 What is up agent nation my name of course is agent beam star. Let's get Into the news ladies and gentlemen This is gonna be the most action-packed news filled day of any drama alert yet because Mike Wang was going on a spray on Twitter But before we get to that we've got a couple stories to cover. So let's just get into it You see how I did that guys. Did you see that? Okay? Let's do it for our first story of the day Deandre Aten do you guys know him the same guy that went out there and dropped off all those park youtubers NBA player first Overall pick in the 2018 NBA draft. You know who I'm talking about ladies and gentlemen. He is a quintessential He is the picture perfect definition of a 2k player right some of these NBA players They just kind of played 2k they might have played it a couple times because their faces in the game They might have played a little bit and think they're good, but Deandre Aten is actually good at the game That's why he's dropping off all these youtubers you guys remember that previous story Okay, Deandre Aten is on some news ladies and gentlemen because a video released of him raging after a loss on 2k And I don't even really want to say much. Let's just roll the clip Bro this fucking game, I'm gonna break the fuck bro. I hate 2k18. That's shit. Don't ever put me in that fucking game He sounds like he wants to be a 2k youtuber at heart. He's a guy who actually plays this, right? He said this game is shit. He made that super clear, right? But after that he said they made this game for bums I was like yo Deandre, chill my guy. Who's recording him? Is this a recent video? Deandre you might have sponsors now my guy You can't be talking crazy like that. Anyway, it was really I was really excited to see that cuz it Yeah for obvious reasons you don't need me to explain. I thought it was a funny story Let's move on to the next one for our second story of the day NBA superstar and mega ultra famous person Spencer Dinwiddy was in the news because apparently he was frustrated with his NBA 2k rating not so much that he was frustrated with his NBA 2k rating But he was frustrated relative to everybody else's ratings He said this on his Instagram when they say the rooks are already well, I didn't mean to click actual alright whatever Might as well follow you bro When they say the rooks are already better than you had NBA 2k Basically taking shots at Mr. Stoff the guy who does the ratings for 2k He's cheese, right? He's saying yo listen these guys haven't played a game in the NBA yet How do these guys have a rating as good as me, right? Cause no rookies actually rated better than him But there are a few rookies that have the same rating as him and he's saying like yo I played a decent season last year And he's like yo I'm bound for this and this and this and this and this He was even at the all-star weekend You guys remember seeing him there? I was like what is Spencer Dinwiddy doing here? But he was playing and he was doing pretty good So he's probably the first person this year in NBA 2k 19 cycle to get mad or frustrated publicly about his NBA 2k rating I thought it was interesting For our next story of the day and this story is a string of tweets from Mike Wang himself The one and only Mike Wang I'm talking to you cause I know you're on notification gang I know you'll be watching all my videos till the end Cause you know that if I get more watch time Then they're gonna put me on the home page more And you wanna see my channel grow Thank you Mike Wang I appreciate it I'm talking to you right now Get in contact with me I have a brilliant idea If you don't get in contact with me I'ma get in contact with you somehow I'ma fly to you Just let me know right now That's not the story though The story is the string of tweets Let's get to the first one First tweet verifying that using the takeover badge It gives you a plus 10 bonus to your primary attributes And a plus 5 bonus to your alternate attributes So someone asked the obvious question Great system but if my dunk attribute is a 99 How will a plus 12 help me? He said we have ways to boost your abilities beyond the 99 cap You heard it here first ladies and gentlemen You could pull away on NBA 2k with like a 109 3 point rating Yeah Imagine that With all your badges With a good release So obviously the concern was Listen Mike Wang Sounds fun and cool if this was like an NBA street game It's not This is an NBA 2k game And everyone in Mike Wang reply saying It's not as OP as it sounds And I'll be monitoring the community closely every day To make sure all the builds are properly balanced I was like alright Mike Wang If you say so my guy But you guys haven't been the greatest When it comes to balance So I don't really know how much I could trust that But Mike Wang I trust you Keep in mind give me a call send my email It's on my Twitter I need to get in contact with you Mike Wang then proceeds to just make a bull face lie He replies to someone on Twitter saying this We've never once targeted an individual Jump shot to patch or nerf it There's no reason for us to do it And it will be very tedious process Even if we wanted to I know many won't believe it But it's one of those 2k conspiracy theories That's not true Ladies and gentlemen let's go back in time Do you guys remember When I dropped my 79 point game And I broke ProM in NBA 2k17 The release I was using was Curry Do you remember the next week after that Curry was broken for everybody I didn't even think it I was trying to fight through it Cause I'm not first to jump and say something's broken Cause some days you're gonna have an off day I really test stuff On top of that Shout out to my guys at NBA 2k lab They have a modern controller Where there's no sort of user error possible And they get the f***ing scientific Statistical precise numbers So Mike Wang You have been changing the numbers throughout the year Not only can I tell Cause I'm the greatest sharpshooter in the history of 2k But NBA 2k lab has the numbers If you don't trust my expertise To put it that way So I don't believe you Is not no conspiracy We saw you do it in 17 throughout We saw you do it in 18 throughout And like You're not gonna try and convince me otherwise There's too much proof of it over the years On top of that If you don't take empirical data as proof Or you're just gonna say agent That's circumstantial It's not Shout out to those guys man They really put in some work So somebody replied saying First of all thanks for the response And with that being said Can every shot have the same success rate Like annoying TV suggested That the Kobe shot should work Just as well as the Lamarcus Aldrich shot Because a lot of people want to use their own shot And Mike Wang said in theory They should all have the same success rate Hey it's Mike 777 Yeah Sherlock They don't want us to have Some sort of advantage with jump shots That's why they're patching them When one gets really good They want them all to have the same success rate But the reality is There is some jump shots Where it's just way easier to hit the green window Than other jump shots That's just the nature of it And it's not a personal preference thing A lot of the time right It's really just a matter of latency If I have the same latency as you There's no reason me and you Regardless of preference Shouldn't be hitting the same percentage of greens If we're equally as talented And skilled at timing or jump shot That's what I'm saying To have the same success rate He just said in that tweet I don't believe that they're not patching stuff Because they want to reach their end goal Of having them all have the same success rate They just contradicted themselves That's all I believe Anyway that's just That's just what I was into Next tweet Zigzagging is fixed And the logic around blow-bys Has been completely over all You can still get them in the right situations Getting to defenders' hip Extreme h-matches, etc But if you play good on-ball defense You should be able to clamp ball handles pretty easily I found it interesting Mike Wang Used the word clamp He's good with the lingo I see you Mike Wang They did say the same thing last year And if you guys remember Before the big patch Like three or four months in Shot craters and sharpshooters Were hitting the nastiest Like one zigzag Two zigzag Three zigzag So we'll wait to see in the game Till if it's actually fixed This is like the third time They've said that zigzagging was fixed But hopefully this time they're right And they got everything down Dude Dude what the hell man Yo Oh my god Somebody asked Mike Wang Will the green percentage be higher In the takeover mode He replied yes Interesting Let's move on Desmond asked Can a sharpshooter still hit me With a snatchback And have an open 3 100% of the time Mike Wang replied Nope Snatchbacks can't be cheese Like that this year Thank you Guys that went to the 2K event A couple weeks ago in LA Also said the same thing When it came to play now So it seems like the snatchback Caught a huge nerf So thank god So of course my immediate reply Was how about the blowbys In the park and the program And somebody linked me to a tweet He put out just earlier saying Well it was a zigzagging tweet Talking about blowbys and stuff So apparently blowbys huge nerf So if you guys remember The way NBA 2K16 ran Like blowbys existed And they should always exist For a player that's out of position Or if you have a horrible defensive rating Right But if you're playing good defense Then there's no reason They should just be able to walk by you And that's the way 2K16 was And it seems like they're going back to that now With the blowbys And with the nerf of snatchbacks There's always going to be some new Sort of dribble cheese and some animation That's next level So I hope 2K stays on top of things But the two biggest problems I have with 2K18 are fixed I only wish they were fixed sooner And I could have enjoyed 2K18 But 2K19 it seems like That was the focus And at least there's that Mike Ryan put out a tweet Gassing up lockdown defender Said defense is a major focus for 19 I mentioned this before But a good lockdown Or rim protector Is going to be very valuable this year They will cancel out offensive boost Get special defensive stop resolutions And body ups Unique block content And more I heard this The last two NBA 2Ks So I do not believe it But on the chance that he is true If you guys remember in 17 Lockdown defenders Was just poking the ball loose Left and right And 2K18 Their stealing wasn't nearly as good So honestly that's the biggest thing With a lockdown Can I interrupt Your dribbling process By just spamming square Is it annoying and takes no skill And that's why people hate lockdowns Yes But That's the way the game works And I hope that they don't make it Overpower for 2K19 But lockdowns might be the way Listen all I'm saying is this If you're a lockdown And you can't shoot 3-pointers I still don't want your ass on my team Because if you can't spread the floor You're going to be useless Regardless of how good lockdowns are Period Okay this is the part that got me Really interested See he dropped in all kinds of news Really this is a lot of the stuff That when 2K drops an event We expect people to come back With this type of information But we're getting it from Mike Wang Himself So it's like Would you rather get street heroine Or the pure heroine Right That was a horrible analogy Please don't demonetize my video Mike Wang said Shooting algorithm has been changed Quite a bit for 19 Shot contest detection is more sensible Now Bigger bonuses And bigger penalties for open Vers contested As well as good Vers bad timing Yes That's what I'd like to hear baby Excellent window is smaller But gives bigger boost I.e. shooting will be more skill based Ladies and gentlemen Mike Wang has done it If what he's saying is true Mike Wang I did drop a video called Dear NBA 2K You might want to watch that Although I'm pretty sure you've Watched it six times now Downloaded the video Put out an image Printed it on your wall Because you're that in depth With my videos And I appreciate that I'm going to tell you right now People will come with you With the pressure People are going to be mad That it's skill based Because people don't want it To be skill based Garbage players want the game To be shit So that they can be good But they're not good They're ass So let's remind them That they're ass right now Me and you Mike Wang That's how games do it When I play Rainbow Six And I die to a diamond I'm reminded that I'm ass And it humbles me I got a long way to go And a lot to improve And it gets me to continue Playing the game Mike Wang recognizes that With his tweet Easily the one I'm most Excited for And one that he's already Alluded to in the past But is good to see him Go more in depth with I like to see man So this one is the one That kind of just broke Twitter for a little bit There was a lot of people Furious Mike Wang made this change And there was a lot of people Like about time Finally Mike Wang made this change So somebody hit up Mike Wang And said are you able to Force a ball handler to Pick up dribble It was not in 2K18 From what I've seen Mike Wang please do not Put that in the game Clicking square to steal Takes no skill That's all it takes To interrupt someone's dribble It's gonna be Super duper bullshit Six seconds on the clock All you do when You wanna go to the basket To interrupt your dribble Don't don't Don't do that The way it wasn't 17 Incredibly frustrating But Mike Wang replies yes The frequency is based on The dribbler's ball control Versus defenders on ball derating As well as positioning It'll happen more if you Cut the dribbler off And that's not the tweet I was looking for I really hope that's not the That wasn't it That wasn't the one The tweet I was looking for New dribble fatigue models in 19 If you over dribble Your ball control will drop And your moves will degrade And speed slash effectiveness So spamming too many moves Will drop your dribble tier And eventually cause you To fumble the ball Need to be efficient With the ball this year Now they said that last year And you're still able To dribble spam in 2K18 But if what he's saying Is true right now You won't be able to dribble For 24 seconds The entire shop clock And get that ankle breaker You won't be able to do that No more and part of me is like Ah it's so frustrating To see people do it Thank God it's changed But the other part of me Is like yo When I'm up like 20 to 3 And I just want to Have fun and sauce the opponent I'd like the option Of being able to Do those dribble moves And have fun And I feel like it might take away From that fun factor As much as it might take away From the cheese Of people that like To dribble spam I mean there's way more tweets There's tweets about how Mike Wang's saying Now when you do a pump fake You can actually And somebody jumps If you do a pump fake And somebody jumps You can actually bait them Into the foul So you can't spam and click triangle He talked about how they had Some sort of block engineer And now chase down blocks Are gonna be back in 19 In 18 they were harder to do And they usually resulted in fouls But now if you're some sort Of rim protector Like to swap that shit On the backboard Etc etc They also reduced the time It takes to get 3 in the key In 2k18 it took And if you counted you'd know 5 seconds for them to call 3 in the key So a lot of people just camped In the key And they used to just hold circle And do a lot of cheese Mike Wang apparently reduced That time Giving those guys less time To pull off their cheesy antics There was a lot more And it's cool that Mike Wang Is coming out with all this Information And I'm not gonna lie to you bro He's saying all the things I want to hear He's saying yo agent There's gonna be a skills gap To shooting right He's saying When it comes to blocks That's been overhauled They've said the post games Been overhauled They talked about some of the Flashy dribbling animations That they plan on introducing Of course the new crab dribble Now you can morph your own Steps into floaters Or dunks Like they continue to go on And on of course Snatchbacks and blowbys They have yet to say something About the servers It'd be nice if they're like Yo we improved this And this and the servers But I doubt that That rarely ever happens Because it always ends up Biting them in the ass When the game comes out And the servers are flat Out garbage Dare I say I'm a little excited I try not to get excited No more Because that just leads To disappointment I just take things For what they are But yo If he's saying He solved the biggest issues In 18 There's the blowbys And the snatchbacks If he's saying that Since it's a new 2K There's gonna be no Sort of animation glitch So players won't have Animations that they're Not supposed to have That the meta is Gonna be restored If he's saying That there's gonna be A lot of archetypes Reborn and revived He's saying that That the community was Asking for Then I'm getting A little bit enticed now Right But I know That this is This is what they do This is what Activision Does This is what Take 2 Does What 2K does Is they get you Hyped for their game Somehow So I have a live skepticism But at the same time I'm really hoping Everything's gonna Pan out Bro Because if it does 19 is gonna be crazy Yo That's really all there is For the news Ladies and gentlemen My client's been kind of Having my notifications On Twitter I recommend you do the same If you care enough About this news As much as I do If you guys enjoy Drop a like Click on one of these two videos Right here Or I'm fighting you Link in the description To my podcast We dropped a new episode I'm gonna catch you guys In the next one I'm out Peace