Pro-Tips

[Baja Resident]

Just sharing some stuff I have picked up while playing:


- If you are making a shot and its bugged for 0% just pass it off mid-jump.

- To earn packs the fastest, do season at Rookie level and just destroy the other team as hard as you can every game. You also get 2000 for winning the season.

- If you need to do a challenge for blocking shots, play the other team on hardest difficulty. They will dunk and shoot all over you giving you plenty of chances to block.

- Double-Alleyoops are easy and earn lots of points.

- You can't do two tier challenges in a single game. Have to wait for the next game to tackle Silver, etc..

- You can't do Gold before Silver, or Silver before Bronze.

- For Exhibition challenges you can edit the game time to be 12 minutes and put it on Rookie if you are having trouble.


(adding more later..)

[ceeb]

Awesome pointers. You should post this on the Discord Channel too under gameplay.

[Terotrous]

Here's some more tips:

- One of the biggest changes in playgrounds 2 is that when you're close to a defender, you slow down, which prevents you from dunking or doing layups and also makes it easy for them to steal. Pass the ball or do crossovers to avoid this. If near the net, try moving backwards or vertically to open up space before attempting your dunk.

- Anything that can be done in exhibition can also be done with 2 players. This is by far my preferred way to get the layup blocks one, as the AI simply doesn't layup often enough for this to be reasonably earned against them.

- Putbacks are done by rebounding when the ball bounces low and close to the net. An easy way to set up a fairly consistent putback is to fail a dunk by holding the A button all the way to the end. Make sure your teammate is close to the basket though as they won't have much time to get in position. Putbacks also never miss, so they're the best way to score when affected by the curse lottery pick.

- In the first game, the best place to block a dunk was from behind, but this seems less effective in the sequel. I've had the best luck blocking dunks from the side in this game. Layups are still best blocked from the back, though. Note that even with perfect positioning, a successful dunk block is always random and is determined by your block stat. It's also easier to block the dunks of shorter players.

- In the 3-point contest, you can let the meter bounce back from the end to give you more time to line up the shot.

- Bronze card packs appear to be substantially better value than the more expensive packs. Like in the first game, they appear to rig packs in your favour to avoid duplicates. Even though I have over half the players in the game now, most of my packs are still all new. I also already have most of the legends so they don't seem to avoid giving them to you either.

[Baja Resident]

For easier challenges you can pick Tim Frazier twice to be on the CPU team. He is on both the Wizards and Pelican's rosters. His stats suck and he is short!

PS: Why is a player in the game twice on different teams anyway?? I can think of many others who could be in that case. LeBron and Shaq come to mind...