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  • Klocker
    MVP
    • Jul 2003
    • 3239

    #1

    Court Battles

    Anyone that's played this week has probably seen How They are promoting Court battles. I tinkered with it in the demo thought it was interesting but now that I fully understand it and see it as a fun (albeit slower) way to upgrade my player, I am seriously digging this mode.

    You create one team that defends your court and it gives you a reason to spend time tweaking and making your court look cool and building a good team to defend it. you get players by earning them through play time or by buying them by earning in-game currency.

    You can't put your 1 player on your Defender court but he can play against all the other court battles trying to win their courts. It's five-on-five asynchronous gameplay and the different options that can be set for rules and scoring are a nice Change-Up.

    The person with the home court can earn different scoring methods that can be implemented per game as well as handicaps that can be assigned by the home court. you get to see what players and what handicaps and rules are available for each of the games and you can pick from virtually anyone to play against.

    Although so far from what I've noticed they stay within your experience range. I am just finishing up rookie 0-4 about to become Pro 5-9 and it goes all the way up to Elite 25, for the challenge.

    They're kind of like playground games but with a nice Pace good fun basketball. It's a nice change of pace from franchise and I'm actually liking it better than the player locked one mode to be honest at the moment.

    Anyone else enjoying this mode?
  • MeowingForVengeance
    Pro
    • May 2016
    • 576

    #2
    Re: Court Battles

    I've been dabbling with it when Live Run gets tiresome as I make the slowwwwww march of maxing out my female Triple Threat. If there was a WNBA version of The League, I'd likely never have touched it, but it's been more enjoyable than I expected it to be.

    The thing I dislike most about Court Battles is that everyone's using some combination of the same 10 or so players. I imagine this will be less of a problem as people continue to play and unlock more players.

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    • The 24th Letter
      ERA
      • Oct 2007
      • 39373

      #3
      Re: Court Battles

      How cool would it be to challenge a player H2H for their court instead of their CPU avatar? When I saw the trailer for this, I assumed that was the case...

      Great idea, but I feel that's the one misstep for an otherwise great idea. I can see the mode becoming a bit hollow after awhile.

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      • dasunsrule32
        Rookie
        • Nov 2014
        • 494

        #4
        Re: Court Battles

        Originally posted by The 24th Letter
        How cool would it be to challenge a player H2H for their court instead of their CPU avatar? When I saw the trailer for this, I assumed that was the case...

        Great idea, but I feel that's the one misstep for an otherwise great idea. I can see the mode becoming a bit hollow after awhile.
        I'm at L5 now and haven't really played it since.

        Sent from my Pixel 2 XL using Tapatalk

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        • Klocker
          MVP
          • Jul 2003
          • 3239

          #5
          Re: Court Battles

          Originally posted by MeowingForVengeance
          I've been dabbling with it when Live Run gets tiresome as I make the slowwwwww march of maxing out my female Triple Threat. If there was a WNBA version of The League, I'd likely never have touched it, but it's been more enjoyable than I expected it to be.

          The thing I dislike most about Court Battles is that everyone's using some combination of the same 10 or so players. I imagine this will be less of a problem as people continue to play and unlock more players.
          That's true was thinking the same thing... As you said hopefully it will evolve.

          Also as noted above, yes would be good to have live court battles and I can see how that would be cool, I am happy to have an offline mode like this as I never play h2h

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          • HendoPlays3
            Rookie
            • Jul 2017
            • 69

            #6
            Re: Court Battles

            Originally posted by The 24th Letter
            How cool would it be to challenge a player H2H for their court instead of their CPU avatar? When I saw the trailer for this, I assumed that was the case...

            Great idea, but I feel that's the one misstep for an otherwise great idea. I can see the mode becoming a bit hollow after awhile.
            I 100% agree with this suggestion. If they were to implement that option, court battles would probably be one of the most played modes this year. Well at least next to The One and Live Run.

            Sent from my Pixel 2 using Operation Sports mobile app

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            • coachcolbert
              Pro
              • Oct 2014
              • 612

              #7
              Re: Court Battles

              Originally posted by HendoPlays3
              I 100% agree with this suggestion. If they were to implement that option, court battles would probably be one of the most played modes this year. Well at least next to The One and Live Run.

              Sent from my Pixel 2 using Operation Sports mobile app
              Agree fully. Just 2 additionsl things IMO Court Battles NEEDS
              - Team Jersey Options (doesnt need to be fancy can be all unlocked/beat teams jerseys from Pro Am Tour or NBA/WNBA jerseys)

              - More Player Cards. Right now all of our teams have very similar lineups. Most use the Street Pro Am guys (youre a prime target lol, just saying) and if youre already Hype 25, you will see all same players as well. I know theyre are more to come down the line so maybe I just gotta be patient. My favorite mode on the game right now

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              • The 24th Letter
                ERA
                • Oct 2007
                • 39373

                #8
                Re: Court Battles

                Originally posted by coachcolbert
                Agree fully. Just 2 additionsl things IMO Court Battles NEEDS
                - Team Jersey Options (doesnt need to be fancy can be all unlocked/beat teams jerseys from Pro Am Tour or NBA/WNBA jerseys)

                - More Player Cards. Right now all of our teams have very similar lineups. Most use the Street Pro Am guys (youre a prime target lol, just saying) and if youre already Hype 25, you will see all same players as well. I know theyre are more to come down the line so maybe I just gotta be patient. My favorite mode on the game right now
                Sorry man, your court gives some great XP [emoji38]

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                • ILLSmak
                  MVP
                  • Sep 2008
                  • 2397

                  #9
                  Re: Court Battles

                  Originally posted by The 24th Letter
                  How cool would it be to challenge a player H2H for their court instead of their CPU avatar? When I saw the trailer for this, I assumed that was the case...

                  Great idea, but I feel that's the one misstep for an otherwise great idea. I can see the mode becoming a bit hollow after awhile.

                  I disagree kind of. The way court battle works its better to have cpu defense. Too many moving parts to have to go h2h. You could add h2h like a straight up challenge, or like challenge someone best of 5/7 with your rules vs theirs. But it would be way dead if u weren't playing Ai.


                  But of course, I have suggestions!


                  I feel there is one thing that destroys both court battles (altho not as much court battles cuz winning vs other people is fun) and street tour: stealing. There are some rule sets but in general it seems most rule sets are gonna be overwhelmed by stealing. It might take longer or whatever. The only one that seems hard is everyone must score but you steal, wait, give someone new the ball.



                  Basically I propose reaching fouls. I propose in an 11 or 21 gm that it be reaches and after 3-4 side outs, you get one ft and the ball. And adjust that for the other lengthier modes. Like 3 per half. Or add in a rule set if there isn't already one "call fouls."


                  Maybe you guys have more honor than me. Haha. I consider myself a Sim player but if I can steal the ball every time and steal a court I'm going to. Oh you wanna play prime Shaq OK, Joel embiid can steal the ball from him. Ben Simmons can steal the ball from your twin tower. My backcourt defender is taking the ball from your pg every time or making them pass off.



                  That's a big flaw in such a diverse mode.


                  I also think difficulty needs to be tuned reward wise. You dudes playing on very hard? Normal seems pretty easy. Hard seems hard but not worth it. And very hard is challenging. I feel like it should be bonus 50% for hard and 100% for very hard. Fix stealing (I'm still gonna be stealing all over your pg, but it won't just be every single time only steal.)


                  My weekend 2C.


                  Peace



                  -Smak

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                  • TecmoZack
                    Armchair GM
                    • Jan 2010
                    • 1276

                    #10
                    Re: Court Battles

                    I love this mode.

                    How do you make the team you play with better?

                    I got Lin from the store but he can only be used to defend my court?
                    Dallas Sports!

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                    • ILLSmak
                      MVP
                      • Sep 2008
                      • 2397

                      #11
                      Re: Court Battles

                      Think u can use anyone on your pro am street team so like Ivo or embiid. You can use people to defend your court and on your team. Like Lin can be on both.



                      I guess if you beat the whole pro am circuit you can get a bunch of guys. Seems like a lot of dudes did that, but other than a little stuff I got for pre-ordering and a few pro am things (just barely started group 2), I've gained all my guys thru taking courts. Or store boxes



                      There is a timed thing that is six hours I think when it starts, and you wanna retake control of your court if you don't have it then take 9 other courts and get a ten court box, which get better rewards as you level up your court hype. So like I'm superstar right now but I can get legend players in boxes. They also have player and rule boxes you can buy with rp in the store, but the boxes you get are higher tier from holding courts. It's easy to afford the first few ranks all rules and all players boxes tho, so once you get to lvl 5 you should just buy up what you can.



                      I also love the mode even tho it's mad easy usually. It's a great way to level players. I've played some tough ish rules and tough ish teams tho. I just got Dwight in a box and he is a great player for those dunk/block rule sets. I had been using embiid before. Speed trumps all in that mode imo.



                      -Smak

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