NBA Live 16 Available Today, Post Your Impressions Here

[Gotmadskillzson]

I just lost a game because the game wouldn't trigger a foul. I am so mad. Any other time that would have been a foul. 6 swipes at the ball and not 1 foul triggered.....SMH.

Offensive rebounds, like the other game is severely lacking by default. Going to see if there is a slider for that. No team grabs enough offensive rebounds. I just noticed sliders change by 10 now, WTF ? It was by 5 in the demo now they raised it by 10 ? Why not make it by 1.

[Calvenn]

I believe the slider increments have always been 10 dI gits since the demo release.

[benefactor]

Sliders were always 10. Also sounds like you were just pressing steal rather than the foul button Mad.

[Gotmadskillzson]

I lost another one by a last second 3 by a 7ft PF of all people who I had no idea could hit a 3, he wasn't even a starter, he was a bench player. Ellis on the Pacers is no joke. He is hard to guard. Going to lower the CPU shooting sliders, they shoot too well, like over 60% well. It is mainly their layups which they rarely miss.

I am starting to notice the last 60 seconds of the game the USER seem to lose control and stuff start happening that you don't want to happen. Like you get stuck in a 3 pump fakes in a row loop when you not even trying to pump fake. Or on inbound plays you trying to select your best player but instead it won't allow you to control him to receive the ball.

Also find the help Defense in this game to be way too inconsistent. You will see it in the 1st quarter, but after that quarter the help defense just disappears for the USER side for the rest of the game. It is kind of frustrating seeing your teammates in perfect position for help defense to block a layup just suddenly turn their back to the play for no reason or they simply don't jump.

EA need to tighten that up. They also need to fix your Coach from changing your tight defense to loose. This seems to happen quite a bit which leaves players wide open too often. Which this year is an automatic bucket if the CPU is left open. I shouldn't have to burn a time out to put stuff back to where I originally had it.

But anyway, going to raise the blocking ability, maybe that will help with help D being too inconsistent.

[Gotmadskillzson]

Quote: Originally Posted by benefactor

Sliders were always 10. Also sounds like you were just pressing steal rather than the foul button Mad.

I was hitting both. Neither would trigger a foul.

[Walt Frazier]

Got the game...big improvement on the demo and much, much better than LIVE 15.


Positives:
-More contact
-Nice mid range game...saw Korver catch and shoot, Milsap pull up from 17 feet etc.
-Defense is better
-Some semblance of team styles
-Arenas are alive (a big thing for me personally...I love seeing the different courts and arenas)


Negatives
-All bigs still put the ball on the floor
- All bigs still do ridiculous hook shots that seem to drop
- Post game is really limited.
- Players who are "off" are really bad...Zach Randolph, Mirotic, etc.
- Dynasty / season mode is TERRIBLE. I just made a separate thread for that. If season / dynasty is your thing, be warned.


Overall = really good fun. Not 100% sim, but definitely can be played SIM like if you want to run plays and use def settings.


A really solid 7/10 type game at the moment IMO.

[Playmakers]

Quote: Originally Posted by Gotmadskillzson

I just lost a game because the game wouldn't trigger a foul. I am so mad. Any other time that would have been a foul. 6 swipes at the ball and not 1 foul triggered.....SMH. Offensive rebounds, like the other game is severely lacking by default. Going to see if there is a slider for that. No team grabs enough offensive rebounds. I just noticed sliders change by 10 now, WTF ? It was by 5 in the demo now they raised it by 10 ? Why not make it by 1.

I'm going to respond to a few of your post in here....

The demo sliders were in 10 point increments (I agree it should be a option of 5 or even 1)

If you raise the Reach In Slider you probably would have got that foul call late in the game for reaching in....

Raise Offensive Rebounds for better results in that area if you like..

Layup Shooting is one way you can reduce the Layup Percentage in this game if your not seeing enough missed layups but I would also suggest increasing Shot Block and Contest Shot if you want to make your defenders more active or defense.

Those two slider are like awareness defensive sliders think of it as forcing your defenders to do something/react more often when the slider is increased higher.

Also on the higher levels just like in Madden when you play on All Madden or NHL when you play on Super Star the game always tends to impact the human player defenders......it makes them less aware in order to make the games more challenging on those levels.

If anyone disagrees go play any EA Sports games on Pro Level and watch the way defenders react on their own for the human side and then move each game up to the highest level and watch how defenders tend to be a step slow to react.

There's a reason why on All Madden you have to raise pass coverage for example to damn near 100 and reduce CPU QB accuracy...

NHL your goalie goes brain dead on higher difficulty lower difficulty he plays more to his ratings

This is EA's way of giving the impression that the AI is better in all their sports games on higher difficulty settings when in reality it's not they just penalize the human player AI.

The good thing is Sliders in NBA Live work pretty damn good this year just like Madden.

Doesn't matter what level you play on you can get the game to produce it all just depends on what your looking for while playing the game....

[The 24th Letter]

Has head to head play improved any since the patch yesterday?