Defensive assist & box out assist strength?

[Leander]

What do this two settings do? If it is set how much the computer helps you I do not understand why you should not set it to 100...and it would be obvious that everybody uses the maximum online.
What settings do you use? What are the pros and cons of a setting of 0, 50 or 100?

And about shot contest: manual is best so that the AI does not foul...and if you use "always" the other player has a hand in its face which is good but the AI also fouls more often?

[jk31]

I always set it to 0, because I wannt 100% control over my player. I always recognize, when defensive assist strength is activated, how my player tries to resist my control input and move otherwise. Especially when you want to move over a quick help or double team someone and the AI doesn't want you to do that, it is really hard to move the player...

Same on Boxout assist strength. You want to go right because it's obvious the rebound is going there? Forget it! If the AI wants you to run out of bounds you have to!

Shot contest: The player you control will automatically contest shots (OR SHOT FAKES!!!) of the opponent.
- Manual -> You have to do it yourself
- Intense D -> as long as you hold the intense D button, your player will automatically contest every shot and shot fake, which means sometimes you want to stay on the ground and your player jumps, which can lead to fouls or easy layups cause you give up your position
- always -> you don't even have to press intense D right now, player will try to challenge everything


I strongly recommend setting everything on full user control...It plays so much better... The "ice skating" some people are talking about on defense? Yeah, thats when they don't set AI assistance to zero...

[xerion]

Can someone tell me what effect these settings have in online modes? Especially normal exhibition. Isn't it set the same to everyone, at least some of it? Thanks

[I Hate Mondays]

I don't know anything about boxout strength so I won't be talking about it.

About the defensive assist, from my knowledge I know that the setting you use in controller settings reflects into the online game too. In my opinion, when setting the defensive assist near 100, the game helps you stay in front of your opponent (when you press LT) when he does basic sprinting around and stuff. So basically, you don't have to move the left stick for every step, sometimes your player moves by its own in the best defening position. From what I've noticed though, if your opponent starts doing iso moves, the chances are he will run right past you. The defensive assist for iso moves is underpowered, you fell like you become the AI on rookie difficulty; you go in the opposite direction when he crosses, you freeze when he does spinning moves.
Summary - Big defensive assistive strength -> Good positioning against basic sprinting, bad for ISO moves. That's why 2K has no problem in connecting opponents with different assist settings; it's a pick your poision type of situation.

So the best idea would be of course to set the assist to 0 and try to stay in front of your opponent by your own, using a combination of LT, the left and the right stick, and sometimes the sprint button. You move your you want to, so you can't blame the game for your mistakes.

Personally, I have the defensive assist on 50 during online games because of the lag. When a patch will be released and online games will run smoothly, I will probably set it to 0 as I do in offline games.