NBA Live Patch 1.02 Discussion

[Mintsa]

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They made free throws easier?

Oh my. I was already hitting nearly 100% of them with anyone.

Oh well, guess I'm gonna have to find a house rule.

I can confirm this. For example.....

Jermaine O'Neal had like 2 green bars when playing online, now he has like 8. Basically, if you get to the line (no matter which player you are), your sinking to free throws.

I dont know why that was changed ???


PS: Please, Im not trolling our anything. Im just giving impressions of what I see.

[stephensonmc]

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I can confirm this. For example.....

Jermaine O'Neal had like 2 green bars when playing online, now he has like 8. Basically, if you get to the line (no matter which player you are), your sinking to free throws.

I dont know why that was changed ???


PS: Please, Im not trolling our anything. Im just giving impressions of what I see.

Mintsa,

Are you talking about in regular exhibition or online? The reason we made it like this online was because users were having an issue with the lag / vibration combined with the small shaking of the camera making FT really hard.

[tosharetowin]

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YEs, sometimes the LAG is there, but you can do that the player to shot the free throw do it alone, that is if you dont press the shot putton, the player (j.oneal) will shot the f.t. alone and with his real %.
This is a very useful solution, Steph.

But, Steph, can be fixed or not?
it will be better no too much fouls.
It is no real, more fouls without you trying to steal or block, no real feeling.

[jrich730]

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is everyone sure it didn't go for the 360 because i swear i felt a difference in the game...me and my friends were playing a game 2 to a side and our d actually made lebron miss like 10 contested layups

[Moegames]

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is everyone sure it didn't go for the 360 because i swear i felt a difference in the game...me and my friends were playing a game 2 to a side and our d actually made lebron miss like 10 contested layups

Not sure about the 360..the ps3 patch was out..atleast for me, then its not for my neighbor across the street some hours later when he tried to update his...weird

On my 360..i dont have a patch for it yet, the ps3 i just bought the other day "used" from a friend of mine with Live09 included..soon as i fired up Live09 the other day, i got the patch..but now my neighor is saying no patch for live09 on his ps3..strange...i DEFINITELY dont see a patch for 360, which i plan on playing Live09 with..because i dont like the ps3 controller that much..im just so use to the 360 gamepad..just feels better imho. I bought the ps3 for the bluray player for my home theater and for the ps3 exclusive games

Anyways..the patch from what i can tell REALLY helps the jump response time when trying to defend a jumper in your face..like instead of pressing the jump button to try and block a shot and it takes for ever for you to jump up..its alot more instantaneous now WITH the patch..then it was WITHOUT the patch..to me that was the main thing i wanted personally fixed and it looks to me its now fixed

[bigball12]

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Steph, these FT's are ridiculous! You have Shaq having the same amount as Nash! This guy wen 11-11 from the line with Shaq! Totally unrealistic! Go back to the old way! It should be harder to make a free throw with poorer FT shooters!

[RedSox34]

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Thanks.

Sorry about the pre-patch confusion. What I meant was, with auto replays off, I never saw halftime highlights. That was before the patch.

I'm not sure yet if it's still that way after the patch, as I haven't played a game that reached halftime yet.

But to answer your initial question, my in-game replays are choppy before and after the patch.

Hi Guys

I have the same problem with choppy in-game replays (and the no-show of halftime Sprite Highlight Reel) after installing this patch.

I noticed by chance that the replays are fine and the highlight reel works if you start up another game prior to playing NBA Live - ie, I start up NCAA Football '09 and play a quick Off V's Def practice (only a couple of plays), and then eject the disc and slap in NBA Live'09 without restarting the PS3 - the in-game replays are smooth, and the halftime highlights kick in - no idea why, but it seems to do the trick. I have tried this several times both before and after patch 1.02 and it always seems to work.

For Info, I have a UK PS3, UK version of NBA Live'09 & a US version of NCAA Football'09 - just in case these nuances actually matter!

Give it a try & hopefully it'll work out OK

Apologies if this is already common knowledge - I've only been registered for a few days - nice site!

[MrMaddog]

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Hi Guys

I have the same problem with choppy in-game replays (and the no-show of halftime Sprite Highlight Reel) after installing this patch.

I noticed by chance that the replays are fine and the highlight reel works if you start up another game prior to playing NBA Live - ie, I start up NCAA Football '09 and play a quick Off V's Def practice (only a couple of plays), and then eject the disc and slap in NBA Live'09 without restarting the PS3 - the in-game replays are smooth, and the halftime highlights kick in - no idea why, but it seems to do the trick. I have tried this several times both before and after patch 1.02 and it always seems to work.

For Info, I have a UK PS3, UK version of NBA Live'09 & a US version of NCAA Football'09 - just in case these nuances actually matter!

Give it a try & hopefully it'll work out OK

Hey thanks for the info. I'll give it a try. But you and everyone else know that this procedure (whether it works or not) is not something the consumer should have to workaround. Stephensonmc went on the record saying this was fixed in the patch. Clearly it's not.

Stephensonmc, you went on record saying the replays were fixed through the patch. My replays have still been choppy with no half-time highlight reel. Is what RedSox 34 said the only possible way to remedy this at this point? I'm talking from a PS3 system standpoint.

[CMH]

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Steph, these FT's are ridiculous! You have Shaq having the same amount as Nash! This guy wen 11-11 from the line with Shaq! Totally unrealistic! Go back to the old way! It should be harder to make a free throw with poorer FT shooters!

Free throws were easy even before the patch.

I'm not sure what the developers can do on this front, but I can hit 100% of my free throws with any player, no matter their rating.

I'm talking about offline right now. There is absolutely no challenge and the reason is quite simple. Every player has the same "release point." The bar moves the same speed to the same green spot. Yea, some players have bigger green bars, but no matter which player you control, the optimal green spot is the same. Once you get that down (and it literally took me one shot with a bad free throw shooter to figure out the location) you become automatic from the charity stripe.

I have to force myself to miss and even then I'm still hitting free throws easily.

[MrMaddog]

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With regards for the free throws, maybe we should all just take a page from Michael Jordan to make them more challenging. Close our eyes. Probably work better than this so called patch.

[bigball12]

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Free throws were easy even before the patch.

I'm not sure what the developers can do on this front, but I can hit 100% of my free throws with any player, no matter their rating.

I'm talking about offline right now. There is absolutely no challenge and the reason is quite simple. Every player has the same "release point." The bar moves the same speed to the same green spot. Yea, some players have bigger green bars, but no matter which player you control, the optimal green spot is the same. Once you get that down (and it literally took me one shot with a bad free throw shooter to figure out the location) you become automatic from the charity stripe.

I have to force myself to miss and even then I'm still hitting free throws easily.

I'm not saying that they weren't easy (they were) but now they made them even easier. Whats the point of having FT's if you are gonna go 100% from the line?

[bigdfan76]

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waiting for this patch is hard man.... (360 user)

its friday 6pm est and i am starting to feel i'll have to wait until next friday or thursday for this thing.....

its crazy some have it already and they(MS & Sony) didnt drop it today but lets see what happens...

I'm a 360 user and I'm pretty sure I have the patch for a couple of days now. This is confusing, I know I dowloaded a patch right before I downloaded the new XBOX experience. I can't seem to find were to check the details of my hard drive with the new XBOX menu but I' sure it was the patch. Anyway I'll pop in another game and see what happens. But it did say there is an update available for this game just like it always does for a patch. Why are people still saying they don't have it for 360? When I do?

[CMH]

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With regards for the free throws, maybe we should all just take a page from Michael Jordan to make them more challenging. Close our eyes. Probably work better than this so called patch.

Don't hate the patch. The patch fixed some things.

Free throws have been easy from the get-go. I probably shouldn't even be talking about free throws because it really has nothing to do with the patch.

I guess I was hoping free throws would be more difficult after the patch, but it's the same. Just as easy.

I've thought about covering my eyes, but soon enough I'll just figure that out too.

There's no way to avoid a human learning touch. Free throws are simply a touch press. You just have to learn how long to hold the press and when to let go. No skill involved at all.

I remember old Live using a similar system, but at least that one had two bars and a moving circle with speeds depending on the rating. But, if that system became easy then it's no surprise that this new free throw mechanic is cake.

[CMH]

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I'm not saying that they weren't easy (they were) but now they made them even easier. Whats the point of having FT's if you are gonna go 100% from the line?

Yes. I agree.

[mike24forever]

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I'm a 360 user and I'm pretty sure I have the patch for a couple of days now. This is confusing, I know I dowloaded a patch right before I downloaded the new XBOX experience. I can't seem to find were to check the details of my hard drive with the new XBOX menu but I' sure it was the patch. Anyway I'll pop in another game and see what happens. But it did say there is an update available for this game just like it always does for a patch. Why are people still saying they don't have it for 360? When I do?

Same thing happened to me, just before I ripped NBA Live to my hard drive. It was the first time that I put the game in after NXE. I was playing on November 18, the night before the NXE dropped. I have no idea what I was prompted to update. I am not saying I have the patch.