by StyxTx on Fri Mar 17, 2017 9:28 am
I only play mycareer so I don't know how the other modes play.
So, I got accused of "allowing an offensive rebound". I watched the instant replay, backward, forward, slow motion, etc. What I saw was the offensive player behind me and my teammate. My teammate and I were shoulder to shoulder. We had our back to the offensive player and the ball was in front of me. Suddenly I saw two arms come through my body and grab the ball. How is this me "allowing an offensive rebound?"
Everyone should watch a lot more replays to see just how bad the animations, foul calls, and plays, such as rebounds, really are. Also check out the ball physics on baskets. I have seen balls hit the lower outside part of the rim, which physics say should cause the ball to leave the rim at a downward trajectory. But, I get under the basket for the rebound and suddenly the ball goes UP and in. Anything to keep me from getting a rebound. And this is not an event that happens rarely. It is pretty constant. I even wait a bit to see if the ball is going to be a miss, then I'll go under for the rebound and HA...it changes and goes in the basket. BS. It decides ahead of time what the ball will do in reaction to what the human's reaction is. If you're not a good rebounder the ball will either go in or bounce off the rim, way over your head to someone behind you. That does happen IRL, but not with the types of shots I attempt to rebound. Most people can get a pretty good idea where a shot will go if it doesn't go in. It's not rocket science.
I've also noticed how much better opponents shoot when I'm on the floor compared to when I'm not, even when none of the shots are from the player I am defending. On the other hand I have noticed how my teammates, suddenly, can't hit even the easiest open shots when I'm on the floor, especially when I, as a HOF dimer, passes it to them. A way for the game to keep assists numbers down. In the mean time, opponents make 3-pointers with me and two of my teammates all in their face as if there was no defense there at all.
And again, I saw a teammate get a charging call when the defender was sidestepping into him. A little later I was set to draw a charge and lo and behold, I get the foul.
The foul calling in this version is atrocious.
Next, when I am doing a great job of avoiding turnovers, at some point the game takes over and causes 3 or 4 quick turnovers on my part by running my player out of bounds or having him continue to step backwards for a back court call even though I have my stick pointing in the direction of the basket the entire time, and of course, the famous getting called for a charge against a moving (and sometimes in the air) opponent, or the other famous thing, when passing the ball it goes the opposite direction from where you have your stick pointing. What kind of garbage is that? BS.
If I leave an opponent open, regardless of how crappy he is, they hit the shot around 90% of the time. But me and my teammates can't hit open shots half the time. Right.
Of course, the human player can't keep up with the AI players so the game plan is always to attack the human defender regardless of how good a defender he is supposed to be. I haven't seen where defensive ratings make any difference.
Speaking of defense. Watching Isaiah Thomas leap way WAY up in the air to intercept alley-oops passes. And he's not even at the basket. He's between half way and 3/4 of the way there. But many players can intercept those. Not me or my teammates, of course, but opponents are supermen.
I see opponents passes cut right through me or teammates. I've seen a pass get to an opponent under the basket when me and two of my teammates were right there in front of him. Do you think that happens when we have the ball? Of course not.
Also with passing and turnovers. I recently got charged with a turnover when a pass was thrown to me in the paint but somehow the ball ended off in the hand of the defender who was behind me. Huh?
We don't have the magic ability to reach from long distance and somehow have the ball land in our hand. But then, they throw passes that are faster than the ones me or my teammates can throw.
Next, how is it the me, a 6'5", 240 lb player can't move anyone, even players like Isaiah Thomas? Guys who are 50 lbs lighter than me, strength ratings in the 30's compared to mine in the 80's, can stand there and I can't budge them at all. Never. BS.
Teammate passing. What a freaking joke. They don't know how to throw lob or bounce passes. They will throw a pass right into the chest of a guy standing in front of them.
The turbo button is useless now. Try to use it and your player freezes briefly and/or runs into someone and can't get unstuck or runs a different direction from where you are trying to go.
You get sucked into animations from across the court, literally. I have seen my player run from the corner to the top of the key only to wrap his arms around a player for a foul. Cute, especially since I wasn't even holding the controller at the time.
My teammates are the ones who keep knocking me off the player I'm supposed to be defending. I get around opponent screens just fine but only long enough for one of my teammates to block me instead.
What has happened, in an effort to keep human players from cheating, the programmers have built a cheating AI. Cheating is cheating no matter who or what does it. You are not playing basketball. Not really. What you are playing is the developers idea of what basketball is but it bears little resemblance to the real thing.
The developers have determined what you can and can't do and allows the opposing team to do things you and your teammates are not allowed to do.
Any number of things that real life players can do have been eliminated or drastically changed in the game in an effort to prevent people from "cheesing". So it's the "game", and I use that term loosely, that is full of cheese.
This game is really trash. It sure isn't fun.
They need to get the some programmers who are older than 12 years old and know what basketball is. This current bunch has no clue.
Please EA, get NBA Live up to par so we have a legitimate option to this joke of a "game".
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StyxTx on Sat Mar 18, 2017 11:02 am, edited 6 times in total.