NBA 2K12 Patch 1.03 Available Now, Post Impressions Here (PS3, 360)

[JWiLL02]

Re: NBA 2K12 Patch v1.03 to be released on XBox 360 soon!

Just played two OA games that were both disconnected mid game because "the league was advancing", despite the fact that there was 4 hours left on the clock when we began the first game.

It simmed both games, and of course I lost both sims. This never happened to me before the patch, though I heard it did during actual advancements...which is still stupid if you're mid game, but whatever.

Not surprised that something else breaks while they attempt to tweak other completely unrelated aspects of the game. Seems right in line with 2k and their online performance lately.

Online Association just feels like a massive waste of time right now. I've been active in the league, yet I'm 12-8 with 6 of those losses being simmed. It's just not right.

[abcfinest]

Re: NBA 2K12 Patch 1.03 Available Now, Post Impressions Here (PS3, 360)

online ps3 post patch is playing pretty good. im hearing people say they dont see a difference. what are you guys playing then? three's are toned down. im getting more defensive stops. if you are still getting three's reigned on you post patch then u just have to do a better job on defense. i agree its alot of blocks but if u play smart u can limit them. they still need to patch them. steals are toned down but there are no fouls being called. people online are reaching for steals every play. once they fix the blocks and reaching fouls and hopefully up the difficult setting to superstar sim or hof default/sim. this game online would be great to me. im not having much problems offline cause i just adjust sliders. i wont play myplayer until they fix the trade logic and hopefully this lockout ends tonight

[abcfinest]

Re: NBA 2K12 Patch 1.03 Available Now, Post Impressions Here (PS3, 360)

im a basketball player. a true basketball fan. i was a all county point guard in high school. wasnt good enough for a division 1 scholarship or should i say wasnt tall enough lol im only 5'8. but i just be laughing at people posts. you guys must just be weak in this game. im blowing cheesers out. know way im gonna let a person with no basketball knowledge beat me in this game or anygame that just dont make since. this game is moving in the right direction though. i hate when people say nothing has changed. we are not playing the same game then. cause i see a big difference post patch. but people are just bums in this game and cant stand it. im 21-11 online. since post patch im about 8-3. lost to all sim type players. beat all cheesers. if u include stealing passes as cheese then everybody cheese. the game is flawed at passing but then again nba 2k all ways been this way. its just easy to steal passes period. just adjust to the person you are playing

[NINJAK2]

Re: NBA 2K12 Patch v1.03 to be released on XBox 360 soon!

But should the people that actually KNOW how to play smart basketball suffer because the majority of consumers DON'T know? You would think that a more skilled player would have an advantage rather than someone who knows "how to make the shot go in right in the defenders face" for example. I thought that's why the created different game styles. Casual was for those who just wanted to jump in and have fun and sim for us who know what the hell we're doing. I agree with you they need separate lobbies though. That would solve a lot of my beef with the game online.

No they shouldn't TalenT. Quote the rest of my post and you would see that I want a sim game as much as Mos or yourself. I just understand that these sports games have to appeal to a broader fan base than just me-it sucks. Should people have to play sim (whatever parameters you deam that to be)75-100% of the time in order to win ball games? I'd love it to be this way but 2k is just not made specifically for 20 year old sim heads alone, it has to be fun for your younger nieces,brothers, sisters, nephews, casual fans,etc. The fact that they don't have lobbies has made this a bigger deal online especially. In order to play ranked games, we are stuck with the settings 2k designated.

Ranked games need to have lobbies for each setting HOF-Default, HOF-Sim, Pro-default, Pro-sim,etc. Believe me TalenT I share some of the same grievances as you. Tweak passing speed/accuracy(or reduce defender reaction speed to passes), and add more reach in fouls are really my biggest complaints pre/post patch. Right now passers need to pivot,gather, before passing (which is realistic)giving defense an advantage. Right now, the defenders can just react to passes no matter what direction they are facing without going thru the pivot, gather which makes things very tough on passers. If defenders were subject to the same laws as passers, the speed of the passing would be ok in it's present form. Intercepting passes in real life is more about anticipation than just reaction but in 2k12 it's based on reaction. IRL anticipating too early or too late should get you in trouble or out of position but right now we can simply react and not really be punished.

[Sundown]

Re: NBA 2K12 Patch v1.03 to be released on XBox 360 soon!

LOL, staying off topic, Dragon Rising does have prone. You just have to hold the left stick to go to it. And like you, I also like the Rainbow Six and Ghost Recon series, although I wish both series would return to their roots.

Wait, I think Dragon Rising didn't have lean. That's what bugged me. I think lean or some cover system (preferably not 3rd person) is necessary for any tactical shooter, though I can see it being not as big a deal in an outdoorsy one. Still, no lean or way of using cover well kind of demotes it to sub-realistic in my opinion. Oh, and when I said Operation Flashpoint made things too difficult and unnatural, I meant the old Operation Flashpoint which later because the ARMA series.

Actually the first few Ghost Recon games started Red Storm's trend of moving away from nuanced damage and weapons modelling, which was why I had a hard time getting fully into them. I really enjoyed the GRAWs on the consoles though, even though they were semi-casual games, because they looked so visually authentic.

And man, do I miss being able to plan an intricate 3 entry, 3 minute embassy takedown in Rainbow Six.

Back on topic: Taking the girlfriend analogy further, 2K11 was the pretty hot red head ex-girlfriend who wasn't perfect but was fun enough. You worked through most of your issues together, and she made some changes for the relationship. Plus you really dug red heads.

2k12 is the new blond girlfriend who all your friends claim is hotter, but you're kind of bugged by the crook in her nose. She's wittier, tells better jokes, and conversation is more interesting, but man does she have issues-- and you find more and more excuses to not to hang out with her.

[belliveau1918]

Re: NBA 2K12 Patch 1.03 Available Now, Post Impressions Here (PS3, 360)

I'm still experiencing framerate issues during offline play.

I've downloaded the patch, is there another step I need to take?

[raiy0]

Re: NBA 2K12 Patch 1.03 Available Now, Post Impressions Here (PS3, 360)

heres the patch for those of you without xbox live, insert it into the cache folder of your HDD

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=BILOR1LS

Thank you alot bro!

[TheKasmar]

Re: NBA 2K12 Patch 1.03 Available Now, Post Impressions Here (PS3, 360)

The gameplay is alot smoother and connecting to games is much faster.

I'm so used to people spamming the steal button, I cant really tell you if there are less steals on-ball.

After a few more games, the contested 3's are slightly toned down. If somebody knows a player's release and hotzone, then they can still be overly effective.

[domidomdomz]

Re: NBA 2K12 Patch 1.03 Available Now, Post Impressions Here (PS3, 360)

Played a Ranked Game and bunch of Online Assoc games after downloading the patch.

+ Three point FG success rate is definitely toned down.
+ Searching for match is definitely improved.

- Framerate issue still happens a lot on Online Assoc game, but only against the CPU. Did not notice it much when playing against human (online).

[dbak1111]

Re: NBA 2K12 Patch 1.03 Available Now, Post Impressions Here (PS3, 360)

Kind of had my hopes up that I'd be able to actually play an OA game without getting dropped and simmed after this patch... butnahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh 19 seconds in, get dropped lose the game. Gonna miss the playoffs as I've only gotten to play 3 games from start to end (won them all) and rest have either dropped out or i've lost to the cpu hitting every contested shot. I'd be happy to lose vs ppl If I actually got the chance to play the game out, not being able to reset games is an absolute farce.

Is anything going to happen wrt advancement times speeding up. Ours has gone from 6 hours to 3 hours and you best start a game with 3 hours to go for fear it will get simmed due to "League advancing" .

[TeddyKGB]

Re: NBA 2K12 Patch 1.03 Available Now, Post Impressions Here (PS3, 360)

There's no doubts there were changes. <b>The lane is more open</b>, stars are more dominant. Now there seems to be some more in lane animations in air. One bad thing is it dsnt seem they addressed the my player issue where your stats get recorded an every game is your first NBA game announcement.
overall a good job though, plays much better!

This is absolutely true. I just played a game with the Knicks (first since the patch) and there was far less traffic in the lane. Never had a game like it since I started with 2K12. It's nice to see at least one of my issues remedied. I'm actually holding out a lot of hope for the "big" patch now.

[DaTwolves21]

Re: NBA 2K12 Patch 1.03 Available Now, Post Impressions Here (PS3, 360)

Two things I have noticed are that the game plays much faster, I have it on 44 but I swear it plays faster. 2nd thing I noticed instead of trying to feed the ball in during a pick n roll and get it deflected I noticed I can alley oop it every time and it works.

[jewelz1132]

Re: NBA 2K12 Patch 1.03 Available Now, Post Impressions Here (PS3, 360)

I'm hating the volleyball situation with rebounds now.. It's tip after tip after tip until someone grabs it. Shot percentage is way down, which is a huge plus. I was in a game where my opponent is run and shoot.. their FG was looking like Allen Iverson's. The biggest flaw to me is isomotion and post fadeaways. They both create so much separation to the point it will result in a wide open basket all the time. Ellis was killing Iguodala with the post fade, even when I guessed the direction.

[rockchisler]

Re: NBA 2K12 Patch 1.03 Available Now, Post Impressions Here (PS3, 360)

Come on now. If you follow Ronnie at all, you would know that he said the bigger gameplay patch is still in development.

Sim baller u a better man then me, u should send him a Private message and tell him to @#$% You u doo doo head.

[JWiLL02]

Re: NBA 2K12 Patch 1.03 Available Now, Post Impressions Here (PS3, 360)

So, I've played (or attempted to) 4 Online Association games today. Of the 4, one finished. The other 3 all stopped mid game for absolutely no reason and simmed as if the league was "advancing", despite there being hours left on the clock and the games being a couple weeks out on the schedule.

We have one online mode and it's broken, which the patch only seems to have made worse. Fantastic.