Yeah, been on Expert since the demo to be honest, the sooner you bump up the difficulty, the quicker you'll adapt. As for slipping out of submissions, I tend to just go mental spinning the right analog stick clockwise with the palm of my hand. Fatigue and injuries are setting in mind, I'm fearing the skin on my palm will rip off soon it's getting that competitive.
Just lost 2 fights in a row online, sucks mega. The first was to a guy who was 35-2, he chose Forrest and I chose Machida. He battered me on the ground in the 1st round, but overall I was getting the better of the stand up, especially in the 2nd round until he knocked me out with a head kick. Fair play to him, he was just a much better fighter. The second was level 50, but very annoying. He just got up close to me with his character and was just button mashing literally, he was repeatedly spamming the short knee strikes and I simply couldn't do anything but get pummelled by them. I couldn't move back or attempt a takedown because my guy was too busy groaning due to being kneed in the leg every second. It was definitely some form of glitch which he exploited, then he later full mounted me which I struggled to get out of as he continued to reverse my transitions and then once he had my back he stuck me in a rear naked choke which I simply couldn't escape from. Quite irritating considering when I looked at damage done, my left leg has sustained 100% damage, all through those silly little knees in the space of about 20 seconds, of which I couldn't even move.
My record is now 19-11, should be 24-11 mind (I was quit on just before my 2-losing streak) which aggitated me slightly more. THQ really need to bring out this patch pronto, I've even had someone disconnect from a match because I was battering them on "Player" match!
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