Give Feedback To Help Improve The NBA Live 15 Experience

[benefactor]

- Editing, editing, editing: We need to be able to manually edit rosters. We need to edit gameplay settings (aka sliders), editing player tendencies and skills as well. I'm happy enough to lose Synergy for this, since I'm not a fan of it.

- Control responsiveness. It's worse than Live 14. How does this happen? Last year the right stick controls were much more responsive, now suddenly the graphics have improved and the controls are sluggish again. In relation to this, the great work started with the ball physics seems to have taken a step back from 14 as well. Suddenly there is a lot more ball warping. Also...please do NOT add shooting to the right stick.

- Post up game. Need tonnes more animations and new controls to go with them. The hook shoots not only look poor but you rarely see them in the modern game. There's a weird winding arm layup that players animate into when under and ahead of the rim, this needs to go asap. The turnarounds also animate poorly, which is a surprise given previous gen Live games have looked good.

- Shots in the paint. Defensive pressure seems to have zero effect on whether a shot goes in. Same goes for height of a player. Get a 6 footer under the hoop and he can just put a layup in, seemingly unaffected by 3 7 footers in his face and jumping and waving their hands up.

- Rebounds. Made worse by the shots in the paint problem above because when the game simply refuses to acknowledge your pressing of the jump button and the CPU gets what seems to be a pre-determined offensive rebound, they never miss the put back. So the control is poor but your AI teammates also seem to abide by the pre-determining by refusing to jump or even run for loose balls if the game decides there needs to be an offensive rebound.

- Catching animations. Remove and change the galloping like a horse jump that players do when catching passes. It looks silly really. I understand wanting to keep momentum and not have players stop and start but surely there's a better way. This animation has been in the game for years somehow...

Regular animations for catching passes need to be sped up/improved too because you are not rewarded quite enough for getting players open only to have them jump or shuffle the catch while their defender recovers.

- Player speeds need fixing. Especially on fast breaks. If a slow 7 footer has 1/4 court head start on a quicker guard, he still should make a dunk before being caught and sucked into a collision animation. Big guys may be slow, but their steps are much longer. This is not seen in Live (or any bball game) and would make a difference.

- Last year it was the double pass bug, this year we have the random jump shot automatically put up if we press the jump step/gather button. I understand it lays up if you execute a euro step/drive with the double tap, but pressing the button once to jump and stop seems to randomly force a jumper that you have not actually pressed the shoot button for.

- Can we bring back touch passes? If we pass to a player and while the ball is still travelling to him, let us press pass and a direction again to have that player quickly touch it onto the next.

- Graphically the game is looking great but the jerseys are the low point. The textures need improving and so does the cloth/animation. It bubbles up too much around the chest area, making players look weird at times. The shorts move well but the jerseys do not.

May seem like a lot but in all honesty, all of these need attention and to be fixed/present for Live 16 if the series is to keep striving for relevance in the market again.

[zrohman]

I'll post what I just posted in another thread just hoping devs can see it.
So I made a thread about getting back into Live and it's had it's up points.

You mentioned passing things onto EA. I would pass this post on:

The biggest thing I'm worried about is that all they are going to do is balance the gameplay. They released a game that they knew was inferior. So inferior they really admitted it the second it came out and offered free ultimate team points.

For them to just make more shots go in or slightly improve defense is not enough.

Here are the biggest flaws I've seen the past few games:

1: Rebounding animations are absolutely terrible. They are the worst. Everyone goes straight up.

2: Post animations look very terrible.

3: There is no mid range game. Unless you dribble past someone and get an open shot, no big guy can make a mid range shot. Guys who are fairly open constantly miss.

4: Since no mid range shots go in, it's either 3's or post game. 3's used to be all everyone did and now that they adgjusted gameplay people only play in the post.

5: Kevin Durant, Russell Westbrook, are literally unstoppable in the post. Everyone is really unstoppable. On 2K there are several different ways to get in front of and stop players but one of the biggest problems is "unstoppable animations".

6: Late Game A.I. Enough said.

7: Synergy data is broken from what I read.

8: All tips go straight to the point guard.

9: The transparency that was there with Live 14 has been gone. I don't care that we aren't updated on operation sports, but we should at least hear a podcast update, youtube update, or something.

Just please. To be honest we already get way less roster updates, accessory updates and more than 2K. Yes. Live came out with a patch faster than 2K. So I understand not doing as much.

But please..... don't just come out with another gameplay tweak. Honestly if you have sliders at live headquarters I'm sure a few tweaks in those could satisfy us at least for now.

But please don't forget to address the big stuff. Don't wait until Live 16.

Also Live 15 was marketed terribly. If you go another year like this Live is definitely going to be gone. I like Live 15. I would absolutely love it if most of these things were patched.

Just please make big changes to the game this year.

I don't just want another update that really just adjusts sliders for gameplay. We can't ignore the huge problems.

[blueduke]

1. ability to control all teams in dynasty mode

2. being able to start a dynasty with updated rosters. fact you can't do this is embarrassing.

[Fat Tony]

Please get rid of the awful comeback ain't, and loose ball, steals, blocks and tip balls going straight to the cup problem. Very frustrating to play good defense , only to have the computer be rewarded with every single loose and tipped ball. Why do both basketball games suffer from this?

[ifitbeginsitends]

I literally don't play rewind and the challenges because I can't change the camera angle. Let us change the camera angle. In all modes.

[bkluvsm3]

Play now
- Net physics animations when making a shot
- loose ball foul animations (ie over the back)
- Signature Jumpers added to those still missing some
- Signature lay up / Dunk packages added ie 1 foot gathers and 2 foot gathers
- Stat Overlays during gameplay
- Face scans