I live a full life and Iāve never touched any of the mods. From the look of things people were pretty much using them for switching the camera angle or adding more moves beyond the six billion already in there.
This game wasnāt built like Quake with mods in mind. The mods were all pretty hacky to begin with and Iām surprised people were banking on a game with major dlc on the horizon stay static in that regard.
It depends on what you want from the game.
I liked it because it allowed for match types not allowed in the original release that in all likelihood will never be added in officially. The UFC octagon knockoff arena (the dodecahedron I believe) allows for KO/sub only matches but is limited to one on one encounters; now you can put in any kind of tag match or even an 8 wrestler free for all of mayhem. There could be a royal rumble type battle royal, but limited to only eight competitors; now you can have thirty or three hundred.
There were also other significant quality of life updates if you are someone who would sim a good deal. You could disable low damage subs from actually tapping someone out at high damage (basically you will never have an epic 30 minute match end via a headlock). I believe there were ways to pick who would win the match via this as well if you were into efeds and that was something that would help.
Beyond that sorting and deleting edits is a massive pain in the original game, mods donāt make it perfect but they help. You can turn on lifebars if you want. You can change the camera angles if you really want to (this would only help those really into simming as it is virtually unplayable in real time). They did at like a hundred or so moves into the game, they also allowed for custom parts to be added to appearances.
Soā¦ yeah, that is a lot of various things and that isnāt exhaustive (although it likely covers the big ones). The update adds in 40 or so official New japan wrestlers, a visual novel story mode and a bunch of new moves if you pay $20 for the DLC. If you donāt, the update adds in 9 moves, a new menu and thatās pretty much it. Oh yeah, the DLC makes it so that the game must have an online connection in order to be playable.
Fortunately(?) for you, if you buy it now on the PC you donāt even have the option of worrying about the mods as you will be on the 2.0 version, so Iād just focus on what youād have rather than what you theoretically lost. The base game is still rather good! I bought it for that and was very satisfied.
i got fire promoter mode, and itās a lot of fun!
itās given me a whole new level of hate for wrestlers who no-show events, though. but generally, itās just detailed enough that youāve got lots to do, and simple enough that itās a fun game and not a boring micromanagement spreadsheet simulator.
i should probably have started on normal mode though, as in easy mode iāve been making over 100k profit every month since the start
really miss the neat special events and āactualā promotions from the ffpw version of fire promoter. Just not the same game without kendo kashin always leaving all japan after a year of stinking up your cards.
itād take a lot of work, but you could have a promoter mode full of real promotions.
youād have to download or make hundreds of caws and set up all the promotions yourself in the main game, then start a new fire promoter game with custom promotions
The SUDA51 penned story mode DLC for this game is now out
Itās a sequel to first Fire Pro Wrestling gameās for the SNES
As a send off to this game and likely series the developers gave away the move creation tools as free DLC andā¦ well, it has already paid dividends.
I know itās been nearly two years since the last post, but I have questions about Fire Thumbs Up Earth that need answering. I tried to download Sgt. Slaughter the other day and the game told me I needed one of the New Japan DLCs. Iām intrigued, but even on sale all of the DLCs together are like $60.
Thanks!
When we did the Fire Pro AI tourney last year I was able to edit wrestlers I downloaded to remove DLC parts and moves.
Not the answer youāre looking for but something to keep in mind if you wanna pinch pennies.
I mainly download wrestlers uploaded before the DLC was put on sale to guarantee that theyāll work. The current system in place is legitimately awful and why Iāve more or less left the edit scene behind.
After a bit of Googling, joining a Discord, and installing a community-created modpack and patcher executable thing, I was finally able to delete all the wrestlers Iād accidentally subscribed to with tolerable speed.
Launching Fire Pro now spawns additional windows like Iām fighting the computer virus boss from Kirby Super Star, but thatās OK.
Those windows let you do a bunch of cool stuff though if you can figure them out!
Iāve figured maybe two of them out >_>
iām pretty sure i just got deliberately sabotaged in fire promoter!
iām trying to grow in a new territory and two wrestlers from different promotions both requested to appear on one of my shows. they both no-showed, leaving with two empty slots on my card and i sold half as many tickets on that show than expected!
well, after 7 years, i finally became the most popular promotion. this was a hard mode run, and i managed somethings i havenāt in my previous runs: i ran arena shows, and i moved from one territory to another.
i was disappointed that none of my rivals went out of business, though. itās always interesting to hire a dead promotionās champion and start continuing their world title as an undercard belt on your shows.
