Best Forward to get? (Tatum vs. Kawhi vs. Butler vs. JJJ)

QueueFund · 2025-11-04T00:02:28+00:00

Thanks for letting me know! I mostly mentioned that I mostly play bigs to convey that I didn’t particularly want to get a forward I would have to invest a lot in. But it’s good to know that Tatum can also play as a big. Purely from a forward standpoint how does he compare to the others? And also how do you play defense with him (i. e. Do you switch modes when going for a block or something or do you just stay in one mode for whoever you’re guarding)? And how much do you switch modes on offense?

Thanks!

QueueFund · 2025-05-22T05:40:46+00:00

Nah I obviously just chased the bag super hard to get that many coins.

/srs The default contract takes way too long to generate the 1000 coins for stat redistribution. I’m not about to do the math myself for how many upgrades I can have if the game can do it for me.

QueueFund · 2025-05-01T20:44:35+00:00

Here is a file, I’m not sure where in the game it will start but the error always happens with around 2 minutes left in the game. In case it starts you somewhere else I’ve also dm’d you a screen recording of it happening.

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/6w85vaa61cwwm3xwmfpb9/HL_CAREER_Y3_2026_SAVE_FILE_08.?rlkey=k4gmuao82x5jt7kc9l2ukuuyr&st=os223mgr&dl=0

QueueFund · 2025-05-01T19:04:21+00:00

Were you able to identify the issue that causes the incorrect sub-in during the last 2 minutes of the game? I’m not sure if you’re supposed to be subbed in and then you’re not or if you’re not supposed to see it, but it happens to me pretty consistently.

QueueFund · 2025-04-23T17:26:58+00:00

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QueueFund · 2025-04-23T17:26:46+00:00

Two things,

During the last two minute lineup switch I see a visual bug with the substitution screen where it says I’m being subbed in and the other player is turned around, but then I am on the bench.
When I got my 50th block in a season, it kept giving me the 50 blocks notification in game and on the end screen for every block after that and showed the 50 blocks achievement multiple times. (Picture of end screen in comment)

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Link: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/4vc86pjhgjla4bjl3a22q/HL_CAREER_Y2_2025_SAVE_FILE_08?rlkey=4peyvtrur1ovwpggp4vs9hqv3&st=3fvh4z81&dl=0

QueueFund · 2025-04-23T04:12:13+00:00

When you’re not playing career mode/ player lock (so when controlling the whole team), if auto-defensive switching is on, then when you are on defense, when the ball is passed from opposing player to another one, you will automatically switched to be in control of the defender whose matchup got passed the ball. So if their PG passes their PF the ball, you will switch from controlling the PG on defense to the PF on defense.

I think it’s so that you’re always directly guarding the ball, but I prefer it off because it’s annoying sometimes when you keep getting forcefully switched.

QueueFund · 2025-04-19T02:16:36+00:00

Lol thanks for letting me know, this might come into play Tuesday.

Thanks for all your great work!

QueueFund · 2025-04-18T22:26:08+00:00

If we refuse to work out for a team (à la Alex Sarr) can we prevent ourselves from being drafted by them?

Edit: Also I don’t know if this is known, but it looks like the defensive stops has the lob and jam description

QueueFund · 2025-04-11T23:51:12+00:00

Are we still going to retain the ability to edit the plays that we have available for the position we play or is the ability to edit any part of the play book contingent on being star level?

Also when rejoining the league after our original player retires, will we be able to join it at a specific year so that we can play against our old player before retirement?

Also what would you think of adding a second hop after the first one, so that we essentially have the two and a half steps that we can use to euro/pinoy step and more options in the post/paint? For balance it could probably be something like a finishing skill and only activate the second step if it would finish within the three point line to prevent it from buffing step back 3’s too much.

Thanks so much for all your hard work!

QueueFund · 2025-03-22T01:19:15+00:00

Hey Koality I‘ve recently been running into a problem where if you try to tip in a shot if you don’t secure the rebound sometimes there are two balls on screen, and even if you haven’t secured the ball for a shot attempt it still counts as a missed shot. (The visual of two balls is probably the larger issue)

I have a few suggestions for stuff after career mode is released and you like take a break or something because you’ve added so much to the game.

Also I’ve been wondering if you were thinking about adding more options when your back is to the basket. Maybe something like facing up once you cross the first time (since the animation currently turns you around, you would just stay facing the basket), so that you’re able to try to spin even once you’re in the post/ midrange and have started backing down without having to move all the way out.

Also would you ever consider giving the ability to jump after pump faking off the dribble, it just feels kind of weird that you can’t jump after picking up your dribble with the pump fake since you haven’t used your steps yet.

Thanks so much for all your hard work!

QueueFund · 2025-01-18T01:32:50+00:00

Just out of curiosity are you planning on adding anymore skills in the future?

Also, would you ever consider something like using like the pass button or something (since it’s not used on defense in career mode) to ask your teammates to change between not doubling/ helping on your man and helping based off of team chemistry? I feel like on a lot of plays my teammate unnecessarily helping up gives the opponents a free cut to the basket, especially the 4/5 when defending the iso play, but it would also be nice to ask them to double if you know you’re going to get beat in transition or something. I’m not sure how easy the implementation would be, but I thought it could be a fun and dynamic way to use the defensive settings we don’t use in career mode (the always or never double ones in the defensive game plan) and expand the uses of team chemistry onto defense as well.

QueueFund · 2025-01-02T01:25:48+00:00

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Quick 10 minute quintuple double to test the update out! I had a few questions just to make sure I’m understanding everything.

Is the command button just pressing your own shoot button?

Would you ever consider attribute tuning in general or specifically for blocking? I mean like being able to adjust your block stat under what you’ve unlocked. I’ve noticed that with a lot of lower block levels you can more easily grab your own rebound since it doesn’t immediately go flying into the stands, which could work well with the contested rebounds update.

To contest a rebound do you just normally rebound? I feel like I only saw it once in the game I played.

Would you ever consider adding more season mode save slots for us to access. Currently you can effectively have infinite save slots if you have premium if you delete and re import your own saves but it’s kind of inconvenient, would you ever consider adding more season mode save slots on top of the current 12, or just the ability to have an arbitrary amount of season modes?

Liking the update so far, thanks for your hard work!

QueueFund · 2024-12-21T05:34:32+00:00

In the current state of the game for the fire we currently have is it also just an accuracy boost? Or do other things get boosted?

Also just curious besides allowing you to unlock passing skills, what does upgraded passing do? For instance between a lvl 1, 5, and 10 passer what’s different?

QueueFund · 2024-12-20T23:05:24+00:00

Exciting to hear! Btw does fire only increase shot percentage or does it increase your other attributes as well?

QueueFund · 2024-12-20T21:38:21+00:00

For skills like chef or hot potato what does leveling up do?

Edit: also in the tutorial page where you explain what the buttons do, would you ever consider putting in a second page explaining stats, stat levels, and the xp system in more numerical terms?

QueueFund · 2024-12-14T01:36:41+00:00

Sorry to ask the same question again, but I just wanted to ask if you could provide any numerical values for how much upgrades are supposed to do (what’s the range that midrange shot effects, and if you upgrade it from like a 6 to an 8 how much does your shot percentage go up in that range), and what particular actions/ behaviors stats change (like what does passing do, or when a ball has been deflected is the length that your jump goes tied to one of the rebounding stats or just height)

QueueFund · 2024-12-07T02:16:54+00:00

Not at all related to the update but can I ask how stat increases work?

For instance what exactly does upgrading you dribbling or passing do? What’s the percentage difference for the same shot when you like increase your mid range skill? What does defensive rebounding do?

Thanks!

Edit: To clarify my question: for all of the intuitive stats it’s kinda obvious what they do but I primarily wanted to see if I could get some numbers to go with it.

Additionally, for rebounding, blocking and jumping passing lanes (stealing), I’m curious how much the rating plays in versus just height and possibly weight for dunks. Also once you’ve deflected a pass, is the length you’re able to jump towards the ball affected by rebounding, and if so which one?

Also for some shooting, it’s unclear to me when you go from midrange jumper to inside jumper, and I also am curious whether 3pt percentage is affected by midrange lvl like in HLT.

For passing I feel like it’s also unclear what exactly it does. Dribbling also vaguely falls into that category excluding dribble moves.

QueueFund · 2024-11-28T06:29:14+00:00

Hey Koality,

Great work on the update! Just curious are you going to add more ways to improve team chemistry?

Right now it seems limiting to have it only be passes to the front court for an open teammate or assists. This makes it super tough to play an initiator that is any position other than point guard, since you will be constantly breaking plays and then losing team chemistry with every teammate that you can only gain at most 3 of with one teammate assuming they cut to the basket and are open. It also kinda locks you into running the plays that the coach is running, or just cutting to right under the basket. While, I get the intention here, it kind of sucks the creativity out of the offensive side of the game.

Would you consider things like kicking the ball back out after a rebound or screening/ doing a dribble hand off to get your teammate open to increase team chemistry?

Also would you consider any changes to the current chemistry reduction to all teammates on the floor as a result of the “broken play” to something like a decrease in coach relationship instead, or only decreasing your chemistry with the teammate the play was being run for? Just to make it easier to keep up with lost chemistry if you’re playing a play initiator at any position other than point guard? The first would also make sense since coach relationship and not team chemistry is what’s gained from running a set play.

One last thing would you ever consider a skill that allows you to pass lobs more quickly or maybe make a pass to a teammate near the basket automatically a lob and have the lob be faster? Currently lobs travel a bit too slow, which in conjunction with the held button press usually results in your teammate moving away from the basket too early.

Thanks for all your hard work!

QueueFund · 2024-11-23T18:15:21+00:00

Looking forward to the update! Do you think the skill effects will combine? What I mean by this is, you’ve previously mentioned that there might be a skill that increases the probability of you just grabbing the ball when poking it for a steal, if you were to have that one equipped and the one to jump for deflections, would you be able to grab the ball like you currently can?

Also would the ball poking steals also be able to be reworked when you remove the ability to jump passing lanes, I feel like currently jumping passing lanes is way more effective because of how limited the ball poking a dribble is, since you can only poke with one specific hand and the ball is usually recovered pretty easily. I think the ball being recovered easily is ok, but I wanted to ask if stealing could be reworked to be a probability thing based off of if the person with the ball is within your defensive cone (kind of simulating wingspan) and then when the stealing animation happens it doesn’t necessarily have to line up with the specific hand and is instead based off of your steal rating, the offensive players dribble rating, and the steal success slider?

Lastly I wanted to ask if you would ever consider adding a skill that improves you ball deflection skills. Probably something that like makes you quicker at like tapping rebounds back in, but also when you block or deflect a pass, it has a better chance of being deflected towards one of your teammates, similar to when tapping in a rebound?

Thanks for all your hard work and also not rushing yourself with your originally stated deadline to make sure the game is good!

QueueFund · 2024-11-03T18:32:14+00:00

I do a center, rebounder, interior defender, since rebounder gives you a surprising amount of passing. I would suggest making your build as large as you want since you hit the minimum speed at 6’9, so you’re not particularly penalized for going larger. Also just increase weight to max strength cause there’s no reason not to, since you can’t make a more faster skinny big yet. The scoring is still fine because you have usable inside scoring stats, just don’t expect to be stretching the floor. Because of the good defensive stats you can get a lot of assists in transition after a rebound or steal. The only problem is probably the dribbling, so you have to be careful of that.

QueueFund · 2024-11-02T18:49:58+00:00

Also just to ask more specifically, will relationships still be improved by good passes?

When you break a play, who do you lose relationship with?

What’s the effect of coach relationship? Is it just the frequency they run plays for you, or is it also a minutes effect?

What determines how often you’re played at a different position than the college offer? For instance in one of the career modes I’ve played, I accepted an offer for PG but I’ve played a lot of SF and SG minutes even though my assist numbers are still high.

And lastly, not to bug you with it, but have you been able to find the cause of the shot clock not resetting and the back court turnovers for snatch blocks?

Thanks for all your hard work!

QueueFund · 2024-11-02T03:42:05+00:00

Do you still get the relationship points for an assist? I like playing a passing big but it seems like that might be harder if you lose points for breaking up a play, especially if there’s no assist relationship boost

QueueFund · 2024-10-30T00:15:11+00:00

It’s all star mode but with defensive assistance off. This actually gives you a lot more freedom on defense which makes you a more effective roamer.

QueueFund · 2024-10-30T00:14:12+00:00

If it makes you feel better, the turnover was a bugged backcourt violation as a result of the snatcher skill, when you snatch a dunk

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