NBA 2K17 Features Improvements Across The Board, Here's 75 of Them

[iam31yearsold]

With the sound regarding rim and crowd...

Still more details to come. First audio news we got said they recorded crows, so maybe it will be in expanded details.

[Vni]

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No mention of authentic net sounds and why the arena specific lighting isn't mentionned anymore ? I wonder if it wasn't true.

[LorenzoDC]

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Huge. The hot zones control my offense and where i look for shots. When they are not done correctly it kills the realism on that side of the ball for me.

It was a huge issue as you progress through league years, because generated/created players end up with zones that really make no sense for their ratings/positions. I mean, why have lumbering bigs with F rating in mid and 3 get red zones out there on the perimeter? Or slashing offensive wings with all blue around the rim?

[iam31yearsold]

New controls not needed on lower levels means searching for SS and HOF online going to make them that real real.

[killu4what]

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Online settings: Exclude Warriors and Cavs

[downsouth]

Information presented like this is 10x better than teaser videos.

[cthurt]

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I'm a little confused so does 2k have some sort of global editing process with the rosters and created draft classes, I cant even fathom how all this can be done on one screen without going player to player.

[InRodWeTrust]

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As a MyLeague guy this got me super excited. The CBA expiring and rule changes would be crazy!

[trekfan]

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A lot to chew on here, but these jumped out at me:

• Dynamic uniform updates.
• Offseason trading that takes into account many pending factors for a team such as free agency plans, who the team plans to draft, etc.

Dynamic uniform updates mean that I won't be penalized for starting a MyLeague on Day 1 when certain uniforms won't be unlocked till Christmas.

I'm hoping this also means that we can have multiple created uniforms for a team rather than just two -- they didn't address whether expansion teams can have more than two uniforms, but this gives me hope that it's at least possible.

Offseason trading (like, legit offseason trading and not the ghettoed version I had to do at the end of the offseason at training camp time) is BIG -- a feature long since missing. I hope they completely reorganized the order of events in the offseason because it just didn't make sense in 2K16.

[Mike Lowe]

Thanks for the comments and feedback, guys! I will try and get to all questions here and on Twitter (@mikelowe_OS). I do have a day job I must attend to as well, so please be patient!

[Junior Moe]

Holy hell!! Damn! I honestly don't know what so say. As a ML fan I just don't know what to say. This is a lot to digest. Not seeing anything about NBDL/Euroleague is a bit of a bummer but that is literally the only thing and they more than made up for it, to me at least. I'll just run another Euro ML and now with the abiility to change rules it should be more authentic. Also curious about the wording "commentator". Like is Shaq, Kenny and Ernie only doing their show or will they like be calling games now too? I really want them to flesh out the pre, post and especially halftime show some.

[Mauer4MVP]

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My biggest question is surrounding this feature:

Dynamic rule changes. For instance, league meetings will occur during the offseason. An extreme example would be the league voting on using a sudden death OT rule change--first bucket wins. Extreme cases such as this are very rare, we were told. More common would be changes to the shot clock timer, back clock timer, etc.
Eventually, every few years, your league's CBA will eventually expire, and then you'll see big changes to the finances within your league. This is a quite unique feature, and something typically only seen in rare sport text simulations such as Out of the Park Baseball's "random league evolution."

Don't get my wrong, it sounds amazing. But I'm just wondering if we can override those changes or make the changes ourselves. I suppose if you control every team you probably vote for every team?

[LorenzoDC]

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I'm a little confused so does 2k have some sort of global editing process with the rosters and created draft classes, I cant even fathom how all this can be done on one screen without going player to player.

I can think of a couple of ways. For example:

• set %'s of players by position as proportion of draft class
• set relative strength of each position by draft class
• Screens of players (by position?) that allow you to edit across the screen like a spreadsheet for attributes/tendencies/etc. without entering an individual player edit screen

There are other possibilities, but these are options. You can get more granular on a player based level, but with this kind of architecture, you could create classes that are stronger, weaker, deeper at some positions, more athletic, more skilled, more youth & potential versus polish and lower risk. And so on.

[brent3419]

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All this new stuff has me soooo hyped

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[LorenzoDC]

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Holy hell!! Damn! I honestly don't know what so say. As a ML fan I just don't know what to say. This is a lot to digest. Not seeing anything about NBDL/Euroleague is a bit of a bummer but that is literally the only thing and they more than made up for it, to me at least. I'll just run another Euro ML and now with the abiility to change rules it should be more authentic. Also curious about the wording "commentator". Like is Shaq, Kenny and Ernie only doing their show or will they like be calling games now too? I really want them to flesh out the pre, post and especially halftime show some.

Yeah, no mention of D-league or draft & stash, but that doesn't mean it's not there in some form. Maybe not playable, but it could be there in some fashion.