NBA2K13 Rating changes per difficulty and how to adjust sliders accordingly

[savantopus]

What's up everyone, here are the exact rating changes that 2K makes whenever you change the difficulty so that you can adjust the sliders to counter the CPU cheese and have a more balanced game. Sneaky 2K makes some changes you may not expect...

Yes this has been talked about in another thread Understanding Slider Coefficients, thank you to everyone in that thread, this is just a condensed version.

The number given after the attribute is how many slider points you must add or subtract from the CPU sliders to make the players balanced. If there is a + before the number it means you add to the CPU slider, a - means you subtract from CPU slider.



PRO:
Def and Off Awareness +2
Hands +2
Ball Security +2
Def and Off Rebounds +2
All other Attributes +1 (except for steal, pass, stamina, durability, fatigue, consistency)


ALL STAR:
Def and Off Awareness -10
Hands -7
Ball Security -7 (this one is tricky because you can only change this through the Ball Handling slider which changes 3 different attribues: Ball Security, Off-hand dribbling, and Ball Handling... I use Roster Editor by LEFTOS to change this independently)
All other attributes -3 (except for stamina, durability, fatigue, consistency)
Offensive scoring sliders +4. (a.ka. inside scoring, close scoring, etc.) Add 4 to the CPU scoring sliders to get a shooting percentage balance. Inside scoring, close, mid, 3pt. Offensive scoring slider adjustment is subjective and based on my personal playing experience.

SUPERSTAR:
Def and Off Awareness -17
Hands -14
Ball Security -14 (this one is tricky because... read above)
Steal -7
Def and Off Rebound -7
All other attributes -6 (except for stamina, durability, fatigue, consistency)
Offensive scoring sliders (a.ka. inside scoring, close scoring, etc.) For Superstar these seem like they are already balanced. No need to subtract or add from USER or CPU, keep them the same as each other.

Hall of Fame
Def and Off Awareness -20
Hands -20
Ball Security -20 (tricky because... read above)
Steal -10
Def and Off Reb -10
Dunk ability -7
Speed -7
All other attributes -8 (except for stamina, durability, fatigue, consistency)
Offensive scoring sliders for Hall of Fame I do not know the offensive scoring sliders because I don't play on this difficulty, I play Superstar.

Cheers, Mates

[schnaidt1]

Re: NBA2K13 Rating changes per difficulty and how to adjust sliders accordingly

we already have a thread for this.... come on now

[CallMeUnclebob]

Re: NBA2K13 Rating changes per difficulty and how to adjust sliders accordingly

we already have a thread for this.... come on now

Can u give me a link ?

[schnaidt1]

Re: NBA2K13 Rating changes per difficulty and how to adjust sliders accordingly

bout 6 spots down from this thread buddy

http://www.operationsports.com/forum...fficients.html

[vtcrb]

Re: NBA2K13 Rating changes per difficulty and how to adjust sliders accordingly

What Roster did you use for your testing? Just curious if these were done with 2k Default Roster.

[LionsFanNJ]

Doesn't matter the roster used. The default 2k settings will give CPU ratings boosts with every roster you use the higher difficulty level you go.


For example im on ps3 and use beds roster. It boosted the same as when I loaded a game with defaults.

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[vtcrb]

Re: NBA2K13 Rating changes per difficulty and how to adjust sliders accordingly

Doesn't matter the roster used. The default 2k settings will give CPU ratings boosts with every roster you use the higher difficulty level you go.


For example im on ps3 and use beds roster. It boosted the same as when I loaded a game with defaults.

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I understand it BOOSTs, but different Rosters hav different Ratings/Tendencies editd. So yes it Boosts, but it same Rosters it would have a Great Impact. If one Roster has a guy at 50 Off Aware and another has it at 70 Off Aware, it will have a Great effect on the 70 guy roster.

Edit: So if he tested with a Roster with Higher Ratings he would have to adjust more than a Roster with Lower ratings.

[JasonWilliams55]

Re: NBA2K13 Rating changes per difficulty and how to adjust sliders accordingly

I understand it BOOSTs, but different Rosters hav different Ratings/Tendencies editd. So yes it Boosts, but it same Rosters it would have a Great Impact. If one Roster has a guy at 50 Off Aware and another has it at 70 Off Aware, it will have a Great effect on the 70 guy roster.

Edit: So if he tested with a Roster with Higher Ratings he would have to adjust more than a Roster with Lower ratings.

Rosters don't matter, all rosters get the same boosts as the boosts come from the difficulty level its set on.

[vtcrb]

Re: NBA2K13 Rating changes per difficulty and how to adjust sliders accordingly

Rosters don't matter, all rosters get the same boosts as the boosts come from the difficulty level its set on.

Ok so if it wasnt Roster Specific how did he come up with Specific Numbers for each Slider. Not questioning the results, just trying to get the way they were reached. I think the roster would make a difference. Take for Example if the Roster had a Ton of guys Highly Rated in the 90's or you had a Roster where no one was over 75, then I would think the numbers would be skewed somewhat when testing.

Edit: Meaning the Lower rated roster would have to be adjusted less to make the game more even.

[schnaidt1]

Re: NBA2K13 Rating changes per difficulty and how to adjust sliders accordingly

has nothing to do with roster. what he did was pick 2 teams, check ratings on pro difficulty. then he switched control to other side an marked the rating changes.

he then did so for each difficulty level.

whatever a players quickness rating is in whatever roster you use will be either raised or lowered for said cpu player depending on the difficulty level selected

[JasonWilliams55]

Re: NBA2K13 Rating changes per difficulty and how to adjust sliders accordingly

Ok so if it wasnt Roster Specific how did he come up with Specific Numbers for each Slider. Not questioning the results, just trying to get the way they were reached. I think the roster would make a difference. Take for Example if the Roster had a Ton of guys Highly Rated in the 90's or you had a Roster where no one was over 75, then I would think the numbers would be skewed somewhat when testing.

Edit: Meaning the Lower rated roster would have to be adjusted less to make the game more even.

With each difficulty level, 2k boosts the cpu +(x) amount of attribute points, which gets higher (or more points) the higher in difficulty you go.

So the diff. boosts have nothing to do with the roster and only overlay on top of the ratings. So in your example both the ~75 roster and the ~90 roster would be getting the same CPU point boosts regardless of the ratings.

[papaey]

Re: NBA2K13 Rating changes per difficulty and how to adjust sliders accordingly

@vtcrb

Why don't you just test it yourself.its simple really

[tril]

Re: NBA2K13 Rating changes per difficulty and how to adjust sliders accordingly

if you balance the sliders on all difficulty sliders then the game just becomes a default setting, regardless of level. In essence, all you're doing is getting the same game play on all levels.

after you do these changes is there any differentiation on the levels?

[JasonWilliams55]

Re: NBA2K13 Rating changes per difficulty and how to adjust sliders accordingly

if you balance the sliders on all difficulty sliders then the game just becomes a default setting, regardless of level. In essence, all you're doing is getting the same game play on all levels.

after you do these changes is there any differentiation on the levels?

yes CPU reaction times and USER timing windows get smaller

[schnaidt1]

Re: NBA2K13 Rating changes per difficulty and how to adjust sliders accordingly

if you balance the sliders on all difficulty sliders then the game just becomes a default setting, regardless of level. In essence, all you're doing is getting the same game play on all levels.

after you do these changes is there any differentiation on the levels?

this is completely false. the cpu is def more challenging, but we balance out the attributes so they dont have a physical edge over us anymore than the players already have