NBA Live 19

NBA Live 18 - Releases September 7th






Looks like a big focus on The One this year. Read a few posts about someone saying they are close to a dev who confirmed they are really pushing The One expanding it with minor improvements to other modes like Ultimate Team and Franchise. I know franchise people really wanted a deeper mode so might not be happy with that news.


Some of the devs worked on NBA Street and there is definitely a whiff of that off the trailer above. nutmeg handles and crazy alley oop passes look fun, just hope they don't go full arcade craziness.


List of updates on the new features.





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Build Your Squad.
This year, you can collect players, current NBA, historic legends and fictitious players, I spotted Stretch from NBA Street. Build your team to take around the globe on the street ball circuit. You can also bring your team online to play against friends and randomers. It also suggest you can team up with friends to challenge other squads. I just hope they have customised jerseys and courts to go with this.


Rewards include players this year so instead of crates containing gear, moves, celebrations, etc, they will now also have players to add to your team. Live events will give 1 or chances at unlocking super rare players.



https://www.easports.com/nba-live/news/2018/feature-build-your-squad



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Gameplay Innovations & Interactive Environment:


Real Player Motion Tech is being used this year to improve animations. I used this in EA UFC 3 and made a HUGE difference to the gameplay. Devs said it definitely fixes the stiffness of last year.


You can now interact with the crowd an court more, crashing into camera men, saving the ball diving into the crowd, trash talking the opposing team and crowd, crowd rushing the court to celebrate with you etc.


https://www.easports.com/nba-live/news/2018/feature-gameplay-innovations


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The evolution of the streets and the league:
You can still hop to and from the street mode to nba league like the last game, thye are just building on it now adding lots more customisations to make your player as unique as possible.


https://www.easports.com/nba-live/news/2018/feature-league-streets


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New Icon system:
When you pick your playstyle, you can decide an Icon to follow. This is like another ability tree to further make your player unique from other similar playstyles. For example, you pick guard slasher and 2 of the icons revealed so far for the style is Westbrook and Iverson. you can swap them out but sticking with one levels them up unlocking their gear, animations, moves and further boosts.


https://www.easports.com/nba-live/news/2018/feature-icon-system-playstyles



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The Jumpman court in Paris looks class.

Hd footage, looks very slick. Definitely going with a dribble PG build first, looks like a lot of fun.

NBA Live 18 is up for preorder now, 70 quid. However, there was an update for Live 18 today and it put a link on the main menu to preorder 19 and get 33% off. Link isn't working at the moment but EA currently investigating. 47 euro Is a tasty price for it.

Demo is class, game plays much smoother this year. Creating courts is a great addition and the looks like there is some amount of customisation items you can unlock through rewards. Plus being able to set the location at multiple cities around Ireland is a nice touch..

Court Battles mode was revealed last night. Take your custom court into a timed campaign where you set a defensive CPU team up to defend your court while you attack other people's courts. Win, and you take control of their court. More courts you control by end of the timed campaign the higher tier of rewards you get. Ton of rules to set as well like only dunks score points, more points the further out you shoot, etc.

Your One created player is captain of attacking team and can't be swapped out. Other than him/her, you build your team by unlocking players as rewards in The One world tour and court battles modes.

https://www.easports.com/nba-live/news/2018/court-battles

Anyone play this or NBA 2K19? I found Live disappointing this year. Last year was much more fun imo. I only play the street mode but the passing is bad, half the time, the pass goes to someone else than I was aiming at and gets turned over. Even though I'm maxed out with dribbling, I can't break any ankles, had no problem with that last year. The court battles is a good mode but the gameplay isn't grabbing me.

I played 2k19 Prelude and actually found it fun. The Chris Smoove videos has me tempted to get it but it's 2k

Wondering if anyone has played it and has any feedback?

I ended up getting 2k in the deal of the week on the us PSN store, 38 euro, not too bad. Have to say, it's the best 2k I've played in years! No interest in GM or League, just career and my team so straight to the Prelude which is way longer than the demo. I think I'm on my last game (first NBA game) and thoroughly enjoyed it all the way through. Even though you can skip cutscenes now, I never wanted to, some great actors in the cast.

Most importantly, it felt like I could actually play basketball from the start. Even though I'm a crappy 60 rated player, I can still drive to the hoop and make layups, nailing mid range shots and even hitting lots of 3's, something I've never been able to do as a slashing playmaker. Having a lot of fun with it, complete opposite of 2k18. VC grind still looks like a pain but at least the game is playable this year compared to last

My only gripe so far is my team customisation. I usually try to unlock custom jerseys and courts asap but this year, you need to have collected 500 cards which is shocking. A custom my team is my favourite part of that mode and they've wrecked it for me.

So, went back to NBA 2K19 recently, still at rating 70 which is actually alright for single player games. I'm holding my own, making successful passes, dribbling past players and hitting 3's even though I've spent no money on 3's and not a shooting archetype. It is extremely slow to level up though and put me off even trying anymore. The worst bit about this is Park is a no-no as everyone is 85 and over and people won't queue up for a game with you if you are under 85 as far as I'm reading. 2K have completely isolated people who refuse to buy VC and they seem perfectly fine with that.

I tried franchise, actually kind of fun once I replaced the league teams with All Time versions of them but not my cup of tea.

My Team is good, got a great team thanks to locker codes being thrown around willy nilly these days but I never feel like playing game after game after game.

My career is what keeps me going and 2k19 is just a drag to play. Usual, great gameplay hammered by ****ty mtx greed.

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As for NBA Live 19, I didn't enjoy it as much as NBA Live 18, didn't flow as well for me for some reason. A new patch was released this week for improvements based on community feedback, sounds like a 'lets try implement what people are asking for as it doesn't matter too much as a new Live will be announced at E3'.

Honestly, this has me wanting to give Live Run a go again. It was awful before with ball hogs (same as 2K) but now playing defense will have more impact on shots and being a ball hog for too long will penalise shot chance which sounds brilliant. Interesting to see how this is implemented. Biggest complaint online for either 2K or Live is that my defense and shot contest seemd useless as guys with high 3's could rain them from anywhere and also ball hogs taking on 3 to 4 guys, running circles around the court and finish an impossible 3 or heavily contested layup, so for me, this patch sounds well worth a try.

Based off community feedback:

Upped defensive impact to shots

Good defensive positioning will be rewarded by affecting jump shots more.

Introducing a ball hog penalty

If a user “hogs” the ball for an excessive period, shots will be penalized. A major shot penalty will kick in if the user continues to ball hog.

This is only for user player jump shots in Live Run.

Anyone looking forward to either Live or 2K20?

2k19 is currently 3 dollars on Xbox, surely will be fixed soon.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/nba-2k19/BNW34B7V705C?ranMID=24542&ranEAID=jrr8pPQxhfE&ranSiteID=jrr8pPQxhfE-hxTn3o4YHTF25ua8FEG3LQ&epi=jrr8pPQxhfE-hxTn3o4YHTF25ua8FEG3LQ&irgwc=1&OCID=AID681541_aff_7593_1243925&tduid=%28ir__zgxbkappu0kfrg9yxkrizr11j32xmar1rt0tcart00%29%287593%29%281243925%29%28jrr8pPQxhfE-hxTn3o4YHTF25ua8FEG3LQ%29%28%29&irclickid=_zgxbkappu0kfrg9yxkrizr11j32xmar1rt0tcart00&wa=wsignin1.0&activetab=pivot:overviewtab

Potential-Monke wrote: »

2K19 down to €20 with the Days of Play sale. Tempting...

Hold off, it's supposed to go down to 3 dollars in the US sale when that goes live today. Would be well worth creating a US account and buying US credit online. Smyths selling it for 25 and CEX will give you 19 cash if you wanted it physical

Having spent a good bit of time on both 2k19 and Live 19 lately,, I was definitely enjoying live more. I had created a new character, Slasher PG, went through the street tour mode again and had a ton of fun. Even hit a guy with the 'throw ball between his legs and run around him' move to finish with a 360 layup, not just being fancy but a center went to block me so my guy spun around him mid air for the finish. FUN! The only bit I didn't like was I couldn't hit open midrange or 3's for the life of me. I say open but EA marks a defender standing 5 feet away with his hands down as contested. I know they are trying to cut down on everyone getting green shots but it's very annoying to actually be open and brick a shot because the game says it was contested.

Onto 2k, I could hit open 2's and 3's all day long which was nice but where the fun ended. My 76 rated guy isn't good enough for park games (lag doesn't help) if I could even get a game so stuck with NBA season. It was just boring. Didn'ty feel as physical as Live, felt like I was floating up and down the court. 20 minutes for a game doesn't help my limited gaming time compared to Live games first to 21. Even though the gameplay can be fun, the fact that I couldn't partake in park due to 2k's pay to win just made the experience worse. NOT FUN.

Even though the quality of 2k is higher, Live is just more fun. Looking forward to their live 20 reveal on Thursday. I'm not looking forward to 2k's ultimate legend edition for 150 which will get your player the ability to play park straight away without people walking off spots because you're too low level.

Yupp I'd go for it for 15. As long as you know you won't be playing Park unless you spend money which you already said you're not pushed on anyway so just as a single player game, i think you'll enjoy it more. I liked the prologue story and making it to the nba. Once the nba starts, the story becomes non existent and it's just game on game on game. Leveling up is verrrry slow so you'll need to focus on a few areas that interest you to get the most out of each game as it will take way too long to get good at everything.

All the negatives of 2k19, mostly the pay to win structure (someone calculated you would have to spend 800+ hours to get one character to 99) definitely dampened the whole experience for me even though gameplay wise, i enjoyed the actual mechanics. As a slasher pg, i was able to drive, make passes, dunk and hit open 3's. I had fun playing the games but i wanted to play park which was a no go so always left a bad taste in my mouth.

My Team has a good offline mode and tons of great cards are being given away through locker codes if you follow the reddit for them. You could get a great team almost straight away.

No idea if career can be played offline as it's integrated with the neighborhood. I hope to **** 2k keep it separate for 20. As for the scripted bits, as i recall there are a few in the prologue to guide the story a certain way but that's all fluff anyway, no big deal. Better story than last few years by miles but still not brilliant. I enjoyed the prologue anyway and when i got to the nba, there was zero story. Just games with the very very odd message txt message. I'd say check the 2ktv episodes of they still give vc and look up the answers online, might get a nice vc headstart to bulk up your player.

Also the anniversary edition for 30 comes with 100k vc which will get you up to level 75-78ish. Took me about half a season to get to that point iirc.

Aw man, Spikes story was ridiculous and i felt 2k didn't want to interfere with it. My white (ish, he never actually looked white) character sat in the middle of a black family and i thought ah, he could be adopted and then they make it a point to say that you and your sister are twins born from your black mam and dad. If they wanted to do that properly, they should have given you a premade character like the journey in fifa.

Nba Live 19 is on sale in psn for a tenner if anyone fancied giving it a go.