NBA Live 16 Game Update 1.04 Available Now, Details Included

[rudyjuly2]

Played another game and pulled out a win with the Rockets over the Clippers. The computer definitely seems more willing to take shots from the outside. I still think there are more fouls than pre-patch. I don't think blocks are an issue after having a combined 10 blocks in this game. I really don't see much difference in the perimeter defence or driving the lane. It feels the same although the help defense is a bit better possibly. In this last game I noticed the cpu executing double teams more often. Again - fluke? Three point shooting is definitely toned down although I think it's better that way. Contested shots seem to drop about 20% or about half your normal shooting percentage if wide open. I personally don't notice a difference in rebounding. The game feels good but I'm surprised to see the no body/shirt glitch from the demo rear it's head in this patch. Why did a mistake come back?

Overall I still very much like this game. I don't think this patch will change many people's minds one way or another to be honest. You either like Live basketball or you don't. I think this patch did tone down the offence a little.

[Calvenn]

Quote: Originally Posted by rudyjuly2

Played another game and pulled out a win with the Rockets over the Clippers. The computer definitely seems more willing to take shots from the outside. I still think there are more fouls than pre-patch. I don't think blocks are an issue after having a combined 10 blocks in this game. I really don't see much difference in the perimeter defence or driving the lane. It feels the same although the help defense is a bit better possibly. In this last game I noticed the cpu executing double teams more often. Again - fluke? Three point shooting is definitely toned down although I think it's better that way. Contested shots seem to drop about 20% or about half your normal shooting percentage if wide open. I personally don't notice a difference in rebounding. The game feels good but I'm surprised to see the no body/shirt glitch from the demo rear it's head in this patch. Why did a mistake come back? Overall I still very much like this game. I don't think this patch will change many people's minds one way or another to be honest. You either like Live basketball or you don't. I think this patch did tone down the offence a little.

To tighten the defense, although improved, sliders adjustments are needed. Dreading having to mess with sliders again but we may have no choice until a new patch is released or at worst Live17. I'll tell you this much, for the sake of balance I will be adjusting a minimal amount of sliders and remain close to default settings as much as realistically possible. At least it stands to logic that we shouldn't have to modify them heavily given the improvements allowed by the patch. Still worried about the role Synergy plays in all this.

[mlp111]

the patch for me has brought another year of a love and hate relationship with live 16. Played a game and it seemed tight offensively i controlled rebounds, midrange and 3's were dropping and i played great defense. Game was tight and very enjoyable. Then played a second game and it was a complete cheesefest. from spamming the paint, to wacky animations, and etc. I was in shocked to what i was seeing. Played another game and it played a bit better, like the first game post patch. I mind was going frantic to why im not seeing consistency all across the game. I think for me, thats the main behind my frustrations with live 16, is that there is just no consistency whatsoever with the gameplay. One game plays well-rounded and the next game is a nightmare. Night and day from each other. My most frustrating issue.

[matthewreck]

Quote: Originally Posted by PopcornJones77

I disagree with regard to Pro-Am mode. My player is a 95 post-scoring center with strong defense, and I know how to play basketball. My center does a great job at both blocking and disrupting drives to the basket, including dunks, in Pro-Am's Live Run. When I play with other ppl who know how to defend, we always run teams with unskilled/oblivious players off the court. Sent from my LG-D850 using Tapatalk

i get beat by shooting guards on the jumpball and im a 7'1 center, the game is broken , head to head is not terrible, even thou its really easy to get to the rim, but live run just there engine cant handle that many players in one game, its just randomness, i get boards and can score, but it still rewards players that play unrealistically.

[Justonepost]

Like the final Live 14 patch, this has broken a number of things too. It really makes you just shake your head and think EA simply don't have the numbers in their team and budget to handle this franchise any more.

There's new bugs where you can't pump fake when the game says you are being double teamed (whether you are being locked up or not). Causing you to launch unintended threes if you are trying to fake out of the double team or pass in mid air (which you also can't do when the game auto shoots for you after the bugged pump fake).

The menus in Rising Star now run about twice as slow as before, it takes seconds for any button presses to register, it's laggy as hell.

I'm also seeing missing jerseys everywhere on court, lots of topless bodies, even weird pixelated messes on the jerseys.

Add all of that to the broken hair from the last patch (they improved the frame rate by ruining th level of detail on hair, before you really zoom in, the hair is just a chunky mess for most players, making them less distinguishable from gameplay cameras).

And while the improved rebounding is nice in general, to accommodate the fixes, they've actually sped up a number of animations making it look silly at times.

Typical NBA Live, one step forward, two steps back.

[logieuk]

Enjoyed the demo, it run a lot quicker then Live 15 when I had a go last night, is there much difference in XB1 and PS4 version? Its £20 on PSN until tonight which I think worth it

[sarlndr]

I wish they would have dropped the price here as well. Maybe at Christmas.

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[mp3]

Yeah I picked it up for £20 too which is well worth the game imo especially after the game dropped just a couple of days later!