 It's not a date in the NBA 2K community unless something goes drastically wrong. A whole bunch of people were sending me tweets last night, Aiden was streaming. I tuned in to see what he was talking about and he was furious to state of the game. Very choppy, almost, no no, not almost. Incredibly unplayable NBA 2K 21 Next Gen as it stands right now. He had a lot of things to say. He began this whole hashtag, make 2K fun again and the entire community was rocking it that night. The devs responded. They promised a couple updates and fixes. So there's a lot to talk about, let's get into it. But before we do, ladies and gentlemen, drop a like. Let's try and hit 30,000 likes. 50% of you guys that's watching this video is not subscribed and I'm fine. I'm not sad about that at all guys. I'm okay with it. Subscribe to the channel though. It's not going to hurt your hands. It's actually free and it costs you nothing. And the video is going to show up next time when it... Unless you don't want it to. In that case, like it's fine. I'm not going to take offense guys. You guys don't like me that much. There was reports from NBA 2K on Reddit on Twitter saying that Ronnie said the frames in the city are caused by the billboards around the courts. The fix is being worked on. To which I promptly quote tweeted, How long have I been saying this? I said in a video about last week, this is the year where if 2K does not do something about render distance, the game will continue to be unplayable. People have to play on broadcast camera or experience some of the worst gaming in the history of the gaming industry. Those are not an option. So it says in the tweet here and I couldn't find the clip of... I don't know, maybe it was on Ronnie's stream where he said it. But they said the fix is being worked on, hopefully. But then everything began to pick up because Aiden was on stream last night and he was furious. He was disappointed with how the game was playing. He was forced to play on broadcast camera because the game was so choppy. It was absolutely unplayable. And who plays on broadcast camera in 2020? But we're left with no option. The city is dead unless you're streaming and or a large YouTuber because everyone's on the wreck where you get way more progress when you're grinding your player. There's just infinite small and big problems that we all agree should have been flushed out in testing. Now I think for the most part people's given 2k cutting them a little slack because of everything that's been going on this year and the fact that they had to work from home while making this game happen on a console jump here. We understand those obstacles, we're not oblivious to them. But let's get into how everything played out. Aiden was on stream and he had a mission to get this hashtag trending. Make 2k fun again. I was watching the stream so I was the first person to quote it and respond with my own hashtag. And then you quickly saw as Aiden was making a push throughout his entire stream every content creator across the board from the Joe knows to the Ticino's and if you scroll you'll find grinding neon chico bandit. Every imaginable content creator that plays the game was there tweeting the hashtag because there was a lot that needs to change with current I mean with next gen NBA 2k21 to get it to where we want it to be. Grinding put out his post saying what 2k needs to do and it includes nerfing contact dunks, buffing shot contests, nerfing amount of whites made, fix the chop on the threes court, buff park heavy. Allow more people into the city. Turn off the mayor billboards when I'm in a park game that's coming from a mayor. Now for the mayor billboards I agree the solution right now is to just throw on your headphones. Allow more people into the city. The cap right now is 100. It needs to be something around 700 at the minimum but a thousand would be ideal. Buff park progress without a shadow of a doubt would help more people play park games because as of right now you're not getting no progress for playing park games. Also this word right here guys I had to mute it in my last video for some reason the video bombs when you say this word. So I don't know why this happens on this website but it happens. I'm avoiding the word for obvious reasons now you guys know. Ronnie actually responded to grinding's list saying yo let's talk about nerfing contacts. You realize people are trying to build offensive juggernaut demis and building zero definitive? He meant to say defense ratings and badges right? We aren't going to make defense easier for them. I've been reserving my judgment here because I made a lockdown. I have a two-way scoring machine but I don't have all my badges yet. I have half of my defensive badges. As of right now I'm getting dunked on across the board from play shots who have contact dumps. Now I'm waiting to see maybe that changes when I have my badges fully out and I'm at 95 overall. So I don't know yet but Ronnie as it stands right now it seems likely that even after I get all my defensive badges as a two-way end playing good defense I'm frequently getting dunked on with people that have the slasher uh grand badge all right. For what is worth I think it needs a tiny nerf down. It happens very very frequently but it is happening on the park where the experience is supposed to be a little bit more casual so I assume that's why they're continuing to allow that in the game. Davis came out with his own list where he said load more people into the parks fix the chop and the delay. Delay is also important. Nerf the contact dunks and this is coming from a person who has contact dunks so he's asking for himself to be nerfed because this is how I realized it was opus because Davis kept dunking on my head. Add way more park progress add back dribble moves all of them are gone. Interesting point I don't know if you guys realize when you go into the dribbling animations man it is like a desert in there they took out a lot of animations in next gen 2k21 for whatever reason don't know why. And up the game speed I feel like a snail and in my opinion the most fun 2ks were the ones where the game speed was fast. Problem with game speed though is when you up the game speed you also have to improve the servers because if there's a high delay and a fast game speed it becomes impossible to keep up with people on defense so it's like a two-way street. So Ronnie responding here saying what's wrong with dribbling sounds like you want to cheese. He followed up saying you realize at the city center there's a guy who teaches you other moves yeah it was in our blog and videos of course we have to be a certain rating in some cases but earn your way to being good instead of wanting to be a demi on day one. Is there a guy in the city center that teaches you guys dribble moves? Okay I'm just now learning that. For what it's worth it feels like there's like 30% of the animations in previous games so this guy must be teaching a 70% of the animations in the game. Okay so that's news to I think a lot of people because even I didn't know that and I read the blog post I must have missed it. G-Man gave his own two cents he said I don't understand how stupid some of you are. If a 2k has good dribbling and movement cosmetics like the park neighborhood city are just icing to the cake. At the base of every great 2k was good dribbling movement system with good shooting. Well let's start there please and keep in mind I don't think there's nothing wrong with dribbling because I'm not a dribbler. So Ron you can't say there's nothing wrong with dribbling because you're not a dribbler. If every imaginable dribbler is telling you there's something wrong with dribbling why would you just ignore them and not listen I don't understand that. I wouldn't know if there's something wrong with shooting. I wouldn't know if there's something wrong with dribbling because to me I don't know how to do those moves I just flick my right stick and then go up and try and dunk or sit at the hash looking all pretty out dribble at all. Ronny there's a whole segment of the community telling you there's something wrong with something that you have no expertise in. How are you just going to ignore that? That doesn't make sense to me. But someone responded to Ronny saying thank you Ronald they have a 25 interior but wonder why they get yammed on. I don't have a 25 I have a max interior defense and it's happening to me. That's why I'm saying I'm going to wait for my badges and I'm going to find out if it's still happening to me because contact dunes every once in a while if I'm a lockdown is fine but it's happening very very frequently right now very often like multiple times in a game. But Ronny responded to that guy saying haha yep. To which badge plug responded actually not true. NBA 2k lab did a test on interior defense and found almost no reason to upgrade it due to having very similar outcomes in tests but okay so I actually didn't even know they did that test but Aiden was still on stream while a lot of this was going on and he was trying to continue to push the message Aiden said you know it's real when the goat tweets it okay this is fake this is not real I actually almost fell for it personally and I feel pretty bad about that but let's not talk about it. For what it's worth it did go on trending number two on trending in the United States so Aiden was kind of celebrating that victory there because that's how you get something in front of the 2k devs because apparently they don't care otherwise. I mean how many of these videos explaining to you guys how render distance would solve a lot of the lag chop and performance issues in the game it's been like that for years 2k waited till it was absolutely unplayable before they finally committed to doing something about it because when it was bad and not unplayable they didn't do nothing about it. So while Ronny was responding to people on Twitter people were trying to get some kind of feedback or information about what's going to be changed and when BP put out the post saying how about stage Ronny to which Ronny replied stage in as an event now though I could see an argument to make it more frequent you have Gatorade quotes that serve the same purpose that people are going to take the second to migrate to which is not true Ronny and do you actually believe that the stage was a higher level of competition and it was like that because it was something on the line VC at the rent of courts there's nothing on the line you pay VC to play on the courts which it shouldn't be that way but you don't win VC for completing those games there's nothing to earn from those it's like a unranked private my court game it's not the same thing as a state but I think he knew that I think Ronny's just saying things sometimes I think he knew that Joe knows dropped his own video commenting on everything that was going on he said this all right so let's address it one last time by the way beer going crazy because we've been granted like crazy we don't even have time I clearly said things need to be fixed for the game to be as good as it can be frame drops mama mentality matters doesn't work uh parkour at teammate great all that stuff needs to be fixed of course of course if you don't think that stuff needs to be fixed you're an idiot but the fact that I don't agree with people saying this is the worst 2k of all time means that I want a logo y'all do realize hey uh Joe don't don't worry about those guys those people we call those dummies being a content creators like this guys any time I have something positive to say about 2k wow agent you just really trying to get a logo anytime you have something negative to say about 2k but you're still playing the game and you buy it every year so it's like you're just supposed to have no opinions or deal with criticism so just ignore them Joe just ignore those people they're dumb the reality is is the hashtag existed in eight instead in history multiple times because he wants the game to be fun for him and for a lot of people when the game is chopping to the point where you're getting two three frames per second it's not playable that's not fun when you're trying to join people through your phone and it sends you to the wrong park six times that's not fun that's not fun to be on these are all things that need to be improved for the game to be more fun and and for what is worth I try and I try and give good context when I make statements anyway for example if you go back and you watch the city uh when I was exploring the city I was like man all this stuff is mind-blowing the fact that they put this in the next gen game okay if they're able to match this mind-blowing level design with the mind-blowing uh gameplay it's going to be game set match that's what I said I always like to be clear about my opinions on some as to never have people misrepresent what I say but Joe I'll just let you know right now in the years of me doing this people will continue to misrepresent what you say because they don't actually care oh you gassed it up everywhere anyway all right shut the f*** up so uh this sore nvade came out with his own list of stuff to improve in the game Ronnie responded to his list saying lower the ban when you were feeling bad in my dm's and saying you deserve the ban this song was entirely different no and yo Ronnie just for future reference stop stop talking publicly about stuff that you talks to someone privately about that's not that's not a good look man it's interesting because the guy responded to Ronnie saying it's full cap but I'm not dropping dm's that's not right I never said any of that oh he did drop dm's sake well should we look at the dm's yeah he didn't say that okay all right but I mean we kind of knew he didn't say that Ronnie because you did the same thing to me like six months ago or you said I said something to dm's and I didn't you just misunderstood what I said besides the point I responded to Ronnie and hopefully get some answers I said there are problems joining friends to your phone again can that be addressed Ronnie responded oh good one I noticed that too let the team know for those wondering uh the solution that sometimes works for me is closing app it will let you join sometimes after you close app this works on the playstation I don't know how well it works on the xbox I did a follow-up tweet because the quality of life stuff is important to me I said and game chat audio quality is still almost unbearable upgrade there would be welcome too to which Ronnie responded game chat audio isn't 2k related remember this hardware launched too so kink's being worked out on some new but amazing technology to which I didn't bother responding because I think he's trying to not understand but Ronnie mm pay attention here this was a problem in last gen with technology wasn't new and on top of that this isn't a problem in most any other console game that I play only on 2k which leads me to believe it's a 2k problem there's a chance it might not be but the fact that it happens excessively on the game that I mainly play on console leads me to believe it's a problem with something y'all have going on and not PlayStation or not some other to which some people responded agent is that really your biggest priority shut the f*** up god damn yeah that is important to me man I like talking with other people that's what makes multiplayer experience is great for me and when people have garbage mics I have to mute them even though I think the conversation would have been funny and or made the game more enjoyable is that is that really agent maybe you should talk about bills what's wrong with bills hmm yeah I just create prizes some things about the game but that's an improvement the build system in my opinion clear f***ing improvement whoa whoa I don't know what that was clear improvements so we're getting a lot of answers from the well from Ronnie specifically and so people kept pushing well how many more answers can we get from money 2k on this blessed day Ronnie put out a reply saying we will allow more people into the city once we are sure everything is working as it should you don't do that all at once and we control that so we will increase as we go along Ronnie that means we're never gonna oh man to which nadex responded to fix chop and add more park and we will be happy to which Ronnie said I agree with those two and that's about it those two will be addressed the park comes from lower teammate grades that needs to be tweaked by about 10% and then grind benefits positively from that Iggy mo responded please allow us to earn the same amount of grind when going to other affiliations if we wear our own affiliation clothing which is actually a pretty good implementation of an idea that should already exist to which Ronnie responded not a bad idea and we'll discuss with the team but there is a means to an end when it comes to grind being less playing outside your affiliation just to be clear it was the same in 16 and 17 and for those of you guys who didn't play 2k 16 17 let me explain to you nobody liked it then either in fact it was so bad in those years that you could even play with people that weren't your affiliation until you reached a certain grind Ronnie nobody liked it then and so the community applied pressure and you guys finally changed it so that you could play with whoever and so there was no limitations anymore so reintroducing limitations and arguing that it was like this in the past is out of context information nobody liked it back then either people liked affiliations they didn't like the restrictions so don't bring back the restrictions if that's the part of the affiliations that people did not like Ronnie is not going to argue that people enjoy the restrictions like they added more to the experience it didn't it made it so that sometimes you couldn't play with the person that you wanted to play with even if it would have made the game playing experience more enjoyable Ronnie was real active though he put out his own post saying just so everyone knows a large majority of creators complaining about the bands and saying they did not do anything uh publicly have admitted to me behind closed doors and when logo season comes around and we have to consider who we should be endorsed by am i do i god damn it it's almost as if i've forgotten how to read and when logo season comes around and we have to consider who should be endorsed by the company i remember everything cool uh well i haven't gotten a logo in years so i give up on those right there for what it's worth i do agree with Ronnie here i was talking to Ronnie i think like a couple years ago at an event and he was telling me like the type of information they get before they ban a player is overwhelming uh but at the same time sometimes i doubt that when a very honest truthful person in the community gets banned and then gets unban which means that 2k did it on like you know what i'm saying so they were unsure and then they unban because they went too hard with the punishment so it's like man for what it's worth though i do think he's telling the truth here i think a lot of times when people cap and say he ain't doing nothing wrong is because they're not going to admit to doing nothing wrong and i'm pretty sure for legal reasons 2k prefers to not disclose why someone gets banned unless they absolutely have to any time you itemize something it makes the opportunity for criticism infinitely higher it usually works against you when that happens oh we got some clarification here from johnny who said Ronnie there's people with 95 blocks in max interior defense that are getting yam dan out a little and an alarming rate max badges too might i add so the stealing is like okay there's a lot of steals you can click square and come away with a lot of steals and this is before i even got the pick pocket badge on my lock but as it relates to shotgun test and or interior defense it's not nearly as effective so it might even be if you want to balance it out reduce the steel rate with the lockdowns and then increase the contest rate on interior and perimeter contests and so on all the way on the other side of the spectrum on the my nba side we have kenny dealing with some issues he said i literally can't record a video because nba 2k keeps crashing during simulation he quickly followed up saying we just want the game to work we aren't asking for much we just want the game to work man you don't ever see kenny angry though so i'm kidding you gotta pay attention a little bit hey what's up twitter let me show y'all what i've been dealing with and i am not exaggerating when i tell you that this game has crashed on me at least 10 times during my phoenix son's rebuild i mean it's a topical subject i'm trying to get it out and i've already made the trade i feel like we're about to go do big things and i hiss simulate and once we hit like february 10th the whole game just crashes and i'm telling you it has happened oh oh what is it it's it's it's happening right now the game just crashes on xbox on playstation it doesn't matter the game just crashes and it's preventing me from working at the end of the day it's preventing me from working and this is the most frustrating thing in the world right now i can only imagine kenny i can only imagine simulating and crashing to load up the game to simulate and crash again and to do that in cycles for hours to get your video out seems like a simple thing i think that's existed in sports titles for decades now seemingly doesn't work in nba 2k 21 next gen but on some good news positivity kenny did follow up or apply to that video right there saying got word from 2k the problem will be looked into soon so there's a couple things of no i think everybody in the 2k community recognizes that yes 2k dropped a current gen version with new parks and uh some new feature like a decent amount changed about the game but it wasn't that fun and then next gen came out and that's a lot to do especially we know how much went on this year and we know how challenging that must have been for the developers we understand and i think across the board everybody is thankful that they even went that hard i give the devs some slack in that regards because when else are they going to go through something that like that would a drastic change that is okay agent we understand we understand we get it yes but at the same time come on man the simulation doesn't work like that's that's that simple game testing would have told you that like kenny figured this out and it's a week into the game's launch what if you just hit up kenny told me to run some tests before the game launched i genuinely sometimes question whether or not they even have a quality control team i don't know what those guys they need okay let me give you an example a game i played valorant riot games right the developers that work on valorant are incredible at the game oh my god it makes no sense their top tier 0.1 percent at their own game a lot of them are so i wouldn't mind the developers game testing their own game because they're incredible they can figure out what's wrong there is an occasional person who's great at the game like ld2k he's incredible when it comes to play now team up uh-uh but you should have game testers in there they're incredible at video game you should find the people that are consistently glitching and breaking the game and you should hire those guys to run tests months before the game launches and the fact that i can sit here on videos for like three plus years and just point out an obvious problem that me having to load everything in the background while i'm playing this park game is the reason why it's lagging and then nothing is done until it reaches such an unbearable point where the game can't even be played before something is done that means that in the future just so i know if something is done poorly but it's not done so atrociously that i can bear it that there's no point in even trying to give feedback because it won't bother being addressed for example the mycourt cameras there's no mycourt this year right so you would think that that's not going to be a problem but when you go to the rent accords and you run anything that's not 1v1 if you do twos threes fours the camera is like up against a goddamn wall and that's a small inconvenience that wasn't so bad that it made the experience unplayable but it was inconvenient i can't even see my point guard when i'm sitting in the corner or in the paint on a twos game i can't see my teammates but it wasn't so bad that 2k wanted to fix it so yeah when i sit up here on twitter guys are on these videos and i talk about some of the small things that need to be changed it's because it makes the overall gameplay experience better i think it's on the western wildcats for some reason there's like a it's like a tiered system where like the courts you have there's like a staircase you have to walk up the staircase to get to certain courts and sometimes because the game is so clunky you'll like fall off and you have to walk all the way around to get up the staircase for quality of life reasons that's gonna be frustrating to people months from now but right now people don't find it frustrating because the game is new i'm just telling you problems i think are gonna happen small problems that once improve make the gameplay experience better i think proximity chat would make this city so lit the idea of npcs giving you missions and stuff is dope you can compliment that by actually making people feel like they're part of a real neighborhood in city by allowing them to talk to the people around them imagine you're skateboarding and doing all these you bump into a person in proximity chat you got a new friend they're trying to implement these features like garage courts where you bump into people and you just run the ones or the twos or any kind of horrors or any game mode but without proximity chat so the only time you talk to them is when the game starts up but then even when you do talk to them the audio quality is absolute dog specifically on 2k not exclusively but largely a 2k issue and some people i'm convinced don't even have a single brain cell left up here because they'll immediately see a video like this and go AJ what do why do you play the game because it's fun because i grew up playing it man for as long as i can remember i have millions of childhood memories playing live in 2k so of course i want them to get better and then on top of all of that it's my job is that so difficult to understand i do that with every game that i play though you just won't see a video when i have something to say about rainbow six i'm a gamer y'all i want to see games be good this is a tweet from a couple weeks ago please you be soft listen assassin's creed multiplayer is one of the greatest gems in gaming history bring those back i'm begging you i'm still gonna play this new one but please i'm a f***ing gamer i will game for as long as i'm alive and because i have a platform i can sometimes say things that developers will see so i want to make an attempt to make the games i play better i've been doing that for f***ing years man and i'll never stop doing that in pursuit of a god damn logo or because of your criticism in the comment section there's not a lot of come in there's some communities just let you guys know that they don't care this much that if something is wrong they'll just give up they'll just play it and or just stop playing it man you you should at least be thankful that people like aiding can hop on stream and dedicate like four or five hours of that stream to just try to make something positive happen in the game because at the end of the day we all know when 2k works it is fun when 2k listens to the community it is fun and yeah we're just trying to have fun bro at the end of the day man hey uh but this was a lot to happen just in one night i do have a video i'm gonna be dropping tomorrow on the channel where i go on to the garage courts and steal people's basketballs and hold on to them and we'll see how that goes it's gonna be toxic for sure uh but i think it can be really really funny if y'all want to see that man you haven't already be sure to subscribe drop a like on the video man let's run it out trying to get it 30 000 i mean what's wrong with 30 000 it's a beautiful number it's a good round a lot of zeros and a three in front of it some videos on the screen right now shout out aiden man shout out community because just about everybody uh was showing love just trying to make some improvements happen and we got some answers and some feedback from the developers so that's great i'll catch you guys in the next one man i'm out peace