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  • The 24th Letter
    ERA
    • Oct 2007
    • 39373

    #1051
    Re: NBA Live 18 - Demo Impressions

    They REALLY need a 'hold the ball too long' penalty man...

    Dude on my squad essentially dribbled for 20 seconds every trip down court , then animated past every one for a dunk...I'm sitting here mad up 15 lol

    I know you cant fix people...but there are ways to penalize that play somewhat

    Sent from my SM-G955U using Operation Sports mobile app

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    • iLLWiLL
      MVP
      • Jul 2002
      • 3560

      #1052
      Re: NBA Live 18 - Demo Impressions

      Originally posted by EA Rocky
      Found it! At least, I'm pretty sure we did.


      Sample transcription: "That's just swagger, Mike, the way Steph's doing that little shimmy right there. He's the league's reigning MVP and nothing if not confident in his game."


      Regardless, we're looking to have that sample removed in the full title patch.


      Thanks for the heads up!
      Rocky, can you have your team fix Curry's ankle braces for the Warriors road uniforms? They are white, and need to be black.

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      • dasunsrule32
        Rookie
        • Nov 2014
        • 494

        #1053
        Re: NBA Live 18 - Demo Impressions

        Originally posted by The 24th Letter
        They REALLY need a 'hold the ball too long' penalty man...

        Dude on my squad essentially dribbled for 20 seconds every trip down court , then animated past every one for a dunk...I'm sitting here mad up 15 lol

        I know you cant fix people...but there are ways to penalize that play somewhat

        Sent from my SM-G955U using Operation Sports mobile app
        We just stopped passing it to them, and put em on ice unless they're wide open under the hoop. Works well. I've had a few fall inline by doing this.

        Sent from my A0001 using Tapatalk

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        • CujoMatty
          Member of Rush Nation
          • Oct 2007
          • 5445

          #1054
          Re: NBA Live 18 - Demo Impressions

          Originally posted by The 24th Letter
          They REALLY need a 'hold the ball too long' penalty man...

          Dude on my squad essentially dribbled for 20 seconds every trip down court , then animated past every one for a dunk...I'm sitting here mad up 15 lol

          I know you cant fix people...but there are ways to penalize that play somewhat

          Sent from my SM-G955U using Operation Sports mobile app
          16 was rough for me in this regard. I'd say 75 percent of live run games I played were a fairly horrible teammate experience. In all fairness 2k wasn't a whole lot better. The individuality and bravadoness of Basketball makes it tough to encourage good team play in a video game it seems.

          I don't know how to change it but the RPG style of levelling up and earning ratings and skills also don't help. I'd constantly play with guys that would be double or triple teamed and huck up threes 5 feet behind the line and drain them because they were 99 rated. Meanwhile my 83 rated guy misses wide open threes. Why would you pass it to me?

          It's necessary to have a levelling up system because it keeps players engaged but I feel like 16 relied way too heavily on ratings as opposed to user skill or even contextual circumstances. Even if your rated 99 you should still have to make smart basketball decisions and I hope NBA live 18 finds a nice balance between ratings and skill.
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          • stephenk24
            Rookie
            • Jul 2011
            • 85

            #1055
            Re: NBA Live 18 - Demo Impressions

            Originally posted by sheehy83
            I haven't bought Live in absolutely years as I stuck with 2K every year. I'm sick of buying 2K on launch and making the exact same complaints every year. Love the Live 18 demo, The Rise was excellent and and looking forward to continuing the journey but Online Pick Up really surprised me.

            I wanted to like 2K Park so bad but it was just awful between waiting for games, lag (always bad in Europe) and crappy 'teammates' who prefer to take on 3 defenders and shoot a fade away 3 than pass to an open man. Live Pick Up still has crappy teammates but the games are way more fun. Most baskets feel deserved (still a lot of cheesy 360 heavy contact layups, as cool as they look), games can be close and tense and usually the losses or dominations come from fools who can't find the pass button.

            I started with a 6'2 Playmaker with maxed passes and dribbling. I was turning over easy passes and kinda bothered me that I couldn't dunk, even wide open fast breaks. Rest him and made a few more and found my favourite, a 6ft Slasher with max dribbling and layup but he's well able to dunk over taller defenders. 90 speed with dribble moves has me zipping past D but most open shots I take are contested if anyone is near me at all. My online shooting has bad lag though, I let go of the shoot button and the meter drops back down stopping near the bottom of the bar resulting in an awful shot so I'm sticking to driving/assisting.

            Another annoying thing is I usually get given the PG role but most people including slow bigs will stand in front of me to get the ball instead. I didn't make you pick a 7ft tank, play your role!

            I'm gonna pick this up at launch and I'd like the 33% discount but no shops seem to be doing it for physical copies. EA's site lists Gamestop and Argos as participants in the UK so I thought they'd apply it to Ireland too but guess not. If it comes to it, I will get the digital version on PSN but anyone else in Europe find a physical version with the 33% preorder discount?

            Same boat as youu. I'm in the UK and keep looking for the discount on a physical copy but I can't find it. Not at Gamestop, Argos, Amazon, shop to, anywhere.

            I even spoke to EA customer service, who told me Gamestop had it. I showed them a screenshot of gamestop's website, and the guy had no answer and just told me to buy off PSN.

            Guess that's what I'll have to do.
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            • swac07
              MVP
              • Feb 2007
              • 1843

              #1056
              Re: NBA Live 18 - Demo Impressions

              This bug needs to be fixed ASAP


              Last edited by swac07; 08-22-2017, 01:35 PM. Reason: Why bother
              "Wisdom is ALWAYS an overmatch for strength"........The Zen Master

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              • sheehy83
                Rookie
                • Oct 2014
                • 165

                #1057
                Re: NBA Live 18 - Demo Impressions

                Originally posted by stephenk24
                Same boat as youu. I'm in the UK and keep looking for the discount on a physical copy but I can't find it. Not at Gamestop, Argos, Amazon, shop to, anywhere.

                I even spoke to EA customer service, who told me Gamestop had it. I showed them a screenshot of gamestop's website, and the guy had no answer and just told me to buy off PSN.

                Guess that's what I'll have to do.
                Thanks for checking that out man, if UK don't get it, Ireland definitely won't. Pity as Gamestop and Argos in UK are listed on the Participants list on the EA terms and conditions for the deal.

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                • belikemike
                  Rookie
                  • Jun 2012
                  • 51

                  #1058
                  Re: NBA Live 18 - Demo Impressions

                  I'm really impress by not only how amazing the game looks (court, player likeness, ect) but also how far they have come along with the way the game animates.

                  I remember trying Live 16 and I could hardly finish a game because of the way things felt and how basic the animations were. It just looked and felt really bad to me. But with Live 18 demo you can defeintely see MAJOR improvements over the last one. I can't stop playing the demo its that solid of a game right now to play and this is coming from someone who has played 2K religiously for over 10 yrs now.

                  Couple small things of the top of my head I'd like to see improved.

                  1. Layups and dunks in traffic with defenders contesting or in the way are too successful. I'm playing on All-Star. I haven't messed with the sliders yet, but will soon. I just think the default slider set the defense needs to be better.

                  2. Hands up with the RS should be a little more responsive and work better on defense.

                  3. The overall "feel" of the game by way of controller vibrations should be expanded upon. You feel contact (vibrations) with on-ball contact and on dunks. But I would love to feel it more on other things too. Like catching the ball on passes and rebounds, moving your feet on the court, dribbling the ball, reach in fouls, getting fouled shooting the ball, ect. It would just make the game even more immersive to have the feel of those other things being captured and felt as well.
                  Last edited by belikemike; 08-22-2017, 06:34 AM.

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                  • EA Rocky
                    NBA Live Producer
                    • Aug 2017
                    • 35

                    #1059
                    Re: NBA Live 18 - Demo Impressions

                    Originally posted by iLLWiLL
                    Rocky, can you have your team fix Curry's ankle braces for the Warriors road uniforms? They are white, and need to be black.

                    One of my teammates saw this post, and took action on it.


                    Thanks for calling it out.

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                    • FerdBrown
                      MVP
                      • Oct 2016
                      • 1200

                      #1060
                      Re: NBA Live 18 - Demo Impressions

                      Originally posted by EA Rocky
                      One of my teammates saw this post, and took action on it.


                      Thanks for calling it out.


                      Can you get the 24 second shot clock far from the Road / Home score? It gets confusing I think I'm looking at the score but it's the clock. Too close.

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                      • EA Rocky
                        NBA Live Producer
                        • Aug 2017
                        • 35

                        #1061
                        Re: NBA Live 18 - Demo Impressions

                        Originally posted by FerdBrown
                        Can you get the 24 second shot clock far from the Road / Home score? It gets confusing I think I'm looking at the score but it's the clock. Too close.


                        You mean in NBA, Pro-Am, or both?

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                        • Earl1963
                          MVP
                          • Aug 2003
                          • 1985

                          #1062
                          Re: NBA Live 18 - Demo Impressions

                          I need to know if this game will be 4K HDR


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                          • Dekkfly
                            Rookie
                            • Jun 2017
                            • 254

                            #1063
                            Re: NBA Live 18 - Demo Impressions

                            How does this demo look using PS4 Pro on 1080P? Does it make alot of difference just on the Pro?

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                            • bigeastbumrush
                              My Momma's Son
                              • Feb 2003
                              • 19245

                              #1064
                              Re: NBA Live 18 - Demo Impressions

                              Originally posted by EA Rocky
                              You mean in NBA, Pro-Am, or both?
                              This guy needs to be in purple.

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                              • sarlndr
                                MVP
                                • Apr 2009
                                • 1083

                                #1065
                                Re: NBA Live 18 - Demo Impressions

                                Originally posted by swac07
                                This bug needs to be fixed ASAP


                                https://youtu.be/CCgwIL7M8c8
                                Nobody's going to talk about this? Haha..
                                I had this happen just this morning.

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