I have a Billy Kidman WCW era CAW and his jean shorts completely disappeared, though they still showed up on the image itself. I went to put them back on but it seems like that particular pair of shorts is gone. Am I just missing it or did this game randomly delete some stuff? Anyone else experience this issue?
I have only recently come to this conclusion and it has been after many years of having at least a passing interest in these sorts of things. If you look at my username, it is not random lol. I chose it for a reason. So let me lay out my theory with any supporting evidence I have come across:
The most basic way to describe our universe is that it is sort of a combination of Remembrance of Earth's Past and Star Trek, funny enough. There aliens, many different races of them. All with their own goals, beliefs, etc. It is probably an exceptionally poor idea to send random signals out into the ether shouting our coordinates for anyone to hear. Honestly, we are probably just lucky that space is so goddamn vast that it would be like finding a needle in a haystack. Nobody has heard us, yet. And thank god for that.
Yet there are races of aliens that are kind, or at least non-harmful to us and those are the aliens that we have been seeing since forever. Now this is based off the fact that so many alien encounters match up in oddly specific ways, leading me to believe there is truth to all of this. They are essentially a conglomerate, for lack of a better word of Mantids (the leaders), Tall Whites, Nordics and possibly Greys, though I have my suspicion that greys lack a consciousness and are just like a worker ant, kinda? Many encounters say that the greys reek of ammonia or sulphur and that their skin is oily. There are multiple reports that these aliens also use droids or robots of some kind and that they do resemble the classic 50s-style box-looking robot with maybe one arm or something. These robots are often the other thing abductees report seeing before anything else.
All of the different alien races have very large eyes, which I have heard is because their home planet(s) are much darker than here on Earth. They are used to low-level lighting. Those big black eyes that people often report and have drawn are most likely some kind of contact lens to protect they eyes. Their real eyes look very similar to our own.
This group of aliens, led by the Mantids, are trying to accomplish several things, I think. One of them for sure is that they want us to stop fucking this planet up. They have tried many, many times to get humans to wake up but its not working. But they are patient and very empathetic; far more than the average human. Not kind necessarily...they do testing on us as they wish and I am not fully sure of what they are trying to do with all of the needles and all that. Possibly a hybrid breeding program but possibly something entirely different. They never said. Almost every abductee reports a loss of time and waking up in their bed or elsewhere sore, usually dizzy and or/having a headache. But these aliens are most certainly focusing on a major goal, hence my Star Trek reference. They have a Prime Directive. I know this sounds nuts but go with it. This is also where the Remembrance of Earth's Past theory comes into play: There are a finite number of resources in the universe. When they have been exhausted, that's it. You don't get that stuff back. The aliens know this and its at the core of how they live their lives and perform their jobs.
We are kind of a science experiment to them. Not slaves. Not food. Any time they have mutilated cows or whatever was for some other purpose, possibly their attempts at cross-breeding god knows what.
They have been observing us for a very long time. They have been mostly hands-off. They wanted to see what we would do. However, there was one major event that made them take notice and that was the invention of nuclear weapons. Once that happened, they began to make their presence on Earth more known. You ever notice that these meetings and sightings happen mostly in the United States? That's not random. It's because the US is the only country to ever actually nuke another country. We are a science experiment gone awry in their eyes. They have for sure met with several US Presidents, including Dwight Eisenhower and Jimmy Carter at the very least. The government is very much aware of their existence.
Crash landings do happen. These aliens aren't perfect. They still are flesh and blood, after all. The government has certainly recovered a number of aircraft and bodies and reverse engineered the stuff to some level of success. Want to know what came out of that? Anti-gravity technology. That is often what you are seeing flying in the sky. Those aren't the aliens. That's the technology we stole from them and tried to make it work. Impressive certainly but not nearly on their level. Also, not useful enough to be used in warfare, otherwise the military would have adopted it ages ago. But they are getting better with each year. Actual alien UFOs are much more rare and often catch abductees off guard.
Here is where the theory goes a bit deeper. These creatures are actually ultra terrestrial beings or whatever you want to call them. They exist within and outside of our perception of reality. They are the ghosts that people catch on camera. Discounting the fake videos, every time you see a cabinet door swing open randomly or catch a weird face darting in the background at an impossible speed...those are aliens phasing in and out of our three dimensional space.
Thank you for coming to my nuts Ted Talk.
For example, being able to set off pyro or taunt during an entrance. Not exactly groundbreaking but it helps add to the immersion.
The pre-match options like locking up, staredown, etc. Another feature that was in the older games ('06 I think) and then disappeared for years. Still, another small thing that makes the matches feel more alive imo.
People keep their entrance gear on if they are managers holy shit finally, thank you.
No more Byron Saxton!! Thank you! I literally just turned commentary off on the old games because it was so bad.
The generic entrance themes are pretty good and there are a lot of them to pick from. You can do pretty good if you are really into CAW stuff and want people with unique themes.
My only real complaint is that these are features that should have been in the game over a decade ago. This is stuff you could have done during the PS3 era. But better late than never. I know there are more features I am forgetting but 2K26 feels more like 2K14, where it just had a shitload of options and like they threw in every feature they could think of from the older games.
So yeah, not a perfect wrestling game but I still rank this one kinda high in the grand scheme of things because I think they do a lot right.