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[fjccommish]

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Why does the game freeze so often on the 360? PC games don't freeze this often. The 360 is a stable platform, everyone has the same hardware. Can you fix this? Playing games only to have a freeze ruins the playability.

In the last two days it froze while exiting a Dynasty game, it froze once in the middle of a Dynasty game, and it froze when trying to look edit a player in Dynasty mode. That's three freezes in the course of playing five dynasty games.

Is EA working on a patch to address this? If not, why do producers have time to scold people for misnaming "the engine"?

[stephensonmc]

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Why does the game freeze so often on the 360? PC games don't freeze this often. The 360 is a stable platform, everyone has the same hardware. Can you fix this? Playing games only to have a freeze ruins the playability.

In the last two days it froze while exiting a Dynasty game, it froze once in the middle of a Dynasty game, and it froze when trying to look edit a player in Dynasty mode. That's three freezes in the course of playing five dynasty games.

Is EA working on a patch to address this? If not, why do producers have time to scold people for misnaming "the engine"?

Are we scolding people?

[stephensonmc]

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Can any of the devs answer this question???

we bumped up the OTP games to the level of difficulty that is the default difficulty level (All-Star).

This won't be changed this year.

[bls]

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we bumped up the OTP games to the level of difficulty that is the default difficulty level (All-Star).

This won't be changed this year.

Why don't you guys have your ranked games set to Superster (the highest difficulty) to begin with?

Isn't it the higher the difficulty the better the AI? If this is the case then why have it at a lower difficulty?

[stephensonmc]

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Why don't you guys have your ranked games set to Superster (the highest difficulty) to begin with?

Isn't it the higher the difficulty the better the AI? If this is the case then why have it at a lower difficulty?

Do any sports games have it set to the highest difficulty?

While you guys may find it too easy, we do have people who don't post in communities that may not be as skilled.

[jrose57]

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Ok, I am glad live is having people here to listen to our concern, this is the first time i ask you questions here so big thanks before hand. I hope my questions are not asked yet, but if they are, please be patient with me because i dont' time to read every post here. Thanks.

1. Is it possible to have a patch, just to allow us play 29 games, i bet most of us can't finish 82 games but at the same time want to play every game ourselves?

2. Why does the injuired players still in IR forever from the 365 roster even when i start my dynasty, this is killing me, it forces me to use the original roster (the one comes with the game) and i edit and make trades, sign players with that file and update it as much as possible to today, so i am missing will solomon for the raptors for example, just to make sure everyone will be played in my dynasty.

3. is points in the paint a problem in this game? if you ask me just by looking at the gameplay, i say NO, but if you look at the stats at the end of the game, it shocked me and everyone who checked right? so i am confused at this area.

These are my main concerns, the gameplay is perfect for me after i adjusted the sliders myself which wasn't too hard compared to 2k which i still can't the right set and gave up the game already.

[Chairman7w]

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That's a known bug n this game, unfortunately. And I don't think it's going to be fixed in '09. I've even had 40-something points in a game TOTAL, and the stats afterward said I had 50+ points in the paint.

That said, in the game, Points-In-the-Paint is NOT a problem. Interior Defense is very good since the patch (imho).

3. is points in the paint a problem in this game? if you ask me just by looking at the gameplay, i say NO, but if you look at the stats at the end of the game, it shocked me and everyone who checked right? so i am confused at this area.

[bls]

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Do any sports games have it set to the highest difficulty?

While you guys may find it too easy, we do have people who don't post in communities that may not be as skilled.

Yes, the other has all three difficulty levels for online play, you can choose to go into either room corresponding to whichever level you want to play. Makes alot of sense to me. That way the not so easy to pick up and play people can play on the lowest level while the experts play on the highest level.

And the game isn't that hard to pick up and play. Not many button combos like the other game which isn't a bad thing. And also to me it would make sense for someone that isn't as good to play on the highest level because I know if i didn't know how to play myself, the AI not performing at it's highest level (especially on the defensive side of the ball) would leave even more question marks as to whether I would actually be good enough or not.

Theres only a handful of sports games such as Tiger woods, that you don't have to worry about CPU. But in football and basketball games, you'll NEVER be able to controll ALL the players on the court at the same time. So to me CPU AI is vital, very important. Just MO.

[jrose57]

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Sorry, 3 more question forgot to ask devs!

4. Why is freethrow that easy, i know everyone mentioned this already, i can play it through by closing my eyes to take them everytime and i finally missed some, but the game needs to fix this, i shouldn't be doing this to keep this as a challenge

5. And this Q is about freethrow too, why is there so less freethrows? especially cpu, it tried to block every shot they take in the paint, and everytime i get a block or i block air so didn't get anything, no foul calls nothing?

6. Fatigue, why does the cpu only play bench so less, and same as me, my guys don't get tired even when i set it to 100 of fatigue's effect, this one really bugs me as well!

For anyone that knows that answer, please answer as well, it would be big help to solve these issues!

[Mintsa]

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Iminurbase, Steph, Beluba.....

Any update on whether the freethrow "fix" can be unfixed ??

I know one of you said, you would see what you guys could do......any update on that ??? Even a "it wont be fixed this season" is fine.

Thanks guys.

[iminurbase]

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It is unlikely... it would require another patch.

[LingeringRegime]

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I have a question. I just purchased this game a few days ago, so perhaps it has been answered by a dev already. But, I have had three games freeze on me on the PS3. Good news, is that I could still quit the game by pressing the PS button. But, I hope that it can be rectified with another patch. It sucks when you are winning a game, and you have to quit.

If not do you have any suggested workarounds? Thanks in advance.

[Mintsa]

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It is unlikely... it would require another patch.

Thanks for the answer bro.....much respect for the honesty.

[dave374]

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Thanks for the answer bro.....much respect for the honesty.

If you play as one team all the time Mintsa - and play in a dynasty - just globally edit your entire team's free throw ratings down 20 to 25 points. Do not do this to any other team.
Free throw issue solved.
Mind you, if you wanna play with daily DNA or a rewind game, forget about it. The second you change any roster attribute, today's DNA roster goes out the window.

[Mintsa]

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Thanks for the tip Dave. But I'm not a dynasty guy. I strictly play online and use the daily DNA to play last nights games (I love the whole, DNA, Rewind, Roster stuff). So, it's just gonna have to be something I have to live with.