NBA 2K13 Video - Roster Update Details, Acrobat Signature Skill Removed (1-24-13)

[Steve_OS]

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Another NBA 2K13 roster update was released this morning.

The Memphis Grizzlies and Cleveland Cavaliers trade has gone through. Marreese Speights, Wayne Ellington and Josh Selby are now with the Cavs and Jon Leuer is now with the Grizzlies.

Alvin Gentry is still coach of the Phoenix Suns, no sign of interim coach Lindsey Hunter.

A few injuries have been updated as well. Not seeing any player rating updates. Also, first noticed by TheBallZ, the Acrobat Signature skill has been removed from all players, possibly to cut down on the Eurostep cheese, while they work on a fix.

UPDATE: Ronnie tweeted, then deleted the following message.

Quote:

The Acrobat skill was removed online temporarily for Virgin Gaming Tournament.

Atlanta Hawks - Lou Williams (Injured - 54)
Atlanta Hawks - Jannero Pargo (Added - 64)
Miami Heat - Chris Andersen (Added - 66)
New York Knicks - Ray Felton (Returns from Injury - 79)
Orlando Magic - Hedo Turkoglu (Injured - 69)
San Antonio Spurs - Manu Ginobili (Returns from Injury - 86)
Minnesota TimberWolves - Nikola Pekovic (Injured - 57)
Minnesota TimberWolves - Alexey Shved (Injured - 63)
Portland Trail Blazers - Myers Leonard (Returns from Injury - 59)
Washington Wizards - Cartier Martin (Injured - 58)

The Real 2K Insider has posted all 20 players that lost their Acrobat Signature Skill, as well as more details on the roster.

[TheBallZ]

I've made a thread on it already but the it's directly relevant to this thread that the acrobat signature skill has been removed from all current players in this update. It is still an option for MyPlayers though.

[daveberg]

So they're removing sig skills because people abuse the Euro Step?

That is ridiculous.

I play exclusively offline - does that mean MJ now will not have the acrobat sig skill because of a bunch of scrubs and their online exploits?

[zniv]

Quote: Originally Posted by daveberg

So they're removing sig skills because people abuse the Euro Step? That is ridiculous. I play exclusively offline - does that mean MJ now will not have the acrobat sig skill because of a bunch of scrubs and their online exploits?

My guess is you'd still be able to use players with Acrobat by using older rosters where they are still assigned the Acrobat skill.

[slowdifference]

If you play offline you can just put acrobat back on the player. This seems like an online only thing. Btw you can still euro step cheese it just not as effective as would be with acrobat

[NYR LundqvistSTEPANu]

I rarely ever used it but damn that's wild

[Steve_OS]

I've asked why it has been removed from players.

https://twitter.com/Steve_OS/status/294455681015218176

Hopefully we'll get a response.

[franzis]

Fine but acrobat is still present in Myteam if you have already equipped it, right?