NBA 2K13 Advanced Controls

[blues rocker]

Quote: Originally Posted by thilanwij

Yeah, these controls will take some time to get used to. I saw a post below by you that mentioned total control passing. What exactly does that do? Is that the one where you pull up icon passing and you use the right stick to point to a direction to pass to? And does that have a certain advantage over other ways of passing? Just curious.

You have to turn it on in the options menu. Total Control Passing allows you to take control of an off-ball player. Basically when you have it turned on, when you use icon passing, you hold down the icon button of the off-ball player you want to control. you keep the button held down to move him, then when you want to pass to him you release the button and you will make the pass. basically it's a way to move around off-ball players and make them cut. It was pretty sluggish in 2k12, so i didn't use it. EA had a decent version of it in Live 10 though. Maybe it's improved for 2k13 - i'll have to try it out in the full version.

[slick589]

Quote: Originally Posted by Beluba

Yeah, you can be pretty effective with just LS on the move. You can even sizeup somewhat effectively with LS by tapping left and right. For me, I use Right Stick for ALL moves. The key is to let off LS as you input the RS move, allow the cross (or whatever move) to initiate, then immediately move the LS in the direction you want to move AFTER the ISO move is done. I don't even think about it anymore, it's just second nature. But whatever's working for you, by all means, stick with it. Like I've mentioned before, there are a lot of different ways to play 2K -- and no ONE right way. Once you have all the options exposed to you in the retail version, I'm convinced that everyone will find something that's comfortable for them.

So use the LS to drive before the RS animation finishes?

[Beluba]

Quote: Originally Posted by slick589

So use the LS to drive before the RS animation finishes?

I typically start to push my LS in the middle of my dribble move or just after it starts. I use that split second to read the defense and react accordingly.

[franzis]

Can someone confirm what "TPT", "CW" and "CWW" stand for? tks

[blues rocker]

Beluba, any chance we could get some improvement to some of the stopping catch animations? one thing i have wanted for a while now is the ability to control whether the receiver stops or keeps moving as he catches the ball...this would come in handy when passing to cutting players and you want the receiver to "catch in stride" and blend into his dribble without stopping. The problem i'm having is that too often when i pass to a moving receiver, he stops moving to catch the ball, but i wanted him to smoothly keep moving as he starts to dribble in order to keep separation from the defender or to attack the hoop. anyway, maybe this ability is already in the game and i'm just not doing it right. i don't know.

i was thinking his is how it would work: if you are holding the left stick forward as he catches the ball, that should indicate that you want him to catch on the move and blend into his dribble...but if you neutralize the left stick as he catches, that would make him catch and stop.

I talk about it a bit in this video here:




i'm sure there are some technical difficulties tied to making this happen, but it would help the game a lot for me.

[thilanwij]

Quote: Originally Posted by blues rocker

You have to turn it on in the options menu. Total Control Passing allows you to take control of an off-ball player. Basically when you have it turned on, when you use icon passing, you hold down the icon button of the off-ball player you want to control. you keep the button held down to move him, then when you want to pass to him you release the button and you will make the pass. basically it's a way to move around off-ball players and make them cut. It was pretty sluggish in 2k12, so i didn't use it. EA had a decent version of it in Live 10 though. Maybe it's improved for 2k13 - i'll have to try it out in the full version.

Got it. Thanks a lot man! I wonder if they will keep that this year? Is it sorta like where you use the LB to bring up that menu and you can use the Rstick to move the player into a better position? Or is the Rstick method better?

[thilanwij]

Quote: Originally Posted by franzis

Can someone confirm what "TPT", "CW" and "CWW" stand for? tks

I'm thinking TPT has something to do with Triple Threat or Post? And CW and CCW are clockwise and counter-clockwise respectively.

This is just what I think those mean, I hope I'm right lol.

[Lucatosin]

Can someone please tell me how to do dropstep dunks and layups in the post!!!! Imuse a lot and can't do even with ibaka