 It's been quite the tumultuous launch, tumultuous. My vocab is getting crazy, fellas. Launch has been wild, man. Mixed opinions all over the place about current JNMBA 2K21. Let's get into it. First of all, if y'all new to the channel, we kinda do this stuff here. Daily, subscribe to the channel. I just finished getting all the badges on my sharp shooter. I'm not gonna drop a badge video. I put out a tweet if you guys care how I did it, but I will be playing my first part game. That upload is going up tomorrow. It should be good. And I might stream today. I'm streaming two, three times a week. So if y'all wanna see any bit of any one of those itty bitty types of content, subscribe. All right, wow. Let's get into it. So on launch day, of course there's gonna be problems on launch day. I've very rarely ever seen a game come out and there's no problems at lunch. You just kinda hope the problems are, what's the word when like you can just, it's at a size at which you can handle it. Please leave your message form. God damn it. Yeah, I'm recording a video. I need your help. Okay, you'll be fine. What's the word when like something is at a size where like you can handle it? Like, you know, just a reasonable size for you to deal with the problem. Yes, thank you. All right, enjoy your man. Manageable, wow. And he didn't even make it through high school. That's crazy. So things began at launch day because there were problems with people getting their VC. Those who prior to the Mamba Edition of the game weren't getting their 100,000 and people that bought VC that had nothing to do with the Mamba Edition was just not getting the VC that they bought. 2K Support put out a tweet saying, we are aware of some of you not getting your bonus content and VC purchases. They are not lost and should be resolved over the next few hours. When I saw this tweet, I went to sleep and woke back up and it still wasn't resolved for me. It took 12 hours for me to get my VC. Then of course, when everybody got on the game, we all know everybody was freaking out about the shooting. Man, there was no shortage of just absolute hot takes that night. But BadgePlug was on Twitter trying to calm everybody down. Dude's already saying shooting sucks and have no shooting badges, no hotspots, no jump shot boosts, 56 three point rating and a bad jump shot. Come on now. Look at my last vid, the shooting will get better. I'm starting to shoot 70, 80% of game now. I call Cap here on this number. But I do believe he's telling the truth about the rest of the stuff. So days went by and now that everybody has their badges and everybody's starting to shoot a little bit better, people are starting to calm down. It's definitely more challenging than it was last year, but it's more of a skill-titter thing this year. So now that a few days have gone by, I've gotten a chance to get all my shooting badges. A bunch of my shots are going in that weren't going in on day one of launch, which is what we expected. Same thing that happened in NBA 2K20. You don't have no badges, your player not gonna shoot while you don't have no hotspots, you won't even know what jump shot to use. There's infinite reasons why you were breaking all your shots. But I am kind of confused why 2K went this route. Look, I've been sitting here forever on this channel and asking for multiple things. And some of it includes like, you know, a proximity chat, a skills gap for them to hire more devs, all kind of new parks, new content, all of that. But one of the biggest things I've been asking for is ranked unranked. I love skills gaps in video games. They give like the game a purpose. There's a challenge, there's a reason for you to play and get better. But man, 2K, I don't know if this is the right play. Because I know that there's plenty of games I'm a casual in. I genuinely believe in two, three weeks if 2K begins to see their numbers plummet because a bunch of the casual players that don't wanna try that hard when they're on the park, start playing on the park, shooting one for 30, they're gonna get turned off from the game. They're gonna stop playing the game. When 2K sees that, I feel like they might reverse, fall and buckle to their pressure as they do in most years and make the game easier to play. And the solution is not to make the game really easy to play across the board. I'm sitting here telling y'all, the solution has always been ranked unranked. What I thought they were gonna do was make pro-am the ranked competitive experience and park the casual experience. But because park now kind of feels competitive with the shooting sliders, people have no choice but to just try hard. You might even find it challenging to get games because everyone's trying to get the God damn win percentage up and people wanna play with good players because if you're breaking all your shots, who's gonna wanna play with you? So I'm sitting here thinking myself like, man, it does feel good to have a skills gap but isn't this gonna mark the player base of the game? That's what I'm thinking. 2K, this is the solution to the problem you are going to face in two weeks. It is fine to have a competitive park experience, cool. But you have to give the casual people something to kick back on. Park is not kickback right now. Park is this right here. Focus, try hard gameplay, which is fine for me. I prefer it. I'm telling you there's games where I wouldn't wanna do that though because in some games I kinda just wanna be casual and for a lot of people 2K might be that game. So I am saying there has to be a ranked park and an unranked park. There has to be some kind of split or 2K will buckle and make the whole experience easier. I'm telling you how to go. Hey, hold on, Peter's found the colony better. Hey Peter, I need your opinion for a video. What do you think about the shooting in NBA 2K 21 so far? I think that you. Yeah, I played the robot too and I agree that it is very corny and I don't like it. Anyway, 2K, I'm letting you all know that's the problem you're gonna face but you'll realize that because you guys have your numbers. You guys can see the player base go down. It will inevitably go down. Not because the game's not good but because not everyone's up for that experience. That's the same reason the last of us one died on multiplayer. Believe it or not, one of the most underrated multiplayer is but every game I have to try hard. Even the competitive guys wanna kick back from time to time. Just letting you know, all right? But then we began hearing murmurs of that change on day two of the game's launch. It started with annoying on Twitter who said this, shooting just got a hot fix just now according to Mike Wang, hashtag NBA 2K 21. No update or close app needed. They don't need to drop a patch to upsliders anymore. It's been like that for years where they could just update the game and it'll say update required. You have to go back to the main menu. It's been like that for years. But when annoying put this out, everyone's like, hold on, it's day two. There's already changes being made making the shooting easier. All the competitive guys are furious because it's finally a skills gap and shooting is being murked on day two. But Ronnie 2K quickly hopped on Twitter to tell everyone that that wasn't the case. He said this, there was no hot fix, nothing to see here. Skill gap remains rejoice. And it did feel like people rejoice. The replies was incredibly positive. Troy Dan said, way to put your foot down for the culture. Joe knows, hit him with a quick little W. A.M.P. Duke with the yes sir. Everybody across the board that really, really plays park was excited about that. Ronnie 2K followed up saying wrong. He told you he was gonna turn off the wind on twos temporarily to test. Check with us before you say something crazy. Lol. LD2K doubled back and said, this is correct. No shooting fix, gameplay team and Mike are looking at all feedback. But then everybody began to meme because Ronnie, like it's not clear when he's joking. Do you guys remember in 2K17 where Ronnie was like, you guys are gonna get underwater parks in Yeezy's and we didn't get none of that stuff. But we dead ass were expecting underwater parks because Ronnie doesn't know how to tell jokes. It's not obvious when Ronnie's being sarcastic ever. So everyone began to kind of run with the meme. Wind? Wind effects jump shots? That's why they have right stick aiming. So you can aim left if the wind is blowing right. I'm on to something. Which is by far the most hysterical response we've seen all day. Badgeplug put out a tweet saying, wind as in perceptible natural movement of air, especially in the form of a current of air blowing in a particular direction in the park? And someone's thought response was, it's windy as f***ing my my career too, LMAO. Oh my God, you gotta love the 2K community, man. A&P Davis was on Twitter. He said, y'all really complain day one? Sad. LMAO, the game hasn't even been out for 24 hours yet and people already crying about shooting. I haven't even played a park game and they already changed it because people was complaining too much. Mitchell, who works for 2K, even replied to Duke's post with a facepalm. So then, okay, cool. Nothing changed with shooting. That's what we thought. Until a few hours later, when the official NBA 2K Twitter account posted this, 2K21 shooting hotfix will hit tomorrow for rookie pro all-star difficulty levels. Shooting stays the same on higher difficulties and neighborhood. Hope this helps the newcomers keep the feedback coming. So now we don't know what to believe. Annoying saying there was a hotfix that already dropped because Mike Wang said so. Ronnie LD 2K is saying no, no, no, that's not the case. Then the official account comes out and says, no, there is an update, but that's for lower difficulties. This also applies for my team as well. And I'll say this. I understand this fix right here. I feel like for the most part, everybody was for this. Because when you're playing on rookie or pro or all-star, you kinda just wanna chill, especially on my crew. You don't wanna have to try that hard. But there also needs to be like a competitive experience somewhere in the mix. This tweet from 2K kind of cleared up all the confusion because there was a lot of back and forth. But for the most part, it was very well received. Ronnie 2K quote tweeted saying happy medium for happy gaming. But that wasn't the only problems the game was facing. And we know 2K is abysmal when it comes to launches. All right, we've been known that. But for the most part, up until this point, there were people that didn't get their VC. There was blue screening going on. But for the most part, this has been one of the better 2K launches. Badgeplug was trying his hardest to spread some positivity. He was on Twitter saying, this is by far the best day one in 2K history. No rep frozen, everything is smooth. No lag outs, great job 2K seriously. I'm very happy with the game so far. Now there has been cases of people I've heard now where the rep has frozen or they're not getting badge progress. But I remember last year it was a huge problem where it's decent amount of people playing the game had to deal with problems like that. But these are very few and far between this year. And I don't know why that is because I feel like they're not trying this year. So I feel like I'd expect the most problems but that hasn't been the case so far. That didn't stop people though from getting frustrated. You know, you ordered 100K VC. You ordered like the mom edition, whatever, whatever. And you don't get your VC. You're frustrated about the situation. To the point where 100K VC was trending on Twitter. Stacks put out a post saying, 100K VC is trending right now. LMA, yo. I wish the problems ended there though. The My League, My GM community was absolutely furious with the launch of NBA 2K21 because not only did they feel like their game mode got zero attention, they feel like the few changes that were made genuinely made the game mode worse. Which you'd struggle to believe is a reality that's possible but is a reality that just happened. King of the Fourth Quarter felt like he was fed up with the situation. He put out a post on Twitter saying this, help me out. If you find crazy roster inconsistencies like this, please tweet them at me. And he's referring to a tweet that kind of blew up. It has 17,000 likes. And it's outlining some of the just obvious flaws with the roster system this year. Lou Williams has it having a higher speed in Deering Fox. Giannis having a higher mid-range than Kawhi Leonard. And then a bunch of people nobody cares about. And this even applied to the frequencies. PJ Washington had a zero three point frequency but Marquis Chris had a 40. That'll make no sense. It just feels like a lot of this stuff was rushed. And I was talking with Nick's click while he was playing Park the other day. We dropped a video over on his channel by the way. I'ma link that one in the description. We had a lot of fun. If you didn't catch the stream. And he was explaining to me all the ways in which My League, My GM is just worse this year than it was last year. And it's as simple as like they don't even update photos for players over the course of two years. The tendencies and the attributes are just flat out inaccurate when it comes to a lot of players. And there's nothing, there's zero new things added to the mode. It's the same stuff from last year. It's just worse. Cause now it starts in the middle of the season. They just gave everybody one year contracts to compensate. It's such an interesting situation cause you know that if there's any place that they're going to take their attention from to make sure that the game sells well is going to be My GM Miley. So they just are often neglected kind of like how the PC community has been for the last decade. There was a little bit of good news in all of this because King of the fourth quarter followed up on Twitter saying, I just talked to the 2K roster team. They're putting out a patch to fix a lot of the inconsistencies in the rosters in NBA 2K 21. So expect fixes to tendencies at all. Now I say it is for the most part, you know what I'm saying? Mike Wang is killing the game. Yeah, I'll never forget when Mike Wang left 2K and the company went to shambles and then he came back and they dropped the greatest 2K of all time. Like that to me is like, man, you must be a special kind of person if you had that kind of impact. And Mike Wang gets a lot of because he's the main guy you look at when it comes to gameplay problem you just blame Mike Wang. But for the purposes of this video, I want to clarify Mike Wang told, listen, this is what I was told is that he's working on the next gen version. I don't think he has nothing to do with the current gen version that just came out except maybe a few features that transfer over. Like I think they're gonna have the same finishing system and shooting system that they introduced this year. But I feel like Mike Wang is just being asked to say because he put out this tweet that in my opinion is some of the dumbest I've seen in a very long time. Try zooming your camera in if you're having trouble with the shot meter. It might reduce your court visibility but make shooting easier in my opinion. Especially right stick aiming. This could be a good trade-off. So you might be thinking like if the problem is that the shot meter is so small that we could barely use it, the solution can't possibly be to zoom in. The solution has to be to make the shot meter bigger. This is the worst tweet I could have imagined. Like me and Loward laughing hysterically when this tweet released. Got like, man, that's what you think the solution to the problem is right now? And the reality is, I don't think Mike Wang and the reality is I don't even think Mike Wang has nothing to do with this. But he is the one that's gonna catch the heat for saying something like this because it came out his goddamn Twitter account. And so it becomes even more interesting because Shakenbake was in the archives. He quote tweeted saying, again, when is this coming? And it was referencing to a concern someone had asking Mike Wang to make the shot meter bigger when the demo came out. And Mike Wang tweeted saying it'll be bigger in the final game. So something happened in between the demo launch on the 24th on Kobe Day and the games launch because they just gave up on trying to make the shot meter bigger. So the shot meter is just a right off this year. I turned mine off. I have no intention on using the shot meter. There's plenty of new mechanics added to the way you play the game this year. And so a lot of people are just finding ways to adjust and the balance might be very, very off. And one of the communities that people that's been frustrated is the dribbling community because a little dribbling feels faster and there's more combinations of stuff. And that part is exciting when it comes to, well, I'm just like, Dave is take it away. Are there ankle breakers in this game? No one has gotten one yet. And when you start to think about that for a moment, you've been playing the game. Have you seen an ankle breaker? I've been playing with some good guards and I haven't seen them hit ankle breakers. You might be like, agent, but do they have their badges? Yes, they do. Are they maxed out? 95 overall, 99? Yep, they are. But they're not getting not one ankle breaker in their hall of fame. Hall of Fame ankle breaker. G-Man followed up saying ankle breakers don't exist. Please look into it, Mike. I had Hall of Fame ankle breaker in tight handles with the playmaker takeover and Bro just looked at me. I can't even break a computer. Of all the issues 2K is dealing with, I'm happy Troy Dan has taken a shot at this one here. How do mics on 2K21 sound even worse this year? And it might have sounded like I was being sarcastic, but I'm being very serious. Yo, can I tell you guys a quick story? When I play Valorant, I use my try hard professional mic that's right out the can, this one right here. It's like a $800 microphone, right? It's a good mic with a good mixer, good quality everything. When I turn on my mic and talk in game on Valorant, people regularly say to me like, yo, what mic is that? You sound incredible. That's great quality. Have you ever heard anyone say that to you guys on 2K? No, because no matter what mic you use, you sound like dog. And it ruins the experience, man. If I wanna be loud, I have to also remember that I'm gonna sound like garbage to the people across the world that I'm playing with. So it's like, that's such a simple fix. Just make the audio quality better on the park. It would be nice if there was an option to talk to the other team on Pro-AM too. I feel like the fact that that's not in the game is weird. Why do we stop at park? On park you can talk to the other team, but on Pro-AM you're not allowed to. Come on, I wanna talk to the other team on Pro-AM as well. So Troy Dan, thank you for drawing light to an issue that's often ignored, but to me is just a quality of life update. It just makes the game more of a ease to hop on and enjoy. It just doesn't get in the way of your fun. And probably for me, the biggest issue that 2K was having and is one that Duke hit on and we'll get to in a moment is the servers. Now, you guys know how much I care about latency and for the most part, I don't talk about it that much anymore because I'm starting to lose hope that it's ever gonna get better. And you know, when I play on PC, I just tend to experience 15 milliseconds ping, eight milliseconds ping. At the worst, I'll get 30 milliseconds ping. You know, when I play Call of Duty, if I get 50, I'm a little bit frustrated. 50 ping on my servers, each servers, that's frustrating. But on 2K, when you're playing on 250 millisecond ping, what it feels like, that is not a good gameplay experience. Especially when you drop the green window to be this small, if you have servers that's changing latency every 24 seven, it's gonna make it impossible to have a consistent shot. Not only that, but every part of the game begins to feel sluggish and slow like you're walking through molasses. That to me is not a good quality gaming experience and it's an easy fix. All it takes is to buy more servers, not hard. It's not even your infrastructure 2K. You guys are, I'm pretty sure you guys are using Amazon Web Services. Just spend more money on it. It'll make the experience better for everybody. Unfortunately, servers is one of the things where like when it's done, nobody talks about it. Like I rarely ever talk about how great the tick rate on Valorant is, right? But when it's done horribly, it's all everybody talks about. When you lag out of games, when you're skipping the frames, dropping, you're getting 12 frames per second, that's all you talk about. So it feels like again, 2K with the servers is doing the absolute bare minimum. Duke put out this tweet saying, why is the whole East Park server broken? Been broke all day. Every park I load into all courts don't work. Not only are all courts not working, but there's been plenty of people off talk to that said that there's delaying still in the game. So delayers are just hopping in the game and attacking people and 2K is doing nothing about it. Playmakers though had some more criticism for the gameplay and it's one that I feel like everybody would agree with, especially if you have a max player. Cold Man was on Twitter campaigning for more stamina. He says, I'm getting Gatorade symbol in a park game with double stamina bar. Fixed stamina, fixed stamina, fixed stamina, fixed stamina, fixed stamina, fixed stamina. And he said fixed stamina like a few more times. Stamina needs a buff and there are no ankle breaker animation. Swante replied to that saying, come on young Michael. We need you. Hey, how you know his full name is Michael, man. Swante, you got his government, man. It's been quite the launch so far. I'm expecting more things to go wrong though as time goes on but I'm hoping that that's not the case. That's not what I'm hoping for. I'm hoping that everything goes smooth, man. Hey 2K, in a list of priorities what I think you should handle. One, do the simple fixes, like better game audio when you're in the mics. Just that simple. I think it might take one person to be able to do that. Second is the servers because that really just costs money, right? Just buy more server capacity. Sake man, I shouldn't be playing on 250 millisecond ping. Give every player more stamina. It's a 3V3 part game. We're getting gas on the way up the court. Come on, man. I'm not even sprinting no more when I play 3V3 Prime and by the end of the game, I'm still getting gas. And last but not least, give people a casual experience alongside the competitive experience. It's not about choosing which one you want, one or the other and that's the only one you can have. It's nice to dabble between the two. One time I wanna play competitive, next time I wanna play casual. Like it's depending on who you're playing with or what you're doing, the time of day or how you're feeling. You wanna be able to choose. Am I chilling today? Am I going try hard? If y'all new to the channel, man, you haven't already, make sure to drop a like. Subscribe to the channel. We're almost at 1.6 million. Try and get to two million fellas before the end of the year. Let's see if we can get there, all right? Thank you guys for watching. I'm gonna catch you guys in the next upload. I'm out.