UFC 5 computer game from EA Sports got a “major update” today to accompany the upcoming UFC 300 pay-per-view (PPV) occasion, locked and packed for Sat., April 13, 2024 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.

In addition to considerable gameplay improvements, UFC 5 will be including more than 30 brand-new fighters over the next couple of months, consisting of bantamweight beginner Kayla Harrison and welterweight feeling Michael “Venom” Page.

“We’ve tuned stamina recovery between rounds, adjusted evasion properties while ducking, and re-balanced the speed and power for various strike types,” designers composed on the EA site. “The grappling and ground game has been updated with notable changes to the range and speed of double and single-leg takedown entries and we have increased the short-term stamina cost for muscle-modified transitions, among a slew of other adjustments. Please keep the feedback coming because we will continue to bring you more gameplay balance updates in the future.”

Here are the brand-new fighters being included from now through June:

April 4
Movsar Evloev
Brendan Allen
Marina Rodriguez
Muhammad Mokaev
Serghei Spivac
Geoff Neal
Umar Nurmagomedov
Tracy Cortez
Diego Lopes

Late April
Matheus Nicolau
Virna Jandiroba
Manel Kape
Natalia Silva
Nassourdine Imavov
Marcin Tybura
Stephen Erceg
Michael Page
Drew Dober

May
Roman Dolidze
Benoît Saint Denis
Anthony Hernandez

June
Pannie Kianzad
Loopy Godínez
Norma Dumont
Tagir Ulanbekov
Alexandr Romanov
Mario Bautista
Chris Curtis
Jonathan Martinez
Caio Borralho
Kayla Harrison
Michel Pereira
Joaquin Buckley
Randy Brown

UFC 300 battle week difficulties and brand-new change egos will be included on April 9.

Here are the striking and grappling gameplay updates:

STRIKING
Reduced Stamina healing in between rounds by around 20%.
Improved the incredibly elusive homes of the fixed duck.
Improved the incredibly elusive homes of advancing and pulling away ducks.
Slowed down the haymaker execution.
Sped-up the execution of the rear overhand.
Increased the slap’s base damage and damage scaling and accelerated its execution.
Increased the stopping power of all leg kicks.
Made the cartwheel kick and the rolling thunder a lot easier to counter after obstructing them.
Increased rear hook kick’s base damage from 40 to 45.
Increased the lead and rear leaping switch kicks block bleedthrough from 30% to 40%.
Increased the twister kick base damage and block bleedthrough.
Increased the 720 Spinning Kick (O’Malley Kick) base damage and block bleedthrough.
Sped up the lead front kick’s execution.
Reduced the rear front kick’s base damage and decreased its advancing execution
Increased the lead side kick’s base damage and accelerated its execution.
Increased the rear side kick’s base damage.
Fixed an uncommon problem that might trigger strikes or takedowns to blend versus forward lunges carried out after a series of lunges in other instructions.
Tuned visual damage to match medical professional check results more authentically and intuitively.
Removed decrease of visual swelling after fighters are dealt with by cutmen, such as when entering into a brand-new round or the main choice.

GRAPPLING
Significantly increased the variety and speed of double legs and single legs.
Allowed the single leg to change into the low single leg when the challenger goes out of variety.
Fixed a problem that made double legs typically miss out on when utilized from combinations.
Increased the short-term endurance expense of muscle-modified shifts by 50%.
Allowed Single Under Escapes to disrupt the dominant fighter’s elbows.
Made the AI’s ground-and-pound strike choice more unforeseeable.
Lowered the possibilities of the AI posturing up from complete guard and half guard.

MISC. ADDITIONS AND UPDATES

Added Aljamain Sterling to Featherweight
Career Mode Longevity Attribute decay will now be impacted by the selected Fighter Style and the total effect has actually been decreased.
Career Mode Fitness has actually been increased to permit users to get to Peak Fitness quicker.
Enabled vanity sneak peek within Punch Card when accessed from the primary menu choice
Updated walkout commentary for over 30 fighters
New vanity rewards included

For a more thorough description of all the UFC 5 gameplay updates, head over to the EA Sports main site by click on this link.