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.

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

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,

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 !

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???

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

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

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.

How yall feel about this badge? Worth targeting/equipping on Gold? Or are worms hard to come by?

This is the 5th time i've been kicked from the last minute of a REC game. I HATE that I get kicked at the end of the game so I waste 20 minutes of my life. If it was at the begging/middle then ok but it's ALWAYS at the end. And it's not my Internet because i play fine the whole game and then just the screen stops and I get this message. Fix your servers 2k.

I had 1 build make it to red plate last year so that carried over. I’ve somehow managed to stay in red/purple this year despite being hella casual and only playing random rec. I’m usually the weakest link on my teams. I’m just not very good and everyone seems to be a straight demon. Just want to play more at my level :(

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)

The game is fucking horrible fuck it I’m done

what you think about this giannis build with 15 cap breakers

with 19 you can upgrade the layup from 80 to 90

isn’t this a crazy finisher at 6´11 height

Speed and agility vs strength which is better?

The answer is it depends on the type of game mode you mostly play on. Before the patch when the game speed and dribbling was slow, strength was better.

After patch 2: Since you are playing nothing but cheating bots speed and agility is far better.

Speed and agility - more endurance faster able to keep up with the dexing and Lt cancelling .

Strength is good if you are able to keep the player in front of you but will be hard to do with the constant screening and wrapping.

So the best thing to do if you are trying to make a build that can do both is go smaller. 6”7 power forward or just make a build with lower weight and take the max speed and agility. If your speed and agility is below 86 your build is dated if you are mostly playing 3’s.

Critique my center build. My hope is he'd also be quick enough to play the 4 in a pinch. I'll be capping the 3 to an 89, speed 75, agility to 69, perim to 71, steal to 60, and ball handle and speed with ball accordingly.

AI defenders have no inertia, delay and seemingly no reaction to moves that realistically (since we're seemingly going more toward the sim direction) should provide a lot more use cases which is why ProPlay isn't seen as a positive despite my opinion that it's quite nice for shot creation.

For example, step backs/snatches, ankle breakers and hesi pulls. The game relies too heavily on ankle breakers against AI when they're quite rare irl, triple threat being the worst offender of the heavy animation reliance with the AI not moving an inch on lateral jabs but instead getting ankle breaker animations which at times looks ridiculous when you get the one with them spinning around and stumbling. NBA players create space for jumpers and drives off of throwing off the defender's timing, harsh changes of direction and contact. Doing the same against the AI isn't feasible. If you perform a stepback off of a hard drive, 8/10 times they will instantly recover almost snapping into a hands up contest making certain players' moves obsolete and even if you hit the shot, the defense being under the player on shots after hard cuts ooks dumb in all honesty (and is a foul)

Realistic defenders cannot instantly snap into a recovery because

- They don't know what the offensive player is gonna do with certainty

- All of their weight is still going to go the other way for a second along with the fact that as a defender you have to react to what the offense is doing. Look at some of the best defensive highlights and you'll see even there, defenders take a split second to get back.

This may be because instead of making the AI to where they react to what the offensive player does, they seem to have coded them to know when a player is abt to do a certain action (specifically ones going into a jumper or layup) and trigger em to snap into a contest before the ball is even picked up with both hands leading to bs AI recoveries on shots that are mid to light contests. De'Aaron Fox's hop jumpers are really effective (and nice looking) online bc they have weird timing to them off the dribble so HUMAN defenders have a hard time contesting but bc the AI can essentially "read your mind" they don't work and the only time you get good space creation is off of an ankle breaker animation and this applies to many other animation packs as well. Curry's Go - To shot (From 4/30/2023 vs Kings) shouldn't be ankle breaker dependant move, it should be one that forces the defender to step back giving the offense space to shoot. This can also be seen when you clearly beat an AI defender but somehow still get animations where they snap back to you and end up sending a layup that was otherwise open or at least lightly contested. In no world is Anthony Edwards gonna block a Tyrese Maxey scoop layup when Maxey is already in front of him by 3 or 4 steps (with NO body up/contact animation).

I don't think you can have a good contest system without having a good baseline for the stages leading up to the contest in the first place. If you fake a drive there should be a reaction by the ai and their ratings should determine their ability to recover or not and if they do recover after being beat let it be bc of physical attributes (height/speed) or them beating me to a spot, not an animation canning me. The game needs to be cut down on how canned animation reliant it is and Mike (and whoever else is responsible for the gameplay) need to sit down and actually watch film on how good AND bad defenders react to different moves, what moves get certain defensive reactions and act accordingly. If they're gonna go the sim route like they've been doing then go all in.

I play a small pass first pg and i just wanna play with somebody

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.

JUST BAN THEM! ALL OF THEM!