Least Cheesey 2K Ever? 🤔

[guesswhozbak17]

Played for about 5 hours already.
Only played Play Now Online.

First game with Lakers vs. Celtics
Second Game with Pelicans vs. Bucks
Third with Memphis vs. vs. Cavs
Fourth with Pelicans vs. Bucks
Fifth either Warriors vs. 76ers

LOVING the new feature that forces everyone to play with different teams. If you’re good with just ONE team ONLY and can’t play with multiple different teams, you’re not a good 2K player, you’re just a good individual team user. Having to use different teams, i enjoyed playing to different teams’ strengths and also defend differently based on teams.

Seems like 2K wants their users to be become better BASKETBALL players rather than just using your favorite team/player.

I see people crying and whining about it already but those are probably users who are only good with ONE team.

Excellent job on the concept. Now to the impressions.

Lakers vs. Celtics: Kyrie was so problematic and the Celtic defense was amazing. Lakers have holes but coaching helped me prevail and dominate down the stretch with Lebron. I have to learn how to use the role players around Lebron better.

Pelicans vs. Bucks: This user wasn’t that good. Was jacking up 3s and shooting outrageously deep 3s with players who COULD shoot but aren’t Steph Curry type deep threats. That user shot humself out of the game. User was playing with a 2K18 mindset and I want to say 95% of 2K18 cheese tactics weren’t working for him.

Grizzlies vs. Cavs: My game plan was to attack Galo’s perimeter defense...it worked. This game i noticed that taking advantage of mismatches was key to success

Pelicans vs. Cavs (again): This was a beautiful game to play. This user put Greek Freak on AD and I had AD guarding Greek as well and it was such a defensive game...ultimately, it came down to Brook Lopez not being about to guard any one being my best advantage.

Warriors vs 76ers: Felt realistic. User tried to force his way with Ben Simmons but we were a able to withstand the 76er runs...RJ couldn’t hang with the Warriors.

Overall: Seeing ALOT of 2K18 tactics not working and just requiring high basketball IQ to prevail....

Please don’t need things as this seems to be great out of the box, gameplay/balanced wise.

[Bladesports]

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Played for about 5 hours already.
Only played Play Now Online.

First game with Lakers vs. Celtics
Second Game with Pelicans vs. Bucks
Third with Memphis vs. vs. Cavs
Fourth with Pelicans vs. Bucks
Fifth either Warriors vs. 76ers

LOVING the new feature that forces everyone to play with different teams. If you’re good with just ONE team ONLY and can’t play with multiple different teams, you’re not a good 2K player, you’re just a good individual team user. Having to use different teams, i enjoyed playing to different teams’ strengths and also defend differently based on teams.

Seems like 2K wants their users to be become better BASKETBALL players rather than just using your favorite team/player.

I see people crying and whining about it already but those are probably users who are only good with ONE team.

Excellent job on the concept. Now to the impressions.

Lakers vs. Celtics: Kyrie was so problematic and the Celtic defense was amazing. Lakers have holes but coaching helped me prevail and dominate down the stretch with Lebron. I have to learn how to use the role players around Lebron better.

Pelicans vs. Bucks: This user wasn’t that good. Was jacking up 3s and shooting outrageously deep 3s with players who COULD shoot but aren’t Steph Curry type deep threats. That user shot humself out of the game. User was playing with a 2K18 mindset and I want to say 95% of 2K18 cheese tactics weren’t working for him.

Grizzlies vs. Cavs: My game plan was to attack Galo’s perimeter defense...it worked. This game i noticed that taking advantage of mismatches was key to success

Pelicans vs. Cavs (again): This was a beautiful game to play. This user put Greek Freak on AD and I had AD guarding Greek as well and it was such a defensive game...ultimately, it came down to Brook Lopez not being about to guard any one being my best advantage.

Warriors vs 76ers: Felt realistic. User tried to force his way with Ben Simmons but we were a able to withstand the 76er runs...RJ couldn’t hang with the Warriors.

Overall: Seeing ALOT of 2K18 tactics not working and just requiring high basketball IQ to prevail....

Please don’t need things as this seems to be great out of the box, gameplay/balanced wise.

Good post.

I played about 3 hours offline and this game plays totally different from 2k18.

2k19 also rewards you for playing good defense.

It's going to take some getting use to because just pressing turbo to go by defenders are over.
You're going to have to really run plays now.

Also, I'm loving the new animations.

Whoever said this is the same game as last year is either hating or getting paid by EA sports to post negative comments about 2K.

[Korrupted]

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I'd say give it more time before we label it Least Cheesy. It's only Day 1. I haven't seen nothing too crazy as of yet though.

[GisherJohn24]

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cheesers find exploits in any game, give it time. lol.

But def less for sure.

[mb625]

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LOVING the new feature that forces everyone to play with different teams. If you’re good with just ONE team ONLY and can’t play with multiple different teams, you’re not a good 2K player, you’re just a good individual team user. Having to use different teams, i enjoyed playing to different teams’ strengths and also defend differently based on teams.

Seems like 2K wants their users to be become better BASKETBALL players rather than just using your favorite team/player.

I see people crying and whining about it already but those are probably users who are only good with ONE team.

Excellent job on the concept. Now to the impressions.

Ultimately, I don't mind this, as I normally don't end up using my favorite team much, but some people do... I've seen some on this board who just want to use their team (Raptors, Pacers, Magic, etc.) It's not that they couldn't be good with a different team, but they would like to use their team because, well, it's their team. I like the concept, but I wish they would at least give the option.

[ksuttonjr76]

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Played for about 5 hours already.
Only played Play Now Online.

First game with Lakers vs. Celtics
Second Game with Pelicans vs. Bucks
Third with Memphis vs. vs. Cavs
Fourth with Pelicans vs. Bucks
Fifth either Warriors vs. 76ers

LOVING the new feature that forces everyone to play with different teams. If you’re good with just ONE team ONLY and can’t play with multiple different teams, you’re not a good 2K player, you’re just a good individual team user. Having to use different teams, i enjoyed playing to different teams’ strengths and also defend differently based on teams.

Seems like 2K wants their users to be become better BASKETBALL players rather than just using your favorite team/player.

I see people crying and whining about it already but those are probably users who are only good with ONE team.

Excellent job on the concept. Now to the impressions.

Lakers vs. Celtics: Kyrie was so problematic and the Celtic defense was amazing. Lakers have holes but coaching helped me prevail and dominate down the stretch with Lebron. I have to learn how to use the role players around Lebron better.

Pelicans vs. Bucks: This user wasn’t that good. Was jacking up 3s and shooting outrageously deep 3s with players who COULD shoot but aren’t Steph Curry type deep threats. That user shot humself out of the game. User was playing with a 2K18 mindset and I want to say 95% of 2K18 cheese tactics weren’t working for him.

Grizzlies vs. Cavs: My game plan was to attack Galo’s perimeter defense...it worked. This game i noticed that taking advantage of mismatches was key to success

Pelicans vs. Cavs (again): This was a beautiful game to play. This user put Greek Freak on AD and I had AD guarding Greek as well and it was such a defensive game...ultimately, it came down to Brook Lopez not being about to guard any one being my best advantage.

Warriors vs 76ers: Felt realistic. User tried to force his way with Ben Simmons but we were a able to withstand the 76er runs...RJ couldn’t hang with the Warriors.

Overall: Seeing ALOT of 2K18 tactics not working and just requiring high basketball IQ to prevail....

Please don’t need things as this seems to be great out of the box, gameplay/balanced wise.

Calling BS. As stated above, some people just want to use their favorite team and that's it. I've been using the Pacers online, since 2K4. When I get NBA League Pass, I only watch the Pacers. When I go home to Indiana, I try to get in a Pacers game. There are people who are diehard fans of a particular team. When the Pacers sucked, I was still using them online. When they were good, I used them online. For 10+ years, I've been using the team of MY choice.

This design change was CLEARLY an attempt to prevent people from jumping on the GSW bandwagon. To say that someone isn't good, because they choose only one team is the dumbest thing I've ever read. ESPECIALLY, considering that those same diehards are mostly using teams that are not "elite" like Golden State or Boston.

[LuxLux18]

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Calling BS. As stated above, some people just want to use their favorite team and that's it. I've been using the Pacers online, since 2K4. When I get NBA League Pass, I only watch the Pacers. When I go home to Indiana, I try to get in a Pacers game. There are people who are diehard fans of a particular team. When the Pacers sucked, I was still using them online. When they were good, I used them online. For 10+ years, I've been using the team of MY choice.

This design change was CLEARLY an attempt to prevent people from jumping on the GSW bandwagon. To say that someone isn't good, because they choose only one team is the dumbest thing I've ever read. ESPECIALLY, considering that those same diehards are mostly using teams that are not "elite" like Golden State or Boston.

Even though I agree with you that people who only use one team doesn't make them bad players..... would you rather play Vs. the Warriors 95% of the time? I think this system is best.

[DC]

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Why do you dudes do this every year.

Week 1, "Cheese will be hard to come by."

Weel 30: "I am sick of the cheesers."

Cheesing takes time to develop. Nobody is online right now, give those dudes a few weeks and you will be getting your feelings hurt.

[Mintsa]

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So a die hard Sacramento Kings fans who only uses the Sacramento Kings online and is really good with them.....isn’t a good 2k player because he only uses he Sacramento Kings ???

Read that over a few times and think about.....

Those are the type of players a respect the most online. Maybe I’m just old school.......I use to play NBA 2k1 on the dreamcast online....what do I know ?

[guesswhozbak17]

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I think this decision was made more for the 2K users who ONLY use the top teams and are good with them. Not the users who use bad teams and are good with them. If you can win with the Kings consistently, you should be able to win with any team. But if you only win with the Warriors consistently...the user isn’t really that good lol.

I support the decision. Guys are going to have to learn DIFFERENT ways to win with different teams. Smart decision in my opinion

[amedawg00]

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Why do you dudes do this every year.

Week 1, "Cheese will be hard to come by."

Weel 30: "I am sick of the cheesers."

Cheesing takes time to develop. Nobody is online right now, give those dudes a few weeks and you will be getting your feelings hurt.

This gave me a good chuckle. Truer words have never been spoken from an OG 2k vet. Well stated DC.

[ksuttonjr76]

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Even though I agree with you that people who only use one team doesn't make them bad players..... would you rather play Vs. the Warriors 95% of the time? I think this system is best.

How about they just give us a way to back out of the matchup? I wasn't impacted by the bandwagoning Warrior users, because I used all versions of the Pacers. Plus, I knew how to dashboard without getting a loss.

[Hustle Westbrook]

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Lol the game hasn't even been out for 24 hours and a lot of people won't get it until Tuesday. Give them some time. Cheese needs time to sit and coagulate before it's ready to be served.

[ksuttonjr76]

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I think this decision was made more for the 2K users who ONLY use the top teams and are good with them. Not the users who use bad teams and are good with them. If you can win with the Kings consistently, you should be able to win with any team. But if you only win with the Warriors consistently...the user isn’t really that good lol.

I support the decision. Guys are going to have to learn DIFFERENT ways to win with different teams. Smart decision in my opinion

But here's the thing with PNO...beyond the 500+ VC and maybe bragging rights on the Leaderboards (which was BS anyways), there was nothing special about the mode. It was a mode where you jumped on played some games and got off. It's not used in any 2K sponsored tournaments. It's not tied to the My Career story. You don't gain any additional perks except for the 5K this year.

To me, there was no reason to overhaul the mode in this manner. We went from complete freedom of using whatever teams we like to we can only use a certain group of teams for a specific amount of time while unlocking other teams. There was a dedicated thread to this mode. The only real complaints about the mode itself was that there wasn't enough out-of-tier matchups occurring. For some people, we DON'T care about our ability to win with other teams. I'm pretty sure that I would have a 80% winning record if I bandwagon every elite team year in and year out. It's not about the wins for us. It's about playing with our favorite teams.

I'm very disappointed, because I was looking forward to using the Current, Classic, and All-Time Pacers from Day 1 with the new improved defense.

[DC]

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I think this decision was made more for the 2K users who ONLY use the top teams and are good with them. Not the users who use bad teams and are good with them. If you can win with the Kings consistently, you should be able to win with any team. But if you only win with the Warriors consistently...the user isn’t really that good lol.

I support the decision. Guys are going to have to learn DIFFERENT ways to win with different teams. Smart decision in my opinion

Man you gotta play/fight/beat whoever is in front of you. If somebody is a sucka to the point where they HAVE to use GSW, just chop them down when you play them.