You guys managed to fix cheating for a whole 3 weeks and now they're all back and far worse than before.

On top of that, you've made contests damn near impossible on this quick stop cheese so it's pretty much impossible to register anything higher than a semi open.

Great game you've crafted.

The cheating and the sbmm on top of just not good gameplay has officially put nba 2k27 is probably the worst 2k I have ever played. Game is just not enjoyable whatsoever with cheating in every other rec game as a red plate. The devs refuse to do something about it or even acknowledge how horrendous the cheating is. I want these folks to load up on a red plate with red plate teammates and see how much fun they are having on this trash heap of a product. But if I quit the game because I don’t want to play a cheater I get banned.

You paid at least $70 for the game. Lord knows you probably paid at least $100 for one build, and a lot of us paid more than that for multiple builds.

You decided to turn on your console. You decided to choose nba 2k instead of any other game. You decided to pick MyCareer instead of any other game mode. You walked your ass over to the rec.

And when you get there you decide not to cross half court? You flop on the first fucking possession? You don’t play defense? (Note- not you suck at defense, I’d be fine with that. I mean they just fucking stand near half court).

Four games tonight, I finished none of them with more than one human teammate.

And I have to drop from gold back to silver because of that bullshit?

Thoughts on the build

Since season 2, shooting has been even easier. I have an 80 3 ball, my release speed is very quick cause I have a quick reaction. They said I zen but I really don’t. I got to HQ Crew and practice before going into any game. Another thing, a lot of y’all be sleeping on that default release. All im changing is the base and keeping upper release 1&2 at default. That default has a sweet release and a big green window. All you need, is to find your base. Like I said, I don’t Zen at all and you can see on how my release timing on the top left.

A lot of people talk about how they nerfed standing dunks and how hard driving dunks are but nobody seems to talk about how they just got rid of like every layup badge. Like no more giant slayer or slippery finisher. If you want to be a slashing guard there’s almost no point because you can’t get access to physical finisher, so you have to get dunks or there’s almost no point in driving.

NBA 2K27 has completely let the community down, failing to deliver the quality players deserve. Clunky gameplay mechanics and unaddressed bugs continue to ruin the core basketball experience, while unchecked cheating and Zen users run rampant, stripping away any sense of fair competition. To top it all off, the game’s aggressive VC system forces players into a pay to win grind that values wallets over actual skill. The community has voiced its frustration for years, but nothing ever truly changes, and the only way left to force real accountability and demand better quality is for players to hit them where it hurts and officially boycott buying the game next year.

I play solo REC and focus on winning!

I'm sitting 5 games under .500, but shooting 55% FG and 50% 3PT over my last 20 games.

Last game, I held a 99 mid/99 3PT matchup to just 8 points. I only took 4 shots and had 6 points because I was locked in on defense.

We were up 10 in the 3rd when the PF started toxic crying at our PG (who had 9 assists at the half). I tried to defuse the argument, and the PF turned on me, saying I was trash for only having 6 points. Never mind the fact that the moment I switched off my guy, he started torching us.

The casual REC community genuinely doesn't understand that defense wins games."

People will make 7+ builds before Halloween and then complain about 2K's "greed". 2K is not the problem here.

2k27 so realistic..

Everytime they have X2 rep a bunch of retards go to the rec and brick their first couple of shots then quit. Dumbest shit ever just go play theater stop going to random rec.

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I can’t lie I see a lot of these new goat builds get a lot of hate but in my opinion if you are good at the game this just makes you better. If you’re already a lock, you’re a legendary lock now which is annoying if you’re the player getting locked up, but if not super nice.

People complaining about the locked animations and stuff like that, but if you used to play All-Star team, we play now online when they had the player version. You are nice. I feel like they’ve done it to benefit those players also.

If you are good at the game and don’t need certain animations to make yourself better than these builds were definitely made for you.

Still a game winner tho

I think everyone can agree that the current state of AI is dubious at best. The one thing nobody mentions though is that AI would not be a problem(whether Op or Cones) if people didn't spam leave games the second things don't go their way. There are 2 things in this world I hate over anything else; cheaters and quitters. If you do either, I am just going to assume you have a loser mentality and are most likely a loser in real life too.

2K needs to start actually punishing leavers for leaving games. I don't load up the Rec to play with or against AI's.

Bro! Every game I run into cheaters. Why isn’t 2k doing anything about the Zen people? 😡🙄

These pgs keep chucking up shots and im running a 6”10 iso lock that so happens to have 86 pass acc….why is it that u pgs cant see the corner man open…..his right there….why cant you see the defense shift…..why cant u hit the man on the pick and roll or pop……you sell me and we lose so you can have 0.1 rep with 30 points on 30% shooting….whenever i get the ball i look at my surrounding and i hit the open man when i get doubled….then the center stops giving the pg the ball cause his a bum….he chucks it to me at half court and I just keep dishing it around cause the pg just can’t….i just want to play defense and dunk the ball I don’t want your responsibilities I stopped playing pg for a reason why can’t u just do your f’ing job. Now they’re looking at me and And DOUBLING me OFF the ball because the other teams knows ur low iq. TS is insane.

So I’m pretty close to finalizing this Center in the builder. The last thing I’m kinda torn on is if I should go 60 steal or not.

For those that have 60 steal how does it feel and do you feel it’s worth the investment?

I’m intereste on making this one

Still think this is the best 2k game in a while. Definitely the best one of the PS5 era. Keep in mind I only play random rec and play now online. I think people make this game more difficult than it needs to be. If you play the game with peace of mind and understanding that not every game will be perfect.. than it is a decent time. Also ... once you find out exactly what your place/role is (speaking to players who play 5v5 rec).. then the game actually gets better.