NBA 2k18 Impressions Thread

[meccs]

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I think it's ridiculous that you have green releases that bounce on the rim, up on the backboard and then go in and then you have terrible high contest releases that bounce 3 times on the rim and then fall off. It also seems every half court shot hits the rim somehow.
Green releases should be perfect releases and nothing but net for the most part and if someone does a terrible shots there should be air balls left and right.

[NYSports1]

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Can any xbox one s users let me know if there is stuttering or fps drops when there is a made basket in broadcast or action under the rim. I feel it most times and it is bugging me right now...

[The 24th Letter]

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I like how effective floaters are this year...they nailed it..

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[cam21224]

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Westbrook flopping *** 😔

https://youtu.be/XVs_ZPSsUBQ

Well maybe Durant just can't help himself

https://youtu.be/3EBt1dLIUWA

[Bootzilla]

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Early on my only issues (vs the cpu) were with non shooters taking and making 3's with confidence (players with D and F grades). I had Kidd-Gilchrist go 4 for 7 against me when he only TOOK 9 three's for the entire year last year making 1.

My other issue was with centers getting too many rebounds. Too many 20 plus rebound games.

Both of these issues get magnified when the cpu is in catch up mode.

Despite calling timeouts and switching coverages etc, when the cpu decides to start hitting 3's they seem to get a speed boost, pass accuracy boost, and a shooting accuracy boost. Your cpu teammates forget how to defend and leave players wide open or get stonewalled on screens.

On the rebounding end, during cpu catch up mode, even when you make the adjustment to crash the defensive boards it doesn't matter. Played the weak rebounding Celtics and Al Horford gets 6 offensive rebounds in the first 4 minutes of the 3rd qtr against a good rebounding OKC with Adams boxing out. Horford averages 6.8 rebounds a game. But in catch up mode he can get six offensive rebounds in 4 minutes. The cpu decided it was going quickly erase my 12 point halftime lead.

Seems now that there were some under the hood adjustments and now shooting percentages are way up for me and the cpu. Small sample size and I hope it's not the case because shooting percentages were pretty good.

[youngfaze01]

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I believe this game needs to be rebuilt from scratch. Like go back to day one, even if they had to do what the other game did, & just take a whole year off to fix EVERYTHING. Every year I feel 2k is masking a broken game with more & more issues. They make little tweaks here & there to make the game seem a tad bit better, but it's not where it's destined to be. The movement is a lot better than before but it doesn't mean that it is great. It never was, atleast for a long time it hasn't. There is still a feel of restriction & forced movements that defies the game of basketball. I still don't feel FREE when I'm moving. When driving to the basket, I feel like I'm stuck in one direction. There's alterations in step & direction in real basketball. I should be able to run in circles repeatedly dribbling a basketball, why can't I do it in 2k? My player's back is turned away from the basket/defender in many instances and it's frustrating. The game isn't "animation-free" as promised either. I hope others can relate because I'd hope no one would settle for less in anything that requires money to come out your pockets. Please fix this game inside & out. Hoping for the best.

[GloGangJay]

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I believe this game needs to be rebuilt from scratch. Like go back to day one, even if they had to do what the other game did, & just take a whole year off to fix EVERYTHING. Every year I feel 2k is masking a broken game with more & more issues. They make little tweaks here & there to make the game seem a tad bit better, but it's not where it's destined to be. The movement is a lot better than before but it doesn't mean that it is great. It never was, atleast for a long time it hasn't. There is still a feel of restriction & forced movements that defies the game of basketball. I still don't feel FREE when I'm moving. When driving to the basket, I feel like I'm stuck in one direction. There's alterations in step & direction in real basketball. I should be able to run in circles repeatedly dribbling a basketball, why can't I do it in 2k? My player's back is turned away from the basket/defender in many instances and it's frustrating. I hope others can relate because I'd hope no one would settle for less in anything that requires money to come out your pockets. Please fix this game inside & out. Hoping for the best.

Game feels more repetitive and less responsive each and every year. It is time for an entirely new gameplay engine

[GloGangJay]

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^^^ and don't get me wrong, gameplay is really good. Especially with slider adjustments. Just saying, it doesn't feel leaps and bounds different or better than any other 2k I've played on this generation. It's time for a fresh experience. They've reached their peak with this particular gameplay engine

[coolcras7]

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I believe this game needs to be rebuilt from scratch. Like go back to day one, even if they had to do what the other game did, & just take a whole year off to fix EVERYTHING. Every year I feel 2k is masking a broken game with more & more issues. They make little tweaks here & there to make the game seem a tad bit better, but it's not where it's destined to be. The movement is a lot better than before but it doesn't mean that it is great. It never was, atleast for a long time it hasn't. There is still a feel of restriction & forced movements that defies the game of basketball. I still don't feel FREE when I'm moving. When driving to the basket, I feel like I'm stuck in one direction. There's alterations in step & direction in real basketball. I should be able to run in circles repeatedly dribbling a basketball, why can't I do it in 2k? My player's back is turned away from the basket/defender in many instances and it's frustrating. The game isn't "animation-free" as promised either. I hope others can relate because I'd hope no one would settle for less in anything that requires money to come out your pockets. Please fix this game inside & out. Hoping for the best.

2k never said the game was animation free, no game can claim that, every movement on the screen is a animation.

[youngfaze01]

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2k never said the game was animation free, no game can claim that, every movement on the screen is a animation.

That's correct, mistakenly, that's not what I meant.

[fakeassc]

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Well, let's read this gameplay blog before 2K18 was released.

Spoiler

The first thing we looked at after we wrapped NBA 2K17 was movement. From the original NBA 2K until NBA 2K17, we’ve always had an “animation-driven” motion system. So the feel of the game was largely dictated by the types of animations we captured and which animations fired off for a given input or context. This approach has served us well over the years but has also presented some significant challenges as well. Player differential, precise & consistent movement, general responsiveness, and an “animation-heavy” feel were some of those challenges in past games. Sometimes you’d want to take a step to the side but end up taking two. Sometimes your player would explode on a first step, sometimes he’d slowly ramp up depending on which animation triggered. Sometimes a slower player could gain an advantage against a faster player just because he had a favorable animation. These were the kinds of problems we knew we wanted to address this year.

Some of our top engineers spent the entire dev cycle working on a new motion engine and it turned out to be a huge game changer. To put it simply, movement is no longer driven by animations in NBA 2K18. Now, the stick input and a player’s attributes are the sole components driving how your character moves around the court. This gave us the ability to control exactly how quickly a given player can accelerate, decelerate, cut, and turn, as well as his speeds for different states (walking, running, shuffling, sprinting, etc.) simply based on his attributes. The new motion engine then takes this data and dynamically finds and stitches together the animations it needs, in real time, to animate the character. Nothing is canned, nothing pre-determined, everything is done on the fly. The results are night and day and something you’ll notice as soon as you pick up the sticks this year. Movement with and without the ball is way more consistent and predictable, which impacts the play on the court in just about every facet on both offense and defense. We’ve even implemented new movement sliders, so you guys can customize acceleration and speed of the ball handler or offball players if you prefer a quicker or slower paced game.

In fact, if I had to pick one word to describe what we wanted to achieve from a high-level with gameplay this year, it would be: FEEL. It started with movement but we also took a hard look at every aspect of the on-court play and did our best to fix any issues we could find in which the gamer felt out of control or that his player was doing something he didn’t ask for. For the most part, it was cleaning up legacy issues, plugging holes in some of our features, and adding polish. But I think 2K vets will notice the difference this year and appreciate how far we’ve come in one short year to put the control back in your hands.

"To put it simply, movement is no longer driven by animations in NBA 2K18"

[The 24th Letter]

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Which is still an entirely different quote than 'the game is animation free'

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[Smirkin Dirk]

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I think the best thing is the flow you can generate on offense. You can dribble drive and kick out, get buy defenders closing out, kick to the corner again. It just feels more open.

[lilteapot]

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So far I'm having more fun with the Proam walkon mode than any other mode. get lots of vc if you win.

[Dione2014]

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I wish 2K would work on getting the percentages correct on open shots vs contested ones vs smothered. It's much too black and white. I know curry is curry, but it's still silly to see the man hit every open shot then hit the front of the rim when a defender gets in the area.

These players are not gods! they don't make anywhere near every open look. I'd say a good shooter depending on what kind of season he's having shoots about 38-50 percent on open looks (6 feet open), and a normal contested shot (2-4 feet closest defender) it drops at most 10 percent, which is a lot in basketball, but that would mean he's hitting them at a mid 30 percent clip. That's on the low side but 35 percent of anything is very noticeable. I just feel like 2K never gets this right. I don't know weather they're trying to keep casuals happy, or if they just don't care. Lol! I care!

Here's the numbers for anyone who cares

http://stats.nba.com/players/shots-closest-defender/?Season=2016-17&SeasonType=Regular%20Season&CloseDefDistRange=2-4%20Feet%20-%20Tight