Developer Visible Ideas has rolled out a brand-new NBA 2K21 replace for PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One which makes some tweaks dribbling and extra. The complete patch notes are outlined under.
Essentially the most distinguished change to NBA 2K21 with this replace is dribbling. The Ball Dealing with requirement to unlock Professional Dribble strikes has been lowered from 85 to 80. In the meantime, dribble strikes whereas within the Park have been moved to L3 (on the left stick) and the pace enhance rewarded after sure dribble strikes has been lowered.
The replace additionally makes some visible changes to NBA 2K21. Most notably, textual content readability all through varied in-game menus has been improved, in addition to the sport’s artwork and lighting.
Elsewhere, the replace tweaks some gameplay components. This consists of rising the scale of the shot meter, bettering the responsiveness of photographs from sure submit strikes, adjusting and the effectiveness of defensive actions, and stabilizing the expertise whereas in school video games.
NBA 2K21, which launched on September 4, was met with usually middling opinions. We scored the sport a 6/10 in our NBA 2K21 review, saying, “NBA 2K21 reveals that the lone basketball sim we’ve got now has largely stagnated. It is a full package deal, for positive, however one which demonstrates little-to-no motivation to meaningfully enhance upon itself.” The sport will launch on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series S/Series X this November with a $10 increase, a choice father or mother firm Take-Two Interactive has defended.
NBA 2K21 Patch Notes (September 28)
Common
- Fastened a difficulty that might result in gamers getting faraway from on-line matches when greening photographs resulting from divergent settings.
- Improved audio logic for PA announcer, crowd, halftime and studio present, sideline reporting, and particular visitor commentators.
- Participant likeness enhancements for Damian Lillard.
- Improved artwork, lighting, and textual content readability for varied menus all through the sport.
- Fastened a uncommon dangle that might have occurred upon becoming a member of the 2K Seashore Neighborhood from a good friend invite within the Squad app.
- Fastened a minor graphical difficulty when the Tall Scrunch Socks and the Compression Pants had been used collectively.
- Fastened a difficulty that was inflicting current tattoos to vanish when making use of new tattoos within the Neighborhood.
- Fastened a dangle that might occur sometimes when utilizing the Nav Menu within the Neighborhood whereas additionally utilizing the Playa Del 2K (MyCourt) menu.
- Fastened a show difficulty within the Enhance Stand the place the worth would generally be displayed incorrectly.
- For Neighborhood Park/Rec/Professional-Am video games, the Ball Deal with requirement to unlock Professional Dribble Strikes has been lowered to 80.
- Moved Park dribble strikes to L3 (left stick click on) for extra constant dribbling controls.
- Improved body price efficiency for the Swap model of the sport.
- Fastened a PC-only difficulty the place the consumer may get caught on the Professional Stick Aiming selector display screen on the foremost menu.
Gameplay
- Elevated the scale of the shot meter, based mostly on suggestions from the group.
- Lowered first step acceleration (aka “pace enhance”) out of sure dribble strikes.
- Lowered the effectiveness of pull-up soar photographs.
- Fastened a difficulty that was inflicting CPU massive males defenders to get matched up towards guards.
- Added the power for extra strikes to yield ankle breakers and defensive reactions.
- Improved responsiveness of photographs coming from sure submit strikes.
- Wonderful Launch jumper animations now play with inexperienced center-aimed photographs on the Professional Stick.
- Fastened a Professional Stick capturing exploit that allowed for straightforward aiming when holding the Professional Stick previous to receiving a catch.
- Common enhancements to defensive motion, together with extra responsive shifts, cuts, and stops.
MyCareer
- Optimized efficiency, digicam angles, and different visible components for scenes in The Lengthy Shadow.
- Fastened a difficulty the place if a participant skipped the story in-between highschool video games, their harm carried over to the NBA.
- Common stability enhancements in school video games.
- Fastened a difficulty the place the Takeover meter could fail to extend in sure instances.
- Fastened a difficulty the place halftime would generally not set off throughout MyPlayer Builder video games.
- Fastened a difficulty the place the coach would not put you within the recreation throughout additional time video games in highschool.
- Fastened a difficulty that might generally trigger the Recreation Recap Totals display screen to not show correctly following MyCareer NBA video games.
- Fastened a dangle that might occur when a soar ball was triggered in MyCourt’s new Private Exercise drill.
- Fastened a dangle that might occur for PC customers when utilizing the mouse to customise the Gatorade GX Bottle.
MyTeam
- Adjusted Single-Participant Triple Risk and Triple Risk On-line difficulties, based mostly on group suggestions.
- Added a brand new web page to the again of Participant Playing cards that lists the Upgradable Badges for that participant.
- Fastened a dangle that might occur throughout the lineup matchups overlay from the Domination menu.
- Fastened an Xbox One solely difficulty that allowed the sport clock to proceed counting down whereas inbounding the ball.
- Improved physics for Ball Drops.
MyLeague and MyGM
- New NBA Playoffs Mode bracket, matching the beginning of the present Playoffs.
- Fastened a difficulty when overlays appeared with the wrong yr in WNBA Playoff mode.
- Many extra fixes included to enhance the general expertise of NBA 2K21 throughout all recreation modes.
GameSpot could get a fee from retail gives.
