Free for PS+ July 2020. Any advice?

[SpaceCoresDad]

I'm not normally into basketball games (or sports games in general really lmao), but hey it's free, so I might give it a shot. Looks like there's only one trophy that's incredibly rare, and it's centered around cards? Like, it hasn't even been able to be obtained up until recently? I don't really know anything about this, so is there any advice for everyone that would just be starting out?

[NZBigC]

If you are wanting to get that plat, then my advice would be to not even bother as you need something like 300+ hours and collect something like 3000 cards just for that single trophy. Just play the game for fun. 

[ph0nix123]

I would say it depends on your goals with the game. If you want the platinum then my advice would be choose another game, but if you want to play a fun basketball game then I'd say go for it.

[CosmoWolf_]

filled with horrible gambling machines and cards etc so i wouldn't even bother playing

this sums it up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-BuUqsd71w

[samuel_hsc]

The card collector trophy is a online dependent trophy, right? Are there any more online trophies to be worried about?

Edited June 29, 2020 by samuel_hsc

[djb5f]

Game is very well done and a lot of fun.  You ought to play it even if you come up a trophy short of platinum.  Highly recommend.

[BeautifulTorment]

Best advice: don't play this trash heap.

[grimydawg___]

1 hour ago, CosmoWolf_ said:

filled with horrible gambling machines and cards etc so i wouldn't even bother playing

this sums it up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-BuUqsd71w

There's no gambling in the game ?‍♂️

[BeautifulTorment]

9 minutes ago, grimydawg___ said:

There's no gambling in the game ?‍♂️

Did they gut all the casinos out in response to all the backlash?

[hayesb]

If you're going for the Plat, don't do it. And playing by yourself gets boring pretty fast. A good game to play with friends though! But yeah you're pretty far behind in the MyTeam content that you'd probably need to drop cash (cause let's be realistic, who tf wants to grind hundreds and hundreds of hours to get MT for cards, we got lives). Buying MT is an option (although it's not legal yet lots of people do it, so buy at your own risk)

[Cyvnyde]

If you want to plat the game then Ultimate Collector will require a lot of time and patience. if you plan on going for it then you will need dedication, even if you plan on dropping money into the game. There's a reason it's an incredibly rare trophy. All of the other trophies are relatively easy, essentially comparing it to the last few iterations of the game.

 

If you just want a good basketball experience then disregard going for the plat and just enjoy it.

[Andrea9281]

The existence of packs definitely is gambling to me, and they have other lower stakes things like the weekly spin wheel and ball drops after triple threat offline/for locker codes.

 

Starting this no money spent in July of 2020, I would suggest the following:
 

Make spotlight sims your priority, particularly the all-time and finals sims because these have no player requirements (current and historic require 10 players per team on your roster to complete.) Some people would suggest domination, and that's definitely worth doing at some point, but the MT and token rewards are far superior in the spotlight sims, and you'll want to accumulate MT fast. You also get some outstanding free cards through this grind, including a Larry Bird that has 99 in all stats and enough additional galaxy opal players to build an incredible team. 

 

Use the MT from all-time and finals sims to prioritise building rosters that can do historic and current spotlight sims. You need to have 10 players per team, doesn't matter what value or set they are from, which means you should pick three of your best players to be your permanent fixtures, then find 10 cheap cards to compliment them. This way you can continue the offline grind while also building your collection.

 

You might see some of the teams in this mode and find it to be daunting, particularly for your starter team. Luckily there is cheese available to help in the form of the Nets Playbook. A play you can run through that will guarantee you score almost 100% of the time, regardless of your skill level with the game. Here's a good video outlining how to set this up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4406XNqJwFg

 

After you have finished spotlight sims, go back and play domination. All the cards in this mode are outdated now, but they still count toward collector level. You get something like 300 cards for completing this mode + several hundred tokens and perhaps a couple hundred thousand MT.

 

Don't bother with the unlimited multiplayer mode or triple threat offline. Triple threat online can be good if you are an expert at it, but it takes a really good squad to compete and time to master that in my opinion is better spent on the dom/spotlight grind.

 

As you are earning MT from spotlight sims, invest it into the market. Your priority here should be cards from premium sets - I would buy any for under 3k, but start with those you can find at or around 1k (should be plenty to choose from.) I suggest these over trying to get a bunch of current series players because 1.) these cards are far more usable than any current series set - you can find some cards that would've been day 1 gods for like 1.5k now and 2.) we don't yet know what cards will be attainable through packs when 2k stops updating the game. Current series will always be oversaturated in the market, but random premium cards could become scarce and see their value inflate.

 

If/when new super packs are released, priortise these cards. Super packs always mean market crash, particularly for the lower end cards in the collection.

 

As you are playing you will also accumulate tokens. These tokens should be redeemed in the market for ALL emerald, sapphire, and ruby cards to give you a quick boost to collection. After this, it is best to start using the tokens to rip "Lights out" packs in the market instead of acquiring more exclusive players. 30 tokens is simply not worth it for 1 amythest player, when you could rip 5 packs for that price. These packs will almost never give you anything truly good, but we don't care about that - you will be picking up a lot of cards you don't have, AND you will quick sell those you do have to acquire easy MT. In this way, you are efficiently converting your tokens to MT and cards.

Edited July 7, 2020 by Andrea9281

[IesuHado]

So for what I'm reading I can say:

 

Short resume:

 

Plat: No 

 

For fun: Yes

 

Unless you want to go for it really hard.

 

I'm not into basket ball so not even for fun in my case

Edited June 29, 2020 by NordicSaiyan

[whittle181]

A question about the MyTeam trophies where you have to win with a specific starting lineup... can these be boosted by matching with other online players, or does this mode only match you against AI? Thanks.

[Cyvnyde]

1 minute ago, whittle181 said:

A question about the MyTeam trophies where you have to win with a specific starting lineup... can these be boosted by matching with other online players, or does this mode only match you against AI? Thanks.

They don't need to be boosted. You literally just need 5 players from that specific division and can play a normal game against the AI. Once you have the players, it's an incredibly easy set of trophies.

[CosmoWolf_]

On 29/06/2020 at 3:14 PM, grimydawg___ said:

There's no gambling in the game ?‍♂️

there's literally a virtual casino in the game

[MiseryMystery]

20 minutes ago, CosmoWolf_ said:

there's literally a virtual casino in the game

 

What game are you playing??? There’s no casino. You have ball drops where you literally get a reward for every drop in both triple threat online and for locker codes. And there’s a vault that sometimes opens in triple threat offline. Where is the casino? Where is the gambling? 

Edited July 1, 2020 by MiseryMystery

[Rello-Evante]

Okay so I've been playing it on/off for a bit - working my way towards the Platinum very slowly.

 

It's a bit of a grind but I think it's pretty much achievable, but you're looking anywhere between 60-100+ hours depending on your luck.

 

You're looking at 3 separate modes:

1) MyCareer

2) MyTeam

3) Misc. Gameplay

 

All the Misc. Gameplay can easily be unlocked with 2 controllers and some patience, just boot up a quick play and get those out of the way. Some of the harder ones - like 10 Green Zone shots, will come naturally once you get used to a player's shooting time/animation.

 

MyCareer has what I believe to be some of the harder trophies, lots of in-game stat dependent scenarios. I would suggest the best way to go about this is by doing the following:                                1) Find a playstyle you're comfortable with - whether it's the slasher point guard (my personal favorite) or just the unstoppable big man - there's a few builds on YouTube that you can check of what people run to get that illustrious Quadruple Double trophy.

2) Don't skip the prologue/training sessions - they're the best way to increase your badge opportunities that help give those little boosts

3) In the MyCareer menu, change the settings to the lowest Difficulty (Pro) and 12-Minute Quarters. This will give you more than enough time in each game to grind out some of those trophies, shots/steals/assists, etc.

4) Focus on one trophy per game while trying to get the best grade you can get - try to upgrade your stats in where you feel your lacking.

 

@Andrea9281 has some good points on tackling the MyTeam portion. To add to that I would also mention doing the following:

1) Play a few games a day, all these small progressions add up in the long run.

2) Similar to the first point -  log in every day for the daily bonus (there are free card packs on Wednesdays!

3) Utilize locker codes (which are short limited-time codes you can enter for freebies), there are websites dedicated to them - like this one.

4) Utilize the Auction House, any duplicates you have should be sold. Don't focus too much on 'completing' sets just yet, try to buyout the cheapest option or, if you have the patience, bidding for cheaper prices.

 

Sure, it's a huge time sink, but I think it's definitely doable. 

[grimydawg___]

1 hour ago, CosmoWolf_ said:

there's literally a virtual casino in the game

No, there isn't.  I guess I haven't played every 2k game, though.

37 minutes ago, Rello-Evante said:

Okay so I've been playing it on/off for a bit - working my way towards the Platinum very slowly.

 

It's a bit of a grind but I think it's pretty much achievable, but you're looking anywhere between 60-100+ hours depending on your luck.

 

You're looking at 3 separate modes:

1) MyCareer

2) MyTeam

3) Misc. Gameplay

 

All the Misc. Gameplay can easily be unlocked with 2 controllers and some patience, just boot up a quick play and get those out of the way. Some of the harder ones - like 10 Green Zone shots, will come naturally once you get used to a player's shooting time/animation.

 

MyCareer has what I believe to be some of the harder trophies, lots of in-game stat dependent scenarios. I would suggest the best way to go about this is by doing the following:                                1) Find a playstyle you're comfortable with - whether it's the slasher point guard (my personal favorite) or just the unstoppable big man - there's a few builds on YouTube that you can check of what people run to get that illustrious Quadruple Double trophy.

2) Don't skip the prologue/training sessions - they're the best way to increase your badge opportunities that help give those little boosts

3) In the MyCareer menu, change the settings to the lowest Difficulty (Pro) and 12-Minute Quarters. This will give you more than enough time in each game to grind out some of those trophies, shots/steals/assists, etc.

4) Focus on one trophy per game while trying to get the best grade you can get - try to upgrade your stats in where you feel your lacking.

 

@Andrea9281 has some good points on tackling the MyTeam portion. To add to that I would also mention doing the following:

1) Play a few games a day, all these small progressions add up in the long run.

2) Similar to the first point -  log in every day for the daily bonus (there are free card packs on Wednesdays!

3) Utilize locker codes (which are short limited-time codes you can enter for freebies), there are websites dedicated to them - like this one.

4) Utilize the Auction House, any duplicates you have should be sold. Don't focus too much on 'completing' sets just yet, try to buyout the cheapest option or, if you have the patience, bidding for cheaper prices.

 

Sure, it's a huge time sink, but I think it's definitely doable. 

Just make a glass cleaning center and make him athletic.  It's easier to get a quad double with big men.  This is arguably the easiest 2K game to get platinum on.

Edited July 1, 2020 by grimydawg___

[Nitro]

On 6/29/2020 at 10:30 PM, SpaceCoresDad said:

I'm not normally into basketball games (or sports games in general really lmao), but hey it's free, so I might give it a shot. Looks like there's only one trophy that's incredibly rare, and it's centered around cards? Like, it hasn't even been able to be obtained up until recently? I don't really know anything about this, so is there any advice for everyone that would just be starting out?

Don't.

[adam1984123]

On 29/06/2020 at 10:30 PM, SpaceCoresDad said:

I'm not normally into basketball games (or sports games in general really lmao), but hey it's free, so I might give it a shot. Looks like there's only one trophy that's incredibly rare, and it's centered around cards? Like, it hasn't even been able to be obtained up until recently? I don't really know anything about this, so is there any advice for everyone that would just be starting out?

Don't listen to all the negative comments in here. Most of them haven't played the game and are telling you what they have seen or heard so the information is likely false. They probably tried a 2k game on an alt for 5 mins and don't have the time/skill/dedication to go deeper into it. And they are too busy chasing all the bullshit plats to actually sink time into a game. 

 

These 2k games improve year after year; I haven't don't one for a while but after playing 2k19 last year it was a massive step up for 2k16 which was the one I did actually plat before this. 

 

So overall give it a go; you are in for a treat. Yes, the plat will be tough and time consuming if you go for it but you've already had some good advice outlined for you above if you choose to have a go at it. 

 

You have nothing to lose, it's free after all. 

[JEDI_BROTHERS]

Grind weekly challenges, triple threat offline, and everything in myteam. It takes up to 300 hours atleast. Also check nba social media, they drop locker codes consistently that unlock

Free cards. Just get ready for the grind. The mycareer is the easier part except for the quad double. My best recommendation is to grind offline since its easier and you get better rewards

On 6/29/2020 at 9:20 AM, samuel_hsc said:

The card collector trophy is a online dependent trophy, right? Are there any more online trophies to be worried about?

No, you need an online connection but you can grind offline against ai 

[NougamiZero]

Quick question: how Big is the Download?? Because I've heard it's around 100 GBs

[Cyvnyde]

17 minutes ago, NougamiZero said:

Quick question: how Big is the Download?? Because I've heard it's around 100 GBs

Just under 90 GB.

[thinktank79]

Having played this at a friend’s house. Play as James Harden and just drive from the top of the key to the basket, he’s pretty unstoppable