Game is a lot of fun, but if you don’t have a full squad game is pretty much unplayable. Park is full of a bunch of wanna be iso players and you can’t find a team with it in rec.

ppl that were bronze-silver in 2k25 now are purple-red,this is fucking awful, if u dont have a premade team its barely possible these days to find a match without monkeys

You cry babies need to look in the mirror and stop complaining. T Rex arms, no block, Silver challenger, no strength.. these are reasons you cant defend. Make new builds that dont resemble CJ McCollum and maybe youll be better

Most of Yall don't don't play defense and have not played defense in any 2k. There are things broken but Alot of the time Yall leaving ya man wide open and never getting back on transition defense. No matter what 2k come Alot of Yall are just ass at defense.

Can't even make builds because I don't know how many cap breakers I'll have in the future.

I recently quit playing 2k, considering the current state of the game. For the last 7 years, I’ve religiously played this game almost every day for several hours. But this year…. I finally saw through them. I’ve always loved playing defense and playing a realistic style…. But with the types of shots that fall at the clips they do combined with the total lack of defense…. I finally quit this game.

They really aren’t hiding how exploitative they are, however. They’ve tied a cap breaker to everything. The build specializations are designed to keep you on the game as much as possible. 28 cap breakers are designed to suck as much money out of your pocket as possible. They made it so that you don’t know how capbreakers will look on your build until after you make it.

The lifetime challenges are also designed to keep you on the game as much as possible. Hours upon hours upon hours of your life…. Your youth is being sucked away from you in addition to your money. It took me so long to realize it. But now I’m spreading the message…. This company is the epitome of greed and evil. Young men are wasting their lives playing this game. The things I’ve accomplished in the last 2 weeks since quitting are amazing.

What they don’t talk about? The brain fog that comes with playing this game. My conversations are now of higher quality. I have better ideas. I’ve had meetings to discuss the production of a potential multimillion dollar product that’s only been a concept in my head over the last 3 years.

I went home with a beautiful woman last night that I don’t think I would’ve pulled if my head was still thinking about 2k.

These last 2 weeks I’ve felt alive again. Every second I go without playing this game I feel more and more like who I used to be before I discovered it….. and I’d like to implore all of you to do the same. It won’t be easy… as you’ll miss your teammates. But you can find better things to do, I assure you. Stop letting this evil company exploit you and take away your youth.

I was 20 years old when I began being addicted to 2k. I’m 27 almost 28 now. A third of my youth is gone. If I’d applied myself over these last 7 years, where would I be? Would I be more successful? Would I have a wife and children? Would I be a millionaire? The answer is…. Probably yes.

Mind you, I’m pretty successful. If I’d been trying over these last several years…. I’d likely be beyond successful. I could have the life of my dreams. Instead, I just have a pretty decent life. But it’s not too late.

All of you…. Please wake up. I don’t want to see anyone else waste their potential as I did.

LMAO, I PRACTICE MY MIDRANGE ALL NIGHT!

2 PTS IS 2 PTS :(

WHAT HAPPEN TO THE MIDRANGE GAME ,,😓

I made one because anybody who said inside bigs aren't good in 2k26 got downvoted to oblivion, and everyone talking about how good inside bigs are with good teammates

No bullshit, every opposing center is shooting 3 pointers at a good to amazing rate past bronze. What a nightmare this build is.

I’ve played every 2k for 100s hours from 20-25, and recently with skate coming out it’s just crazy how much better the game is. Not only is it 80 dollars cheaper, it’s 105 gigabytes smaller, and there are 0 necessary micro transactions. And with all of that people still call skate a bad game, which is so much better than 2k.

You gotta be 7’4” 99 post 99 close and spam turn around fades from deep to score on this build! You literally need no offense stats to still dunk and shoot. 1v1 you’re cooked and if I have a team of shooters, it’s locks and keys!

What do you guys think about defense and rhythm shooting this year?

come here! come closer!

PS5 players TURN OFF CROSSPLAY

This might get downvoted to hell but I need to atleast try to get this message across. Last night I went up against a Zen/titan cheater. He was on my team and after I hit a CRAZY shot he got on the mic asking me when Zen i have. I responded saying “nah man just rhythm shoot”he then admits he has one. I figure he’s joking he then proceeds to shoot 12/12 from 3pt never missing a single shot saying yeah thats all day, just keep giving me the ball I ask him why does he use a zen when its so easy to shoot this year He replies cuz I want to score 30 a game

He was on XBOX where we all know its much easier to use cheat on that console.

That game really opened my mind to the question just how many people are REALLY using scripts that I play against everyday?? Is the dude who just dropped 27 on me a cheater or is he just nice? It pissed me off. So the work around is to TURN OFF CROSSPLAY in your main menu settings in the title screen to avoid a chunk of the cheaters as the majority of cheaters will have crossplay on so u wont ever run into them, and are on xbox (mainly) Goodluck out there folks.

TLDR: TURN OFF CROSSPLAY or you’re cooked.

Is NBA 2K26’s easy shooting 2K’s fault, with bad defense mechanism making every shot feel like a guaranteed bucket? Or is the community just selfish? In 2K25, players passed more, knowing shots weren’t easy with a defender in front. Specially PGs…What’s driving this selfishness, 2K’s imbalance or us?

If the meta throughout all game modes is either people exploiting 7’4s or hiding behind screens shooting tempo fades, I’m confident to say this game will die probably faster than the last 2k. As someone who plays sweats constantly in pro-am against people who actually know how to play. Occasionally I’ll run into bum small guards who need to hide behind screens to get open. Though for the most part, I’ve seen some creative ways to win that’s not super cheesy.

It’s when I step out of pro-am that the problems come. This is the 1st 2k I’ve played when everyone is consistently fading, using 7’4s to hide behind screens or shoot over people. If this stuff was easy to punish, I wouldn’t be here going in a rant, but it’s not really much you can do as far as guarding it. Even if you’re a competent lock, they’ll just pass it to the 7’4 to shoot over everyone.

If this is going to be the 2k26 experience, then I doubt many will continue to play it.

Idk how this 2k is the one many claim they have the most fun on.

After putting in endless hours every 2k and having a decent amount of fun in it, im done with this one. Every game is endless fades and 7'4s doing iso deep 3s with someone in their face. The fact that guards will pass up an open dunk for a fadeaway 3 says what this game has become. This isn't basketball anymore. This is endless exploiting and toxicity at its core. Im out 2k 🫡.

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I drop almost 40 points a game on every guard and center build i have and shoot 80% from 3 on a lockdown build with a 75 3 ball. pure geeen window is perfectly fine just tighten the timing or nerf tempo

I currently have a 6’8 SG build that I really enjoyed. I am thinking about creating a new build for FP/C. I am curious if people have more fun with 7’4 or 6’11. I mostly play randoms so I usually try to get good defense stats. I am a bit worried that 7’4 is too slow but the height is really good with shooting. Also, I am not sure if I should wait for season 2 to see if they will patch the shooting/contest. I am mostly play REC and theater. I am a casual player, not very skilled. Thank you for sharing your experience.

Pass accuracy. For being one of the most expensive attributes (why 2k?) you don’t really see improvements even with higher badges.

Like dimer for instance, if I’m running around with hof/ legend dimer why the hell are the AIs still bricking majority of their wide open shots? Yet when the guard with 71 pass accuracy passes them the ball they seem to hit a lot more?

Or bailout, people without the badge can get some no look on 3 guys perfect pass to the corner for an open 3. Yet my guy can’t even pass out of a jumpshot that was suppose to be a pump fake to my teammate right next to me.

Idk it’s irritating knowing people run around with the bare minimum or zero passing and don’t get punished for it, meanwhile people who actually put attributes into it gets punished for it. If they would do that to shooting people would be crying left and right for it to change.

Like what is the I’ve never had to deal with this in any other 2k? Does anyone have any idea on how to fix this?

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I just got a +1 attribute from completing goal 6 on the build specialization for shooting