I just got NFS Shift!!

[IsmokeGT]

Obviously it's the suspension upgrades and you sort of expect it when you add a better (more flexible) suspension to a weight reduced chassis.

Personally, if I put $35,000 in my suspension, and I spent $15,000 to make the car lighter I would expect the car ride as if it were on a cloud. And when a suspension is more flexible, it also has dampening, so it doesnt bounce. These upgrades do not coincide with the ability and handling of the car. Shocks works by a piston moving through a thick liquid and it is simply impossible for a car with shocks to bounce like that.

I havent seen anything bounce like that since my Lincolns Air shocks went flat...

 

[Skidmark]

Got this yesterday, on the whole I really like it.

I find the handling a bit on the twitchy side though, when you put a wheel on the mud it kinda drags you on and won't let you off. Might just be me being rubbish! ha ha.

I did the S2000 up to the max and it became pretty much undrivable. So I sold it and bought the Audi TT with all the level 3 upgrageds and the racing ones, it competes with the Tier 2 cars now.

I have never been so close to launching my controller as the one on one with the Gt40 and Viper on the International race.

 

[NLxAROSA]

Cars.....oh those cars! right love the tuning and the upgrade system and for those who have modded up a tiere 1 car to nith degree without the works package on it, you may find the cars a bit of a handful or bounces around alot....thats because a ford escort or the like really isn't desighned to carry 400bhp, you CAN tune these cars TOO FAR! and as a result your not going to be that competertive against a similary powered supercar.

Something I already noticed with the 350Z. With all upgrades, it's a monster with wheelspin well into 4th(!) gear. At first I hated it, but it really brings a nice touch to tuning. You really have to watch out not to overdo it with some cars (especially the tier 1 cars).

 

[Terronium-12]

I have never been so close to launching my controller as the one on one with the Gt40 and Viper on the International race.

Thank you!

Isn't it just ridiculous how you're expected to burst through bends at 120-plus? Unless I just sucked that day, don't try driving the Viper....you won't get anywhere.

Literally.

 

[Hereward]

Take a low to mid powered sports car and then tune it to be a tracks monster you can sometimes go too far! Escort cosworth's for instance just are not happy over 300bhp...it's an escort after all! You really need to get into the tuning section when you start overpowering the lower tier cars.
Heres schuey with stig gear on taking the FXX round the top gear test track.....you'll see even this monster bounces quite a bit!



If you watch a touring car race you'll also see the cars bouncing around, in fact most motorspot, apart from those with huge wings pushing the cars down onto the track will see the cars skiping and bouncing about. It's just that we havn't seen it too much in racing games before. It also makes it important to know where the bumpy bits of the track are....and avoid them...

 

[Kinetic]

Absolutley in love with the Impreza STI, with full Stage 2's amazing to drive, love the time trials.

Bought the GT-R V-Spec for Tier 3, anyone tried it ?

 

[Skidmark]

Thank you!

Isn't it just ridiculous how you're expected to burst through bends at 120-plus? Unless I just sucked that day, don't try driving the Viper....you won't get anywhere.

Literally.

Yeah the Viper is a joke on this, it just doesn't handle. Sounds good though!

I had to put it down to easy level to do that challenge and then put it back up to hard for the rest of it. I just found it impossible. Even when I tried the GT40 the viper seemed to be able to take the corners faster than I ever could when I was driving it.

I think I agree with the comments I have read so far, the tier 1 cars are really good fun because the dodgy floaty physics don't ruin it too much.

The fast cars are just effected by them too much, the thing is though for all its faults I am still drawn to try and master it.

The only thing is that if I try and get really good at this i'm going to suck when I start playing GT again.

 

[Kinetic]

Decided Tier 2 is actually fun. Tier 3 / 4 just pathetic, the cars are ridiculous, speed phsyics are a joke

 

[NLxAROSA]

Tier 3 / 4 just pathetic, the cars are ridiculous, speed phsyics are a joke

Care to elaborate a bit more? I've been having quite some fun with the R8 and Z06 (both Tier 3) and they both handle very nicely.

 

[Kinetic]

Just seem to struggle keeping them on the track really, only really tried the Lambo's and the Ford GT in the international challenges, i have bought the GT-R Spec V to do the Tier 3's so i'll try that out soon'ish.

Just seems all the cars in the international invites just don't handle well at all, the Zonda /Carrera / Bugatti etc

 

[RattyMcClelland]

Bought this yesterday and i think im going to get as much out of it and sell it in a few days. Handling is far to twitchy. I bough the S2000 and the power band runs out at 8000rpm??????? i know it produces power up to 9000rpm....plus at high speed all cars are tichy and the pendulum effect kicks in and you cant recover from it. The blurry cockpit at high speed is off putting.
Plus all cars drive like they are constantly understeering and return to the deadzones to quick. Supercar challenge and grid both do this but this does it worse. When you turn it feels like your not turning and then you over correct it and fail.
very dissapointed. Should have been an arcade police chaser game. Leave sims to the GT/Forza.

 

[AutoAki]

Could people mention also what sort of controller they are using, when giving opinions about physics etc etc.

Opinions about any 'Sim' are worthless to others without that three digit long detail. You can easily add that info to your profile also.

Please.

 

[Hereward]

Thheres a split in feelings for this game, those that love it and find it a challenge, and those than "don't" LOL
It takes time to get to grips with the cars. you realy can't just jump in and drive a supercar like a pro unlike GT5p Personaly I like this fact, a zonda isn't like driving an A3 it makes the lifespan so much longer the fact you have to learn to drive the cars as you move up the tiers, the car physics are not borked they just need to be learned as theres alot of feed back coming through. from bumps on the track to the way you have the car setup including which performance parts you've stuck on it.
Not a suck eggs post just trying to say the game takes time to learn especialy the higher spec cars.

 

[Kinetic]

Im using Controller, 6 Axis, i have a DFGT but to me the game feels horrendous and detached when i used the wheel, don't know if its the settings or what, but i tried a few reccomended settings and it still felt horrible.

The games good, it's arcadey but still has sim elements to push it into a kind of middle ground.

 

[AutoAki]

Im using Controller, 6 Axis, i have a DFGT but to me the game feels horrendous and detached when i used the wheel, don't know if its the settings or what, but i tried a few reccomended settings and it still felt horrible.

The games good, it's arcadey but still has sim elements to push it into a kind of middle ground.

Heh... I actually wasn't meaning your statement, cause I saw your DFGT detail in your signature.

...but thanks for that 6-axis info, cause I was really wondering why you feel that way you do. I recommend you to just jump back to DFGT, and reset yourself from GT5P-habbits.

Next set your Shift degrees to 360°, deadzones to 0%, brake sens 10% and other sensitivities to default. If your rear tries always change place with front when braking, learn to keep little throttle while braking... that eliminates engine-braking, and your tires dont lock up.

 

[Hereward]

Heh... I actually wasn't meaning your statement, cause I saw your DFGT detail in your signature.

...but thanks for that 6-axis info, cause I was really wondering why you feel that way you do. I recommend you to just jump back to DFGT, and reset yourself from GT5P-habbits.

Next set your Shift degrees to 360°, deadzones to 0%, brake sens 10% and other sensitivities to default. If your rear tries always change place with front when braking, learn to keep little throttle while braking... that eliminates engine-braking, and your tires dont lock up.

+1:tup:

 

[Kinetic]

Heh... I actually wasn't meaning your statement, cause I saw your DFGT detail in your signature.

...but thanks for that 6-axis info, cause I was really wondering why you feel that way you do. I recommend you to just jump back to DFGT, and reset yourself from GT5P-habbits.

Next set your Shift degrees to 360°, deadzones to 0%, brake sens 10% and other sensitivities to default. If your rear tries always change place with front when braking, learn to keep little throttle while braking... that eliminates engine-braking, and your tires dont lock up.

Ahh thanks for the tips, i'll probably give it another go at some point Thanks

 

[AutoAki]

Ahh thanks for the tips, i'll probably give it another go at some point Thanks

Some corrections to earlier mis-info: Brake deadzone 10%, and Brake Sensitivity 20%... I did like it yesterday a lot, and had no troubles with overbraking. (I have G25 Nixim brake-mod)


I also have small folded piece of thick paper between gas-pedal and plastic-cover of G25... so my throttle never goes totally off even I lift my foot up. It helps me to drive more like I do in real. I dont like 'throttle while braking'-technique, and I suck heel'n'toeing with my desktop-setup.

 

[Kinetic]

Will try it later..

Just got a Dualshock 3 and enjoying the GT-R V-Spec too much to stop

 

[amar212]

My Wheel Setting for PRO on G25 and no assists whatsoever:

- all deadzones: 0
- steering sens: 100
- accel sens: 25
- brake sens: 12
- speed steering sens: 0%
- FF: 10
- turning: 900

Only way to go in my book and it feels like a charm.

 

[Sureboss]

Quick question, you've got about an hour to answer. Shall I go down the town and buy this for PS3? Reports seem to be that it's one of the best NFS games in a while and is different to what it normally is.

 

[RattyMcClelland]

Anyone got a good setting for the sixaxis controller that is better than default. I tried but got annoyed with going in and out of the menu starting up the game and going back.
Would really like to give this game a chance.

 

[NLxAROSA]

Quick question, you've got about an hour to answer. Shall I go down the town and buy this for PS3?

I don't need an hour, a few seconds is enough: get it. 👍

 

[Boffin]

OK....I has a question.

When I was configuring an online race, I went to choose one of my cars, but only one (of two) were available. Is this a bug? Or can I not choose the car I'm currently in?

 

[Terronium-12]

I'd check the race type as Shift is kind of anal when it comes down to which vehicles are available for specific events.

One of my questions is what the 🤬 is going on with the camera when you're in Photo Mode? It creeps up on the rear end of the car, pauses for a split second and then goes to a partially zoomed out view of the other side.

EDIT: Ya know, if it's one thing Shift does wrong it's the livery editor. The layers don't fully match up, there's a size cap for whatever reason, and the camera...
...You can get motion sickness just from moving that damn thing from one weird and unnecessary pause to another.

Also, why should I have to paint vehicles different colors (unless you truly want a custom finish) when they should be available from the start?

 

[skazz]

Talking of Tier 3 cars... I've spent some time with the Murcielago. At stock it's quite a handful and doesn't like braking much. But just by uprating the tires and shedding some weight it starts to get a lot more sorted. Going for the full Tier 3 upgrades turns it into something very fast and very planted. I'm waiting to click the works upgrade button for it, but don't have enough cash yet.

Another interesting lesson was tuning the Cayman: It is superb stock, gets even better when you just add some light changes (uprate the engine, tires and lose weight). If you tune the power too much (e.g. adding the turbo for another 150hp) then you spend most of your time exploring the limits of grip in a bad way.

What I love about this game is that you get exactly the same amount of cash back as you originally paid when you sell any upgrade or car, so you can just make changes and there's no penalty for reverting them. Excellent choice SMS!

This is PC version, G25 wheel, pro physics with only auto clutch enabled.

 

[Hirokisoki]

got my copy on the 15th been playing since then its been a good game. physics is in between gt5p and grid not fully sim but also not too arcadeish either. there is a cool selection of cars and decsent track selection. my favorite track is the nurburgring nordschleffe. i'd say graphics are equal to grid the replays are not too bad either. I have not tried online but will try today,as long as you can race the full nurburgring nordschleffe course i will be happy . i'd say this is a good enough game to tie one over until the release of gt5p.

 

[Kinetic]

the manufactuer head to heads are retarded

 

[Terronium-12]

the manufactuer head to heads are retarded

XD

You should do the LF-A head-to-head; while the LF-A is pretty much, no, it is uncontrollable the race is won the second it begins.

Why? For some reason the rest of the AI on field decides they don't know how to take tight bends, so they all stop one behind the other and just trail down the track.

@ Hirokisoki - I'd say the graphics are more on par with the looks of FM3, if not better. GRiD was just too damn HDR/Bloom happy.

 

[Kinetic]

stuff like the GT vs the Viper.. the opponent manages to stick and take bends at 100+ Mph's its ridiculous