NBA Live 14 News Post

NBA Live 14 Title Update Details, Available Now For Both Xbox One and PS4

03:32 PM - December 20, 2013 by Steve_OS

EA Sports and the NBA Live 14 team released the first title update yesterday. Some users talked about what they saw, as we waited on the details to arrive.

Today, the team has released them.

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	The most important piece that we�re adding is a change to our technology around our LIVE Update system. This is the first step in our plans for NBA LIVE 14. Many of the changes in this update are things you won�t actually see � technology additions that will pave the way for the additions to come. This will allow us to update and add content such as gameplay tuning, new animations, audio and visual assets directly to you as they become available. This applies to cosmetic changes like new uniforms, shoes, accessories and so on, but also allows for ongoing gameplay and graphical improvements.

They have also tuned shooting, both online and offline, so the timing window is a little easier and cut down on the blocked jump shots on the perimeter. For those of you that had crowd audio issues in the BIG Moments, those have been corrected and they tweaked a few other things to make online games smoother. More visual improvements are on the way after the New Year.

Read more here and let us know what you are seeing.

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# 61 alexthegreat @ 12/22/13 02:42 AM

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Originally Posted by EASPORTS_AJ


	So you HAVE had the blue screen on other PS4 games too, but it just stared happening in LIVE? That is strange. I will definitely pass it on to dev. Might help to have your PSN ID, so they can look into your's specifically. Thanks for the feedback.

AJ,

Please remind the team of the issues we are still having with lag in the online H2H matches. I have yet to play a smooth game online.

# 62 Jay Jay @ 12/22/13 10:43 AM

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Originally Posted by alexthegreat


	AJ, Please remind the team of the issues we are still having with lag in the online H2H matches. I have yet to play a smooth game online.

Played my first game online and it ran smooth on the xbox one.

# 63 gmac0322 @ 12/22/13 03:25 PM

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Originally Posted by EASPORTS_AJ


	So you HAVE had the blue screen on other PS4 games too, but it just stared happening in LIVE? That is strange. I will definitely pass it on to dev. Might help to have your PSN ID, so they can look into your's specifically. Thanks for the feedback.

Is the team looking into the
computer not calling timeouts?

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# 64 NimaAkaJoJo @ 12/22/13 03:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Jay Jay


	Just picked up a copy and it does play a good game of bball. Does anyone play on xbox one?

yeah add me NimaAkaJoJo

# 65 DirtyJerz32 @ 12/22/13 11:12 PM

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Originally Posted by EASPORTS_AJ


	So you HAVE had the blue screen on other PS4 games too, but it just stared happening in LIVE? That is strange. I will definitely pass it on to dev. Might help to have your PSN ID, so they can look into your's specifically. Thanks for the feedback.

EA_AJ, thanks for taking to time to come on the forums and answering questions. Is there any chance of your team looking at the CPU timeouts (or lack of using TO's) and fouls?

# 66 PlatanoGames Network @ 12/23/13 12:37 PM

Hey I joined to vouch that this patch Version 1.03 did indeed change ALOT! I don't expect most to notice some of the changes if they didnt purchase the game like me and other fans. EA didn't mention all the changes because it'll make them look bad. Even on the PS4 the update history saids "Minor Bug Fixes". If someone purchases the game today they would never know the SEVERE faults of the launch build or demo (Which needs a patch ASAP). I only noticed one lil new glitch with defenders feet when in front of ball carrier sometimes, maybe it only occurs on cpu vs cpu.

After EXTENSIVE time with the launch build and this latest version the facts are almost obvious! EA did not want to delay the game again. They probably told the team to prepare a basic gold compressed copy for launch that will be optimized as time passes (Battlefield 4 anyone?). Have the Live season system running, make sure its not broken, put in a few basic animations that are finished to have the game running. This is evident as the game had only a few different animations for different tasks, dunks, shots, etc. Even the cheerleaders would repeat the same routine in every game and arena. After this patch I've noticed countless tweaks and additions. I think THIS would have been the REAL launch patch had the game been finished on time! Which would make a another big update next month realistic! Its almost like Ignite is going to truly be optimized these next few weeks and represent what EA has been boasting (I really hope so). Maybe even Madden & Fifa will improve drastically soon!

During the first few minutes of Live 14's new patch I noticed the game flowed different and had dozens of new animations! These include block attempts, lay ups, dunks, steals, the way the players move around the court to get open and set up a play! Turbo has been tweaked, holding it down is even more unwise now as it'll waste super fast! Its better to time your burst at the right time n bust out! The defense has been improved and it is harder to attack the post, before it was almost automatic. CPU offense rotates the ball better to the open player for a shot! I haven't tried rising star again since patch but I hope this means my player will have some help now and not zombies for teammates lol. Mid range shooting is a factor now! Less blocks! The crowd is reacting much more polished now. Going to instant replay and looking at how they react is fun lol. I even saw new presentation touches to the logos and the way they present them during halftime and post game show. The cheerleaders finally do different routines. Commentary is much improved now, before they would have these awkward long pauses in the middle of their sentence smh lol. Probably my favorite touch happens on the court and is almost hard to see, before players would barely acknowledge each others presence or performance. Now they have great head and eye tracking, in user replay you could see the players rolling their eyes around the court, looking at who they are covering, then back at ball! I even saw Durant smile at another player before getting serious again and focusing on ball, midplay! There was one situation where it looked like someone was disappointed in themselves that their pass went out of bounds! I made a vid of this that i'll upload later today! He put his head down and rolled his eyes, then took a sigh breath before continuing to play. I'm stoked to see whats next for Live 14 and whats in store for Live 15 now that they are back in the market and have shoulders to stand on! A lot of people don't understand this games development period. The game didn't have a 4 year dev period. A lot of that time was planning and they even switched dev teams during that time. Now that the first game is out and can be built off, I expect NBA Live to get better every year now going forward! It takes years to build a proprietary engine, Ignite, then its easy to poop out great new features, sequels and titles faster lol.

# 67 tha_show256 @ 12/23/13 01:29 PM

I really like what I'm reading thus far from those that actually have the retail copy...I'm considering a purchase strongly, but still have doubts as I really don't enjoy the demo at all. I'm really on the fence on this 1.

# 68 WTF @ 12/23/13 01:30 PM

I knew something about the logos seemed different yesterday. I noticed it as well.

I did notice an additional few block and attempted block animations.

The smiling, check out my Chris Bosh trolling Roy Hibbert video a few pages back. When I went into replay and saw that, thought it was awesome. It was a pure flop. Luckily, they called the block on it.

I have Madden & Fifa that I want to try out, but can't take Live out of my PS4 for whatever reason. Game is fun, and more fluid each time I play.

I also saw a few player interactions yesterday that I hadn't seen before. Good to know that I'm not alone.

# 69 WTF @ 12/23/13 06:26 PM

Shot chart from the last game.

3 blocks for them, 5 for me. Fouls were low, but overall I'll take it. This was a TOUGH game. TOUGH. I had to concentrate every possession on defense.

# 70 gmac0322 @ 12/23/13 07:38 PM

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Originally Posted by WTF


	Shot chart from the last game. 3 blocks for them, 5 for me. Fouls were low, but overall I'll take it. This was a TOUGH game. TOUGH. I had to concentrate every possession on defense.

How do you have you have your blocks so low? Are you playing 12 min qtrs? Great stat line

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# 71 WTF @ 12/23/13 07:45 PM

Yep, a full 48 minutes. I don't know, haha. I'm really taking good looks, using screens and ball movement. It was a great all around game.

# 72 babythug23 @ 12/23/13 08:09 PM

Yea this isn't the same game I played week or 2 ago. Game plays alot smoother. If I can understand how running plays work I can enjoy it better. I pick a play sometimes nothing happens. Some times some with a X will appear but I'm out of position to pass it to him. It doesn't show me like 2k does where I suppose to be.

# 73 gmac0322 @ 12/23/13 08:12 PM

Cool, looking forward to playing a lot Tues and wed. When I played over the weekend and he computer didn't have a lot of blocks but I had 9 with Gortat alone.

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# 74 DIRK41NOWITZKI @ 12/23/13 08:15 PM

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Originally Posted by gmac0322


	Cool, looking forward to playing a lot Tues and wed. When I played over the weekend and he computer didn't have a lot of blocks but I had 9 with Gortat alone. Sent from my XT1080 using Tapatalk

They really do need to tone down the amount of blocks. Last game I got like 16 with Dwight on 5 minute quarters. Some experience a lot of blocks, some don't.

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# 75 PlatanoGames Network @ 12/23/13 08:34 PM

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Originally Posted by babythug23


	Yea this isn't the same game I played week or 2 ago. Game plays alot smoother. If I can understand how running plays work I can enjoy it better. I pick a play sometimes nothing happens. Some times some with a X will appear but I'm out of position to pass it to him. It doesn't show me like 2k does where I suppose to be.

The game has a great solution for you, if you go to options you can change the settings to show the play art and where you should be

# 76 MEEKS973 @ 12/24/13 03:07 AM

I Like what I'm reading. I haven't had the chance to play post patch but I will get to it. Eventually. I will continue to check out these patch threads and glad EA is sticking to their word.

# 77 The Timber Wolf @ 12/24/13 07:46 AM

Posting this here as well to help anyone with the dreaded blue screens of death after the title update:

Long story and hours and hours of trying things, but I pulled out an old router I had and re hooked up my entire network to it / now run everything through it and lo and behold, it works. Live updates perfectly. Note: before it said I had version 1.03 and, in fact, I didn't. The "notification" said that I had the title update downloaded and installed. Actually, it wasn't even there and was instead dropping to CE3487-0. Once I finally (over 50 crashes to the blue screen the past few days since the title update) got past all that, it installed the 3 updates/latest rosters perfectly.

I have absolutely no idea why a title update wouldn't work before I used my old router and changed my entire network set up. PS4 seems very, very fragile. To anyone getting the blue screens and CE34878-0 I sincerely wish you luck.

# 78 DonWuan @ 12/24/13 08:02 AM

Ps4 is fragile now? Sounds like a network issue if router fixed issue.

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# 79 The Timber Wolf @ 12/24/13 08:07 AM

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Originally Posted by DonWuan


	Ps4 is fragile now? Sounds like a network issue if router fixed issue. Sent from my M353 using Tapatalk

Yes, I am presuming all the blue screens / error messages have 'something' to do with people's internet connections. I spent ages reading about it and there's, literally, thousands of posts re BF4, FIFA, 2K, LIVE, COD all having the same crashes. It's got to be network related, but I am definitely no expert when it comes to computer stuff.

# 80 PlatanoGames Network @ 12/25/13 04:56 PM

Noticed the ESPN logo on top left and EA logo on bottom right during player triggered replays, nice touch, and then once it goes back to game, the scores and overlay comes back really smooth and sexy lol

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