Fri Sep 30, 2011 8:19 am
Hey everyone!
Erick Boenisch, Producer for NBA 2K12, back one more time. Today I’m going to tell you about something pretty special, something you have all been wanting for a number of years now. I realize the title of the Insight gave it away, but ‘The Association: Online’ is finally here! You want details? Let’s get to it…
A feature like this is a major undertaking if done properly and, let me assure you, we went about this the right way. Let’s dispel any preconceived thoughts you may have about what this feature is. The Association: Online is NOT last year’s leagues with a new name and modest improvements. The Association: Online IS what you’ve come to know and love about the offline experience, simply introduced to the masses in the online world.
Fri Sep 30, 2011 11:33 am
Sat Oct 01, 2011 8:52 am
Sat Oct 01, 2011 9:17 am
shadowgrin wrote:A thought just crossed my mind. If the lockout is resolved and there is a new season, the 'realism' of association mode offline or online for 2K12 won't matter because of the new CBA since there is huge (expected) difference between the expired CBA, which 2K12 is based, and the new soon to be CBA.
Either 2K makes a huge patch that changes the game's association engine (trade logic, cpu GM AI, etc.) or we'll be left with an association mode that follows the old CBA. I'm going with the latter considering 2K's track record for fixing bugs in association mode and the long task it would take to almost rewrite the code for association mode (heck they can't even change the game time for the Jordan challenges for 2K11 with the patch).
Association mode would probably still contain some bugs that won't be fixed after the release of the (expected) patch for 2K12. They would probably be too busy incorporating the new CBA for 2K13's association mode to fix all the glitches in 2K12's association.
NBA Draft. Has David Stern announcing like in My player mode. Adds nicely to the presentation. If there is a trade David Stern says we have a trade to announce and shows the trade graphic like last year. I didnt notice Stern say any names just stuff like "With the 1st pick the Suns select the 20 year old Small Forward. Adam Silver does the 2nd round like announced in the my player insight. I did noticed Silver announce some names during the draft not every name but some.
Sat Oct 01, 2011 10:16 am
Sat Oct 01, 2011 10:39 am
The X wrote:
Also another negative from OS:NBA Draft. Has David Stern announcing like in My player mode. Adds nicely to the presentation. If there is a trade David Stern says we have a trade to announce and shows the trade graphic like last year. I didnt notice Stern say any names just stuff like "With the 1st pick the Suns select the 20 year old Small Forward. Adam Silver does the 2nd round like announced in the my player insight. I did noticed Silver announce some names during the draft not every name but some.
What's the point? Sounded like they just recorded names for this year's picks so that My Player would sound good. Sounds like a waste of time.
Sat Oct 01, 2011 10:40 am
Sat Oct 01, 2011 11:10 am
qfrmcpt310 wrote:The X wrote:
Also another negative from OS:NBA Draft. Has David Stern announcing like in My player mode. Adds nicely to the presentation. If there is a trade David Stern says we have a trade to announce and shows the trade graphic like last year. I didnt notice Stern say any names just stuff like "With the 1st pick the Suns select the 20 year old Small Forward. Adam Silver does the 2nd round like announced in the my player insight. I did noticed Silver announce some names during the draft not every name but some.
What's the point? Sounded like they just recorded names for this year's picks so that My Player would sound good. Sounds like a waste of time.
They say names, but only certain names. Similar to the commentators when it's a name not found in the database.
Mon Oct 03, 2011 6:58 am
Andrew wrote:It's sounding more and more like they didn't make too many changes to the offline Association
Mon Oct 03, 2011 10:57 am
Mon Oct 03, 2011 11:01 am
Mon Oct 03, 2011 8:33 pm
airBerlin wrote:Association will probably drop to my third most played mode, under Online Association and My Player.
Tue Oct 04, 2011 4:59 am
Tue Oct 04, 2011 10:17 am