What Is The Best Difficulty?

[Burnout_122812]

Been playing Hall of Fame in MyCareer like I do every year but this year it is completely unplayable. Ever since the patch came out (1.02 patch) the CPU offense is insane and the teammate A.I got worse. I went from 8 game winning streaks (before patch), to losing 13 of my last 17 games this week on Hall of Fame (after patch). Clearly 2K messed up HOF with this patch! Is there a nice medium difficulty level that doesn't make you insanely good but fair but also doesn't allow the CPU to destroy you or your A.I teammates?

[JTW]

I've been dealing with the same issues you mention, and tried switching to Allstar and Superstar and see if that changed it more to my liking.

Now on Allstar your teammates stop being retarded most of the time, they'll slash and run to an open spot way more often, try to spread the offense instead of going 1v1 all the time and so on, but at the same time i ended up winning every game too easily.

Then i switched to Superstar, and while it balanced itself out better in that i was able to lose games now, it felt almost exactly like HoF when it came to my teammates, meaning they started doing all the stupid ♥♥♥♥ i wanted to avoid.

Personally i just decided i'm gonna take a break and wait for a few patches, since i want a tough time winning games, but not because my teammates start playing like a junior team.

But to answer you question; Allstar seems to be the best one, atleast from my experience.

[Burnout_122812]

I think I am going to take a break as well. The game is infuriating me and makes me sad to see this NBA 2K feel like the worst one yet and its only been a week for me! I'll wait for a few patches and come back to it later. Shame, I do enjoy how My Career player feels in the game, it is much harder to score, but then the CPU opponent is on steroids and my A.I teammates are useless! So yea, the reasonable and logical thing to do is just walk away for awhile until its fixed. Cause honestly, Hall of Fame is the only difficulty I ever play. Everything else is just too unbalanced.

[MajorKloud]

It used to be that playing on HoF would make your teammates play with some actual sense and you just had to have enough badges and skill to take out the CPU's OPness

Now it feels like HoF just makes your team incapable of playing junior varsity basketball

All star is what iv'e been playing on..

[sime123456]

To me this year it feels like there is barely any difference in difficulty levels, on defensive side at least. CPU still makes all the dumb shots on Pro that they would make on HoF.
It's just easier for you to score on lower difficulty levels

[anarchys2ndson]

Is this honestly what's happened? wowwww, I honestly found it strange my teammates were just standing still, and watching people run past, and I was like, "what's going on."
and the opponent honestly, is ridiculous.

[Burnout_122812]

Yea, it took me about 17 games in My Career to realize something wasn't right. My team went from being a top contender to being one of the worst teams in the league in just 17 games! I was on the Rockets, all of sudden Chris Paul was shooting horribly (he scored 5 points in 2 games shooting 2 for 14), Harden is averaging 22 points a game (hasn't done that since he was with the Thunder!) The only reasonable explanation is that the patch screwed HOF up because the 17 games I played (I lost 13 of those 17 by ridiculous margins) were after the 1.02 patch.

[crux]

All Star is the most balanced difficulty. However, there is a noticable difference between modes. I played 30 games (12 minute quarters) in mycareer and the CPU, including my teammates, had insane FG%s. Every game was like 60% FG and 50% 3 pointers.

Switched to player lock on Myleague and it feels less "scripted" and more realistic. 3 point shooting tendencies and percentages were still a bit high but not as bad. The tuning patch may have corrected that.

I really wanted to like mycareer this year but it feels like an arcade game regardless of the difficulty you set it on. Try out Myleague and the new Create-a-Player option with player-lock set on All star (but set the slider for CPU defensive awareness to 50 to make all things equal) is my recommendation.

[JTW]

Originally posted by rae-cs:

Is this honestly what's happened? wowwww, I honestly found it strange my teammates were just standing still, and watching people run past, and I was like, "what's going on."
and the opponent honestly, is ridiculous.

It's ridiculous yeah. On Superstar/HoF i'll see stuff like passing to a wide open teammate who's standing below the rim, only to have him pass it back out.
I'll pass to a guy wide open in the corner and have them immediately pass it back to me.
I'll get doubled or tribled by their defence, and not a single one of my teammates is gonna run to an open spot, meaning 4 guys somehow gets defended by 2 people since they refuse to move, and even if i somehow DO manage to pass it to an open guy, they'll most times immediately pass it back to me, despite still having half the opposing teams players locking me down, and if i try to pass it back again they'll just send it back to me once more.
And this is still only some of the issues, there's just so many that it would take me hours to write it all down, it's absolutely infuriating.

[Kozzy]

Teammates still workign good here after the patch. Infact Oladipo scored 48 last night, I was passing him the rock all game. The previous 10 games I had been scoring 38, 51, 45,etc.. but this game last night after the update I saw Oladipo getting hot early so I decided to feed him the ball often, he was on fire. Just gotta put your teammates in good position to score and its still the same imo.

No problem on superstar atm personally, also my pacers are now 2nd in the ast with a 5 game winning streak since the patch. Hate to say Git Gud, but I havn't experienced any of this "Patch broke the game" talk that I have been seeing. Hope things improve for you though, I am arguably doin better though after the patch tbh.

[Burnout_122812]

Originally posted by Kozzy:

Teammates still workign good here after the patch. Infact Oladipo scored 48 last night, I was passing him the rock all game. The previous 10 games I had been scoring 38, 51, 45,etc.. but this game last night after the update I saw Oladipo getting hot early so I decided to feed him the ball often, he was on fire. Just gotta put your teammates in good position to score and its still the same imo.

No problem on superstar atm personally, also my pacers are now 2nd in the ast with a 5 game winning streak since the patch. Hate to say Git Gud, but I havn't experienced any of this "Patch broke the game" talk that I have been seeing. Hope things improve for you though, I am arguably doin better though after the patch tbh.

Superstar? Try playing on Hall of Fame, then you'll know what we're talking about. Getting "gud" has nothing to do with our gameplay. My player (a 75 overall) excels and I dominate but we're talking about things we can't control (especially if you are not a point guard) like your A.I teammates and the CPU opponent.

[JTW]

Originally posted by Kozzy:

Teammates still workign good here after the patch. Infact Oladipo scored 48 last night, I was passing him the rock all game. The previous 10 games I had been scoring 38, 51, 45,etc.. but this game last night after the update I saw Oladipo getting hot early so I decided to feed him the ball often, he was on fire. Just gotta put your teammates in good position to score and its still the same imo.

No problem on superstar atm personally, also my pacers are now 2nd in the ast with a 5 game winning streak since the patch. Hate to say Git Gud, but I havn't experienced any of this "Patch broke the game" talk that I have been seeing. Hope things improve for you though, I am arguably doin better though after the patch tbh.

I've seen Lillard get 50+ points on both Superstar and HoF too, that's not really the issue i'm getting at, the issue is that in my first 15-20 games or so on HoF, i never once saw him drive to the rim, or slash behind the defence or even pass the ball to anyone except myself, and only if i asked for a pass. In my 30+ games he's averaging almost 30 PPG and is shooting 56% from 3, however the only time any of my other teammates score is if I personally pass them the ball, they get an offensive rebound or during the time where i'm not on the floor.
I'm not looking for players to carry me, but rather for players to play logically. If Nurkic is standing completely wide open below the rim, why is he passing it back out? If I have 3 people defending me, why does no one else move to get open? And why do they pass it back to me immediately if i try to pass myself out of this situation?

Sorry if this comes off a bit aggressive, i'm just truly irritated about the game experience i've had so far, but i'm glad someone is having fun with the game.

[Burnout_122812]

I'm irritated too, right to the point that I am going to wait for this game to patch right if it ever does. I totally understand how you feel about the problems in the game.

[Voren]

best difficulty is playing red center alone

[Ric Assley]

Just look at the sliders this year HOF puts the CPU at 55 everything and you at 45 everything. Last year was 50 50 for most stuff I think.

[Burnout_122812]

I wasn't complaining. I was asking a question. And what is funny is that you tell us to "delete the trash", to pretty much ignore the game, but you come in here and complain to us about our supposed "complaining" about the game. If you enjoy the game, great. Everyone is not like you or have similar preferences towards the game. Maybe you should take your own advice and ignore people who complain or have issues about the game? Just a suggestion.