* New * EASHL New Traits Info

It doesn't need tweak, it needs throw it in the trash and let's restart with something else

 

The whole concept of having to take a negative hit in stats to boost some other stats when the builds are already so low overall is incredibly dumb. Having a choice between a blue and purple version doesn’t help either.

 

Here's the problem with that logic though, people are going to do the exact same thing with negatives on the traits except instead of stacking attributes and all using the same traits, people are instead going to gravitate to whatever traits provide something useful without taking away from something essential. It's a total cop out on their part because they refuse to take the responsibility of making more attributes contribute to the game and actually allowing for diverse playstyles.

 

This setup honestly blows worse than it did in 20 because the negative impacts are even WORSE somehow. Either remove negative impacts or SIGNIFICANTLY reduce them. Prefer to just remove the negative impact and have a trait color give you a smaller positive boost to one or more traits and the other color would do the inverse

 

Just reduce the negative effects of traits by 50% and itll be fine.

 

They should put attributes back instead of builds

 

Trait slot 1. 9 positive pts. 3 negative pts

Trait slot 2. 5 positive pts 2 negative pts

Specialty. Get rid of this BS we have to guess actually works. Just give like a +5 boost in an area.

Point is the positives need to greatly outweigh the negatives. They use stupid reasons for why 1 positive equals certain negatives. I'd rather have less points with zero negatives. Cookie cutter builds will exist period. It's best not even using traits on a goalie it feels.

 

Make trait system more like fifa.

 

I’m a pro traits guy and I like them more so than last year. I like being able to change the downside.

I don’t like the idea of the attributes tree as I don’t like the idea of someone being being reward just for having more time than me.

The only reward from time sinking should be the skills you develop from practicing the game... not more stats.

 

Just reading this while Grinding NBA 2K21 Badges.

Badges are animations that you unlock through progression that dont take away from other "traits". Maybe when EA isnt the only product to choose from it will force them to innovate.

Pros of NBA2k system : the ability to highly customize your player.

Raises chemistry and ability to play specific styles as a team.

Cons: Pay to play if you want up to 85 overall.

have to progress your player to unlock Badges(animations/traits)

Having multiple high overall/badged created players becomes time consuming and costly if you want to save time and pay to get to an 85 overall. You cannot buy badges which are arguably more important and more effective than a high overall.

Just a rant, 2k style wouldnt be for everyone, while I believe most would love the level of player attribute customization that would be available. I think money and time probably outweigh the customization aspect for more casual league players and players who dont play the game much from their scheduled league games. FIFA style would meet somewhere in the middle but it still wouldnt be anywhere near as customizable as NBA2k myCareer player

 

Didn’t think it was possible to get any worse than these fixed builds they force on us but now they’ve managed to force us to not use traits/boosts bc of all the negative effects

 

The negatives make no sense. It’s almost like they just did it at random. There’s only a couple traits worth using

 

Negative hits definitely need to be lowered. I like the idea, but the hits are huge.

 

I did not like the traits to much as they seem to be really hard on lower level players you basically can’t use any traits until a substantialy higher level because the traits just make your player so much worse than without them

 

I like the small changes to influence people to use different traits but the negatives are way to steep for most to use them. Just tweak the numbers to not have a harsh penalty and you will see more options being used.

 

After having to look at the same screen for almost two months addressing "systemic racism" and considering how hypersensitive EA Sports has been to "offensive material", I found it extremely ironic that one of their traits was called "Stick em up" and had two hands in the air as the symbol.

Considering all the people banned by EA for borderline names (egregious content should be banned), it just seemed incredibly inconsistent, pathetic, and even hypocritical to have EA use that name and symbol for a trait.

If they're relaxing their own standards, maybe chill on the sweeping bans of players.

I'd be interested to see if that stood out to anyone else.

 

I like the Blue/Purple concept instead of 1/2, but I think either they need to return the primary and secondary trait system or dont make the traits take away so much negatively. I feel like if I want to up something it demolishes some other part of my build which I don't like, but I feel like the primary/secondary slots would fix this.

 

Just remove all negatives from traits, players will likely enjoy the game better. being able to use better builds for a change and not get punished for using their trait system is a win win for everyone.

 

I posted this as part of my post in the main beta feedback thread, but ill copy/paste in here since this is dedicated to traits:

- For traits I feel like either add a 3rd or 4th set to each one so that theres more options to choose from since theres an equal gain/loss, or keep the same number of traits and just make it so that you gain +5 in the areas you gain, and only lose like -2 in the areas you lose. Or maybe just make the overalls on all builds 5 overall higher so its closer to Versus, that way when you lose say -4 to skating you'll noticeably be slower but it wont be a complete game breaking detriment. Obviously for future iterations of the game custom attributes or a skill tree like FIFA/what we already have in BAP is the way to go I think, but I know they can't add it at this point in 21

 

I wasnt talking about this year I should have specified. Next year they should "reintroduce" Legend and +1,3 and 5 along with stick curve and skate blade length. I mean ya know, since they like to cut things out and reintroduce them as something "new".