In my quest to find my inner badass I purchased EA Sports’ newest release, Fight Night Round 4 the other week. Oh boy did it work, until I went online. Having gotten good enough to knock the PC out in one round nine times out of ten I figured it was a good time to take my skills online.

Ugh….

Let me tell you, I don’t think I’m terrible…But I sure was way off base in thinking I was going to cut it in FNR4’s new Online Championship Mode. It took me 4 fights to make it out of the first round, and when I did I was promptly knocked out to start the second. After ten to fifteen thorough beat downs I ran to Google for help…. And now, for those friends of GeekFortress that are also finding themselves somewhat overwhelmed by the wide world of online boxing, I present what I’ll call, “Fight Night for Dummies”

What I may have found the most helpful in the online arena was dirtyomelettes guide to dealing with online stereotypes. Most everyone I’ve fought online falls into one of the categories he covers: Block n’ counter fighter, the inside pressure fighter, haymaker and body hook spammers, and smart outside fighters.

In your quest to push through Legacy mode you’ll likely find few problems in your game you cannot solve by lowering the difficulty. If you do however, or if you just like to keep it honest and play like the pros do…then you should find this basic guide to fighting by Adenosine pretty helpful. Another plus to that is the guide to uploading photos for use with the Photo Game Face feature. I had no idea how to use it until I read this guide, being that the instruction manual is lacking INSTRUCTIONS.

The above two guides should honestly be enough for most people, myself not included. You see….even with the help of the above guides, I’m still getting my ass handed to me online. I need something more. Another little bit of knowledge. Aj_the_one’s FAQ covers most the same things that Adenosine hit, but the one thing you’ll find that I wasn’t able to find in the others is specific details on the effects of each boxing style when creating a boxer. This is very important because you want your created boxer to have stats that cater to your personal fighting style. Problem is that not all of us know the significance of terms like “Mummy” and “Slickster”……Now we do. Thanks Aj_the_one

There, go! Go spread the pain using these skills I’ve shown you *through other peoples hard work* today!

I want to hear back from everyone on how much they’ve improved! Or if you suck even more now I want to know too!