NBA 2K11 Developer Insights: Expanded Playcall System

[thereginator28]

2K Sports just posted another NBA 2K11 Developer Insight. This one talks about the expanded playcall system.

"All Teams Are Not Created Equal - Each team has a base playbook of at least thirty plays that reflect their coach's philosophy and style of play. The marquis teams also have additional plays available to them that they can run for additional flavor. We created individual sets for teams as well. What this means is that even though two coaches may use a floppy set, their personnel and style may dictate that their floppy set starts differently than that of another team that runs a floppy. Now even if teams run plays that have the same end goal, the look you get from team to team will differ based on how they run it and who they run it with.

If you consider that we have well over 1000 plays across all the current and the old school NBA teams, you will see that, as a User, you have a plethora of options to vary your offense."

[Teebone21]

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my fav subject playcalling!!!

[myownsun]

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Off to read, thanks for the heads up!

[domidomdomz]

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thanks! will read it now...

[mikenoob]

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Seems like a solid improvement, can't wait to see it in action though.

[Toaster]

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Sounds really promising, waiting for the vid.

Way to stick it to the competition, starting of with the Thunder... LOL

[DETERMINOLOGY]

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Reading now

[JVal3208]

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Woah, you made this topic like 5 seconds after Ronnie tweeted it lol, good stuff.

[jeebs9]

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Awesome News!!!!

I love it 1000 plays.... scouting reports for my leagues here I come!!

Flipped plays!!!

[domidomdomz]

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Individualized Plays - Even more exciting is the fact that starters and subs have their own plays. In some cases, like for a Manu Ginobili, that means having a complete set of four new plays, while for a lesser known or skilled sub there may be only one or two available. The nicest part about it is that each play that was created really reflects how the teams try to create for a particular player’s abilities. So, you have sets where Lebron runs point, or where Rip Hamilton is coming off double screens, etc. Portland will utilize plays that have B-Roy running the point, while the Jazz will isolate Deron Williams in the post. Lamar Odom has plays for him to run the offense when he is on the court. Each player is put in the perfect light to do what we all know they do best.

Wow! This is one of my gripes about 2K's playcalling. We only had the ability to assign 4 plays to each position. Now we can assign different plays for each player (not position). Damn!

Hopefully, we can now save our playbooks and use it straight in online games or else, 3 minutes of pause will not be enough for assigning of plays to each players.

[Jano]

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Nice insight! all I need now is the demo for me to finally confirm my decision. And what's up with the vid being private I wanted to watch Czar break stuff down..

[travis72]

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This just keeps getting better and better. Oct 5 cant come soon enough!

[Set Shooter]

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Would love to see this in action. The improvements seem pretty significant across the board. The one that will make a big difference is the actual calling of the play. I'm glad they ditched the D-Pad play calling.

[jeebs9]

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^^Me too^^

Video is private!! lol Release...

[JWiLL02]

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I'm loving the LB play calling system, once I'm familiar with the play calls I'll be able to set up a play in just seconds, sounds extremely promising!

I've never really felt the need to call plays in previous games. They took too long to set up and guys didn't cut hard enough, pretty much negated any use they should have. The most effective way to play was just to drive and kick and move the defense yourself, though the wonky movement sometimes derailed offensive sets.

Make that video public! I've been dying for some Czar breakdowns, nice touch with OKC as well.