2K Sports has pushed several updates to NBA 2K18 since the game released back in September. They’ve been tweaking everything from microtransaction prices, to your typical roster updates, to interesting new features like adding verification badges in The Neighborhood so you know if you’re playing with a real-life NBA player. 2K Sports dropped another one of these updates on Tuesday, and there was a very interesting bullet point in the patch notes NBA 2K18 made public on their Facebook page.
– Trivia will be re-enabled in the 2K Zone in MyCAREER once all consoles have received this update. If you have not yet tried it out, 2K Zone Trivia provides 25 VC for every question you answer correctly!
– Users will no longer experience a hang when attempting to read texts from Bryan in MyCAREER.
– Fixed an issue where Bryan would stop sending users texts to pick up their endorsement VC cheques in MyCAREER.
– Addressed a hang that could occur in the Gatorade Training Facility right before starting an activity.
– Addressed a case where some users were seeing their custom created shoes appearing differently in-game than how they looked in the editor.
– The camera will no longer focus on the crowd when play resumes when called right before a free throw in Pro-Am and Play Now Online games.
– Fixed a case where the playoffs would fail to advance after completing a round during an offline MyCAREER.
– Squads will now remain intact when choosing to Play Game after completing a Ruffles Tournament game
– Michael Jordan’s tongue should now look a little more Mike-like
Most of those notes are pretty standard for your typical patch until you get to the bottom of the list. If your initial response was “I don’t even know what it means to make a tongue more Mike-like,” I assure you, you are not alone.
Before the update on Tuesday, Michael Jordan’s tongue wasn’t a topic of NBA 2K18 conversation. It’s such a non-factor that I couldn’t tell you what was wrong with Jordan’s tongue before the patch, but thankfully, NBA 2K18 YouTuber iTzRease documented what Jordan’s tongue looked like before and after the patch.
Like iTzRease said in his video above, it’s clear something was wrong with Jordan’s tongue prior to the patch, but it’s such a minor issue that nobody really noticed it until 2K Sports brought attention to it in the patch notes.
Bryan Wiedey found the same results that ItzRease did. Whatever was wrong with Jordan’s tongue before the patch looks similarly wrong now.
A new patch for NBA 2K18 is noted to have made "Michael Jordan’s tongue…a little more Mike-like"
Here is what Jordan's tongue looks like now when dunking in 2K18. So, yeah, probably will take a fix in another patch for what they've done here. pic.twitter.com/fVk8hjaZFM
— bryan wiedey (@pastapadre) November 28, 2017
You have to appreciate the attention to detail on NBA 2K18‘s part here for trying to include something like Jordan’s signature tongue out gesture, but this one still needs some work.
