How to permanently fix cheating in #NBA2K27 Step 1: disable shot meter in online gamemodes. No one should be using it regardless, it is not only handicapping new players into not understanding their jumpers, but also making them miss out on 10% boost. It has also been confirmed by @Beluba to be completely inaccurate in regards to bounce backs online. So all it does for a new player is just handicap them and confuse them. Only people that need the shot meter are cheaters. EA FC has no meter for timed finishing (when it had that) and it has maybe 0.01% of CV cheaters compared to 2K. Leave shot meter for offline, and my court with online delay, so people can grasp their timing before going online. Making “goofy” meters will not be a solution, as tried in 2K25. Step 2: Remove Ability Icons. Literal useless feature only used by cheaters to “no meter” cheat. You can see your opponent’s strengths before the game. And if you don’t know your own - then you need to stay off the weed cuh. Step 3 and perhaps most controversial - remove tempo. This feature either needs to be completely reworked or removed. Why? Because the “tempo” timing is always the same, meaning a cheater can set his device to always tempo same exact ms and even if he is just using tempo cheating not a full blown script - he will get a huge boost to each shot because the tempo will 100% of the time be correct. It is done in such a primitive way that a 3 min conversation with Claude gives you a working script that will always time tempo for you and remap stick down to Square so you literally shoot Square but have a huge window boost to your shot 100% of the time. And this is not including meter or icon cheaters combining their cheat with a rhythm cheat - making their stuff even more op. Something simple like removal of ABILITY ICONS which should have been done the minute icon cheats came out - gets rid of the main no meter cheating method. Change like that should literally take few mins for 2K. Getting rid of meter and tempo are more controversial, but this is the only way to counter CV cheats. Consoles aren’t ever going to be able to differentiate a device and a controller being plugged in, because of the amount of 3rd party controllers available and used - Gamesir, scuf & more. 2K will never be able to accurately detect cheats themselves as they’re limited by console limitations so their “anticheat” is going to be stat based or something like “releasing the button at exact time”, but you add latency, user side lag, 2Ks own speed ups and the fact that all meter and icon shots will have different timing due to different animations and suddenly you cannot catch anyone with this system while simple permanent solutions are staring you in the face. Regardless if you’re a competitive player or a casual - everyone knows how widespread the cheating issue on 2K is, and if you don’t - I urge you to join official 2K discord, join a couple cheating discords, then click on random people in 2K discord - you will either have mutual cheating servers with at least 30% of them, or some lower iq individuals will straight up have names like: “ImPlugged”. If you read this far - I’m glad people still really care about the game: now please help me spread this message so it gets to 2K & we can have our game back. You’re not washed, and game isn’t bad, you just play cheaters all day, especially in red plate lobbies. @Beluba @itsEvanCC @choc @rafaelTGR2K @JoeKnowsYT @LD2K @SiimplyGrinding @xCashoutYT @KW5_EU @StatenIsland2K @glizzvsyou @dayfri @Ronnie2K idk who else to tag, but one repost from one of these guys and it might take off and somehow reach 2K