NBA 2K25 Wishlist

[VictorMG]

Is it too early? I hope not.

As an offline user, I only have some wishes regarding the AI.

Attacking closeouts: The AI doesn't seem very willing, from what I can tell, to drive past closeouts when the ball is kicked out to the perimeter. It's very difficult to run catch-and-shoot threats off the three-point line; they'll either shoot or just stand there with the ball if the closeout is effective, and reset the offense. This is even with Spot-Up Drive tendencies high and the Attack Slider high as well.

Double-teams in the post, especially against mismatches: This one was almost perfect at launch; the AI would send a second defender if there was a mismatch in the post, and often times even against major threats (AD, Giannis, Embiid, etc.) without a mismatch. Then it all went away and I'm not sure why. It would really enhance the offline experience if the AI was more consistent with this.

Also, I have no idea why there's this weird thing at the end of my messages. Sorry.

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[JAY_D1]

Re: NBA 2K25 Wishlist

MyNBA player here. Here is my asks:

- Updated Courts -

*Phoenix Suns 1992-00 America West Arena
*Detroit Pistons 1995-01 Pistons Teal Arena
*Atlanta Hawks 1995-99 Omni Arena
*Philly Sixers 1994-97 Spectrum Arena
*Philly Sixers later floor in 2010

-Updated Uniforms-
*Atlanta Hawks 1990 Hawks Jersey
*Program all the uniforms that were added to MyNBA for their proper timing in Historical Changes

*Finals Jersey decals on uniforms in Jordan Era
*Older Playoffs/Final logos in Older Eras and on courts
*Draft and stash option back
*Shirts and hat finals celebration back, different celebration packages

This is part 1 lol

[KenXCarson]

Re: NBA 2K25 Wishlist

MyNBA player here. Here is my asks:

- Updated Courts -

*Phoenix Suns 1992-00 America West Arena
*Detroit Pistons 1995-01 Pistons Teal Arena
*Atlanta Hawks 1995-99 Omni Arena
*Philly Sixers 1994-97 Spectrum Arena
*Philly Sixers later floor in 2010

-Updated Uniforms-
*Atlanta Hawks 1990 Hawks Jersey
*Program all the uniforms that were added to MyNBA for their proper timing in Historical Changes

*Finals Jersey decals on uniforms in Jordan Era
*Older Playoffs/Final logos in Older Eras and on courts
*Draft and stash option back
*Shirts and hat finals celebration back, different celebration packages

This is part 1 lol

Wait, they took away draft and stash??? This game is good, but idk why they take away some integral pieces out..

[VictorMG]

Re: NBA 2K25 Wishlist

What ever happened to custom arena sounds? That feature was absolute fire, and it suddenly just disappeared, and nobody seems to be asking for it to return.

[MrFil23]

Re: NBA 2K25 Wishlist

A finished game... and match tactics that finally work properly, not to mention the ergonomics in the match menus. In short.... a finished, bug-free game, with FINALLY quality over quantity.

[DL1287]

Re: NBA 2K25 Wishlist

Here's some non-MyNBA things I would want:

PS5, XBOX Series X, PC only

Improvements to the 2k Share system. More than 10 combined saved roster and draft class slots. Ability to sort by downloads and the ability to like/dislike.
I'm doing historic draft classes and I'll have 4 different Playstation accounts because of the limited number of save slots.

New CAP System. We've had the same one since 2k19 and it's time for a new one. MLB The Show has a far better one, lots of improvements to 2k's. Skin and hair color slider, ability to have more than 1 type of facial hair, better sculpting abilities. More tattoos would be appreciated too.

More Historic Shoes and Accessories. I'm not much of a shoe guy but I like putting my players in era appropriate shoes. We need more shoes from the late 80's, early 90's, and early 2010's.

These are just a few non-MyNBA things I would like to see in next year's game.

[CX1329]

Re: NBA 2K25 Wishlist

Improved shot contest logic and footplanting. The game is close to being truly great, but the shot contest logic is wack and the sliding really needs to go. Sliding has always been an issue, but it's much worse this year, perhaps due to ProPlay growing pains. And the shot contest logic was perfect in 2K23, so I don't know why it's so wonky this year.

[jk31]

Re: NBA 2K25 Wishlist

An option to disable green releases would be great. With it enabled, perfectly timed "green" shots go in at 100 %. With it disabled, there is no green release and even if you time it perfectly, it will be treated as slightly early/late.

[CX1329]

Re: NBA 2K25 Wishlist

An option to disable green releases would be great. With it enabled, perfectly timed "green" shots go in at 100 %. With it disabled, there is no green release and even if you time it perfectly, it will be treated as slightly early/late.

They would need to change the shooting system so that you no longer need to green shots in order to make them. Right now, on Superstar, non-green releases rarely go in and on HOF it's literally green or miss.

[JAY_D1]

Re: NBA 2K25 Wishlist

MyNBA player here. Here is my asks:

- Updated Courts -

*Phoenix Suns 1992-00 America West Arena
*Detroit Pistons 1995-01 Pistons Teal Arena
*Atlanta Hawks 1995-99 Omni Arena
*Philly Sixers 1994-97 Spectrum Arena
*Philly Sixers later floor in 2010

-Updated Uniforms-
*Atlanta Hawks 1990 Hawks Jersey
*Program all the uniforms that were added to MyNBA for their proper timing in Historical Changes

*Finals Jersey decals on uniforms in Jordan Era
*Older Playoffs/Final logos in Older Eras and on courts
*Draft and stash option back
*Shirts and hat finals celebration back, different celebration packages

This is part 1 lol

Part 2:

*Ability to update All Star Court aka when selecting city in offseason, you can also make a custom floor for the occasion as well. That way we can line up the courts with the uniforms each year

*Era specific shoes for drafted players. Even for created players, no player needs to be wearing KD 4s in 1988. With each era, you have shoes to correspond, and the more years you go past, the more shoes are unlocked.
For example, in the historical changes, you can make it so after the 1984-85 season, Jordans are available for selection, but only the first 7.

*Add in the awards category: "NBA Slam Dunk Champ, 3 Point shootout winner, NBA ASW MVP"

*Era specific trophies, the MVP should not look as it does in 2024 in 1984.

*NBA All Star MVP trophies in the older eras

*All NBA ASW uniforms included

*All NBA theme songs licensed, good on you for the NBA on NBC theme one, but for other years as well

[JKSportsGamer1984]

Re: NBA 2K25 Wishlist

Before anything they need to fix the dribbling! Other than shooting, dribbling is the most important aspect in basketball & its broken in 2K.

The ball doesn't even completely hit the floor a lot of times. Either that or the ball is getting stuck in the players hand on certain dribbles, getting stuck in mid-air not even completing the dribble animation before the next dribble is taken, etc. I've seen players flat out carry the ball across the court without even fully completing a dribble animation smh.

This has been an issue in the game for years but it's really bad in 24. They either have to fix this issue or completely overhaul the dribbling. For as good and deep as this game is, these dribbling issues ruin all immersion! Fix this 2K!

https://youtu.be/gL2l2SjCBgE?si=EjNx8GFsMl0cZKnH

https://youtu.be/-CKE9C-tvGg?si=bxVnGtjDijzcksFB

https://youtu.be/Eyu1y_XstEE?si=WE5KNUZGvN2zcx0Y

https://youtu.be/VrPbf-4HNFg?si=9AaGij5qUBYyn416

The game also needs a real-time physics engine. Player physics need to be able to augment any canned animation to eliminate the clipping issues.

https://youtu.be/RtrV--RndgI?si=UJUxcrgcEV6uO9qX

https://youtu.be/fR-R3mCy7p0?si=Fy_zRQLkzX1z8_T8

https://youtu.be/hINgky25T4s?si=G54nJkkJU-v1a26k

[Scvllp]

Re: NBA 2K25 Wishlist

MyNBA Eras-

ABA/70’s Era- let’s go further back and time and play before the NBA/ABA merger. Let’s relive the merger and maybe even let different teams be apart of the merger!

Pick the year you want to start! Let us decide what year we want to start our MyNBA Era! The rosters don’t have to be 100% accurate. We have enough tools where we can do it ourselves.

The ability to start our MyNBA Era with less teams. The least we can start with in 83 is 24. Give us the ability to drop it down to 6 teams and then we can reshape the league how we want.

Shoes- more shoes from the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s!

All-Star courts- we have the jerseys so now we need the courts.

Create a AllStar Jersey- the ability to use Jersey creator to make all star jerseys for seasons past the current year.

[m29a]

Re: NBA 2K25 Wishlist

An option to disable green releases would be great. With it enabled, perfectly timed "green" shots go in at 100 %. With it disabled, there is no green release and even if you time it perfectly, it will be treated as slightly early/late.

More options to get the series back to how it used to be (2K14 and prior) in terms of "skill" balance would be great. I understand so many players embrace the idea of removing randomness, but in my opinion (and I think others, even if they may not realize it) randomness always has been a core part of why sports can be so enjoyable. Knowing that an elite player can shoot 2/10 is a feature, not a bug. There is just as much skill in knowing how to take smart shots and run plays, compared to someone dribbling around back and forth and timing things perfectly.

All the focus on greens has resulted in unrealistically low success rate on even lightly contested jumpers, low 3pt attempts overall, and a severe lack of help defense. I'll say again and again that it's hard to replicate real NBA defense when shots go in at far higher rates than real life. We have a smother hounding bulldog Ausar Thompson style defense for ALL defenders in 2K24 because of how (overly) potent the open shot is.

I'm not asking for the direction of the series to go in the opposite direction because it's obvious that will never happen. But continuing and expanding on giving users the ability to further change how the game operates is good. Make sure the sliders do what they should do. Add more sliders. Add more options. This series might sport "NBA" on the cover, but the last several years its become clear where the direction and style has been headed. You can tune into any real game going on and see watch defenders react, cave to the paint to protect drives, and simple drive and kick/blow-bys and notice 2K does not at all replicate basic motions and flows of real offenses -- at least not on a regular basis (and it's very possible, it just depends if players actually wanted that in their hyper competitive video game)

[jk31]

Re: NBA 2K25 Wishlist

They would need to change the shooting system so that you no longer need to green shots in order to make them. Right now, on Superstar, non-green releases rarely go in and on HOF it's literally green or miss.

They do not need to do anything. We have sliders at our disposal. Tweak sliders to increase slightly early/late makes and we are fine. Just give us the option to disable the perfect = 100 % thing!

[jk31]

Re: NBA 2K25 Wishlist

More options to get the series back to how it used to be (2K14 and prior) in terms of "skill" balance would be great. I understand so many players embrace the idea of removing randomness, but in my opinion (and I think others, even if they may not realize it) randomness always has been a core part of why sports can be so enjoyable. Knowing that an elite player can shoot 2/10 is a feature, not a bug. There is just as much skill in knowing how to take smart shots and run plays, compared to someone dribbling around back and forth and timing things perfectly.

All the focus on greens has resulted in unrealistically low success rate on even lightly contested jumpers, low 3pt attempts overall, and a severe lack of help defense. I'll say again and again that it's hard to replicate real NBA defense when shots go in at far higher rates than real life. We have a smother hounding bulldog Ausar Thompson style defense for ALL defenders in 2K24 because of how (overly) potent the open shot is.

I'm not asking for the direction of the series to go in the opposite direction because it's obvious that will never happen. But continuing and expanding on giving users the ability to further change how the game operates is good. Make sure the sliders do what they should do. Add more sliders. Add more options. This series might sport "NBA" on the cover, but the last several years its become clear where the direction and style has been headed. You can tune into any real game going on and see watch defenders react, cave to the paint to protect drives, and simple drive and kick/blow-bys and notice 2K does not at all replicate basic motions and flows of real offenses -- at least not on a regular basis (and it's very possible, it just depends if players actually wanted that in their hyper competitive video game)

exactly! i am not asking them to remove the current shooting mechanics. this will never happen. but give us options to do it if we want to. just some kind of switch which enables or disables a green release. the online "competitive" crowd will still be happy as they can play with the current mechanics, but us people who like a more realistic approach could just disable it and be happy too!