NBA 2K23 Impressions Thread (XBOX SERIES S/X & PS5)

[Gosens6]

Re: NBA 2K23 Early Impressions

I’m a simple man, This stuff opens the game up big time…

https://streamable.com/iozjj9

Yo that was a thing of beauty. It looks like we can finally get separation use triple threat moves?


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[The 24th Letter]

Re: NBA 2K23 Early Impressions

Yo that was a thing of beauty. It looks like we can finally get separation use triple threat moves?


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Yep a lot of quick moves to create separation, don’t always need a step back etc.

Face up game is still a bit difficult though

[VictorMG]

Re: NBA 2K23 Early Impressions

Yeap i believe so but this coming from the cg video i've been watching around, i'm not playing myself atm. But i can definitely see it right away believe me, it's not like 22, top of the key pnr are being well guarded as well as i've seen some middies get crowded as well, so you gotta play the angles as it should with any pnr.

Ofcourse we definitely need more evidence as well as i play it myself to see it.

And i like they gave us the new in game menus,too!!!

I can already see the movement is whole lot of tighter, too with cg.

But let's reserve my judgement for the next few days and after i get my hands on. Gotta be careful.

Which videos are you referring to? I want to check it out.

AIR, You’re going to have to show us how you’re dropping 20 in the 1st on HOF. Maybe your seeing something I can’t identify. This was what I saw after two conversions in the lane.

https://streamable.com/lq2g49

I don't know if it has anything to do with the fact that you're playing against the Bucks, 24th, and we don't know which team(s) AIRJ is/are playing against.


But then again, vann did mention that every modern team is set to 0 Help Defense. I'm not sure what's going on, really. Will keep an eye on this and hopefully contribute if I decide to get the game.

[The 24th Letter]

Re: NBA 2K23 Early Impressions

Which videos are you referring to? I want to check it out.



I don't know if it has anything to do with the fact that you're playing against the Bucks, 24th, and we don't know which team(s) AIRJ is/are playing against.


But then again, vann did mention that every modern team is set to 0 Help Defense. I'm not sure what's going on, really. Will keep an eye on this and hopefully contribute if I decide to get the game.

I actually chose the Bucks because he mentioned them specifically….That was my reason for using Jordan too

[AIRJ23]

Re: NBA 2K23 Early Impressions

Which videos are you referring to? I want to check it out.



I don't know if it has anything to do with the fact that you're playing against the Bucks, 24th, and we don't know which team(s) AIRJ is/are playing against.


But then again, vann did mention that every modern team is set to 0 Help Defense. I'm not sure what's going on, really. Will keep an eye on this and hopefully contribute if I decide to get the game.

I was actually playing against the modern bucks too.

I hope help defense can be adjusted manually in the roster editing section.

Yep a lot of quick moves to create separation, don’t always need a step back etc.

Face up game is still a bit difficult though

Shot timing is super late now (unless you adjust it). I like it. Will take some getting used to, but I always felt late timing feels more natural. 2K22 and previous felt you had to release before you hit the apex of the shot.

Go look at this thread and all Eccentrics testing in his signature. Great info for all sliders he has tested over the years.

https://forums.operationsports.com/f...explained.html

Argh, not seeing body up sensitivity in there unless I’m scanning too quickly.

[baconbits11]

Re: NBA 2K23 Early Impressions

Played two Jordan Challenge games and two NBA My Eras, here are my early observations:

+ Guarding players is better because no one can just hit shots while being guarded. It seemed in past 2Ks you could easily make shots while being guarded.

+ Jordan Challenge and eras filters and atmosphere are amazing, although the 80s and 90s eras can give you a headache after a while The historic feel of the floors arenas, and the players are incredible. I was impressed how many players rights 2K was able to acquire for these modes. I have yet to see a generic player in the four games I played.

+ Players are better skill defined. G'Town Ewing was tearing me up on the 1st Jordan Challenge. Meanwhile the 91 Bucks were no match for my Bulls. The 91 Sixers were a mixed bag, Manute Bol was dunking and blocking shots fiercely. Hawkins played pretty well, but overall both teams were overmatched. Can't wait to face the Lakers and Knicks!

3 pointers when made have a nice cut scene when it goes in on no doubters, nicely done and not overkill yet.

Only negative is I'm having trouble shooting wide open 3s. Maybe I need to play with the release setting (I have it on Late now, maybe I need to put it on early?

[VictorMG]

Re: NBA 2K23 Early Impressions

I'm not going to say a lot but I wanted to mention that we talked about dynamic adjustments in the blog. Unlike past years we don't have everything on 100 on the first possession.

The more you do the more the system "should" adjust. Like all things this is year one so it will have things it misses or adjustments that may not be 100% effective in changing user behavior.

So we are not bringing the house on drives and stuff until we see oh you can drive and score.

I understand the logic here, and I'm not trying to come at you or anything, but there are some teams who do go hard on defense from the jump. I think the Bucks are a good example of a team who commits hard to protecting the paint from the very beginning of the game until the final whistle. This opens them up as they notoriously give up tons of open threes, but that's mostly by design and a bullet they're willing to take.

Is there any chance we can see that replicated, maybe through patches or in future installments?

[RunRickyRun24]

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I’m a simple man, This stuff opens the game up big time…

https://streamable.com/iozjj9

The voice who says come get it sounds like doc rivers lol


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[VictorMG]

Re: NBA 2K23 Early Impressions

Playing my first 91 eras game and they’re HARD doubling Jordan. Something the modern era didn’t do at all in my brief quick games.

I wonder what's causing this. Some sort of hard-coded Jordan Rules? They talked about this last year I think, right?

EDIT: Just saw Czar mention it, my bad.

[ksuttonjr76]

Re: NBA 2K23 Early Impressions

Wait, so there’s no option to just press square and shoot this year? I don’t really like using the shot stick all that much

Oh! You can still use the button to shoot. Personally, I was just wanting to go back to 100% using the shot stick for all my shots. I used to until about NBA 2K18 or 2K19. During that time, the shots always felt delayed to me when transitioning into the shot from whatever dribbling or spot up situation when using the shot stick. I guess most people didn't notice it, but I could. I want to say that the delay happened during that grey area where the game is trying to determine if your stick input is for a dribble move or for an actual jumper.

[ksuttonjr76]

Re: NBA 2K23 Early Impressions

We have on ball defensive delay on the the AI. This gives them more human reaction times. This is not tuned overly tight. I could tighten that up and your lanes and drives would get much harder but that is not always fun getting stone-walled.

All my life...I had to wonder. I had to wonder if the AI was reading my button presses when I icon pass. Now, I know that I wasn't crazy, lol. Hopefully this minor adjustment carries over to the situations when icon passing is being used.

[ataman5]

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I’ve seen tons of fouls where I actually turned the shooting foul slider down a bit. Lol definitely getting fouls in a good way.

Oh man, awesome to hear, and also how are those fts, hopefully they are not automatic makes?

Which videos are you referring to? I want to check it out.

There is this one and some more but i got really mixed up for links and here in which you can clearly see that you gotta realistically play the pnrs now on CG and there is definitely a decision making whether you pull, drive or wait for the roll man as the hedge man does stuff now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxw8Ivx7T0s

[VictorMG]

Re: NBA 2K23 Early Impressions

Fouls looking VERY good on HoF.

Does that include the AI drawing fouls? Hopefully so, since they look to be *much* more aggressive off the bounce this year, which is great.

[vannwolfhawk]

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I understand the logic here, and I'm not trying to come at you or anything, but there are some teams who do go hard on defense from the jump. I think the Bucks are a good example of a team who commits hard to protecting the paint from the very beginning of the game until the final whistle. This opens them up as they notoriously give up tons of open threes, but that's mostly by design and a bullet they're willing to take.

Is there any chance we can see that replicated, maybe through patches or in future installments?

I bumped the Bucks up to 95 help defense and this is exactly what you got! They were helping immediately on the slightest step I had on the cpu. They gave up some 3’s because of it a few times though, but the help came fast. Once Czar tweaks and fixes that everyone will see more help. But I did just also test them at 75 and didn’t have as fast of reactions as 95. Trying to find the sweet spot for drive help. But I am only talking help defense for each team slider. Not the coach in game help d slider. I haven’t touched that one. I think that’s why it being at 0 I was seeing in videos the clear paths, etc…

[VictorMG]

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The pnr is great though! Hedge defender really stepping up to contain & stopping the ball on the drop coverage. I’ve had some really nice snake dribbles for some sweet mid range pulls with Chris Paul.

If you start lighting it up from the mid-range, do they adjust out of the drop coverage?