NBA Live 14 Has Arrived, Post Your Impressions Here

[ProfessaPackMan]

The lack of sliders is the disappointing part.

There's no way anyone can slice/spin that into some sort of positive or non-negative for this game because if they do believe, then they're got damn liar.

[Tomba]

Quote: Originally Posted by ProfessaPackMan

The lack of sliders is the disappointing part. There's no way anyone can slice/spin that into some sort of positive or non-negative for this game because if they do believe, then they're got damn liar.

You know me i love slider editing but for live to omit it this yr? totally made me doubt the development team

[jyoung]

I started playing Dynasty mode today and it's definitely where Live performs best.

Every team uses different pick and roll tactics and double teaming principles.

The tactics are also player-specific, as I noticed Marc Gasol was not drawing nearly as many double teams in the post as Zach Randolph was.

And my backup bigs Ed Davis and Kosta Koufos were rarely double teamed.

The problem is on offense, where the CPU teams all seem to have an affinity for pounding the ball in isolation from the low post.

I watched the CPU Spurs feed Tiago Splitter for post-ups against Gasol over and over again. Same deal for CPU Boston and big man Kelly Olynyk.

These guys are role players that should barely be getting any plays called for them. But the CPU loves to isolate its bigs in the low post for some reason, regardless of personnel.

The only CPU offense I've seen that resembled its real self was Golden State. They let Stephen Curry run dribble isos and pick and rolls against Mike Conley most of the game. They would even occasionally move Curry to shooting guard and have him come off staggered screens.

[tha_show256]

Quote: Originally Posted by jyoung

Seriously, it's a free basket every time you press Triangle regardless of the player you're using or how good the defender in front of you is. Even if you have the self discipline not to use the move, the CPU will still use it a ton to clip through your defense. The lack of charge calls or turnovers when players use this move in traffic is just unacceptable. I wish there was a way to disable the CPU from using the hop step/euro step. So cheap.

That's mainly what makes the demo unplayable for me...that hop step move is way too over easy to abuse. I read your earlier post about this and tried it. And I was highly disappointed to find out how correct you were...smh, I hope that they continue to make live, but, I can't see it going very far with a product so incomplete feeling and so blah looking.

[GisherJohn24]

Am I missing something? Where are the sliders?

[Gosens6]

Quote: Originally Posted by GisherJohn24

Am I missing something? Where are the sliders?

There are none.

[GisherJohn24]

[jyoung]

There are four difficulty settings (Rookie, Pro, All-Star, Superstar).

And you can change every coach's playing strategies if you want.

But that's it.