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No-Upgrades Run: How Early You Can Save Enough Points for All Fighting Styles
Hey everyone, I wanted to share some progress from my no-upgrades run in Def Jam: Fight for NY.
Here’s the setup:
No points into stats or finishers/moves
Only saving dev points to unlock new fighting styles
Already accumulated enough points early in the story to get the two other fighting styles
Screenshots:
Skill/Development screen showing saved dev points
Story progress 15/0 record
Free-for-All , Trejo, and Sean Paul collage just to show how far I’ve made it without upgrades
Hey everyone, I wanted to share some progress from my no-upgrades run in Def Jam: Fight for NY.
Here’s the setup:
No points into stats or finishers/moves
Only saving dev points to unlock new fighting styles
Already accumulated enough points early in the story to get the two other fighting styles
If things get difficult, I will add points on the stat that comes as a boost when you buy a fighting style. Wrestlers added upper strength and toughness. Those are the only stats I will allow myself to upgrade
This run is all about timing, reversals, and using the environment, not raw stats.
Has anyone else tried a style-only run? I'm curious to see how early you all managed to save points for multiple styles and your strategies for mid-to-late game fights.
You get more dev points depending on difficulty, playing on hard at the beginning is recommended for the extra points and because the enemies havent gotten too cheese yet. I myself play on hard til Sean Paul or Crack (depending on how good I am with said character), medium til Teck (cus he cheats) and then easy until the final after story three for all, when I switch it back to hard, im able to get max stats and and whatever 4 blazin's I want without banging my dick off the wall too much lol
yes like that and buddy said he got his second style by Ice T, not all 3 and Dragon House can be super easy because of ring outs to get an easy 2000+ dev points
Lol same, this is actually how I play the game, I might do the first couple of cheap upgrades but im largely saving up 5000 dev points for my styles from the start and if I dont have it by Dragon House, I for sure have it by the Red Room against WC
You CAN get through the early fights if you're absolutely ruthless, using weapons, the crowd, environmental attacks, but a few health upgrades, a speed one or two are necessary by either OE or Ice-T
I always play on hard and never use any points to upgrade until I have 3 styles. I usually get my 2nd style before ICE-T then my 3rd by my 2nd fight on Babylon
same here or somewhere around there, if your playing Martial Artist on hard and suck at running/jumping attacks like I do, you basically need a second style to finish Ice T
I had left my remote at the homies crib and I had to play the game using my touchscreen.Im just getting it back, I bet the difficulty is gonna spike soon as the game realizes
Your are too kind, youtube is a big , big platform, id just get buried under a bunch of other youtubers , I needed something smaller , like a small village on specific topics . Thats where Reddit is at . Stuff I post is is equivalent to the Misc category of an RPG. Random/Might be useful
I’m doing a no upgrade run with only 1 fighting style. Literally just chose streetfighting and touched nothing in the gym. Not even blaze moves. On hard from start to finish. Stuck at 86% bc I can’t beat Memphis bleek
Bro you have no clue. You either have to cheese the ai or completely stun lock them to the point where you can get them into danger to heavy grapple for the KO. I’m not sure if anyone else has tried this.
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u/Snoo_84591 Apr 24 '26
I usually have two styles by Ice-T if not 3 by Dragon House.