NBA Live 14 To Support PS4’s Touchpad Controls.

[Hiteshom]

This article gives a rundown of everything we know and also mentions touchpad controls! Check it out:

http://gamingbolt.com/nba-live-14-to-su ... e-versions

Unlike NBA 2K14, EA Tiburon’s NBA Live 14 is looking to jump straight onto next generation platforms. However, according to Gary Patterson, senior creative director, there won’t be any difference between the two in terms of gameplay.
As Patterson stated, “All the game features will be the same for PS4 and Xbox One. It’s up to the gamer to decide which platform they’ll play NBA LIVE 14 on.”
There will be some implementation on additional features such as the PS4′s DualShock 4 touchpad and the Xbox One’s Cloud support. “We will support some basic functionality on the PS4 touchpad around team management. More details will be provided later. Regarding Xbox One’s cloud services, we do not currently support them. However, we will support the platform standard cloud syncing of your data.”
We also asked about the new BounceTek that NBA Live 14 implements, and how this would affect gameplay. “Basketball video gamers spend around 50% of a game dribbling a ball, yetthe mechanic of the dribble has basically gone unchanged since Gen1. This is more than a decade of old tech showing up in today’s games. The limitations of this tech are evident in visual and gameplay artifacts such as ball warping, half-dribbles and feet sliding; all of which contribute to unrealistic movement.
“Sports games are all about player movement and momentum, controlling it and exploiting it is how we balance the game, create depth but also create the amazing moments that make NBA basketball the spectacle that it is. With bounceTek, we are releasing the ball to physics for the first time ever in a basketball video game and in doing so creating the most authentic looking basketball dribble, with close to 1000 new animations, but more than that we are creating a system that mimics the nuanced movement,and thus depth, of real basketball, a system that we call ‘authentically responsive’.”
NBA Live 14 releases on November 19th in Europe and North America for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

[JaoSming]

team management is basic stuff, but good stuff to have at least

[ChrisCP3Paul]

lol, can't help it, but this just sounds like it contradicts itself

"With bounceTek, we are releasing the ball to physics for the first time ever in a basketball video game and in doing so creating the most authentic looking basketball dribble, with close to 1000 new animations"


I'm much MUCH more interested in the type of overall physics engine they have, the fact that they've been spending so much time talking about bounce tek really keeps my expectations for this game very low.... don't get me wrong, the ball not being magically stuck to the player and his animations sounds great, but the more important issue would be the actual player physics engine... I hope the next generation consoles have the processing power for that, because calculating complex physics for all 10 players on the court at the same time within milliseconds sounds like a lot of work even for high end PC's of today, let alone the consoles coming out

[Andrew]

team management is basic stuff, but good stuff to have at least

Agreed, it doesn't seem like anything to get too excited by, but it's nice that they're utilising it in some way.