Hey guys I hope everyone who is playing NBA Live 18 is enjoying it still. It has had its ups and downs, but they have worked hard to get the game to a state to where it is fun and playable. However, I wanted to point out a couple of things for either future patches or Live 19 (if they continue with a story mode). These are things that I have noticed in my time of playing “The One” mode over 100 plus game in the book so now is a good time that I can say I’ve seen this happen often enough that it needs to be fixed, so let’s get started.
Substitutions & Playing Time:
On both sides of the ball the substitutions need to be gutted and re-coded. Unlike franchise where you can dictate your team’s subs in career mode you cant, and this is where the problem comes in. Now as I said this is on both sides of the ball because I’ve seen it happen to the CPU as well. Playing time and wins and losses go hand and hand, how you ask. I’ve noticed numerous times if I’m supposed to lose a game in crunch time you will be on the court with maybe 1 or 2 other starters and 3 bench guys in a close game 92-90 with 2:00 left, nobody is in foul trouble, but your team will not have all 5 starters on the floor. There is no reason for non-foul troubled players in a close game in the 4th quarter not to be on the floor. It doesn’t only happen to the user it happens to the CPU as well, as I played Toronto and it was a close game, they called a timeout on the have DeRozan and Lowry and Valanciunas on the bench during a close loss. This really needs to be addressed because even the playing time is all screwed up now I play 12-minute quarters so that the playing time can be implemented properly, but it doesn’t for example – I’m slated for 44 minutes a game, I barely crack 32 at times, Courtney Lee is slated for 36 minutes averages 40 – Porzingis 36 minutes hardly gets 25 maybe at times 28. The problem lies with guys like Beasley, Hernangomez getting 25 minutes per game even though the playing time distribution is all broken those 2 guys mentioned before on the PT screen are at 18 and 16 minutes per game, yet constantly play 22-25 minutes.
My biggest concern with substitutions and I mentioned it to the dev team and they said they would pass it along to “the one” team was the half time user sub glitch. It happens all too often and when I say that I mean at least 60 to 70% of the time where you (or even some team mates) do not start the 3rd quarter. It is guaranteed that you will not start the 3rd quarter if you are subbed out in the 2nd quarter with about 2 to 3 minutes left, the PC will sim till half time then start the 3rd and you may come in various times I’ve seen (11, 10, 9 minutes) remember I play on 12 per quarter – then I’ll come in and its still early and I see no Porzingis, no Lee, no Kantor. This by far is one of my biggest gripes, hopefully they look into it.
Fouls & Foul Trouble:
Although they have addressed the lack of foul calls from the initial release, there are still very few fouls called during the games, now I like the fact that there are tons of collision animations and players don’t morph through each other, but there are times when a player gets completely tackled during a layup and it just goes as a non-call, either try to address the severity of the collision so it’s just a contested layup without knocking the guy over, or call the foul when the player gets knocked out of bounds. If it were isolated then I would be like OK there is a realism factor of a call being a judgement call to the official, but there are lots of collisions and so-called hard fouls that just go unnoticed. That brings me to foul trouble, I have seen a total of 2 foul outs in all of the games I have played and nobody with 4 or 5 fouls in foul trouble ever. To get the real sim feeling increase the fouls a little more not to over the top and we can possible get that feeling. And just as an FYI I have all the foul sliders raised up to 100
I know a lot of you guys are online guys and I do get on from time to time and some of you are franchise guys which I haven’t dabbled into yet, so that’s why this was strictly for “The One” mode I don’t know how many of you guys are hard core Career mode players like me, I do love how it plays I just would like to see a little more improvement to make it even better. Now when it comes to enhancements in the story mode i.e. practice courts a house anything to add to the player career experience and things like that I’ll save that for “Wish List” the one thing I listed below – this post was strictly for game play purposes.
“wish list item for 18 maybe, 19 for sure please thanks!”
The last thing I would like added is just purely cosmetic. I would like for you to be able to select which jersey you can wear home or away, we should be able to select that from the lobby. Just to give the user more options to wear the new jerseys during career mode instead of only franchise mode.
If any of you guys are hardcore the one mode players and noticed anything that needs to be addressed, the dev team is really cool and responsive and a great group of guys (if you ask nicely) they will try and get it done.
Substitutions & Playing Time:
On both sides of the ball the substitutions need to be gutted and re-coded. Unlike franchise where you can dictate your team’s subs in career mode you cant, and this is where the problem comes in. Now as I said this is on both sides of the ball because I’ve seen it happen to the CPU as well. Playing time and wins and losses go hand and hand, how you ask. I’ve noticed numerous times if I’m supposed to lose a game in crunch time you will be on the court with maybe 1 or 2 other starters and 3 bench guys in a close game 92-90 with 2:00 left, nobody is in foul trouble, but your team will not have all 5 starters on the floor. There is no reason for non-foul troubled players in a close game in the 4th quarter not to be on the floor. It doesn’t only happen to the user it happens to the CPU as well, as I played Toronto and it was a close game, they called a timeout on the have DeRozan and Lowry and Valanciunas on the bench during a close loss. This really needs to be addressed because even the playing time is all screwed up now I play 12-minute quarters so that the playing time can be implemented properly, but it doesn’t for example – I’m slated for 44 minutes a game, I barely crack 32 at times, Courtney Lee is slated for 36 minutes averages 40 – Porzingis 36 minutes hardly gets 25 maybe at times 28. The problem lies with guys like Beasley, Hernangomez getting 25 minutes per game even though the playing time distribution is all broken those 2 guys mentioned before on the PT screen are at 18 and 16 minutes per game, yet constantly play 22-25 minutes.
My biggest concern with substitutions and I mentioned it to the dev team and they said they would pass it along to “the one” team was the half time user sub glitch. It happens all too often and when I say that I mean at least 60 to 70% of the time where you (or even some team mates) do not start the 3rd quarter. It is guaranteed that you will not start the 3rd quarter if you are subbed out in the 2nd quarter with about 2 to 3 minutes left, the PC will sim till half time then start the 3rd and you may come in various times I’ve seen (11, 10, 9 minutes) remember I play on 12 per quarter – then I’ll come in and its still early and I see no Porzingis, no Lee, no Kantor. This by far is one of my biggest gripes, hopefully they look into it.
Fouls & Foul Trouble:
Although they have addressed the lack of foul calls from the initial release, there are still very few fouls called during the games, now I like the fact that there are tons of collision animations and players don’t morph through each other, but there are times when a player gets completely tackled during a layup and it just goes as a non-call, either try to address the severity of the collision so it’s just a contested layup without knocking the guy over, or call the foul when the player gets knocked out of bounds. If it were isolated then I would be like OK there is a realism factor of a call being a judgement call to the official, but there are lots of collisions and so-called hard fouls that just go unnoticed. That brings me to foul trouble, I have seen a total of 2 foul outs in all of the games I have played and nobody with 4 or 5 fouls in foul trouble ever. To get the real sim feeling increase the fouls a little more not to over the top and we can possible get that feeling. And just as an FYI I have all the foul sliders raised up to 100
I know a lot of you guys are online guys and I do get on from time to time and some of you are franchise guys which I haven’t dabbled into yet, so that’s why this was strictly for “The One” mode I don’t know how many of you guys are hard core Career mode players like me, I do love how it plays I just would like to see a little more improvement to make it even better. Now when it comes to enhancements in the story mode i.e. practice courts a house anything to add to the player career experience and things like that I’ll save that for “Wish List” the one thing I listed below – this post was strictly for game play purposes.
“wish list item for 18 maybe, 19 for sure please thanks!”
The last thing I would like added is just purely cosmetic. I would like for you to be able to select which jersey you can wear home or away, we should be able to select that from the lobby. Just to give the user more options to wear the new jerseys during career mode instead of only franchise mode.
If any of you guys are hardcore the one mode players and noticed anything that needs to be addressed, the dev team is really cool and responsive and a great group of guys (if you ask nicely) they will try and get it done.
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