NBA 2K17 Patch 1.12 Available Now, Patch Notes Included

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Quote: Originally Posted by feliciasme

Actually thought I'd see something defense related. Should have known better.

Same here. It's ridiculous with how bad the defense is, there wasn't anything in this gameplay patch to really improve the defense at all. To say I was disappointed with the gameplay developers would be a huge understatement.


I was hoping to see something along the lines of:

- Improved defense movement (less sliding/floating on the court, more responsive animations to move)
- Defensive positioning inside the paint will now be respected more. (less being pushed/slid out of the way by the offensive player)
- Brick Wall and screens in general have been toned down (less knock downs, less stuck in screens, less energy drain)
- Ankle Breakers has been toned down.
- Automatic reaching animation has been removed.
- Blocking fouls have been toned down.
- Passing out of bad shots, the success rate has been toned down to reward good defense and punish bad offense more.
- Limitless range has been toned down, the farther away from the 3pt line you are the harder it is to make the shot.
- Heavily contested shots/fouls inside the paint has been toned down to reward good defense and to punish reckless and bad offensive shots inside.
- Transition defense. Defenders will now be placed further down court and will be able to turn around quicker in order to not get beat constantly down the court.
- Standing dunk animations were toned down, so there are more standing layups for players without high standing dunk ratings.
- 3pt shots were toned down for players with low 3pt shot ratings, so that players ratings (not boosts from badges) actually matter and mean something.
- Flashy pass animations were cleaned up or removed. Most of the animations looked extremely unrealistic to what you would ever see in the NBA. So we placed most of them in the park as animations to use there instead.


We heard our customers cries about the defense being so bad this year and we wanted to make things right. Defense will now be much more fun and rewarding again to play. Our goal was to make a much more balanced 2k game, where the defense is on par with the offense. The game will be less fantasy street ball based and will represent what we used to always strive for in the past and that is NBA simulation basketball.

[Azamien]

Quote: Originally Posted by de_jesus

Edit: Never mind. It hasnt been released to PC

Yes, it has. That 45 MB was the patch.

[NoLeafClover]

Da_Czar and Beluba are such likeable guys, shame they can't just be 2K's community managers as well...

Question: does the "dribble transitions travel" fix make the hop step spam every idiot does an actual travel or double dribble now as it would be in real life?


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[fakeassc]

Thank you 2K.

Everything that we input feels more responsive than before.

On the defensive side:

Instead of being dragged around and sliding on D, we're much more in control.

On the offensive side:

Dribbling against CPU defenders is smoother and much more responsive.

[Raisnets]

Meh game feels no different, I would almost argue it's taken a step backwards again. This game is a lost cause. Onto NBA2K18.

[kobe2theMAX]

error ... error post.

[Leasim96]

I love how there's a post by someone saying a certain aspect is improved - and then right after someone else says the opposite. We gotta come to a conclusion lol not that it matters though - since this is probably the last patch.

We'll see how belubas tuning affects the game - hopefully doesn't make it worse.

[kobe2theMAX]

Lord have MERCY.

I can't believe they actually toned down ankle breakers again. They already toned it down in another patch last year. It was already hard enough to break ankles. Now it's impossible to break ankles with it being toned down again. They might as well take ankle breaking out the game completely. SMH.
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WHOOPS! Never mind, I read something else and thought ankle breakers were toned down again. My bad, lol!