Friends & Rivals - Using Data Editor

[SnakeSlippers]

So I'm doing a Attitude Era Universe and I'll be doing every one's friends and allies as I go, I have some questions for anyone who messed with this setting and has a solid idea of what is what.

 

1. Numbers 1 - 5 on either setting.

Friend 1 or 5 who will be the "best friend"? 

Rival 1 or 5 who is "most hated"?

I get different answers through google and other sites.

 

2. How do teams/stables work with this?

(Ex.) The Rock has HHH as a rival, but HHH is in DX, would DX (HHH, X-Pac, Road Dogg, Billy Gunn) ever have any run ins with The Rock or do they need to be put in Rivals separately?

 

3. Auto rivals, team breakups in universe. On or off? 

[Cave Waverider]

If you load up the original .pofo files from the game that have friends and rivals set, you'll see it's supposed to be like it's described in Data Editor.
By the way, you'll have to have each other in the exact same slot for each "connected" wrestler. So if you want to make Wrestler 1 Rival of Wrestler 2, you'll have to set each other in the same Friend slot in each others' .pofo. Same goes for Rivals.

That said, I'm not even sure if the friends/rivals section in the .pofo even does anything in WWE 2k19.
'It might just be a leftover from previous games (where it actually worked). First, not many friends/rivals in WWE 2k19 .pofo files are actually set. In addition, if we take Christian's WWE 2k19 .pofo as an example, it has WrestlerID 110 set as Friend Level 5, which was Edge in previous games, but in this game there is no 110 and Edge is 349 and has no friends or rivals set by default at all. Possibly the friends/rivals settings that actually work are managed elsewhere in the game in WWE 2k19 (it's also possible that it's only stored  somewhere in the Universe Mode save and the interference for MyWWE/Exhibition is random only in WWE 2k19).

[SnakeSlippers]

Not only did you rain on my parade you threw a whole tornado through it. Thanks for that lol. That sucks if it doesn't work this game.

Nothing worse then having a great ass match between 2 Attitude Era guys, with no HUD, some reshade and some slider tweaks, and the whole match was damn near perfect and out runs some modern day guy and kills the whole mood. 

I might just set the F&R anyways. Maybe the game will read them, maybe not. But maybe it'll give the game a base to go off of? Idk.

[Cave Waverider]

On 12/8/2020 at 1:42 PM, SnakeSlippers said:

Nothing worse then having a great ass match between 2 Attitude Era guys, with no HUD, some reshade and some slider tweaks, and the whole match was damn near perfect and out runs some modern day guy and kills the whole mood. 

Yeah, I know. I played a match between Randy Savage and Hulk Hogan for the WWF Championship the other day and out came Ronda Rousey to beat Hogan up. I guess she came from the future to avenge Piper or something.

[SnakeSlippers]

On 12/11/2020 at 10:33 AM, Cave Waverider said:

Yeah, I know. I played a match between Randy Savage and Hulk Hogan for the WWF Championship the other day and out came Ronda Rousey to beat Hogan up. I guess she came from the future to avenge Piper or something.

So looking into it more, there has to be some kind of setting somewhere that does something for this right? Or did noone find it yet?

Tested Adam Cole vs Cole Quinn. Pete Dunne came out mid way to attack me.

No settings for this under My WWE.

Looked at Adam and Pete's pofo's and neither one has a rival set.

No universe mode set up with these guys in it. 

Something somewhere has to be controlling this, but what?