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The NBA 2K13 patch has arrived for PS3 and 360. The details on the patch haven't been released yet, but we'll update this post as soon as they are available.

UPDATE: NBA 2K13 Patch Details

GAMEPLAY
  • Improved AI rebounding logic to balance out offensive rebound frequency.
  • Tuned AI transition defense; users will now have more fast break opportunities against the CPU. Additionally, CPU teammates are now more able to guard their opponents on the break.
  • Long range passes are now less accurate and will result in more fumbled and missed catches.
  • Passing successfully out of a double team has been tuned to be slightly more difficult.
  • Tuned the logic behind Charging calls so that they are properly called. Charges will now sometimes be called when the defender is in position and stationary, even if he is not in the “Take Charge” animation.
  • Tuned timing on block animations, and made the AI more vigilant about blocking layups and dunks.
  • Improved reach-in foul detection when defender continually swipes at the ball, results in more called fouls where appropriate.
  • AI now only calls for a full court press in appropriate situations (i.e. late in the game).
  • Addressed two dunk animations that were not counting for a score when they were converted.
  • Fixed an issue where Replay would show the incorrect play, rather than what actually happened on the court.
  • AI positioning when running plays has been tuned so that big men with limited shooting range will not move further away from the basket than what their range allows.
  • AI teammates will now remain in the Post Up position longer when a Quick Post play is called for them.
  • Tuned alley-oop and putback dunks such that only players who have a high tendency to perform either move are able to finish with one.
  • Removed the restrictions for the ‘Microwave’ Signature Skill such that it now works regardless of whether you are already on a hot or cold streak.
  • When a block is recorded for a player with the ‘Eraser’ Signature Skill, only the shooting attributes of the blocked player are lowered.
  • Fixed a rare issue where a traveling violation would be called on a pass fake.
  • Referee Review on last shot will no longer play if the shot has no effect on the outcome of the game.
  • A number of other smaller changes have been made to address issues and enhance the user experience.
  • Tuned three-point percentage.
GENERAL
  • NIKEiD shoes will now appear properly in-game after being equipped to a player.
  • Addressed an issue where the game score would disappear in Blacktop games when Signature Highlights were viewed in the pause menu.
  • Fixed an issue where Free Throw Feedback would no longer appear in games after playing an Online MyTEAM game.
  • Addressed an issue in Online MyTEAM games where the away team player would have the Signature Skills of the home team player if identical players were used in the game by both players.
  • Music will no longer be disabled and Game Settings will no longer revert back to Default when completing an online game in MyTEAM.
  • Changed the difficulty settings for all of the seeds in MyTEAM.
  • (360) Addressed a Kinect issue where a misleading overlay would appear when a timeout was called through a voice command when no timeouts were remaining.
MyCAREER
  • Added additional warning re: conversion of an online MyCAREER (one that earns VC) to an offline MyCAREER (one that earns Skill Points).
  • Fixed an issue where the remainder of the user’s schedule would appear empty after participating in the various All-Star Weekend events. This change also carries over to Association/Season modes.
  • ‘Run Plays’ and ‘PlayVision’ should now function properly (when activated), regardless of your MyPLAYER’s position.
  • Fixed an issue where all games in October would be simulated when ‘Play Next Game’ is selected after the start of a new season.
  • Users playing MyCAREERs that accrue Skill Points will no longer find themselves with negative skill points after played games (where a number of unlikely conditions were all met).
  • Addressed a rare hang that would occur if the “Defend Your Home Court” billboard commercial would play between quarters of the Rising Stars Challenge or All-Star game.
  • Addressed a number of issues with the Social Media feature, including one where the news feed would stop updating completely.
  • When changing teams via free agency in the offseason, your MyPLAYER will now receive the proper role (starter, sixth man, etc.) that was promised during the contract negotiation.
  • You will no longer fail the Dynamic Goal “Give your team the lead before the game ends” when subbed out before the end of the game.
  • The Teammate Chemistry rating on the “Play Next Game” loading screen should now display the correct value (as seen in the Social Media menu).
  • The volume of the menu music and sound effects will no longer become extremely quiet after playing consecutive games in MyCAREER.
ASSOCIATION
  • 3PT Tendency progression logic has been rewritten to correctly model the growth variances within each player type in the game. This change also carries over to MyCAREER mode.
  • Users will no longer lose their Scouting Reports after viewing the Recent Games tab of a player card.
  • Birth years can now be set to later than 1993 when editing Draft Classes after the first season of Association.
  • Addressed a rare hang that would occur when attempting to participate in the Dunk Contest with a created player assigned to a created team.
  • (Association: Online) Offense and Defense options should now save properly when using the Total Sim Control feature.
  • (Association: Online) Admins will now have access to appropriate Commissioner Tools during the offseason.
NOTE: All patch fixes will work in your existing game mode saves (MyCAREER, Association, etc.).

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Member Comments
# 401 mpac @ 11/28/12 06:44 AM
hehehe! the gameplay has improved after the patch. Still not resolved the other issues like the auto sub rotations of CPU, but the game is still enjoyable IMO
 
# 402 Gosens6 @ 11/28/12 06:58 AM
I see most of the complaints are from online/my career/blacktop players.

Somehow these same guys will never understand these modes were never sim, and probably won't be. So if you're going to keep playing quick ranked matches online against randoms, you should really stop complaining now because its going to be the same headache for you all year.

Blacktop and my career? Come on, what do you really expect? It's not sim, and it won't be.

Other than that, the only other complaints I see are about shoes and accessories.

From a basketball gameplay standpoint, I was ecstatic with this game pre patch, and now that the rebounding has been fixed and the CPU ai shoots a lot more mid range shots, I will never stop playing this game.

Good job, 2K
 
# 403 CD90 @ 11/28/12 07:30 AM
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Originally Posted by fearwhatnow
+ 3pt tendecies in Association are finally fixed.
What was wrong with them?
 
# 404 JasonMartin @ 11/28/12 07:44 AM
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Originally Posted by Trackball
Anyone notice that you now start out further away from the hoop in Blacktop?

That nerfs the VC exploit--playing as Dennis Scott or Jason Richardson and chucking up threes the instant you're handed the ball won't work anymore, since you're too far away.

I'm gonna catch hell for saying this, but...well played, 2K.
So the only way for us to get some VC is buying it, well played 2K.





I'm trying out the coach mode right now on 6 minutes, I better get some VC. I don't get any VC playing MyCareer so how the hell can I even upgrade my player?
 
# 405 ksuttonjr76 @ 11/28/12 07:46 AM
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Originally Posted by iRepLakerNation
FOR ONLINE PLAYERS:

I play exclusively online and I must say THERE IS HARDLY ANYTHING DIFFERENT in gameplay after the patch dropped!

I stopped playing ranked matches altogether because of the cheese and knowing it was set on the PRO difficulty and just focused on our sim league just to get a good clean game in. I recently started playing ranked matches again bc my subs liked seeing me beat the 95% of cheese heads you come across in quick matches, and I wanted to get a feel of the bs in the gameplay before the patch dropped so I can really feel the difference after they released the patch.

The Good:
The spamming of the steal button is NO MORE! They upped the foul calls so on almost every steal attempt you will get the foul call. What I don't like about this however is if you're not the type that pounds the X button (or square for ps3) and stay disciplined on D, you still get fouls called against you because the damn cpu will do all the reaching for you! And sorry to say but this is all that's good about the patch...

The UGLY!!!

1. 3's are back with a vengeance and it seems like it's gotten WORSE. I have played with almost every different type of team and play style from the Lakers to the Bobkittens and it's all the same! Jamal Crawford, Barganini, Terrance Ross, Harrison Barnes all the way down to Steve Blake just to name a few are RayAllenReggieMillerSteveKerrMarkPrice all rolled in to one DEADLY type shooters. It's just sad.

2. Offensive Rebounding is just...I played against the Celtics using the Pacers and I swear Jason Terry kept tipping the ball in the air over Hibbert grabbing 4 offensive rebounds in ONE possession and I will just leave it at that.

3. You are damn near helpless going against Lebron, Kobe, Melo (who is worst than Kobe) ect. so don't bother giving yourself a headache going against any of these superstars because if you don't know how to play the most effective defense using different adjustments and strategies as you go, don't even bother.

4. The sh!t is STILL on PRO!!!
Ronnie2k said the game starts off on pro to cater to the casuals but one of the changes they make when working on the patch is upping the difficulty but this clearly hasn't happened.

If you play online and a Sim head like myself your best bet is to do what I've done and start or join a sim league that caters best to your play style and leave the ranked matches to the virgin money tourney players because it's rare you get a decent game...im jus sayin.

Check out my video on my thoughts on the patch so far...you aint doing sh!t else: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCNnLLtMDLU
I disagree. I'm noticing some good changes if you play your own defense and DON'T run and gun. The slower game pace actually favors the Pacers more.

Sent from my SCH-I500 using Tapatalk 2
 
# 406 JasonMartin @ 11/28/12 07:46 AM
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Originally Posted by LiamCP3
I am a keen my Career player. this is not a big issue and im not whining....but will we have to hear our players nickname 80% of the time for the next year?
I wish we could choose to have a nickname or not, I definitely DO NOT want to have one. Especially if they are all lame sounding nicknames. Get rid of it 2K, please...
 
# 407 Illustrator76 @ 11/28/12 07:48 AM
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Originally Posted by aholbert32
I saw it some pre patch but I could combat that by getting my men back on defense. Post patch, I'm not seeing it. I'm at halftime in a game with 11 minute quarters. I'm using mkarsh's sliders and made thelorn's team tendency changes. Here are the shot totals for the CPU's Suns team:

Brown- 8
Scola- 7
Dragic -5
Gortat-3
Dudley -4

Not unrealistic for me and they arent quickshotting. If I miss, they push the ball but if they dont have numbers they are resetting.
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Originally Posted by Illustrator76
I can not tell a lie, I must admit that those sliders greatly improved the gameplay (and the fast break issue as well). I still can't find Thelorn's team tendencies to save my life, but I made a few changes based on some other 2K threads on OS and the 76ers played much differently. Andrew Bynum was a terror in the post (he was fed the ball often) and the crazy shooting numbers by the other players fell more in line with what I would expect. There are still a few things that need to be ironed out (such as CPU substitution patterns), but I may just keep this game and finally be able to get a decent experience from playing against the CPU. Thanks for the info sir.
I wanted to report back and amend my previous statement somewhat. After playing the game some more with these sliders (which I love) and numerous roster sets, I don't know what is going on. When I played the game against the 76ers that I talked about above, things played out much better, with a lot less "basket spamming" after User misses. Then I played games against the Knicks and Nets, and while the shot distribution was much better and much more true to life (a very good thing), Deron Williams and Raymond Felton would still continue to spam drives to the hole/take quick shots on User rebounded shots (a very bad thing), even when I "stopped the ball" numerous times. This whole thing is really frustrating and inexcusable, because A: There seems to no clear cut solution to completely stop this mess, and B: If it were totally fixed I could really see myself enjoying this game, but sadly I just don't see it happening.

Maybe some of the current roster-makers will be able to find a solution during their editing process, or even better, maybe 2K will finally address this in a 3rd update of some kind.
 
# 408 Caveman24 @ 11/28/12 08:22 AM
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Originally Posted by CD90
What was wrong with them?
Lets just say Dwight Howard as the years progress think he has a little Reggie Miller in him.
 
# 409 c15dubb @ 11/28/12 08:27 AM
I have waited over a month for the patch to fix the All-Star DLC simming issue with MyCareer and I finally go to play and it freezes every single time I try to start a game... thank you 2K for taking millions of our dollars and giving us crap.
 
# 410 m1ke_nyc @ 11/28/12 08:44 AM
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Originally Posted by JasonMartin
So the only way for us to get some VC is buying it, well played 2K.





I'm trying out the coach mode right now on 6 minutes, I better get some VC. I don't get any VC playing MyCareer so how the hell can I even upgrade my player?
You must have a offline mycareer then
 
# 411 michael785 @ 11/28/12 09:38 AM
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Originally Posted by c15dubb
I have waited over a month for the patch to fix the All-Star DLC simming issue with MyCareer and I finally go to play and it freezes every single time I try to start a game... thank you 2K for taking millions of our dollars and giving us crap.
u paid a million dollars for a video game.....that sucks. im not having that issue so my money was well spent
 
# 412 kdurantmvp @ 11/28/12 09:48 AM
One thing I did notice, was CPU were now taking players out when they have 2 fouls in the first, whereas before it took like 4 fouls to get taken out
 
# 413 garnettfan @ 11/28/12 10:02 AM
Fix absolutely nothing gameplay wise charmers got 3 straight off boards on Dwight Howard 2k full of ****
 
# 414 edubbs @ 11/28/12 10:10 AM
Great job gameplay wise on this patch. Having some very good games offline, with slightly tweaked rosters.

Can't wait to start season mode.
 
# 415 harvs28 @ 11/28/12 10:21 AM
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Originally Posted by NickYoungGoat
so no one block a dunk yet?
i did, just blocked a dunk by durant using rudy gay earlier today!!
 
# 416 VDusen04 @ 11/28/12 10:22 AM
My 2K has been acting a little wonky this morning. At first it was having trouble connecting to servers. Now, it seems like I'm connected but I'm not being auto-saved after every roster edit I make. Was auto-save proper removed from certain aspects of the game? I was prompted with a message stating if I wanted to save my roster I'd have to go to the save menu and do it myself.
 
# 417 neil30 @ 11/28/12 10:25 AM
still cant share media on ps3...crashes when a replay is loaded.
 
# 418 VDusen04 @ 11/28/12 10:27 AM
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Originally Posted by neil30
still cant share media on ps3...crashes when a replay is loaded.
Quick question, is it media from an exhibition game for some another mode such as MyCareer? This morning I was able to deduce that the only two replays that'd freeze my system (XBox) were the two I'd saved from MyCareer.
 
# 419 harvs28 @ 11/28/12 10:35 AM
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Originally Posted by NickYoungGoat
so no one block a dunk yet?
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Originally Posted by Trackball
My gut tells me this is deliberate.

People have been exploiting Coach Mode since launch, so my guess is turning on Coach Mode at any time during the game disables the ability to get VC for that game.

Now, if you played the whole game start to finish with the controller in your hands, and still didn't get it...yeah, that is a problem.
This happened to me too. Played 6-8 games, and not a single VC!!! Good thing, I don't play MyCareer anymore but i would like to unlock the players in Blacktop mode!! C'mon 2K!!!
 
# 420 DJ @ 11/28/12 10:39 AM
Well, since I was enjoying the game pre-patch, I was just hoping the patch wouldn't change my experience with 2K13. Good news ... it didn't.

Gameplay is tightened up and the elimination of the CPU hyper-drives after missed shots (this was my only real complaint) improves the pacing of games now.

I think I'm ready to dive into Association now, although every time I say that, I find games on NBA Today that I want to play.
 


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