MyCareer is truly awful

[Uncle Magic]

I just can't play the mode. I'm having trouble playing the game, actually. This is the worst of the past ten NBA 2k games I've played. Even going back to ESPN NBA 2k5 on PS2. That was a good game at the time, but I'd rather play that game now than this one. Passing is just atrocious. Your teammates don't make any shots. It makes the mode unplayable. They don't defend well, they don't cut at the right times, they seem to take shots that the CPU knows it will block. It's almost like they're shooting on a rigged basket at a carnival.

And the passing itself is again horrible. I'll throw a pass expecting it to go one way and instead my guy will begin to make a 2 handed bounce pass into the defender's knee. And somehow the opposing team AI knows I'm passing while my hands are still on the ball and preemptively try to steal it in the direction they telepathically know I'm passing to. Seriously? I can't remember how many times I've yelled "keep cutting" at my computer because a guy will just stop and let the pass get stolen. I absolutely regret this purchase and would return it if I had it on console. I only will play it because I love basketball as a sport. This game stinks and is an imbalanced mess where you can either score 40 ppg to win or try to actually play the real way and lose every time.

[StGeorge]

Yeah 2K is is pretty ♥♥♥♥ this year. It blatantly cheats, CPU doesn't miss any shots, shotclock cheese isn't just a thing - it's actually programmed into the game that the CPU will never miss with 1 second left unless you block it (which of course - blocks happen maybe 1 out of every 50 tries). It's just a trash game this year. Wish I could get my money back.

[Don Vincenzoo 57]

play on pro difficulty and i don't see that

[Dusk]

Originally posted by babtong:

I stopped caring getting an infinite losing streak... it's completly a hoax at HoF. I'm starter in Phoenix and our center can't layup for ♥♥♥♥, but when i'm on the bench he makes fadeaways and what not outside of the post. And i can count on a single hand how many 3s i've seen being attempted by my team and let's not talk about how many of 'em went in...

a big plus 1

[Karpatenhund]

Originally posted by StGeorge:

Yeah 2K is is pretty ♥♥♥♥ this year. It blatantly cheats, CPU doesn't miss any shots, shotclock cheese isn't just a thing - it's actually programmed into the game that the CPU will never miss with 1 second left unless you block it (which of course - blocks happen maybe 1 out of every 50 tries). It's just a trash game this year. Wish I could get my money back.

so much tears.

[Mediocracy]

well i play as a shooting gaurd on superstar and i dont see any problems with the passing, well a few times when i tried to feed the post, my guy threw it at his defender, but that happens about once every other game. I guess you just gotta be a bit more patient and more selective on your passes, as the cpu seems to randomly stick their limbs out and intercept your passes. i average 11 assists on 1.6 turnovers a game on timberwolves

[babtong]

Originally posted by toothpaist™:

well i play as a shooting gaurd on superstar and i dont see any problems with the passing, well a few times when i tried to feed the post, my guy threw it at his defender, but that happens about once every other game. I guess you just gotta be a bit more patient and more selective on your passes, as the cpu seems to randomly stick their limbs out and intercept your passes. i average 11 assists on 1.6 turnovers a game on timberwolves

the problem is, HoF and superstar is like day and night when it comes to shots made even if it's only one difficulty lower. cpu aside, just try to shot some at the shootaround with HoF and multiply that chance on your teammates with even more incompetence.

[DCid]

My Career: Offensive Consistency does not Upgrade


If you've been playing the MyCareer Mode for several years now, you know this attribute influences your ability to consistently make all your shots regardless of defenders around you. In previous games this was simply called consistency under tha Mental category. A low Offensive Consistency will make your player a streaky shooter. There will be moments where you are making all your shots and layups and then suddenly you miss on everything including wide open shots and layups. You'll see your percentages suddely drop form high 50s to below 20.

If you're wondering why your wide open shots are missing... This attribute is one of the problem. It's stuck at 50 and does not go up when you upgrade your attributes.

The other issue... The 2k series has a atrocious, arbitrary AI system that doesnt make sense. I think they called this Momentum or something. Anyway... What the AI does is lower ALL your stats by 10 or more and your superstar player into a joke. Momentum will kick in when your team has a marginally wide lead and when your player is making a high percentages of his shots. Momentum will make your team mates stupid and make the opponents into super stars regardless of their skillsets. The AI will pick and chose who it wants to become the dominant player on the opposing team. I've seen Bogut make 10 straight 3 pointers and Perkins running the fastbreak like Brandon Jennings... At first I thought these were bugs... But no. This is how 2k makes the game challenging. They're too incompetent to come up with a better, smarter system that doesn't force you to be bad and makes the AI cheat to be better.

[Emmagination]

For me it depends on the team. First tried with the nuggets...they would even miss dunks on fastbreaks without interference from the opposite team. I could get us up by 10, get benched and come back and we'd be behind by 30. They'd miss open 3's, fumble passes, throw the ball back to me for back court violations...
Restarted the career and went to the Raptors. They make contested 3's, halfcourt shots, contact dunks, rebound about 80% of my misses...I don't even have to do anything for us to win...

[Uncle Magic]

Originally posted by toothpaist™:

well i play as a shooting gaurd on superstar and i dont see any problems with the passing, well a few times when i tried to feed the post, my guy threw it at his defender, but that happens about once every other game. I guess you just gotta be a bit more patient and more selective on your passes, as the cpu seems to randomly stick their limbs out and intercept your passes. i average 11 assists on 1.6 turnovers a game on timberwolves

I have been playing as a PG and have gotten no less than 10 assists for the past maybe 7 or 8 games in a row, but that doesn't mean there isn't still a problem. I get 10 assists because I should be getting 20-25. The AI defense sags, the AI teammates don't take or miss open shots constantly.

I don't get 10 assists because players make a realistic FG%, but because I pass so many times so deep in the post and get them so open that they only miss maybe 60% of the time. I never pass to my shooting guard or small forward unless it's a fast break dunk or alley-oop. Every play for me has to be in the paint, regardless of who is on the team. It's really a shame, it destroys the mode. Maybe because DeRozan has a high rating he makes shots, I didn't have that with Lance Stephenson who should be similarly rated.

[Boyd]

disagree
my hot head friends have this plobelm too.
but i didnt
its about momentum i think
u just have to be patient like coach said becuase
ai more smart this year
when u guy improvise i thinks many move ball fast and risk pass
i did that too
but i learn that ai smart as steal
and i keep calm and make more smart play (switch too plan , postmove , pick n roll etc. )
it much better
so i think it's about how we play
this game cant just improvise only like other sport game

[Mediocracy]

Originally posted by babtong:

Originally posted by toothpaist™:

well i play as a shooting gaurd on superstar and i dont see any problems with the passing, well a few times when i tried to feed the post, my guy threw it at his defender, but that happens about once every other game. I guess you just gotta be a bit more patient and more selective on your passes, as the cpu seems to randomly stick their limbs out and intercept your passes. i average 11 assists on 1.6 turnovers a game on timberwolves

the problem is, HoF and superstar is like day and night when it comes to shots made even if it's only one difficulty lower. cpu aside, just try to shot some at the shootaround with HoF and multiply that chance on your teammates with even more incompetence.

ive just upped it to hof for more vc, but i still get the same stats as always since i dont change my play style. the only thing that changed was my turnovers, i started getting around 2-3 when i started playing on hof, thats about it..

[babtong]

Originally posted by toothpaist™:

Originally posted by babtong:

the problem is, HoF and superstar is like day and night when it comes to shots made even if it's only one difficulty lower. cpu aside, just try to shot some at the shootaround with HoF and multiply that chance on your teammates with even more incompetence.

ive just upped it to hof for more vc, but i still get the same stats as always since i dont change my play style. the only thing that changed was my turnovers, i started getting around 2-3 when i started playing on hof, thats about it..

i don't know man, seems like the experience seems to flactuate a lot. some say the same as you and some say the same as me. i switched one difficulty down from HoF for a single game just for the sake of it and my team and me included knocked down multiple 3s out of the blue and layups went in left and right. our FG% skyrocketed in comparison and actually won a game for a change. it was one of those 280ish VC games. tried HoF in 180ish vc game afterwards and teammates turned back into crosseyed zombies.

[5th SS Wiking]

Originally posted by Chrisbd:

Yeah, playing of HoF is ridiculuous. I play for the Hawks and I'll get our team up by around 10 and get subbed out. When I come back in we're almost always down by double digits. I played GSW and I was subbed out when we were up by 11 and came back in 8 minutes later and we were down by 15. ****ing ridiculous

Same problem here-sf on hof in wolves..sometimes we loosing by 40:)our record is 12-46

[Noxxys]

Originally posted by Chrisbd:

Yeah, on Hall of Fame in MyCareer the team you're playing with just loses the ability to play. It's like a simulator of what would happen if the Monstars stole all the talent of your teammates, as opposed to an NBA sim. I just can't stop getting annoyed by this game. Even MyGM has weird issues this year with practice times, and the servers are down a lot. I'm not buying this for at least a few years while they overhaul their systems. The server issues too. It's all just terrible.

I already have this problem in All star difficulty, where the Rockets (even Harden and Howard) play really bad. At the beginning, I thought it was my fault, not sharing the ball enough... then I switched to Pro difficulty, and my team-mates were much better.

It seems that the difficulty level applies not only to my player, but to my whole team! Am I right?

[Dankmemes]

good tip for my career slow ur gamespeed down to 45 and extend ur quaters to 12mins long ive found it much easier to find the open man as a PG and score and also catch the team up from being way far behind