 Hey as I'm getting over this cold I'm like a day or two away NBA 2k decided to bless us with all kinds of news man It was like a bombardment a flurry of news from both the current gen version and the next gen version of NBA 2k 21 So let's get into it man, but before we do if y'all new to the channel you haven't already be sure to subscribe Yeah, do that. Hey, that's all that's all I want y'all to do and drop a like if you're feeling real good about yourselves Hey, it is been difficult to get up and do work related things the last couple days when I'm sick energy just depletes It's nowhere to be found but I'm slowly getting it back. So that feels great. Hey, look into this beautiful juicy news Let's start off with all the NBA 2k 21 news and 2k usually releases information in exciting ways But this year they wanted to bore us because they know I'm going to read a blog report a blog post But they know y'all not gonna read a blog post Mike Wang what is happening right now? Why are we releasing exciting gameplay news in the most boring format imaginable? Stop it. Ah Anyway, it's time for me to break down everything that was said in this incredibly long blog post first things first Is there is a new shop meter if you're wondering what the new shop meter looks like well It looks like this roll the clip The few changes that were made to the shop meter because you must be thinking the same thing I thought before I read the blog post. That's the same thing It kind of is well, they changed the color of the shop meter so that it shows more depending on the court You're playing on sometimes. It was hard to see a shop meter They added this small little green arrow to help the casual people know exactly when to release the ball But aside from that. Yeah, it's basically the same shop meter There was more changes made to the complexity in which you have to release the ball this year because we know There's shot timing the shot aiming But now there's a new factor 2k is looking to include in the next gen version of the game And that's your shot arc they dropped a video here to kind of illustrate what they mean But they said because of the new next-gen technologies You're gonna be able to control the arc at which you shoot the basketball So on the left-hand side Stephen Curry's taking a very narrow shot on the right-hand side high arc And I mean I kind of like the idea of this as long as it doesn't become something that throws off the balance of the game You feel me you add more controls you increase the skills gap. I see what they're trying to do Let me just play the video though. See I'll see what they see it All right, so you can do that now too They said and I quote for next-gen the stick speed also controls now the arc of your jump shot Slow flicks give an extra high arc while fast flicks give a give yours give yourself a flat shot in case you wondered how that works That's actually something they mentioned a couple times in the blog post They could use the speed at which you flick the stick as an input as a like a control in the game So it means something that's not something they were able to do in previous generations and that actually applies elsewhere But we're agent. Where does that apply? Well, let me get to it guys. It's a long blog post, okay? Dribbling that's where it applies next gen has given us the opportunity to add an interesting feature to ball handling that we never had Before the ability to control the speed at which your size up moves based on how slowly or quickly you flick the pro stick So if you're a dribble head, you're gonna want to be clickety-click and you can be running through controllers one time a month I know PlayStation and Xbox they made this move strategically because they know their margins are in accessories that they that you buy So the more controllers you buy the more money they make they don't make that much Actually lose money when you buy consoles. So they need you to buy more controllers They want you to run through them quick and you're gonna run through them quick dribbling an NBA 2k 21 next gen All right, it is kind of cool outside of playing around that you can now use that as an input That's dope. So you can kind of move slow on your size up and then explode this way in theory. That's dope I want to see how it plays in practice though. They also mentioned they added LeBron James and James Harden's signature moves and Now there's two different types of moving shots in the past Kind of all fell under the same umbrella But now they separated it there's controlled and high momentum moving shots They said the controlled ones you use it's a regular moving shot But when you're not sprinting and you get a certain type of animation and the high momentum ones are when you're coming Off of the sprints when you're coming off of the sprints. It's harder to make the shot But it's obviously easier to create more space. So it's a given take there I like it in practice. I don't know how it's gonna apply But it theory sounds cool to me and they added some signature packages some more animations to use We're all good with that. Okay. This next thing is something that players have been asking for in current gen For whatever reason is continued to get worse, but Mike Wayne clarified on Twitter He said this this applies to today's current gen patch also So if you want to unequip Park handles completely keep tight handles at gold or lower And he linked to the bit in the patch notes where it illustrates as such Park handles is still L3 But you can now remove it by just not having Hall of Fame tight handles I guess interesting fix I feel like it would have been just better to just turn it off as a whole like a toggle for the people who Don't want it, but I guess this is the way they decided to go as something that badge plug brought up in the replies He said to Mike Wang Mike, please make sure if next gen has Park handles There is an on off setting in the animations just like for park layups and dunks things got pretty more interesting because apparently 2k Released some stuff that they weren't supposed to release in the video trailer that dropped a couple days ago I actually dropped the video reacting to it on my second channel So if you missed it subscribe to my second channel I keep trying to tell you man Ronnie 2k said this on Twitter so much for hiding James Harden as the video was Planned a day later in the first of three court side reports people realizing this was a Mavs warriors post because if you remember in The trailer there was like a couple random clips and then there was a Mavs warriors game kind of just felt random to have those other clips There apparently it wasn't even supposed to be there was a mistake But one of the clips we got from that mistake was this James Harden step back that actually looks really clean And he pulls up for the shot all that looks juicy and clean to me personally But we got even more information just based off of this tweet because that means that this blog post We got was one of three and at the very bottom of the blog post if we scroll all the way down Mike Wang says that about covers it for this week, but don't worry. We're just getting started Stay tuned for the next court side report where we'll talk about the great tech that we built for 2k 21 next-gen gameplay So this is part one of three. I guess a series they're doing to kind of release information I'm curious why they're deciding to do it in the form of blog posts. They know people aren't gonna read But let's continue because there's more stuff that was mentioned in the blog post some changes made to the next-gen version of the game Okay, so this part really interested me because they tried this in the past with 2k 17 And they found it to be incredibly overpowered and they took it away in this three-point line recognition They say in the past you'd either slide back for the three-point shot Which looked pretty bad or step on the line for a long two But now we adjust your feet placement in real time when you're near the line to ensure that no longer happens if you guys remember in 2k 17 They this happened across the board But especially in the corners where they had this cute little stutter step animation So you wouldn't get long to like it was actually hard to get long to in the corner on 2k 17 Because the animation would always pull you straight into the corner, which is kind of what you wanted Anyway, nobody really wants that long too, but that animation was so strong that it would it would trigger when you're at the hash And I guess 2k thought it was too overpowered They removed it from the game a few patches in and this seems to be the first time since 2k 17 that they're trying to Reintroduce some point of three-point line recognition and I guess they mentioned some new technology is possible because in next-gen system So hopefully this has implemented better in a way that doesn't take over your player But at the same time allows you to be where you want to be on the floor That's a problem I'm having right now on current gen 2k 21 It is hard to get to the corner without stepping out of bounds or taking a long to I always just opt for the long too Because I'm tired of stepping out of bounds trying to force that corner three It would make off-ball play infinitely more interesting in my opinion in terms of animations 2k added There's a host of new moves and first-step launches at your disposal including hesitations escape step-backs hard-goes and crosses Which is exciting to hear this is good news because when current gen was being Promoted and they were like 40 new jump shot landings that basically told me that they basically made no effort in trying to include new Animations into that game. So my hope was all the animation work that they were doing was gonna be showing off in next gen So this is good across the board We'd like to see more animations in every single category that gives us more options more combos more things to play with So this is interesting. They had a whole section for passing They mentioned how the past physics has improved dramatically and without trying to bore you to death Basically, it means that things like this right here are now possible. You can throw oops off the backboard It was possible like in 2005 when we played NBA Street, but now the technology. It's possible in 2k 21 next gen Okay, so this is probably the most interesting thing for me personally because I don't know why it wasn't in the game Already, but it seems like they're making an effort to put it in the game Now is lead passes if you guys ever played FIFA before, you know The biggest one of the biggest parts of the game and finding yourself open is doing a through pass, right? And so now in NBA 2k they give you the ability to throw a lead pass So you don't throw it directly where your teammates at you throw it where you think he's going to go So if you're on the fast break, you'll throw it forward and he'll catch the ball if he's coming off For off-ball screen pin down you'll throw it where he wants to shoot the ball And so ideally it's a it's just a more fluid way to play basketball This is what they say in the in the notes They say in the blog post holding the lead pass button works like the regular pass button now Allowing you to target further away receivers for a skip Skip pass lead to the basket perfect for long outlet passes to finish the break It's about time a feature like that was introduced to 2k They most definitely did not need to wait till next gen to make that happen But hey, I'm happy it's here now They had a whole section for layup timing and it was a lot of what we kind of seen in current gen Mba2k21 our engineers spent a lot of time improving layup selection to detect defensive threats and Smartly choose the most open spot to lay the ball up So that means when you're open on the right hand side of the basket Your player is not going to do a reverse and try and go on the contested left-hand side of the basket And they also said that that means the AI are going to start taking better attempts to when they're attacking the rim So that means when you're playing the AI on my career or on my team for whatever challenge You have to be a little bit smarter with the way you play paint defense They mentioned bank shots are in the game now and they brought it up as like this new thing Bank shots have always been in the game. It's something that they recently removed But if you click towards the basket, that's always been a bank shot on 2k So I refuse to believe that this is something new It's interesting though how they're trying to like they're trying to create inputs for everything Give us full control over the way that we attacked the basket the way that we shoot the ball Now you could you could aim the arc of your shot, bro You could aim the actual shot and then you could also just time your shot And if you do all three of those beautifully boom is banging I like that and I feel like it's gonna make the game a lot more challenging to balance but in practice I'll wait but in theory that gets me excited. So I mean as a person who is gonna read this regardless It got me excited about next-gen personally. I'm excited to see what the other two or the three is And if they come with their own trailer I'm curious why they're releasing information this way because I feel like it's not the most palatable Most people are just gonna wait to watch a video like this or to go on Twitter and see what people clip and post That's kind of what happened. The first I heard about the shot meter was from Toast It's post saying what the shot meter looks like on next-gen So most people aren't even gonna bother to pay attention to that whole post But that's for the next-gen version They also just released a new patch on the current-gen version of the game and there's some changes made there quick little Intermission to ask you guys to subscribe to the channel Yeah, I'm saying you don't have to know you feel me if you don't want to But but why wouldn't you want to though? Okay, so patch update three is live Halloween themed neighborhood So now there's some well it's self-explanatory. There's some gameplay adjustments They boast about an improvements across every game mode. Oh, you're spoiling us today 2k That's highly likely to be cap, but let's keep moving forward In the actual patch notes Let me summarize them for you because of course you don't like to read well The Halloween has come to the 2k beach So there's that and more importantly especially for the people that plan on playing more of the current-gen version of the game Preparations for the new 2k beach events coming later in October November So they're gonna have a steady dose of events even when the next-gen game comes out It's expected, but it's good. They're not gonna just abandon the game when the next-gen one comes out That's good in terms of gameplay. They made some changes to the way you set screen so it's more realistic Interestingly enough in the notes They say they tried to change shot aiming system to prevent the modern controller abuse But people tried it and apparently you can still do the modern controller in the game So that has not been passed even though it's in the patch notes I have no idea why it's in here and as Mike Wang mentioned earlier You can now remove your park handles by just dropping tight handle badge to gold or lower aside from that The only other interesting bit of news was they're preparing for the 250k my team tournament So that's been confirmed now if you guys Participate in that yearly thing they do now chance to win $250,000 but that's really not where the news ended because There's been some more kind of drama going on behind the scenes and I'm gonna follow up cuz agent beam star was letting y'all know in the last 2k drama alert The action that was going down between the game and pool So I guess the game has been continuing to get flak for boosting to be the top rep on NBA 2k 21 current gen And this is what he decided to post on Twitter. He's been kind of taking it as a joke He's been trolling but this what he said folks really out here trying to make snitching cool Wake up to master splinter in the mirror every day and live a normal life But he decided to follow up because he posted on Twitter saying NBA 2k 21 next-gen gameplay So someone replied to the game and said you're gonna boost here, too And the game said and I quote when Ronnie sleep. Oh my god, it's beautiful I like how he's just having fun with it And then things get even funnier because the game and I quote not only changed his gamer tag on Xbox to free pool But on top of that here's a screenshot he posted on Twitter of him beating bad plug in a game Oh, you can't make this tough up man. You cannot make this stuff up. So apparently the game is really bad as business, man Yeah, I'm not gonna lie to y'all back in like years ago Someone told me the game was like top 10 on the Madden leaderboards and you know I'm saying when I heard about all This 2k boosts and stuff. I was like maybe he's just boosted to get there Maybe he's just a real gamer man. We don't know a the game This is a challenge to you. I haven't been playing a game last few weeks So it shouldn't be very difficult for you, but I won't play the game in a game man. That'd be tough. No cap That was like the time Deandre Aiton was just dropping off youtubers left and right for no reason Bad plug responded to him though. He said brah you ain't beat me. I had your guard on clamps But gg made responded saying dudes out here losing to the game 2k community is beautiful man. You gotta love it. That's been it for the news Yo, listen, man. 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