NBA 2K13 Screenshot Captures Kevin Durant's Signature Skills

[Yungturbo]

He does have the best first step & cross over of any SF

[Thunder Storm]

The funny thing about all of this is that there are people out there who are REALLY good at fixing ratings and the like. I have no idea why the 2K Insider still has a job. Others can do 100x better for free.

[youALREADYknow]

Quote: Originally Posted by stillfeelme

I think it probably comes down to memory 30 new categories for each player for the whole league would be roughly 10,800 sig skill ratings for the whole league. I would guess that is the reason.

I doubt memory is an issue anywhere outside of the 3D In-Game Engine. Therefore we're talking about 24 players in the engine with boolean values (signature skills) instead of integers (abilities) or floating point numbers (attributes or tendencies).

The most obvious answer is usually the right answer. Signature Skills were a design decision since the change/addition required resources to be spent on both the game UI and game engine.

Some of us believe that it was a poor design decision and I personally agree with most of what RyanFitzmagic has said despite his somewhat over the top tone about the issue. It's a dumbed down version of what we already had and from everything we've heard so far there are only two parties that would benefit from the move: 1) casual gamers and 2) "The 2K Insider".

The additional animations that were added to correspond with Signature Skills could have also been linked to thresholds in Attributes, Abilities, or Tendencies.

[JasonMartin]

Will 2K regulary update these signature skills? What if a not so famous like eg. Roger Mason Jr averages 5 putback dunks a game, can they add this skill? Will they?

Or will they only update the famous teams and famous players?

[Thunder Storm]

Quote: Originally Posted by JasonMartin

Will 2K regulary update these signature skills? What if a not so famous like eg. Roger Mason Jr averages 5 putback dunks a game, can they add this skill? Will they? Or will they only update the famous teams and famous players?

what ...

edit : nvm. I just realized it was a hypothetical question.

[JasonMartin]

Glad you figured that out.

[ojandpizza]

Dude per 36 minutes does not mean "in the clutch" I don't know why you ever assumed that was the same thing?

[threattonature]

I think some of these signature skills will be sort of pointless and unnecessary, but I'm looking forward to some of the other ones. In previous games there was no way to account for a point guard that does great at setting up his teammates and making them look better than they are. Or to account for what Tyson Chandler or Garnett or a Dwight Howard do on defense that makes their teammates look like better defenders.

To me signature skills should go beyond ratings for an individual player and should be more geared to the affect they have on teammates. I think a clutch rating should for a player should give a slight boost to his teammates in the clutch since those players usually draw more defense to them and create better opportunities for their team in the clutch. They should have a dunk one for players like Blake Griffin that gives his teammates a momentum boost or an overall boost for a minute or so after throwing down a monster dunk since you often see that in real life. Those are the ratings I'm looking more forward to seeing. Things that can't be encompassed by simple individual player ratings.