 Ladies and gentlemen of the NBA 2k community this fight is okay Let me tell you right you've been waiting for this video. Alright, so over the last two days I've been talking to Mike Wang specifically primarily, but I also talked a lot to Scott O'Gallagher and occasionally to Ronnie 2k Ronnie 2k was he was uh Okay, we'll get into that later. Of course I wrote down all the things of note so I don't forget them when it comes time to make this video It's gonna be a long video I'm gonna be talking about literally everything a lot of the stuff that wasn't even mentioned in the trailer I haven't seen in any video talking about rep rewards my guys. I'm talking about all that random stuff You know all that shit they added to the park where you're like, bro. How is that gonna work? I got you Listen, I'm going into detail ladies and gentlemen So let's get right into it first order of business now Mike Wang hit us all with a crossover Because he told us his name was pronounced Wang. It's pronounced Wang. I know it's crazy. So We're going back to calling him Mike Wang for the video for the rest of our lives All right, so the first thing of order was actually Brian Mazeek. Let me give me some discord tech. It's like agent, bro What now man? I was like, what's you talking about Brian? And so it was around the time the announcement was about to come out and Brian even came out with a whole article on Forbes talking in detail About some of this stuff, but it's called NBA 2k compete or something like that. Basically, it's I Know that's not a giant at spider. I know that's not a spider That's a spider what in this house. I kill spiders with brooms It's dead The game mode is called NBA 2k compete. Let me give you an example to describe what it is Let's say that me and Chris move play game on the park NBA 2k remembers that game on the park if I win the game I get 1-0 on my record It's almost like a system to kind of inspire rivalries with one another If I beat you on the my court five times and you beat me four times It keeps count of all of that stuff and it does it across all the game was apparently my team pro and park all of that So if you're playing with your friend and you're always losing and you start to talk some smack They're gonna pull up the database and it's gonna say 2k compete and it's gonna show you getting dropped off a lot of times I thought it was interesting. You know, I've been asking for leaderboards a lot. And so this might be a Version of it. I'm not entirely sure. So that was the light stuff out the way. Let's get into today Heavy stuff. So one of the first things I asked Mike Wang about was the rep rewards and I asked a few times because of course I wanted to get all the answers. There's a couple rep rewards. I'm gonna talk about and they're pretty interesting The first one is probably the one I'm most excited about but isn't the one you're probably gonna be most excited about and it's a megaphone So me and Mike Wang were talking about proximity chat and I know on his stream He said at return but and this confused me a little bit because Mike Wang is a senior dev for a pretty big organization And I just thought you know what proximity chat was and some of you guys don't even know what it is Proximity chat is not talking to the other team proximity chat is talking to everybody around you always in the neighborhood So if I'm near my my core and we're at the door for whatever reason I could talk to the guy right there Unless for whatever reason I decided to mute him that is not in the game But and he didn't know what the exact overall was if you're 96 or he said 96 or 97 overall You get what he described as a megaphone So you can activate your megaphone and basically yell some shit that the entire park will be able to hear if you're grinding this year You have so many trolling opportunities But I'm just saying you could do whatever you want with that megaphone just know everybody's gonna be able to hear you They don't have to be in your party. You don't have to be it's a megaphone. You guys know me I have like two megaphone in my house. I love the idea. I'm telling you guys Mike Wang He watches all my videos. He saw the megaphone and thought that would be a good park rep Let's add that to the game. Okay, this next park rep reward is gonna get you gas because you're really is is it 2k is doing that of all companies. I know alright, so let's get into it So I want you guys to think that when I'm talking to devs like it's easy for me to be critical online But then when I see him in person I just like coward and then I never say what's on my mind No, I was telling him like listen the biggest thing people were having a problem with was the microtransactions I know it's not a decision that you have to make but it's a decision as an organization that you guys have to live with and So we got to talking about microtransactions for a little bit and then he told me about this rep reward now Are you ready? Okay. Okay He called it. I believe bounce back rep reward. He said once you get to around like 94 or 95 overall He wasn't sure exactly which one you get what's called like a bounce back Not only do you get a million VC which at first I was like a whole million But you get an opportunity to create another player and fast forward that player to what he said a 90 or 91 overall So do you remember the days were like you had to create a new player and then get a new $50 and then grind him over again Not only does it fast forward the initial grind so you won't have to spend that extra money But on top that you get a whole million VC He also told me that this year unlike last year. It's a lot easier not not that it was a lot easier to grind But this is how he described it. He said the first week of the games launch the try-hards that are going for first rep We'll likely be able to get to around 92 overall if you guys remember last year the after one week There was a person that reached 90 overall So he's saying the grind isn't as hard as it was last year Of course, there's mascots. There's scooters There's skateboards and if you paid attention to the trailer you know that you could even do tricks and stuff with them So you might be wondering agent. How much does all of this cost and while we're talking on microchance actions He's like like yo, listen We tried to make an effort this year to reduce it too because we understand we understand the criticism I was like you do all right keep going Mike. Why keep going and he was like Yeah, so when it comes to things like animations or whether you're buying shoes or whether you're buying Facial hair whatever the thing is that they didn't they tried I don't know how much because I couldn't actually see it myself But they said that they lowered the VC amounts So you weren't spending a ton on things like if you're trying to get all the animations for your playmaker You're not breaking the bank now I get it the game is still pay to win at the end of the day But never in my wildest imagination without a controversy that exceeded the moon that I foresee Mba 2k actually taking some steps back because you remember last year when there was that whole controversy and Jared Smith Put out a tweet and they finally did something about it. Nobody put out a tweet about anything There wasn't any sort of pressure They just decided like this can't last forever eventually people can get pissed off and you're gonna reach a boiling point They're gonna cut so that's good news as well. So you probably caught on by now I know a few people have talked about it But the rep is different between each game mode So if you're a pro am guy my career guys aren't gonna be able to grind on their game mode and then show up But a 99 overall on your game mode So in this also applies to the wreck because I know some people are gonna ask Wreck Reputation or when you progress on the wreck is very separate from when you progress on the park or on the program or on my career And I like it better that way I don't like that you could just grind my career like you did last year and then you show up as a 99 on all the game modes Even though you're 99 for my career and I get my career was the easiest way to do it So a lot of people did but there were some players like poor boys in who reached 99 overall Exclusively playing on park and I feel like people like him deserve to be what's the word? I'm looking for they deserve their spotlight because that's very challenging to do and takes a whole lot of patience Mike Wang also mentioned on the note of micro transactions that you're making a lot more VC on events So like if you play a game of park you're making more VC than you didn't pee So across the board they wanted to make it more rewarding to actually play the game and another way They wanted to do that and you saw a glimpse of it in the trailer was that spinning wheel So every day you can spin that wheel and so it gives you some sort of challenge or objective And then if you complete the challenge or objective you get like a couple thousand VC or something like that now You might think oh, that's pretty cool. Hold up Mike Wang said that if you grind and reach that overall Ladies and gentlemen one of your rep rewards is on that wheel You have an opportunity every time you spin it to win a hundred thousand VC So you can just wake up on a regular day spin the wheel and because you reach a certain overall Have a chance and potentially win a hundred thousand VC see what I'm saying I feel like not only in keep mine. We haven't actually seen any of this So we only know how much we've been told but if this is true They've actually and I know it's still paid a win, but I'll give them credit for taking some steps back Let's just put it in perspective NBA 2k is a game last year that broke all of the selling records of their franchise They've made more money than ever not just off game sales, but off micro transactions And so you're asking the company that just had a career high in Revenue in profit to make a decision to scale back on that even though we've been criticizing them It hasn't resulted in any loss of revenue. It's messed up their brand a little bit But they haven't lost any money because of it So to go on a board room and say guys we're getting you to reduce that even though We're making a ton of money. It's hard for people that don't understand video games that only ever care about profit So I told my quang like people are gonna love that news man People will love that news in the trailer. They also mentioned a game called the crew and at first I was like 2k 11 Not 2k 11 really Brian Mazik explained this to me and he also explained it in his article So I'll leave a link if you want to dive deep into that But the basic premise is I grabbed me and two other friends. There's three of us We use our created players and we go into you can private matchmaking play against friends and other users online So I just you heard me right ladies and gentlemen You could private match make 3v3 with park sliders Yup, or you can play AI and so he described in his article and he told me in person that you know how they Scan our faces into the game there can be an event where like out you're playing Allen Iverson at the crew So if you get you and two of your buddies You can go against Allen Iverson and his squad or Brandon Roy in his squad or Chris move and his squad So from what I understand you can make a decision to play against users or to play against AI And I just thought to myself. Oh, that means this private park, bro I wanted it, but I was like there's no way they're gonna do it and I know they didn't really do it in the way That I wanted I was thinking like give us the whole park to like so I can invite a hundred friends over and we Could just have like a lit time. I'm using the PC. All right, so if we can not go to sleep while I'm using the PC All right, so do you understand in the vlog? I dropped earlier why I was excited because like you you saw and you even heard in that video Mike Ryan was saying you saw a glimpse of stuff because once you dive into it You're like, oh my how could you hear all this and not be excited? I'm still a little bit skeptical I never want to get carried away when news like this comes out But it's so hard when we just played 2k 18 for a year and you know that game was asked and then now we're hearing like Not only oh, let me just move on. Let me get I said this before let's move on because things do get better now Just in terms of the sliders and the gameplay for a little bit It is hard to shoot I was missing like and I was playing with and I was playing on Superstar sliders for most of the day It is difficult to shoot you can have to get your jump wrong point ladies and gentlemen And you know the devs have been talking about a skills gap Mike Wang talked about in my last video off cam Scott O Gallagher was talking about it for a little bit and apparently It's a point of focus you will be exposed if you're a bad player this year if you think like 2k 18 You're just gonna be able to green everything because you got kind of close You're severely mistaken ladies and gentlemen and I love it I and I know Mike Wang was telling me it's very difficult in NBA 2k because the ceiling can be so high or so low Where do you go to find that balance? But and I I told him I'm telling y'all bro I don't just talk on videos. I told Mike Wang I said Mike Wang you will receive pressure from the bum-ass players Do not fall for the pressure Mike Wang. They're gonna tell you that the game is too hard that the game is broken They're gonna tell you that why can't I make a shot this game is they will they will try and pressure you to make The game easy so that noobs like them can feel good, but they're not good. They're trash at the game Mike Wang I'm telling you skills gaps keep people playing games because you don't just hop on and get good You have to get good and to get good you have to play the game I told Mike Wang all of this bro I know he watches the videos diligently so he already heard me say this in a video before but I have to tell him in person Uh, so I talked about this in my last video. So I'm just mentioning it again Interceptions are OD I honestly feel like they need to be toned down a little bit Yanis is like spider-man just picking everything off There's a lot of bump seals which I think some people I talked to didn't like it at the event But I was like I like bump steals if you're driving into me and running into me you deserve to turn over the ball Don't dribble into other people. That's a rule of basketball The stamina thing was weird for me because all the players I played with didn't have speed boosting ability a lot of the time I was playing with my Raptors I heard some people say that all it took was one or two momentum dribbles and their whole stamina was depleted But for me, I wasn't really having stamina issues But maybe that's because I'm not always holding the turbo when I dribble or maybe it's because I'm not a dribble head I'm not sure. So if you are like a guy who loves to dribble and spam dribbles for the entire clock one I hate defending you. All right, so maybe stop. All right But two, maybe you should be a little bit worried because if the dribble heads are saying all of it is being depleted after one or two Momentum dribbles then you might be in some trouble. Although it doesn't concern me I felt like you might want to know some information like that. I asked Mike Wang about the jump shot crater I asked him when we're gonna get it and he said it's probably around the same spot You got it last year. So I just upgraded all my players to 85 last year I have to I'm a youtuber and so if you upgrade your players to 85 You're basically gonna be starting with the jump shot crater Now, this is the very interesting part on the trailer you guys seen like Six or seven different designs on the playground, right? And you might have been wondering, huh? How are they gonna cycle through those? I got the answer for you And so some of those designs that you saw for the playground in the trailer were just park events But there was four designs you saw in the trailer that was the day and night cycle of NBA 2k So let's get into it So every hour you play NBA 2k in real life is six hours in the virtual world So in the neighborhood you playing for an hour equals six hours on NBA 2k Which means if you play four hours in real life, that means it'll reach a total of 24 hours on NBA 2k So you can hop on and it'll be night But after playing for an hour it'll be a different environment and then a different one after another hour and a different one after another And that doesn't include all the park events where everything just looks different So I was asking Mike Wang at the event. I was like, yo, who's your level design team? Why do they put gray everywhere some of the colors need to pop they need to be vibrant He told me it's not called level design team It's called an art team and the art team works on the designs and they heard the criticism We had of NBA 2k 18 that we were just looking at the same park all year and because it wasn't any content It got dry or super great We know and so this year every hour you play it looks different And that doesn't even include if you hop into house rules or you hop into ante up or whatever the park event of the day is That my friends is really cool I'm curious how it's gonna work like if I'm in the middle of the game and it reaches the hour Does it just like does it immediately change? Does it fade? I have no clue, but I'm very excited to find out So on the note of adding new content to the game I asked Mike Wang I was like, yo, what happened with 2k 18 Why did you guys just drop the game and then never try and support it with any reasonable amount of content? And so Mike Wang was telling me like yo this year We're gonna try and put an effort to do that and I even brought up like in the past They added entire new parks to like Rivet City for the my park championships He's like, yeah, this year we're gonna do a better job of that So the store in day one as the days go on they're gonna actively add stuff to the store, etc And I hope that also means you're gonna add different types of game modes He also told me and I forgot so I don't want to misquote him something about like spinning a wheel And then whatever it lands on that's what we're doing. I don't I don't remember alright I should have remembered alright. I should have wrote it down. Okay. I forgot So anyway, they heard the criticisms of the new content and I hope they do enough to keep it lit I don't want them to just add like a shirt to the store every couple weeks and be like, all right Are we done? No, no, no, you're not done. All right We have to add actual content that makes the game fun and brings us back every single day Right to make us play the game more and more so we talked about the megaphone earlier But proximity chat as explained is not in the game I cannot walk up to you anywhere in the playground and talk to you and I told Mike Wang like yo There's a lot of games doing it successfully for 2k 20 you guys have to I'm telling you it would change everything And so you can now in 2k 19 talk to the other team like you could in 17 16 and 15 I even told Mike Wang when I was at the event that the audio quality in the game is Garbage and he was confused to hear that I guess he's never heard anybody given that criticism before but I was like you didn't know Yeah, like if I'm talking with my $200 mic in game It sounds bad, but when I go to party it sounds fine So sometimes I just opt to go to party because I'm recording videos and I don't want the audio to scrape the listeners ears So maybe they'll do something about that. I have no idea Honestly, they didn't even know that the audio in the game was bad for the game chat But you can now talk to the other team on top of your team Honestly, I think it'd be cool to talk to the other team on prime as well It'd be cool just mute them if you don't want it But it'd be a good feature for those that want to talk smack the way they do on the part The next thing was shot contests now shot contests look different this year Now a lot of people without basketball IQ are gonna be really angry at this and it's fine You still have to develop your basketball IQ. Don't worry about it Just because you're near somebody doesn't mean you contested the shot this year You have to contest shots manually and if you do not put your hand up. Don't be surprised it dropped in your face I remember NBA 2k dev put out that tweet a few days ago, but I experienced it in game as well You're gonna have to actively contest shots ladies and gentlemen If you're showing up late to contest don't get angry that it's heavily contested if already left the players hands and two If you're not putting your own hands up to contest it and you're just running by him Don't don't think that just because you're in close proximity that it's supposed to be a smothered shot That being said contested shots are harder to hit especially on superstar shooting is already harder So when you add contested shots to it, you're basically taking the worst shot You could possibly take in the game when I was at the event There was like two or three hundred Instagram models and all of them were just taking up space like I'm Focused on the bag I went there to create content to get some information to come out with videos cuz 2k 19 is around the corner Tell me why people in the in the facility. There was like 500 people there We're more excited about Travis Scott performing than all the news about 2k 2k 19 playground Tell me why I was like yo get these guys out of here There was one girl who spilled her drink on me because she was trying to rush through traffic I What are y'all doing Ronnie was the only person communicating with these Instagram models, bro I didn't see not one youtuber talking to them. Look look look look at this. Somebody come look at this Look at this Somebody come in look at this every time they tried to talk to me. I swerved. Oh, what do you do? Are you a youtuber? Okay? What's your YouTube? I'm not interested. All right. Listen I'm here cuz I care about 2k if listen if I'm trying to meet Instagram models Clubs in the city all they were doing was taking up space. Oh my god Every person on every content creator I talked to about this was like what were they doing there? Like like they were just space They were just taking up more of it in an already hot room without air conditioning But whatever that has none to do with 2k 19. I was just pissed off. All right buying boosts back You probably saw it in the trailer pay attention next time when you watch trailers, all right If you look in the corner, there's a little kiosk of an individual where you can buy boost I'm a little pissed off that made its way back into the game And I'm actually mad I didn't ask Mike Wang about that because I would love to see the thinking behind that But it's back. I talked to Mike Wang I said yo the dribble heads want a list of speed boosting bills and Mike Wang was like hmm hmm He thought about it for a second He said if someone's gonna drop it it's Zach But he says it's unlikely that Zach is gonna drop that list this year And I don't know why that was and I probably should have intrigued I should have poked around to see Why it was wait, why can't we see the list this year? So you're just gonna have to Guess Chris move also said in that stream at Ronnie 2k in case you forgot that in in the version of the game We saw we couldn't actually see the attributes, right? But in the version of the game that everyone's gonna play They made an update so that we could see the attributes when we're upgrading our players So we know is it a 77 open shot 3 or a 73 We have to know these details because it makes a very big difference Especially when you're trying to get into tier 2 or tier 3 dribbling. There was a screenshot that dropped on Twitter I actually didn't see this in game. I believe it was Gento who tweeted it out And basically the VC prices are the exact same So they did not go up and this is the first year where I could say 2k All right, I mean you still pay to win but all right I'm used to it getting worse every year, but this is the first year where it hasn't gotten worse It's actually gotten better in a lot of circumstances. I like that last but not least ladies and gentlemen Mike Wang says he loves my channel. All right, he said he's my number one fan I know some of you guys might think agent bro, but I don't think he is cuz I watch all your videos No, you'd be mistaken. Sorry. He not only is he on notification squad But he told me like sometimes he memorizes every word. I'm making a video. That's true. That's a true fact Yeah, so there's all these kind of mini games Which I think are gonna be pretty irrelevant, but I can't be sure like dodge ball, etc Honestly, there was somebody who put out a tweet and I thought it was hilarious He's like your agent they added dodge ball into the game because they're trying to get into the whole battle royale mix Which by the way 2k if we could add a dodge ball battle royale in a basketball game, that would be hilarious So if you guys can work on that I'm sure it can't be that hard to do because from what I understand dodge ball is like team one and team two right now But it just in case you guys haven't thought about it Battle Royale plays us in different parts of the playground and then just have us chucking the ball at people I'm telling you is gonna sell. There's all kinds of game modes like slam ball Like you hit a trampoline and go for a crazy dunk, etc Listen all that stuff and Mike Wang even talked about they like overhauled the trivia So you get like actual meaningful You get it you get a meaningful reward for actually using it like 50 VC in 2k 18 for answering the question right I'm not walking into the 2k the store for 50 VC. What am I gonna do at 50 VC buy like one one hundredth of a shoe So anyway, that's that's all I heard ladies and gentlemen about the NBA 2k 19 video game That we're all so excited to play a lot of this stuff has me incredibly excited and the funny part is is I don't even know all of the Information I assume that they want to tell us enough so that we're excited But they also want to leave stuff in the game so that we have things to get it excited about Once we actually grind and figure things out and I like that now And don't spoil all the secrets enough to get people gas You know purchase the product and then once they get in the product progression system if it's better this year People gonna play more consistently and you're hearing lower VC costs. You're telling me. Oh, I'm make more players this year I'm they've been making an effort to get people to play the game more at the end of the day And I think one of the biggest barriers they had was micro transactions things like servers, etc And it just feels very Refreshing to know that they've actually made an effort in areas that I didn't think they would to help improve the game That on top of the obvious fact that snatchbacks and blow-bys aren't nearly as overpowered as they were in previous years So off rip. That's a huge improvement for me. There's less clipping in the game Brick wall screens aren't incredibly abusive like in 17 I feel like they fixed a lot of issues and with any game comes more issues So I'm sure some glitch is gonna come out. I reminded Mike Wang I said, please do not let an animation glitch come out It will ruin the entire meta of the game and he said that yo They're on that because it happened the last two or three years and people have found new and new ways to do the animation glitch It will ruin the game. Please do not let it happen. And so I hope they stick to their guns I hope they keep the skills gap, bro They're talking what I want to hear right now and I kind of just want to fast forward the next week So the game launches, but anyway, the prelude drops in four hours and I have to prepare So if you guys enjoyed the video drop a like if you guys are new to the channel and you want to watch more 2k content I'm that's all I'm doing. I'm not leaving my house for the next three months subscribe to the channel Watch one of these two videos if you haven't watched them already number catch you guys in the next one. I'm out. Peace