Man... how important ARE badges?

[splashmountain]

Re: Man... how important ARE badges?

So I don't have a TON of time to play... wife with a night job, two kids, my own job... and I don't have much time to grind. But the last few nights I've gone to the Park and gotten absolutely SMASHED... I'm an 89 center with like 6 badges, and I've run into low 90s guys with 20, 25 badges, and I've struggled to do anything against them. It's been just brutal. Not sure if it has just been a few rough nights in a row, or if I'm starting to see the gap of badges, which will only get worse as people get more and I don't.

Thoughts?

let me guess. you are running into rebounding defenders or defending rebounders? big giant size guys running around with guard speed. making you blow layup after layup even when you are in great position to score and they are out of position. lol. welcome to 2k20. you can get all the badges you want. unless you're a post scorer and badged up. it wont matter much. the defender badges are beyond OP this year.

[awg811]

Re: Man... how important ARE badges?

Badges are stupid hard to get too.
I’m a PF, I average 50 points 25 Rebounds, 10-12 assists, 5 blocks, and 2 steals per game. Yet I have like 8 badges at 92 Overall.
My overall goes up but my badges barely move.



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[Lordash31]

Re: Man... how important ARE badges?

let me guess. you are running into rebounding defenders or defending rebounders? big giant size guys running around with guard speed. making you blow layup after layup even when you are in great position to score and they are out of position. lol. welcome to 2k20. you can get all the badges you want. unless you're a post scorer and badged up. it wont matter much. the defender badges are beyond OP this year.

Yep, spot on.

[HoustonHarden]

Re: Man... how important ARE badges?

Badges are stupid hard to get too.
I’m a PF, I average 50 points 25 Rebounds, 10-12 assists, 5 blocks, and 2 steals per game. Yet I have like 8 badges at 92 Overall.
My overall goes up but my badges barely move.



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game stats dont matter. Mycareer practice mode after every game is the badge builder. I have a 74 overall defensive rebounding center and 5 badges just from practice mode alone.

[franzis]

Re: Man... how important ARE badges?

When introduced badges were a good idea and still are as far as nba players are concerned.
They belong to the all the "signature" concept that has been one of the trademark of 2k franchise.

But in the case of myplaye/park/rec, they were the beginning of the arcade trasformation of those modes, unlocking unstoppable moves/animations and making the balance nightmare.

Now the trasformation is quite complete, as you can even change badges between games, which is nice but makes ZERO sense from a sim/bb/realistic standpoint

[Mortiis]

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It's interesting to me that I always feel like the game plays best in the first few days, before anyone gets badges...

exactly this!!!

[jaebonez34]

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I honestly feel like 2k configured the game to suit all the people that stream the game on youtube, twitch, etc, basically all the "influencers" And the people with "real" jobs and responsibilities are just left to the side unfortunately. There's no way I can work an 8 hour shift, come home and spend some quality time with my family and be able to grind for these badges and rating. I'm able to get maybe 3-4 hours of gameplay (if I'm lucky) in before I have to take my *** to bed so I'm not the walking dead the next morning lol. And the kids/teens (or whoever) that can just stay at home all day and stream the game have the advantage. Also this pay to win bull kills me, the game hasn't been out but maybe 2 or 3 weeks and there are already 96's running around the neighborhood. So you telling me I have to spend close to $200 (that doesn't include the $60 for the game itself!!!) just to be able to compete online at the park initially. And every mycareer game feels the same, with each team almost playing identical. I don't know man but it's very frustrating right now, I actually gave serious thought to going back to nba 2k19 last night. I'm just not having fun, might be time to move on from 2k.......oh wait there's not another pro game out there. Anybody else feel me or am I just tripping?!?

[Lordash31]

Re: Man... how important ARE badges?

I honestly feel like 2k configured the game to suit all the people that stream the game on youtube, twitch, etc, basically all the "influencers" And the people with "real" jobs and responsibilities are just left to the side unfortunately. There's no way I can work an 8 hour shift, come home and spend some quality time with my family and be able to grind for these badges and rating. I'm able to get maybe 3-4 hours of gameplay (if I'm lucky) in before I have to take my *** to bed so I'm not the walking dead the next morning lol. And the kids/teens (or whoever) that can just stay at home all day and stream the game have the advantage. Also this pay to win bull kills me, the game hasn't been out but maybe 2 or 3 weeks and there are already 96's running around the neighborhood. So you telling me I have to spend close to $200 (that doesn't include the $60 for the game itself!!!) just to be able to compete online at the park initially. And every mycareer game feels the same, with each team almost playing identical. I don't know man but it's very frustrating right now, I actually gave serious thought to going back to nba 2k19 last night. I'm just not having fun, might be time to move on from 2k.......oh wait there's not another pro game out there. Anybody else feel me or am I just tripping?!?

Dude, I am RIGHT there with you. I considered going back to 2k19, and also ditching basketball completely and getting my game fix with Red Dead. It's ****ing sad... I've been playing 2k for YEARS, and I feel like I am sort of done with it

[Iasounis]

Re: Man... how important ARE badges?

I honestly feel like 2k configured the game to suit all the people that stream the game on youtube, twitch, etc, basically all the "influencers" And the people with "real" jobs and responsibilities are just left to the side unfortunately. There's no way I can work an 8 hour shift, come home and spend some quality time with my family and be able to grind for these badges and rating. I'm able to get maybe 3-4 hours of gameplay (if I'm lucky) in before I have to take my *** to bed so I'm not the walking dead the next morning lol. And the kids/teens (or whoever) that can just stay at home all day and stream the game have the advantage. Also this pay to win bull kills me, the game hasn't been out but maybe 2 or 3 weeks and there are already 96's running around the neighborhood. So you telling me I have to spend close to $200 (that doesn't include the $60 for the game itself!!!) just to be able to compete online at the park initially. And every mycareer game feels the same, with each team almost playing identical. I don't know man but it's very frustrating right now, I actually gave serious thought to going back to nba 2k19 last night. I'm just not having fun, might be time to move on from 2k.......oh wait there's not another pro game out there. Anybody else feel me or am I just tripping?!?

Honestly, 3-4 hours per day is plenty. How quickly do you want all of your badges?

[ImInThis]

Re: Man... how important ARE badges?

I wish I could nominate this as the post of the year so far.

This whole badge thing has gotten out of hand. Not only do we have 6,000 badges but each badge has 4 separate tiers! ...And one thing I noticed (not sure it was in there last year) but badges do change the overall... for example I was going through and editing all the players using quick edit, specifically to get rid of most of the badges for players that dont deserve them... As I was editing Tobias Harris' badges, his rating dropped 2 points smh

This let's me know that 2K is badge heavy. They should only create badges that a player can not get in the ratings.

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Do badges really boost your overall? So if skill points are maxed you still won't reach 99 until you got all your badges maxed?

[triplechin]

Re: Man... how important ARE badges?

Badges are stupid. There are so many stupid ones that already overlap with ratings or things that can be done in an easier way. A couple of them make sense but overall they are terribly implemented. I really want a sim mode without them because the devs clearly cant balance ratings + badges combo

Not to mention they dont even tell us what the badges actually do. The fact that 2klabs exists shows how stupid all of these factors are. Same deal with jumpshots.

[ruxpinke]

Re: Man... how important ARE badges?

Honestly, 3-4 hours per day is plenty. How quickly do you want all of your badges?

I’m in a similar boat and I’m lucky to get 4 hours in a week lol, it’s rough this year.


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[jyoung]

Re: Man... how important ARE badges?

Honestly, 3-4 hours per day is plenty. How quickly do you want all of your badges?

You might finally max out 1 character by February if that's all you're playing.

The badges take way too long to unlock this year. This is the longest that it's ever taken in 2K history.

You'd think that it'd make the most business sense to shorten the badge grind since people creating more characters = more VC spent. But 2K went in the exact opposite direction this year. I don't even want to make a second character knowing how long it's going to take to get his badges. I've played 50+ MyCareer games and I'm not even halfway done with my first guy.

I hate that game design in general across the entire landscape of videogames has gone in this direction.

Getting good at a videogame used to only involve becoming better at playing it, and learning/mastering advanced techniques. Now most games are like 2K where it's just about repeating the same tedious AI exploits over and over to make some dumb progress bars inch their way up.

[Optimus James]

Re: Man... how important ARE badges?

I wouldn't mind them scrapping badges on PS5 2k21 and focus more on hot zones and individual endencies

[RobotRosKO]

Re: Man... how important ARE badges?

I always up the defense and rebounding badges on the 80s Pistons squad. Otherwise they lose every game because their offense stinks. So only offense matters when it comes to getting W's for the cpu.

Side Note:People hate the confidence meter in Mlb the show but without it, it would be like 2k:Most Cpu vs Cpu series are usually a sweep or 4-1. Never 4-3 and rarely 4-2. So nba2k needs to add something so games between the same matchups don't always give SAME RESULT. So Mlb the Show has it right when it comes to series, you do see 4 games to 3, 4-2...or regular season series a split, a sweep, a 2-1 both ways.

Sorry if confusing but sure someone gets it. So 2k can fix this crap.