I just made NBA LIVE 2004 10 TIMES BETTER! (BEWARE LONG READ

[Child-Of-God]

Fed up of Jarron Collins being able to guard and ""Bump" Tony Parker..So that he can't blow by him?..Fed up of Allen Iverosn Bumping and Bodychecking shaq in order to stop him from scoring?...Fed up with not being able to get out of double teams..Due to the fact that ALL the centers are fast enough to guard your Lighning quick PG...?...Well last night after playing a 1-1 against shaq..with Rafer Alston..And NOT ONCE being able to beat him!...I decided to put up his speed and see if that will work..To no success...I got so mad.I just put shaqs rating down to zero out of frustrating..I also turned on "CPU-ON bal physical defense" down to 48 and what do you know...Not only am i able to cross shaq up..I am able to GO PAST HIM..I was like OMG..This is crazy..I fiddeled around with some other players..Now i know Bruce Bowen is a top notch defender...So i played against him and with him..Against Allen Iverson..I put BB speed down to 50 quickness down to 50 and strength to 60..RESULT..About 6-10 times i was able to go by him without getting BUMPED and finish the layup with a good sequence of crossover moves..I was so excited..So decided to do two teams..I edited EVERY SINGLE PG in the game up to 90 speed 90 Quickness BUT i put there strength to 15..I put avarge SG'S at 80 speed 80 quickness and 25 strength..I put most SF...At 50 speed 50 quicness and 60 stregnth...I messed around with every single player in the game....I then put PF AT 0 speed 0 quicness and 90 strength...And i put C at the same as power forwards..I then decided to play a game with the "new" edited teams which was utah jazz and sacremento kings...I put game speed to 56...I had it at 48 before but it was still to slow....With the new ratings..I was able to break Brad Miller..with Marrice williams 90% of the time..Without him bumping me and body checking..But watchout because i had a few of my layup attemps blocked from behind by the centers..I then edited spurs and suns WHOLE roster with the same raings as what is above...I then put defensive pressure high on marion and double team.. on him..I had Bruce Bowen guarding him..Remember Shawn Marion i put 90 speed 90 quickness and 25 strength cos hes an elite guard..I then turned "on ball defense assist" don to ZERO....no longer was i relying on the computer and unrealistic speed of Bruce Bowen to guard marion...I was using my basketball insticnts and REAL defensive awareness to stay with marion..Otherwise Bruce Bowen would be eatin a spalding for dinner...I then noticed that the CPU DRIBBLED..YES I REPEAT DRIBBLED OUT OF MY DOUBLE TEAM..YES I DID JUST SAY THAT..I was so hped i changed teams..And with maion still double teamed....Tim Duncan (whos speed i set to 0 quickness to 0 and srength 90)..Try to double me with bowen...But instead of marion just giving up and dropping the ball like it normally would..With a sharp sequcnce of explosive crosses i was able to DRIBBLE OUT OF THE DOUBLT TEAM..And dish it to an open man.Or have the free lane as payback for the big man trying to guard his first step..I then also noticed..that..The PF- AND C had a HUGE strength adavtange over theguard as the guards have speed advantage over the PF AND c..It resulted in the forwarda and centers being able to POWER their way to the hoop..Without being bumped around by skinny reggie miller..And also get closer to the rim for hoop shots..I edited every player ratings accordingly..The only few that were different was earl boykins and iverson which both at 95 speed 95 quickness and 10 strength and the atheic forwards..like..KG Kwame Brown..Chris bosh..etc at speed 10 quickness 10 and strength 80.....I don ALL the teams in the game..And then played..The game WAS SO MUCH MORE REALISTIC..i had to really WORK on defense..No more just sticking Chris Dudley on TonY Parker from ful court and thinking he can just "BUMP" him..I had to really work on defense..Because thieir was no defensive help from the cPU..and also because of the new ratings..It made isolation much more effective...And breaking zones was fun..No more jacking up 3's cos you keep getting bumped..If you time it correctly and have a good array of freestyle moves you can actually dribble through and around a zone..Once example was when rual lopez..Was able to slice through a zone defense between the forwards....I thought i had the bucket until chris weber shifted over and swatted my layup attempt..Well i was soooo happy..It felt like this was a new game...It was fun..This takes a lot of time to editmall the players but beliebe it ITS WORTH IT..The gameplay outcome was more realstic..And the defense was fun to play..dont even dere BILNK of your man wil lost in the dust....If you ant any help on the ratings etc then just ask me..But heres a list of the average ratings i put..


PG'S ALL AT 90 SPEED 90 QUICKNESS AND 15 strength

SG-Average Shooting Guards-I put at 80 speed 80 quickness 20 strength
*Elite shooting guards i put at 88 speed 88 quickness and 22 strength

SF-Average SF i put at 50 speed 50 quick. and 60 strength
*Elite SF i put at 75 speed 75 quick...25 strength

PF-I put at 0 speed 0 quick and 90 strength
*Elite PF same ratings as these..^^^

C-Same as PF^^^^


Bar athlethic forwards like Chris Bosh..KG..Donyell Marshall..etc..I put

10 speed 10 quickness and 85 strength..

I used these as a base..And the game was much more realsitc...Hope i helped someone enjoy their game again..Peace

[alexboom]

nice experiments I did something similar for my Live 2000 roster, ie making a clear gap between big mens and guards quickness

Andrew, maybe you could take some inspiration from this for your Live 2004 roster?

[Rens]

So you made everyone the same. You'd be better off using benji's rosters and sliders and have some diversity added to the realism.

[Child-Of-God]

So you made everyone the same. You'd be better off using benji's rosters and sliders and have some diversity added to the realism.

Just about to edit my post untill i saw this..I decided to make everyone "Individual" in their ratings but kept the base i started with..It resulted in FURTHER reaslistic gameplay!

[Filip]

Give us some stats from your games.

[Child-Of-God]

Give us some stats from your games.

I will post stats tommorow...It's late here in England and im tired so i won't be playing tonight i wil post stats tommorow..Peace