NBA Live 14 Patch Wish List thread

[WTF]

Alright guys, EASPORTS_AJ found some straggling posts in other threads, about what we'd like to see implemented in NBA Live 14 moving forward, as well as for future iterations of the game. I know nick had a Live 14 Wish List, but lets make a fresh start, and look forward to the coming patch(es).

This is what I want to do here. I'm listing a few things out below, some of you may or may not have these on your "lists", but I wanted to give a few items that I feel are off. Rank your list IN ORDER of priority.

This isn't to say that any of it will make it into an update, but I do want to have OS's voice heard, and would like to have it as organized as possible for EA's Community to see what is the most important to US.

Starting it out:
-Practice Mode (Free Practice, open gym)
-Tutorial Mode (Show you the ropes, dribbling, post moves, defense)

-Player Editor
*Accessories/Shoes/Gear/Attributes/Sig Shots/Dunks/Attributes

-Sliders
*Self Explanatory-We all play the game a different way, and see the sport in a different manner. One size doesn't fit all. The ability to customize it is needed.

-Roster Editor
*Ability to change starting lineups, minute allocation, bench depth, etc.
*The ability to SAVE the Rosters LOCALLY

-FOULS
*The # of fouls needs to be increased. I actually shot 16 last night in a game, however the opponent had only 4. This number could be increasing during the Synergy updates, unsure.

-Graphics/Animations
Ranges from Player Animations to Player textures and Player Model Builds. Need additional variety.

If I see comments that aren't constructive and/or on topic, Immediate Bans can and will be handed out. This isn't a topic to troll in.

Again, this is a list of things that you want addressed in a potential patch. Be realistic. It's a patch, Rome wasn't built overnight

[El_Poopador]

Re: NBA Live 14 Patch Wish List thread

agreed with pretty much everything you pointed out.

1. practice area and tutorial mode is a must, including an area to choose a player and freestyle (ie just run around the gym and dribble shoot or whatever just to get used to the controls)

2. sliders

3. fix the hop step

4. tune ai to take advantage of user mistakes (ie if i decide to leave a man back court to cherry pick be aware that someone is open and capitalize).

4a. tune ai to have clock awareness. too many times ive seen the cpu dribble out the clock at the end of the quarter

5. smoother more fluid player movement. would definitely like to see a more explosive first step from some players

6. roster editor and player editor

i also made a lengthy post in another thread referring to commentary. i can repost that here if needed but it was more or less referring to maintaining the focus on the court and being aware when a player is having a big game or big quarter (lebron putting up 16 points in 2 minutes).

[JoeDog10]

Re: NBA Live 14 Patch Wish List thread

1) Decrease the points in the paint.

2) Make it so that we can defend in the post. It's near impossible to "body up" a defender without them just going right through you.

3) Tone down the blocks.

4) More fouls. Even with fouls set to 100, I should be seeing about twice as many as I am now.

[DonWuan]

Re: NBA Live 14 Patch Wish List thread

Get rid of basketball bouncing noise.
More collision everywhere, especially the post.
Less made contact baskets. Decrease in focus on 3pt shots, increase in mid range game.
Roster/player editor.

Something needs to be done on all animations around the basket. Some are just horrible.

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[nick_sr]

Re: NBA Live 14 Patch Wish List thread

create player/game face. not a my player guy

sliders

practice mode

fix your teammates ai in rising star. too much standing around

fix the schedule (year 2) in dynasty mode. teams don't play 15 games at home or go on 15 game road trips

fix the fast breaks

advance stats. we live in a generation of it

get rid of the player shoe color matching the alternate jersey color smh

patch in the moda center

add fast break points to the game stats

btw, i'm at level 25 and have yet to see the cpu call a time out even when I go on 10+ point runs

show award winners/injuries in dynasty. that espn news thing is a joke!

[WackyD321]

Re: NBA Live 14 Patch Wish List thread

Dynasty Co-Op and let us control all teams so there aren't CPU trading/free agent signings/releasing players/etc when playing with updated rosters. Had the same problem with NBA Live 10. Or at least give us an option to turn those off

[loadleft]

Re: NBA Live 14 Patch Wish List thread

1A. CPU needs to call timeouts during the whole game not just the last 2 minutes of the game.

1B. Adjustable Camera angles, and more camera angles, the current end to end ones seem so far away from the action it feels like I can barely see the players at times. Also the end to end camera suffer from frame rate issues on occasion

2. MORE FOULS, a lot MORE

3. Larger contact patch between colliding bodies

4. Practice/ Tutorial mode

[P-Dub]

Re: NBA Live 14 Patch Wish List thread

1. Increase specific player movement/animation input response:

• When controlling a player without the ball and using the left stick to move from a stand still or changing direction on both offense and defense. General movement on both offense and defense has an exaggerated delay. Players often take 3-4 steps to stop before changing direction when it should just be 1-2 and a pivot depending on player speed, weight, inertia, and sprint button usage.
• Especially during turning animations.
• When pressing and not pressing the Sprint button. It should have a quicker acceleration to full speed but slower direction changes and more exaggerated pivots, while not using sprint should cover less ground but have quicker direction changes.
• Right stick defensive slides and lateral defensive movement. Increase response to balance out offensive movement.
• CPU moves to a position and the delay/momentum/inertia takes them out of bounds when receiving a pass. Improving the response/tightening the direction changes should stop this from occurring.
• Passing/receiving ball player animations. Increase these should help balance out the defense that already recovers too fast due to the length of time between ball path/receiving animations and the receivers initial movement.
• When using hands up. Let us move our player when we initiate this animation.

----I believe increasing that response time will also improve online play.

2. CPU AI / Synergy intelligence

• There are plenty of plays to run, but the game tends to run the same 2-3 plays over and over again, with the AI unable to recognize that you are playing the passing lane telegraphing passes(offball player should be improving position to receive pass or the play should have an option).
• Needs to use "money" plays for late game situations.
• Bug fixes for shot clock violations- cpu losing by a small amount of points dribbles the clock out; double team on post player before backdown animation with defender is initiated results in player attempting to initiate the backdown animation for the duration of the shot clock until a violation.
• Recognition of open opportunities when a defender loses their assignment off ball( like staying in the backcourt)

3. Bug fixes

• Usually a small forward or power forward thinks they are on the other team and will move behind the baseline attempting to be the inbounder when the other team is inbouding the ball. That same player may get stuck in an AI loop or in an animation somewhere on the court as well. Possibly localized to Rising Star mode.
• In Rising Star, after simulating until substituted, the commentators will think that every three pointer is from the other side of the court.

4. Options/Sliders

• Instead of a static accelerated clock, give us a dynamic accelerated clock with the option for the amount of actual minutes we want each quarter to be while still retaining a 12 minute game-clock length.

• Sliders -
  • Freethrows(allow a range rather than static number)
  • Steals(on-ball/passes)
  • Blocks
  • Bouncetek
  • Offensive/defensive rebounding and tips
  • Contact frequency
  • Game speed(overall)
  • AI reaction time
  • Pass speed(allow range from slowest pass to fastest)
  • Post hooks
  • Layups
  • Dunks
  • 3's
  • Leaners
  • Drifters
  • Fallaways
  • Contested shots
  • Contact shots
  • Off dribble shots
  • Catch and shoot shots
  • Defensive contest ability effect
  • Perimeter on-ball defense
  • Pick and Roll defense
  • Help defense off-ball rotation
  • Double team effectiveness(cause bad passes, affect shots, easier to strip ball)
  
  

5. Camera fixes/additions

• Improve/add dampers and viscosity to smooth camera transitions when the ball is moving between players or bouncing off the rim an backboard. Could especially improve replays as the camera jumps around during dribbling and other actions when the ball is a target.
• Allow height(pitch-adjusted)/distance/zoom customization to the current cameras.

All I could think of right now.

[louie dogs]

Re: NBA Live 14 Patch Wish List thread

But exist an official patch for nba live? There is an improvement for gameplay? i read that EA release a patch with many graphic and many gameplay improvement, this patch already release? Sorry for bad english

[louie dogs]

Re: NBA Live 14 Patch Wish List thread

1. needs to improve a lot graphically
2. some movements are to be remade, as for example the blocks
3. must solve various bugs such as the fact that I do not see the patterns on the floor
4. must give the option of being able to always see the name of who carries the ball

[nron]

Re: NBA Live 14 Patch Wish List thread

I would love to see them patch in some in-game injuries. Nothing major, maybe 2 or 3 different ones. And they could build on it for next years game.

[Tha_Kid]

Re: NBA Live 14 Patch Wish List thread

A fix for losing ultimate team fantasy match up games due to being disconnected from EA Servers. At least don't treat it as a loss with the loss of contracts.

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[The 24th Letter]

NBA Live 14 Patch Wish List thread

Great post by P-Dub...really good post..

Ill add: tune the dunk/layup animation start up logic around the rim...players shouldn't be pulling up for jump shots as close to the basket as they do..

also, please remove the motion shifting by the CPU to stay in front of driving players...

[Tha_Kid]

Re: NBA Live 14 Patch Wish List thread

A clear indicator of what ratings changes occur with each update. Similar to what is in Fifa.

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[alexthegreat]

Re: NBA Live 14 Patch Wish List thread

Allow us to change camera angles during online play.