Please tell me "speed boost" is gone in NBA2K18

[nyk_fatboy]

ever since 2k16 its been the most abusive, cheesiest, no skill required exploit move in the game when dribbling. it doesnt need to be toned down more but removed from the game completely. making stamina relevant doesnt cure this bs move its like putting a band-aid on a bullet wound.

players actually think their good because speed boost can carry them it takes alot of fun out the game seeing people rely on the same one move. tutorials all over youtube about speed boosting it needs to be eliminated or completely redone. playing against guards over and over trying to shift my body in the right angle just so they can take advantage of an animation burst is beyond lame.

[TreJayMMA]

Re: Please tell me "speed boost" is gone in NBA2K18

Nope its in 2k18

[Housh123]

Re: Please tell me "speed boost" is gone in NBA2K18

Well it exists in real life so it should be in games


The real problem is the lack of defensive speed

If you've seen Kyrie or Russell play then you know speed boosting does exist.

But if you've seen Kawhi and Patrick Beverly play you know that SOME defenders are really good at keeping up with moves. 2k just didn't give defenders enough tools to combat the best speed boosters. The best on ball defender Iv ever played with is still just basically nothing without the square button

Then when you speed boost on top of getting a brick wall screen it made the game unbearable. Brick wall screens are gone so there's step one to fixing the game


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[killaxxbearsxxx]

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Yeah I don't know why people like to play like that. It's like they'd rather play 2k than play basketball, then complain about how 2k sucks, like it's not a basketball game.

At this point it's whatever though. I really only ever have a problem with it in park because there usually isn't enough players on the court to force them deep into their reads and passes. But in pro-am, you can force them to still play basketball through all of that. Whether that's forcing him into help, hedging, switching on screens etc. At some point he has to make a decision. I feel like as long as I can take away that first option and force them to go into their second or third, then I'm forcing him to play basketball through all of that and that's all I ask for.

[jfsolo]

Re: Please tell me "speed boost" is gone in NBA2K18

What people think of as speed boosting(rightly so) may be gone and what they perceive of as still being speed boosting is actually triple threat explosion actually working now. I base this opinion off of things that Mike said in the Game Informer article:

"Sometimes in the past you'd try to cut and it might be really fast or really slow based on whatever animation you happened to get. So this year the animations are kind of being built on the fly. We throw all these animations into a blender essentially, and there is nothing predetermined with it. It's all built as you move around the court. To get that to look just as good as it has always looked is where the challenge was, but I think the feel is one of the first things that is immediately apparent to people. When they play, it just feels like you are completely in control of your guy now. You're not a slave to whatever animations fire off."

The fluidity of motion and differentiation in player ability in NBA 2K18 were the next things I noticed after the dramatic increase in graphical fidelity. Players leading a fastbreak don't seem to lose momentum as easily as they did in the past when receiving a pass. It's easier to blow past defenders with elite players like Russell Westbrook, but shutdown defenders like Jimmy Butler are hard to shake."

"Things like fastbreaks, transitions, the half-court offense, the flow of the game, the entire pace, it all kind of just works itself out and it fixes a lot of the problems that I think people had with 2K17. Last year people complained about the fact that if you got a certain dribble crossover first step animation, then you'd get a huge advantage because you shoot forward. Stuff like that made the game feel cheap. If you got the right animations to play out, that's what made you better than someone else. We didn't want that to be the case, so that's why the motion system was so crucial."

[Housh123]

Re: Please tell me "speed boost" is gone in NBA2K18

What people think of as speed boosting(rightly so) may be gone and what they perceive of as still being speed boosting is actually triple threat explosion actually working now. I base this opinion off of things that Mike said in the Game Informer article:

Aka 7 mins literally after launch people are going to be complaining about how exploding out of the triple threat is OP lol


Or how the lack of people falling on picks is unrealistic


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[Korrupted]

Re: Please tell me "speed boost" is gone in NBA2K18

Really don't understand the issues people are still having with speed boosting. In 16 the complaints were legit because players had unlimited Stamina. You can't abuse the boost for 24 seconds this year. Although the defense is a lil lackluster in 17' you can still easily stop people who hit Normal 5 or Elite 1 (two of the most popular rhythm dribbles). Everybody plays the exact same to me in Park/Stage so it's pretty predictable now. Seems like Stamina is gonna be even more of a factor in 2k18 so spamming and speed boosting will take a hit even more. I'm more so happy that brick wall has been nerfed. Bad players were hiding behind glass cleaners and brick wall a lot this year. SMH

[coachcolbert]

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thats the part i HATE. everybody does the same moves, same shots, same dunk packages, same offensive strategy to exploit 2k hotspots"

this is my main gripe with the 2k community. nobody wants to play basketball. they want to play "lookatmydribblepackage", "watchmescoreallthepointsalone", "idontunderstanddefensiveangles"

main reason im making the switch this year. cancerous community lol

[Dione2014]

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This is why 2K will never be a true simulation. When you have guys over here complaining about a basketball essentials like speed boosting (quick first step), Things start to look really stupid out there on the court. When you make a dribble move on a guy, drive to the basket, only to attempt what looks like light jogging past a defender (NBA 2k16 is a prime example), Thank the park guys for that BS.

If anything give the defense the tools to cut off the driving angles from time to time. The reality is most times you're not going to completely stop a good ball handler. The most you can hope for in most cases is a hip ride.

I get that this is just a game, But please please 2K! Don't nerf the first step. Up the defensive lateral speed if needed

[woody56]

Re: Please tell me "speed boost" is gone in NBA2K18

I understand people not liking guys spamming moves nonstop for 20 secs and it seems like 2k is going to try and nerf that in '18, but you still need the speed boost (explosive dribble) to get past guys or its just not very realistic if top ball handlers cant burst past guys

[Korrupted]

Re: Please tell me "speed boost" is gone in NBA2K18

thats the part i HATE. everybody does the same moves, same shots, same dunk packages, same offensive strategy to exploit 2k hotspots"

this is my main gripe with the 2k community. nobody wants to play basketball. they want to play "lookatmydribblepackage", "watchmescoreallthepointsalone", "idontunderstanddefensiveangles"

main reason im making the switch this year. cancerous community lol

In all honesty that kinda falls back on 2k. You can't blame the players too much. There are no where near enough GOOD signature styles to have a true variety in park or pro am. You could say the same about jumpshots as well. Majority of the community used High School 1 or Base 9. That just comes with other Releases and bases not being effective enough or High School 1 or Base 9 being too effective. I think providing a better balance should be a major focus in the future.

[Housh123]

Re: Please tell me "speed boost" is gone in NBA2K18

Really don't understand the issues people are still having with speed boosting. In 16 the complaints were legit because players had unlimited Stamina. You can't abuse the boost for 24 seconds this year. Although the defense is a lil lackluster in 17' you can still easily stop people who hit Normal 5 or Elite 1 (two of the most popular rhythm dribbles). Everybody plays the exact same to me in Park/Stage so it's pretty predictable now. Seems like Stamina is gonna be even more of a factor in 2k18 so spamming and speed boosting will take a hit even more. I'm more so happy that brick wall has been nerfed. Bad players were hiding behind glass cleaners and brick wall a lot this year. SMH

I think it's not about "it's easy to stop it now" and tolerating the BS. Back in earlier online 2k: it seemed like only a couple guys did the cheese stuff and they looked dumb because back then the cheese had solid counters. Remember euro step cheese or hop step cheese? All you had to do was not jump on it and you were good.

As a defender who most likely already had a speed disadvantage how do a combat some loser who will literally try speed boost animations for 24 seconds of a shot clock until he either gets past you or gets a brick wall screen then steps back for a 3 because apparently shooting off of a screen makes you a sharpshooter.

Too many playmakers and point forwards are hitting Curry 3s off screens because of HOF pick and roll maestro


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[nyk_fatboy]

Re: Please tell me "speed boost" is gone in NBA2K18

I understand people not liking guys spamming moves nonstop for 20 secs and it seems like 2k is going to try and nerf that in '18, but you still need the speed boost (explosive dribble) to get past guys or its just not very realistic if top ball handlers cant burst past guys

i get it but the way its done in 2k is completely unrealistic their should at least be a challenge to pull it off that takes some sort of skill or dumb it down to playstyle related.. all you have to do is make a player with 81 ball handling and weeeeeeeeee you go. At least have some animation where the player stumbles or loses the ball if your actually playing good defense. They said it was nerfed in 2k17 we saw how that turned out this year probably no different.

its decent in pro-am because of all the players on the court but in park its awful every year and the go to cheese tactic to winning games.

[Hustle Westbrook]

Re: Please tell me "speed boost" is gone in NBA2K18

I've played one or two guys that spammed that in MyTeam. I hate that crap. It's complete garbage and unrealistic.

All of them were cheesers and all of them had the same gameplan of running 5-out, calling an isolation and doing that crap.

And saying you can't explode past people in this game without doing that crap is straight up nonsense.

[JustCallMeSleepy]

Re: Please tell me "speed boost" is gone in NBA2K18

People who spam monentum crossed and spins and hopsteps repeatedly in one spot=Cancer.

People who cry and b****, and moan about using one or two speed boosts per possession to blow by a defender =Cancer and most likely trash. Simple.