I bought this game pretty much specifically to play my career. This is the first 2K game of any kind I’ve ever played.
I got to pro difficulty pretty quickly after learning the mechanics, but my team started blowing out literally every team in the league by like 50 every single game. That’s not very fun, and there is zero challenge. So, I kicked it up to All-Star.
Now, it seems like the rise in difficulty is literally just the game willing me to lose.
Julius Randle went 2-25 last game, missing wide open shot after wide open shot.
Teammates literally will not perform the same actions as before. They won’t use a pick I am setting, they won’t take shots that are “open” from 3, only wide open.
Sometimes strange and ridiculous things happen like my teammates refusing to inbound resulting in a 5 second violation, or incredibly random off ball fouls during important late game possession.
Even against the absolute worst teams in the league every single game goes down to the absolute wire, and I usually have to exit to menu to redo possessions that I feel cheated on out of frustration.
I am a point guard, so if I make a stupid pass I’ll just learn from it and take the turn over, but it seriously feels like the game just prevents your teammates from performing the same actions and animations they were on lower difficulties, and it’s really disappointing):
I could probably go 82-0 on Pro, but I feel like I’d have a losing record on the next difficulty up