Alright, first impressions .. while most of them are negative dont fret! Im having fun. I also realize a lot of these flaws must be old, but hey, whatevs. I'll be modding sliders like crazy to fix most of these things
- The slowdown is annoying and unforgivable. Sports games should be flawless in frames per second.
-Its a VERY VERY ANNOYING feeling that I'm playing good D with my player only to have my AI defenders fuck around constantly, leaving other defenders open consistently
-Does the AI make every fucking shot? One quarter against the Thunder they made 100% of their shots, wtf. They werent easy shots either! I know this is a recurring problem and I understand that the AI tries to make up for the shorter quarter time, but if I play good D I need to be rewarded and not feel cheated when I block a shot, somehow Bibby gets a rebound over Oden and kicks back to Joe Johnson for a 3
-On the other side, my shots are not held to the same standard. My guys cant hit shit for shit even if theyre wiiide fucking open or have full bars at the spot theyre in ... actually scratch that, stats wise I shoot a realistic 40-50 percent, but that doesn't matter when the comp always shoots 80 percent. In5 games played Steve Blake nor Rudy Fernandez have made a 3 pointer yet ... and its not for lack of looks ... Only Roy has made any.
-Some pretty glaring presentation issues. For instance: Im about to inbound the ball and I press up on the d-pad, so the heat check thing comes up, I spend a little bit of time to look at it and when Im trying to figure out how to exit the screen (since it covers a good chunk of screen real state) but there isnt an indication of how to do so and the game penalizes me for taking too long to inbound and gives the ball away. This is fucked up in MANY levels because the game never indicates how to exit these screens and it keeps the time running when youre in an out of bounds situation, which isnt cool (if I had the ball in motion I would understand) Perfect example of how baid UI or bad design can negatively fuck the game up.
-Inbound passing after a made basket is fucked up. The "choose the player to pass it to" button does not work when I try to inbound (as far as I can tell, the icons come up above the players heads, but pressing the buttons does nothing) so in order to inbound the ball to my PG I have to aim at him with the analog and pass it to him ... thats not good! Many times my inbounder tries a half court pass that costs me a turnover. The game should be smarter and know better than to punish me for bullshit like this.
-Anybody get to transfer their Draf Combine player? How do you do it? The game has not helped me out at ALL in this aspect.