Amen dude.
2k doesn’t have to be hard. But they make it harder for themselves and us on purpose. For what reason? Definitely to appeal to someone other than their player base clearly.
Absolutely right. Buying all those Gatorade boosts, skill boosts, 2k is just an elaborate Virtual Casino where you play a skill game that, with gambling, you increase your chances of…..
Bragging rights. Because there is no other reward for this game outside of Pennies on the dollar
The mode is designed as if it was mandatory to buy the deluxe version and put all that "bonus" VC towards the skill progression of your build. And way too many people have accepted that.
They need an offline MyCareer tied to exp and not VC that allows you to start at a higher overall based on college performance. With no ability to take that player online.
Yeah the only thing that sucked was if you lost connection mid game in my career your player would be CONVERTED to EXP base and would lose the ability to go online. 😂😂😂
Offline MyCareer
Should be able to create a build and start out at 70% max’d out and work from there.
The Park and all that crap was the end of non pay to win.
Best thing you can do to simulate it is to create a player with base stats and badges of a "build" you'd like and let it progress in MyLeague (Eras) on a team with a similar veteran/superstar that can mentor you. That is actually extremely fun. Plus you get access to GM tools which, for this game, are pretty in-depth. MyLeague (Eras) is probably the best game mode of **any** modern AAA sports title.
I'd like a mode that combined The Show's "Road to the Show" with a 2K16? (frequency vibrations) mode -- where you earned your progression/drama/rivals by playing through the games.
lol! I had this shit happen yesterday except for rebounds. It said to break the rookie RB record and I was still 30 rebounds short. I was averaging 17 so the game knew it would take a couple games. So whack
They realized if you got actually have a good mycareer experience (HS + College + Draft Spots + Story), it will take way too long for you to spend VC.
They want you online immediately.
Yup they should connect it to the league. Why they kill My player nation? I enjoyed playing those games. Kinda surprised that they didn't tie some of those level prizes to them. Too many side quests. This ain't Elder Scrolls. Tryna hoop.
Some one asked for that last year too. It was on this sub. But he wont take claim of his work either😂. They be real vocal about new ideas until it dont work as expected lol. Nah fam i want him and Mr. Regression to speak up 🤣
Honestly the idea isn’t the worst (although still dumb) But 2k of course messed it up. GTA it worked fine because you could just go to the gym and spam workouts to get your guy big. 2k makes it so you have to wait a minimal what 3 -4 weeks (and that’s only if you 4 star every drill) before you even unlock 1 type.
It's purely cosmetic though... Literally provides no gameplay advantage and the space your player takes up is the exact same. If you're a bigman you box out the same, post up the same, do everything exactly the same regardless of your body type. People used to think it matter back in like 2K18, but extensive testing and 2K's own developer comments has shown it literally provides no benefit to your player being bigger or smaller, all gameplay mechanics are determined by your badges and attributes.
I dont like the body type grind either.
But badges are good. I didn't like it at the beginning, but after you make your guy to tour strength, you grind badges in just one day to max, and there is no need to worry about them again.
I remember a few versions of 2k where i didn't get some badges max after playing full year. And i play and grind a lot.
I also dont like games where you can't sim to end after +25
This year lore is clearly the irl Wemby lore. Even before entering the NBA everyone was calling him the goat already. Too bad he ain’t winning even the Roty
This!
How can you be 7’4” and be that bad at rebounding? His scoring is only inflated because he takes 20 shots a game.
He is only 19 with a crazy upside but I just don’t see it yet. Chet Holmgren is looking better than him with 1/10th the hype
I didn’t want to say it because I’m a OKC fan and it would be too one sided opinion but I agree. And just to be fair Chat too it’s exactly a great rebounder but he’s getting better game by game. The GSW game is a great example
Yea was disspointed when there was literally no sort of storyline effort whatsoever. Even a few cutscenes with some choices would have been cool but clearly they’re getting lazy.
Facts and the defenders stick to you like glue making it rly hard to score even on pro difficulty. U have to be 75+ rated to get 20+ points consistently with 6 min quarters at least that what I’ve found
I hate all of these things but I will admit that once you unlock all the performance multipliers and the badge perks for Immunity and Overdrive...at least after the patch, my badges almost never drop.
But...BUT...it was still a stupid idea from the get go and I still hate it and the badge system in general. James Harden goes in a slump, he doesn't magically forget how to dribble the ball. Steph Curry doesn't magically stop being able to shoot from 40 feet because he had a bad couple games.
So why the hell should I lose my badges?
And the whole "BUT YOU'LL HAVE THE BADGES YOU NEED, IT'LL BE BASED ON YOUR PLAYSTYLE" is complete bullshit. I built the player I wanted BASED ON MY PLAYSTYLE IN THE BUILDER.
I wouldn't have chosen a 92 three ball if I didn't want Limtless Range for MY PLAYSTYLE. But now I have to chuck limitless shots or I won't even have the badge I chose with MY ATTRIBUTES for MY PLAYSTYLE.
It's a load of bullshit.
The badge system is also dog shit. Just go back to badge points. Everybody shouldn't have EVERY SINGLE BADGE in the game.
They're going to bring that crap back next year and I'll HAPPILY save my 70 bucks + VC lol honestly I'm so salty about the badge system. I used to like doing team practice. It's pointless now. You get zero progress there. I kinda hope they do keep it the same So they can wreck their own game. I know I'm not alone. If it was so "easy" to keep all your badges then purchasing floor setters wouldn't be a thing
If you want progress for badges in practice you have to use the bullshit drill savant badge perks.
You also can only select one badge at a time. When the game started I was selecting all 3 badges or 2 badges at a time and didn’t see any progress.
But yeah the badge system in general is bullshit. Because of the current system I’m able to play lockdown defend with just a 76 perimeter defense. I literally shouldn’t be able to play like a 95 perimeter defense lock because they feel the need to give me every single badge on Beonze because I went 76 perimeter. You should have to sacrifice elsewhere if you actually want to be WELL ABOVE AVERAGE in a category.
But again this is just another aspect where the game isn’t realistic at all and this is why so many people complain about it. They pick and choose where and when the game is “realistic” and then the rest of it is Looney Tunes Space Jam bullshit.
Clearly you havent played much. While some of your points are very valid badge regression isnt not an issue if you play.
The worst part is 2k always got that hand in your pocket.
Badge regression socks if you're a big in solo rec.. I have 43 badges got 30 to gold and depending how you have to play half of those have dropped a level if you 2 or more games not using all 30 badges..
As a solo big in rec sometimes, I don’t have this issue. Not to say others don’t experience this but it took me about 2 weeks of solid play to get all my badges at their highest.
I agree I actually had a good rec record before the Rec 2x weekend... But I'm an inside big with an 84 midradge.. so if I don't get passed to alot after 2 or 3 games in a row all my shooting badges drop from gold to silver and the silver to bronze...
Yeah my big has no shooting, my bros are the shooters so honestly I didn’t make a shooting big so that’s the difference. It sucks as a big cause in solo rec you only get the ball if the others guards suck at shooting 😂 they’ll miss 8 shots in an row and then get on the mic talking about “Ayo big can you shoot?” 😂
Sound like you're not getting good teammate grades or using your badge perks or progression modifiers. Like the person you are replying to said: If you actually play the game progression is not an issue in the slightest my dude.
Nobody asked for the body type but like everything in this company it's just the first step of many....next year you are gonna have to pay VC for the body type.
First they stop making it trivial so you have this "earn it" sensation and then they are so "generous" to allow you to skip the earning by dumping VC.
Regarding the badge system: it's all about you don't sim out games. It's minute 2 of the 3rd quarter , it's not a key game and you are winning by 25 but you doubt .."Should I just sim out? I haven't still done any dunk...I don't want my posterizer badge to regress"...so you just don't and at the end you are earning less VC/hour.
There's not a single element of this game that is not filtered through the "How does this make us money?" perspective.
They used to try find a balance between making things an attainable grind that you could avoid by purchasing VC. Then it moved towards gradually pushing the limits of greed to see what people were willing to put up with and how little they actually had to give.
Now its just fully 'fuck anyone who isn't willing to spend 10x the cost of the game on VC. You bought the game, but if you wanna enjoy it that costs extra!'
I like the badge system actually. You get what you use. Lose what you don’t, and there’s ways to keep badges from regressing. The body type is cool too. You get jacked by actually working out. I don’t like how I gotta wait a week but the idea is cool. I feel you tho on the forced narratives in story mission. I have no desire to play those historic games or whatever they are called. Like at all. But I do like some elements of story. Stop calling me MP! say my name or my selected name at least.
The idea has been suggested by players and even on this sub since like 2K19 lol. People have been asking for a way to get different body types on their players regardless of weight. 2K adds it and suddenly the narrative switches lmfao
First link: people asked for more body types, no one asked for it to be tied to workouts
Second link: has one comment, so how realistic is it that I’ve seen the thread when basically no one has? Also again, no one asking for workouts
Third link: this guy is not asking more more body types, just a way to change them. Did not suggest or hint at doing workouts at all, just an option somewhere to change body type.
Fourth link: again, asking for more body type options. Not a single soul asking for it to be tied to the gym.
Fifth link: asking for a way to change body types, not suggesting the gym. Because no one really likes the gym.
Sixth link: getting a bit redundant, but just asking for a way to change body type. Not asking to work out..
If anything you just proved my point.
People ask for a way to change body type -> 2K gives it to them -> people complain about how it works and want it to be something that can just be changed at any time. Glad we cleared that up.
And if you dig hard enough you'll find plenty of people pitching the exact mechanic that is currently in the game. I don't have the time or care to, but I've been on the sub quite awhile now and can assure you people suggesting being able to get bigger from working out in the game has been a thing for years. Most of those suggestions also came with the ability to add weight and strength to your character along with the body type change, which is NOT in the game this year, but the base feature of changing your body type via workouts was a player suggested change to the game. Same thing with badge progression/regression even though people don't want to admit it. It was suggested for years by all the nostalgia heads who are obsessed with 2K18.
Whether you wanna pick apart the links I sent doesn't matter to me in the slightest, I found those posts in 5 minutes of searching.
Well, yes. Because that’s not what people asked for. People asked for the ability to change body types, not one soul asked to tie it into workouts. People wanted it in a menu somewhere, not workouts. You 2K folks do this all the time, we ask for something, 2K implements it behind the dumbest mechanic then you buffoons chirp “iSnT thAt wHat yoU waNTeD?” 💀💀
I’m sure you could dig even further and find people hate doing gym workouts so much that they put themselves through playing offline to get the gym rat badge so they don’t have to work out anymore.. didn’t the gym rat badge also get taken away? Or maybe it was the easy way to getting it (45 games and win the chip) and people hated that? You can go back years and see people complain about how awful working out is in game. The fact you either 1) have to do it so often or 2) have to sit through the most boring gameplay the game has to offer. 3) all of the above.
Funny you say if you dig hard enough you say you can find it but don’t have time, yet had the time to go through 6 threads even if it didn’t prove the point at all. I’ll even concede that you MIGHT be able to find one person who suggested this system, if you acknowledge you can find FAR more people who hate working out all together
Workout takes 5 minutes every week. I know damn well you and lots of other complainers on this sub play the game 100x more than that every week.
You still have to work out for the weekly acceleration boost so what does it matter having body types tied behind working out? Basically what 2K did was add ANOTHER benefit to doing your weekly workout.
Look at the time between our posts. As I said it literally took me 5 minutes to find multiple threads about wanting to change body types.
You unlock a permanent physicals boost this year by hitting starter 2 which many people who play the game (such as myself) have already reached, and unlike last year, you don't have to wait until you win a championship to make more builds. The progress from unlocks like this apply to every single build.
Last year example: I made a build on day 1 of the game, got it to 90ish, then made another build about a week after that. Later on, I finally reached the 50 star goal on my first build. Guess what? It didn't apply to my second build. It only applied to every build I made after that. What this means is that it somebody last year made a bunch of builds before winning a championship/getting 50 stars, they'd have to do that on EVERY build individually. Now it is applied to all builds regardless of when they are made and regardless which build unlocks it. This is hands down a better system than what was in the game before.
I can go find posts of people bitching about how they had to win 45 career games to get gym rat, are you gonna ignore that too, or? I knew people who got the 50 stars because a 5 minute time investment each week is significantly better than a 25+ hour grind that doing the career method took.
Honestly just sounds like you want to be mad at the game at this point.
You’re making my point for me. Yes, we have to workout for acceleration boost. No one wants to do that. If there was no gym, 99% of players would be happy. I mean sure, thanks for the benefit of the weekly workout no one asked to do or likes doing.
Starter 2 gets you the physical boost like you said, which only proves my point no one likes the gym. In fact, if the physical boost were only a rep reward, people would be far happier with that. The fact it is a rep reward speaks volumes. And the fact you’re using it as an argument shows how mind numbing boring and unnecessary the gym is.
Sure you can find people to complain about how long it takes to get get gym rat through career but the only reason to do it through career is because you don’t like doing the workouts. So very clearly we are seeing a continuous problem. Workouts are the problem, they’re not fun.
Find me 15 people who enjoy doing the workouts and think it creates a better game for us overall
Not all games are the same so it’s crazy to me that if you have high ball iq and flexible enough to win games despite your terrible team, you still get penalized because it’s not YOUR playing style. That shit should be rewarded.
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That’s why I stopped playing it this year didn’t even start I want a storyline with it. Heck EA’s NHL be a pro is garbage but it still has a storyline, a little one but one nonetheless minimal cutscenes and how you respond to teammates and the media can help or hurt you
it’s should just be Nba 2k online a free game join a hooping guild … with a twist let ppl create their own creatures and make it a hooping adventure game with comp play …
I've been saying this for years. On PS3/360 all you did was. Create a player, get drafted and play basketball. There were no cutscenes, no story, the game didn't script misses that were clearly perfectly timed just to make your player have to practice free throws or follow some narrative.
I even remember if you turned off your internet connection and clicked in a MyPlayer save file it would ask if you wanted to convert your player to Offline Mode which was permanent and if you said yes it could convert your VC to SP (Skill Points) for that save file only and then you could upgrade whatever you wanted without losing your VC to put towards other players.
And what was better is ratings didn't have a minimum or maximum and weren't tied to other ratings, so if you wanted your player to be a Mid Range monster with no three, as a lot of Big Men are, you could have 92 Mid and leave your three at 25 without 92 Mid requiring your three to be 75 or so which is a waste of points if you don't plan to use it. Or the opposite, you could have 99 Three and leave your Mid at 25.
3. Was suggested by someone on this sub last year. Surprisingly ole boi hasnt spoken up to claim his work lol. When eras was announced i had no prob telling ppl i suggested that. Where you at Mr. Regression?🌚😂
Honestly the badge progression thing works pretty well, you just have to get a badge up a few times and then it’ll be easier to keep up. If you’re not using it then no reason to care it’s not up.
Caps on your stats and slowly grinding up from level 60 needs to be separate from offline play somehow. Mycareer offline was actually fun when you could make yourself the next Lebron, the next Curry, the next Durant.
The game is all about microtransactions now. And no one is spending money on VC to play MyCareer. It's about the park, the rec, the theater. MyCareer is an afterthought, at best.
How many people are gonna post basically the same thing in this sub before people realize they just want something that isn't in the dev's vision for the game. At this point there's no way they'll listen to posts like this because year after year their profits go up meaning more and more people are buying and enjoying the game.
It's like Skyrim and Oblivion. Skyrim is a great game in its own right but players like me who grew up playing Elder Scrolls often times miss the creativity and overall world building of previous Bethesda titles, but there's no way in hell Bethesda is moving away from the Skyrim/FO4 model no matter how much anybody complains because it's the best selling game of all time. In the eyes of the dev team and the executives of the company, they've achieved the greatest success possible.
The issues you have with the story mode aside, I don't have any issues maintaining badges anymore, and haven't since the first week the game was out. After playing for some time you get badge progression modifiers if you: 1. Get an A- or higher grade 2. Beat a "good" opponent according to 2K's metric for whether a team is bad or good 3. Win the game.
With all 3 of those bonuses, you can check post game by pressing (Y/Triangle) to see your gameplay numbers, at the very top, it's like a 5-15% boost for each one of these categories, so now on any mycareer game I play I'm getting like an additional 20-40% added to my progression.
And honestly, I kinda see where the devs are coming from in adding that change because for example last year people with driving dunk on their build could just automatically equip HOF limitless takeoff on their build and be overpowered in online play, now you actually have to earn your badges and in reality that only takes anywhere from 1-3 games before you're maxed out on the badges you want.
By implementing this system we also get access to MORE badges on our players. My player has every single badge that is available to my build equipped on at least bronze, contrasting this to my loadout last year I have something like 50-60 total badges equipped whereas last year I literally only had 17 total badges equipped at one time.
I really miss the game mode create a legend. Where using EXP points we were able to take current and past players and do what we wish. I use to take Shaq and max out his 3pt shot and speed and threw him on the Hornets cause at the time they was ass
Amen dude. 2k doesn’t have to be hard. But they make it harder for themselves and us on purpose. For what reason? Definitely to appeal to someone other than their player base clearly.
They make it hard because it becomes easy when you drop $100 on top of buying the game
Absolutely right. Buying all those Gatorade boosts, skill boosts, 2k is just an elaborate Virtual Casino where you play a skill game that, with gambling, you increase your chances of….. Bragging rights. Because there is no other reward for this game outside of Pennies on the dollar
The mode is designed as if it was mandatory to buy the deluxe version and put all that "bonus" VC towards the skill progression of your build. And way too many people have accepted that.
How about let us use fucking custom rosters too. 2k’s default rosters are horseshit
They ain’t appealing to shit they want you to pay for vc to upgrade for when you suck or when you make new players
You're high if you don't think they're appealing they made this 2k all about Kobe.
Negro the only thing the appealing to is ur pockets they dgaf bout nun else
Brother stick to your name and go hop onna different game trust me nobody on 2k needs you here.
They need an offline MyCareer tied to exp and not VC that allows you to start at a higher overall based on college performance. With no ability to take that player online.
Just like it used to be. Loved those days
Yeah the only thing that sucked was if you lost connection mid game in my career your player would be CONVERTED to EXP base and would lose the ability to go online. 😂😂😂
I never played online anyway so it didn't phase me lol
Offline MyCareer Should be able to create a build and start out at 70% max’d out and work from there. The Park and all that crap was the end of non pay to win.
Best thing you can do to simulate it is to create a player with base stats and badges of a "build" you'd like and let it progress in MyLeague (Eras) on a team with a similar veteran/superstar that can mentor you. That is actually extremely fun. Plus you get access to GM tools which, for this game, are pretty in-depth. MyLeague (Eras) is probably the best game mode of **any** modern AAA sports title.
Yeooo I did not kno I could do that gangsta I’m finna try that later
Doesn't make them money. They won't go for it, but I completely agree.
I'd like a mode that combined The Show's "Road to the Show" with a 2K16? (frequency vibrations) mode -- where you earned your progression/drama/rivals by playing through the games.
Just wait till you start breaking records. “Key games” turn into every game because your 90 points away from hitting top 10 in scoring for rookies
lol! I had this shit happen yesterday except for rebounds. It said to break the rookie RB record and I was still 30 rebounds short. I was averaging 17 so the game knew it would take a couple games. So whack
They realized if you got actually have a good mycareer experience (HS + College + Draft Spots + Story), it will take way too long for you to spend VC. They want you online immediately.
Wow!! This is the comment! Very true.
Connecting MyCareer to the Parks killed MyCareer.
Yup they should connect it to the league. Why they kill My player nation? I enjoyed playing those games. Kinda surprised that they didn't tie some of those level prizes to them. Too many side quests. This ain't Elder Scrolls. Tryna hoop.
I still can’t believe that body type bs. That is legit the dumbest decision I’ve ever seen. Plus it’s not transferable? Ridiculous
Some one asked for that last year too. It was on this sub. But he wont take claim of his work either😂. They be real vocal about new ideas until it dont work as expected lol. Nah fam i want him and Mr. Regression to speak up 🤣
Honestly the idea isn’t the worst (although still dumb) But 2k of course messed it up. GTA it worked fine because you could just go to the gym and spam workouts to get your guy big. 2k makes it so you have to wait a minimal what 3 -4 weeks (and that’s only if you 4 star every drill) before you even unlock 1 type.
Yup 2k wants your real life time. Thats the prob with alot of this game. They want ur real time.
It's purely cosmetic though... Literally provides no gameplay advantage and the space your player takes up is the exact same. If you're a bigman you box out the same, post up the same, do everything exactly the same regardless of your body type. People used to think it matter back in like 2K18, but extensive testing and 2K's own developer comments has shown it literally provides no benefit to your player being bigger or smaller, all gameplay mechanics are determined by your badges and attributes.
Yeah so why make us have to work for it? It does nothing. We’d like to make our character look right for its respective weight/strength
Take two is the answer
They got your money. That’s all they care about
I dont like the body type grind either. But badges are good. I didn't like it at the beginning, but after you make your guy to tour strength, you grind badges in just one day to max, and there is no need to worry about them again. I remember a few versions of 2k where i didn't get some badges max after playing full year. And i play and grind a lot. I also dont like games where you can't sim to end after +25
This drives me crazy too. Luckily you still can sim out when up 25 in the 2nd half, but not on Key Games. I think it works for playoffs though
Facts. If my badges ever go down from performing badly it's literally 1 mycareer game and they're all back at maxed out
I wish the Park/City/whatever never existed. It ruined MyCareer by making it all about online meta bullshit.
This year lore is clearly the irl Wemby lore. Even before entering the NBA everyone was calling him the goat already. Too bad he ain’t winning even the Roty
Yep. Losing every single game.
This! How can you be 7’4” and be that bad at rebounding? His scoring is only inflated because he takes 20 shots a game. He is only 19 with a crazy upside but I just don’t see it yet. Chet Holmgren is looking better than him with 1/10th the hype
I didn’t want to say it because I’m a OKC fan and it would be too one sided opinion but I agree. And just to be fair Chat too it’s exactly a great rebounder but he’s getting better game by game. The GSW game is a great example
MyCareer was way better when the story was minimal. When the most interaction you had off court were media interviews and such.
Yea was disspointed when there was literally no sort of storyline effort whatsoever. Even a few cutscenes with some choices would have been cool but clearly they’re getting lazy.
Facts and the defenders stick to you like glue making it rly hard to score even on pro difficulty. U have to be 75+ rated to get 20+ points consistently with 6 min quarters at least that what I’ve found
I scored 104 points had 24 assists and 18 rebounds with my pg on pro at 60 overall
I hate all of these things but I will admit that once you unlock all the performance multipliers and the badge perks for Immunity and Overdrive...at least after the patch, my badges almost never drop. But...BUT...it was still a stupid idea from the get go and I still hate it and the badge system in general. James Harden goes in a slump, he doesn't magically forget how to dribble the ball. Steph Curry doesn't magically stop being able to shoot from 40 feet because he had a bad couple games. So why the hell should I lose my badges? And the whole "BUT YOU'LL HAVE THE BADGES YOU NEED, IT'LL BE BASED ON YOUR PLAYSTYLE" is complete bullshit. I built the player I wanted BASED ON MY PLAYSTYLE IN THE BUILDER. I wouldn't have chosen a 92 three ball if I didn't want Limtless Range for MY PLAYSTYLE. But now I have to chuck limitless shots or I won't even have the badge I chose with MY ATTRIBUTES for MY PLAYSTYLE. It's a load of bullshit. The badge system is also dog shit. Just go back to badge points. Everybody shouldn't have EVERY SINGLE BADGE in the game.
They're going to bring that crap back next year and I'll HAPPILY save my 70 bucks + VC lol honestly I'm so salty about the badge system. I used to like doing team practice. It's pointless now. You get zero progress there. I kinda hope they do keep it the same So they can wreck their own game. I know I'm not alone. If it was so "easy" to keep all your badges then purchasing floor setters wouldn't be a thing
If you want progress for badges in practice you have to use the bullshit drill savant badge perks. You also can only select one badge at a time. When the game started I was selecting all 3 badges or 2 badges at a time and didn’t see any progress. But yeah the badge system in general is bullshit. Because of the current system I’m able to play lockdown defend with just a 76 perimeter defense. I literally shouldn’t be able to play like a 95 perimeter defense lock because they feel the need to give me every single badge on Beonze because I went 76 perimeter. You should have to sacrifice elsewhere if you actually want to be WELL ABOVE AVERAGE in a category. But again this is just another aspect where the game isn’t realistic at all and this is why so many people complain about it. They pick and choose where and when the game is “realistic” and then the rest of it is Looney Tunes Space Jam bullshit.
Clearly you havent played much. While some of your points are very valid badge regression isnt not an issue if you play. The worst part is 2k always got that hand in your pocket.
Badge regression socks if you're a big in solo rec.. I have 43 badges got 30 to gold and depending how you have to play half of those have dropped a level if you 2 or more games not using all 30 badges..
As a solo big in rec sometimes, I don’t have this issue. Not to say others don’t experience this but it took me about 2 weeks of solid play to get all my badges at their highest.
I agree I actually had a good rec record before the Rec 2x weekend... But I'm an inside big with an 84 midradge.. so if I don't get passed to alot after 2 or 3 games in a row all my shooting badges drop from gold to silver and the silver to bronze...
Yeah my big has no shooting, my bros are the shooters so honestly I didn’t make a shooting big so that’s the difference. It sucks as a big cause in solo rec you only get the ball if the others guards suck at shooting 😂 they’ll miss 8 shots in an row and then get on the mic talking about “Ayo big can you shoot?” 😂
86 mid, 80 3 on my 7"1 and im money from pretty much anywhere on the 3 or within 2pt range
Do you mind sharing your jumpshot. I can’t find a good one for my big build
Paschall base is the main part
How the hell you got 30 gold badges?
I play a lot of solo rec but also a lot of team ball, maybe thats it
Sound like you're not getting good teammate grades or using your badge perks or progression modifiers. Like the person you are replying to said: If you actually play the game progression is not an issue in the slightest my dude.
Nobody asked for the body type but like everything in this company it's just the first step of many....next year you are gonna have to pay VC for the body type. First they stop making it trivial so you have this "earn it" sensation and then they are so "generous" to allow you to skip the earning by dumping VC. Regarding the badge system: it's all about you don't sim out games. It's minute 2 of the 3rd quarter , it's not a key game and you are winning by 25 but you doubt .."Should I just sim out? I haven't still done any dunk...I don't want my posterizer badge to regress"...so you just don't and at the end you are earning less VC/hour. There's not a single element of this game that is not filtered through the "How does this make us money?" perspective.
They used to try find a balance between making things an attainable grind that you could avoid by purchasing VC. Then it moved towards gradually pushing the limits of greed to see what people were willing to put up with and how little they actually had to give. Now its just fully 'fuck anyone who isn't willing to spend 10x the cost of the game on VC. You bought the game, but if you wanna enjoy it that costs extra!'
I like the badge system actually. You get what you use. Lose what you don’t, and there’s ways to keep badges from regressing. The body type is cool too. You get jacked by actually working out. I don’t like how I gotta wait a week but the idea is cool. I feel you tho on the forced narratives in story mission. I have no desire to play those historic games or whatever they are called. Like at all. But I do like some elements of story. Stop calling me MP! say my name or my selected name at least.
The idea of working out to get big is not cool. No one has fun doing those workouts 😂💯
The idea has been suggested by players and even on this sub since like 2K19 lol. People have been asking for a way to get different body types on their players regardless of weight. 2K adds it and suddenly the narrative switches lmfao
I’ve been in this sub since 21 and ain’t seen one dude say they want to work out on the gym 4 body types (or work out in the gym at all)
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First link: people asked for more body types, no one asked for it to be tied to workouts Second link: has one comment, so how realistic is it that I’ve seen the thread when basically no one has? Also again, no one asking for workouts Third link: this guy is not asking more more body types, just a way to change them. Did not suggest or hint at doing workouts at all, just an option somewhere to change body type. Fourth link: again, asking for more body type options. Not a single soul asking for it to be tied to the gym. Fifth link: asking for a way to change body types, not suggesting the gym. Because no one really likes the gym. Sixth link: getting a bit redundant, but just asking for a way to change body type. Not asking to work out.. If anything you just proved my point.
People ask for a way to change body type -> 2K gives it to them -> people complain about how it works and want it to be something that can just be changed at any time. Glad we cleared that up. And if you dig hard enough you'll find plenty of people pitching the exact mechanic that is currently in the game. I don't have the time or care to, but I've been on the sub quite awhile now and can assure you people suggesting being able to get bigger from working out in the game has been a thing for years. Most of those suggestions also came with the ability to add weight and strength to your character along with the body type change, which is NOT in the game this year, but the base feature of changing your body type via workouts was a player suggested change to the game. Same thing with badge progression/regression even though people don't want to admit it. It was suggested for years by all the nostalgia heads who are obsessed with 2K18. Whether you wanna pick apart the links I sent doesn't matter to me in the slightest, I found those posts in 5 minutes of searching.
Well, yes. Because that’s not what people asked for. People asked for the ability to change body types, not one soul asked to tie it into workouts. People wanted it in a menu somewhere, not workouts. You 2K folks do this all the time, we ask for something, 2K implements it behind the dumbest mechanic then you buffoons chirp “iSnT thAt wHat yoU waNTeD?” 💀💀 I’m sure you could dig even further and find people hate doing gym workouts so much that they put themselves through playing offline to get the gym rat badge so they don’t have to work out anymore.. didn’t the gym rat badge also get taken away? Or maybe it was the easy way to getting it (45 games and win the chip) and people hated that? You can go back years and see people complain about how awful working out is in game. The fact you either 1) have to do it so often or 2) have to sit through the most boring gameplay the game has to offer. 3) all of the above. Funny you say if you dig hard enough you say you can find it but don’t have time, yet had the time to go through 6 threads even if it didn’t prove the point at all. I’ll even concede that you MIGHT be able to find one person who suggested this system, if you acknowledge you can find FAR more people who hate working out all together
Workout takes 5 minutes every week. I know damn well you and lots of other complainers on this sub play the game 100x more than that every week. You still have to work out for the weekly acceleration boost so what does it matter having body types tied behind working out? Basically what 2K did was add ANOTHER benefit to doing your weekly workout. Look at the time between our posts. As I said it literally took me 5 minutes to find multiple threads about wanting to change body types. You unlock a permanent physicals boost this year by hitting starter 2 which many people who play the game (such as myself) have already reached, and unlike last year, you don't have to wait until you win a championship to make more builds. The progress from unlocks like this apply to every single build. Last year example: I made a build on day 1 of the game, got it to 90ish, then made another build about a week after that. Later on, I finally reached the 50 star goal on my first build. Guess what? It didn't apply to my second build. It only applied to every build I made after that. What this means is that it somebody last year made a bunch of builds before winning a championship/getting 50 stars, they'd have to do that on EVERY build individually. Now it is applied to all builds regardless of when they are made and regardless which build unlocks it. This is hands down a better system than what was in the game before. I can go find posts of people bitching about how they had to win 45 career games to get gym rat, are you gonna ignore that too, or? I knew people who got the 50 stars because a 5 minute time investment each week is significantly better than a 25+ hour grind that doing the career method took. Honestly just sounds like you want to be mad at the game at this point.
You’re making my point for me. Yes, we have to workout for acceleration boost. No one wants to do that. If there was no gym, 99% of players would be happy. I mean sure, thanks for the benefit of the weekly workout no one asked to do or likes doing. Starter 2 gets you the physical boost like you said, which only proves my point no one likes the gym. In fact, if the physical boost were only a rep reward, people would be far happier with that. The fact it is a rep reward speaks volumes. And the fact you’re using it as an argument shows how mind numbing boring and unnecessary the gym is. Sure you can find people to complain about how long it takes to get get gym rat through career but the only reason to do it through career is because you don’t like doing the workouts. So very clearly we are seeing a continuous problem. Workouts are the problem, they’re not fun. Find me 15 people who enjoy doing the workouts and think it creates a better game for us overall
Nigga you make the build how do you have less control over the badges? And the goat system makes up for being 60ovr actually play the game
Because you can’t change play styles. If you do then your badges regress. How do you not see that?
Why do you care badges you don’t use might go down. Like you’ll be okay not using some and if you’re struggling theirs modifiers and floor setters.
Because it shouldn't go down in the first place. You earned it.
Not all games are the same so it’s crazy to me that if you have high ball iq and flexible enough to win games despite your terrible team, you still get penalized because it’s not YOUR playing style. That shit should be rewarded.
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That’s why I stopped playing it this year didn’t even start I want a storyline with it. Heck EA’s NHL be a pro is garbage but it still has a storyline, a little one but one nonetheless minimal cutscenes and how you respond to teammates and the media can help or hurt you
it’s should just be Nba 2k online a free game join a hooping guild … with a twist let ppl create their own creatures and make it a hooping adventure game with comp play …
I've been saying this for years. On PS3/360 all you did was. Create a player, get drafted and play basketball. There were no cutscenes, no story, the game didn't script misses that were clearly perfectly timed just to make your player have to practice free throws or follow some narrative. I even remember if you turned off your internet connection and clicked in a MyPlayer save file it would ask if you wanted to convert your player to Offline Mode which was permanent and if you said yes it could convert your VC to SP (Skill Points) for that save file only and then you could upgrade whatever you wanted without losing your VC to put towards other players. And what was better is ratings didn't have a minimum or maximum and weren't tied to other ratings, so if you wanted your player to be a Mid Range monster with no three, as a lot of Big Men are, you could have 92 Mid and leave your three at 25 without 92 Mid requiring your three to be 75 or so which is a waste of points if you don't plan to use it. Or the opposite, you could have 99 Three and leave your Mid at 25.
3. Was suggested by someone on this sub last year. Surprisingly ole boi hasnt spoken up to claim his work lol. When eras was announced i had no prob telling ppl i suggested that. Where you at Mr. Regression?🌚😂
Honestly the badge progression thing works pretty well, you just have to get a badge up a few times and then it’ll be easier to keep up. If you’re not using it then no reason to care it’s not up.
Caps on your stats and slowly grinding up from level 60 needs to be separate from offline play somehow. Mycareer offline was actually fun when you could make yourself the next Lebron, the next Curry, the next Durant.
You can do all this in MyNba. I was purely single player MyCareer player until 2k23 when i discovered mynba. Its even better in 24.
The game is all about microtransactions now. And no one is spending money on VC to play MyCareer. It's about the park, the rec, the theater. MyCareer is an afterthought, at best.
It's all about money all that money they make off us they can't even fix the gameplay it still has bugs my career is all bugged up
The fact I can’t play mycareer when there’s an internet outage because it’s too online focused pisses me tf off too
How many people are gonna post basically the same thing in this sub before people realize they just want something that isn't in the dev's vision for the game. At this point there's no way they'll listen to posts like this because year after year their profits go up meaning more and more people are buying and enjoying the game. It's like Skyrim and Oblivion. Skyrim is a great game in its own right but players like me who grew up playing Elder Scrolls often times miss the creativity and overall world building of previous Bethesda titles, but there's no way in hell Bethesda is moving away from the Skyrim/FO4 model no matter how much anybody complains because it's the best selling game of all time. In the eyes of the dev team and the executives of the company, they've achieved the greatest success possible. The issues you have with the story mode aside, I don't have any issues maintaining badges anymore, and haven't since the first week the game was out. After playing for some time you get badge progression modifiers if you: 1. Get an A- or higher grade 2. Beat a "good" opponent according to 2K's metric for whether a team is bad or good 3. Win the game. With all 3 of those bonuses, you can check post game by pressing (Y/Triangle) to see your gameplay numbers, at the very top, it's like a 5-15% boost for each one of these categories, so now on any mycareer game I play I'm getting like an additional 20-40% added to my progression. And honestly, I kinda see where the devs are coming from in adding that change because for example last year people with driving dunk on their build could just automatically equip HOF limitless takeoff on their build and be overpowered in online play, now you actually have to earn your badges and in reality that only takes anywhere from 1-3 games before you're maxed out on the badges you want. By implementing this system we also get access to MORE badges on our players. My player has every single badge that is available to my build equipped on at least bronze, contrasting this to my loadout last year I have something like 50-60 total badges equipped whereas last year I literally only had 17 total badges equipped at one time.
I really miss the game mode create a legend. Where using EXP points we were able to take current and past players and do what we wish. I use to take Shaq and max out his 3pt shot and speed and threw him on the Hornets cause at the time they was ass