The lockdown homies on my team that I run with told me to tell yall that they want their contests and steals back. Not ghost contests or spamming steals either but good blitzes and less getting shot over when they are there💯 #NBA2K27
I don’t think 3 hunting is unrealistic. But don’t be dense you know people are talking about big hold screens for 20 secs and guard left righting the whole shot clock to shoot up a contested 3 that should be a miss 90 percent of the time. And then the only pass they have to make is the damn slip. It’s repetitive and boring. That’s why 2k league died. Playstyles were trash. And no I’m not saying rim running is the solution. But we’ve had meta PNR lineups for the last 6-7 years. It’s old and boring. Yes PNR should be utilized but not the the point where people are exploiting it, possesion after possesion while you have 3 people on offense just standing still
As we progress and look forward to @NBA2K addressing the community’s #SaveTheGame movement. There’s something special about our community and certain developers picking up these older 2K games we love and giving them the care and support they deserve.
On this topic, we’ve spoken long ago on the design of older 2K’s being built on Realistic aspects of basketball to guarantee the player’s gameplay isn’t completely unrealistic but with an arcade-esque, non-archetype-specific gameplay experience that we’ve all unknowingly loved and was slowly watered down as we progressed from 2K15 -> 2K27. We’d love for this to be a 2K standard again. It’s near impossible to enforce uber realism & RNG whilst feeling rewarding in gameplay with a controller in a player’s hand. As players, we can mesh together different ideas of gameplay variations with different animations and mechanics in the game.
For some, they couldn’t put this idea of 2K they wanted into words and resulted to plainly saying they preferred an older 2K. We want you guys to comment your favorite 2K and let us know why you think it was so fun to play and your favorite aspect about it. We’ll be giving away $1,000 to commenters to endorse the fact that your feedback means everything. Leave your Cashapp Tag alongside your comment, speak your mind, and add #SaveTheGame.
The sad part is originally he had the blueprint. Despite the criticism to give credit where its due… he created some of the best basketball games in the past that collectively gave us all alot of joy to play for the last decades. Ruining your own game and legacy to please a bunch of reddit users and realism fanatics is a pathetic way to go out man #NBA2K27
Honestly while we still have the audience, we'd love to delegate our development power to help 2K revive it's old titles and their series entirely alongside the community. We're also incredibly versed in 2K's legacy and semi-modern game protocol. The community doesn't want 2K itself to expire but to genuinely reshape it's formfactor because it isn't working for us in it's current state. While it has turned into a trend to downplay 2K's efforts, its undeniable, thousands of users don't complain for 0 reason.
With 2K's recent actions against our socials & platform and that we can foresee the same actions be taken against the other community projects that are active, to be safe, it's best if we temporarily pause all active online Revival Services & Downloads while we attempt to navigate this journey safely. If we can safely conclude we can operate this safely, access can be re-opened at the click of a button.
defender stands in front of me
-i fumble the ball
defender looks at me
-light context
i get 10 steps past my man
-superman chasedown block
defender plays bad defense
-still glues onto me while i cant move
i see defender used all his adrenaline
-still spams and gets a steal
This is 100% true💯
After using 99 dunk myself yesterday in REC,
you CANNOT brain dead paint mash vs Good Teams/Builds
We just need speed ups removed, spam steals addressed & passing fixed.
Auto bumps toned down until the guard has low stamina.
I’m gonna keep my list to 5 items today
Ghost contests are OD
Passing still horrific
Game still spiking/chopping
Airspace OP
Speed ups on open shots still
Also cheaters still cheating but we know this
2k dug its own grave this year making the lockdowns so overpowered and will overcompensate with patches now to cover for it. People making 99 dunk builds to take contested drives and wanting contested shots to go in are all a product of it being so difficult to create enough space relative to the defense. It’s just too difficult for the majority to create space. If the movement wasn’t so nerfed we wouldn’t need for anything contested to go in and can then faithfully rely on a good contest system directly combating getting open shots to create the skill gap. The offense formidability compared to the defense is very clearly unbalanced and they will never address it because they are scared to death of “cheesing” despite not giving us limited competent movement to create space for open shots vs any competent lockdown spamming and bumping you.