Played a PRO/DEFAULT offline vs game.

[Boilerbuzz]

Haven't done that in a while. Is it me, or is the game on this setting THAT much less satisfying that AS/SIM?

I just feel like the outcomes were more random and less about the basketball decisions. Frankly, it felt gross. Or is it fine and I just like AS/SIM that much more? Meaning, are people happy with just the default settings? If you are, I'm not implying that you aren't a sim player, or that you suck. Far from it. I just want to know if that is fun to people.

[Rockie_Fresh88]

Re: Played a PRO/DEFAULT offline vs game.

I agree. Anytime I play on pro I put the on casual and increase game speed though for fun .

Hardcore I play superstar sim with default speed

[23]

Re: Played a PRO/DEFAULT offline vs game.

Since I've been experimenting with both Rookie and Pro...

What I do think you see is the AI open up more, and do more things because they aren't as restricted. You see guys like LeBron pretty aggressive and while you can run and gun a bit, you still get the miss dunks animations and other things. Its alot of fun, and if you want to make a mix, use those settings.

I also think some guys need to tone it down to that anyway because they clearly arent ready for the higher levels.

You also can still run plays and freestyle POE. The only other thing is it gets easy quick but at that point the sliders are a must if you don't want to kill the cpu.


Im going to tone it down to pro when i get to the all star game in my league and just have a ton of fun.


Normally im just SS sim and AS sim

[blues rocker]

Re: Played a PRO/DEFAULT offline vs game.

yeah, i'm at that point where i'm getting frustrated with Superstar and I'm experimenting with other settings. on
Superstar I can be competitive and can win a fair amount of games, but it was becoming clear to me that the CPU cheese is alive and well on Superstar difficulty.

On Superstar I was seeing the same pattern over an over - basically, the CPU runs a play or isolates and tries to get a good shot. if that fails, they will jack up a contested fade-away shot at the end of the shot clock and usually make it, even with the defense draped all over them. Then, I'll come down dish it off to a wide open shooter and brick the shot.

on Superstar the CPU is just not held to the same standard as the user, and that gets annoying. They are allowed to make more contested shots in order to stay in the game. Basically, the CPU is not smart enough to get enough open shots, so in order to keep them in the game, they have to hit a lot of contested hail-Mary jumpers at the end of the shot clock…otherwise you'd just blow them out every game. I guess I'm fine with this, but on Superstar the rate at which they hit these shots is a bit too high.

Last night I played a game that basically turned me off of Superstar difficulty. I was up by 2 points, the Pelicans had the ball…they try to run a play, but I prevent them from getting any open looks…so Tyreke Evans is forced to heave a contested jumper at the buzzer - he hits it to send the game to overtime. At the end of the first overtime, the same thing happens. I have the lead, the CPU has the ball...I stop the CPU's plays and they don't get a good look, so they heave another contested shot at the buzzer…they make it and send it to a second overtime. at the end of the second over time…same thing. I'm up by one point. They try a play and get nothing. Tyreke Evans has the ball. I know he's going to jack up a jumper at the buzzer so I bring my center over to DOUBLE TEAM Evans on the jumper. He heaves a shot at the buzzer while being contested by 2 DEFENDERS, one of them being my CENTER. he hits the shot at the buzzer to win the game….

bye bye Superstar. no more.

[jcmreds]

Re: Played a PRO/DEFAULT offline vs game.

I started out on Pro because I haven't played 2K in a few years. I lost my first game as the Spurs vs Dallas, but I've ran off 9 wins in a row all by double digits since.


I've been modifying the sliders, but I'm about to brave the world of All Star difficulty soon.

[Boilerbuzz]

Re: Played a PRO/DEFAULT offline vs game.

If you're killing PRO, I wouldn't bother with sliders, personally. I'd take a swing at AS just to see where you are. I'm NOT messing around with SS. Sports games aren't to the point where those can be done in a way I'd want the challenge. I want to be challenged mentally instead of basing it on how much twitch I'm good at or what cheese I find.

The game I had yesterday was certainly fun. There was just a disconnect when I actually tried to use some nominal amount of basketball strategy. I guess the best way to describe what I felt was that feeling when you're playing Street Fighter, but you're winning by just spamming punch/kick...

[Rockie_Fresh88]

Re: Played a PRO/DEFAULT offline vs game.

Playing around with allstar casual and increase game speed game is fun.

I know sim heads are shaking their heads at me

[Vni]

Re: Played a PRO/DEFAULT offline vs game.

Playing around with allstar casual and increase game speed game is fun.

Live from the SimHeads Center :

Spoiler

[JohnDoe8865]

Re: Played a PRO/DEFAULT offline vs game.

I play on Pro with fouls jacked all the way up to 100 and slight slider tweaks to help the CPU in some areas of deficiency. Also play on simulation and turn the 3pt shot tendency up to 100 for CPU.

I've won more than I've lost, but just barely. I thought I was pretty good at the game until All-Star and Superstar levels beat me down with CPU runs that I seemingly couldn't break.

Any of you AS/SS guys ever want to play online and talk to me about what I can do to improve, what I'm doing/not doing correctly, etc. I'd welcome it.

PSN ID should be under my username.

[23]

Re: Played a PRO/DEFAULT offline vs game.

Playing around with allstar casual and increase game speed game is fun.

I know sim heads are shaking their heads at me

If you just want to have fun that's fine

[ItsJustaGame]

Re: Played a PRO/DEFAULT offline vs game.

That's all I've played since like 2K11. I think I tried HOF/SIM once and All Star for a while back in the day but all that felt different was my team and I missed more shots and the other team made more, so I got frustrated and never went back because it seemed like (to me) that the only difference was missing shots, which I don't want.

[NewJerseyProdigy]

Re: Played a PRO/DEFAULT offline vs game.

Superstar/Sim was crazy hard for me. All Star/Sim felt too easy because I can make every shot. Now, I play All Star/Sim with Real Player%, its much more realistic and competitive for me. I didn't like shooting with DWill cause I was a deadly marksman.

[Goffs]

Re: Played a PRO/DEFAULT offline vs game.

Superstar/Sim was crazy hard for me. All Star/Sim felt too easy because I can make every shot. Now, I play All Star/Sim with Real Player%, its much more realistic and competitive for me. I didn't like shooting with DWill cause I was a deadly marksman.

This....if you play all star with shot timing you will have an easier time scoring BUT if you play with real shot % the game feels more balanced.

I'm not touching SS/SIM till the game gets patched....

[dmankey1]

Re: Played a PRO/DEFAULT offline vs game.

I play AS/Default with the exception of contact layups and dunks bumped up (too easy to drive and score with no contact for me and CPU) and shooting knocked down off 50 just a little. I started off on Pro/Default and it quickly got out of hand when I was winning most games by 20 (6 min quarters). I get a good mix of games with these settings. Probably 10% blowout, 30% comfortable margins and 60% comes down to fouls (1-5 point margin) whether I or the CPU win. You have to play a perfect game to get a blowout and have to player really good defense to win comfortable with 6 min quarters. Anything else and it's coming down to fouls with a narrow victory or you'll lose. Tried AS/Casual and it was just too easy to score

[tarheel4lyfe851]

Re: Played a PRO/DEFAULT offline vs game.

I am playing superstar sim with custom sliders that I found on this forum and I've had enough time for only three 12 minute quarter games: Magic v Pelicans, Mavs v Spurs, and Rockets v Lakers.

I chose against the "consensus pick" each time so I was the magic, mavs, and lakers.

Lost handily to the Pelicans after a brutal end of the (3rd) quarter run fueled by Jrue holiday, but the magic were brutally bad, liked the feel of it tho.

Mavs v Spurs was an AWESOME game... Close the whole way and I ended up winning 107-100 with dirk icing it with 9 straight free throws at the end. Very quality basketball. Very impressed.

The rockets v Lakers game, however, was a different story...

Everybody minus kobe was GOD AWFUL...wide open bricks left and right, missing layups, and just really unintelligent play making on their part (I.e throwing bounce passes when I'm not telling them to, trying to bounce pass through the defenders body when I do tell them to bounce pass, etc)

I expected Dwight to get his, and he did (34) harden got his (30)....but the X factor, being guarded by Jordan hill, mind you, was..........Joey Dorsey


WHO?!?!?! He destroyed hill on the boards and simply outplayed the lakers big men to the point where he was the third highest scorer on the rockets and they're second leading rebounder. I got blown out.

Moral of my long story, for those who decided to read it, superstar sim seems to be a mode where the bad or "lesser" teams lose (most of the time) when they should, and the good teams will play competitively.

Overall a good experience for me. I think the sliders are AES or something like that...I'd recommend them


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