NBA Live 14 Has Arrived, Post Your Impressions Here

[TheTruth]

Got the game last Friday and all I played was Live (Xbox). Played about 8 games and a lot of the big moments stuff. The things that stood out are what has already been pointed out. I played on different difficulties as well.

PIP - 75-80% of the cpu's points were in the paint. I would look at the shot chart afterwards and it was crazy how many baskets were concentrated right at the rim with hardly any mid range shots. Vast majority of the time each team would work the ball to the block and it would be spin move over and over. Even with double teams brought immediately. Sometimes it could be defended by pushing into the player but a lot of the times the defender would be pushed out of the way to give just enough space to get to the other side of the rim.

Jumpshots - timing the release is hard. I shot probably around 30% on my jump shots. I tried quick taps to holding it in long, but nothing seemed to help. It's much quicker than 2k I figured that out. I would make some jumpers by just tapping and also holding it a little longer. I kind of like that there is no visual cue, but need a practice mode for sure. But I also don't want my fg% to be unrealistic either.

Defense - it is tough to stay on your man, but I got better the more I played. Still give up too many uncontested drives to the hoop though. Does anyone use the right stick slides? Are those designed for more perimeter D, inside D or both?

I enjoyed playing it but the PIP issue started to wear thin just because it seemed every team went to the block the majority of the time instead of running some sets for shooters coming off screens, etc.

I also saw plenty of where the AI would just stand there and dribble out the shot clock. And sometimes it would happen if I trapped the post player on the baseline with a double team. Would just stand there without trying to pass it out. They need to figure out what is triggering that to happen.

Again, I still had fun playing and will continue playing and working on learning the controls. Hopefully the upcoming updates can fix some of these issues.

[Tha_Kid]

It's the way the CPU gets its PIP that irks me.

Also, how slow to react your players are when there is a loose ball, particularly one that was previously in your possession.

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[drew_3]

I've always felt that the live games, partcularly 10 and now 14, just have a basketball feel to them. I think it's to do with the spacing as has been mentioned here now. For me Basketball is all about a certain pace and spacing and this game replicates that superbly.

I also enjoy the fact that right out of the box this game plays nicely, I know sliders might fix some problems but it sure is nice not to have to think abou them and have the game play well straight way.

I played my first 12min quarter game earlier (usually i prefer a shortened appraoch to my sports titles). On rookie with the tight D settings from Tomba I had a blast it has a perfectly realistic feel even on it's easiest setting (surprising as I find most EA games are weak on the "easy setting and the CPU just gets superhuman as you go up the difficulties, instead of getting more intelligent). In this gameeven on rookie I had a really fun game where I jumped out to a lead the each team had a run, the CPU eventually tied it up but I pulled away down the stetch and won the game 97-88 (another thing the game does well, generally you get realistic stats and a realistic score)

A fun realistic game straight out of the box. In 2014 sadly that is a rare thing I find. As I have said before the game has problems but it really only needs tweaking in places, and then they have a wonderfull foundation to build on.

[WTF]

I'm finding that around 65-70% of the PiP are coming off of drives against me now. It's not the big man spinning anymore, moreso of trying to stop the athletic guards. And it's not being cheesy dunking in traffic, but they're hitting floaters, etc.

[RayZLAL]

Are online head-2-head quick games laggy?

[El_Poopador]

Quote: Originally Posted by WTF

I'm finding that around 65-70% of the PiP are coming off of drives against me now. It's not the big man spinning anymore, moreso of trying to stop the athletic guards. And it's not being cheesy dunking in traffic, but they're hitting floaters, etc.

yea im not getting beat as much by the post game but more from drives. onball defense is very tough in this game. deron williams burned me for 49 and most came from the paint. what i liked though was that he was also 5-6 from three point range. he would take the jumpers if he was open.

[Tha_Kid]

I am so damned tired of losing coins and contracts because of disconnecting from the EA Servers. Bull****

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[The 24th Letter]

Quote: Originally Posted by Tha_Kid

It's the way the CPU gets its PIP that irks me. Also, how slow to react your players are when there is a loose ball, particularly one that was previously in your possession... Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N900A using Tapatalk

Yeah, still seeing a lot of dunking in traffic & heavily contested layups bouncing in....I just experienced Kyrie Irving yesterday...just way to many "force fields" given to the offensive player to push you back, uninterruptible animations...he was coming through and moving defenders like it was nothing...

I wouldn't mind if that two handed power dunk animation left for good, I hate it...

I also think they need to tweak the tendencies for dunking period....way too many PG's dunk in the lane...I had Mario Chalmers, Jose Calderon driving down the lane and putting it down yesterday..