Some of my takes:
Andrew, our pleas may have been heard! Gotta give this one to them.
Practice is another good example. If you play a game, you can go straight to practice from the post-game locker rooms. You don't have to go to the neighborhood."
More balanced archetypes:
"I think the biggest thing we did this year was to refine the different archetypes and balance them more," Bishop says. "For example, we did a lot of work on the defensive-minded ones to give them some offensive skills. They're no longer completely useless on that end of the ball. The goal is to make it so whatever style of play you prefer, you're not going to be at a disadvantage. We want them all to be relatively equal so we spent a lot of time evening those out."
Confirmed (again) addition of displaying caps in MyPlayer creation:
"You won't see it in The Prelude version, but once the main game hits, as you are changing your archetypes there's a button you can hit to bring up a list of what your max will be for each attribute. You can see how the different combinations affect it. Then when you move over to height, weight, and wingspan, it's the same thing.
60 OVR but faster start? Still think we should start higher though.
First, the bad news: you still start MyCareer as a talentless hack rated 60 overall.
But the good news is you won't have to grind as hard to become an average player.
Difficulty modifier is back... finally.
The difficulty modifier returns, so players who want more of a challenge can reap larger rewards for good performances.
Badge specific drills...
"One of the things we did in practice, for example, last year you had a set amount of drills and they were tied sometimes to multiple badges. You could do a drill and maybe not get any extra points toward that badge. This year, we have a drill that's one-to-one to every single badge, so if you want to go and target Ankle Breaker or some specific badge, you can be sure that you're going to get points toward that."
NO NO NO NO NO. You dong get to make this an improvement "look we are making this better for you" after removing it or putting it behind paywall.
but the best change is that haircuts no longer cost VC. You can even preview new styles (and adjust hair length of the various looks) before you tell the barber to get clipping.
This was actually requested here few times. Not bad.
The second [new store in Neighbourhood] is a MyTeam store that lets you create a card for your MyPlayer that can be used in the new Unlimited mode. This card is capped reasonably, so don't expect this to be an easy path to a Pink Diamond. You can play Unlimited games right from the store, but you'll have to exit The Neighborhood and visit the MyTeam hub if you want to go into any other part of the mode.
On daily trivia contest:
The one million VC pot is split evenly between any players who answer all 10 questions, which span in topics from hoops and pop culture to history.
Yup, it really didn't.
But at least B-Fresh isn't hanging around eating all your food and inviting strangers over. We got the message with her," Bishop says. "It really didn't work last year."