With new consoles simply across the nook, 2K Games and Visual Concepts are unveiling tons of features for the NBA 2K21 PS5 and Xbox Series X/S variations. Today, a brand new Courtside Report launched a brand new all-encompassing mode referred to as MyNBA, which mixes MyGM, MyLeague, and MyLeague Online. Yes, the franchise mode is being rebranded for the brand new era, however it does not imply you are shedding something.
“At its core, the title just about says all of it – it’s your NBA, it’s your franchise mode, nonetheless you need to set it up,” defined senior producer Dave Zdyrko within the newest Courtside Report. “The mode has each single function that you understand and love from the earlier modes, all rolled up into one the place you have got full management over which of them you need to activate and off.”
That’s proper, it is all as much as how deep you need to go into the mode. When you boot it up, you get a number of easy-to-select choices to find out how you need your franchise expertise to go. You can choose from the next: Fantasy Draft, Customize League Rules, Custom Roster, Customize League, Customize Salary Cap, Customize Simple Settings, and Customize Advanced Settings.
“Customize League Rules is the fully new function on this batch and allows you to undergo and choose all the principles that the mode will begin with with out having to attend for the League Meetings within the offseason the place you’re restricted to 5 rule modifications per yr,” Zdyrko wrote in his report. This means you’ll be able to set all the principles in classes, like Lottery, Foul Out, Salary Cap, Trades, and Contracts.
Custom League is the place you’ll be able to nonetheless re-align groups, exchange current ones, and even add new or basic groups to the league. For the primary time in NBA 2K, you can even take away groups from the league. “Yes, that’s proper – for the primary time, we’re permitting you to cut back the league dimension from the present 30 and now you’ll be able to convey it right down to as little as 12,” Zdryko confirmed. “This signifies that as an alternative of the 30 to 36 vary of league sizes we’ve supported up to now, this yr now you can have leagues that vary from 12 to 36 groups. This makes it potential for customers to attempt to recreate previous seasons the place the NBA didn’t have 30 groups or simply have a smaller league to help a extra concise MyNBA Online expertise”
Visual Concepts is supplying you with extra management over the way you need to play. You may even toggle on or off Advanced CBA guidelines, relying on how advanced you need issues to get for signing gamers and finishing trades. The guidelines will default to on, however you’ll be able to select to bypass all of them or solely flip off sure ones. The similar goes for the role-playing parts in MyGM, you’ll be able to flip off elements you are not into resembling conversations, duties, and expertise.
Some new options are additionally making their method into the franchise expertise, like playable G-League games, the addition of one other assistant coach rent that impacts participant efficiency, and a revamped increase or bust system. On the latter, Zdyrko stated: “Players can have low and high-potential flooring, low and high-potential ceilings, and a chance to increase, bust, or hit someplace in between. In addition, till age 23, we are going to proceed to find out the participant’s potential primarily based on a number of elements to make it so that each participant will nonetheless be thrilling through the developmental years. The similar participant might have wildly completely different development paths in every save, so maintaining with scouting prospects after they’re within the league will probably be essential to constructing a dynasty.”
Oh, and for many who missed tattoos, they’re again! “The tattoo system is a LOT extra superior than the one from many moons in the past, and it has a base within the aforementioned MyPLAYER tattoo system,” Zdyrko said. “So with that, we are able to proudly say generated participant tattoos are actually formally again and higher than ever.”
For the entire Courtside Report, you’ll be able to head here.
