NBA Live 15 News Post

NBA Live 15 and First In-Game Update Available Today, Post Your Impressions

10:34 AM - October 28, 2014 by Steve_OS

NBA Live 15 is available today for both Xbox One and PlayStation 4. Since more people will have their hands on it today, we figured it would be better to start a fresh new topic.

If you want to read some impressions from the EA Access version, click here. Otherwise, play a few games and post your impressions.

NOTE: If you are looking for the game or demo in the PS Store, they typically update later in the afternoon.

EA Sports has posted their full list of controls for the Xbox One and PlayStation 4.

Below is a list of items that have arrived in the first in-game update:

Updated scanned player heads for D. Rose, J. Noah, K. Leonard, and C. Anthony
Updated San Antonio Spurs Championship jerseys
Cleveland, New Orleans, and Charlotte courts have been updated
Updated jersey icons for MIN alternate, MIA Floridians (Hardwood Classics), PHI road, CLE alt 2
Updated accessory colors for new Cavaliers uniforms
Updated "Pull the Chair" Post Move
Updated catch animations on inbound passes
Updated "Up and Under" layup animations
Updated team show colors for Sacramento
Jordan shoes updated for players in Rookie Showcase.
Steal rating updated for K. Humphries & J. Hamilton
Updated accessories on several players
Updated rosters to reflect recent player moves
Updated player shoes in the All-Star Game
Moved some players to the free agency pool
Updated player portraits in Live Ultimate Team
Info updated on several players, including playstyles, positions, jersey numbers and more
Foot planting with pump fakes has been updated
Shot timing updated for free throws

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# 1061 The 24th Letter @ 12/22/14 09:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Lancio23


	They added a couple jersey and some new kicks Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Oh, so they added jerseys other than the blue Cav's one?

Didn't think any other were missing.....cool!

# 1062 Gotmadskillzson @ 12/22/14 08:33 PM

I will say this, ratings only shooting is really terrible with this patch. Switched over to user skill and it isn't as bad. Still a tad bit low for mid range jumpers but it is much better then ratings only shooting. Kind of funny I stopped using user skill shooting because in the beginning I felt I never missed, so therefore I switched to ratings only. After this patch, ratings only shooting went into the toilet and user skill shooting is better.

# 1063 bigeastbumrush @ 12/22/14 10:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Gotmadskillzson


	I will say this, ratings only shooting is really terrible with this patch. Switched over to user skill and it isn't as bad. Still a tad bit low for mid range jumpers but it is much better then ratings only shooting. Kind of funny I stopped using user skill shooting because in the beginning I felt I never missed, so therefore I switched to ratings only. After this patch, ratings only shooting went into the toilet and user skill shooting is better.

I actually feel the opposite.

I stunk it up after the patch with Ratings Plus Skill. The shot timing seems to be closer to when the game was first released.

Switched to Ratings Only and had slight improvement but still way too low.

Clearly they tinkered with stuff after that first patch.

Kind of crazy what they're doing behind the scenes.

When the game first came out, shooters couldn't miss. Now you can't hit a jumper unless you're standing flat-footed and uncontested.

# 1064 The 24th Letter @ 12/22/14 11:09 PM

Played the Raptors/ Bulls matchup

They REALLY need to rethink the way Synergy works with injuries. Derrick Rose is playing tonight, I should be able to play with him on the the Bulls current roster. I don't know if they can tweak this as they continue to update things but it's pretty annoying as a Tip Off player...at least let us manually add guys back like we could before...

Things were a mess in game as well....as Kirk was going his best D. Rose impression...led the team in shot attempts by a large margin....no posting up Gasol, no getting the ball to Butler...nothing...

These are the types of experiences that pop up and leave a bad taste...

# 1065 Calvenn @ 12/23/14 12:59 AM

Found Jamal Crawford and JJ Redick coming in from the bench in Dynasty for your the Warriors tonight! On the plus side they finally fixed Klay Thompsons hair! Game was intense otherwise.

# 1066 Gotmadskillzson @ 12/23/14 03:11 AM

Last game, Clippers vs Hawks, tip off game, I was the Hawks. Clippers shot 68% FG. I shot 12% FG with the Hawks in the 1st half before I quit that game out of sheer frustration. Clippers had a 30 point lead...... they hit 9 out of 11 3 pointers.

Pretty the only way I could score was to spam the paint with lay up attempts and attempt to draw a foul. 3 pointers ? Nope, the missed. Mid range jumpers ? Nope they missed. Shooting from the post 3 feet away from the basket ? Nope they missed. Kyle Korver missed every shot attempt he took. If it wasn't for free throws, he wouldn't have had points.

But yet the CPU had no problem shooting 3's, mid range jumpers and post shots over double teams. DOUBLE TEAMS.

This game makes me want to smash every controller I own.

# 1067 Lancio23 @ 12/23/14 06:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Gotmadskillzson


	Last game, Clippers vs Hawks, tip off game, I was the Hawks. Clippers shot 68% FG. I shot 12% FG with the Hawks in the 1st half before I quit that game out of sheer frustration. Clippers had a 30 point lead...... they hit 9 out of 11 3 pointers. Pretty the only way I could score was to spam the paint with lay up attempts and attempt to draw a foul. 3 pointers ? Nope, the missed. Mid range jumpers ? Nope they missed. Shooting from the post 3 feet away from the basket ? Nope they missed. Kyle Korver missed every shot attempt he took. If it wasn't for free throws, he wouldn't have had points. But yet the CPU had no problem shooting 3's, mid range jumpers and post shots over double teams. DOUBLE TEAMS. This game makes me want to smash every controller I own.

Yea they really need to fix the shooting, it feels like am playing live 14 where I couldn't get a shot to fall so I only played the demo, I like being down to the cpu it gives me a challenge but I shouldn't be messing that much shots it's really frustrating only possible time I can make a shoot is if the player is wide open and if the defense barely run at it, it says contested and the players mess. They need to do some tweaking to it cause players make contested shoots too. So please EA tweak something about this. Maybe not as easy has first time but not so hard, have to pray to the live gods that a shot goes in! Lol

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# 1068 Mikesthyme @ 12/23/14 08:12 AM

Nba live latest update for ps4 is amazing!!! Game plays much faster but not to fast.. Anamations are crisp and not robotic anymore.. Some more face scans also adding more highlights during half time show would be wonderful. To me.. The game plays great, still not perfect.. But then again what game is... I like he direction the Devs are going. Still haven't seen any floaters.. Seen some unrealistic alley oops .. Controls are tighter.. To many block shots but then again that's what Happens when you drive the lane with a 5'11 point guard on two 7 footers.

# 1069 The 24th Letter @ 12/23/14 08:48 AM

I agree on the shooting...

I don't have any issues winning...and my FG% is actually pretty decent...sometimes in mid 50's. It's just that the majority of my points are coming from inside. It's not a lot of fun playing like that. The penalty for semi contested shots is too severe, so it eliminates things scoring form the triple threat with a mid range pull up, or situations where you hit a 3 point shooter and the defender is 1-2 steps away. I will say that the majority of WIDE open shot's from 3, (mid range jumpers are iffy regardless) offline hit a lot more than they were, but online it's pretty bad.

To the guy's who are have no problems shooting mid range jumpers etc. i'd love a stream or video seeing you in action. That's not a challenge to what you're experiencing, I would just like to see what you're doing to get those results...i'm stumped in that regard.

# 1070 Gotmadskillzson @ 12/23/14 01:27 PM

Yeah I don't understand how shots can be considered CONTESTED when the defender is 2 or 3 steps away from you. The way NBA Live 15 has it, if a defender is within 3 steps of you, it is contested and you miss. Heck sometimes I get contested popping up on free throws, like WTF ? On a free throw ?

And the real killer, be wide open, get green good release, 96% chance sign of going in and you miss, over and over and over on green good releases with 96% chance of going in. Not fun when you have to spam lay ups in order to score. No mid range game at all for the USER. 3pt shots ? Might as well forget that too.

EA pretty much over corrected and went to the extremes. If this game had sliders, this wouldn't be a problem because EA tends to over correct in all their sports games. But since Live doesn't have sliders, we as consumers are stuck and are at the mercy of EA trying fix their game.

# 1071 GisherJohn24 @ 12/23/14 02:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Gotmadskillzson


	Yeah I don't understand how shots can be considered CONTESTED when the defender is 2 or 3 steps away from you. The way NBA Live 15 has it, if a defender is within 3 steps of you, it is contested and you miss. Heck sometimes I get contested popping up on free throws, like WTF ? On a free throw ? And the real killer, be wide open, get green good release, 96% chance sign of going in and you miss, over and over and over on green good releases with 96% chance of going in. Not fun when you have to spam lay ups in order to score. No mid range game at all for the USER. 3pt shots ? Might as well forget that too. EA pretty much over corrected and went to the extremes. If this game had sliders, this wouldn't be a problem because EA tends to over correct in all their sports games. But since Live doesn't have sliders, we as consumers are stuck and are at the mercy of EA trying fix their game.

The best of the best miss wide open jumpers all the time.

# 1072 bigeastbumrush @ 12/23/14 02:38 PM

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Originally Posted by GisherJohn24


	The best of the best miss wide open jumpers all the time.

Yes, but nowhere near this consistently.

The best players seem to play the worst as human-controlled since the last patch.

Klay Thpmpson shouldn't struggle to shoot the ball.

# 1073 Gotmadskillzson @ 12/23/14 03:02 PM

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Originally Posted by bigeastbumrush


	Yes, but nowhere near this consistently. The best players seem to play the worst as human-controlled since the last patch. Klay Thompson shouldn't struggle to shoot the ball.

Exactly. All the Superstars of teams play like scrubs on User controlled teams and scrubs on CPU controlled teams play like Superstars.

I've seen Kobe go 2 for 30, Curry 6 for 28, Klay 3 for 12, Damian Lilliard 8 for 25, Harden 5 for 20, Durant 6 for 30, Westbrook 4 for 18, Rose 9 for 28, Chris Paul 2 for 15 all since the last patch.

I just played Clippers vs Hawks again, this time CPU vs CPU. Clippers won by 43 points. Every shot the Hawks took were bricks:

Korver was 4 for 13
Millsap was 9 for 24
Schroeder was 1 for 11

Hawks shot 33%. These are all regular mid range jumpers and post shots.

# 1074 WTF @ 12/23/14 03:03 PM

http://www.twitch.tv/wtf_os/b/602467463

I'm uploading it to youtube as well. This is the game that I just finished, Wolves at Cavs (me). It was the NBA today type game, so I just played it. I shot 46%, they shot 49%. I shot quite a few mid range jumpers, and a very low % of my points were in the paint. Stats forthcoming.

# 1075 Gotmadskillzson @ 12/23/14 03:28 PM

that patch is fubar:

# 1076 The 24th Letter @ 12/23/14 03:34 PM

Thanks for sharing WTF, will check it out once it get's on YouTube. What was the difficulty? minutes?

Looks like you shot well, definitely going to peep your strategy on those mid range J's

As the shot chart shows the CPU is absolutely determined to spam inside after the latest update.....52 PIP and hit just 3 shots outside of paint, none in one half.....crazy

# 1077 WTF @ 12/23/14 03:50 PM

Yeah, Lavine, Wiggins Thad and Gieng were determined.

It was 8 min quarters on Superstar. I had a lot of contested jumpers too. I forgot to set the defense to protect the paint. After doing so, they had to resort a little more Balanced attack.

I shot 54% against the Lakers yesterday. Just wasn't streaming to show it.

# 1078 bigeastbumrush @ 12/23/14 04:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Gotmadskillzson


	that patch is fubar:

And I'll bet the majority of points came inside the paint.

Fernando confirmed that the gameplay team adjusted shooting. Why, I have no clue.

WTF,
I caught some of your stream. Saw you hit a 3 with a Kyrie on a semi-break but he was wide open.

I'm waiting to hear their reasons for tuning the shooting.

# 1079 Gotmadskillzson @ 12/23/14 04:25 PM

Yeah 61 points of the Clippers points came in the paint.

# 1080 WTF @ 12/23/14 05:02 PM

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Originally Posted by bigeastbumrush


	And I'll bet the majority of points came inside the paint. Fernando confirmed that the gameplay team adjusted shooting. Why, I have no clue. WTF, I caught some of your stream. Saw you hit a 3 with a Kyrie on a semi-break but he was wide open. I'm waiting to hear their reasons for tuning the shooting.

I'm happy with the shooting for the user right now. I'm finding it pretty balanced makes/misses when wide open, contested shots, and guarded. It took me a few games to find a rhythm. The rest of the stream (which should be up on Youtube shortly) I shot quite a few jumpers that were semi-contested or fully contested. Even hit an And 1 jumper with Kyrie. Dion was contested on his 3 after a great find from Lebron on the break.

The second half, felt like Lebron just had "it" going, so i went to him quite a bit. Hearing the MVP chants were great, even though it was just against the lowly wolves.

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