Need For Speed: Most Wanted 2012

[dhandeh]

Why don't we have at it with APCs and submarines while the idea is still hot?

You do like a moan.

 

[Phoenix]

I'm seriously tempted to preorder this though. Would be the first NFS I've ever preordered.

Haha the only NFS i've ever pre-ordered was the Most Wanted: Black Edition in 2005.

Still play it from time to time.

 

[TilDawn]

Here it is.

It's hard to be surprised by anything new after TR.

Not necessarily. The trailer is only mixing in the switching car feature to give it more exposure. Once you discover more cars, you'll have less cars to switch to, and eventually won't be able to rely on a backup vehicle any longer. If you're always forced to switch cars, pursuits would have become that much more linear and boring. On top of which, who says you can't escape a pursuit in one ride?

It seems to me that switching will be a viable option if we engage in a pursuit for a long period of time. Escaping with one vehicle, maybe if you don't manage to get your car mangled up.

 

[AOS-]

An option, not a requirement.

 

[drifterzzz]

omg .. criterion does it again .. this game will be great.. i wish they put blacklist as dlc..hmm just a dream maybe..the sound of gtr was awesome..the music suit well..

 

[PHOENIXZERO]

Switching will be an option if you come across a better vehicle or your current one is trashed and there's no repair drive through near by. Over time it'll probably get easier to lose cops as you upgrade your car.

I do hope Dizzee Rascal isn't on the soundtrack.

Going by their last two games you'll have an option to pick and choose songs or use your own. No biggie IMO.

 

[MarcoM]

UPDATE: EA UK has told VideoGamer.com that there is “no delay” to the Vita version of Need For Speed: Most Wanted, and reconfirmed that the game will launch on November 2 alongside other formats.

http://www.videogamer.com/psvita/ne...r_speed_most_wanted_vita_delayed_to_2013.html

 

[MedigoFlame]

Finally pre-ordered the game! Can't wait!

Edit: I'm curious, is the packs that you get with the pre-order supposed to be offered to you when you pre-order, or after you get the game? The GameStop employee didn't say anything about packs...

 

[MarcoM]

When you get the game, you will get codes with the game. That's how it usually works.

 

[MXH]

I think I owe Criterion a personal apology for doubting them.

 

[AOS-]

Finally pre-ordered the game! Can't wait!

Edit: I'm curious, is the packs that you get with the pre-order supposed to be offered to you when you pre-order, or after you get the game?

NFS games now all have this "online pass" which is a code you have to enter before you get multiplayer access to the game. The Limited Editions will have their own unique codes, while disc themselves are all the same.

 

[GTMail]

NFS games now all have this "online pass" which is a code you have to enter before you get multiplayer access to the game. The Limited Editions will have their own unique codes, while disc themselves are all the same.

Which is complete crap. It basically makes buying them used worthless unless you're willing to fork over another $10 for a new online pass.

 

[PHOENIXZERO]

UPDATE: EA UK has told VideoGamer.com that there is “no delay” to the Vita version of Need For Speed: Most Wanted, and reconfirmed that the game will launch on November 2 alongside other formats.

http://www.videogamer.com/psvita/ne...r_speed_most_wanted_vita_delayed_to_2013.html

Saw that earlier and figured as much, still holding out hope that EA will do the smart thing and jump on board with the cross-buy gimmick. Not like the PSV version is going to sell all that well on its own anyway.

 

[MarcoM]

If the Vita version is as good as the ps3 version, I will be happy to pay for it. But not in 2013.

Hopefully EA UK is honest. Well Criterion is a UK developer.

 

[AOS-]

Which is complete crap. It basically makes buying them used worthless unless you're willing to fork over another $10 for a new online pass.

What people did before the age of trade-in credits was buy new games, not used. The Used Games business cuts profit of the publishing company... you should understand what that's like.

 

[boomee]

if companies made better games I wouldn't be so prone to get them used that being said I am getting this game new but there are two many sucky games to buy new all the time. Not every person can afford 6 buck games I think there should always bea used market Im tired of the whining from publishers

 

[AOS-]

Still wished you used the damn shift key and periods more appropriately.

 

[MedigoFlame]

NFS games now all have this "online pass" which is a code you have to enter before you get multiplayer access to the game. The Limited Editions will have their own unique codes, while disc themselves are all the same.

That is like a lot of new games... Shows how long it has been though since I've pre-ordered a game, let alone a new NFS game. Last NFS game I bought was...Carbon...used... Although my brother did get NFS HP 2010 for PS3 by pre-order, although we never played it at home (he played it a lot at his apartment) due to the issues with SD.

 

[AOS-]

If there aren't stupid exploits in the game like there was in The Run, I'm going to set so many speed records.

 

[MedigoFlame]

Anyone know if there will be some type of support for standard definition users? I'm afraid I'm wasting my money on a game I'll barely be able to play. NFS HP 2010 was nearly impossible to play. Couldn't see traffic, spike strips, road blocks, anything really...

 

[AOS-]

Support? The same kind HP3 got.

Traffic was hard to spot in SD, I won't lie. Playing in HD made it so much easier to drive, even in the dark with the headlights off.... actually, driving with the headlights off was easier if you knew the course since the contrast between the dark and the oncoming traffic headlamps were easy to notice.

 

[MarcoM]

It seems that the PS vita version will only release next year according to one EA press release.
Source

It appears that the Polish announcement about the Vita version moving to 2013 has been changed. All versions will come this year.

http://www.ea.com/pl/news/need-for-speed-most-wanted-triumfuje-w-polsce

 

[wicken]

Big interview incoming about the PC version of the game, most of us will get it for consoles but it's worth reading anyway. The last part of this interview can apply to pc or consoles and it's very very interesting, it is what we have been discussing in the previous days.

games.on.net: There’s a growing gap in performance between the PC and consoles as consoles get older. Does that create more work for you guys, because you need to spend more time on the PC version?
Leanne Loombe: Yeah, we have a dedicated pipeline for the PC version. The way that we have it set up means we can dedicate more time to PC. The PC version of Most Wanted is obviously 1080p, 60Hz, and we’re using DirectX 11 as well. That’s there for the PC gamers.

games.on.net: Do you know which features of DX11 you’ll be using?
Leanne Loombe: We’re primarily leveraging the increased efficiency of DX11 to give improved performance. The move to DX11 from DX9 has given us around a 300% improvement in rendering performance. This has enabled us to provide an improved image based lighting model over the console version, as well as allowing us to run with higher detail shadows and reflections. The increased power of DirectX 11 hardware has also allowed us to implement features such as real-time ambient occlusion, and light scattering algorithms which are absent in the console version.

games.on.net: What other changes have you made to the visuals in the PC version?
Leanne Loombe: PC supports a number of advanced graphical features including SSAO, light scattering, high dynamic range motion blur, high resolution textures, advanced specular lighting models, headlight shadow casting, enhanced VFX quality, and enhanced shadow quality levels. We also scale geometry detail and level of detail switching according to screen resolution.

games.on.net: How deep are the graphics configuration options on PC – are we talking a short list of three or four options, or a deeper screen with over a dozen? Can you tell us what options PC users will be able to tweak?
Leanne Loombe: Options are available to enable High Resolution textures, motion blur quality, shadow quality, SSAO level, reflection detail, visual effects quality, geometry detail levels, and light scattering.

games.on.net: Will Most Wanted need a very fast PC to run at the highest graphical details?
Leanne Loombe: A modern quad core PC with an AMD Radeon 6000 series or NVIDIA Geforce 500 series can run the game with highest details settings.

games.on.net: Will the PC version use peer to peer gameplay for the online mode, and what are the number of players it supports? Is it more players than console? Also, do you support LAN play?
Leanne Loombe: PC uses peer to peer and supports 12 players online, whilst console only supports 8 players. An internet connection is required for multiplayer, so LAN only play is not supported.

games.on.net: What controls will the PC version support? Can we expect full Xbox 360 controller support on the PC at launch?
Leanne Loombe: The Xbox 360 controller is fully supported and is the recommended controller for Most Wanted. We also fully support keyboard and the majority of DirectInput controllers, including steering wheels. Controller bindings are fully configurable in game.

games.on.net: Have you had to change the interface at all for the PC version?
Leanne Loombe: We have always strived to provide an accessible user experience, regardless of platform. We want the game to be fully playable whether you are hunched over a 15” laptop, or sitting on your sofa playing on your PC hooked up to a 50” plasma TV. As such minimal changes have been made to the PC interface, other than providing enhanced settings menus and a quit option. Origin In Game is also fully supported to allow you interact and manage your Most Wanted friends on PC.

games.on.net: Comparing the handling of Most Wanted to Hot Pursuit, are you aiming for the same feel?
Leanne Loombe: It’s brand new handling this time around. It’s unique for every single car, so every car has a different model. We wanted the player to feel like they were driving the real car because they’ll never get to drive those high-end sports cars in real life.

games.on.net: We just drove the Aston Martin in the demo and it felt quite heavy and sluggish. Is that because I was driving the Aston Martin, or is it part of the new handling, with cars having more weight?
Leanne Loombe: I’d say it’s probably because you were driving the Aston, where we tried to reflect the car’s weight.

games.on.net: How do you then balance that in online racing, where everybody is driving wildly different vehicles?
Leanne Loombe: With the Speed List that you get served up there are car restrictions, so you do have to go in particular cars. We try to get that balance right. We have a wide range of cars, mainly for multiplayer, so we try to balance them in each event’s restrictions.

games.on.net: In a lot of racing games, after a couple of weeks the community has found THE fastest car for each category, and that’s what everybody races. How are you tackling this issue so that your entire collection of cars get used?
Leanne Loombe: That’s part of the reason why we’ve made all the cars available at the start. Then people can go and drive their favourite car.

games.on.net: Cop chases are out of multiplayer. Given that was such an amazing feature of Hot Pursuit, why did you remove them?
Leanne Loombe: Most Wanted has a different focus to Hot Pursuit. Hot Pursuit was very much about racers and cops, whereas Most Wanted is about racing with friends, driving in the open world. Obviously it has chasing with cops in single player, but we do other things in multiplayer instead.

games.on.net: What’s the level of involvement of the cops in single player – will they use all the same tricks that we saw in Hot Pursuit?
Leanne Loombe: Fully integrated – if you start driving dangerously, or too fast, then the cops will be on you. You have to get out of their line of sight, which drops your heat level. As your heat levels increase, more cops will come, and they’ll do roadblocks, and drop spike traps, but no helicopters this time around. You then use the open world to evade the pursuit.

games.on.net: Can you describe the matchmaking, and how that works?
Leanne Loombe: We try and keep the players in the world at all times, so we don’t have any lobbies or anything like that. We do it all from in the world. The matchmaking will happen while you’re in free drive, and then drop you into the speed lists. To find friends you can bring up “Easy Drive” which will show your list of friends, and you can select your friend. You can also create a private or public and match make that way.

 

[coolboy48]

Nothing about Anti-Aliasing, and DX11 support leading to 3X rendering performance = wow but wonder what the actual FPS result is.

HP2010's PC port was actually fairly good apart from the lack of AA. Fortunately, Nvidia and AMD made tweaks to their drivers to enable it. Thus it's still a damn good looking game.

 

[AOS-]

games.on.net: In a lot of racing games, after a couple of weeks the community has found THE fastest car for each category, and that’s what everybody races. How are you tackling this issue so that your entire collection of cars get used?
Leanne Loombe: That’s part of the reason why we’ve made all the cars available at the start. Then people can go and drive their favourite car.

That didn't answer the question whatsoever.

games.on.net: Can you describe the matchmaking, and how that works?
Leanne Loombe: We try and keep the players in the world at all times, so we don’t have any lobbies or anything like that. We do it all from in the world. The matchmaking will happen while you’re in free drive, and then drop you into the speed lists. To find friends you can bring up “Easy Drive” which will show your list of friends, and you can select your friend. You can also create a private or public and match make that way.

So... if I wanted a "quick race", it'd group me in with similarly-skilled drivers? I can't face better or worse without having them be on my friends list?

 

[CAMAROBOY69]

Well my plan was to buy this for sure but I didnt realize Halo 4 comes out 1 week after MW2012. So it looks like I will just be renting this now. Might pick it up sometime around christmas if the rental is really fun.

 

[AOS-]

Well my plan was to buy this for sure but I didnt realize Halo 4 comes out 1 week after MW2012. So it looks like I will just be renting this now. Might pick it up sometime around christmas if the rental is really fun.

Wait, hold on. I have a financial plan for you. Don't buy Halo 4.

 

[dhandeh]

wait, hold on. I have a financial plan for you. Don't buy halo 4.

+1

 

[acetuner]

He clearly skipped the question. That's a thumb's down. Also he made it seem like that Aston have no redemeing qualities. Sounds like another Ford GT for me... BS on the car restriction's too. That didn't stop people from spamming in HP. And here I thought balance might be coming back. Luckily the game is like BP so races aren't a major aspect. Ready for the stream of [insert OP car here]? Don't worry, I'll be readying my demotivational and truth and eye opener speeches for those idiots online.


Also what happen to 12 player consoles?

 

[AOS-]

I'll be readying my demotivational and truth and eye opener speeches for those idiots online.

Great! Now to keep that out of this thread.... It's rather depressing having to put up with with the magenta-text preaching.