Offline & Online Association Insight (STATS BUGS FIXED BABY)

[Leftos]

Erick Boenisch stopped by to give us some details on Association and Online Association mode for NBA 2K13!

Offline Association:

New NBA.com interface (the landing screen for the mode), information such as league leaders, injuries, standings are VERY accessible now.
Total Sim Control
New CBA rules
‘Start Today’ feature
All-Star Weekend integration (if All-Star DLC is installed)
Revamped Team Building logic
All-new lineup/rotation logic
Improved trading logic
Other smaller fixes (improved draft generation, etc.)
Bug fixes! (based on community feedback from last year)

Association Online:

Commissioner Tools:

Customizable Sliders
Adjust League Speed
Advance League (1 week at a time)
Advance to Next Round (in the playoffs)
Pause/Resume League
Unlock All Games (flex schedule)
Reset Games / Force Winner

http://2ksports.tumblr.com/post/3246509 ... on-oa-news

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Says a lot when I change the title to celebrate the lack of stats bugs in NBA 2K13. User haloofduty from the OS forums who has the game early ran both tests of stats corruption I brought to him.

I was talking about the stats bug which only occurred when you played games, not when you simulated them. If you want to look this up for me, just try to play the first game of a team's season, sim to the end of the game after the jump ball, and see if the Team Stats are correct in NBA.COM.

That's what I did. Their fixed. I played then simmed and check team stats. No stat bugs encountered YET. I simmed, played games and simmed through games. I saved a game and started it again. No stat bugs yet.

The last one he mentions is the bug that would make all box scores disappear if you saved and exited in the middle of a game. When that happened, Split Stats would disappear, in-game overlays that were based on split stats would be off or non-existant, and any future awards were screwed up because they only took into account any player performances in box scores that actually existed.

It's exactly what should've never happened in the first place in 2K12, and what should have been fixed by one of the patches, but never did. And here I am, celebrating that I won't have to work 2 months before enjoying the Association. Oh 2K, what have you done to me?

[RedPhazon8]

Looking good I guess, I think we'll be able to make our own opinions about this stuff when the game comes out.

[Leftos]

2K mentioning "bug fixes" as a feature? I'm glad to see them acknowledge it, and I hope they've actually squashed them all as they certainly had more than enough feedback, but I'm laughing my ass of over here. Beat my prediction of not seeing "bug fixes" mentioned in any of the insights.

Hope you know what this means, 2K. You better get it right this time.

[dare]

Interesting stuffs, I wish for a more detail explanation on those things though.

[Leftos]

No time for more detailed explanations per LD2k, developers are still working hard on the game, whatever this means this close to release. Maybe they're already working on 2K14?

Art updates (especially courts) have been promised to come before the start of the season, so there's one thing for the art department. The rest, maybe patching up bugs that came up during late QA?

[JaoSming]

....that's it? The reward for the most dedicated fans of the series is a console-only All Star Weekend (via preorder) and these kind of updates to Association?

I mean, I wasn't expecting much, but I wasn't expecting basically nothing.

[Leftos]

Pathetic piece of news really. They shouldn't have released something like that. Makes it seem like...

"Total Sim Control, Start Now, and pretty much everything that is expected of us to do. Oh, and by the way, we screwed up big time last year. But you should TOTALLY trust us this time around. We've fixed the bugs. Really."

[Dreadnight]

Well, this was expected but as long as they really really really really really fixed some bugs, i'm a happy man. Leftos what about the digital download,any news?

[Leftos]

Dreadnight, let's keep the questions to the relevant topics. If and when I get more news, I'll post them in that thread.

[chicagoRAW]

Hah. That's the most half assed info release I've ever seen. They should have just said: "hey, we're too lazy to write up what changes are in association mode".

I'm not expecting much of anything anymore. Fingers crossed the generated rookies don't have porn stashes at least.

[homicide1550]

Does this mean we'll have no All-Star integration for PC? And I really hope they have fixed the stats bug.

[bowdown]

Does this mean we'll have no All-Star integration for PC? And I really hope they have fixed the stats bug.

lol if you create a sports game which cannot properly keep stats for two straight years then you gotta slap your self.

[Nucky]

When they say that they have fixed the bugs from 2k12, I wish that includes the in-game crashing. Nothing is more frustrating than playing 3 good quarters and then the game crashes after the 3rd quarter. Please 2k, please!

[fjccommish]

"No time for more detailed explanations per LD2k, developers are still working hard on the game..."

But they had time for a detailed shoe video.

[Leftos]

Last year's team stats bug and box-scores-disappear-if-you-save-within-a-game bug seem to be no more, as I mention in the updated OP.

[kevin02]

The start today feature sounds interesting. Maybe it lets you jump into association with everything that has happened in the real NBA up to that point.

"No time for more detailed explanations per LD2k, developers are still working hard on the game..."

But they had time for a detailed shoe video.

But that is important...

[Leftos]

The start today feature sounds interesting. Maybe it lets you jump into association with everything that has happened in the real NBA up to that point.

It's been mentioned by the devs to be that exactly.

[homicide1550]

Oh shoot! No more stats bug! That is really nice to hear! Thanks for the update Leftos!

[Leftos]

FEATURE OF THE YEAR: NO STATS BUG



EDIT: Another bug that was shot down was the one that forced people controlling more than 1 team in Association to only be able to bid with one team during each day of Free Agency. In 2K13 this is fixed, and you can use all your controlled teams in the same day.

[fjccommish]

You'd think gamers on PC could have a complete game. No All Star events = incomplete Association. That should be a free feature in every game version rather than an extra charge add.

[Leftos]

fjccommish, yeah, most of us agree on that. We did a roundtable on the ASW DLC announcement, and that was the consensus.

However, seeing as how the Slam Dunk Contest is a guitar-hero mode that only Jao will enjoy, I can't care less right now. The All-Star Game and Rookies vs. Sophomores game is still there for everyone, so...

[JaoSming]

IMO, fixing generated player hotspots is big too


and Foff, I don't like the new controls. I liked the right analog ones.

[Leftos]

JaoSming, true, and haloofduty just confirmed they fixed them as well. I've also read about other bugs being fixed, such as the 1 year $0 contract bug.

All in all, NBA 2K13, as far as Association goes, is the patch we've been waiting for for a year.

And I'm feeling good.

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[JaoSming]

FUCK

No D league.

fuck. Why get rid of that?


at least I can still do 14 game seasons

[Leftos]

No idea whatsoever. It was filled with CAPs in 2K12 anyway, so what's the point of removing it? No send-downs then?