For some reason, rivalries never end for me.

My biggest issue with rival reactions, is the fact that it can change your match participants depending on the scenario and you can’t choose the participant that it changes your match to

Theres also a bug where if u exit universe mode and u go back to universe mode and try to edit a rivalry story it will be blank and u cant edit the story anymore. And if your in a rivalry with someone and u edit their move set and change the finisher it will work for a match thats not a rivalry match but if your doing a rivalry match it will revert back to the default movesets that the superstar has. This mode is so buggy even managers get taken off for some reason if u set them in a normal match

The biggest problem I have with the rivalry system is there's no changes, there's times where the same people are fighting for the better part of a year and its pretty frustrating

THANK YOU ! For bringing up how the mode is broken! Everyone is praising the game and no one brings this up

one major miss in the video is if you want unlimited rivalry actions you only get that on regular shows and not ppv. in a ppv or ple your rivalries turn everything into the end of a rivalry actions like loser leaves town and no mid match or post match. very limited game, funny how they talk about creating more options by greatly reducing your freedom and no live action breakouts?

Yeah Universe got a big problem and WWE 2K knows about this and they still not doing nothing about it

I can't believe they took out the run-in options in universe mode!

Been broken for years...my rivalries never end

I noticed that if I applied a custom match into Universe Mode with a rivalry action, the action would play out but remove the custom match rules that I saved. Very frustrating.

I swear 2k takes huge steps forward... And then huge steps backwards every year. They never get it right. They did an AMAZING JOB with CAWS this year, they look incredible, but did a poor job with created arenas and universe because it's FILLED with bugs and issues. It's frustrating to deal with this every year.

I hate that if two people are in a rivalry, I can't have them run in and attack the others match

I’m glad someone addressed this ! We need universe mode like wwe 2k19

My biggest annoyance is you cannot have trio entrances in universe mode!!

I think the rivalry actions are kinda 50/50 for me. I LOVE the freedom, but stuff like this is very disappointing. However, at this point, expected

Noticed this more when i was using custom superstars and custom titles, like when u set up a rivalry using a custom title it doesn’t register that the belt is involved in the rival even when the champ is in a match they wont even walk out with the belt and even when you have a custom superstar in a rival with say the wwe championship the rival action will just freeze and jump you to the next match pop up screen, needs fixed asap

This was informative. Thanks for sharing this my guy!

My only issue right now is managers. For Roman/Paul I have to set Paul as the 2nd manager for it to register he’s manager and the 1st one disappears. And my next issue is the ring announcer for title matches doesn’t show and the title sits awkwardly on the shoulder in introduction stage. Im having no issues with rivalries other than sum lil mess ups

Please continue to make these videos. They are EXTREMELY helpful.

Frustrating, though I will do my best as updates come out, to keep people posted.

Rivalries are broken, you can't edit trio entrances in universe, managers don't work, random superstars are moved out of their divisions for no reason, referees are still just constantly in the way.

Thank you for bringing this up this is a big problem for me

I do like the fact that they made action rivalry theme but I also like the auto rivalry Thing as well but what I would like to see them do in universe mode actually put a storyline mode in universe mode allow us to select an option whatever is listed in option we pick

The random attires things is missing too. Also, when I manually switch an attire, it goes back to the original attire.

A good way to overwrite Universe changing your rivalry matches,is to change the Rivalry Action to anything that says the two wrestlers are actually facing each other, instead of Actions that have a description saying "Wrestler A interferes in Wrestler B's match." Or any variation of that, like Post-Match disrespectful changes the match and the rival shows up after to disrespect his opponent, usually by jumping him. disrespectful or Embarrassing Attack however doesn't change the match, it's either a pre-match attack for Disrespectful attack,or a post match beat down,or avoided post match beat down,depending on how the match plays out.

Another issue Is, if you start some rivarly between the Champions and the challengers , when ppv come in some matches the title Is not on the line. That made me so sick

Also in Universe mode...... You can't perform "Run ins" anymore 😢even if the wrestler has run in set as their PAYBACK 😢😢, WITH ALL THE GLICHES AND REMOVING CERTAIN THINGS IN THE GAME, HAS IT GONE BACKWARDS? 😮

There is another issue which not many have mentioned… your moveset also defaults if you select a rival action. This needs to be fixed ASAP! Ive made significant moveset changes which cant be used with a rival action 🙄

I just cant figure out how to end them lol. I had a rivalry with karrion kross triggered with a custom guy and its gone past multiple PLE events now.

Another issue in wwe2k23, you van edit the moves of the superstar ut when you play it, the superstar move did not changed in the universe mode. Hoped 2k can fix it

And how about the stats in universe mode. There are 2 wins in RR for Sami and zero for Orton for example. This game is awful. 2k spits in the faces of their fans. Thank u 2k, I’ll never buy your game again. Burn in hell!!!

so another issue I have seen.... I 100% customize every match in my Universe.... if I set up matches... and for some reason have to save and exit the game, when I go back into the game... I can't pick rival actions. When I go to the screen to edit an action, or pick one that didn't get set up.... it's just blank... If i complete the show and go to the next show... they work again. On 1.04 on PC

If they would simply bring back Create a Story, Universe nor GM modes would be needed. You could simply do whatever YOU wanted to do (promos, interviews, backstage segments, running someone over with a car, putting someone through a car window, special appearances, your own commentary team and what they'd say etc.).

Editing tattoos in my Rise is super bugged. Once set a tattoo it disappears on the edit menu so I cant edit it anymore. Also trying to change a body part the tattoo is on in rise makes it go invisible.

thx for the video. this answered my question bout rival actions always 1v1 normal. sooo annoying and not fun. 2K's answer in a patch to this is to label the match type in the action you choose as 1v1 normal. question: Are there only cutscenes using rival actions? Cause i really care about match types, and sick of 1v1 normal. is there any play-ability left if we abandon rival actions totally?

WWE 2K23 universe mode it's sucks cuz tag team match into single match wtf, no manager then gone plus rival actions it's full of bullshit and I think I miss the old WWE 2K universe mode that's the best one ever had

Like I told you, I do similar to NJPW/Stardom, since you always need weekly shows, I use the 3 shows, I mentioned in the other comment, to build up for the PLEs. Those are the only ones, I choose the winner of the matches in order to create a build up to PLEs. I mostly do AI vs AI simming.

But anyways the main glitches I see is that you can’t switch reds between shows, managers glitch out, and you can’t save teams

But wait... 2K swore their focus was on universe mode and got a huge overhaul this year lmao... they false advertised a lot that only half works or doesn't work at all. WWE needs to drop 2K

idk how 2k23 universe mode made it past playtesting it sometime reset entrance/music/tag teams etc and still has that invisible wrestler bug all the way from 2k19

Automatic rival actions options seems like such an obvious solution

Universe mode in general is broken and I don't see a fix until the DLC drops

Honestly I used to like auto rivalries but lately I’ve been making them manually and I kind of like it better that way……as far as the rivalry actions when you let’s say do a post match stare down and it switches ppl it’s because the person you’re in a rivalry with is set interfere after your match… and the person that switches in the ring that you’re facing is someone you have under your enemies tab…. They literally explain them in actions

This happened to me when I did Roman vs Cody at hell in a cell.

wwe 2k24 need To be the union between 2k23 and 2k19. Will be the best wwe game

Does anyone not notice how when u put a rival action on a certain wrestler, it doesn’t work and you gotta put it on the opposite wrestler to get the right result?

For Instant we go to options storyline mode in options whatever's listed we picked the Rivalry how we wanted whether is male or female then we also have the option where we click on create a story where we wanted to start and end a certain premium live event are certain Raw SmackDown are NXT or if you created your own brand whatever comes to our mind I would love that freedoms universe mode like a domination storyline for a male or female I would like that or they can put that in Superstar mode also

Well I do the the automatic rivalry system and it's nice right now I haven't had title match yet I'm going into backlash later on today

There’s so many issues also when a champion is in a rival and you have a rival action set up for the match, the champion doesn’t come out with the championship

This explains why I'm still a champion even if I lost the championship match.

I'd like to be able to have the action and the match type to happen instead of it changing everything. Especially if I changed the match myself

7 months later rivalries still won’t end

I got a big problem any suggestions please help every time I try and set up a Rivalry my game completely crashes and shut off my Xbox one s how can I fix this so I'm able to change my Rivalrys please help man please

For Superstar mode instead of going in the way we go in patter of story how we want our Superstar mode to be like for instance again we could do go create a storyline we have the option either the played on there are we have the option to tap into universe mode or GM mode it's just a suggestion I don't know what if I know that's what I like to see I don't know

man i HATE the fact that rival actions can just cancel out entrances entirely. Also my champions don't even come out with their titles half the time.

I think it has bugs ever since the update . I had no problems Up until 1.03

Also participants change when you click the match

Dude I thought it was just mine I keep trying to do a tag rivalry with the new day and it keeps putting me against Xavier woods inna singles match shit is pissing me off

UGH it sucks there is more issues with Universe. I hope this gets fixed ir updated.

Sometimes, my champions are in rivalries, but when the PLE comes along, it's not a championship match.

Championship matches have always given me trouble since 19 - they want it to be 1 vs 1 normal for title ..

Can i ask, How do the rivalries end if you dont have auto rivalries on. My rivalries have been going on for 2 in game months….dont know how to end the damn rivalry without deleting it, because deleting it would have no history. Need help

New game same problem. 2k should be boycotted

Also managers don't work hardly every

as long as you continue to buy 2K games nothing will change. I stopped after 2k22, because every year it will be the same story

Can’t even have mangers in universe it removes them it’s just all over the place

I removed the rival action and it changed my rival to someone’s else? Wtf?

The Universe Mode deleted my custom wrestler.

I absolutely hate how you can’t change the opponent

Wwe 12 universe mode was the best in terms of the experience and wwe 13 in terms of customisation imo. Good balance between spontaneity and continuity. Add those 2 with svr11 in game experience and that would be near perfect. Also, why didn't they ever implement some cutscenes from the old story designer into universe. How wasn't this obvious to them smdh

I knew it was gonna be a major disappointment 2k does the same thing every year they never really fix the core of the game its a title tweak hear and their but they never address the games core issues because they know 1 ppl will still buy and 2 we live in a bells and whistles society no one care about quality or if something works correctly they just want it and want it because it looks good. It's 2023 and it's still so much wrong with this wrestling game but when the had the game from way back in the early 2000s we had no issues and the games were fun I thought we were supposed to progress and the total opposite. I can write a whole boom about what's wrong with this game especially universe mode but I'll just give a few. Most of the actions are the exact same from when they took over okay some of them cut of the entrances which is stupid,there is no backstage or interviews,no 3 or 4 man rivalries,no promos but this is supposed to be sports entertainment,no storylines but theytook away 3on 3 matches,then you are limited on the actions so eventually everyone will be do the same thing over and over again, I mean it's so bad that if someone music hit then comes behind you hits you with a chair in front the ref nothing not the ref being distracted 1st or nothing just blatant and the match just goes on like not,you got refs get knocked soon as the bell rings like come on man when has that ever been a thing and what is the purpose, you can't get your stable to come out and jump ppl or nothing I can go on for months. You got rid of story created for this instead of adding to that making it more interactive. This is what happens when you give the license to someone that knows nothing about wrestling,refuses to listen to the ppl that buy and only care about the money. I held out hope for this game for years and evrý year it's the same bugged out game I'm done with 2k but they won't change it until.everyone comes together and stop buying until they do it right but that probably will never happen which is sad.

I had drew call out cena for the universal title and in my universe John cena was the campion but John call out drew for the title and drew had the title in his hands I was so confused

I don’t generally do rivalries

I agree

it doesn’t even include the titles

The whole game is broken lol. Not buying next years game

so basically use the action if you dont want the title yet.

I’m having troubles with the titles more than anything 😢, can’t defend smack down woman title or intercontenial title in a rivalry at all. No one is talking about this at all 🫣 Also when I’m on raw for some reason they defend smack down tag titles and etc for being on raw they defend smack down titles

Also your created moveset is set to default if you do a match with a rivarly

We're expecting big patches but I think 2k is already working on with 2K24, so it's gonna take quite time to fix the game…

We have a serious issue with 2k all together

Did he record this audio on a record player?

This is extremely disappointing but expected

Tag team rivalry sucks and why can't it be a 4v4 rival or team rivals ? 3v4 and all that

Wassup Paul Heyman

I'm so done with these guys it hasn't been good since 2k14

2k needs to do better.when the last time a wrestling game been rated a 9 or higher?

Why do you sound it raining..... Its so annoying!! I can't stand it 😢

Umm it’s not broken in the description it literally tells you the match will be a normal match they all change if you put the cutscene action on because each match type can’t fit for the cutscenes

UNIVERSE MODE IS ALL MESSED UP IM NOT EVEN ABLE TO CHOOSE RUN INS IN MY PAYBACK SELECTION.

How new are you to this series this has always been a thing lol they havint changed anything bro it's same old universe same old cutscenes just can choose them now only difference terrible game

This game is such a mess.......

It sucks

hahaha it's that bad?? got me already wanting to cancel my order of this game. LOL

Broke ass game.. last one im buying

It’s not broken you just customizing matches that automatically kills a rivalry

Sir there’s is a major issue here that you need to talk about is that when we customise the movesets of a superstar in universe mode it reverts to default and not saving the movesets we customised it pisses of me the most