• We recognize premature match quitting as the biggest online issue and have taken steps to fix it. The Patch will have integrated code that detects who pulls the cable and will assign a Loss as well as a Did Not Finish to that player. The DNF is only counted for the player who executes the disconnection. The DNF rate will be displayed on the fighter selection screen of the Online Ranked Match. When disconnected the Winning Streak is also reset to 0.
• We’ve adjusted Ranked Matches to match up players with better connections, which will improve lag issues we’ve seen to date.
• We’ve adjusted the difficulty of performing submissions against AI opponents to improve the balance of subs vs. striking when playing against the AI.
• We’ve adjusted the Flash KO rate so that they are less frequent.
• We’ve increased maximum number of points awarded in online play from 99,999 to 999,999 and we’ve increased the Max Level from 100 to 200.
• We’ve lowered the Winning Streak Bonus Max from 5 to 3.
• We’ve removed the decimal places on the Leaderboard Winning Percentage so we only show whole percentages.
• We’ve addressed the CAF cheat so the skill levels in CAF cannot be cheated and increased. Also any CAF with unfair point values will no longer be able to be used Online.
• For PS3 users we’ve also fixed a bug that causes a freeze during auto-save; whichever controller was used to Press Start on the Title Screen will be identified as the main controller.

• We recognize premature match quitting as the biggest online issue and have taken steps to fix it. The Patch will have integrated code that detects who pulls the cable and will assign a Loss as well as a Did Not Finish to that player. The DNF is only counted for the player who executes the disconnection. The DNF rate will be displayed on the fighter selection screen of the Online Ranked Match. When disconnected the Winning Streak is also reset to 0.
• We’ve adjusted Ranked Matches to match up players with better connections, which will improve lag issues we’ve seen to date.
• We’ve adjusted the difficulty of performing submissions against AI opponents to improve the balance of subs vs. striking when playing against the AI.
• We’ve adjusted the Flash KO rate so that they are less frequent.
• We’ve increased maximum number of points awarded in online play from 99,999 to 999,999 and we’ve increased the Max Level from 100 to 200.
• We’ve lowered the Winning Streak Bonus Max from 5 to 3.
• We’ve removed the decimal places on the Leaderboard Winning Percentage so we only show whole percentages.
• We’ve addressed the CAF cheat so the skill levels in CAF cannot be cheated and increased. Also any CAF with unfair point values will no longer be able to be used Online.
• For PS3 users we’ve also fixed a bug that causes a freeze during auto-save; whichever controller was used to Press Start on the Title Screen will be identified as the main controller.

This is an awesome update. Worth the wait, imo.

Fucking finally. I was waiting on the patch to buy the game. I've seen how pointless it is to play in it's current state.

Wow. Thanks to their update, I'm actually ready to buy the game, and go online. Before, there was no way I was about to tackle that  frustration of idiots who rage quit.

Cool, I should pick this up soon.

"We’ve adjusted the Flash KO rate so that they are less frequent."

YES

Maybe I'll bother to check out UFC online now.

Great

And all you scum out there with ridiculously overpowered submission stats may want to see about getting good at the game in a more honest fashion.

relax jeff

" "We’ve adjusted the Flash KO rate so that they are less frequent."YES "

Im guessing unfair skill values translates into over 100? Although id really like to know the specifics on this point. Other than that I think that all these additions are very welcome and will get me to enjoy this game a whole lot more.

Now I can get back into the game.

Awesome. Been holding off on buying this game to see if they were going to patch it.

boring for a game that is offal as it is in its current state. The game has no re-playability whatsoever!

I may pick this game up now.

" boring for a game that is offal as it is in its current state. The game has no re-playability whatsoever! "

about time 

Oh wow, now they are going to fix the difficulty in the submission system? What is THQ trying to do? Actually make me now buy the game instead of renting it!

Yup.  I might buy the game now :)

Finally!  I hate when I'm about to get a TKO or a submission and the loser that I'm playing with always quits.  Finally I can get someone in mount and they won't cry and quit.  Well... maybe they'll still cry.

Everything in the patch notes is fine except for adjusting the rate of Flash KOs.  Strikers are already disadvantaged enough in the game,  making flash KOs less frequent is only going to skew things further in the favor of grappling.  If anything the flash KO/rocked rate needs to be increased since as is players can already take a large amount of flush punches to the head without getting knocked out.

I hate Flash KOs too frequent...and I might consider putting the game back in the system if they fix that.  I'm sick and tired of dominating an opponent catching a weak jab and hitting the mat.  I understand that sometimes SOMETIMES a fighter can connect a hard punch and turn the tide or even end the fight, but this doesn't happen in every other fight and the hit is a hard one not a weak one.  This patch sounds really good, I'm looking forward to it.

"@Stargate174 said:

" boring for a game that is offal as it is in its current state. The game has no re-playability whatsoever! "

... You know it's "awful" right? Offal sounds like it has something to do with the nose."

• We’ve adjusted the difficulty of performing submissions against AI opponents to improve the balance of subs vs. striking when playing against the AI.

whatever I already returned my copy

About F'in time.  Now I can play it again.

Fuck sake I just returned this because of the lag... lame

YAY i can play online again!! :D

Hmn, this is on sale, maybe it's time to pick it up.

Also love that last line, Jeff. You the man XD

Yay i can finally use submissions against the crazy AI

It felt like the developers had never heard of the Internet before.

Ragequitting has been going on in every console game without a disconnect penatly ever since consoles first went online.  Xbox Live turns 6 years old this year, and yet we still keep seeing developers ignoring this issue until a patch.

After getting burned on SFIV and UFC, I'm not buying an online multiplayer game unless they do this right anymore.  I'll buy them once they patch it--and then I'll be getting it used, so they don't get my money.  Game makers need to realize that this matters.

"@Jeff said:

• We’ve adjusted the difficulty of performing submissions against AI opponents to improve the balance of subs vs. striking when playing against the AI.

Thank God, I've been trying to get submission of the night (damn it's hard), and I pretty much have to get a guy right next to being KOed before he'll succumb to a submission, which kinda defeats the purpose"

I was waiting for this patch to go online.

Hopefully now all you dashboarding pussies have to take your ass whoopin like a man. 

nice patch

LESS FREQUENT FLASH KOs!!!  WOOT!!!  A REASON TO PLAY AGAIN!!!

Ah so thats how people were submitting me so easily with CAF's. Think this patch may just get me back into online play.

2 weeks after the announcement... still not patch and still the game is still littered with disconnecting , CAF hacking scrubs. Not only they have to cheat, they disconnect when they lose when clearly they had glitched a character for the advantage and still fail.

I wouldn't be too surprised if they would finaly release the patch several months from now at talks of having DLC characters added to the roster and the next UFC Undisputed being the franchised MMA game we would expect each year.

Yes! Finally. Maybe now i can get a respectable record...