NBA 2K13 Screenshot Captures Kevin Durant's Signature Skills

[iLLosophy]

Re: NBA 2K13 Screenshot Captures Kevin Durant's Signature Skills

I want it to be balanced I don't want to see half of the sig skills go to the offense...

ten each for offense and defense....the other ten could be passive like floor general...

Defense always gets the short end of the stick. Just the nature of the beast. Pretty sure the overall weighs offense more than defense for most positions outside of maybe Center. Plus stats wise, offense has way more data available than defense (and the ones available aren't usually that accurate).

[ShowNProve]

He's 6'11 same height as K.G. Get it RIGHT 2k.....

[Joobieo]

Loving the new layout.

[VDusen04]

Re: NBA 2K13 Screenshot Captures Kevin Durant's Signature Skills

I don't mind the menu layout. It kind of looks like a movie theatre lobby though.

[sword1986]

Re: NBA 2K13 Screenshot Captures Kevin Durant's Signature Skills

Clutch shouldn't be a boost to your attributes, it should be a sign to show your players composure, attentiveness, all that ish when the time counts. Players with lower Clutch ratings should falter under extreme circumstances .... someone like Anthony Morrow who has 88 3PT shot will be nervous, less likely to knock a game winner than Kobe Bryant. I think that should be the way clutch works... not boost attributes - maintain your attributes in tight situations.

[RyanFitzmagic]

Re: NBA 2K13 Screenshot Captures Kevin Durant's Signature Skills

Clutch shouldn't be a boost to your attributes, it should be a sign to show your players composure, attentiveness, all that ish when the time counts. Players with lower Clutch ratings should falter under extreme circumstances .... someone like Anthony Morrow who has 88 3PT shot will be nervous, less likely to knock a game winner than Kobe Bryant. I think that should be the way clutch works... not boost attributes - maintain your attributes in tight situations.

Very good points, but I don't know if players who aren't known as being clutch would necessarily be nervous. Lots of role players hit big shots at the end of games.

[mymannemcee]

Re: Kevin Durant Signature Skills - Shot Creator, Microwave, Deadeye, Closer and Fini

hence why the clutch skill scares me, game winner cheese

...hitting game winners with close out performers is cheese? Take some responsibility for yourself and play incredible defense. Works the majority of the time.

[RyanFitzmagic]

Re: Kevin Durant Signature Skills - Shot Creator, Microwave, Deadeye, Closer and Fini

...hitting game winners with close out performers is cheese? Take some responsibility for yourself and play incredible defense.

His point is that you could play incredible defense and that, simply by virtue of the "Closer" skill, a player could consistently make shots he really shouldn't be able to.

If I played against the Lakers three times, and Kobe missed all his heavily contested shots but magically made those same heavily contested shots in the clutch, I'd be pissed. One game, I can live with it-- it happens. But consistently, it would be terrible.

[Vni]

Re: NBA 2K13 Screenshot Captures Kevin Durant's Signature Skills

Cluch players don't get any better in the clutch. It's the other guys that loose their focus and skills.

So you would think that every players would see their rating decrease in the clutch except for thoses that have the skill trait.

[youALREADYknow]

Re: NBA 2K13 Screenshot Captures Kevin Durant's Signature Skills

Most of these skills are dumbed-down gimmicks.

Giving a player a Clutch "skill" while others don't have it is no different than giving those same players a Offensive Clutch rating of 75 while giving everyone else 25.

The difference is that we lose the ability to scale and therefore lose control over the effect from player to player.

All we can hope for now is that there are sliders or another way to configure the impact.

[RyanFitzmagic]

Re: NBA 2K13 Screenshot Captures Kevin Durant's Signature Skills

Cluch players don't get any better in the clutch. It's the other guys that loose their focus and skills.

So you would think that every players would see their rating decrease in the clutch except for thoses that have the skill trait.

That shouldn't happen, either. The reason people get worse in the clutch is because defense steps up and plays harder, and teams typically put their best defensive lineups in the game in clutch situations.

THAT'S what should create the results of a clutch possession. Not some magical ability to increase or decrease attributes.

[Vni]

Re: NBA 2K13 Screenshot Captures Kevin Durant's Signature Skills

Still that's how it will be represented in the game.

And I still think some players are scared of the moments while a few others aren't.

[Conda]

Cluch players don't get any better in the clutch. It's the other guys that loose their focus and skills.

So you would think that every players would see their rating decrease in the clutch except for thoses that have the skill trait.

I can see that with at the free-throw line in crunch time. Choker attribute.

[Vni]

Re: NBA 2K13 Screenshot Captures Kevin Durant's Signature Skills

ACtually we don't need any clutch rating or skill trait. Good players will be good in the clutch, while worse players will struggle. You don't need something that adds luck or randomness to it. Especially if that's something that boosts players's ratings. It's really wrong. Clutch players aren't any better in the clutch.

[RyanFitzmagic]

Re: NBA 2K13 Screenshot Captures Kevin Durant's Signature Skills

Still that's how it will be represented in the game.

But that's not how it SHOULD be. It's amazing that a company who doesn't believe in shot-clock cheese is focusing so much on magical increases in ability during the clutch.