NBA 2K17 MyTEAM Blog, Featuring Associate Producer Peter Cornforth

[Ball2Win3]

Re: NBA 2K17 MyTEAM Blog, Featuring Associate Producer Peter Cornforth

Really looking forward to MyTeam this year and what it has to offer. It sounds more in depth and worth the rewards once achieved. And, since I'm not one to spend extra money in order to buy packs, the new MyTeamOnline will make the games matter that much more to me in order to get better cards.

My favorite thing from that blog was finally getting rewarded for playing defense. I would have great defensive games but only finish with like 600-700 MyTeam coins last year. So this will be a nice addition to the experience. Only a couple more days I can't wait!


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[harryl]

Re: NBA 2K17 MyTEAM Blog, Featuring Associate Producer Peter Cornforth

Lots of nice improvements. Looks like they will make it easier to generate MT through gameplay and also win worthwhile, higher-end rewards through gameplay.

A couple things not discussed that I was hoping to find out about more:

Custom Team Uniforms/Courts

Will we be able to have more than one stored? Would really be great to be able to switch identities between stored created ones, rather than create them anew if one wants to switch.

MyTeam Blacktop Controls

Would like to know if they still will not allow us to determine our own defensive assignments and settings. I get they want to keep it casual and take out stuff like P'n'R defensive settings or even whether a guy gets denied off-ball or whatever.

But I think we should at least get control over matchups, instead of being forced to go by height. I.e. many times I'll have a team of on which my two shorter players are Isaiah Thomas and Michael Jordan and the other team's smaller two are Chris Paul and Raja Bell. The way it is in 2K16 Gauntlet is that I have to have Isaiah defend CP3, and have MJ defend Bell. But I'd much rather put MJ on CP3 and put IT on the guy who may be taller, but who is not much of a slashing or post-up threat.

[dwnz]

Re: NBA 2K17 MyTEAM Blog, Featuring Associate Producer Peter Cornforth

They've still tied MT requirements with Domination. That is a shame.

I feel like that mode has a lot more potential if they simply up'ed the difficulty and removed the MT requirements.

[tt500]

Re: NBA 2K17 MyTEAM Blog, Featuring Associate Producer Peter Cornforth

Lots of nice improvements. Looks like they will make it easier to generate MT through gameplay and also win worthwhile, higher-end rewards through gameplay.

A couple things not discussed that I was hoping to find out about more:

Custom Team Uniforms/Courts

Will we be able to have more than one stored? Would really be great to be able to switch identities between stored created ones, rather than create them anew if one wants to switch.

MyTeam Blacktop Controls

Would like to know if they still will not allow us to determine our own defensive assignments and settings. I get they want to keep it casual and take out stuff like P'n'R defensive settings or even whether a guy gets denied off-ball or whatever.

But I think we should at least get control over matchups, instead of being forced to go by height. I.e. many times I'll have a team of on which my two shorter players are Isaiah Thomas and Michael Jordan and the other team's smaller two are Chris Paul and Raja Bell. The way it is in 2K16 Gauntlet is that I have to have Isaiah defend CP3, and have MJ defend Bell. But I'd much rather put MJ on CP3 and put IT on the guy who may be taller, but who is not much of a slashing or post-up threat.

Yea they better give us the ability to control the defense in Blacktop. It's gonna be a annoying already with technical fouls in rewards, I hated losing in gauntlet because of being unable to change the defense.

Hoping they fixed the automatic double team when someone drives, that led to way too many easy 3s from elite players when a scrub drives. I want to be able to go man to man.

[juicey79]

Dissapointed no era specific Kobe Bryant....I expected Kobe to look like his era specific self

[snocone]

Re: NBA 2K17 MyTEAM Blog, Featuring Associate Producer Peter Cornforth

so things that caught my eye,

- no more team balls for playing 20k for a collection
- actual rewards/locking people in
- no more lineup restrictions.

I actually liked the bronze games to a extent. but this takes me back to 2k14. I can't wait for day 1 super teams vs bronzes and the trail card haha

I think they mentioned smart matchmaking to prevent bronze vs super team matchups

[Lord Bonium]

Re: NBA 2K17 MyTEAM Blog, Featuring Associate Producer Peter Cornforth



Matchmaking based on overall is definitely great news imo. I've personally been wanting something like that since the 2k13. Even longer actually, before myteam even existed. I've always liked using realistic (nba finals level, not all star or dream team) lineups.

[MFDOOMBOT]

Re: NBA 2K17 MyTEAM Blog, Featuring Associate Producer Peter Cornforth

Ugh just noticed they eliminated all historic bronze and silver players...not a fan of that. There were a lot of notable and useful historic players below gold. Shooting specialists like Hubert Davis or Dell Curry for example. Definitely needed to weed out some trash but that's throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

Edit: looking at the screenshots of team collections, many are traditionally bronze/silver historic players...so I'm not sure what is actually being referred to in the blog.

I think they're all going to be at least gold now. I'm assuming that the former bronze/silver historic will either no longer exist, or will have a gold moments version of their best season, game, era.

[MFDOOMBOT]

Re: NBA 2K17 MyTEAM Blog, Featuring Associate Producer Peter Cornforth

Matchmaking based on overall is definitely great news imo. I've personally been wanting something like that since the 2k13. Even longer actually, before myteam even existed. I've always liked using realistic (nba finals level, not all star or dream team) lineups.

Now I can run my All-Time Knicks squad all year without worrying of running into an all diamond "God Squad"

Am excited.

[packermatt]

I was hoping that Domination rewards would reward real basketball instead of just MT. It was just hyper speed fast break, pass to post, turnaround jumper to get assist & post move then let the other team score quickly. Maybe there are some changes that reward MT for margin of victory or strong defense, but I haven't seen anything yet. It was always frustrating to win by 30 and not get enough MT

[NoLeafClover]

Re: NBA 2K17 MyTEAM Blog, Featuring Associate Producer Peter Cornforth

Sigh, still no real reason to use a wide variety of historic or role players. Prepare for another year of encountering Westbrook/Curry/Lebron/Durant/Davis over and over again...

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[abcfinest]

Im glad you can see your whole team on one screen to manage your lineup. I hope we don't have to collect 100 cards just to create our team jerseys, logo and arena. I only play road to the playoffs. Im gone give some other modes a try this year. Myteam blacktop might be fun.