey? Bryan is probably trying to get the game back to simulation, probably couldn't get it done in one game but at least there's someone on there now thats trying to get it back to what it was and is a fan of that gameplay, and he's someone that listens to fans. I'd rather them little by little get the game back to simulation rather than going full on arcade, may take a while to get there but i'd like to get there at some point rather than going all in on arcade.

Well one positive takeaway from the video was Bryan confirmed theres 27 different tendency sliders for the AI now, and said when you're facing like Omos for example, he wont be going to the top rope and doing things Omos doesn't do in his matches. So thats a great addition, and helps towards making it feel like you're actually facing the wrestler that you see on tv and how he wrestles. I'd love it if you can reduce how much the AI does combos, so you can go to wrestlers that don't do combos and reduce it really low.

I desperately wanna see the Brock 2002 OVW model, praying they got his physique and face accurate and its not a copy and paste job of current Brock with less tattoos and less hair. I'f i'm gonna be paying over $100 for the Iconic edition he better damn well look like young Brock.

Damn that looks perfect, so great to have in ring springboards as sigs and finishers.

Interviews like this are so pointless "Well i know you can't say anything we don't already know but lets do an interview anyways and talk about stuff we already know for 7 minutes"......Nothin new learned, and a waste of time. Dude wouldn't even say what happens in showcase if Cena wins the ECW ONS match does the crowd riot? and we already know what happens, cause we saw it on upupdowndown ffs they played the ONS match and Cena won, nothing happens, Cena wins and leaves holding the title up.

I'm very curious about the NXT roster, like will guys like Tony D'Angelo, Trick Williams, Andre Chase, Charlie Dempsey make it in?

Yeah that kinda confirms Wyatt will be DLC when he mentioned about we might notice some people are missing and scratching our heads over but just wait, has to mean Wyatt. I just hope theres not an entire pack of guys like Strowman, Wyatt, Lumis, Gargano and just a bunch of guys that we had in 2k22 but now gotta pay extra to get them in 2k23 cause they was fired for a few months. That'll feel like such a waste when they could just copy their 2K22 models over easily, well except for Wyatt obviously. I wouldn't mind an entire Wyatt pack, if we get all the versions of Wyatt, like The Fiend, Swamp Cult Leader Wyatt, Current Wyatt and a Firefly Funhouse Wyatt. I'll take that over a pack consisting of guys we had in 2K22.

Anyone know if theres a new Stomp for Rollins? Cause my god he's had the same terrible animated Stomps since as long as i can remember, probably since his first appearance in the games. It needs reanimated badly cause it looks nothing like how he does it, and it needs a pin combo.

Exactly, they helped tell a story, and it broke up the flow of endless match after match with something different in between. After a ppv title defense i'd always like to start the show off with a promo by my world champion, and his new challenger interrupt him, it was a really good way to begin a rivalry. Plus whats the point of suit attires and street clothes alts if we're just always wrestling in a match every single week and never uttering a word.

Yeah it does, it makes it feel more like an actual show seeing the card with promos scheduled, instead of match after match after match. And it was good for starting rivalries, with your guy in a suit and calling someone out or someone interrupting you, or turning heel on the crowd, it served a purpose. In 2K22 the only way a rivalry starts is by assaulting you after or before a match, that gets old. They can be improved on, not like they have to be like they was in 2K20, it could get to a point where you can write the promos and dictate how the crowd responds, taking them out all together was a bad idea.

Buckshot Lariat got talked about! Bryan didn't say anything but the look on his face has me thinking its in the game, cause again its one of the very few finishers from a top name in AEW thats not in the game, and Bryan had to have made it one of his top priorities when getting certain moves to include that.

Universe Mode has needed improvements for years now, we need promos back, which i heard is one of the options you can choose for a wrestler to do before or after a match i think along with the other options of choosing to do a handshake or a cheap shot or an attack after the match etc. Finally we got control over what the wrestlers do in Universe and don't gotta rely on a random cutscene the game chooses for us which half the time is the same one or one of the same 3 or 4 over and over again. And i can't tell you how many times i'll be a heel and i'll get a babyface cutscene where he shakes hands and shows respect after the match, doesn't even matter heel or face the cutscene would just be random, so hopefully now thats over and being able to pick what you do will make that a thing of the past.

So far the only thing about My Rise they've put out there is now being able to import caws from CC into it, so you no longer have to use a caw created from scratch. Which was always what turned me off from it, cause i'm not a good caw maker and i could never get my guy to look even halfway good. So now i can just go and get someone like Hangman Page or Kenny Omega from someone like Iconic or Defract off CC and they'll look like an ingame model, and i can take them through the WWE system and work my way up.

Yeah i know, i meant doing the move from a reversal into it and making it come out of nowhere and look natural, theres no way to do that with from behind finishers hardly. Sure the wake up taunt where they rise up like a zombie staggering lets you hit it from behind without punching them around, but i tend to like to end matches with a cool reversal into my finish if possible, the wakeup taunts feels anticlimactic at times.

Just wanna say i LOVE the new Cross Rhodes, looks beautiful and love that its a front grapple, trying to hit it from behind with a smooth transition was always awkward and you had find ways to hit it in a nice out of nowhere way without manually turning the opponent around with that punch. Now i can see you being able to hit it clean as hell after a reversal and it'll look great.

Beyond happy Roman has a new spear and with a pin combo! Hope theres a running version of it.

I know he wore it in AEW, but why would they make his gear in the game a set of gear he's never wore in WWE? Just use the gear he's wore since WM, he's wore almost the same gear his entire run so far but with different colors.

Can anyone recall when Cody ever wore that attire in WWE? i swear i can't find a single instance where he wore it. Probably wore it once at some house show, and of course thats the gear they choose to put in the game over his normal attire that he wears 99% of the rest of his matches, classic 2K.

Omg did they seriously not fix Edge's "R" logo on his tights and kneepads again?! still no square around it? We still don't have the full design and will have to take up a caw slot to fix that shit..... I don't get it did they not scan his gear? i mean did they seriously just copy and past his unfinished 2K22 tights over and recolor them?

Well thats got me excited, can't wait for that gameplay tomorrow of it.

I don't get why they refuse to add Roman's touches of grey in his beard, thats part of his look, are we not trying to capture exactly how these wrestlers look or what? he doesn't have a solid pitch black beard. And for the love of god can Bayley actually have an accurate body this time around? in 2K22 she was as slim as Alexa Bliss, shes thick and her model needs to be thick, not a slender beanpole. Its annoying when they try and improve everyone's appearance in the game and make them the idea look instead of how they actually look. Its like when they gave Umaga abs that time, just not being true to what these wrestlers actually look like to make them look perfect without any flaws.

Oh damn gonna get actual gameplay finally tomorrow? Sweet!

I can't tell in the trailer if Roman has a new spear or not or if its just one of the old ones slowed down, but he desperately needs a new one and has for a long time. His corner spear is so slow and awkward with no pin combo, and the other is that running spear he hit on AJ once years ago.

Stoked we're getting a new Gory Bomb with Alba, finally.