WarGreymon's 2K24 Thread

[WarGreymon77]

Good news: I have WWE 2K24 and didn't have to spend my own money to do it.

 

Bad news: Look, I think I'm having an old man moment here.  I'm terrible at these new WWE games.  I despise the controls.  I do not enjoy playing the matches anymore.  This is compounded by the fact that all the cool stuff is locked behind modes like Showcase and MyFaction, OR requires purchase with VC.  I don't feel comfortable spending money on this game yet, so no WCW Pack for me at the moment, and any unlockables are coming the slow way.  I already spent my VC on the WCW Women's Championship and Halloween Havoc 97.  Due to my lack of passion these days, and the fact that other creators have already made a bunch of great WCW stuff, I will not being going hot and heavy from now on.  And the last bit of bad news.  What's with the wonky camera in create an arena?  My goodness, I can't see a thing!  I think I've figured it out, though.  R3 = "lock camera".

 

BUT, it's not all bad.  My first couple of creations are looking perfect!  I'll try to get them uploaded within the week.  They are my favorite referee, and Bash at the Beach.  Oh yes, when I saw that they finally added the referee shirts to CAW mode, I got excited.

Edited November 20, 2024 by WarGreymon77

[Monarch98]

6 hours ago, WarGreymon77 said:

Good news: I have WWE 2K24 and didn't have to spend my own money to do it.

 

Bad news: Look, I think I'm having an old man moment here.  I'm terrible at these new WWE games.  I despise the controls.  I do not enjoy playing the matches anymore.  This is compounded by the fact that all the cool stuff is locked behind modes like Showcase and MyFaction, OR requires purchase with VC.  I don't feel comfortable spending money on this game yet, so no WCW Pack for me at the moment, and any unlockables are coming the slow way.  I already spent my VC on the WCW Women's Championship and Halloween Havoc 97.  Due to my lack of passion these days, and the fact that other creators have already made a bunch of great WCW stuff, I will not being going hot and heavy from now on.  And the last bit of bad news.  What's with the wonky camera in create an arena?  My goodness, I can't see a thing!  I think I've figured it out, though.  R3 = "lock camera".

 

BUT, it's not all bad.  My first couple of creations are looking perfect!  I'll try to get them uploaded within the week.  They are my favorite referee, and Bash at the Beach.  Oh yes, when I saw that they finally added the referee shirts to CAW mode, I got excited.

Great to see you back...looking forward to your work.

[WarGreymon77]

And so it begins.  Apparently according to my folders here, I created him in 2K23.  I remember being disappointed though.  Randy Anderson, sometimes called  "Peewee" by his peers, was my favorite WCW referee.  I always liked him, so I wanted to do right by him in this game.  He's the only referee to be in the game WCW Nitro, as a playable character even.  Seems like a nice and humble guy, and a real pro.  The tape on his fingers was apparently to protect his wedding band.  We finally get Charles Robinson in a game and I can't put him in the blue shirt, alas.  LUGER WON THE TITLE!  LUGER WON THE TITLE!!

 

Randy Anderson - tags WCW, referee, and my name

 

It's quite surreal.

 

 

WCW Bash At The Beach - It has returned, WITH the actual props!

Ah yes.  This game finally lets me add a titantron to the Bash At The Beach 94 stage.   CAA mode feels quite different this year.  Still getting used to the controls, but the mode seems to offer a bit more freedom than before, although the weird rubbery apron is still an issue if using darker logos or apron textures.  I did not originally have the mat logo with the purple gradient on the "beach" part, so I used 2K's and erased the white outline.  Also, I had made several scaffold banners years ago, just in case the opportunity ever presented itself.  Based on 1997, so there's more gray than I generally prefer.

[WarGreymon77]

Sorry to bump my own topic, but I don't have anybody else to talk to about this stuff.

 

So it turns out... You can dye Hulk Hogan's hair but not his mustache.  I'm going to hold back on the cynic in me.  It might not be intentional.  I noticed the mustache looked different even in the early footage of the game.  It might actually be baked into the model.

 

I might take a bit of a break, because I need to go back to the drawing board on my Monday Nitro.  What happened was, I had spent a bunch of time editing Necromicon's arena textures that he made for... 2K19 or something.  Then he made an updated version of the Nitro texture.  I tried to Frankenstein's monster what I was working on with the new lights.  I also darkened what I was doing several times because the titantrons at the time were ultra bright.  I ended up resaving it multiple times, threw some gaussian blur on there a few times, and the whole thing ended up being a dark, blurry mess even after I tried to brighten it back up for 2K23.  So yeah I'm going to try to find the original files redo the whole thing.

Edited November 23, 2024 by WarGreymon77