NBA 2K16 Available Today, Post Your Impressions Here

[FD247]

Re: NBA 2K16 Available Today, Post Your Impressions Here

Played with some of the historic teams. The t wolves were fun to play with garnett, cassell, and sprewell. It was only right to also try out the t mac, vince carter raptors.

Online play has been good so far but i wish there was a seperate search or lobby for tier 3 teams. Nobody picks them and i would like to see more matchups from those teams.

[fatleg3]

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Kobe can trigger some crazy free throw line dunks like it's 2002. They need to seriously chill with that.

Feels like they sped up the shooting releases overall.

They removed the face up drive.

MWP is done (so good to have him in the game already though).

Lot more zip to passing.

Players take smaller steps, improves the spacing a lot.

I believe the faceup drive is still there. Let go of L2 in the post to faceup. In rhythm with the faceup animation, move the LS in the direction you want to go while holding R2 to explode.

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[alabamarob]

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I believe the faceup drive is still there. Let go of L2 in the post to faceup. In rhythm with the faceup animation, move the LS in the direction you want to go while holding R2 to explode.

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On my way to freestyle practice right now.

[CDuff234]

Re: NBA 2K16 Available Today, Post Your Impressions Here

I believe the faceup drive is still there. Let go of L2 in the post to faceup. In rhythm with the faceup animation, move the LS in the direction you want to go while holding R2 to explode.

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I can't express enough how much I dislike them changing the passing this year. I loved the way we threw bounce passes and ally oops last year but now turning passing into 3 separate buttons is such a pain. Plus I liked how Triangle used to change from posting up to facing up but now we gotta hold down the L2 to change from facing the hoop to posting up.

I feel like these changes weren't necessary and things like lob passes could have been implemented better than creating it's own face button for it.

The controls are really the only thing I'm not a fan of about this game. Everything else is great.

[GoodOldMachine]

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When need to creat an exclusive Online Quick Match thread to talk about cheese and glitches and flaws. This mode is full of flaws that are destroying the SIM experience.

[GisherJohn24]

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I can't express enough how much I dislike them changing the passing this year. I loved the way we threw bounce passes and ally oops last year but now turning passing into 3 separate buttons is such a pain. Plus I liked how Triangle used to change from posting up to facing up but now we gotta hold down the L2 to change from facing the hoop to posting up.

I feel like these changes weren't necessary and things like lob passes could have been implemented better than creating it's own face button for it.

The controls are really the only thing I'm not a fan of about this game. Everything else is great.

Keep practicing. Took me a,day to get it down! I'm surprised, in the old 2k games they had alternate controls. Heck in 2k11 and 12 you could even disable shot stick and make the right stick for dribbling.

Why not now ? Hmmmm

[GisherJohn24]

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When need to creat an exclusive Online Quick Match thread to talk about cheese and glitches and flaws. This mode is full of flaws that are destroying the SIM experience.

Had a guy do 13 ally oops on me. It's all he did tho. Still beat em tho.

[Mos1ted]

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I wish lol. Here I'll quote the conversation with my wife.

Wife: "Jesus, your playing that game still?"

Me: "I'll turn it off so we can watch pretty little liars hun."

LOL

My wife and I had the same interaction yesterday. I literally played 2K16 all day yesterday, from sun up to sun down. I haven't done that with a video game since GRAW 2 first came out on the PS3.

[Blzer]

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Keep practicing. Took me a,day to get it down! I'm surprised, in the old 2k games they had alternate controls. Heck in 2k11 and 12 you could even disable shot stick and make the right stick for dribbling.

Why not now ? Hmmmm

I think I saw an option for it that you can. Let me check.

EDIT: Under Controller Settings, change the Pro Stick option (second from the top) to Dribble Moves.

[Blzer]

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Is there a profile somewhere that shows hours logged into the game? I always like those kinds of numbers. I see the V.I.P. screen, but it doesn't seem to show that many stats.

Also, I'm having trouble scoring in this game. I am using A&S's sliders right now, and I think people will mostly say "Up your sliders," but they're essentially the same in general. Anything I should be doing if I'm not running plays to get more open shots? I'm using the Warriors, by the way.

[Peter_OS]

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My owner must be suffering from an anxiety disorder.

[Thadon89]

Some issues that should be fixed is Stanley Johnson afro glitch , and Norman powell needs a cyberface and also can we get some petitions or something going so that we can be able to put tattoos on created players and as well as draft classes

[Erithtotl]

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Still struggling understanding the offense this year. It seems like both myself and the AI are struggling to get any kind of flow on offense, playing on All Star.

Controls are also a bit confusing and will take some getting used to. Like others not sure why they changed them.

Run into a few quibbles:

1) On MyCareer, when you are in college, your teammates don't really make you the center of the offense despite being 'the star'. As a shooting guard, I had to call for the ball constantly and run pick and rolls, because they wouldn't run plays for me.

2) *******SPOILER***********

Also in MyCareer your agent makes a big deal about how you will go #1 overall, then I went... 22nd. And nothing was made of it. There was no scene where I was disappointed, there was no reaction from my family or my agent. Really blew the immersion / film aspect they were going for.

3) I read a lot about how the myLeague / myGM AI was so much more sophisticated this year. So I took the Pacers, and shopped Monta Ellis on day 1. I got offered Derrick Favors and Andre Drummond (with filler on both sides), amongst others. I tried increasing the 'trade negotiation difficulty' and it did nothing. Somehow Monta Ellis' star rating is roughly the same as those players, which is utterly absurd. A broken trade is one where you know one team would take it in a heartbeat and the other would never consider it in a million years. Makes me wonder if myLeague is even going to be playable if those sorts of trades are possible.

[Hooperport]

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Good:

- This has easily got to be the best looking sports game on the market. The visuals are stunning, truly stunning. Lots of eye candy, new animations, the presentation is great, and there has been a much needed overhaul on the sideline characters, which in 2K15 could be weird and borderline scary.

- As far as I can see, we are rid of that annoying coach. I still hope there will be some kind of feedback from your team/staff. I'd still rather see him replaced than entirely removed, but the berating after scrimmages without any explanation is something I will NOT miss.

- The pre- and post game shows are back, and even though I sometimes skip them I like that they are there.

- Your teammate offensive AI is much improved. Now you can actually play without having everything going through you. There is still some poor movement though, and I have gotten many a "hold ball too long" because none of my teammates even attempts to move when covered. The rebounding is better but not great, and small guards can still pick rebounds out of big's hands.

Not so good:

The AI still cheats, the inhuman reaction time to loose balls is still there even if a little toned down, and they still hit 80-90% mid/long range and freethrows when you're on the court - even on ROOKIE (I had the Jazz hit 25 of 26 FTs on me). And while the CPU defense has gotten much better, your teammates are still pretty much useless. Just give us sliders in MyCareer and be done with it. I'm not entirely sure (well who am I kidding) that I would have preordered 2K16 i I knew that this wasn't fixed.

- The much hyped "Livin' da dream" is a huge letdown, you have no say in it, and none of your choices or even how you play matters at all. The story, while quite well written and acted is not very immersive (twins, come on) and a bit cliché and kinda predictable (Who didn't guess the exact outcome halfway through the story). I never identified with my character, the story is completely linear, and it doesn't shape the player you become when you enter the NBA. It could have branched out with you picking up something on the way, instead of all the scenes of bickering and and the typical movie conversations "do you remember that day Freq, when we were twelve, it was autumn, the sun was shining from a cloudless sky and the birds were singing and you wore the etc etc...".

The choice of which college you attended to should at least affect some different attributes or something (why did I read all those letters again?), now it's just a different jersey. I understand this may be a bigger deal to Americans though. You're still a FA after rookie season, but it's nice to be able to be a #1 pick in any case.

- I'm not an icon passer, and sometimes it feels like the AI "chooses" which player you pass to, in 2K15 you could hold the stick right and it would pass to the rightmost player, now it can very well pass to a player in the middle, or even backwards. It it probably an adjustment issue, but I for one find it less intuitive and it hampers my transition game.

- The camera shake option has to be the worst design decision of modern game development, and while I can turn it off for my freethrows, it still shakes when the CPU takes theirs. The camera shake is even on the jumbotron. If it'd only been a sort of simulate-stress-nuanced-sort of thing but this is just going full ******. Avoid if you have the slightest headache.

- I have set a secondary nickname, but the commentators ever so often refer to me as Freak, even on the post game show. Now, it may not matter as much to me as to others, but it's still silly and has a wider usage than we were told (that the nickname was only there for the story).

N/A:

- I couldn't find any camera setting for the practice sessions. Ended up playing scrimmage without being able to see where the ball was. There could be a setting I haven't found though.

- I really hope that there will be some sort of interaction system with the team/coach/GM, while you had very few options in 2K15, at least you had the opportunity to complain about a teammate and influence trades once in your career. Here I can see none so far, but I'm only 12 games into my second season. Hopefully I will have incentive to play out an entire career on this one.

[Peter_OS]

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I'm despising the interface (game menus etc..) for this game. Not liking it at all. This needs an overhaul imho.

- MyGM is too complex for my own liking. Prefer just to play a regular franchise and sim/play games through multiple seasons without the need to worry about team meetings, team chemistry, team morale, goals, etc..

Graphics and gameplay realism/likeness is incredible. 2K has done an amazing job on this part of the game. Kudos to the team who worked on this part of the game.