Need For Speed (2015)

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I've mostly found this game fun up until now, but that Component Parts race is absolutely asinine. You can be neck and neck into the final corner, but you'll most likely mess it up time and again, because the handling is so wonky you steer as you expect to steer and it'll get over sensitive and hit a wall.

I'm about done with the game as this race is just infuriating me.
 
VXR
I've mostly found this game fun up until now, but that Component Parts race is absolutely asinine. You can be neck and neck into the final corner, but you'll most likely mess it up time and again, because the handling is so wonky you steer as you expect to steer and it'll get over sensitive and hit a wall.

I'm about done with the game as this race is just infuriating me.
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I was stuck on that race for a considerable while. It is preferable to use a car with more weight and a higher top speed, so avoid light cars which tend to have frisky steering - I used an E92 M3. Depending on your driving style, you may wish to use a drift setup to slide around the last few corners or have a grip setup with all the assists off and steering responsiveness set to low.
 
I was doing that race last night, I had to restart because I went down the wrong off-ramp with 0.5km or so to go. Forza has spoiled me with its rewind function.
 
DK
I was doing that race last night, I had to restart because I went down the wrong off-ramp with 0.5km or so to go. Forza has spoiled me with its rewind function.
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I had the exact same thing happen to me yesterday, not sure if it's the same race though. The GPS thing lets you down in some places.
 
FT-1
I was stuck on that race for a considerable while. It is preferable to use a car with more weight and a higher top speed, so avoid light cars which tend to have frisky steering - I used an E92 M3. Depending on your driving style, you may wish to use a drift setup to slide around the last few corners or have a grip setup with all the assists off and steering responsiveness set to low.
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I'm using Nakai-San's RWB, which you can't alter the handling on. I think I'll give it a shot in my E46 CSL look-alike.
 
gtuned
The vinyl editor is also the clunkiest one I've ever used. There's no fine adjustment/scaling/positioning system like Forza, where the game tells you the size, position, angle, etc so you can align better. Nope, NFS is basically just trying to tap the analog stick to get the sticker in the right spot, only to realize that it's 2002 again, and stickers below a certain size blur beyond belief. That I really can't believe, that a triple AAA studio doesn't include high res enough/scaling good enough to stretch and size vinyls like Forza has. It's really just embarrassing. Not to mention the "side" doesn't include the sides of the front/rear bumpers for some odd reason, which makes designing a halfway decent livery, even harder. And the selection of stickers? Well. Horrible unless you want to cover your car with Hellaflush/Illest stickers or some other "automotive" brands, or youtuber stickers. There's hardly any performance parts for making a decent looking livery, and do you want remake one? well, the scaling at small sizes is as blurry as a PS2 game, and there's only 1 font. Yes. 1. And not that good of a font. So have fun with that.
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This. So much this. It's what steered me away from spending any significant amount of time creating liveries in the game. There's no accuracy built in, it's all time-consuming guess-work.

I'm guessing a lot of the praise heaped in its direction is from people who haven't had the opportunity to experience Forza's system, because it so thoroughly out-points NFS'. I suppose if a player is coming from GT, anything is preferable to simply changing paint colours, but that's setting the bar pretty low.

I still can't figure out which is worse: having only one font, or not having the numerical values.
 
VXR
I'm using Nakai-San's RWB, which you can't alter the handling on. I think I'll give it a shot in my E46 CSL look-alike.
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I've done it with an E30 (600+ BHP) my advice is to memorize the track, becomes alot easier since)

I tried it again today, only to have some other player in the lobby hit me during the race, which prompted me rage quitting the game for the day.
 
I just bought the ultimate version (Or whatever, version comes with all DLC) of this game off of PSN last night for $23 USD.

I REALLY wasn't planning to buy it, just because of the no manual transmission thing... real bummer... but that is a steal, because it was priced at $70 USD normally. IDK if the deal is still going on.

I have to wait until later to play it when I get off of work.
 
BrodieBoi94
I just bought the ultimate version (Or whatever, version comes with all DLC) of this game off of PSN last night for $23 USD.

I REALLY wasn't planning to buy it, just because of the no manual transmission thing... real bummer... but that is a steal, because it was priced at $70 USD normally. IDK if the deal is still going on.

I have to wait until later to play it when I get off of work.
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Today is the last day for that sale if I'm correct.
 
Yo I'm down to race online. What my friends and I did was whoever needed to win the race, the others would block for them.

Dirty, but it worked.
 
FT-1
Components Parts: Sprint Race on the highway with Amy and other drivers.
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Ah, this. I checked my winning screenshot on this race in my profile, and there was a Nakai's RWB 911 on it.

What I'm currently angry about is getting that extra trophy for 350k in "Mad Block" gymkhana event on the Hoonicorn Mustang so I can feel free to get rid of this car. I only realised that it is possible... but will cost a lot of nerves. Yesterday, I did 344k and messed up a good ~6k drift in the end. :mad: Tried again today. After a few attempts and restarts... 347k! :banghead:
 
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Ah, this. I checked my winning screenshot on this race in my profile, and there was a Nakai's RWB 911 on it.

What I'm currently angry about is getting that extra trophy for 350k in "Mad Block" gymkhana event on the Hoonicorn Mustang so I can feel free get rid of this car. I only realised that it is possible... but will cost a lot of nerves. Yesterday, I did 344k and messed up a good ~6k drift in the end. :mad: Tried again today. After a few attempts and restarts... 347k! :banghead:
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I've did 375k and ran out of time. So much rage at midnight..
 
FT-1
Mental Unblock is the only achievement I have not unlocked, reaching the target score is enough of a challenge but completing the course in time is another :crazy:
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Component parts is probably worse. I don't remember struggling badly with the mental unblock challenge but I think I remember you had to drift like hell to get that achievement which probably leads to crashing into walls constantly.
 
Components parts when it was pre patch was painful to do over and over again as it was partly reliant on luck of whether Amy would crash or not.
 
I didn't have any issues with components race. Used my M4 and only took 3 attempts, and that was only because I crashed late in the first 2 attempts.
 
Am I the only one who had mininal issues with Components Parts? I did it in my Foxbody (don't remember how much HP) and by memory the only problem I had was some dodgy steering drifting the final corner. It was like some kind of hook just realed the car out...

As for Mental Unblock. I cannot drive that Hoonicorn it just feels so broken with the physics and then I struggle to get a clean run. I've got every trophy but that and reach level 70 (I think)
 
I'm about to hop on the game if anybody is down to run some. I'm gonna see what kind of time I can throw down on Component Parts.

Edit: I just did a before and after with the race. I was at 1:55.58 before using the RSR Porsche and after using it, I'm at a 1:47.60

I did get the video also. So I will be uploading it and linking it.
 
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Am I the only one who had mininal issues with Components Parts? I did it in my Foxbody (don't remember how much HP) and by memory the only problem I had was some dodgy steering drifting the final corner. It was like some kind of hook just realed the car out...

As for Mental Unblock. I cannot drive that Hoonicorn it just feels so broken with the physics and then I struggle to get a clean run. I've got every trophy but that and reach level 70 (I think)
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Same here. Managed it the first time in the civic. I feel like maybe they changed something in the game afterwards with all the complaints it had. I had that event done a week into the games release.

Hoonigan was one of the hardest for me. Having to score that many points with a time limit as well... Come on.. I know I restarted that event so many times I had it down to sectors "ok if I have this many points by this location with this much time left I'm safe." :lol:
 
Just had a great session yesterday, harbor view mall area has a great parking lot with obstacles and I invited my friends for some autocross like action, and sure enough another player in the lobby came and joined us. Was alot of fun.
 

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