>>9192389I don't like it because the CAWs in SYM are super underpowered compared to the default wrestlers. I noticed if I were to wrestle against Triple H with my CAW, no matter how I set their stats up, I needed two finishers minimum to get the pinfall while he could beat me with a simple clothesline and no finishers at all.
I had a whole save file full of different Ruthless Aggression CAWs and they all had this problem except for my Rey Mysterio, which confused me. Then I remembered I had an active season mode with Mysterio where he was world champion and had like 90-something superstar points. Now, the game manual states that superstar points only affect how you're booked in season mode and what titles you qualify for and such, but I would discover that this is not the case. To confirm my suspicions I reset my season settings, sent my Mysterio CAW's SP back to 50, and now in exhibition matches he was no longer able to score pinfalls after one finisher. Then to make doubly sure, I started a season mode with Kane, jobbed in every single match with him until his SP was down to 30, and sure enough he was now weak as fuck in exhibition and his chokeslam never won matches.
So stats in this game almost don't matter compared to this one numerical value that you cannot change at all unless you were to painstakingly go through a 2 year season mode with every single one of your created wrestlers (If you start a new season without completing your current one, all SP values reset). I know this is a long-winded and fucking autistic post, but I just had to fucking bring it up because nobody else has ever noticed this. I Googled "Shut Your Mouth Superstar Points" and I saw nobody on any forum in the twenty years this game has been out notice or mention this, when it renders pretty much every wrestler you create as a jobber that cannot beat anybody worth a damn. I seriously play these games too much but like, what the fuck.
