Big Rewind Updates Coming
Days are still getting shorter. Holidays fast approaching. Feels like you just want to snuggle up with โฆ a basketball?
Heck yes. And we got your back!
App Update Coming Soon!
Despite the cold weather, this team doesnโt stop hooping-and-coding. Weโve been working since the start of Season 7 on new features, new challenges and lots of polish. Itโs almost like you can hear the squeaky basketball shoes as weโre running up and down the halls, getting ready for release. This is one of the biggest mid-season updates weโve done!
Hereโs what you can expect from the app update, coming next week.
New to Rewind: Spotlights
Rewind challenges you to step into the shoes of your favorite athletes and teams. Each day, youโre recreating or re-writing history from games the night before. Spotlights puts a โฆ wait for it โฆ spotlight on specific Rewind challenges.
Spotlights are short, timed events. When a Spotlight is active for a Top Play, it triggers a special event for all players. When you successfully complete the Spotlight Top Play, the Rewind points you earn count toward Spotlight community goals. As the entire NBA 2K Mobile community completes challenges and hits the milestones, the Spotlight rewards multiplier grows and grows, allowing everyone to earn more and more Rewind points from the Spotlight-ed challenge. Your trip up the Leaderboard gets supercharged with the help of everyone in the community.
Youโll need to act fast and complete the Spotlight challenge before the clock runs out! Otherwise, youโll get left behind.
New Top Play Types
Rewind challenges are based on real-life events โ sometimes, youโre Wemby filling up the stat sheet, while at other times, youโre Steph, sinking shots from the logo.
With this update, Top Plays can now include:
Possession-locked gameplay, where youโll control both teamsโ offenses.
โBarn Burnerโ type games, where the challenge is simple โ score as many points as possible. But you have to play as both teams and keep it close! In this mode, DPOYs need not apply.
โThree-pointers combinedโ challenges, where the task is that both teams must sink a certain amount of three-pointers. This is where great shooters are extra valuable!
โPoints combinedโ challenges, where both teams must combine for a set number of points. Thereโs plenty of wrinkles, though, such as keeping turnovers to a minimum. Now you need the best point guards and passers you can collect!
Top Plays Rewards Now Include Coins
By default, Top Plays reward coins for completion, and Top Plays will give milestone rewards for completing plays 5-7 and 1-4. Looking ahead, there will be special days with even more milestone rewards.
Expanded Rewind Rosters
Now weโll have (one of) the answers to the question: โHey, whereโs Player So-and-So?โ
We have expanded the Rewind rosters for each team. This means youโll see Top Plays focused on a wider variety of players than before. Steph, LeBron, Giannis and Luka are all superstars, but how about Zach Edey, Naz Reid and Malik Monk? More and more players will start popping up in Rewind.
Everything Else!
Style Cards will boost your teamโs attributes in Rewind.
If a user has a (Rare or above) Style Card for a team, that user's Rewind team will get a +1 buff to the attributes specific to the Style. Champion (max level) Style Cards earn a +2 attribute buff.
Courtside Points can now be earned by playing Rewind.
Now, when you play Rewind (both Top Plays and Replays), youโll also add to your Courtside Points, which gives players additional paths to earn that monthโs biggest Courtside Pass rewards.
Polish, polish, polish
Every release includes bug fixes and odds-and-ends, and with this update, youโll see:
Adjusted tuning for player AI in Rewind modes.
New opportunities within the game to pick up Rewind-focused Draft packs, and team-focused Style cards, right when you might want them.
A Rewind-focused tab in the gameโs store, along with additional offers to beef up your favorite teams accessible from Replays and Top Play screens.
Visual polish, especially to the Draft Board.
SMACK! That jump ball bug has seen its last day. Same for the visual bug in events and Rewind where your points and position arenโt reflecting on the leaderboard. The MyCards page will also accurately reflect how many cards you own.
Game includes optional in-game purchases and paid random items.