Good to see that 2K are finally stepping up their game in terms of speed of updating rosters. This is good for both ranked and online association players. Hopefully they will actually update players on MyTeam as well.
Good to know that 2K is making their Ultimate Team mode more like EA's Ultimate Mode with online and offline tournaments.
I'm guessing this is what Mike Wang was talking about when he talked about fully incorporating the control stick. Hopefully signature dribbling and signature moves like Kobe's stop, pivot and spin move and Rondo's dream shake return from 2K11. Also sounds like right stick passing has been given some work as it's hardly used currently.
Not sure why this is needed. We already have something called "Run Best Play", by pressing right on the D-Pad and then LT, and it sucks. It's random and after a while the same five plays keep getting called. Simplifying this function to a button hold will not get casuals to start calling plays. Balanced gameplay will. If you have to actually respect the defense, it will actually cause you to think.
This is encouraging. Hopefully this will improve the Pick and Roll game, and the ball handler won't have to take so much time going round the pick. Good to hear about more explosive cuts. The ones in 2K13 are pretty tame.
Always good to hear that there are thousands of new animations in the game. Where they are distributed though is important as that determines what is "favoured"/overpowered in the game. Hopefully we have a lot defensive animations, a lot for paint defense where shots animations in the paint are overpowered, and a lot for perimeter defense where contesting the 3 and containing the drive are harder than they should be.
Always good to hear about the playbook being expanded. Really glad they've addressed the spacing. I wish they had mentioned something about inbound plays working from a timeout though.
More realistic footwork on jumpshots hopefully means the end of the stopping on a dime after turboing and then just raising up which is a big problem online.
Good to hear they addressed handoffs and interested in what they've done with the give and go, as the mechanics as they are now don't make it a useful option. I wish they had told us if they addressed the passing speed, which is the biggest problem with passing currently.
Not really sure what this feature is about. I assumed from the title that it meant you would now be able to deny a player the ball again, just like 2K11 and games before it, but this seems to be addressing a problem in 2K12, where it's so hard setting a pick in MyPlayer because of the suction from the defenders.
Great news. This is something which 2K13 looks really ugly at. I'm glad we'll be able to take charges out of defensive rides again like in 2K11/12. I'm sure you're already able to steal during defensive rides even if it's not as common as 2K12. Liking the idea of just hard bumping a player trying to just aggressively drive.
They need to fix up the warping though and the sliding, so contact actually means a collision.
We already have that but if they are adding controls for defense instead of just replacing them, I'll be happy.
08-14-2013, 08:31 PM
for being the first to post this.
