NBA 2K14 News Post

NBA 2K14 Feature List Revealed

07:00 PM - September 30, 2013 by JerzeyReign

Check out the new features for NBA 2K14.

Highlight Features:

Crews - The single-most requested game mode is back! Face off against opposing crews online using your MyPLAYER. Create your logo and face off in 5v5 battles with other crews featuring leaderboards and stats. (PS3 & Xbox 360 only)
Euroleague - Exclusive to NBA 2K14 - play with 14 of the top European teams, featuring authentic uniforms and players.
Dynamic Living Rosters� powered by Stats, Inc. - Player attributes and tendencies automatically update daily to reflect true life hot and cold streaks. Now, each game played in the NBA can have an effect on your game.
King James Soundtrack - Featuring artists and tracks hand-picked by LeBron James, including JAY Z, Eminem, The Black Keys, Daft Punk, and many more.
MyTEAM - Back and better than ever, with new player modes, multi and single player tournaments, and much more. (PS3 & Xbox 360 only)

Key Gameplay Features:

Pro Stick� � Throw down show-stopping moves, pull off intricate shots, and toss flashy no-look passes with deadly accuracy with Pro Stick control. Easily the most intuitive basketball controls ever implemented.
2K Smart Play Button �Quickly call the most suitable play for the context of the game by simply holding a single button.
Improved Player Motion System � With an all new motion system, player movement is much smoother on both ends of the floor, while also allowing for much more explosive cuts and tighter control.
Depth of Content � With significant upgrades in nearly every aspect of the game, both on and off the court, NBA 2K14 boasts more animation content than any previous basketball title, and includes more than 3000 new animations.

General Gameplay Improvements:

Signature Skills � Six new Signature Skills, ensuring each NBA player�s unique abilities are represented in the most authentic way possible.
Playbook and Play System enhancements � The deepest and most authentic playbook gets even deeper. Execute new half-court sets, experience improved spacing logic, and run updated team specific plays.
More Signature Styles - New jump shots, dunk and layup packages, dribble moves, free throws, pre-game intros, getbacks, celebrations and more.

Offensive Control Improvements:

Shot System Upgrades � More realistic footwork on jump shots, improved awareness in shot selection, and a variety of new shot types. Whether you use the new intuitive Pro Stick� or the enhanced Smart Shot Button, attacking the rim is now more exciting than ever.
Dribbling Advancements - Upgraded dribble movement and new branching technology give you much greater 1-to-1 control over the ball handler.
Enhanced Passing � More accurate pass targeting, new give and go mechanics, better handoffs, and an entire arsenal of new flashy passes.

Defensive Improvements:

Learning Defensive A.I. � Test your skills even further with new defensive AI that sees where the offense is being successful and adjusts strategy to take those advantages away.
Block Improvements � The block system has been completely revamped for NBA 2K14 with improved ball targeting and awareness, more realistic physics, and more responsive control. All new player collisions, the ability to block dunks, and more appropriate shot contests make playing defense much more fun and rewarding.
All New Ball Denial - No more getting stuck during off ball bumps and ball denial, allowing for complete freedom of control over your players away from the ball.
Enhanced dribbler vs. on-ball defender contact - Defenders can now initiate steals, hard bumps, and charges out of defensive rides, making locking up players on defense a much more engaging experience.
Expanded Defensive Commands � New commands using the right stick: including contesting shots, contesting passes, and denying or pressuring the ball.

Returning Features Include:

MyCAREER
The Association
The Association: Online
Training Camp
Season
Playoffs
Practice
NBA Blacktop
MyPLAYER Blacktop
Team Up

The NBA 2K14 King James Bonus Pack offers exclusive content featuring LeBron James. Customers who pre-order NBA 2K14 for the Xbox 360� games and entertainment system from Microsoft and PlayStation�3 computer entertainment system will receive the following:

10,000 Virtual Currency to get a jump start on the competition;
Extra content for the new Path to Greatness mode;
LeBron James unlocked in Blacktop Mode;
The all-new LeBron James Signature Skill available for your MyPlayer.

NBA 2K14 arrives in stores on October 1st for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC. Xbox One and PS4 versions arrive in November.

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# 41 Optik @ 08/14/13 08:33 PM

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	Dynamic Living Rosters� powered by Stats, Inc. - Player attributes and tendencies automatically update daily to reflect true life hot and cold streaks. Now, each game played in the NBA can have an effect on your game.

Good to see that 2K are finally stepping up their game in terms of speed of updating rosters. This is good for both ranked and online association players. Hopefully they will actually update players on MyTeam as well.

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	MyTEAM - Back and better than ever, with new player modes, multi and single player tournaments, and much more. (PS3 & Xbox 360 only)

Good to know that 2K is making their Ultimate Team mode more like EA's Ultimate Mode with online and offline tournaments.

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	Pro Stick™ – Throw down show-stopping moves, pull off intricate shots, and toss flashy no-look passes with deadly accuracy with Pro Stick control. Easily the most intuitive basketball controls ever implemented.

I'm guessing this is what Mike Wang was talking about when he talked about fully incorporating the control stick. Hopefully signature dribbling and signature moves like Kobe's stop, pivot and spin move and Rondo's dream shake return from 2K11. Also sounds like right stick passing has been given some work as it's hardly used currently.

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	2K Smart Play Button –Quickly call the most suitable play for the context of the game by simply holding a single button.

Not sure why this is needed. We already have something called "Run Best Play", by pressing right on the D-Pad and then LT, and it sucks. It's random and after a while the same five plays keep getting called. Simplifying this function to a button hold will not get casuals to start calling plays. Balanced gameplay will. If you have to actually respect the defense, it will actually cause you to think.

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	Improved Player Motion System – With an all new motion system, player movement is much smoother on both ends of the floor, while also allowing for much more explosive cuts and tighter control.

This is encouraging. Hopefully this will improve the Pick and Roll game, and the ball handler won't have to take so much time going round the pick. Good to hear about more explosive cuts. The ones in 2K13 are pretty tame.

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	Depth of Content – With significant upgrades in nearly every aspect of the game, both on and off the court, NBA 2K14 boasts more animation content than any previous basketball title, and includes more than 3000 new animations.

Always good to hear that there are thousands of new animations in the game. Where they are distributed though is important as that determines what is "favoured"/overpowered in the game. Hopefully we have a lot defensive animations, a lot for paint defense where shots animations in the paint are overpowered, and a lot for perimeter defense where contesting the 3 and containing the drive are harder than they should be.

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	Playbook and Play System enhancements – The deepest and most authentic playbook gets even deeper. Execute new half-court sets, experience improved spacing logic, and run updated team specific plays.

Always good to hear about the playbook being expanded. Really glad they've addressed the spacing. I wish they had mentioned something about inbound plays working from a timeout though.

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	Shot System Upgrades – More realistic footwork on jump shots, improved awareness in shot selection, and a variety of new shot types. Whether you use the new intuitive Pro Stick™ or the enhanced Smart Shot Button, attacking the rim is now more exciting than ever.

More realistic footwork on jumpshots hopefully means the end of the stopping on a dime after turboing and then just raising up which is a big problem online.

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	Enhanced Passing – More accurate pass targeting, new give and go mechanics, better handoffs, and an entire arsenal of new flashy passes.

Good to hear they addressed handoffs and interested in what they've done with the give and go, as the mechanics as they are now don't make it a useful option. I wish they had told us if they addressed the passing speed, which is the biggest problem with passing currently.

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	All New Ball Denial - No more getting stuck during off ball bumps and ball denial, allowing for complete freedom of control over your players away from the ball.

Not really sure what this feature is about. I assumed from the title that it meant you would now be able to deny a player the ball again, just like 2K11 and games before it, but this seems to be addressing a problem in 2K12, where it's so hard setting a pick in MyPlayer because of the suction from the defenders.

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	Enhanced dribbler vs. on-ball defender contact - Defenders can now initiate steals, hard bumps, and charges out of defensive rides, making locking up players on defense a much more engaging experience.

Great news. This is something which 2K13 looks really ugly at. I'm glad we'll be able to take charges out of defensive rides again like in 2K11/12. I'm sure you're already able to steal during defensive rides even if it's not as common as 2K12. Liking the idea of just hard bumping a player trying to just aggressively drive.

They need to fix up the warping though and the sliding, so contact actually means a collision.

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	[]Expanded Defensive Commands* – New commands using the right stick: including contesting shots, contesting passes, and denying or pressuring the ball.

We already have that but if they are adding controls for defense instead of just replacing them, I'll be happy.

# 42 guilhermeh95 @ 08/14/13 08:35 PM

The title here is sort of misleading. 2K posted this on Facebook as "current-gen features", so when they say "Crew and MyTEAM only on PS3 and X360" they certainly mean these modes aren't available for PC, but it doesn't say anything about next-gen (highly unlikely PS4 and X1 versions lack them). Also, next-gen exclusive features are a strong possibility, since there'd be no reason to post current and next-gen features separatedly if there were no differences.

# 43 jersez @ 08/14/13 08:38 PM

Okay now reading the gameplay stuff I'm hyped. SMDH and jerzeyreign

for being the first to post this.

# 44 LD2k @ 08/14/13 08:40 PM

Can't wait to share more details about the gameplay.

I'm very confident sim players are going to be extremely happy with the gameplay this year. Dev's looked at fan feedback and took everything into consideration.

This news should fill the appetite as we prepare to dive deeper in the coming weeks.

# 45 Caveman24 @ 08/14/13 08:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Reyes19


	Still got a month before its released. Plenty of time for them to release Association information. Lets jope

No that's it honestly lost the most buggy mode in 2k won. If they added crew and Euro league something had to be taken out. I'm being realistic about the situation.

# 46 volstopfan14 @ 08/14/13 08:42 PM

No Association changes for the 3rd year in a row. I may have to pass and wait for 2k15.

# 47 beast10 @ 08/14/13 08:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Illuminatos94


	Looks like the 2k Insider got fired.

or he just wasn't real

# 48 MagicFan4Life @ 08/14/13 08:43 PM

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Originally Posted by LD2k


	Can't wait to share more details about the gameplay. I'm very confident sim players are going to be extremely happy with the gameplay this year. Dev's looked at fan feedback and took everything into consideration. This news should fill the appetite as we prepare to dive deeper in the coming weeks.

Will you guys be talking next gen features any time soon? If you don't respond, then everyone is going to assume that 2K doesn't care about the gamers that are ONLY getting 2K14 on a next gen console.

# 49 Gramps91 @ 08/14/13 08:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Caveman24


	Well association guys we lost again.

indeed. It sucks!

# 50 Goffs @ 08/14/13 08:46 PM

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Originally Posted by LD2k


	Can't wait to share more details about the gameplay. I'm very confident sim players are going to be extremely happy with the gameplay this year. Dev's looked at fan feedback and took everything into consideration. This news should fill the appetite as we prepare to dive deeper in the coming weeks.

I'm not going to expect MyTeam and Crew to show up on the PC but can we please get customizable arena music. The PC is due for that!

I already have 360 preordered and I'm planning on getting the PS4 and PC versions as well!

# 51 EarvGotti @ 08/14/13 08:53 PM

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Originally Posted by JerzeyReign


	[center] []Enhanced dribbler vs. on-ball defender contact* - Defenders can now initiate steals, hard bumps, and charges out of defensive rides, making locking up players on defense a much more engaging experience.

# 52 NINJAK2 @ 08/14/13 08:58 PM

anyone know what they mean by getbacks? get back down court on defense?

# 53 Vni @ 08/14/13 08:59 PM

Yeah that's it. Stuffs that shooters do after they make a three for example. I guess that's what it is.

# 54 BluFu @ 08/14/13 09:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Caveman24


	Well association guys we lost again.

2015 guys!

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(dammit 2k at least lie about improving the goddamn mode)

# 55 RUFFNREADY @ 08/14/13 09:01 PM

What's the Risk / Reward factor? RISK: same old Crew cheese happening (just like in 2K11)(current-gen only); REWARD: Crew is Back!
cheers

# 56 Da_Czar @ 08/14/13 09:08 PM

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Originally Posted by BluFu


	2015 guys! ... .... ..... (dammit 2k at least lie about improving the goddamn mode)

ROTFLOL! SMH

# 57 J_Posse @ 08/14/13 09:09 PM

I'm excited to see all the updated and improved content for 2K14, even if some things weren't possibly looked at. Can't wait to see all the new signature styles and sig. skills added to the game.

I am wondering about the STATS inc. involvement in player ratings and tendencies. Do they actually track everything that players do like Synergy Sports (through video footage and stats) or will they be more statistics based editing? October and November (for next-gen) can't arrive soon enough.

from Spurs Nation/Bills Backer HQ

# 58 ggsimmonds @ 08/14/13 09:10 PM

Best news: Learning defensive AI. This could be huge as some form of adaptive AI. Could make games against the AI much much better

Bad news: Nothing on association. Can 2k at least fix the way coaches are handled?

# 59 ltylerj @ 08/14/13 09:15 PM

Signature Skills � Six new Signature Skills, ensuring each NBA player�s unique abilities are represented in the most authentic way possible.

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I want to know more about this. Does the Lebron James Signature skill count as one of the six with that being a preorder bonus?

Hopefully they tinkered with some of the other Signature skills as well. Some were overpowered while some were pretty underwhelming.

# 60 slimm44 @ 08/14/13 09:23 PM

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Originally Posted by thedream2k13


	NO MORE 2k INSIDER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm gonna guess this is one of the things Leftos wrote code for. He was able to develop a nice program last year that was able to automate stats. With the resources he has as a dev for 2k, the sky's the limit.

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