NBA 2K22 MyLeague Social Media Overhaul by Vetmin
NBA 2K22 MyLeague Social Media Overhaul by Vetmin
vetmin:
This is a customization of the social media personalities and posts that appear in franchise mode. It is optimized for MyLeague; potential issues with other modes are noted below.
Features:
- Default reporters / media members have, for the most part, been replaced with more well-known personalities or media entities, except when the default was genuinely well known (like Malika Andrews, Nick Wright, etc.). Examples of new social media accounts include people like Adrian Wojnarowski, John Hollinger, Brian Windhorst, Chris Herring, Tim Bontemps, etc. and media entity accounts like NBA on ESPN, HoopsHype, Bleacher Report, Hoop Central, etc. I made an effort to prioritize national media, since the game does not 'assign' certain accounts to certain beats; it's all mixed up. But I exercised a little bit of Warriors fan bias by including a few Bay Area-centric folk (Marcus Thompson, Tim Kawakami, Light Years Pod, also didn't delete Andy Liu).
- For default reporters / media members who 'survived the purge', their social media profile pics have mostly been updated (for instance, Nate Duncan's is now the Dunc'd On image that it has been in real life for awhile).
- For both social media and power rankings, Erick Boenisch has been replaced by The Ringer's Kevin O'Connor.
- "2K" / "2K Sports" social media, mock drafts, and power rankings have been replaced by "SI" (i.e., Sports Illustrated) / "SI #Hoops". SEE NOTE / WARNING BELOW ABOUT THIS.
- Many in-season social media messages have been edited, with key edits / points of emphasis being:
De-stigmatization of the G League. No more reporters wondering how some two-way guy took the "slap in the face" of being sent down to the G League.
Re-purposing static messages for more fun / realistic alternatives.
Re-wording a great deal of message text for better flow and realism. A lot of the default writing is just bad / clunky.
Generally dialing back the use of hashtags, though there are still many in the game. I tried to address most of the lamer hashtags I came across (like "A new career high in blocks for [PLAYER]! #blocks").
Customizing some of the NBA Injury Report injuries to be inside jokes for NBA fans (just for fun).
Fixing existing typos / errors in 2K's message text.
- Fan accounts and messages have also been customized in many cases to be more in line with what you actually see on NBA Twitter.
- Tweet locations are hidden, as they're pretty random and unrealistic.
- BONUS: "2K Hoops Summit" has been changed to "#NikeHoopSummit".
Notes / Warnings:
- Without getting too technical, the way text is programmed in 2K leads to there being random and unforeseeable interdependencies between seemingly unrelated bits of text in the game. As an example, there is a social media handle named "Lance Fresh"; also, when your players are 100% rested, their fatigue status is "Fresh"; it turns out that the game literally looks at the same raw text data for the word "Fresh" in both cases, so if you were to change the social media dude's name to "Lance Davis", then your players will progress from "Rested" to "Davis", lol. All of this is to say: PLEASE REPORT ANY TEXT-RELATED ANOMALIES (ANYWHERE IN MYLEAGUE, NOT JUST IN SOCIAL MEDIA) THAT YOU OBSERVE WHILE THIS MOD IS ENABLED. I fixed the ones I observed and also took general precautions to minimize them, but there are likely anomalies that I haven't come across yet.
- That said: NO NEED TO REPORT TEXT-RELATED ANOMALIES THAT DO NOT IMPACT MYLEAGUE OR GENERAL 2K FUNCTIONALITY. I know for a fact that the online modes are littered with one particular 'error': the text "2K" being replaced with "SI", since -- to make that particular edit in social media -- I had to first make a global edit then go back and clean up where it affected things adversely. I did not clean anything up in the non-franchise modes, because they're irrelevant to this mod. I also did not go out of my way to fix anything in MyGM or MyLeague Online, though these modes use a lot of the same functions as regular MyLeague, so they may be fine; I just don't know (or care, to be perfectly honest). I suppose you could report MyGM or MLO anomalies too and I'll fix them if I have time and it's easy, but it's not a huge priority. My general advice: SWITCH THIS MOD OFF WHEN YOU ARE PLAYING IN ANY OTHER MODE EXCEPT SINGLE-PLAYER MYLEAGUE.
- This mod is not compatible with any other mods that touch TEXT.VCLOCALIZEDATA, including my own previously posted broadcast packs. I will make compatibility versions of the file for at least some of the broadcast packs. Stay tuned for more on that front.
- Off-season and scouting social media messages have NOT been edited, reason being that I only use social media for staying abreast of how things are going around the league during the season / playoffs. I don't use 2K's scouting functionality at all (no point with real-life draft classes), nor do I look at social media during the offseason, since I control all 30 teams.
- This isn't perfect. (1) There are too many social media messages to truly overhaul the whole thing. (2) There are strict limitations to any customization (i.e., you can only replace letters, not add them). (3) The general randomization of who says what -- which leads to people tweeting things that they would never tweet in real life -- is hard-coded into 2K. (4) With so much repetition of certain messages, there are limitations to how realistic it can feel, regardless of what those messages are. All that said though, IMO this mod offers a markedly superior experience over default 2K.
AUTHOR:Vetmin
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