MyCareer
- Career starts in China and it's replacement for HS/College - lots of minutes on easy difficulty
- They weren't in starting lineup in their first game in China
- Apparently they played 7-8 hours and didn't get out of Prelude yet, so skipping for second char is essential
- "Quite a few games in China"
- Voice actors and announcers speak Mandarin
- MyPlayer is nicknamed A.I.
MyPlayer (creation/upgrading)
- Archetypes have "new ratings", whatever it means
- Buying VC can get you to 85 OVR, takes roughly 190K VC, so the better edition is essentially full upgrade start
- Player creation still doesn't show specific numbers for cap change on weight/height/... But apparently Ronnie himself found that nonsensical and this is subject to change.
- Archetypes info to be released in some form later.
- Player Progress is more closely monitored.
- Pure Playmaker PG has 7 (+-) HoF badges, low shooting and max speed. They didn't see another HoF Ankle Breaker badge on other PG archetype combos.
- Defensive second archetype is better than last year, doesn't reduce offensive skills as much.
Park
- Trailer coming, Smoove said "lots of people will be surprised about it".
- Date unclear, should be this week.
- Apparently the Park is physically big.
Pro-Am
- Ronnie will be on 2K League broadcast between Games 1 and 2 with news on Pro-Am.
Neighbourhood
- They apparently hinted on walking being reduced or having faster ways to travel around. (just give me a menu please)
- You can change clothes anywhere without going back to your court.
- "Lots of new clothes" - so much for NBA 2K not being a Barbie dress-up right?
Prelude
- You might be able to buy VC in The Prelude (well... at least we might see how big the grind is)
- The Prelude "could" have Quick Games but they "don't remember". (C'mon... That's one thing you really should add to the demo, 2-3 teams and quick games)
Gameplay
- Takeover mode is "incredible" and "very fun".
- Takeover lasts for a while, but half-time disrupts it.
- Takeover mode is manually triggered once you fill up the meter - but you can lose hotness (?) from bad plays and end of quarters.
- Rookie Difficulty in MyCareer - "can't answer that".
- Hard to make defenders fall over/lean in. Managed to do it in takeover mode with 86 Ball Handling.
- More ways to earn VC
- Info with Park trailer next week (direct quote, was 3 days ago, so this week).
- Daily ways to earn VC.
- They want to "reward fans early".
- They call last year Neighbourhood a "learning experience".
- Smoove: "There are goals that you can do ingame that give you a lot of VC"
- Smoove: "There IS a VC multiplier for difficulty in MyCareer"
- "The VC that you earn is still determined by your salary and other factors, there is no set number per game"
Others
- Smoove will be making videos about stuff he saw as he can say them before launch (so some kind of timed NDA, also take things with grain of salt since he's clearly working with 2K)
- Momentous trailer coming, will be last trailer before launch
- "Roughly" 3 trailers to go - includes mentioned Park and Momentous trailers.
- Ronnie got F from Combinatorics.