I simmed 1 season heres the stuff I have noticed that are different in Association from 2k11. Almost all of it is very small stuff.
Contract Extension menu. Where you can resign your players. Nice menu will tell you if a player is undecided, wants to resign, or wont resign because of his morale or because hes retiring.
2 weeks before contract extentions end warning & you are about to pass the Player Resigning Deadling Warning.
Split stats in the player card Right stick button menu.
Similar to this.
http://espn.go.com/nba/player/splits...10/kobe-bryant
Player Awards after season arent all on screen like 2k11 you press left and right to cycle between them. Not sure if I explained that right, but its no biggie just slightly diffent I noticed so thought id mention it.
Off Season stuff
Draft Lottery is now the first thing on the list followed by White House visit, Staff Signing, Team/Player options, then QUalifying offers. Everything the same after that on list from what I noticed.
Draft Lottery different in terms of the graphic it shows, but nothing really just slightly different.
After white house visits a pop up warns you which coaches's contracts has expired.
Player Resigning Screen. Under Status of the player it says Test FA or Expired. The ones that say Expired you can negotiate with. If you try to resing a player it will tell you on the offer screen how much of the MLE you will have left if you resign him without bird rights. It also seems that when you make an offer it isnt accepted right away you wait to the start of the free agent period to see if its accepted. For instance I didng accept Andrew Bynums team option to see if I can resign him offered then right when the free agent period started I checked my rosters and he was there with the contract I offered it didnt give me a msg telling me he resigned though.
NBA Draft. Has David Stern announcing like in My player mode. Adds nicely to the presentation. If there is a trade David Stern says we have a trade to announce and shows the trade graphic like last year. I didnt notice Stern say any names just stuff like "With the 1st pick the Suns select the 20 year old Small Forward. Adam Silver does the 2nd round like announced in the my player insight. I did noticed Silver announce some names during the draft not every name but some.
Free Agentcy seems different. More of the big time players are there. Which is more realistic that they listen to offers from other teams before resigning.
I offered Batum the full MLE wit a 5th year player option.After every free agent day it goes to a screen where it shows your cap spce, MLE remaning, Team needs, Accepted offeres and Pending offers. Under Pending offers it shows Status under Batum as Mulling Offers. Press Start and it goes to day 2. You no longer can see the offers a player has from what I can see. You can only see the amount of offers a player has for instance day 2 CHris Paul has 1 and Derrick Rose has 3.
Day 2 Batum was still mulling offers. Day 3 he decided to sign with me. However Blazers matched the offer sheet and kept him. Then I went after Al-Farouq Aminu for the MLE, but the Pistons matched the offer sheet and he stayed there. Noticed most of the restricted Free Agents if not all went back to their original teams which probably means the offers were matched which would happen in real life.
After you advance to the season I noticed there was no preseason games just straight to the season. Started a new association and noticed Preseason games are off by default when you start a new one. So you have to turn them on if you want them when you start a new association.
So thats all I noticed different. Nothing major in terms of non gameplay. I havent played an association game so cant tell you about the commentary.
Oh and no LLE signing exception. If you dont know what that is. Its like the MLE but a much lower amount and you can only use it once every 2 years.
09-28-2011, 10:38 AM
