I am not a fan of the ground game in this one either. Something under the hood was changed and now its very difficult to do anything against a higher stat fighter in grappling. I almost feel like im just trying to survive most of the time.
Its the denial windows. They are Non-existent, expecially when you factor in the slightest input delay online. Becomes basically a done deal.
I'm good at stuffing TD's mostly. TD's from Clinch are more difficult, but the grapple denial window changes take place there and it becomes a near impossibility.
I love the game overall. But it needs a lot of work to round out and become what it should be.