NBA 2K10 Patch #2 Available For 360 & PS3, Post Impressions Here

[questlove76]

Re: NBA 2K10 Patch #2 Available For 360 & PS3, Post Impressions Here

It happens in franchise, not the other modes. I haven't had time to play any franchise games since.

Can't be true. I only played My Player so far (only owned this game about a month) and the second I got the patch I have big men taking at least a half dozen to a dozen 3s everytime they kick out. Without fail. So it isn't limited to franchise and association. Makes the game less fun because you can't follow logical actions you would take under certain situations because it's an automatic turnover now. (except Bynum banked in a 3 once).

[spankdatazz22]

Re: NBA 2K10 Patch #2 Available For 360 & PS3, Post Impressions Here

But it's not an overreaction when someone has spent hundreds of hours playing their association only to have 2k break the game. The workaround doesn't work unless you throw away those hundreds of hours of play and start over. Then you have to turn off a feature of the game or you still get the bug.

Yep, we will have to agree to disagree. As I said, the patch 2 issues suck for guys like JBH who have long running Associations or long running My Player modes since the issue affects both from what I've read. I've always enjoyed people's detailed accounts of how their franchise or created player experiences are progressing. For those people I would think it is frustrating to see a big man take a 3pt shot he shouldn't be taking. But have some perspective. I'd think it does take away from some of the experience/immersiveness of playing those modes. But I have a hard time labeling them as completely broken, pretty much disregarding everything else the game does well. Or very well. It's not like 2K purposely set out to screw something up that already worked decently. Or that the issue stands out in such a way that it would've been easy to detect.

For the people willing to start fresh in Association/My Player, imo both modes overall are done well enough to where I don't see turning off player roles and team chemistry as completely ruining the experience. And now the patch gets blamed for pretty much everything, as if the game is supposed to be perfect. I think someone last week heard an announcer call a player's name wrong and thought that was a bug. Just saying there needs to be perspective. I'm not saying the patch is all good because obviously it's not. But it's not all bad either. I was trying to point out that it actually did up the ante in terms of enjoyment for certain things. But I've seen many people crying that they weren't getting the patch fast enough, then crying that the game is now ruined because of it's issues. Just saying there needs to be some perspective to what the game is as a whole, what these game modes are as a whole instead of trying to say they're now worthless because of whatever issue.



Yes, it would suck to have to start a new Association or My Player if a person has already sunk a lot of time into theirs

[BobbyColtrane]

Re: NBA 2K10 Patch #2 Available For 360 & PS3, Post Impressions Here

I cant stress enough how important it is to use rosters & sliders w/minimal changes w/the 2nd patch. I was having a terrible experience until i reset the rosters on a whim. I was using a roster made by one of the more popular roster
makers on this site.

Since i started over w/pared's sliders and a 2k roster with a few ratings/appearance changes, the gameplay w this latest patch has been stellar.

[Kully]

Re: NBA 2K10 Patch #2 Available For 360 & PS3, Post Impressions Here

Spank, I see your reasoning, I'm not here to disagree. But that specific issue can't be fixed in My Player since you cannot turn off player roles in that mode. Restarting that mode won't fix anything.

Just wanted to pass that along.

[BroMontana82]

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For the people willing to start fresh in Association/My Player, imo both modes overall are done well enough to where I don't see turning off player roles and team chemistry as completely ruining the experience.

Yes, it would suck to have to start a new Association or My Player if a person has already sunk a lot of time into theirs

i had no problem starting over fresh and turning these things off but like i said above, turning these things off created new unforeseen issues in the association mode after finding out "workarounds" that are pretty frustrating. i just wish there was some way to pick specific patches or have them as DLC or something like that so everyone could pick their own poison and be more happy.

[MikeJ2021]

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Seems like with this game I'm constantly find myself having to debate whether I want good gameplay or good/realistic stats. If I want good gameplay and a good association experience with this 2nd patch then I shouldn't worry about the 3pt Big Man Stat glitch.

However if I wanted realistic stats I need to turn player roles and team chemistry off. The day 2K cares about gameplay and stats equally will be the day they make the perfect NBA 2K game....

[Chi Town Boss]

Re: NBA 2K10 Patch #2 Available For 360 & PS3, Post Impressions Here

I seriously cant understand how anyone thinks the CPU plays better after the 2nd patch, I cant be the only one to notice that they continously pass the ball to whoever is moving toward the basket, now they rarely will score off the forced passes if a defender is around the reciever of the pass cause the CPU will not go up with it, so im cool with that, but in real life those passes would never be attempted, players would normally pull up or pass the ball to a spot up shooter, not a person cutting to the basket around 3 defenders.


Dont mean to exaggerate, but this is almost at the level of a game killer for me cause the 1st patch had the CPU playing realistic on Pro and Hall Of Fame (All Star and Superstar had the forced passes after the 1st patch), now no matter what the difficulty the CPU never makes the right decision when the defense rotates to take away their lane, you will NEVER see a pass being thrown to a cutter running right towards the defense in real life, the cutter has to have a lane for the ballhandler to even consider passing him the rock. No disrespect, but I think a lot of you guys are lying about less online cheezing post patch 2 and lying about the CPU playing better post patch 2, can somebody please show me footage of the CPU not forcing passes to the paint, all I have to see is 5 posessions cause when I play the game there is a forced dumb pass on every single posession, help me out fellas.

[Brandwin]

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I deleted any my 2K10 saves and was going to start from fresh, when I play I don't get an update to download a patch. The 2K servers are down and maybe that's the reason I wasn't prompted to download the patch?

[spankdatazz22]

Re: NBA 2K10 Patch #2 Available For 360 & PS3, Post Impressions Here

Spank, I see your reasoning, I'm not here to disagree. But that specific issue can't be fixed in My Player since you cannot turn off player roles in that mode. Restarting that mode won't fix anything.

Just wanted to pass that along.

np, I respect guys like you and sambf12's views as to the merits of the patch. But then you have those that were complaining incessantly even after patch 1 and will casually throw around the broken/gamekiller labels. I'm looking at the game as a whole, not limiting it to one aspect of the game. To me the game is a lot more than just the My Player mode, or more than just the Association mode. Just as I'd say it's one thing for the simulated stats for top scorers/rebounders/assists/blocks etc. to be within reason but equate the big men 3pt attempts issue to them all, I just don't get. Again, I haven't seen the issue personally so I'm not speaking from a position of frustration. I just don't get the whole throw the baby out w/the bath water, this one thing sucks so it all sucks sort of mentality.

[BobbyColtrane]

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I deleted any my 2K10 saves and was going to start from fresh, when I play I don't get an update to download a patch. The 2K servers are down and maybe that's the reason I wasn't prompted to download the patch?

Did u clear your cache? You have to do that to erase any patches.

[Brandwin]

Re: NBA 2K10 Patch #2 Available For 360 & PS3, Post Impressions Here

Okay. I want the patches. So I should still have them still even though I deleted everything else 2K10?

[BroMontana82]

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np, I respect guys like you and sambf12's views as to the merits of the patch. But then you have those that were complaining incessantly even after patch 1 and will casually throw around the broken/gamekiller labels. I'm looking at the game as a whole, not limiting it to one aspect of the game. To me the game is a lot more than just the My Player mode, or more than just the Association mode. Just as I'd say it's one thing for the simulated stats for top scorers/rebounders/assists/blocks etc. to be within reason but equate the big men 3pt attempts issue to them all, I just don't get. Again, I haven't seen the issue personally so I'm not speaking from a position of frustration. I just don't get the whole throw the baby out w/the bath water, this one thing sucks so it all sucks sort of mentality.

yeah i hear you on that. i've come to expect problems when games are on a 1 year dev. cycle and when patches are the norm. i've just gone with my own workarounds and those found by people on here like only allowing CPU trading for a few weeks to get some variety and trade block going. i just turn it off after players have moved around.

[donkey33]

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Just out of curiosity, is there a way to transfer a patch from one hard drive to another via a memory card?

My 20GB hard drive had 2k10 on it with only patch one. Since I upgrade to an elite, I obviously don't have it anymore. I will test the latest patch first but in case it doesn't suit me, wonder if I can bring the patch to the elite hard drive which would take me back to patch one.

[Pared]

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Can't be true. I only played My Player so far (only owned this game about a month) and the second I got the patch I have big men taking at least a half dozen to a dozen 3s everytime they kick out. Without fail. So it isn't limited to franchise and association. Makes the game less fun because you can't follow logical actions you would take under certain situations because it's an automatic turnover now. (except Bynum banked in a 3 once).

You're 100% right as well. Meant to say those two modes. Most of the "regular" 5 on 5 bball game modes don't see it.

[jeebs9]

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yeah i hear you on that. i've come to expect problems when games are on a 1 year dev. cycle and when patches are the norm. i've just gone with my own workarounds and those found by people on here like only allowing CPU trading for a few weeks to get some variety and trade block going. i just turn it off after players have moved around.

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