NBA Live 16 Demo Available For Xbox One and PS4, Post Your Impressions

[Playmakers]

Re: NBA Live 16 Demo Available For Xbox One and PS4, Post Your Impressions

Noticed the same thing with the late game AI, can be down by three and does nothing to try to make up the difference, goes for a two and plays on like there is a full game left to be played. WTH, how did this ONCE AGAIN make it IN THE GAME?????????

I think this is because Synergy is driving the decision making and there is no offensive/defensive awareness rating for each player.

Synergy if i'm not mistaken doesn't take into consideration score and time.

EA needs to code this game to recognize clock management not just in late game situations but end of QTR's aswell.

I noticed this isn't just a issue in Live but most of their Sports games seem to have late game AI issues.

Not sure how we can get it fixed this year but it should be at the top of the priority list because I'd hate to be in a playoff game and the AI goes brain dead late in games.

[Rob. D]

Re: NBA Live 16 Demo Available For Xbox One and PS4, Post Your Impressions

The demo is downloading but it did let me play Thunder vs Cavs...

And I wasn't impressed at all. The graphics are nice but the player models are way off. I mean Durant looks more buff than lebron in this game. Also the movement is stiff and unnatural . Saw a lot of quirkiness. I do like the look of the menus and ESPN presentation.

Hopefully pro am will save face for this game for me

Feeling the same way man... played the tip off mode and saw ALL the same stuff from 15 that were glaring issues. Easy paint scoring (day 1 patch??), Rocket passing/driving and weird animations all over the place. Pro Am games feel like 5 mins, hope they adjust that. Gonna play some more Pro Am but I have to know what fixes are included in the day 1 patch.

[Black_Tom_Brady]

For slow downloads, try this:

http://www.shortpause.com/blog/2014/6/4/a-short-pause-remedy-for-slow-download-speeds-on-playstation-consoles

I was at 4 hours left, and I changed it, and it's now 73 minutes left. I used the google addresses.

what about slow installation??

[WTF]

Re: NBA Live 16 Demo Available For Xbox One and PS4, Post Your Impressions

It's the same. It's downloading in the background, while you play the Cavs vs Thunder. It says "Installing" but it's truly downloading the other 24GB worth of files and installing at the same time.

So you can play the Cavs vs Thunder finals game after the initial 4GB has downloaded, but the rest of it will be locked while it's "installing"/downloading the rest of the game/demo.

[siraulo234]

Re: NBA Live 16 Demo Available For Xbox One and PS4, Post Your Impressions

Is there any way to change icon passing so you only press R1 then press the icon instead of holding R1 + icon?

[G5XL]

It's the same. It's downloading in the background, while you play the Cavs vs Thunder. It says "Installing" but it's truly downloading the other 24GB worth of files and installing at the same time.

So you can play the Cavs vs Thunder finals game after the initial 4GB has downloaded, but the rest of it will be locked while it's "installing"/downloading the rest of the game/demo.

Is it the same? The initial 4gb downloaded in 20 minutes for me, that was at 3:30pm.
It's 8:20pm now and it's at 19gb. This is crazy. Playstation has to step there game up.

[WTF]

Re: NBA Live 16 Demo Available For Xbox One and PS4, Post Your Impressions

Agreed, PSN needs to step its game up big time. I'm sick of the waiting.

[LiquidGotti]

Re: NBA Live 16 Demo Available For Xbox One and PS4, Post Your Impressions

the game is not bad at all

[LiquidGotti]

Re: NBA Live 16 Demo Available For Xbox One and PS4, Post Your Impressions

Agreed, PSN needs to step its game up big time. I'm sick of the waiting.

the install for the game has nothing to do with psn. thats EA and the way they have their files set up, in the download

[GisherJohn24]

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I think this is because Synergy is driving the decision making and there is no offensive/defensive awareness rating for each player.

Synergy if i'm not mistaken doesn't take into consideration score and time.

EA needs to code this game to recognize clock management not just in late game situations but end of QTR's aswell.

I noticed this isn't just a issue in Live but most of their Sports games seem to have late game AI issues.

Not sure how we can get it fixed this year but it should be at the top of the priority list because I'd hate to be in a playoff game and the AI goes brain dead late in games.

Agreed. Goes,along with the problem of the AI not subbing or any time outs. That was never fixed in 15 either. So def a concern at launch of 16.

[GisherJohn24]

Re: NBA Live 16 Demo Available For Xbox One and PS4, Post Your Impressions

Is there any way to change icon passing so you only press R1 then press the icon instead of holding R1 + icon?

No. I wish that was adjustable too. A

Does anyone know how to turn off that guarding line of who u Should be defending ? I want that off. It's quite distracting.

[Walt Frazier]

Re: NBA Live 16 Demo Available For Xbox One and PS4, Post Your Impressions

Good job Live team....movement finally feels good man...feels like basketball. You can finally take angles in this gen.


Love the presentation and all the on court diagrams...I'm a fan of the pick control, great idea there. Also love the contextual animations navigating through them...




The late game A.I is STILL bad- we gotta get this fixed fellas..


Up 3 with :34 seconds left...


Intentional foul at :32
I hit 1 of 2
CPU runs the clock down to 8 seconds and shoots a contested 2 pointer

WOW...that is HORRIBLE.


AGAIN.


I kept LIVE 15 as they promised it would be fixed "soon".


A patch never came to fix it.


Clear by this point it is PERMANENT.


The ultimate game killer...horrendous late game AI.


I always buy LIVE, but not this year. Not with the late game AI big still there.


Thanks for letting us know.

[Walt Frazier]

Re: NBA Live 16 Demo Available For Xbox One and PS4, Post Your Impressions

I think this is because Synergy is driving the decision making and there is no offensive/defensive awareness rating for each player.

Synergy if i'm not mistaken doesn't take into consideration score and time.

EA needs to code this game to recognize clock management not just in late game situations but end of QTR's aswell.

I noticed this isn't just a issue in Live but most of their Sports games seem to have late game AI issues.

Not sure how we can get it fixed this year but it should be at the top of the priority list because I'd hate to be in a playoff game and the AI goes brain dead late in games.

They promised to fix it for LIVE 14 and 15. Never did.


CLEARLY cannot be fixed at this point.

[Gotmadskillzson]

Re: NBA Live 16 Demo Available For Xbox One and PS4, Post Your Impressions

Thank goodness for sliders, because I'm definitely going to adjust some things. I find the shooting to be inconsistent for the USER and the CPU to be able to hit step back 3's way too much. LeBron is a dunk monster. Wall is a dunk monster too, his damn speed is insane. One moment you in front of him, the next he is gone, haha.

I can't seem to get the play calling to work. I hold L1 and move RS. Player is selected but I see no plays appearing afterwards. I also noticed the CPU pretty much just stands still and don't seem to run plays at all. Offball movement seem to be nonexistent most of the time. Almost like the game is just a 1 on 1 fest.

Going to mess with some sliders and see if it changes anything. Dribble hand offs are nice, I just wish the hand off guy will just stay still and stop moving in the direction I want to go after he hands it off. He gets in the way 99% of the time after the hand off.

Noah is a rebounding monster. I wish the CPU automatically goes up strong after a rebound, they tend to do unnecessary stuff most of the time after a rebound. Live 16 made some strides, the most important one are sliders. Hopefully next year they add more sliders and maybe some team specific sliders.

[Basketball Nate]

Re: NBA Live 16 Demo Available For Xbox One and PS4, Post Your Impressions

I'm enjoying this demo more than Madden 16, a few animations could be cleaned up but the gameplay is fun and I feel like teams play to their exact playing styles.