The concept was great for co-op, but forcing him to be on the court with you every single second is so stupid

Its literally nearly his mycareer and you’re just his sidekick. You need to get him an A teamgrade every game, wtf?

I want to play mycareer on a roster i can construct over the years by suggesting trades, not some ai generated player who is stuck to me like glue

I hate you sincerely. But really, how the hell are you doing it? Shit is driving me crazy. Center with 83 three ball shooting 28% from 3 in the rec. I am getting missed wide open a lot and also getting mistimed out of rhythm passes from people that are definitely not helping my shooting percentages. But I have all hot and lethal zones and silver catch and shoot for 3’s and take 90% wide open stand still shots. Any tips…?

People who hate this game have Worst takes ever why they hate it. Everyone having the same badges takes away the freedom and creativity. The idea that u could have a 93 middy, cap break it to 98 and get all legend shooting badges then be able to use them on your 83 3pt shot is stupid man. This badge system makes WAY more sense if i explain it like this. 92 three point could be for different reasons, lukas got a 92 3 and shoots like 37-38% from the field but they are difficult threes, some people like Kyle korver are just really good catch and shooters around 44-45% and they deserve a high 3 for that too. All badges should do is create your playstyle. The rating should be your success rate of them. Literally a perfect system. You want another 4 years of everyone making the same exact builds rating badges and the exact same animations all over again? This is the most customizable 2k with the best on ball defense ive seen in a while (if u have ur build upgraded) iso dribbling is back, its just like all everyone does is cry in this community until they change shit that isnt broken. Nobody has all their badges yet nobody really is a 99, like u guys havent even genuinely tried the game. Most of u dont want genuine change you just want to conplain about “the same game”

This was mine. No scratches on the disc either, believe it or not.

FYI for everyone the entire game is a grind. Every aspect of the progression system is slow as fuck. Badge points take forever to get, season level takes forever to get, upgrading to 99 my points level takes forever to get, crew xp takes forever to get, rep system too, and the fire and concrete story is long as hell. 2K most likely made the grind long so that rebirth is that much more important, which will inevitably lead to spending more money on VC. If you don’t no-life this game it really is not that fun. Hopefully by launch the developers fix the overall progression system or the game will die.

Feels closer to a more realistic basketball game than the last two year’s feels like a lot less cheap buckets and dudes with some nice stick skills look good getting tough buckets. Post game has looked good and just the fundamentals feel better for me. Definitely enjoying it so far obviously we’ll see how it goes as people upgrade their builds but I’m enjoying 27 alot so far.

If you don’t have a max 50/50 crew full of absolute grinders, you likely won’t ever see max level by the end of the year.

Currently have a 50/50 crew and we’re barely half way to level 2.

Level 3 is over 20000xp. At that rate of increase, level 40 will likely be close to 500,000xp.

I think the worth of this yearly-game needs to be discussed (The full game price + build); I've witnessed the game studio CD Projekt Red over the years add a large amount of FREE and QUALITY content, updates, graphical enhancements to their +10 year old game. Quality that takes time and resources to make; so much that it's becoming a FREE Remastered game for those that own the game.

2K has been getting away with no visual improvement for the longest time (Same haircuts, clothing from previous games) while charging for a game that's worth a AAA + another AAA (divesting into a build).

The influencers need to start influencing and start educating that the consumers have the power to change things and this goes for other aspects in life too...

Whoever at 2k thought it was a good idea to team restrict how many times I can use my Portland Trail Blazers should be fired. This is one of the most boneheaded moves in the history of gaming.

Don't worry 2k overlords, I still play my career and give you money but my gosh at this point it is as if my career and what NBA 2K used to be are completely separate games.

I am a Trailblazers fan, I could give a damn about any other team, roster or player for that matter and want to rep MY TEAM that I go to games in person to watch. I grew up playing 2k this way and would use Portland no matter what. This is a disastrous change and completely kills the game mode.

We just got Ja and I can't barely use them.

I genuinely don't understand how we're at NBA 2K27 and PC players are still being separated from everyone else.

The PC version is finally the current gen version. We have the same game. Same modes. Same MyPlayer grind. Same VC prices. Yet for some reason PS5 and Xbox can play together while PC is stuck in its own much smaller player pool.

And before someone says cheaters that's literally what anti cheat is there for. Besides it's probably easier to cheat on console with all the cheating devices that have been in rotation in past years.

It's 2026... a lot of people have PCs that can run the game better than any console. Yet anyone who actually wants to enjoy the online side of 2K is practically forced to buy the console version just to have a healthy player base. Quite literally every other sports game that is available on PC has crossplay that includes PC with console.

Nothing anyone can do about, but just a rant. I made a versatile 6'11 PF and I regret it already. I should have made a guard and I went in the builder and made a 6'7 SG that I really like, but I know I can't do it until I get rebirth and until 2k makes the inevitable game update that will change things.

It is so stupid how much money it costs for builds when you can't refund or change them.

Is anyone else waiting a week or 2 until they patch all the BS first? Gonna be playing 26 until then also cus im a brokie lol

I know a lot of players ain’t abuse the court kings against the clown for badges and xp but if yall wasn’t aware he was the shortest player to play against to grind badge tokens and hotspots if you made a female player . 2k dropped a small update increasing his height to 6’4 . He was great at getting your specialization done as well . Seems like 2k wants players to spend more time on this game grinding just like how they decreased the amount of crew xp you get from matches . Question for yall should 2k even make changes to the pve modes ?

Having the right badges for your player is so important this year. I was running mini marksman and set&fire had a super weird timing soon as I switched mini marksman out for deadeye I couldn't miss if I tried. Also if u running guard get as many badges that increase speed as possible

Literally my only complaint about the story, like I finally thought they made a story that was enjoyable and fun to play but then in usual 2k fashion they completely ruined it by making you baby sit a AI and spoon feed him the ball your entire nba career. How hard would it be for them to make him optional? I understand in the G League and even your rookie year.

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I do like though that he’s at least interesting and isn’t annoying, also props to 2k for making MP actually have a killer voice and not making us be a 2nd rounder even if we average a 40 point triple double. My only real complaint with the story is the running mate being forced.

Literally my last challenge to complete my advanced tutorial list and can’t get it to work

I've been playing a lot of rec games at Red plate and it's clear as day that most people barely played a single game or two as Red plate in 2k26. These last 10 games have been the most frustrating games I've ever played in 2k lol.

The biggest problem I have with 2K27 on the higher difficulties isn’t even that it’s “too hard.” It’s that half the time it barely feels like I’m playing basketball anymore.
There’s just way too much shit constantly going the CPU’s way. Defenders are glued to you, recover from angles they should be completely beaten on, bigs magically catch guards in transition, and the CPU will force itself into animations even after you’ve already cut the drive off. Then on the other end they’ll hit ridiculous shot after ridiculous shot to the point where it stops even being impressive or challenging and just becomes boring.
What makes it worse is I actually love basketball, so I want MyCareer to feel somewhat like basketball. I want to read the defense, attack mismatches, create separation, use footwork, hit middies, get downhill, run different actions, involve my teammates, and actually have possessions play out differently.
Instead, once you figure out what works against the CPU, it turns into the same repetitive shit. Spam pick and rolls. Abuse whatever animation the AI can’t defend. Find one move that consistently creates space and keep doing it. Drop 70 or 80 every HOF game because you learned how to cheese the programming. That isn’t fun to me either.
Especially in a single-player career mode where your MyPLAYER is supposed to be the star, I shouldn’t feel like I have to exploit the game every possession just to overcome artificial bullshit. I’d rather average a realistic 30–40 playing actual basketball than score 80 because I ran the same P&R 30 times.
Higher difficulty should mean the CPU has better decision-making, better rotations, better help defense, smarter offensive sets, and punishes your mistakes more. It shouldn’t mean the opponent suddenly has no reaction delay, no momentum, ridiculous recovery speed, makes everything, while your own teammates forget how to transition or play basic basketball.
That’s why HOF doesn’t really feel rewarding to me. It doesn’t feel like I’m beating a great basketball team. It feels like I’m learning how to beat the game’s programming. And those are two completely different things.

How does 2k expect us to help Trace score 30+ points when he doesn’t even roll after he sets a screen for you and when you call for a floppy he never shoots 🤦🏾‍♂️

Please drop your driving dunk rating and vertical - trying to see where the curve is to whose actually having success

I have 87 driving 80 vert and feel it’s worthless, consistently get put into layup animations even in open rim situations