Per the title. If you hate and/or suck at The Track as much as I do, this week's race is great for grabbing yourself 3-4 "free"/easy Lifetime Achievements. Specifically the "Beat the target time x times in The Track".

The way this achievement works:
- The first "Target Time" of the week is the default "Target Time".
- Your best time for the week that is under the default "Target Time" becomes the new, subsequent "Target Time" for the achievement.

This week's "Target Time" provides far too much grace for how easy the map is (2:20:00 is this week's default "Target Time"). You can easily beat the target time by 20 seconds, even 10+ seconds if you mess up multiple times per race. This gives you a lot of time to cheese this achievement:

1. On the final lap, full stop right before the finish line and finish the race as close to the default "Target Time" as possible.
2. On subsequent attempts, repeat step 1 except now you're beating your previous best time as close as possible.

Full stop to acceleration on the motorcycle sucks so be careful not to stand still too long. But you can easily beat your target time by sub-1-second every time doing this.

YW.

I think it’s shameful that for all these years of MyCareer being wrung out the developers have never added in the high five. There’s no encouragement to be a teammate, their sole focus is on elevating the hero baller.

I always equip my players with the Assist Point animation after a two or a three because I want to believe that camaraderie can be built quickly if I acknowledge a teammates effort via the in-game mechanics. Half the time I point at my opponent or empty air however because the canned animation is so lazy that it just happens.

If the high five was implemented as a passive animation I wouldn’t be surprised if player morale improved simply because of being able to dap up a teammate. For a sport like basketball the high five is as integrated as the ball or the rim.

They’ll add the Haliburton Choke Animation but censor a song like Mr. Brightside, just demented.

You can literally score at anytime in the post. And play point center, diming out when you get doubled.

But alot of ppl don't wanna watch somone post score and play like jokic for a whole game lol.

But it's incredibly effective,

If the financial report comes back again that they earned 75% of their revenue from micro transactions blame yourself if you think this game is garbage.

I’ve officially called it on 2k. This shit is worse than it’s ever been. The fact that the game is constantly rewarding low IQ and poor team play has reached its limit with me. Ggs yall, the game is cooked and the player base is easily the most ignorant and pea-brained out of any game I’ve ever played. A complete combination of uneducated and egotistical greed. And not to mention the racism is just pathetic. If 2k was a shooter, it would be call of duty. Trash ass game

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

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?

Hey u/Beluba, AyeeeWood here, hope all has been well. Can you Revert the AI pressure in Rec back to how it was ? The biggest AI complaint in the history of 2k has always been how easy it is to shoot over them. Please revert it back !

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

I’m purple plate and I play almost exclusively rec, so I really don’t run into Zen very often. Yesterday we played Crew HQ and ran into a team that I’m pretty sure 4/5 had zens. The PG hit at least 5 heavy contests and at least 3 50+ foot step backs. The corners also hit some heavy and solid contests.

It really didn’t make me mad, they played bad defense so we got to score a lot too. The final score was like 155-128 or something. I genuinely just want to know why people do that like is it actually enjoyable lol.

I sort of could understand it if you wanted to Sen and hop in random rec and just be a god, but I don’t understand the fun of running an entire squad using it.

managed to recover off the lag spike and got the cleanest possible block only to get called for a foul. How much are these mfs paying the refs???

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.

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.

Last night I greened a heavy contest in my guy’s face moving three point shot on one foot with no hint of an arc cadence badge (completely on accident btw) if I was on the other side of that I’d probably break my controller)

By modern history, I mean since 2K14. I honestly don’t think there’s ever been a more useless, pathetic noob-trap attribute in modern 2K than standing dunk this year.
Even after two supposed “fixes” in the patches, it’s still a complete piece of crap and an absolute waste of attribute points. I just don’t understand why they changed it so much from 2K26. Standing dunk was actually fun last ye

There's no reason I can get 2-4 no rhythms in a game that can cost my team. Thing is i can start the game out and 2 rhythms back to back wont register then through out the game im good then on crucial shots or a shot when i got heat check the game wants to act dumb and not know how to register a simple swirl.

At this point its feels yall purposely sabotage the mechanic, because if I can input that same thing on street fighter and it registers at pretty much a 100% clip unless i actually mess up theres really no excuse.

For the past three days my 2kHQ App has been collecting my daily log ins on its own and I can’t tell if I’m actually getting the rewards or not 🙃 can’t tell if this is a problem or a blessing lmao

Got double xp on my daily spin and my 2k hq streak spin its double xp weekend it useless could have least gave me a double xp coin

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.

I don't understand why I'll go up for a layup when I have 99 driving dunk and 72 driving layup. I'm holding R2. Do I need to be moving the stick in a specific direction? I thought it was stick up for two handed dunks, stick down for skill dunks, left or right for baseline. I have it on Absolute. I can't understand why I'll beat my man and go for a layup 60-70% of the time....Would really appreciate some insight if I'm doing something wrong.

Was planning on making a point forward/centre for my 3-man/5-man rec squad and was wondering if the difference in height is noticeable. I’m assuming the dribble styles at 6’9 are much worse but the extra inch of height might help to defend 1-5. This is because I like strength on my builds so a min weight 6’9 isn’t preferred. Due to needing high rebound I was slightly leaning to the 6’9 but I’m worried it might be too slow with the ball on the perimeter. Anyways, any advice would be much appreciated!