Official 2k13 Wishlist Thread

[unc_kobw]

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I have read a few threads about improvements to associations, but no one has really been specific about online associations. I'm the type of person that gets tired of playing a game real quickly unless I have a bunch of friends to play with me. I have lived on online dynasties on NCAA Football games for the past few years and now finally NBA 2k12 came out with an online association, which I think was a great step going forward.

There were a few things about the online associations that really got me aggravated though.

*Not being able to download a draft class for an upcoming season is something that definitely needs to be put in the game next year. I wanted to see players like Anthony Davis, Harrison Barnes, Thomas Robinson, etc. Not unknown players who no one really cares about.

*Commissioners/Creaters of an online association should be able to manually advance by day or by week. I'm sick of the time limit. A lot of times I've been unable to keep an online association active because of the slow advance times. Let there be an option to have it advance every so many hours or manually advance it when ever you want to.

*If we offer a trade, please don't wait 6 advances before we find out if it is going to go through or not. Either say yes or no, so we can move on with other deals. Also, if a trade is accepted, don't make me wait 24 hrs for the trade to go through. Just give me the player so I dont have to wait on them to play some of my games.

*Stop making the CPU offer some of the dumbest trades in the world. If you are the Chicago Bulls, why would you trade Noah or Deng for someone like Kyle Lowry who is just going to sit the bench behind Derrick Rose. That makes no sense.

*Contracts. I won't trade for about anyone that doesn't have at least four years on their contract before you start an association. The CPU makes the dumbest signings ever. They would will give a 75 overall player the contract the size of Derrick Rose's contract. They have no money management what so ever.

*Trade finder. Okay so every now and then a good trade will come up, but more often than not trade finder will throw some of the most unreasonable trades ever. I'm not going to trade you Dwight Howard for a pick and a one star player so don't even throw that stupid offer out there.

*Free Agency/Players Resigning is unrealistic. Lebron James has NEVER resigned with a team and he will NEVER in his entire life sign with someone like the Milwaukee Bucks. Play for a winner means nothing for any player. I could go undefeated, with the MVP with Lebron, Defensive Player of the Year, NBA Title, and him being the Finals MVP and he would still leave me to resign with someone else offering the same amount of money I am. Play for a winner needs more emphasis and loyalty doesn't need to mean as much.

*Last thing I can think of is the fanasty draft. I wish it would let the creator pick the order of the draft. Sometimes I want everyone to start with a dominant player so I will give users all the highest picks, while other times I want users to picks toward the back, so we won't have a dominate player like Lebron and Durant.

[blues rocker]

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a few more things I remembered:

1. This is a weird glitch I've noticed - sometimes right after the the opposing team scores and you're bringing the ball up the court, the icons for icon passing don't work. You'll hit the bumper to bring up the pass icons, but they just don't pop up. When this glitch happens, you usually have to wait about 5 seconds for pass icons to start working again. ( I only use the 2k cam, so I don't know if this happens on other camera angles or if it's somehow tied to the 2k cam).

2. Another specific thing related to how the ball handler moves when you control him - changing direction with the ball handler also feels a bit off compared to 2k11. Like if you are trying to move in an arcing path (like when moving around a pick) the ball handler will often awkwardly plant his feet and pause rather than being able to smoothly move in an arcing path. If I recall, this type of movement felt a little smoother and more responsive in 2k11.

3. Regarding passing - there should be more variety to where the passer places the ball - meaning the passer should place the ball out ahead of the receiver more often when the defenders are behind the receiver, in order to create a better passing angle. I have noticed that in 2k12 passes are usually thrown slightly behind the receiver, which causes him to kind of reach backwards to catch it. There should be more "lob ahead" passes where the receiver has to outstretch and reach forward with one hand to collect the ball in front of him. Obviously the placement of the pass (behind or ahead) would have to be contextually smart and would be determined by where is best for avoiding interception.

[IpodKingCarter]

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[IpodKingCarter]

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NBA 2K11 Crew - @2KSports Bringing Back Crew Mode To NBA 2K13 & Adding New Features

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[Jakeness23]

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Player movement is in definite need of some improvement. Obviously clipping, sliding, morphing, etc. need to be removed as much as possible.

Shots need to be improved, a lot of them don't look right, especially when you are creating a jump shot. Most players are taught from a young age to have their feet squared to the basket and to keep their elbows in. On a lot of the free throws, the players elbows aren't in (Sessions, Wade, LeBron, Rose, etc.) and in create a shot, a lot of the shots end up to where a player is shooting sideways, in some cases at a 90 degree angle.

The speed issue, that should have been addressed in a patch, HAS to be fixed, it's ridiculous to have centers keeping up with point guards.

Size of the court needs to be widened and made a little longer, that could help the spacing issues.


Give the players somewhat of a brain, especially your team AI, as is, the are almost complete idiots.

[kmiree16]

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Get rid of the psychic awareness the opposing CPU has. Not only as it relates to how they tip and react to passes without looking, but also with their reaction times. There's no time in between my action and their reactions. They don't have to anticipate. Any time there's a pass made, a shot attempted, a dribble move done, etc, they already know exactly where the offensive player is going and what he is going to do.

Also, tone down the aggressiveness of the opposing CPU on defense. The CPU never has defensive lapses or gives up on plays. Every player on the CPU's team is running from the other side of the floor trying to block shots. Their rotations are always perfect, and even the worst of defensive teams play defense like the 2008 Celtics, The pick and roll defense is crazy. They cheat the screens all the time and you can't shoot over them because of how quickly they recover.

Another thing, fix the live ball physics. This bouncing the ball off of people's feet stuff needs to go. How many times to you see this in the NBA? Very rarely. Besides, I have yet to see the CPU do this. They can crossover on a pick and roll and not lose control of the ball.

One last thing, when players are knocked down on jump shots, there should be a foul called. I'm tired of seeing two CPU defenders knocking me down on a jump shot and no foul being called. I've even gotten injured on the play and no foul is called. Maybe flagrants could be added as well. Hopefully Stern won't be uptight about it.

[youvalss]

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Some presentation ideas:

- Show refs wearing jackets before the game, warming up a bit and then taking the jackets off.

- Also, more interaction between refs and players (players talking to the ref closely, apprach the ref during timeouts etc.). Hey, this is the NBA, the refs are the real Allstars in this league.

- Show some of the city, not just the arena. Let's have the commentators talking about the nice/horrible weather outside.

- Let's have the color commentary guy (whoever it is this year) showing a play that happened a moment ago, pausing the replay, drawing lines/circles, explaining what the play was about.

[Eman5805]

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I am loathe to post this link but it really highlights a big, big, big problem.

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Easiest way to fix this is to make turbo be something to runs out WAY faster for a guy like Oden vs someone with 93 speed and 99 quickness. Unless you do the push ahead animation, just no differentiation between the fast ball handlers and sprinting centers.

[dfonseca89]

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I would like the option to watch a game my friends are playing. When the playoffs come around and we're too far away from each other I would like to be able to watch them face-off against one another as if I'm watching an actual game. With the ability to switch views from "in the crowd" to the standard 2k views. Maybe even be able to comment at the half? It would almost work how the espn app works on xbox live where you and your friends can watch a sporting event at the same time and pick what team you want to win. Also you could invite your friends to watch you play a game.

There should also be a "tape room" where I can watch replay of an entire game I played against a friend and can review mistakes and fix my style of play.

[RimRattler11]

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Here is an in-depth look at what im talking about

Create a Team:
1)Uniforms
A. Jerseys
- users can write the name of the team on the jersey rather than just having to put a symbol on it
a) as a side note make it like word art where you can have a variety of word designs on the jersey
- users can also customize the jersey design instead of always having to pick the same 12 different designs or you could add more designs
- users can choose what type of material their jerseys are made of too e.g. ( 09-10 Denver Nuggets Jerseys compared to the 09-10 Boston Celtics Jerseys, or the choice of the new jerseys the teams are wearing now )
- another thing would be to allow the number correspond with the type of word design use, and allow it so that the number color will affect the front of the jersey as well as the back, i was a little upset that that happened in 2k11
B. Warm-ups
- along with the jersey design, users should also be able to design the teams own warm-up attire (they dont have to look the same as the rest of the league)
a) words can be on the warm-up jersey as well and the word art feature can still apply ( There can be different designs for the front and back of the warm-up jersey )
- users can also choose between having their shooting shirts be either Jackets, long-sleeve or short sleeve or all three
- all this stuff should also apply to the warm-up pants as well
C. Practice Jerseys
- I think that it would also be cool if that created team would also have practice jerseys
- Most of the stuff that applies to the regular jerseys can apply to the practice ones
2)Team Courts
A. Flooring
- users can choose the type of flooring for their team ( Magic court design compared to Cavs court design)
- also the ability to choose the tint of that courts' design ( the wizards court is a different tint than the lakers court )
B. Design
- users have the ability to change a courts design so that not all courts look the same
* just as another side note allow it so that you can also name the court
3)Practice gyms
A. This feature can really apply to not just created teams but teams currently in the NBA
B. This feature should also be as creative when it comes to designing it as it was with the actual game courts
C. Oh, and dont stop there, take us even further and have us build weight rooms and locker rooms and give the players actual emotions as if we really were in a NBA practice gym

*One more thing before i stop talking about this, allow it so that there isnt a limit on how many teams you can create please

Here are some ideas for Create a player:

1) Names:
- I know that its probably a real frustrating thing to look up all those thousands of names so im not going to get on your case about it, but it could be expanded a little more
2) The Randomize face option:
- If POSSIBLE, please please please have the computer randomize the face so that the created player actually looks human instead of some non human looking person
- and if you can do this allow it so that the face corresponds with the persons ethnicity, i once randomized a black guys face and he turned out looking asian, please fix it
3) New feature: Jumpshot creator
- not everyone shoots like kobe or lebron or J.J. Redick so this feature would be really tight
- with this feature, users would be able to
* determine how high they want their player to throw the ball when shooting
* how high their player will jump
* they can create their very own Shooting form that is detailed down to how they want their player to look when its getting ready to shoot
- the same should hold for Free throws as well

Pre-game gameplay:
1) Warm-Up shots before a game
- before any game being played, whether its quick game, association, my player etc. While the game is loading you can have your players from both teams take warm-up shots and then when the game is ready, you can choose when you want to play by hitting a specific button
- and during this you can also see the crowd coming in and trying to find a seat to get ready to watch the game
2) Starting line-up announcements
- in the settings option, users can be allowed to choose between having a regular starting lineup introduction like this game has done recently, or they can have the starters have the introduction show that they normally have to make it feel more real

Timeout gameplay:
1) during timeouts when the user is not playing maybe you can add in some minigames, like have some random person shoot half-court shots or something

The little things:
1) allow more than 12 people to play:
- this may seem weird but its better than looking at the bench and seeing that there are 3 empty seats just sitting there
- maybe in the settings you can choose to have as many number of players play on a team from 12-15 players

2) shoes:
- bring back all shoes from previous 3 years
- i like the 09-10 hyperizes and i was sad they werent here in 2k11
3) Blacktop:
- all that i want to talk about here is just have created teams play in the black top games
4) D-Leauge:
- allow the user to have the option to play d-leauge games as well as create d-leauge teams
- those guys are players of the game too and i think it would be nice to add them as an addition to this unique franchise
5) Higlight reels:
- During the association mode it would be phenomenal if you were able to get all the games of the week and place it in a highlight reel like sports center or NBA gametime
- not only for association mode but allow it for any mode and upload and save player highlight reels and share (again this would be insane)
6) Playoff situations:
- Just allow it so that the crowd can wear team colors and this can be changed in the create a team option ( What i mean is if a teams colors are blue, red, white users can choose to have the playoff shirts be either blue, red or white )

[PennyHard]

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Have I mentioned MORE LEGENDS? No? Well....MORE LEGENDS please 2k. Or specifically, MORE LEGENDARY/CLASSIC TEAMS.

97/98 Heat
93/94 Suns
95 Rockets
94 Bulls (With afro Pip)
98 Pacers
96/97 Knicks
93 Sonics
91 76'ers
96 Lakers
96 Pistons
94 Spurs
98 Hornets
97 Hawks

Specific rules for specific eras. Handchecking. Bigs in the paint. Illegal Defense calls.

Give the legendary Pistons the ability to select the 'jordan rules' as a defensive set....(I'm reaching now, I know)

Signature triple threat animations. I wanna see MJ palm the rock before driving out and scoring.

Legends playoff mode. Playoff rosters from several different years - chose your team and re-write history.

Revamped dunk packages. The game needs new AND reworked dunks. More one handed jams please. A little more effort put into dunks for MJ/Kemp etc....

Reworked AI defense. 2k, please remove the super glue AI defense, when I use Iso motion or a triple threat with guys who can pull that stuff off, I expect to get results, not have my man or a big stay in front of me like a brick wall.

Classic/legendary arena music to work for ALL game modes. You did a great job of the classic arena's and their music, especially the Bulls teams - but it was a complete head scratcher that once you completed the legends mode and unlocked the teams, the arena music was gone, replaced with generic 'CHARGE' effects. Fix this please.

Classic uniforms. If you're going to have classic teams, make sure you give them ALL their retro uniforms - BUlls NEED their black pinstripe 2k! Suns need their 1993 jerseys!

excellent choice for the team, maybe pistons 96 is not necessary

i add dream team of course and all star game 1992, and 1996.
and the real triangle system of the bulls because i'm sure we havn't got the real triangle system so it's not interresting to play with jordan in my opinion. it is beautiful to give us jordan, but i discovered that it was not only jordan who made the team better but offensde strategy of phil jackson, without this you can't get the real pleasure to win a game even in HOF with the bulls!!! you often finish the game with easy 3 pt of Jordan, Kukoc, Pippen, kerr, alley oop for jordan and dunk and steals of pippen, harper jordan to make a dunk!!
Another problem, why isn't 95 Bulls 52 roll system in 96 coach profil??? it is only on 98 bulls coach profil and you can't change! but watch 1996's nba game 2k and you will see that this system was one of the most important of the 96's chicago bulls!!
you add jump shot and fade away ,but did you really play exactly as the bulls, not sure! you can't imagine the number of hours i played with the bulls on NBA 2k11 and nba 2k12 is above nba 2k11 i think!!
you can't imagine the numbers of game i watched on youtube or i downloaded on some site, i studied all those game to try to find a way to realize the same system and always some system come back and there is not chance to find it in NBA 2k11 and 12. I don't want to have to search in other coach profil to find a system which could look like to a triangle system. i want something easy to have always a good triangle maybe just a quick play called triangle system and according with the place of my teammate, a triangle appears and after on the opposite of the triangle two teammate could offers a solution!!
i think 3 or 4 triangle system used by phil jackson are not in the game and it's a big problem because any way it's not interresting to play with the bulls and a lot of people don't play to nba 2k while they love jordan and basket ball because they think that the jordan mode was not interresting in NBA 2k11 and there is not so much difference in 2k12.

you add that the package dunk of 96 Jordan is ugly (often 2 hands dunk or rimgrazer it's ugly) and the possiblities to make in game the long dunk from the free throw line while it's impossible to do it in a real game!! it looks like a arcade game, not a simulation game!!!!

please 2k.

i add always the same things about some moovement for example the free throw sig of karl malone which is real in the beginning but so ugly at the end and that since 2k7!! it's the same things for a lot of player, even Jordan free throw can be improved!!!

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[ghettofied]

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2K needs to bring back the Jordan attributes boost on players when they are assigned different Jordan shoes. And how they get better during association mode when they do. It made sense with those shoes and sometimes players don't get the boost they deserve from season to season on association mode in 2K12.

[JSensui]

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3. Please make the dunk animations "contextually smarter" - meaning, dunk animations should be determined by where the defenders are - if defenders are on the left of the player, then he should dunk with his right hand to keep the ball away from the defenders. If there are defenders behind him or around him, he should keep the ball above his head to avoid getting it knocked away from behind or from the side. Players should not be doing windmills in traffic, or other "flashy" dunk animations which cause the player to bring the ball down low or behind his head, thus exposing the ball to getting blocked from behind or from below. It's really annoying when I just want to do a simple "straight up" dunk where my player keeps the ball up above his head, but instead he does some crazy windmill dunk...and because he brought the ball down below his waist in the windmill motion, a defender was able to knock it loose. Flashy dunks (like windmills and "behind-the-head" monster jams) should only happen on fast breaks when there are no defenders lurking around. In half-court situations, dunks should always be simpler dunk animations where the ball is kept up above the player's head (straight up one-handed jams, or straight up two-handed jams).

I have nothing to add, I just wanted to tell you that I agree with every one of your points, and that I especially agree with this one.

[Rondo To KG]

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Association Wishes:

I always felt like 2K's association mode didn't do enough to reward players for playing through multiple seasons. After awhile, the lack of character and the increase in bland, generic players with no identity of their own ruins the modes length and kills the motivation to go deep into the game. Here are a few things that I think would fix the problem.

- Dynamic Storylines:

The one thing that's kind of bothered me about 2K's commentary is that the commentators would always repeat the same story lines over and over. I think they should make it to where they use these lines near the beginning of the season and then have new custom commentary for certain situations.

Example: Let's say a second year player has a breakthrough season on my association. The commentators should mention it with something like "Well, *Player Name* sure is having a breakout season." and have a storyline based on that.

The same should go for the generated players you get through the draft. If they were given more of an identity through commentary, I would have more of a reason to enjoy the mode.

- Retired Player Jerseys:

The retirement of a player I've used for several seasons should be a sad occasion. The problem is once they've retired, you don't get the satisfaction of honoring the player or even remembering they existed.

2K should add a feature where when a player retires, you should have the ability to retire their jersey so that no other player can ever use it again. Maybe even give them a quick ceremony at the beginning of the season much like 2K already does for championship winners. Adding extra commentary such as "And this is a sad day for the fans as they say goodbye to *Player Name*." would add even more to the experience.

- Improved Rookie Draft Classes:

One of my biggest issues with the draft is that 2K has the rookies in them rated much too high. Because just about every draft has at least one player rated as an 80 OVR with high potential, the game gets eventually overrun by the amount of superstars in the game.

I think 2K should make it a very rare occasion to see a player rated this high from the start and should instead have more players in the 70-74 range at the top of the classes. Very few rookies are stars from their very first year in the league and should take more work to develop.

My Player Wishes:

- Dynamic Storylines:

Basically the same thing I said for Association mode. It feels like My Player is constantly ignored by the commentators and half time show other than maybe one or two specific lines. If I'm making history by grabbing a historical amount of rebounds or am carrying a mediocre team to the playoffs, the commentators should make a point to at least point it out.

- Better/Smarter Teammates:

My teammates on My Player were always terrible. It felt like anytime we won, I had to score a huge amount of our points just to stay in the game. Teammates who were three point specialists would miss every outside shot they took while the CPU were absolutely unstoppable in the paint.

2K should look to improve the ability of teammates to make shots. If this is somehow not possible, then adding sliders would also work as well. Here on OS, there are some fantastic slider creators who would easily be able to fix this issue given the chance.

- More Voices:

Right now, every single My Player sounds the same no matter what they look like. If I were to make a foreign player from a different country, he would have the same voice as a player from New York.

This would add even more customization to a mode that has always been solid in this regard. It would allow us to make our character more realistic and less jarring for when the voice clearly doesn't match the player I made.

Gameplay Wishes:

- Fix Speed and Transition game:

For teams like the Phoenix Suns and the Golden State Warriors, the ability to run on the fast break is absolutely crucial to their game. In 2K however, the ability for centers to keep up with point guards on the fast break takes away their biggest advantage and forces them to play in a half court style that might not fit their abilities.

Making players like Derrick Rose able to blow by bigs would allow players who have great speed and athleticism dominate much like they do in real life. This would also help out in other aspects of offense if the defense is forced to collapse on the point guard and the point guard gets it to an open player.

- Better Passing mechanics:

This might be the most important gameplay problem of them all. I understand why 2K made it harder to pass into the paint. They wanted to stop players from cherry picking and throwing passes into heavy traffic that have no business getting to their man. However, the inability to get a pass to go where the player wants it to forces us into bad turnovers that shouldn't be happening.

This ties into the transition game a bit as well. Having a three on one fast break should be two easy points 9/10 times. Instead, the inability to throw a bounce pass to a player correctly causes a routine basketball play to fall apart and end up with a turnover rather than an easy basket. It is crucial 2K fixes this error, or else the game will continue having the same gameplay issues that plagued 2K12.

Others:

- Bring back Playoff Mode's fantasy draft:

I have no clue why this feature was taken out of 2K12, but the inability to make a tournament with friends using fantasy drafted teams forced me to go back to 2k11 just for this feature. Hopefully 2K realizes this mistake and fixes it in 2K13.

- Bring back the ability to have 1 vs. 1/2 vs 2/3 vs 3/ect. matches on Blacktop:

Another feature that confused me when I saw it missing from 2k12. I hope we will see this come back in 2k13 as it was a fun mode to play in.

Not sure how many of my wishes have already been posted, but I hope people agree with me on some of these features. I really feel like 2K should work to improve what they have and by doing so they can make Association Mode and My Player even more enjoyable then they already are.

If 2K can improve on the features that are already in the game and fix some of the bad gameplay mechanics in 2K12, I see no reason why I won't buy 2K13 in October.

[Eman5805]

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Anyone else misses the Draft Combine from...I think it was 2K10?