NBA 2K18 Offensive Tendencies, AI Execution & Motion Blog From Da_Czar

[CX1329]

Re: NBA 2K18 Offensive Tendencies, AI Execution & Motion Blog From Da_Czar

It seems like players will finally run into position during plays instead of just casually jogging! I can't stress enough how happy I am that this legacy issue has been fixed.

Also, I loved reading about Flow Tech. It was so easy to shut down some plays in 2K17 because of how predictable they were, and the AI couldn't score against me from them unless my defender got caught in a long screen animation and couldn't close out in time. Well, it appears that will no longer be the case, and gone are the days of predictable AI.

[Rip4ever]

Re: NBA 2K18 Offensive Tendencies, AI Execution & Motion Blog From Da_Czar

One thing that I wanted to include in the blog but it just slipped my mind was another new tendency called play-discipline.

Depending on the tempo setting each AI team has a time range where they stop just moving the ball and the begin to look for a shot. A player with a low play discipline tendency will disregard the coaches tempo desires and look to score when they have the ball.

Neat little addition that I think we can expand upon in the future.

Awesome, so we can count on Nick Young and JR Smith to be more like their shot chucking selves.

[youvalss]

Re: NBA 2K18 Offensive Tendencies, AI Execution & Motion Blog From Da_Czar

And the pull up animation was buttery smooth. I was sick of being slid/dragged forward 4 foot so an open 3 became a contested 2. That looks gone...maybe, based off that clip.

True. The Shot Stick has become more and more the Animation Stick - you pull the stick and you can't be sure how fast your player would take a shot. It might just go back to being the Shot Stick, at last, this year.

[eko718]

Re: NBA 2K18 Offensive Tendencies, AI Execution & Motion Blog From Da_Czar

Czar, got a question. Is flow tech also tendency and ratings based? Or is it driven by the play type and all counter options are available to all players regardless of ratings?

[MarkWilliam]

Re: NBA 2K18 Offensive Tendencies, AI Execution & Motion Blog From Da_Czar

All this information....Can't process it fast enough...System Overload

10/10 for this GIF. I literally laughed out loud.

I will have some substance posts.....its just that.....I'm still....just.... umm.... (see above).

[Da_Czar]

Re: NBA 2K18 Offensive Tendencies, AI Execution & Motion Blog From Da_Czar

Will this fix the CPU making players cut to the basket even though they are great shooters that are wide open? I just lost a game because wide open Paul George cut to a crowded paint when he was open from 3 in the corner and by the time the pass got to him it got tipped.

The AI needs to recognize who they are (e.g. someone like Redick knows he's a 45% 3pt shooter) and also the context of the floor. The above scenario happens far to often, of the AI blindly cutting to the paint when they are open in the perimeter, ignoring the fact that there are 3-4 teammates and opposing players standing in the paint already clogging it. It makes floor spacing so difficult when trying to pass as a ball handler

If the spot-up shot 3 tendency is high enough the player will not cut. If it is low he will. If it is in the middle he is 50-50


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[Da_Czar]

Re: NBA 2K18 Offensive Tendencies, AI Execution & Motion Blog From Da_Czar

Anything different in the post up game? Do the bigs have their own sets of tendencies? Face up, back down, Shaq move outta the way tendency?

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Ha. Nothing tendency wise but Zach really beefed up the post game this year.


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[renome]

Damn.. that was overwhelming in the best way.. still processing hehe

[syncinatti]

We also reduced a value in code that had the AI attempting to reduce long 2 point shots by stepping back to shoot a three. This caused users to become frustrated with the AI stepping back when wide open, and then being too well defended to get a shot off in time.


THIS !!!!!!!

[Da_Czar]

Re: NBA 2K18 Offensive Tendencies, AI Execution & Motion Blog From Da_Czar

Will flow tech work in MyLeague/MyGM and MyCareer once you advance to future years?

Yes. Flow tech is not something that get's turned off as it were. The classic teams plays dont have it but if you are using current team plays in your My whatever mode it will be on.

As I said some actions have a lot of counters and some have none. It depends on the speed of the other actions. If we can get you open with the default actions were not going to stack a bunch of useless stuff on just so it is there.

The general motion has improved enough that it is not as easy to see everything coming.


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[antdoggydogg]

Re: NBA 2K18 Offensive Tendencies, AI Execution & Motion Blog From Da_Czar

Wow. The different in the new motion system is incredible. They look alive, and they aren't standing around waiting for their next instruction for that particular play anymore.

[antdoggydogg]

Re: NBA 2K18 Offensive Tendencies, AI Execution & Motion Blog From Da_Czar

Czar, quick question that I hope you can elaborate on. When it comes to the Pace that teams play at during games, what dictates that? Is it based off the Coach's offensive system? Is each franchise hard coded to play at a certain pace based off last year or something else?

Great work on the game!

[GuwopGeezus]

Thanks Czar! I was just confused by the wording that flow tech "will only work on current teams". This is great news tho. Thanks for all of your work.

[Impetuous65]

Re: NBA 2K18 Offensive Tendencies, AI Execution & Motion Blog From Da_Czar

delete Msg

[harryl]

Re: NBA 2K18 Offensive Tendencies, AI Execution & Motion Blog From Da_Czar

When you get to menu's and those decisions I really have very to do with how they look and what is included. So I don't have any good answers for you. My main concern was getting it back to buttons since so many of you disliked the Rstick for subs.


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Thanks for taking the time to reply, anyhow.

The issue of Stamina indicators in subbing menus is odd and discordant: no indication in the in-game menu, color gradient approximation in timeout menu, and precise number in pause menu.

Unless 2K has some philosophic reason for the variation, it would be best for players for this to be uniform and precise: numeric display of Stamina in all menus.

Also, and I know this is not possible at this point, but for the in-game sub menu, there's a problem that one cannot sub out a player on the floor for someone else on the floor. Only guys on the bench.

I think it's not possible, without calling timeout, to do something like shift C to PF and vice-versa. Have to stop the game and burn a timeout.