So I take it the user account stuff doesn't work like last year (2k10 accounts worked in 2k11)... too bad, loved the 2Kshare feature. Any chance there's a way around it ?
Into it? Buying the game. It's $20 at some places FFS.
@grechzoo: Regarding defense, have you tried the new Left D-Pad Defense Instructions? Getting killed in the Paint by the Warriors, but I have locked down the paint now using the DI, and I'm getting much more pressure and blocks. The AI this year is adaptive, and you have to know to play against it, setting up Defensive Pressure and calling the right Instructions. And teams that are bad at Defense, like the Pistons that I'm using, are just not going to play that good defense. I see Villanueva leaving players open all the time, but I can't say that bothers me, as that is a realistic depiction of him. You can't imagine the times I was screaming at the TV last year watching him. So you have to put a lot more work this year.
By the way, there are some early shadow/color mods coming out specifically for NBA 2K12, they're all on Moddingway. I'm using the new "little sweat" global, which has just that, it's early for superglobals but they're going to happen now that the new compression has been cracked, and also the new early Shadow Mod using enbseries. Game looks much better than default, and much easier to the eyes than the Reallike HD Mod for 2K11 that relied all too much on sharpness and had too much noise as a result.
thanks leftos, didn;t know about this feature. also didn;t know about the new defensive coach settings like hedge and stuff. also didn;t actually use the defensive coaching setting properly either, really need to pay more attention to it before i complain too much i think
im hoping if i really spend time, make sure whoever is on the jumpshooter (for exmaple) stays tight, (hopefully this will lower the amount of times wing defender go roaming for no reason) and also use that dpad feature you mentioned to focus on shutting down an abused tactics.
want to try all this before i touch sliders. because once i start changing sliders because i suck, it ruins the challenge and i never get it back
im sure all these things i missed yesterday will help a lot though, so i cant wait to get home and try again.
Anyone know a cheap place to find this in the US? I was hoping to snag it for the low 20's. Could buy it from Steam I guess, but was hoping to save a few $$$. I like the game though and really wouldn't mind buying it, hopefully be able to play online as well.
Edit: looks like Amazon digital download is $23.99 .. may just do that.
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I just did a super quick match to test the performance, and it's top-notch, as expected; 60fps (vsync on, AA off), 1080p, high details, even on my old system:
The gameplay seems to be improved a lot, as well as the animations. Shame about the missing post-processing effects, since the game looks a bit flat without them, I'm going to try the ENB mod+Fxaa and see if I can improve the visuals. The game is really awesome though
Ok, on three point shooting has be toned down. Currently it's just insane. I'm playing My Player and teams have 50% 3pts regularly. Every uncontested shot goes in.
The other thing is CPU trade logic. What a mess. Miami trading Lebron for Chris Paul, Spurs trading Manu for Mo Williams and really stupid things like that.
Those are my main gripes for now, other than that it's an improvement over the previous one. Having a lot of fun with the new post moves and playing defense is a bitch...
btw the line isnt a glitch when i take a screenshot on benchmark it tries to exit the benchmark and brings up the exit benchmark screen. so it caught the window comming up
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this thing looks great and runs maxxed out @ 140fps.
I'm only in for multiplayer these days.. 20$ sounds pretty good.
I did find an annoying bug tho. In-game menus don't close and open properly creating a mess with itself and at some point the game doesn't respond anymore.
If you want multiplayer, avoid the PC version. You'll have to shove out $60 to get a proper on-line experience. On PC it's pretty much effed up, forcing low quality graphics and a bad framerate.
Local multilayer, aka getting your friends and playing together on the same PC, the PC version is just fine.
If you want multiplayer, avoid the PC version. You'll have to shove out $60 to get a proper on-line experience. On PC it's pretty much effed up, forcing low quality graphics and a bad framerate.
Local multilayer, aka getting your friends and playing together on the same PC, the PC version is just fine.
Please let us know if this changes. I'm not gonna shell out the money if the online part doesn't work. I've given them enough money the past 3 years and have yet to get a decent online experience for what I want. People say the leagues worked, but I just want to play with a friend of mine... Hopefully they can fix the graphics and shit too. Not sure why it would be so shitty.
By the way, using Jesus' sliders from the OS forums with slight edits and after getting my ass kicked by Charlotte, finally got my first blowout against the Blazers. First game I played proper defense, and the usual recipe of attacking the paint was hindered by my option to Lock Down The Paint (Left on the D-Pad) on the 2nd half and make sure I keep proper distance from the mid-range shooters to never fall back and have them go past me. Won by 19 in the end.
Oh, and don't abuse the Block button in or near the paint. Most of the times it's not even needed. Good positioning by a strong player and a good bump will be enough to put the attacking player off and have them miss.
Found out another annoying bug. I do the benchmark and then and in the video settings it shows "high" but it never saves it. It does say that multiplayer will suffer "low graphics settings" if the benchmark isn't done.
It has always been like this. Nobody gets it, 2K hasn't bothered to change it or fix it.
Btw, visit NLSC's Darth's blog where he'll post all his mods for NBA 2K12. He's renowned and seems to do a good job every year. His first photomod (using enbseries) is available right now, and he's working on a superglobal already.
It has always been like this. Nobody gets it, 2K hasn't bothered to change it or fix it.
Btw, visit NLSC's Darth's blog where he'll post all his mods for NBA 2K12. He's renowned and seems to do a good job every year. His first photomod (using enbseries) is available right now, and he's working on a superglobal already.
NBA 2K has a file called global.iff, where most of the globally used graphics are in, such as logos, certain accessories, lighting/shadow effects, sweat, eyes, etc.
Modders come out with early globals fixing a few stuff, there are some early globals out there that remove the plastic sweat, add the TNT scoreboard logos, etc. Problem is, you can't mix and match these different globals unless you know the modding steps. You may like the sweat in one global, and the LeBron accessories in the other one, and also the TNT logos in a third one.
That's where superglobals come in. Modders go around the sites to look for the best globals, grab the best pieces from each one and combine them into a superglobal. There were several out there for NBA 2K11, and the work on getting out some early ones for 2K12 seems to have already begun.
oh btw the team stats association thing did happen to me too, player stats are okay though.
anyway payed against bulls, could't get anything going at all with the mavs, their default plays are terrible. REALLY bad. so im going to change them up and practice them.
i cant just throw it to dirk all game as my only offense. plus as i mentioned yesterday, they have the no.1 rated offense but the ai playing as them on all-star sim was easily shut down by me playing new york for god sake. shows their playbook is totally crap.
Needs a patch like every nba 2k, the biggest problem I've heard about so far is the my player trade logic that went bonkers that and some people bitch about 3 pointers going in too much.
edit- well it appears that only the pc version doesn't have this problem, you can disable the cpu trades on the pc for My player, for the life of me I don't know why the consoles don't have this, not that I care
Needs a patch like every nba 2k, the biggest problem I've heard about so far is the my player trade logic that went bonkers that and some people bitch about 3 pointers going in too much.
edit- well it appears that only the pc version doesn't have this problem, you can disable the cpu trades on the pc for My player, for the life of me I don't know why the consoles don't have this, not that I care
Plus you can change the sliders using Tsearch or CheatEngine.I decreased 3pt success at 47 for both my team and cpu, I raised fatigue rate at 69 for both,hands for cpu at 39,increased fouls and having great games in My Player.Thinking of increasing def and off awareness for my team but I really don't want to alter so match the team's aboilities.
I used tsearch in 2k11 to up my minutes in the Jordan challenges to 12 and to freeze the sliders so I could use them in my player, I'm not sure 2k will ever incorporate sliders in my player as they see that mode as 'equal for all'.
I tried the Realike HD ENB v2 mentioned by Leftos (before the 4870 abandoned me) and the performance wasn't that good even with the 'lite' version. (60fps vs. 40-50 with the mod)
Yeah, ENB mods are kind of hit and miss. Haven't had any performance drops myself, but I've heard that complaint and it's common. You'll have to wait for a global that includes a lighting or shadow mod, that way you won't need enb.
There's also an early global that features "Real Sweat", but pretty much nothing else. Globals are different than ENB mods, so they can be combined:
http://downloads.moddingway.com/file/15360.html
Plus you can change the sliders using Tsearch or CheatEngine.I decreased 3pt success at 47 for both my team and cpu, I raised fatigue rate at 69 for both,hands for cpu at 39,increased fouls and having great games in My Player.Thinking of increasing def and off awareness for my team but I really don't want to alter so match the team's aboilities.
Care to give proper instructions? Used cheat engine and instructions in NLSC forum but didn`t quite get it.
Plus you can change the sliders using Tsearch or CheatEngine.I decreased 3pt success at 47 for both my team and cpu, I raised fatigue rate at 69 for both,hands for cpu at 39,increased fouls and having great games in My Player.Thinking of increasing def and off awareness for my team but I really don't want to alter so match the team's aboilities.
Care to give proper instructions? Used cheat engine and instructions in NLSC forum but didn`t quite get it.
1. Download TSearch.
2. Download sliders table from NLSC thread.
3. Launch nba2k12. Change sliders from main menu.
4. Alt-tab nba2k12.
5. Launch TSearch.
6. Open process: nba2k12.exe
7. Load sliders table.
8. Press ctrl-A to select all sliders.
9. Press freeze button.
10. Back to nba2k12.
11. Load your My Player.
12. Save right away your My Player.
13. Your sliders are frozen for this mode.
This game is so addictive this year.Running plays is overwhelming but a beauty too.You need to focus every second both on D and offense.AI is phenomenal.
Plus you can change the sliders using Tsearch or CheatEngine.I decreased 3pt success at 47 for both my team and cpu, I raised fatigue rate at 69 for both,hands for cpu at 39,increased fouls and having great games in My Player.Thinking of increasing def and off awareness for my team but I really don't want to alter so match the team's aboilities.
Care to give proper instructions? Used cheat engine and instructions in NLSC forum but didn`t quite get it.
1. Download TSearch.
2. Download sliders table from NLSC thread.
3. Launch nba2k12. Change sliders from main menu.
4. Alt-tab nba2k12.
5. Launch TSearch.
6. Open process: nba2k12.exe
7. Load sliders table.
8. Press ctrl-A to select all sliders.
9. Press freeze button.
10. Back to nba2k12.
11. Load your My Player.
12. Save right away your My Player.
13. Your sliders are frozen for this mode.
This game is so addictive this year.Running plays is overwhelming but a beauty too.You need to focus every second both on D and offense.AI is phenomenal.
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