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Some Little Things From the NBA 2K15 Twitch Stream

03:16 AM - September 17, 2014 by Steve_OS

Ronnie2K and LD2K hosted another Twitch stream last night (you can watch the archive here), as they discussed the new badge system and some other things mixed in. The team has decided to go away from Signature Skills.

LD2K pointed out quite a few details from the stream on Twitter and we have listed some of them below. A blog will arrive soon with more details.

NBA 2K15: 77 total badges. 28 of them are categorized as "personality badges" effecting hot/cold streaks, ambient animations & facial exp's.
The rest are categorized as "Skill Badges" which have 3 tiers - Bronze, Silver, Gold.
These are categorized as outside scoring, inside scoring, athleticism, playmaking, and rebounding.
NBA players can have up to 70 badges and skill badges are not limited to one tier. LeBron currently has the most with 47 total badges.
In MyCAREER, badges are EARNED based on your play, how you respond to situations in scenes and how good your regular attributes are.
NBA Players can't have all 77 badges because some conflict (ie: a player can't have both ALPHA Dog and BETA Dog).
6,000 new animations, deep defensive settings, new shot system & streamlined gameplay w/ legacy issues addressed...
Defense is also categorized in the skill badges.
This will highlight role players better than ever! Paired with the game play improvements &ratings system, badges are phenomenal in NBA 2K15
The crowd will erupt during big plays and 4th quarter games are absolutely bananas. One of my fav. thing about NBA 2K15. Adrenaline rush!
The crowd will empty out of the arena during blowouts... Empty seats means you need to step your game up!

They have plans to release something that will break the Internet later today.

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# 21 Boilerbuzz @ 09/18/14 01:55 AM

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Originally Posted by scottyp180


	How is it less sim and less detailed? To me it's the complete opposite. There are players that have skills that can not be displayed simply through rating and attributes. The badges allow their unique talents to show. At same time there are varying levels of talent for these skills throughout the league. Think of a badge like 3 point specialist. Steph Curry would probably be gold since he can light it up from 3. A player like ray allen, at the point in his career, would probably only be bronze, maybe silver. He can still light it up from time to time but he is not automatic like he once was.

Exactly. I don't understand people that choose to view a system that tries to mimic the intricacies of a players skills through something other than attributes as not being sim. I think it's completely sim. Now, I agree that the term "badge" makes it seem like a gamey, FPS asset. I agree. I don't think the term is appropriate. But getting past that, this is one of the best parts of the games skill/attribute subsystem IMO.

# 22 Sundown @ 09/18/14 02:19 AM

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Originally Posted by scottyp180


	How is it less sim and less detailed? To me it's the complete opposite. There are players that have skills that can not be displayed simply through rating and attributes. The badges allow their unique talents to show. At same time there are varying levels of talent for these skills throughout the league. Think of a badge like 3 point specialist. Steph Curry would probably be gold since he can light it up from 3. A player like ray allen, at the point in his career, would probably only be bronze, maybe silver. He can still light it up from time to time but he is not automatic like he once was.

You don't need badges for 3 point rating. It's a well defined statistic and is much better served by a numerical rating. Now you can argue that the off-the-dribble ability Curry has can be applied as a badge, or Allen's off screen curl shooting, but then again, they can both be statistically measured numerically using SportsVU data which 2K has access to. That's infinitely better than 3 tiers.

Badges should ideally be for things that are difficult to quantify. Like effectiveness of pump fakes or emotional intangibles.

# 23 kolanji @ 09/18/14 02:22 AM

Am really impressed by these badges and am looking forward to hearing more about the defensive one...

As for attributes i hope quickness gets broken down to two eventually .......

Lateral quickness (would define perimeter defenders with quick foot speed) such as meta world peace that is not a good defender once u get him to move his feet laterally as compared to Khawi or Tony Allen defensively....And on offense would give credibilty to players like Tony Parker, Derick Rose etc that has great lat�ral quickness changing directions on the dribble to get pass slower laterally moving defenders
Forward quickness for just out right acceleration sprinting which is already there

# 24 gremdog8 @ 09/18/14 02:24 AM

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Originally Posted by nate1986


	wonder what they mean by some news that will break the internet, maybe the FIBA teams or a FIBA mode

I'm gonna go with the face scanning technology

# 25 UniversalNoob @ 09/18/14 05:29 AM

The badges thing sounds cool...BUT I really fear that the 2k roster team is unable to keep their rosters up to date....They have been lazy for past years most of the time and had so many incorrect ratings (Lance Stephenson as a 59 anybody? Or wrong playerfaces/portraits for many 2nd round picks/undrafted players last year). Now with all these 77 badges, there is even more they need to keep updated, and I highly doubt it, though if they can prove me wrong it's highly appreciated.

# 26 gremdog8 @ 09/20/14 11:29 AM

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Originally Posted by UniversalNoob


	The badges thing sounds cool...BUT I really fear that the 2k roster team is unable to keep their rosters up to date....They have been lazy for past years most of the time and had so many incorrect ratings (Lance Stephenson as a 59 anybody? Or wrong playerfaces/portraits for many 2nd round picks/undrafted players last year). Now with all these 77 badges, there is even more they need to keep updated, and I highly doubt it, though if they can prove me wrong it's highly appreciated.

They brought in beds (mike) this year to do rosters , no worries with rosters this season as I see it.

# 27 Ghostf4cekhila1234 @ 09/20/14 09:09 PM

Some of the things poster complain about on this site truly confuse me

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