Need For Speed: Most Wanted 2012
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They confirmed in one of the recent interviews that there will be no tuning in this game. The one feature I found very interresting is how fast you can swap cars. They said there will be no garage or gas station, you simply hit left or right on your D pad and a new car instantly appears. Probably only while in cruise mode. I am sure once a race starts, you are locked in your vehicle. But the feature sounds awesome. They said they didnt like how you had to go to a station in BP to change cars. They wanted it to happen instantly. So now that feature will be in MW2012. I dont think any game has ever tried this feature yet. It will really come in handy during the online co-op challenges. You wont have to leave the challenge area to get a new car, just hit left on your D pad. 👍
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And you would be right. The tuning doesn't sport anything that gives you more power. It just gives you preference choices.. It's like going rock-paper-scissors in all sorts of situations; each choice has its ups and downs.
Though I feel about 4 months later, the community is going to find an overall best choice of parts. For instance, off road tires may perform better than other on dirt, but there's even the possibility that they will also perform really damn well on tarmac as well. It's like how HP3 suggested that low-riding super cars should stick to tarmac instead of going on dirt. What does everyone do? Go on dirt anyway, because the path is shorter making up for loss of speed.
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This upgrade concerns me greatly: http://www.needforspeed.com/most-wanted#open-world-open-game
Long Gear: Higher torque and 40mph plus.
Please right here and now. Us NFS players will make a pact to not use the OP cars/mod combos once their are found. We will do our best to remind those who do are beneath us, their skill can not match. We shall deter them from the dark path as best as we can.We will tell EA by any means and hope for a patch. WE WILL NOT USE THE OP CARS by any means or it is broken. Not even for Autolog. Show some honor people. We CANNOT have another ACR, Stirling Moss,GT2 RS,Zonda fest again.All it takes for Evil to succeed is for good men don't do nothing!!
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- LordWikii
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Unless something is clearly broken, like infinite boost of something along those lines, I don't see much of a problem. It's inevitable that some cars/setup combos will be fastest. I trust Criterion to do a good job with the car balancing anyways. I can't speak for Hot Pursuit as I never did a lot of online racing on it, only enough to get the platinum. However I played a lot of Burnout Paradise, and without getting in depth, I can say that the car balance was pretty good overall 👍
Also, rainbow text isn't necessary.
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GT Nighthawk/Extreme Hot Rod would like a word with you. Sure you had the PCPD but it's still limited in potential. I want people to follow this as it deflates a lot of people's notion that their "elite skillz" win them races when it's really just them using a high tier car. I would be more accepting of this only if they would admit their inadequacies. i'm tired guys who think their skilled and they 80% of the time in something that's not underpowered. Also I dislike when people have the comeback of, well you have the car why won't you use it too? And add to the plague? No thanks...
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There was no balancing in BP. It was a progression where you earned faster cars as you played. Once you get faster cars, you stay with the faster cars as the game pretty much decreed. But BP was more of a social game than a racing game so they never bothered with balancing anything. And FYI, the Extreme Hot Rod, Civilian, Thunder Shadow and Annihilator Street Rod are way faster than the Nighthawk.
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But not in most situations. Only top speed. And Hyland it bothers me as I want to be unique but that conflicts with picking the competitive setup. And when something is competitive it usually dominates most other playstyle regardless. I wish people would take more notice to this. It's a serious issue. But alas the crutch cars are what keeps people playing. it what keeps my soul burning. I want to win but using what car I want. Not whatever the LB car is. I was blinded for awhile that as long I pushed my GT to it's max I can beat any car. Not true. I'll beat the driver maybe. Not his car unfortunately. This is the sad truth about racing games.
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In races the Nighthawk and Extreme Hot Rod were balanced with the PCPD.
The PCPD was the best all round with solid top speed and the best handling out all of the top tier cars.
The Extreme Hot Rod was the fastest in the straight line, but due it's locked boost type and iffy handling it was hard to use. Theoretically, if you didn't crash you were unbeatable as it had the highest potential out off all the cars... but not crashing with it was easier said than done. It was great for races with lots of open road to put the power down, but on twisty routes it wasn't great.
The Nighthawk was good for only one niche area in races, it's launch speed. It was the fastest accelerating car in the game, so for short sprint races it was the excellent. For longer races though it was weak due to it's lower top speed, so while it would lead off of the start, other cars would reel it in and pass it eventually.
There were also other cars which had advantages in downhill races such as the Revenge Racer and Annihilator Street Rod. It was a risk/reward thing though, since they went so ridiculously quick downhill that not crashing took a lot of skill and traffic luck.
Overall there wasn't just one "elite car". There were many tools to choose from for specific races. Most people stuck with the PCPD because of it's overall balance, but it certainly wasn't the fastest on most routes. Also, I do know what I'm talking about. When the game was still in it's prime I was as high as 30th in the world on the leaderboards at one point.
Except if everyone is using a high tier car, then it does come down to skill...
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Let me explain, furthermore. In DiRT2 there was always a specific car (or two) that dominated each discipline. In rallycross, which I spent the most time with, you had the RS200 and the Impreza(s). And even though those cars were superior in many ways to my beloved McRae R4, I always ended up using it because it fitted my driving/playstyle. In the end, it earned me tons of podiums in multiplayer (mainly 1st places) because it was the best and quickest car for me. What stats the other cars had didn't matter, especially as I could never be as quick or confident driving them as I was with my McRae R4.
I suspect this game will be no different. You'll have to find the car and combination that gets the most potential out of you as a player/racer.
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I highly doubt that, but we'll see, won't we?
As in the game as a whole or just me....?
Also the GT Nighthawk was the most OP as it was generally very good at freeburn activities. Sure their was other specialty cars but the GT did all those well. The gap wasn't big enough from the specialty cars and the Nighthawk. Thus why I said it was OP. Also Hyland would you have still felt that way if your R4 was seriously UP? I loved my Ford GT in Hot Pursuit, but there is only so much someone can accomplish in that car. Why put it in Exotic I never know.
WiiFreak: Take the car away from them....
I don't understand why developers spend all this money on making cars when players only drive 3 of them. Seriously if they going to keep putting UP cars in the game why not just take them out have a small selection and focus on other parts of the game. They won't balance the cars anyway so why not? At least the other aspects can be great.
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Also Shelby Cobra 427 confirmed as "Most Wanted" car.
http://www.facebook.com/needforspeed
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Consequentially, as much as you want to dream, you can't tell people how to play a game. If you don't like how other players are playing, then don't play with them. Simple.
You're not viewing the other lens of all this. I'm not misunderstanding you. I fully get what you're getting at, I've had the same wish too for over a year, but reality comes first, and it's that you cannot create your own rules and expect everyone to abide by it. It's not your game, it's not your rules. That said, what you CAN do however, is find people who do understand your views on the case and will happily get along. Then you can make rooms with your own rules, and everyone is happy. Now go do that instead of telling us what to do, please.
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Damn it, you got to that car first. Anyways, EA Japan have announced Most Wanted TV. LINK: http://www.ea.com/jp/mostwantedtv
Basically, each week in an episode, starting from October 1 to December 20, 8 players will go head-to-head on Most Wanted's multiplayer. The winners of each episode will then proceed to the finals, with the winner taking home a copy of Most Wanted as well as a rare cap. All competitors will also receive a T-Shirt.
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Japanese players? Playing NFS? This is news to me. I thought the NFS Community is mostly Europeans (especially Spanish and Germans), Americans and Latinos. Didn't expect any Asians in it, no racist remarks intended.
It sounds like it's just a race to complete challenges. Would have been nice if it was actually racing competition.
It sounds like it's just a race to complete challenges. Would have been nice if it was actually racing competition.
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I don't take what they say word for word because you have to remember they're trying to sell the game with those words. Those words only sell what the game is meant to have, not what it will have once players discover things they've never seen, and by that I mean the overall best tuning choices in the game. If for example they exaggerated the ups and downs to off road tires, then I might just stick with sports tires all around since I'll probably be spending more time on tarmac anyway.
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I was bored and looking around looking for a better place than the nearly dead GF boards to discuss this game and well, here I am.
I said it elsewhere but I'll say it here too, they said "up to 40MPH" so obviously not all vehicles are going to get that much of a boost. I'm 100% certain it will be balanced and doubt all cars are going to be upgraded the same amount to where we'll be seeing Bugatti Veyrons capable of pushing 300+MPH from the modding while being able to turn on a dime and smash through anything. Each car is probably going to have a performance cap with the slower vehicles seeing the most benefit from "Long Gear" so they have a easier time keeping up as there should be little you can do to improve the performance of the top end cars. Without even playing it I can say with confidence that Criterion knows there has to be trade offs with everything.
As for the Nighthawk stuff, yeah it was called "Nubhawk" for a reason and all around it was a great car, just as it should have been due to what it was based off but at the same time how many people drove that car in Burnout Paradise not because of stats but because it was based off Knight Rider/KITT? I'm sure I wasn't the only one. <_< People who used it were still easy enough to beat if they couldn't drive very well.
I even hope they do another pack of cars based of TV/Movies hopefully licensed this time if rights issues (or cost) don't get in the way. Of course the odds of it happening are slim as NFS, even Criterion's is going to be more planted in reality than what a fictional version of a car like KITT (especially an R3 action for Turbo Boost jumps, with at least a 60 second cooldown, yeah that's asking way too much) would allow though it wouldn't be an issue for some other TV/Movie cars. We might have a better chance getting DLC packs that involve the history of a model where four or five iterations are picked out from its history.
I'd hope that's either for Poland and other areas where I doubt there's a whole lot of Vita's in the first place but given how things work in Europe with games that would seem pointless. Or just a mistake because there really shouldn't be a need for such a long delay unless the PSV version needs a lot more TLC than expected. Still holding out hope that EA will take the slight risk in trying "cross buy" with it since I can't imagine too many people buying two versions of the same game, even with a discount. If they did it'd almost be a given I'd be buying more DLC.
I said it elsewhere but I'll say it here too, they said "up to 40MPH" so obviously not all vehicles are going to get that much of a boost. I'm 100% certain it will be balanced and doubt all cars are going to be upgraded the same amount to where we'll be seeing Bugatti Veyrons capable of pushing 300+MPH from the modding while being able to turn on a dime and smash through anything. Each car is probably going to have a performance cap with the slower vehicles seeing the most benefit from "Long Gear" so they have a easier time keeping up as there should be little you can do to improve the performance of the top end cars. Without even playing it I can say with confidence that Criterion knows there has to be trade offs with everything.
As for the Nighthawk stuff, yeah it was called "Nubhawk" for a reason and all around it was a great car, just as it should have been due to what it was based off but at the same time how many people drove that car in Burnout Paradise not because of stats but because it was based off Knight Rider/KITT? I'm sure I wasn't the only one. <_< People who used it were still easy enough to beat if they couldn't drive very well.
I even hope they do another pack of cars based of TV/Movies hopefully licensed this time if rights issues (or cost) don't get in the way. Of course the odds of it happening are slim as NFS, even Criterion's is going to be more planted in reality than what a fictional version of a car like KITT (especially an R3 action for Turbo Boost jumps, with at least a 60 second cooldown, yeah that's asking way too much) would allow though it wouldn't be an issue for some other TV/Movie cars. We might have a better chance getting DLC packs that involve the history of a model where four or five iterations are picked out from its history.
I'd hope that's either for Poland and other areas where I doubt there's a whole lot of Vita's in the first place but given how things work in Europe with games that would seem pointless. Or just a mistake because there really shouldn't be a need for such a long delay unless the PSV version needs a lot more TLC than expected. Still holding out hope that EA will take the slight risk in trying "cross buy" with it since I can't imagine too many people buying two versions of the same game, even with a discount. If they did it'd almost be a given I'd be buying more DLC.
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