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Old 08-17-2021, 11:50 PM   #1
BQ32
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2K desperately needs to move away from guaranteed makes/greens

Everyone knows that a green equals a make. Many hate it because it ruins the immersion and a lot of the myplayer online community love it because they have built a whole culture around it. But what many don't know is that it was not until 2k19 that you could guarantee a green release with perfect timing and now this year also with perfect timing or aiming after a certain attribute level (I think 86). Before 19 a perfectly timed shot would give you a higher percentage of greening but never guaranteed you would actually green/make a shot. This is a big reason why past games felt like they played out a lot more organically. It has made timing a single button press so much more paramount to any other skills or tactics balance and realism have been decimated. Add on top of that the disgusting amount of badges to aid shooting turning decent contests into light contest and now even a large amount of decently defended plays are still guaranteed to go in with great timing.
Finally, and what makes this even more damning is how easy it has made the game to cheat using the appropriate hardware. It is so rampant that you will run into it every time you play the game for an extended amount of time online. The nature of the guaranteed makes can turn a very low iq/skill scrub into a highly competitive player completely ruining the game.
Going back to the system where no shots were guaranteed makes and move away from perfect timed button presses mattering more than working for good open shots would go a long way to rebalancing the game and simultaneously limit the effectiveness of the ramping cheating taking place.
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