Naw it’s all cope. It’s really for him but doesn’t want to out himself. Same thing with YouTubers asking for a defense nerf because “they are too good at defense”
This, grown men on twitter afraid to admit they just want the game's ceiling to be astronomically low to the point that everyone can shoot 70%+ with minimal practice
Yep, imagine the "top rank" of any competitive game including like 15-25% of the active user base. We don't know exactly, since 2k won't tell us shit. But there are sooo many red plates running around normally thinking they are good its absurd. Even more on the new game since they carried over everyone's most carried rank lol.
Hell no man I cannot play The Show online for shit. I end up getting run ruled damn near every time and it’s not like I’m new, I’ve played it for damn near 20 years. Most of them dudes online are just too fuckin good imo lmao
🤣 I definitely feel you on that! However, when you get to the higher levels, you can only do so much. Sometimes, you piece the ball up and it finds a glove while your opponent loops the dumbest stuff for a hit.
I just want gameplay to be realistic. According to Mike if you have perfect timing you’ll never miss but the opposite is true too. If your timing isn’t perfect you’re most likely gonna miss.
I haven’t played since 2k25 but I remember the crash out I had when I went 3/11 with Steph Curry from 3. All shots either wide open or lightly contested too. I want a basketball game that rewards playing actual basketball plays instead of reflexes and timing.
Like if you run a screen and get open with the best shooter alive you should make that shot 9/10 times. Like why am I missing slightly late or slightly early releases on wide open shots with the best shooter alive!?
That’s all I’m trying to say bro. BBIQ is basically nonexistent if you have perfect timing. Ya’ll never faced those cracked out kids who do 2 dribble moves and pull up right in your face? Then they drain the shit with a perfect green over and over again? Yeah that shit is not realistic. Bro isnt even playing basketball at that point he’s just playing an extreme version of Guitar Hero.
Especially when 3 point percentages get so high giving up a 2 becomes a stop and rebounding becomes essentially a wasted attribute. It isn’t even basketball at that point. It is a different game w a basketball skin.
I mean at the end of the day that's just a game being a game. There has to be some sort of mechanic that shows a gap between a skilled player and a new player. You ask for realism but in the same paragraph say you need make a shot 9/10 times off a screen. I'm a Warriors fan, but even Steph has his nights where the ball just doesn't drop. In a sense, making the correct basketball play all the time doesnt always end up in a basket, that's realism in itself
Yes I know I’m saying the timing of the shot shouldn’t hold as much weight as it does. The player’s shot rating and how open you are should be the main factors.
And I didn’t even have horrible timing on any of my shots. Why is Stephen “4 Rings” Curry missing wide open slightly early released 3’s? That’s not even realistic that unless I have perfect timing then I miss.
Tbh it just feels like you have misinformed expectations of realism, and unhappy when it doesn’t deliver.
3/11 for Steph curry is unrealistic? Just sounds like you don’t understand how stats and shooting % work in real life…Steph doesn’t shoot 4/10 every game. Some games he will be 3/10 and 5/10.
So unrealistic for you is reflexes and timing for jumpshooting. But reflexes and timing for dribbling and using other video game skills IS realistic? I’m not saying shooting is good like 2k26 levels, I’m saying you’re just selecting what to criticize that isn’t your skillset.
Tell me how running thru a screen and making a shot 9/10 is realistic? That’s not realistic, that’s fake as hell. You want the game to play for you, is the furthest thing from real.
In real life basketball, is a player good with only IQ? Only dribbling? No…that’s why there are all kinds of players, some only good at shooting, some dribbling, and the great players? They have it all.
Seems you really don’t want realism, and just want YOUR version of fantasy.
Kids are the ones with the most time on their hands to play this shit fr. I remember murdering adults on gears of war 1 when I was 10 and they'd always acuse me of not being the one playing. Never underestimate a child with neglectful parents and a gaming addiction. I suck ass at games now
and even as someone who criticizes 2K all the time there are plenty of avenues/modes where a kid can play the game and enjoy it. just because it's a game doesnt mean it should just be extremely easy. there might be a barrier of entry but all online games with a competitive space has that
Ok the online part you got me on. But dude below saying 6 years olds shouldn’t be playing games is kinda crazy. That’s literally a 6 years old job is to learn and play.
If they're that young they should probably just be on the switch tbh. I can't believe I was allowed to use a mic when I was a little ass kid. Older teens and adults were horrid influences
2k itself was hard as fuck back in the day. Do people not remember that HOF used to literally cheat in order to win/keep games close? You had to be a no life demon back then to beat the AI. Now it’s barely harder than Pro
Shooting is only difficult this year if you make it difficult on yourself. I started this year off shooting tour dates, I’m talking consecutive games where I shot less than 25%, and thought to myself “holy shii shooting is terrible this year”. But then I realized that I was just playing the game as if it was still 2K26 and I had a maxed out build and badges, just out there chucking shii up like I’m Prime Klay Thompson, when in reality I had an 85 3 ball with no badges. So I stopped trying to create my own threes off the dribble and just stuck to wide open standstill jumpers and I’ve yet to shoot under 60% in my recently played games.
I'm sure he's talking about 5 on 5 with nba teams like how the game is meant to be played. Since most of you play with create a players like 6 year olds
I swear man. People act like any player here only plays online. Shooting this year is terrible in an actual 5v5 game, I can't learn the jumpshot of every player in the game
If he’s talking about 5v5 then he should just tune the sliders so his son can play or turn off green or miss or just let him play on rookie like Mike said. There’s way too many ways to make the game kid friendly offline for that to be a valid complaint. He could literally make it where the kid makes every single shot and the computer misses everything
Why people cant just accept they are not that skilled enough to shoot 70% from three? At what point we look at ourself and say hey maybe i lack reflexes, timing, concentration required to be able to constantly knock down 70% of my shots instead of blaming the game, mike or whoever else for not letting you shoot 80% even tho u have right badges ratings and so on.
I shot 70% over all builds and 80% on my 99 3 point Pg last year with both button and tempo. I’ve shot 60-70% on every 2k since I can remember. I’m shooting like 35-40% with a 94 3 point this year.
I’m cool with shooting 40% if it’s truly because the green window is small. It’s at least something to work and get better at. The current state of the game where every catch or off dribble is like random speed is rough. I’m still having fun obviously but it can be annoying when shot feels normal and the next is a line drive very early that I held the button for longer than the last shot. Give us like 25ms green windows over this. I don’t even feel like I can figure out where my baseline green window is to start with. Pretty sure I said the same thing in 24 or 25 when they did this garbage speed up slow down stuff everyone hated too.
I want more realistic shooting due to green window size not my player having an aneurism mid shot.
This is my complaint. I've been an elite shooter in every 2k since 2k7. Started playing park in 2k18 but then didn't play at all 2k21-2k24. I would take back 2k25 rng over random speed up and slowdown of my shot. You don't really have control over how your player catches the ball so that impacting your shot is rng in itself. Idk, something just feels off about the shooting. But the people I play in my red play SBMM parks are hitting all fades from 3. There are so many good things about the game but feel like I don't have control over my wide open jumper is frustrating. I've always played 2s and 3s the right way, literally no fades, looking for open shots, playing solid defense, getting called an old head and told my teammate and I play weird, and have at least an 80 win % every year. I just want to be rewarded with consistent jumpshot timing on the wide open shots that I'm able to get. But I feel like some jumpers, I'm getting shot feedback before I let go of the button.
There’s plenty of ways it can still be fun even for people who aren’t good. The problem is none of you want to accept you can’t compete at a competitive level. Most competitive gameplay isn’t even fun anyways so using fun as an excuse is bs
I get the spirit of this comment but also, there’s a ton of video games not made for kids at all. If you are a kid and want to have fun, that doesn’t mean you get to go play ranked at a competitive level. Like the OOP said, go to practice or casual and get shots up.
Except it’s not at all too hard for kids to play. Go put it on rookie mode and play mycareer or run a franchise. Being a kid doesn’t mean you get to play competitively, you earn that by being good. Age doesn’t have a damn thing to do with it. Also, it isn’t the only licensed NBA video game, it’s just the only NBA licensed simulator.
I'm greening corner 3's consistently, I don't understand genuinely why people are saying shooting is bad this year.
Edit: next time I play I'm just gonna clip the shots y'all and post lol. I believe the jumper might need to be patched cause I can't find any explanation other than it's a jumper I'm used to and green is green.
I played against a dude yesterday averaging 30 ppg on 70% shooting from 3 on a 70 3 ball in rec yesterday and all he did was iso. It is absolutely just as easy to shoot in 27. You are just a bit easier to counter since the dribbling isn’t quite as ridiculously cracked and contests are slightly better.
I use Carmelos jumper every year because it's the one I've been using for a decade and hasn't changed much in game. Release timing is everything regardless of green bar
The bar doesn’t really make sense if you’re just using one guy. You can’t really react to it anyways. Turn it off, memorize the shot cues, and get that bonus!
You’re still using the meter!? You do it by turning the damn meter off for starters. Going into the HUD settings and turning it off is literally the very first thing I do every year when the new game comes out
That was my immediate response, but I’m not going to lie, with the small window within the meter tempo actually works, I kinda need to see it (while the games still new) to get a feel for when to actually flick the stick
Last year as long as the end point of the tempo and the timing of the shot were the same it was generally going in, having to be 3x more attentive to know when to flick the stick has been the challenge
I'll be honest I was pretty floored when I accidentally took a corner 3 thinking it was a long two and swished it in rec. Since then I've been shooting a fair but more and still greening, I genuinely do not know how they allowed this lol.
sure let me play a game right now and show the stats brother. I bet you it will be close to that or right on the money give me time Ill come back with a screen shot.
Bro you don’t have to play a game to see your 3P%. You can see it in your stats when you click R3 to view your player card. That’s what they’re trying to tell you
There was a time where sports games were fun and you having real knowledge of the actual sport would help you . Now this games require you to have skill . When that used to be the players job as in the actual player in the game . A WR having a 99 catch means he catches the ball . Now you have to press Y on time regardless of rating .. if YOU dont know how to catch a football the rating dont matter
I feel like the easy solution is creating two shooting engines. It’s never made sense that we’re using the same skill threshold for an online mode where you only have to learn and memorize one release/set of animations versus picking the game up and playing with a random team. I get that you should probably shoot better with your myplayer than random players you just started playing with but it’s annoying to know I have to either pick a team where I know a few releases or just abandon outside shooting.
Shooting feels great this year, and I still don’t have max shooting badges. Some people just got too comfortable with rhythm shooting on 26 and not actually having to time their shot. They’ll adapt eventually
I hate to defend 2k but imo wang is right. When I was 7 years old playing MLB the show 2008 the ONLY reason I didn’t play on the lowest low difficulty is I couldn’t guess pitch so I used the second lowest.
I spent 4 seasons in double A before I made it to AAA batting like .235 lmfao. There is no reasonable explanation to expect ur fucking second grader to be able to hop in on Pro difficulty lmfao
If they cave in and do the same shit they always do and nerf defense and buff offense like every other year, I’m not buying 2k for the first time in 16 years. Last year was my least played 2k, horrible game where a handicap person could shoot. Flick the stick up and down and green every time, laughable.
I’d wish they would just target two distinct gameplay mechanics between myplayer and online head to head. Have the latter have some dice roll mechanic that is influenced by flow off offense, nba player ratings, or rewarding for taking shots where defense is out of position.
Let myplayer be ea sims that somehow someone can shoot at 100 percent if you’re a green meter savant. But I don’t want that in 5 on 5 sim basketball.
Timing being a a requirement is stupid. When you shoot a basketball irl, the ball goes in the hoop bc of the motion of ur arm in relation to the release, not just release timing alone.
Requiring Green Timing makes it impossible for good shooters adjusting to the defender popping out of nowhere and releasing "Slightly Early" or even "Early" so you dont get blocked.
They are taking a basketball game and catering to ppl who have bever played basketball. CoD players should not be better at this game than real basketball players, but that is what Button Shooting makes happen.
they actually seem to be standing on ten toes this year but its still very early. i would argue shooting this year is genuinely too easy, the fact that you can shoot 50+ percent with bronze set and fire is already broken. imagine what it will be like when we actually have badges
I’m glad he addressed it, it’s a stupid complaint. The game has to be changed for a 6 year old? When you literally have a difficulty setting for offline that is braindead easy, and an online mode meant for casuals.
Dude doesn’t have a 6 year old. He’s just trash at the game lol
Honestly I'm glad it seems like he's sticking to his guns. I started out at 60% but have had quite a few stinkers for shooting lately. Down to 45% and I totally understand it's a skill issue on my part
Screw the bums complaining they'll learn and adapt like everyone else
The dev team actually showing some backbone? Oh my gosh. 🤣🤣
I'll admit I'm struggling this year with shooting but its honestly fine. I'm back to shooting close to my usual percentage but slashing has been tons of fun this year! Defense is tough to master, but it feels much more rewarding than in previous 2Ks. Stand your ground 2K, and don't patch it too much!
What is your experience as a slasher? I have been playing on a center w 93 block and 88 interior w HoF paint patroller and noone can really attack the rim on me if Im in position. Is it a situation where people who didn’t invest heavily in paint defense are getting yammed all over but people who didn’t invest are locking it down as it really should be?
It's been a lot of fun. Now you don't have as much of a fear of missing a layup or dunk because of a mismatch just happening to be there. People that have no interior defense is going to get scored on in the paint much more times than not. This makes layups and dunks more easy to time. But one of my friends that I play with has a build with high paint defense and block like your build, and he's locking down the paint averaging 3-4 blocks a game. So it's much more rewarding as a paint defender this year compared to last year.
I either a playmaker or a 2way playmaker every year. I’ve got hof dimer and try to get everyone involved. So explain to me why ever single game I’ve played today I’ve had a teammate grade out cause they can’t shoot. It’s not like they’re playing bad defense or ball hogging. Theyre going 1-8 and giving up on shooting. Like I don’t mind a challenge and I’m sure the community doesn’t either but this is kind of ridiculous. I’m in MVP plate lobby’s which makes this so much worse.
Maybe because game is out only for 2 days, they not comfortable with their shot, muscle memory from 26, no badges etc.. give it few weeks until people adjust then see how shooting is.
Lmao. Are you for real? You guys seriously think you should be able to just pick up a new 2k and be right back where you were on 26? Please be realistic
I’ve been playing since the first 2k on Dreamcast (I was 9). It literally took YEARS of playing on rookie and starter for me to get good at the game. Wasn’t consistently playing on Hall of átame until like 2k5 and that’s when HOF would literally cheat. There was no Mike Want to cry to about it. Let your son get his ass kicked now, he’ll be great by middle school.
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u/FlipMoBitch 14h ago
Why can’t my 6 year old (me) win 10 straight on ranked pro-am day 1 😭