[siraulo234]

A question to all of you?

what difficulty do you play this game on?

Ive played on hall of fame default for around 10+ games, casual on around 5+ games

and now tried simulation for 1 game, and wow what a difference, here's what i found with the following difficulties

default:

wow this is the hardest one imo, teams cheese so hard (yes the guy you're defending performs amazing dribble moves in traffic IN the paint, your teammate helps, his guy slides to the 'open' spot and the cpu executes the most accurate bounce pass against three defenders in the paint, yes this happens A LOT), and when you play top teams/good offensive teams, when they go on a run, look out, you cant do ****, theyll shoot 60+ FG% and hit 3s like theyre layups and to make matters worse they average 20+ FTs against you

its possible to beat mediocre teams but the weird thing is when you're on the bench the scoring is realistic and FG%, as soon as you get on court, they shoot what seems like 70+% FG%, no joke to and thats why at the end of the game theyre FG% is 50 - 60+ %

now offensively, its toughest to score a lot of points here against good defensive teams, you always get contact animations so whenever you wanna pass out of a pick and roll or want to kick out when you attack the paint, chances are you are in some type of animation and before you get to pass the ball your open team mate is now covered

also: on ball defense for some reason is the worst here, HUGE delayed reaction even if you upgrade your on ball d to 85+

casual:

default with some differences:

sig less contact animations, on ball d is much more responsive, the opposing teams get to the line less, you can beat mediocre teams but very hard to beat good teams

just like in default settings, when the cpu decides to go on a run, theyll shoot 70+% when you are in the game no problem

now simulation: i have just played one game so im gonna have to play more to test this but man what a difference, yes you can actually play defense on hall of fame and they actually miss contested shots! wow, they dont shoot 70% when ur in the game and on ball d is best here, no lag imo, you can hold that L2 and keep up with who you're guarding

we'll see if this keeps up when i play a couple more games and against top teams