Difficulty levels, shooting % and balance

[sirio994]

What happened to difficulty levels?


We all read Mike’s blog. He told that anybody would have found some kind of balance. I also remember DaCzar talking about a future NBA2K without boosts. But after testing the game i’m thinking that they left out the majority of us (who were playing on superstar/sim).


All-Star gives the user some boosts and superstar/hall of fame does the same in the other direction. Speaking about that aspect NBA2k17 is a huge stepback.


I’m really surprised they didn’t try to recreate that level of competition and i’m even more surprised by the absence of an in-between (with no boosts at all or so).


And i forgot to mention those sky-high shooting percentages…


Probably the devs are going to fix the game (percentages and sliders), but it’s pretty clear that 2k17 failed badly to provide a balanced experience out of the box.


If not, it will be a long long year for those who don’t like to mess up with sliders...
Unless they deliberately created an arcade game for a 8 year old kid.

[DonWuan]

How long have you had the game?

Can you post a quarter length of you playing?

[Simhead23]

You probably play on low minutes. The percentages are crazy on small minutes. Around higher minutes it should balance out, unless you want to miss every shot on a five minute game.

[extremeskins04]

Quote: Originally Posted by sirio994

What happened to difficulty levels? We all read Mike’s blog. He told that anybody would have found some kind of balance. I also remember DaCzar talking about a future NBA2K without boosts. But after testing the game i’m thinking that they left out the majority of us (who were playing on superstar/sim). All-Star gives the user some boosts and superstar/hall of fame does the same in the other direction. Speaking about that aspect NBA2k17 is a huge stepback. I’m really surprised they didn’t try to recreate that level of competition and i’m even more surprised by the absence of an in-between (with no boosts at all or so). And i forgot to mention those sky-high shooting percentages… Probably the devs are going to fix the game (percentages and sliders), but it’s pretty clear that 2k17 failed badly to provide a balanced experience out of the box. If not, it will be a long long year for those who don’t like to mess up with sliders... Unless they deliberately created an arcade game for a 8 year old kid.

How much of a sample size have you done to determine this?

[iam31yearsold]

Czar just broke down how the difficulty is this year in his streams on youtube.