With the NBA Finals in full swing, the NBA Live 19 team released a new title update today, as the developers have made some adjustments to gameplay as well as to player likenesses. Several NBA and WNBA players have received player likeness updates, including Seimone Augustus, Katie Lou Sammuelson, Marcus Smart, and DeMarcus Cousins.
In addition, the NBA Live team have made some gameplay tweaks based off of player feedback, including improved ball handling and increased chances to make cleaner layups and shots around the rim.
NBA Live 19 June Title Update
Here are the full notes for the update:
Pro-Am Updates
Venue + Uniform updates: Quai 54
Bug Fix
- Memory corruption fix for players with 5 CAPs.
Gameplay Tuning
Based off community feedback:
- Upped defensive impact to shots
- Good defensive positioning will be rewarded by affecting jump shots more.
- Introducing a ball hog penalty
- If a user “hogs” the ball for an excessive period, shots will be penalized. A major shot penalty will kick in if the user continues to ball hog.
- This is only for user player jump shots in Live Run.
- Bigger players will play contact shots against smaller players less often.
- This will result in more clean looks and makes for bigger players (when going up against smaller players)
- More impact for lower-rated players on contact layups.
- This results in lower-rated players missing more layups with contact
- Increased chances to make cleaner layups and shots around the rim
- Fewer clean layups missed from light contests
- Improved ball handling vs. collisions
- Higher-rated ball handlers will only pick up the ball from too many collisions or being super low on short-term stamina.
The following players received likeness updates (hair, facial likeness, tattoos):
- Alex Abrines
- Seimone Augustus
- Rachel Banham
- Jessica Breland
- Marshon Brooks
- Rebekkah Brunson
- Jimmy Butler
- Liz Cambage
- Willie Cauley-Stein
- Maite Cazorla
- Jordan Clarkson
- Antonius Cleveland
- Napheesa Collier
- Mike Conley
- Demarcus Cousins
- Torrey Craig
- Dante Cunningham
- Damiris Dantas
- Stefanie Dolson
- Asia Durr
- Jamierra Faulker
- Gray Chelsea
- Brittney Griner
- Dearica Hamby
- Tianna Hawkins
- Bria Holmes
- Wesley Iwundu
- Briann January
- Glory Johnson
- Derrick Jones
- Betnijah Laney
- Joffrey Lauvergne
- Courtney Lee
- Camille Little
- Trey Lyles
- Tearia McCowan
- Alfonzo McKinnie
- Tiffany Mitchell
- Jonathan Motley
- Victor Oladipo
- Cheyenne Parker
- Epiphanny Prince
- Danielle Robinson
- Ricky Rubio
- Katie Lou Samuelson
- Ben Simmons
- Marcus Smart
- Zhaire Smith
- Shekinna Stricklen
- Alyssa Thomas
- Jasmine Thomas
- Jarred Vanderbilt
- Kia Vaughn
- Tyrone Wallace
- Courtney Williams
- Riquna Williams
- A’ja Wilson
- Jackie Young
- Tamera Young
- Amanda Zahui B
- Shavonte Zellous
PLUS: Data for future Live Events.
Also of note is that NBA Live 19 has also updated team sponsor patches for the WNBA, WNBA players’ jersey numbers, as well as their rosters. In addition, starting lineups in the WNBA, as well as for the Golden State Warriors have been modified, and player ratings have been updated as well. Here are all those changes:
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