NBA 2K14 Features New Blocking System, Includes the Ability to Block Dunks

[Goffs]

I understand the concerns about this and rightly so due to 2k going overboard in the past. But c'mon guys lets just wait and play it ourselves and not listen to these youtube hype machines. Don't forget about 2k tuning the game through the year after release.....so there's that...

[garnettfan]

Can't believe y'all giving the praises on something that should be in the game wow I hate to say this but 2k has fallen

[garnettfan]

Quote: Originally Posted by jersez

Will canned-animated dunks be removed???? That's news to me...that would get me on the hype train.

Think you for asking a real ? Why are people excited about some that should be in the game anyway

[iClutch]

Good job 2K. Thanks for adding that back in. You guys will soon realize how irrelevant this feature is come October, lol.

[blues rocker]

Quote: Originally Posted by VDusen04

Good call. My brother and I have a bad habit recently of pausing the game and replaying all the times our right handed player had a clear path to the backboard but instead opted to stop their momentum, go completely out of their way, attempt a layup or dunk at the front of the rim, with the off hand, right into the teeth of the waiting defense. That said, I still think there's a time and a place for flashy dunks in the half court, just not if they're obviously going to lead to an easy block. For instance, if a prime Vince ever made a video game appearance, I wouldn't want to be unable to pull this off just because there's defenders waiting:

unfortunately, i don't know that 2k has the technology/AI to make players "aware" enough to know when they can pull off a flashy dunk in traffic and when they can't. i'd rather them just play it safe for now and have simple dunks in traffic...i'd rather they just wait until they have good enough AI to implement "scenario-specific" dunk animations.

as of now, it seems that the dunker can only have awareness of one defender at a time...so if there are multiple defenders around, the dunk animation only takes into account the "primary" defender and ignores the other 2 defenders who are just as close and just as capable of blocking it.

[blues rocker]

Quote: Originally Posted by Goffs

If I recall... up = flashy back = reverse forward = straight dunk (regular) down = power spinning the stick will yield a 360 dunk Am I right on this? To this day I still press it accordingly and I don't know why because the dunks are pretty much context now.

even if they brought back dunk control, the problem for me is that i have switched to exclusively using the shot button for all dunks, layups and jump shots (as i think many people have)...so 2k better have "contextually smart" dunk animations for us shot button users.

[VDusen04]

Quote: Originally Posted by The 24th Letter

Great news...very glad to hear there's a new blocking system...that's the important thing Too much importance was put on the actual idea of blocking a dunk, which doesn't happen often IRL, rather than the real problem which was the lack of contact in the air, uninterruptible animations... Looks good though!

Truth. For me, there were a series of breakdowns that felt out of my defensive control in any given play in NBA 2K13. That I could not block a dunk was just the icing on the cake. Granted, I am thankful to have that dunk-blocking ability back, but the overall problem could also be mitigated by developing an ability for a user-controlled defender to not be electronic-footballed around by a user-controlled offensive player hellbent on getting to the basket.

The memories of reading my opponent's next move on the perimeter, beating him to a spot, having his progress impeded temporarily as he runs in place against my defender's body, watching him suddenly glitch around me, storm into the paint, disregard my perfectly positioned shotblocker, then elevate for an unblockable monster jam (that I'd try to jump and block anyway, most often resulting in a three point play), will live on forever.

[takeoff2410]

Quote: Originally Posted by HsBalla 9

Blocked dunks rarely happen in the NBA maybe once or twice a game at the most. So hopefully this new feature isn't overpowered because if so it will be even more Dwight users online camping in the lane.... Sent from my SCH-I545 using Xparent Red Tapatalk 2

One or Twice a game is not rare. There is a blocked dunk in the espn top ten like every other day