NBA Live 15 and First In-Game Update Available Today, Post Your Impressions

[Philstat]

I finally decided to return my game today, will buy again in the next couple of months if they do some serious updates. EA is on to something, though they have a long ways to go IMHO. I love the gameplay of Live, outside of the animations, though the game needs some serious TLC when it comes to customization, and allowing you to play the game they way you want to. My final straw was playing against the Jazz with the Bucks and leading by almost 30 before halftime on SuperStar Setting, the Jazz were essentially non existent. The Spurs play great ball in this game, the only team to put up a serious challenge in a lot of ways. Will be back later on if the situation improves. In closing, this game has some serious potential and ultimately with a lot of work, dedication and commitment from the development team could ultimately become the Live that we all grew up playing, many, many years ago.

[bigeastbumrush]

Quote: Originally Posted by BL8001

Going to do a synergy test tonight. Currently the Pistons are the worst 3pt shooting team in the NBA. So if I play against them and play sound D, they should not hit more than 5 or 6 tops. Detroit -per game 3pm 4.7 3pa 21.3 3pt. % .219

I'll do the same thing and post my results.

[jahswill]

From what I've experienced, manually contesting definitely brings the shooting percentages down inside and outside the paint. I've also noticed that putting your body on the players trying to finish inside creates more misses. I kind of bump them as they're going up. Whoever was saying they are beasting the CPU on Superstar, they have a point. I've been rolling the CPU lately. Although, LUT games seem harder. I was playing one of the challenges that was rookle difficulty, and they hung pretty tough.

[Nabz]

So I played with Shooting: Just Ratings and I noticed how less point I scored. But I also wanted to ask does shot timing matter when you do only ratings? I noticed the shot timing screen on the top right or left (Can't remember) doesn't show up.

[Philstat]

Quote: Originally Posted by jahswill

From what I've experienced, manually contesting definitely brings the shooting percentages down inside and outside the paint. I've also noticed that putting your body on the players trying to finish inside creates more misses. I kind of bump them as they're going up. Whoever was saying they are beasting the CPU on Superstar, they have a point. I've been rolling the CPU lately. Although, LUT games seem harder. I was playing one of the challenges that was rookle difficulty, and they hung pretty tough.

I've often wondered was the settings off in this game, seems like the AI put up a better game on the lower AI than they often did on SuperStar level.

[WTF]

Well, here's my playtest against the Pistons:







Just finished, it was back and forth til the fourth quarter, then I broke away from them pretty hard core.

The game was actually really fun, Jennings broke out some spin gathers on layups, Monroe and Drummond both did some post animations that I hadn't seen yet. I busted out an alley oop from Waiters to Lebron from 1 step inside of half court. I had another possession that I blocked a layup attempt, they gathered it, went back up and Love swatted it out towards the 3 point line, Meeks picked it up and fired a desperation 3 which of course clanked. It was good team defense. A LOT of fun.

Lastly, I heard some new commentary coming through. I had a dunk that Van Gundy said "MY OH MY... We'll definitely be seeing that one on SportsCenter's Top 10". It was pretty sick.

I saw a LOT of mid range j's by them too.

[WTF]

Also, this is probably my favorite thing that I saw during the game.



Monroe was in foul trouble, I broke down Jennings, and drove, and instead of jumping to contest the jumper, he stood with his arms up.

[bigeastbumrush]

Played against Detroit, Superstar, 12 minute quarters, Foul Sliders at 100.

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Detroit shot 40%, 6/15 from 3-point range. Most of the 3s came from Kyle Singler and DJ Augustin.

The Pistons dumped the ball into the post on most possessions.

Most disheartening was some of the moves by Monroe and Drummond. They are good players but they hit every shot imaginable. It became cheese at some point. You just knew when they touched it, they'd score.

Seems like Synergy will allow some players to score regardless of how poor the shot is just to keep in line with the player averages.

At one point, Monroe shot a fadeaway that bounced off the shot clock and rolled in.

I was cool with the 3 point shooting because the majority of the ones they sank were wide open because of my slow help defense. I've seen much, much worse playing earlier.

That being said, it was a very fun game. I guess pick your poison.