NBA 2K's Weekly Twitch Stream Talks Gamescom, NBA 2K16 2K Pro-Am Mode & More

[jyoung]

Visual Concepts' Community Managers, Chris Manning and Ronnie Singh, just finished their regular Tuesday Twitch stream. This week, the duo discussed NBA 2K16's plans for Germany's upcoming Gamescom convention, plus they answered several community questions about the recently revealed 2K Pro-Am mode.

If you don't want to watch the entire 47-minute broadcast, here is a summary of the stream:

Notes

• The 2K Pro-Am mode will have "eSports elements," which will be discussed in more detail at a later date.
  
  
• There won't be any "Got Next" spots in 2K Pro-Am mode, even in the 40-person arena. Ronnie said that all the player icons moving around NBA 2K15's Rec Center were causing the lag in that mode, not the 40-person player load.
  
  
• The developers are making sure that the fill-in AI players on 2K Pro-Am mode will be "mediocre," so that lineups with more human players will always have a competitive advantage.
  
  
• The "ELO" leaderboard system is designed to reward teams who are beating other highly ranked teams. Wins against low-ranked teams won't count as much.
  
  
• 2K's marketing schedule is "really, really close" to releasing NBA 2K16's first gameplay videos. Some screenshots of the cover athletes (James Harden, Stephen Curry, and Anthony Davis) will appear on Facebook tonight at 9:00 PM PST.
  
  
• More of the new historic teams that have been added to NBA 2K16 will be announced later this week. The 1999-2000 Toronto Raptors, 2000-2001 Los Angeles Lakers, and 2007-2008 Boston Celtics have already been revealed.
  
  
• There is no playable NBA 2K16 demo at Gamescom this year. Ronnie's reasoning for this decision was that the gamers attending this conference generally are not NBA fans.

[ray52ray27]

Pro-Am sounds FIRE!!!

[DIRK41NOWITZKI]

Screenshots of cover athletes are coming later today.


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[thedream2k16]

Live and 2k missing from GAMESCOM this year smh now we have to wait for almost release to see gameplay

[Daddy123]

I have a feeling the throwback team will be a reggie miller team since they are taking that info to gamescom and want to make it big

[2_headedmonster]

not the biggest online player, so im not a fan of the idea of cpu teammates being "mediocre"; unless thats based on the quality of players chosen vs players getting watered down.

[tsbmolina]

Screenshots 9pm pacific 12am eastern

[Wildcats302]

Cool that we get to hear a couple more classic teams this week.

I guess they did not really touch on the customization part, as that was not mentioned in the notes. I guess we really are going to have to wait until MyLeague/MyGM info drops to know if all that awesomeness is included in those modes.