Spent sometime with this, the animations and passing is so bad and janky. Coming from a sim player whom main attraction is online leagues i can't get behind how downright awful this game feels. The presentation is the one redeeming quality. Jump shot animations are so awful
No, double tapping the shoot button (square on ps4, x on xbox), while driving with turbo initiates a euro step (without turbo reaults in a spin gather).
Double tapping x on the ps4 results in a pass.
How to EXPLODE:
Important: STOP HOLDING TURBO. this is not 2k, you do not need to use turbo to explode out of moves. Simply holding the LEFT (not right) analog stick in the direction you want to drive will burst in that direction. For instance, to explosively cross from right to left you do not flick from right to left and then try and turbo, what you want to do is flick left to right to put the ball in your right hand or if its in your right hand trigger a hesitation to the right and then simply hold the LEFT analog stick to the Left and your player will make an explosive crossover in that direction (very similar to how you could do this in 2k but you do not need to push the turbo button). .... much more at link
http://forums.operationsports.com/forums/nba-live/912920-quick-dribbling-tutorial.html
Yes I meant on Xbox tapping x Twice while driving to do a Euro hop step.
On another note I thought this post was very helpful in understanding the drive and dribble mechanic
And some people are finding the dribbling shooting animations are better for them by increasing game speed to 75-80.
Oh and switching to Player lock camera during the career mode games made it much better for me. Hope they bring the player lock camera to NBA play now
Spent sometime with this, the animations and passing is so bad and janky. Coming from a sim player whom main attraction is online leagues i can't get behind how downright awful this game feels. The presentation is the one redeeming quality. Jump shot animations are so awful
Trust the process.Wwwwwhhhyyyyyyy can't I get drafted by the lakers!!!!!! Every time philly grabs me at # 1
DAMN IT!!!!!!
Trust the process.
I'm glad there is this demo. I'm quite pleased with it and they made great improvements over the last release.
You know what EA should do? Build NBA Jam: On Fire Edition into NBA Live with an updated roster.
To be fair, it was a REAL shitty game.
2K needs to seperate the park character from the career character, thats one of the main issues.
Yup, i'm glad NBA Live does this in a minor way, which is through making builds with your badges to let you create "two" types of your own player.
Also certain street badges are not usable in league. Meaning they feel that they would be unbalanced. So live is already a step ahead in terms of being able to balance characters
Have not played a demo this much since Forza Horizon 3
Hit max level and now I cant play 5v5 pickup game. Laaaaaame.
At this point I'm just waiting to see what 2k drops. Do they actually listen to their customers at least a little, and respect them? We shall find out. But I'm guessing a lot of what they're going to do is smoke and mirrors which is exactly what 2k17 was.
I don't think so either bro, but this is the type of gameplay 2K allows, as long as you "know your release" you can shoot 65-70 percent tbh. It's crazy.
A little background y'all:
I come from the competitive ProAm community (the mode that 2K has gained affiliation with the NBA in to provide an ELeague in 18) and it's probably one of the worst modes in regards to realism. There are Slashers & PP shooting green light 3's consistently because badges and having ALL your hotspots somehow trumps ratings. Everyone can do this. Your not considered an elite player if you can't green consistently with non-shooters. I have a hypotheses that it's because ProAM is played on All star sliders vs HoF that everyone can literally break the game.
I wrote this post in thinking it was going to reach the Proam community but instead opted to share it here on OS, with some real hoopers. It's frustrating being an elite 5 team, coming from playing ball in real life and having to cheese the game as a team simply to be successful. I remember the 1st few months we came out playing real bball and realized that **** wasn't going to fly...
I'm sharing with you guys a lot of compromises on my end. I know 2k wants to keep the ProAm & Park community happy, they even invited top Proam players to the feedback/playnow/community session, so i know their opinions are valued...it just sucks cuz from following them on twitter they're influencing the game...and they want the cheese to remain.
Beyond all the other glitches and cheeses that i didn't even mention, you have teams running bull**** 5 out offenses with a glass cleaner and Lockdown on the court and a playmaker dribbling the air out the ball uptop. IRL any sane team would leave the GC and LD in the corners and dare them to beat them, but because they have corner specialist bronze, catch n shoot bronze, all hotspots, and maybe getting a pass from a playmaker with HOF dimer when we do leave them. They can green almost EVERYTIME!
This literally drains the realism out of the game 4 me. U cant strategize. For in real life people would play off those dudes. Smh. It's hella frustrating 4 someone who just wants to play a sim bball game with 9 other people on the court.
You know what EA should do? Build NBA Jam: On Fire Edition into NBA Live with an updated roster.
I agree with this.I am impressed. It is a bit clunky but I really like the dribble/drive game. It feels fluid and allows you to penetrate the lanes to get to the basket realistically with the hip ride animations. Compared to 2K where you very often get stonewalled, even if you have a fast player with great dribbling versus a slow center or poor defender in general. 2K is good, but that is the one aspect I always strongly disliked and felt it wasn't an accurate representation of the NBA. You can't stonewall in the NBA.
5 out needs to die in a fire it's not a real offenseThis guy from OS encapsulates why I'm really hesitant about 2k and why they're so disappointing besides being VC hungry whores.
Isn't Park gone in 2018? That gives me hope that. Eh will have separate SP progression for MyCareer and will relax the archetypes. If that's done I will still go with 2K18 but otherwise Live 18 might be what I get.2K needs to seperate the park character from the career character, thats one of the main issues.
Isn't Park gone in 2018?
The update didn't fix the matchmaking SMH
What did it do?
And I guess all versions must have the same problems? I'd been on the New Zealand version. I thought it might help to get the US one, but I guess same problems.
For someone who mainly plays MyCareer on 2K anyway, I think I'm going to go with NBA Live 18. I can live with the animations being awkward/janky or whatever adjective you would like to use to describe them. It's a lot more relaxing and it's not a horrifically annoying experience like NBA 2K's MyCareer has been the last 2 years or so.
The presentation for this game's MyCareer is a whole lot better and feels like there's more control or customization with your player. This obviously includes the archetypes, the animations, the builds/badges you can use for your player and so on.
However, I do hope the ultimate team mode or MyTeam mode for this game is even slightly better or close to MyTeam on 2K, and I'll be okay with it. When it comes to 2K, it's obviously the better game and it's obviously the superior basketball game. I think almost every person who's played this demo or played 2K for the last couple of years already knows this.
The honest trade off is you're getting the inferior game for a lower price tag as an incentive plus a better MyCareer mode. You're also getting a game that isn't so money hungry with Virtual Currency(VC). Honestly, on day one of 2K, most players just buy the virtual currency to max out their player till 87-89. That way, they can just go straight to park or start off being an offensive god (pretty much) during their MyCareer mode. At least in this game, you can buy crates through reputation which gives you the incentive to choose the dialogue choices that give you that as a prize.
Knowing all of this though, I'll end up getting NBA Live 18 day one and most likely 2K on the Switch in the future or on PSN when it goes on sale a few months later.
Demo got an update yesterday, really smoothed out game play and framerate feels rock solid now
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Liking the game! Not a big basketball person, but it feels fresh!
Fucking Paul's face. It's so perfect.
Really enjoying the demo so far. Is there going to be 4k/60fps PS4 Pro support?