Undisputed News

Hey fight fans,

This update brings four exciting new fighters, a new venue, and some key changes to gameplay, AI, and fighter ratings. As we shared in our most recent roundtable on the Undisputed YouTube channel, the next few updates will focus on several key areas of community feedback. Before we get into the full details of the latest release, here are some details on a few areas we’re continuing to focus on over the next couple of updates.



Body Uppercut Spam


Players online are able to repeatedly use the body uppercut without much consequence, leading to unbalanced fights. We're currently testing two solutions internally – a change to the body uppercut targeting, and a change to body blocking – that we hope to ship in the next game update.



Online Stability


We're continuing to work to improve online stability and want to ensure we get it right because we know how frustrating it can be to play with desync or to be disconnected from a fight. Improving this is a big task which requires a lot of work and testing, and our investigations point to any improvement being a few updates away. To that end, we're also adding additional resources to our online team as well as engaging third-party experts to help us get to the best long-term solution for online play.



Cheating


We know that running into cheaters online is frustrating, and we want to make sure you know that cheaters will never be welcome in Undisputed. We’re working hard to address the issue and we have a plan in place, but it's taking longer than we'd like. We'll implement a third-party anti-cheat to ensure cheaters are properly routed out from online play. This unfortunately requires us to rework some of our backend systems before we can implement the anti-cheat, which means the solution is still multiple updates away.



Below are the patch notes for the update shipped on 17 April 2023 - 11006657.



New Fighters


- Vasilii Lomachenko added to the game with his own unique movement, swift footwork, and signature directional punches. Lomachenko joins the Featherweight and Lightweight divisions. Check out his roster profile.


- Amir Khan added to the game. Khan joins the Lightweight, Welterweight, and Middleweight divisions. Check out his roster profile.


- Floyd Patterson added to the game and introduces the peek-a-boo style to Undisputed. Patterson joins the Heavyweight division. Check out his roster profile.


- Daniel Jacobs added to the game. Jacobs joins the Middleweight division. Check out his roster profile.



Venues


- We have also added a brand new venue to the game. Welcome to Kiritsu Arena, a beautiful Japanese-inspired pentagonal-shaped venue. Kiritsu means discipline, so be sure to show off your ring control and boxing mastery when you step between the ropes.



Gameplay Changes


- We’ve changed the damage/health system from 6 individual damage zones into one overall head zone and one overall body zone. We hope this, alongside the below daze threshold change, encourages players to mix up their fight styles which should lead to a better quality of matches online.


- We changed the damage thresholds used to calculate daze chance. Fighters are now more likely to hit their opponent into dazed by mixing up punches and landing combinations, rather than focusing on the same punch repeatedly. This does not impact the chance of landing a ‘flash daze’.


- We've reduced the movement speed of fighters that are dazed, making it more achievable for players to be able to cut off the ring and secure a finish when an opponent is hurt.


- Added a warning to the in-fight UI that will show a player if they’re close to being dazed and removed the sectional body-part UI.


- The curve has been reduced across Overall Stamina / Stamina Regeneration, which means fighters with higher-rated stamina have a less steep advantage. The ultimate goal here is to make sure we’re seeing punch stats that are more in line with what you’d see in a real fight. This is a first step, and we’ll continue to iterate on this area of balance as we follow your feedback.



General updates


- The post-fight results screen will now also show both fighters' remaining health and stamina that they had at the time the fight ended. We hope this is helpful for players to understand and improve the way they’re fighting, but also to be able to give us more informed feedback around stamina and damage balancing.



AI update


- Overhauled our AI system. The new system should allow us to control and adjust more elements of the AI’s gameplay. With this update, players should see that the AI has improved ring movement, punch and stamina management, and weaving/dodging. Players can expect to see continued improvements including a more noticeable difference between fighter styles (like slugger vs outboxer) over time. There’s still lots of work to be done on the AI, so we’d love to hear your feedback and requests and we’ve set up a specific chat to focus on AI feedback in the Undisputed Discord server.



Fighter Changes


Muhammad Ali

- Health Regeneration reduced from 97 to 95

- Head Health reduced from 95 to 92

- Body Health reduced from 96 to 92

- Hook Modifier reduced from 93 to 90

- Counter Punch Modifier reduced from 95 to 93

- Courage increased from 92 to 97


Deontay Wilder

- We’re experimenting with a tiered system for fighter traits that will allow us to further fine-tune specific fighters like Wilder so that they feel more like themselves. Some of Wilder’s traits are increased past the displayed values in game for this update, and we’ll monitor how this impacts Wilder’s fight stats and how you say he feels over the next few weeks.

- Added the ‘Knockout Artist’ trait

- Conditioning reduced from 90 to 88

- Endurance reduced from 92 to 89

- Right Hand Power increased from 96 to 98

- Straight Modifier increased from 97 to 98

- Counter Punch Modifier increased from 84 to 88

- Accuracy increased from 84 to 88


Joe Frazier

- Added the ‘Inside Fighter’ trait

- Added the ‘Bounce Back’ trait

- Health increased from 90 to 91

- Health Regeneration increased from 91 to 92

- Health Recovery increased from 90 to 92

- Stamina increased from 93 to 94

- Endurance increased from 92 to 94

- Agility increased from 87 to 88

- Movement Speed increased from 86 to 87

- Hook Modifier increased from 93 to 95

- Guarding increased from 87 to 88

- Courage increased from 91 to 94


Joe Louis

- Added the ‘Bomber’ trait

- Added the ‘Sting Like a Bee’ trait

- Removed the ‘Powerhouse’ trait

- Removed the ‘Right Hand Bomb’ trait

- Stamina Regeneration increased from 89 to 91

- Endurance increased from 91 to 92

- Agility reduced from 92 to 91

- Movement Speed reduced from 92 to 90

- Left Hand Power increased from 83 to 87

- Right Hand Power reduced from 91 to 89

- Jab Modifier increased from 83 to 87

- Straight Modifier increased from 86 to 92

- Chin Resistance increased from 86 to 88

- Body Resistance increased from 82 to 86

- Courage increased from 87 to 91


Tyson Fury

- Stamina reduced from 95 to 90

- Stamina Regeneration reduced from 94 to 91

- Stamina Recovery reduced from 97 to 91

- Endurance reduced from 91 to 89

- Left Hand Power reduced from 92 to 89

- Right Hand Power reduced from 96 to 91

- Jab Modifier reduced from 93 to 91

- Counter Punch Modifier reduced from 96 to 92

- Guarding reduced from 95 to 93

- Body Resistance reduced from 95 to 93

- Courage reduced from 99 to 98


Joe Joyce

- Added the ‘Third Wind’ trait

- Health increased from 83 to 88

- Health Regeneration increased from 78 to 84

- Head Health increased from 84 to 87

- Body Health increased from 85 to 87

- Stamina increased from 85 to 87

- Stamina Recovery increased from 83 to 85

- Conditioning increased from 82 to 85

- Endurance increased from 83 to 89

- Movement Speed increased from 78 to 80

- Left Hand Power increased from 83 to 86

- Right Hand Power increased from 89 to 90

- Counter Punch Modifier increased from 87 to 89


Rocky Marciano (Heavyweight)

- Added the ‘Granite Chin’ trait

- Stamina increased from 90 to 95

- Stamina Regeneration increased from 89 to 92

- Stamina Recovery increased from 87 to 92

- Conditioning increased from 87 to 92

- Endurance increased from 88 to 92

- Agility reduced from 97 to 95

- Movement Speed reduced from 96 to 92

- Left Hand Power increased from 84 to 86

- Hook Modifier reduced from 94 to 92

- Straight Modifier increased from 87 to 93

- Power Punch Modifier increased 90 to 92

- Counter Punch Modifier increased from 89 to 91

- Courage increased from 91 to 93


Oleksandr Usyk (Heavyweight)

- Health increased from 90 to 92

- Health Recovery increased from 89 to 91

- Stamina increased from 86 to 93

- Stamina Regeneration increased from 89 to 91

- Stamina Recovery increased from 88 to 92

- Conditioning increased from 87 to 91

- Endurance increased from 87 to 91

- Movement Speed increased from 90 to 92


Roy Jones Jr (Heavyweight)

- Health reduced from 92 to 86

- Health Regeneration reduced from 88 to 86

- Head Health reduced from 87 to 85

- Body Health reduced from 92 to 90


Shawn Porter (Welterweight)

- Added the ‘Inside Fighter’ trait

- Added the ‘Bounce Back’ trait

- Overall adjusted from 83 to 84

- Stamina increased from 83 to 90

- Stamina Regeneration increased from 86 to 90

- Stamina Recovery increased from 85 to 89

- Conditioning increased from 83 to 88

- Endurance increased from 82 to 87

- Movement Speed increased from 82 to 87

- Courage increased from 82 to 88



Bug fixes


- Fixed an issue with Sugar Ray Leonard’s left arm getting stuck in unnatural positions between punches.


- Fixed an issue where the Save by the Bell rule could cause the game to enter an infinite load screen.


- Fixed an issue with users being stuck in a load screen after a multiplayer match.


- Fixed an issue causing the wrong intro to play for some fighters.


- Fixed an issue with players being unable to connect to another online match after finishing a match.


- Fixed an issue that could cause players to crash if two users paused during an online match.


- Fixed an issue with lunging punches not registering against dazed opponents.


- Fixed an issue with Muhammad Ali's movement looking unnatural.


- Fixed an issue with Muhammad Ali's clinch.


- Fixed an issue with Coldwell Gym Day's camera clipping through the ceiling.


- Fixed an issue with Coldwell Gym Night's camera clipping through the ceiling.


- Fixed an issue regarding headshots being counted incorrectly in totals.


- Fixed an issue where players would be unable to navigate Prize Fight leaderboards after accessing the settings menu.


- Fixed an issue that meant body damage was not being calculated correctly, and as a result, players would struggle to daze or knockdown an opponent with body punches.


- Fixed an issue where players were unable to cut their opponents in quick fights.


- Fixed an issue with taking a knee resulting in an instant loss.


- Fixed an issue when opening the settings menu during gameplay would cause lighting issues.

Hey fight fans,

This patch contains a range of balance changes including fighter updates, cuts and bruises, and more, as well as some bug fixes. Before we jump into the notes for this patch, we want to talk about some of the key areas players are most eager to see updated and that we’re focused on ensuring improve over the next few updates.



Online Stability and Cheaters


In our previous content update we spoke about our work in these areas, our determination to get them right, and that how that will take time. While this update contains a small fix that should slightly reduce the number of disconnections online, more work is ongoing in the background, and we continue to roll out new bans for anyone caught cheating in the meantime. We’ll continue to update you on our progress on these issues here and in our community channels.



Gameplay


We’ve also seen a lot of feedback around what happens inside the ring. Particularly around head and body health, stamina balancing, AI, and body uppercuts. Over the next few updates, you can expect to see changes made to the health system, adjusted targeting for body uppercuts so that they can’t be so easily abused, and AI improvements which will continue to be expanded on throughout the course of early access.

With stamina usage and other balancing, we have to strike a good balance for both online and offline play, which sometimes necessitates making balance adjustments only alongside other changes, such as improving the AI so that it’s more capable of reacting to and maintaining its stamina levels in a way that players can. That being said, this update does contain a small adjustment for stamina (see notes below), and you can expect to see further adjustments to stamina throughout the course of early access.



Now let’s jump into the notes for the patch shipped on 15 March 2023 – 10766709



Gameplay Changes


- Increased base flash knockout chance.


- Increased the chance of cuts or bruises occurring.


- Increased damage to cuts and bruises.


- Increased stamina usage for power punches.


- Increased damage dealt by hooks to the head.


- Increased damage dealt to block health.



Bug Fixes


- General improvements to how we handle online connections.


- Moved ‘Counter Punch Modifier’ from the Speed category to the Strength category.


- Fixed an issue causing the fight Select UI continuing to show and overlapping with other areas of the game.


- Fixed an issue that caused players to sometimes get stuck on the transition screen after being kicked from a custom lobby.


- Fixed an issue that meant one of Sergio Martinez’s traits wasn’t correctly displaying the trait description.


- Fixed multiple issues relating to taking a knee.


- …lots of other general bug fixes!



Boxer Changes



Fighters have gone through another iteration of balance adjustments, with stat changes to 22 fighters that we hope will make them feel more in line with their real-life counterparts. Please continue to share feedback around whether a boxer in Undisputed feels authentic to their real-life counterpart, as fighter balancing will be an ongoing effort throughout early access.


- Charlie Edwards: Increased Body Resistance from 65 to 81, Courage from 72 to 79, Accuracy from 78 to 83, Agility from 78 to 82, Conditioning from 71 to 77, and Endurance from 70 to 79.


- Kid Galahad: Increased Body Resistance from 74 to 80, Guarding from 67 to 81, Courage from 72 to 84, Agility from 81 to 86, Conditioning from 71 to 79, Endurance from 72 to 78, and Uppercut Modifier from 68 to 79. Reduced Cut Resistance from 94 to 87.


- Scott Quigg: Increased Body Resistance from 70 to 79, Guarding from 72 to 81, Courage from 70 to 82, and Block Health from 71 to 76. Reduced Bruise Resistance from 88 to 76 and Cut Resistance from 84 to 78.


- Sunny Edwards: Increased Bruise Resistance from 81 to 86, Stamina from 83 to 87, and Stamina Recovery from 80 to 84.


- Ryan Garcia: Increased Accuracy from 85 to 88, Uppercut Modifier from 78 to 83, and Straight Modifier from 79 to 82.


- Dalton Smith: Increased Uppercut Modifier from 75 to 80, Jab Modifier from 76 to 78, and Left Hand Power from 77 to 80.


- Josh Taylor: (Lightweight) Increased Agility from 84 to 88, Accuracy from 84 to 88, and Guarding from 74 to 88.


- Josh Taylor: (Welterweight) Increased Agility from 84 to 88, Accuracy from 84 to 88, Guarding from 74 to 88, Courage from 76 to 84, Block Regen from 80 to 84, and Body Resistance from 72 to 86.


- Micky Ward: Increased Courage from 88 to 93, Stamina from 80 to 84, and Health Recovery from 78 to 86.


- Sugar Ray Robinson: Increased Courage from 80 to 84.


- Michael McKinson: Increased Body Resistance from 66 to 79, Courage from 67 to 78, Punch Speed from 75 to 80, Conditioning from 67 to 78, Endurance from 70 to 78, Hook Modifier from 74 to 81, Uppercut Modifier from 70 to 79, and Straight Modifier from 78 to 80.


- Ryan Rhodes: Increased Body Resistance from 57 to 80, Guarding from 56 to 79, Courage from 63 to 81, and Agility from 78 to 82.


- Carl Froch: Increased Conditioning from 87 to 93 and Endurance from 86 to 92.


- Sergio Martinez: Increased Courage from 81 to 88.


- Sugar Ray Leonard: (Welterweight) Increased Body Resistance from 75 to 89, Chin Resistance from 90 to 94, and Courage from 74 to 93.


- Enzo Maccarinelli: Increased Chin Resistance from 70 to 75, Courage from 84 to 88, and Head Health from 74 to 82.


- Johnny Nelson: Increased Body Resistance from 77 to 83.


- Lawrence Okolie: Increased Punch Speed from 79 to 85, Courage from 77 to 80, Chin Resistance from 79 to 84, Body Resistance from 78 to 85, Cut Resistance from 77 to 86, Bruise Resistance from 81 to 86, and Guarding from 78 to 84.


- Rocky Marciano: (Cruiserweight) Increased Courage from 84 to 91.


- David Adeleye: Increased Guarding from 72 to 78, Hook Modifier from 79 to 83, Jab Modifier from 75 to 81, Uppercut Modifier from 81 to 82, Straight Modifier from 81 to 82, Left Hand Power from 74 to 81, and Right Hand Power from 77 to 84.


- Frank Bruno: Increased Chin Resistance from 77 to 82, Body Resistance from 77 to 80, Cut Resistance from 76 to 86, Bruise Resistance from 76 to 87, Guarding from 77 to 86, and Head Health from 78 to 82.


- Joe Joyce: Increased Stamina from 81 to 85, Block Health from 76 to 83, Courage from 81 to 84, and Head Health from 80 to 84.


- Delfine Persoon: Increased Overall from 81 to 82, Chin Resistance from 82 to 91, Body Resistance from 81 to 88, Courage from 79 to 90, Agility from 78 to 82, and Stamina from 79 to 87.

Hey fight fans,

Below are the patch notes for the update hotfix shipped on 28 February 2023 - 10657970. This is focused on fixing some issues that players have noticed in today's build.

- Fixed an issue where players using Sergio Martinez were sometimes experiencing their game controls locking up mid-fight.

- Disabled stance switching and push in online play. These were mistakenly pushed live with today's build, and are not yet ready for online play as they're still a work in progress.

Hey Fight Fans,

This is our first content update in line with our roadmap and includes 3 new fighters, new venues, and more. While this update has been in progress for some time and is a content-focused update, there are a few areas we know players are most concerned about which we'd like to address here.



Cheaters


This is one of the top issues in the game right now for online players. We know it's incredibly frustrating to run into cheaters in online matches, and with this update we're taking action against a number of players who have been hurting the online experience for everyone else. These bans are a first step toward a larger initiative to ensure fair play online. We're continuing to work toward improved cheat detection and will deploy additional updates over time.

In the meantime, please continue to use the report player functionality in the game, which is available in the menu at the end of a fight, and if you have a video, you can link a YouTube video in the report too. Cheating is never something that will be ok and your reports have been helpful to us in making this first wave of bans.



Online Stability

We've also been monitoring the online feedback you're giving us related to disconnections and surrenders that are happening, fight desync, and some matchmaking issues as well.

These are complicated issues that require time and testing, and while today's update doesn't address these things, work on these issues is ongoing and we're committed to getting them right because we recognise how important these issues are. We know it can be rough playing through these things, so we really appreciate you sticking by us and giving us so much great feedback to help improve the game.



Below are the patch notes for the update shipped on 28 February 2023 - 10623308.



New Boxers


- Lee McGregor added to the game. McGregor joins the Bantamweight division. Check out his roster profile.


- Robin Reid added to the game. Reid joins the Middleweight division. Check out his roster profile.


- Sergio Martinez added to the game. Martinez joins the Middleweight and Welterweight division. Check out his roster profile.



New Venues


- Added 'Grand Theatre'. Will you earn the right to a curtain call in this old-school theatre?


- Added 'Technicolour Gym'. Hit the ring and look good doing it under the coloured neon lights from which the venue gets it's name.


- Added a nighttime version of the existing 'Coldwell Gym' venue, and a daytime version of the existing 'Empire Pro' venue.



Gameplay Changes


- We've updated inside fighting with a new push animation and improved responsiveness.


- Made further tweaks to judge preferences in an effort to produce fairer fight results.



General Changes


- The fighter's team can now be seen walking with the fighter during the ringwalk timelines.


- Introduced motion blur settings.



Bug Fixes


- Fixed a bug causing players to see their level as between 0 and 1 on the reward screen regardless of their actual level after a ranked match.


- Fixed an issue that caused the game to apply the wrong resolution when first launched.


- Fixed an issue causing fighter models to fail to load in the Fighter Select menu if a player returns to fighter select midway through a match.


- Fixed an issue where the in-game pause menu would remain faintly visible after a player had navigated to other menus.

Hey Fight Fans,  

Below are the patch notes for the update shipped on 16 February 2023 - 10566251.  

This update contains a small change (see below) that should improve the amount of desync some players are seeing online. We want to take this opportunity to reiterate that online matchmaking and stability are ongoing areas of focus for us, and getting online play to a place we're happy with it is going to take time, so we appreciate your patience.

Somewhat related to that, we've seen reports of players encountering cheaters when playing casual or ranked matches online. The best thing you can do if you run into someone obviously cheating is to use the report function at the end of the match - we monitor reports and will begin taking action against players who we know to be cheating while we work on longer-term solutions.



Gameplay Changes 


- Reduced the overall impact that accuracy, punches thrown, counter punches, and defence has on how judges score a fight. This is in an effort to produce fairer scoring results. Some judges still value these things over punches landed, but less heavily than before.  


- Made adjustments to punch tracking to make slipping and dodging more viable. 


- Improved the way we handle Arm Fatigue online, which we hope will reduce some amount of desync players are experiencing. 



Boxer Changes


- Muhammad Ali: Overall reduced from 94 to 93, with his power punch moving from 89 to 84, his Right Hand Power moving from 92 to 89, and his Left Hand Power moving from 88 to 87.  


- Sugar Ray Robinson: (Welterweight) Overall rating reduced from 92 to 91, with minor adjustments made across a range of stats.


- Sugar Ray Robinson: (Middleweight) Overall rating reduced from 92 to 91, with minor adjustments made across a range of stats.


- Sugar Ray Robinson: (Lightweight) Overall rating reduced from 92 to 91, with minor adjustments made across a range of stats.

- Natasha Jonas: Changed her fight stance to Southpaw. Added the 'Sting Like a Bee' and 'KO Artist' traits. Changed her fight style to Outside Fighter.  


- Sophie Alisch: Added the 'Untouchable' trait. Changed her fight style to Outside Fighter.  


- Ebanie Bridges: Added the 'Right Hand Bomb' and 'KO Artist' traits. Changed her fight style to Slugger.  


- Chantelle Cameron: Added the 'Sting Like a Bee' and 'Punches in Bunches' traits. 


- Terri Harper: Added the 'Bombs Away' and 'Distance Keeper' traits. Changed her fight style to Outside Fighter.  


- Jessica McCaskill: Added the 'Bombs Away' and 'Granite Chin' traits.  


- Delfine Persoon: Added the 'Tireless' and 'Third Wind' traits. Changed her fight style to Swarmer.  


- Cecilia Braekhus: Added the 'Distance Keeper' trait.  


- Katie Taylor: Changed her fight style to Swarmer.