Then when you move over to height, weight, and wingspan, it's the same thing. You can see how the different combinations affect it. 'You won't see it in The Prelude version, but once the main game hits, as you are changing your archetypes there's a button you can hit to bring up a list of what your max will be for each attribute. When mixing and matching archetypes, once the final game ships you'll be able to see how they max out so you can make the tough calls before you go deep into mode and get locked into an archetype you aren't happy with. 'That's one of the things we added almost last minute,' Bishop says. We just wanted to make it so there's a reason to use all of them depending on what type of game you play.' It seemed kind of like there were point guards, small forwards, and centers, and those two in the middle got left out a lot. 'A lot of people prefer to play center to power forward because you can be that much taller and stronger, but now we're giving you different advantages as a power forward,' Bishop says. This approach extends to the various positions you can assign your player as well. We want them all to be relatively equal so we spent a lot of time evening those out.' The goal is to make it so whatever style of play you prefer, you're not going to be at a disadvantage. They're no longer completely useless on that end of the ball.

'For example, we did a lot of work on the defensive-minded ones to give them some offensive skills. They hope to spread the love in NBA 2K19. 'I think the biggest thing we did this year was to refine the different archetypes and balance them more,' Bishop says. Here are the big beats you need to know about: Player Archetypes Are More Balancedĭuring the NBA 2K18 post-mortem, Visual Concepts looked at the numbers and realized some archetypes were much more valuable than others.

After the seeing the trailer reveal, we sat down with senior producer Ben Bishop to talk through the many changes coming to The Neighborhood and M圜areer.

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