With the second spherical of the NBA Playoffs set to start tonight, there’s been some dialogue on the boards in regards to the playoffs expertise in NBA 2K24 and whether or not there must be extra give attention to differentiating the gameplay between the common season and playoffs.
It’s query to ask as a result of quite a lot of the discussions we’ve got about making the playoffs really feel totally different than the common season normally return to presentation. Nonetheless, gameplay is king and the playoffs are totally different than the common season. Nonetheless, there’s layers to this as a result of 2K already perhaps has too many components that go into gameplay. We have now scorching zones, attributes, tendencies, sliders, badges, and so forth that seemingly make balancing the sport a nightmare. I’ve been a believer in attempting to strip away a few of these components as a result of it even looks like gameplay is getting worse as we get extra “stuff” that components into the gameplay.
However it doesn’t imply you couldn’t make the gameplay really feel totally different for those who wished to. OS consumer lifetimez began the thread by asking if they may “activate” that playoff really feel, and others chimed in with what that may imply. Basically, the playoffs are amped up variations of issues that exist already. With that in thoughts, OS consumer simbayless identified some common techniques that could possibly be highlighted, calling out particular gamers in varied eras.
-Construct a wall in opposition to the Freak, particularly in transition
-Tight protection in opposition to Harden that performs onerous to his dominant driving hand
-Miami performs extra zone
-Groups will begin to dig and double Shaq extra
All this stuff are already a part of a staff’s techniques within the common season, it’s nearly making them extra of a spotlight come playoff time.
These emotions usually are not shared by everybody, and I are inclined to agree with OS consumer vetmin who says, “They need to simply repair no matter common sport mechanics are actually damaged (i.e., not functioning as supposed) and depart stuff like this to us.” It’s one factor to need the depth of the playoffs, however 2K can’t fairly steadiness the “regular” gameplay proper now, they usually’ve already tried so as to add Eras-based gameplay modifications that aren’t precisely nice a lot of the time.
And like I mentioned, I believe a part of the balancing difficulty is not only as a result of large quantity of customers and sport modes, but in addition due to an enormous mount of things that go into that gameplay. If there may be one factor I do assume they may focus extra on, it’s the rotations. OS consumer Real2KInsider calls it out within the thread as properly.
It’s all about rotations. High 7-8 gamers, not these 4-5-man line modifications goes a great distance.
-Real2KInsider
Very similar to the sliders, we are able to change the rotations for the playoffs, but it surely does really feel like one thing that would extra simply be dealt with by 2K with out having knock-on results elsewhere. Stamina might find yourself being the problem, however past that I don’t see any main issues.
Regardless, for those who do need to make the sport really feel totally different within the playoffs, then how do you go about it? OS customers go at it in several methods however OS consumer tc020791 focuses on sliders: “I enhance contest pictures, hustle, assist D, driving contact, and inside contact — solely by a couple of factors although, perhaps 5 on the most. I will even decrease taking pictures fouls by some extent or two to duplicate the refs letting them play a bit extra.”
OS consumer Hassan Darkside focuses extra on the teaching facet of issues: “I take management of the opposite staff and set an 8-9 man rotation based mostly on what I believe is practical. I’ll additionally change the coach settings matchups and coverages based mostly on what I think about a staff would do. With sliders I’ll additionally up the offensive and defensive consciousness for the CPU, drop the offensive consistency for my gamers.”
Nonetheless folks find yourself attempting to make the playoffs really feel totally different, the funniest manner 2K might do it on their finish could be in fact so as to add referee badges after which have Scott Foster added to the sport with the “extender” badge (although I suppose we’d want a brand new title since there’s already an extender perk).
