NBA 2K16 Hands-On Preview

[LorenzoDC]

Quote: Originally Posted by Mikelopedia

Great write up Dustin, thank you. -DeMarcus Cousins was 3rd in the league in usage rate at 34.1%. -Rudy Gay was tied for 17th in the league at 27%. I just don't get why people are saying it's realistic that Boogie didn't touch the ball... I'm fearful that that box score of the game Dustin played looked like this: Rudy Gay 17 for 26 DeMarcus Cousins 6 for 9 As always I wish we'd hear less about meaningless overall ratings and more about TENDENCIES which drive everything that you see happen. Da Czar and OG kept bringing up the AI asking the question, "Who are you, who am I?" Do you think that they are talking about ratings??? Hopefully tendencies are on point.

I've had the same concern, and have been asking about it for others with access to ask (to no avail).

I did however ask Stauffer in the chat of last week's SimHangout about tendencies. I don't have the exact response, but he did say tendencies (I'm paraphrasing from memory) got an overhaul or at least consistent attention to go with attributes to provide game balance and realism. I was also asking about draft classes and this is what he was saying.

It's not a very deep response, and the chat room was busy, but this at least is what I can report 2k claims, as far as it goes.

[49UNCFan]

How is the blocking system? Are shot blockers feared now cpu and user?

[2_headedmonster]

What was the difficulty level?

[The 24th Letter]

I thought Czar & Scott's blogs talked heavily about tendencies and how players behave.....did I misunderstand?

Rudy has had games with more attempts than Boogie....can't freak out too much about a sentence yet...

Maybe Dustin can elaborate...


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[23]

Quote: Originally Posted by The 24th Letter

I thought Czar & Scott's blogs talked heavily about tendencies and how players behave.....did I misunderstand? Rudy has had games with more attempts than Boogie....can't freak out too much about a sentence yet... Maybe Dustin can elaborate... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I honestly don't think that one game and not knowing the conditions isn't enough to tell us anything.

I'm actually getting tired of the write ups and stuff partially because I just wanna play.

Partially because im really NOT a fan of the hold everything til the last possible second marketing to hype them....because im not 8 years old and I like to know what im buying with as much research as possible including seeing it.

Most of what we see in things like this will have vagueness in it, just like the non information those guys were tweeting yesterday

Yall drooling over Dustin's review while im still basking in the "D Rose is fast as heck" tweets

[Vni]

D ROSE IS FIRE tbh

[2_headedmonster]

Quote: Originally Posted by 23

You can't stress test online until everyone gets on first. I mean these guys are primarily letting us know what the core game is like which is most important. Sports games don't test servers like shooters do

I'd agree, they surely dont.

But a simple :

" After months of planning our cyber-scientists have successfully hacked into the infastructure of the online servers of both Call of Duty and Madden. Using classified techniques we were able to document and replicate their code without their knowledge...until now. So to avoid prosecution we will be safely providing you online access to 2k16 via off-shore, underground proxy servers the likes of which Kick *** Torrents have never seen."

Pretty basic, i don't think that's asking to much

[reptilexcq]

Quote: Originally Posted by The 24th Letter

What are you waiting to hear about online.? For them to say that "it's better"? Technical jargon? We all want the servers to improve...but I don't quite get what news you want as of right now....the real test will be when the game is here.... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Well...to start off, they can tell us what step have they taken to improve the servers. The last time i heard from them is how they dedicated 2 engineers to tackle the online gaming...which did nothing to improve the lag. Thats all i want to hear...what have they done to try to improve the servers. Its a legitimate concern because online gaming in 2k15 is terrible.