NBA 2K21 Patch 1.02 Available - Pro Stick Shot Aiming Adjustments, Gameplay Tweaks & More - Patch Notes Here

[hall31]

Re: NBA 2K21 Patch 1.02 Available - Pro Stick Shot Aiming Adjustments, Gameplay Tweak

How about the fix the issue affecting thousands of players who still have not received their pre-order bonuses and Mamba Edition content? They keep pumping out patches and hot fixes, but are ignoring those players when they follow-up on their tickets.

[ch46647]

Re: NBA 2K21 Patch 1.02 Available - Pro Stick Shot Aiming Adjustments, Gameplay Tweak

Are players still gliding back & forth while standing still when waiting to receive inbound passes?

Are players still sliding into position to receive passes without moving their feet?

Unfortunately, yes. Clearly they haven’t been able to nail down the movement in current gen.

Really hoping movement makes a monumental leap in two months on next-gen. That’s the #1 issue holding this game back from being great.

[ChaseB]

Re: NBA 2K21 Patch Notes (9-14)

Uh-oooooh...what happened Chase?

Basically they re-balanced things in such a way where, on one level it's nice that the clean screen options are now the best. But on the other hand, metered aiming is harder in bad ways (speed of movement on stick and less reason to pull straight down) and now no meter aiming is super easy since you just pull straight down and that's it every time.

So you have no-meter aiming being very easy and then button no meter also being much easier, so there's no reason to really even have the meter on in general, and the no-meter aiming is arguably just broken and easy to make 100 percent of your shots if you just mildly cheat at a top level.

Again, I was a big fan of metered aiming to start things out, but 2K sort of has done that thing again where they over-corrected early while players were bad and had bad ratings, and now they're throwing the balance off on all four options.

(All of this still comes back to green releases being the core issue, but they also just borked up balancing in a general sense.)

[SlapShotSal]

Ugh!!! I'm hoping you guys are just moaning and what I'm reading is not the case. I'm new to series after only a month plus with 2K20. Have taken since day 1 learning the stick and finally feeling like I know what the heck I'm doing. Went from 20% shooting on All-Star to high 40's and having fun playing close games against CPU. Hopefully I'm not back to square 1.

[jeebs9]

Re: NBA 2K21 Patch Notes (9-14)

#CleanScreenGang we are almost there but the job is not finished. Now we must focus our attention on disabling 1) the takeover icons, 2) cold rhythym indicator 3) injured player indicator. We can do it gang.

Preach brother preach!

We don't need a HUD. We just want to ball.

[Deadspace Saturn]

Mike Wang, 

Please update Kobe’s face in the game. He looks terrible. Bring back the 2k14 Kobe face. Its a shame you guys have him on the cover of the mamba forever edition yet he looks like crap.

Also, why are fade-aways so complicated to trigger?It should be a simple press leftstick away from the basket and press shoot button, but no, you guys love to complicate things. Every time i try to do a fade-away the player does a freaking hop back jumpshot instead. Smh.

Also, fix the team stats Rebounding glitch. The team stats always shows more offensive rebounds than the amount that actually happened in game. If you go to the individual player stats at the end of a game and all of the offensive rebounds you will see what i mean. This has been a glitch since 2k20.

Why are charging fouls non existent? Why does the cpu rarely ever fall for pumpfakes? They should fall for pumpfakes a bit more often at least on the three point line. 

[Deadspace Saturn]

And add all of the offensive rebounds *

[Docthreat]

Does anybody have a quick fix for loss of control during my player games. I was fine until second quarter and now I can’t control my player at all. The AI has taken over. It’s making plays and scoring, so there’s no complaint there lol. I’ve tried restarting my controller but it hasn’t worked.

[tc020791]

Re: NBA 2K21 Patch Notes (9-14)

I think it would be helpful if people noted the difficulty they play on because this stuff can heavily vary.

Default all star.

[PrynceKee]

Re: NBA 2K21 Patch Notes (9-14)

Basically they re-balanced things in such a way where, on one level it's nice that the clean screen options are now the best. But on the other hand, metered aiming is harder in bad ways (speed of movement on stick and less reason to pull straight down) and now no meter aiming is super easy since you just pull straight down and that's it every time.

So you have no-meter aiming being very easy and then button no meter also being much easier, so there's no reason to really even have the meter on in general, and the no-meter aiming is arguably just broken and easy to make 100 percent of your shots if you just mildly cheat at a top level.

Again, I was a big fan of metered aiming to start things out, but 2K sort of has done that thing again where they over-corrected early while players were bad and had bad ratings, and now they're throwing the balance off on all four options.

(All of this still comes back to green releases being the core issue, but they also just borked up balancing in a general sense.)

Just when I was getting use to the meter shot aiming they go and do this. Having to now pull the stick back at a certain speed to get meter on the side you want and then aim is just horrible. 2k just has no idea what they’re doing with shooting this year. I’ll try with no meter, but I’d that’s true you can aim straight down with it off no matter the speed of the pullback, I have nothing to say...

[ChaseB]

Re: NBA 2K21 Patch Notes (9-14)

Just when I was getting use to the meter shot aiming they go and do this. Having to now pull the stick back at a certain speed to get meter on the side you want and then aim is just horrible. 2k just has no idea what they’re doing with shooting this year. I’ll try with no meter, but I’d that’s true you can aim straight down with it off no matter the speed of the pullback, I have nothing to say...

I am more just curious why pulling straight down couldn't be a general standard and then just having to adjust left or right a bit like it more or less was before. That seems much more logical than the speed at which you pull the stick down, especially because the issues to me were more the meter size being too small and fades/leaners being fundamentally easier to hit more because you had more time in the air than anything else.

However, we already had the "bonus" for timing with the trigger as well so I'm not sure why the balance buffs happened in the order that they did. Again, I'm just not sure why the "speed" that you pull the stick down should really be some decider here when that's far more difficult to nail down both from a tuning perspective (slow, medium fast with so little space to move the stick down anyway) rather than sticking with cardinal directions as the base way to center yourself and make macro/micro adjustments from there.

(Ignoring that no-meter is just flat out easier now than meter anyway)

[The 24th Letter]

Re: NBA 2K21 Patch 1.02 Available - Pro Stick Shot Aiming Adjustments, Gameplay Tweak

FWIW, Today's adjustments didn't actually create the imbalance you may be seeing in YouTube or Twitter videos. Non meter users aren't suddenly hitting 100% of their jumpers. I'm not sure what is triggering that in practice.

I get that its a tough rollout though, especially for people who are just now learning and adapting to the meter. It had me a bit annoyed this morning, I typed up and deleted a long post about it, lol.

Maybe I can show it better than I can say it and record it in practice tommorow. It actually allows you to tailor aiming a bit more to your game and eliminate some guesswork.

[COMMISSIONERHBK9]

Re: NBA 2K21 Patch 1.02 Available - Pro Stick Shot Aiming Adjustments, Gameplay Tweak

wish i could try out this patch. still nothing on pc this is like im beyond words now. i been bit##in about shooting and now we got a patch but i cant even try it cuz the patch isnt on pc yet

[2_headedmonster]

Re: NBA 2K21 Patch 1.02 Available - Pro Stick Shot Aiming Adjustments, Gameplay Tweak

Anyone else feel like shooting is easier?

[ChaseB]

Re: NBA 2K21 Patch 1.02 Available - Pro Stick Shot Aiming Adjustments, Gameplay Tweak

Anyone else feel like shooting is easier?

Depends which version you're using. What are you using?