The person with the hold locked must aim to get their bar of colour into the opponent's in order to fill the central reservoir and submit them. This year, a blue and red bar must chase each other around a similar ring using the right analogue stick. Previously, both superstars had to mash buttons to fill/empty a ring in order to complete the submission process. However, not all of the changes are positive, with the most frustrating adjustment coming courtesy of a new submission system.
While fundamentally the same, the bar seen in previous titles has become a circle. The more damaged the participant is, the smaller the spot and more challenging the kick out. When pinned, you're presented with a golf-style minigame in which the aim is to press X while in the highlighted sweet spot. This prevents you from reversing every move that you attempt, and really helps to progress the back and forth gameplay that 2K15 worked so hard to produce. Equally, reversals are no longer a spammable option, instead being earned as a result of waiting for a bar on the HUD to fill segments.
