My experience with the game after patch has been frustrating do to lack of defensive tools. The L2/LT defensive stance and RT/R2 slide mechanic are broken. Occasionally if you have great position and and press LT you will body up and it will work properly as it did before the patch. HOWEVER, if you are in your defensive stance out in space your player seems to get stuck in these invisible force fields and it is very difficult to control the direction of your player. Offline ballers won't notice this as much as the cpu tends to play slow and walk at you, but if you play online with people loving to turbo everywhere you many times can get stuck not being able to cut off defenders and give up wide open lanes.
Next per the same problem, many times even with great initial position applying the trigger pressure defense will still allow your opponent to just slide on by even though you have done everything technically right. This problem is compounded by the lack of ball physicality and offensive players are allowed to recklessly dribble into traffic, your chest, or completely through you while maintaining control. Even when trying to steal while the ball is completely exposed will not jostle the ball free unless predetermined by a triggered animation. The only threat of losing the ball is doing a cross, behind the back, or spin at the wrong time running into someone.
The last crippling issue is the inability for defenders to get around anybody (either team) on the court even if they are not setting screens. Many times someone just runs into you, even your own teammate and just pushes you far away from the contest. Also after the patch the LT trigger and screen animations are playing out longer and you get stuck in these animations too long making it extremely hard to recover. When you do sprint back and then try to come to a stop it is like trying to control a semi on a slalom course.
These problems are leading to an even more increased player tendency to turbo everywhere as it is being rewarded and a high likelihood that play now online players will be strictly playing offball which is less fun for most players to play against.
Next per the same problem, many times even with great initial position applying the trigger pressure defense will still allow your opponent to just slide on by even though you have done everything technically right. This problem is compounded by the lack of ball physicality and offensive players are allowed to recklessly dribble into traffic, your chest, or completely through you while maintaining control. Even when trying to steal while the ball is completely exposed will not jostle the ball free unless predetermined by a triggered animation. The only threat of losing the ball is doing a cross, behind the back, or spin at the wrong time running into someone.
The last crippling issue is the inability for defenders to get around anybody (either team) on the court even if they are not setting screens. Many times someone just runs into you, even your own teammate and just pushes you far away from the contest. Also after the patch the LT trigger and screen animations are playing out longer and you get stuck in these animations too long making it extremely hard to recover. When you do sprint back and then try to come to a stop it is like trying to control a semi on a slalom course.
These problems are leading to an even more increased player tendency to turbo everywhere as it is being rewarded and a high likelihood that play now online players will be strictly playing offball which is less fun for most players to play against.
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