NBA 2K13 Preview - Control Stick, Passing and Real-Time Physics Collision System

[RealmK]

While I do hope for the best, I can't help but get the feeling of a convoluted control mess ala NHL2k.

[Radio Rakeem]

Da_Czar

Why did they make it easier to do a dribble move over a shot with the right stick? Shouldn't they allocate the Right Stick + Left Trigger for dribbles i.e. Left Trigger + Left stick for dribble moves in 2k11 and just have the Right Stick for shooting?

[BestServedCold]

I take back my rant about their "big announcement". This is the real big announcement.

[Da_Czar]

Quote: Originally Posted by Radio Rakeem

Da_Czar Why did they make it easier to do a dribble move over a shot with the right stick? Shouldn't they allocate the Right Stick + Left Trigger for dribbles i.e. Left Trigger + Left stick for dribble moves in 2k11 and just have the Right Stick for shooting?

They have a alternate control scheme if you want to do it the other way. I absolutely can not go back to using eft stick dribbling after playing 2k13. There appeared to me to be so much more control.

So if you want you can switch it to right stick left trigger for dribbles and right stick only is shot stick. How ever you want it.

[DJ]

Quote: Originally Posted by jmood88

I just want some information on how the shot stick is still going to work with moves being on the right stick.

Two ways; Hold L2/LT to activate the shot stick ... OR ... change the control scheme to have the shot stick accessible to you the way you've always known it, and have L2/LT be that modifier for the R-stick dribble controls.

[SamitSarkar]

Hey guys, Samit Sarkar here — I'm the guy who wrote the Polygon preview of NBA 2K13.

First off, thanks for reading! Secondly, I apologize for not explaining the Control Stick/Shot Stick stuff clearly enough. (I followed up and did it in the comments of the article.) As others have clarified, there are two different options: you can either leave the RS for dribbling and use LT+RS to shoot, or leave the RS for shooting and use LT+RS to dribble. In addition, you can still use X/square to shoot. It's all up to personal preference.

By the way, I heard back from Rob Jones and 2K Sports earlier today with a definitive answer: the old control scheme "is not available" in 2K13, so you can't go back to 2K12-style LS dribbling. I have since updated my preview.

Quote: Originally Posted by Da_Czar

I don't know what to say. except Hmm. The reporter may have misquoted a few things is all and not sure i should say anything. LOL so Hmmm

If I got anything wrong, I apologize again — please let me know, and I'll correct the article. While I play a lot of sports games, and I'm the sports guy at Polygon, I have to admit that I'm a relative novice when it comes to basketball games because I'm not a big NBA fan (baseball, football, and hockey are all much higher on the list for me). But maybe that's just because my Knicks aren't very good...

[Pared]

Nice to see it only took them 2 years to incorporate this:

http://www.operationsports.com/forum...post2040837592

[DBMcGee3]

Kudos to 2k, these are all specific features I have been yearning for over the past few years. It is funny to me how they pawn some of this stuff off as "new" though, especially the right stick dribbling and the manual bounce pass. Either way, very happy to see both things incorporated in this year's game. I won't be so bummed now if Live doesn't pan out. Well done Mike Wang!