Difficulty now on All-Star for Round 3 of Supermax

[EarvGotti]

Was hoping they put it on Superstar but at least they listened to the feedback and made the change up one.

Let's see how the game plays now. Haven't tried it yet myself but have a few friend that confirmed its on all-star and that it plays better now.

Let me know your feedback after playing on this difficulty

[Bi00]

Re: Difficulty now on All-Star for Round 3 of Supermax

Well last year all-star was actually serviceable when you didn't have mismatched difficulty. I remember friendlies that even in later stages of the game were competitive and defense heavy.

Not surprised that they didn't jump immediately to Superstar but I hope they eventually make the switch.

[UnbelievablyRAW]

Re: Difficulty now on All-Star for Round 3 of Supermax

People finally miss open 3's now. The new meta from the games I've played is to just drive the ball relentlessly until your CPU fouls the player or they make a contested layup or dunk (or if they have Shaq, miss 7 times in a row and get the offensive rebound over and over again)

Its still annoying af to play but its better now

[kabamaru]

Re: Difficulty now on All-Star for Round 3 of Supermax

I still won'tplay until SS. I can't imagine a team hand picked playing at All-star.

This and the weekends factor

[justlaze]

Re: Difficulty now on All-Star for Round 3 of Supermax

this is a step in the right direction. now they only need to realize that it was the dumbest idea to have weekends without the main online mode.

[Bubba13laze]

Re: Difficulty now on All-Star for Round 3 of Supermax

this is a step in the right direction. now they only need to realize that it was the dumbest idea to have weekends without the main online mode.

This is a super easy fix. Change the dates of future rounds and voila. I imagine season 2 will include weekends.

[isdatyt]

Re: Difficulty now on All-Star for Round 3 of Supermax

It still doesn't matter. There are so many problems now with this mode.

They have to fix their contact system or nerf some of these guys. 2K responded to us complaining about minimal drives to allowing people to drive at will. Something in a few guys coding allows them to unrealistically drive past ANYONE regardless of ratings. No way Westbrook can consistently drive past LeBron or Kawhi. Same with Penny. Guys like LeBron or Giannis are the only players who should consistently be able to drive on anybody. Westbrook isn't strong enough to move LeBron out of the way. Strength rating has to come into play somewhere.

This force field players still have around them. I used to call it the rubber man. It's when somehow, your defender gets stuck in an animation or completely bumped out of the picture even if you did nothing. It happens on drives to the basket, where your stationary defender randomly gets pushed through the air to make room for the layup. It happens when guarding post players who use too many moves. Anytime I'm guarding a player down low, if he does multiple pump fakes my guy just moves out of the way and clears the lane for a free bucket.

Lastly! This wasn't in game before recently, but turbo cheese is back. I just played a guy where every play, his guys were back on offense before most of my guys crossed half court. I don't know how, and the worst part is I have great defenders. Jo Jo White, Pistol Pete, Wes Unseld, and Dikembe. My only mediocre defender in this lineup is Bryon Russell, yet every play somebody was driving to the bucket or draining an open three because my defenders were stuck behind the action tweeting about the last bucket they got.

I worked my tail off for this team. I already have 3 diamonds. They took over 163 wins to unlock. Not to mention the sets you have to complete and those logos that have increased like 400% in cost. I don't expect to be carried by my player's ratings but when I work that hard to unlock them, I expect them to act like they have some sort of basketball IQ when they aren't being controlled by me. I know that I can't win them all and I'm okay with that. If a guy beats me because my on-ball is trash, or his post game is crazy, or maybe he's so in tune with the playbook that he gets open looks all game, fine. But when I lose because of one of the three things mentioned above, it's annoying. None of those things are under my power. I don't know if it happens in PNO because I've had every single PNO opponent quit on me before halftime, but this is super annoying.

[Bi00]

Re: Difficulty now on All-Star for Round 3 of Supermax

Did you play games today or are you talking about previous rounds? It sounds like you are talking about blow by animations and that happens to everyone because of the Pro difficulty. Also, slow transition defense has always been a thing in 2K. You gotta run your guys back.

[UnbelievablyRAW]

Re: Difficulty now on All-Star for Round 3 of Supermax

Did you play games today or are you talking about previous rounds? It sounds like you are talking about blow by animations and that happens to everyone because of the Pro difficulty. Also, slow transition defense has always been a thing in 2K. You gotta run your guys back.

Kinda hard to when your whole team is celebrating a layup

[isdatyt]

Re: Difficulty now on All-Star for Round 3 of Supermax

Did you play games today or are you talking about previous rounds? It sounds like you are talking about blow by animations and that happens to everyone because of the Pro difficulty. Also, slow transition defense has always been a thing in 2K. You gotta run your guys back.

Nah I've played 6 supermax games today. One early this morning before the cap went live, then 5 actual games. I went from Sapphire to Amethyst league and in every game I seen one or more of the things I mentioned. Couple guys quit once I had them figured out. Two guys just had the perfect lineup for this BS to work.

And I can't manually run 5 individual guys back. I usually only have to run my center back but for some reason, all my guys were sluggish today even though I always put on the setting to prevent fast breaks. I don't mind having to sprint back with my center, but when my back court players and small forwards are consistently getting dusted, it's a problem. I didn't even mention that it was Carnelo and Porzingis were doing most of the running on his end. These aren't exactly speed demons, but my entire lineup is based off of defense, speed, and shooting.

Also, how has Penny's cap not risen? I've only played maybe 3 guys in this mode that didn't run him. I mean I obviously don't have the numbers, but I actually see him a lot more than other guys.

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[Bi00]

Re: Difficulty now on All-Star for Round 3 of Supermax

Yeah I know what you are talking about with the sluggish players. About 40% of my online games have that lag/sluggishness and the rest run pretty smoothly. When the game turns into "gamespeed-zero setting", it's almost impossible to play on-ball defense. It's a struggle compensating for the poor AI defense on every single play.

I'm going to play my games tonight and see how different it is. I'm so used to the cheese now and I just hope the game gives us some tools to fight it. If they just tuned down some of the 3pt %s, it would be so much better so you could help off the bigs.

And this round they capped all Rubys at 400. Penny is obviously the most popular Ruby and those other 100 dunk tendencies reward players are deadly as well.

[Fakename22]

Re: Difficulty now on All-Star for Round 3 of Supermax

It sucks that all rubys are capped at 400. That kinda makes it pointless to go after less popular rewards.

Penny should be the same price as JoJo White.

[harryl]

Re: Difficulty now on All-Star for Round 3 of Supermax

Was it at All-Star or Pro for the pre-season period over the weekend? I played three "pre-season" games (though only first registered) and it didn't feel different to me. Some opponent's Thon Maker nailed a half-court halftime-buzzer heave and I wasn't even surprised.

[Fakename22]

Re: Difficulty now on All-Star for Round 3 of Supermax

Was it at All-Star or Pro for the pre-season period over the weekend? I played three "pre-season" games (though only first registered) and it didn't feel different to me. Some opponent's Thon Maker nailed a half-court halftime-buzzer heave and I wasn't even surprised.

I played one preseason game and it had to be on Pro.

Thon Maker was absolutely unstoppable. Made Ruby Roy Hibbert , Gold Raef LaFrentz, Emerald Drummond and Emerald Brendan Haywood look silly.

He grabbed every board, scored in the paint at will, barely missed shots. I mean it was nuts. I won the game though by cheesing him at the end. Hit him with the FT glitch and he missed a FT that wouldve sent it into OT. serves him right

Thon had 33 and 17 boards. He did not take him out of the game also. Game was effing trash and it was sad that Supermax been on Pro all this time. Like who at 2k thought hey this would be cool.

[Bi00]

Re: Difficulty now on All-Star for Round 3 of Supermax

Played 6 games lost 1 and game play feels MUCH improved. 5 out super try hards are tough to beat but that's always been the case every year. At least now I can hold off bad players to under 10 points a quarter like it should be. Hopefully, they bump it to Superstar soon.