NFS: Shift - Bug/glitch thread

[ANFD]

1) Cars not taking off at the start of a race ..... happened now also in 2 online races. The previously mentioned Corvette Z06 @ Donnington National also showed itself as described over a 2 day span trying it 3 or 4 times. Then today, the same event, the Corvette took off as normal 👎

2) Clutch slips dramatically off the line and through the entire race.

3) Car bouncing .... a good example is the Invitational Event with the Porsche Carrera @ Spa. I dare you to complete this event

4) An otherwise good handling racecar will hit an invisible bump at speed and shoot the nose straight up into the air and then the car will fly 30 feet off the ground ..... Ya, this is a "sim" alright

5) I created a standard white circle vinyl on the side of a car to place a racing number. When I went to the other side of the car to replicate the circle/number, the vinyl will not reproduce in white even though the color wheel is in the exact same position as it is on the other side of the car.

6) Car settings randomly change ... I run the same car repeatedly at the Ring, one race after another in online. The top RPM and speed on the long back straight varies by 3000 RPM and 25 MPH from one race to the other without any adjustments being made. Suspension settings that I spent hours tweeking to minimize the bouncies are randomly set back to default, destroying hours of trial and error.

Suffice it to say, this game is rapidly losing all it's appeal to me. I have owned every single racing game ever made for any Playstation system (I know how incredulous this sounds - but true) and I have NEVER seen anything as poorly done as this in 14 years. And I thought EA's Nascar PC sims were flawed

 

[Terronium-12]

In the invitational events, the car battle (Viper VS Ford GT) when you choose the viper it stays on the line even if you're at full throttle. (PS3)

Also present in the 360 version.

 

[Bertley]

Been experiencing pretty much all bugs listed in this thread. Another slightly annoying glitch is the G25 turning randomly during replays and loading screens.

3) Car bouncing... a good example is the Invitational Event with the Porsche Carrera @ Spa. I dare you to complete this event

Yeah had a go at that event earlier, ridiculous amount of front end bounce. Impossible to even complete a lap!

 

[Bogie 19th]

Would this be a drafting glitch?

 

[orimarc]

2) As I am up to Level 41, I keep getting notices that I have won certain cars after clearing level 30 and 40 for instance. So far I have been told that I have won 3 different cars but they are no where to be found 👎

Ehem...looks in "Reward Cars" on Quick Race.

 

[tlongman]

There is a massive glitch in the PS3 version at least where the game slows down so it feels like you are driving in slow motion whenever you go through the kink all the way down to canada corner at road america.

 

[fusflash]

I tuned my BMW E36 with stage 2 and some stage 3 upgrades. Went to do some hot laps on Spa GP (Quick Race, no opponents). Then I decided to have a race with some AI. On the start I noticed that car behaves as it did not have stage 3 upgrades installed. Went back to race without opponents and it was all right again. I checked it online and it was all right there too.

After some testing I discovered that stage 3 updates were 'disappearing' in quick race with opponents and in career mode races.
Everything was ok online and in quick race without other racers.

Weird.

 

[gman1647]

This is an odd glitch. The PS3 version changed the user name that displays. MY PSN ID is gman1647, but in the game it shows as gmam1647. Pretty funny. Hopefully the game isn't editorializing on my driving.

 

[NLxAROSA]

I'll update the list tonight. Personally I'm quite happy that I haven't encountered most of them (yet), despite playing this game a lot for the past few days. But I'm avoiding certain events and cars until they patch it.

@gman1647: online it uses your PSN id, but in game (single player) it uses the account name on your PS3.

 

[ANFD]

Ehem...looks in "Reward Cars" on Quick Race.

Thanks for the heads up I guess I haven't done many (if at all) quick races. I'll check it out tomorrow, and I'm hoping that they are not limited in availability to "quick races" only, otherwise there's not much real benefit for me

 

[Stavingo]

Been experiencing pretty much all bugs listed in this thread. Another slightly annoying glitch is the G25 turning randomly during replays and loading screens.

This also happens with my DFGT

Another glitch may be that in a tier 3 time attack on london river (IIRC) When you go down the straight with the barrier in the middle. If you choose the right side your car will flip randomly.

 

[Azuremen]

Well, not sure if this happens often, but I just watched a replay of my 911 GT2 around Laguna Seca... and the car started with no hood on. At all.

 

[F1KimiFreak]

PS3 Version: On my BMW 135i i put an rectangle shape in the livery editor and rotated it slightly but everytime i reload the car the rotation goes one step further then i saved it on.

 

[ajprice]

This has happened to me twice now, on PS3 with G25 if that makes any difference:

Hitting a car in front of me, the back end of the car kicks up and climbs up the front of my car, over the bonnet, windscreen, roof and over the top, landing on the ground behind me on its wheels and carrying on.

 

[homeforsummer]

This has happened to me twice now, on PS3 with G25 if that makes any difference:

Hitting a car in front of me, the back end of the car kicks up and climbs up the front of my car, over the bonnet, windscreen, roof and over the top, landing on the ground behind me on its wheels and carrying on.

You mean... exactly like the video someone posted on the last page?

 

[El Drifto]

That bouncing really annoys me.
Couldn't even drift with the S2000 since the rear wheels kept lifting off the ground.

 

[ajprice]

You mean... exactly like the video someone posted on the last page?

Possibly. I didnt watch the videos, i went through the list in the first post and didn't see anything similar.

We're not all perfect you know...

 

[irnbrutwinturbo]

On crowded very high speed races im noticing sound breaks/stutters from the PS3. Sound is going to AMP via optical out. It is only this game that has the problem.

Its almost as if the engine keeps cutting out.

 

[F1KimiFreak]

Also another bug ... got an first place price while i finished the race in second and not in first :/

Edit: And the problem above im also experiencing on willow creeks i think it was.

 

[sejtur]

PS3 PAL glitch:
In menu's the game sometimes think I'm pressing the right arrow, while it's not pressed. The game keeps thinking it's pressed all the time and scrolls to the end of the menu when it can go no further to the right. The select an event before that it's very hard.

Sometimes I have this, sometimes not. It's possible in every menu where you can scroll sideways.

 

[Dijital Majik]

Ambush Canyon bouncing is soooo annoying! The front of my car with even the softest suspension settings, goes bouncing off in a straight line like on hydraulics in on some turns (5th from last comes to mind), even when I slow right down.

- Every single time I start drift (freerun or career), the first time there is no engne sound until a restart.

- Car can get "stuck" to a barrier and is very hard to part with.

Also, the livery editor tends to have a mind of its own and occasionally mismatches the scale of vinyls. Most easily seen where two basic shapes are placed together to form one shape (e.g a square and a triangle).

It may not be a glitch, but the views in the livery editor are very annoying and often off-centre (in the case with top view)

 

[Blitz187]

Ambush Canyon bouncing is soooo annoying! The front of my car with even the softest suspension settings, goes bouncing off in a straight line like on hydraulics in on some turns (5th from last comes to mind), even when I slow right down.

If you adjust the stiffness or softness of the suspension it is also necessary to adjust the "bump stop" in relation to the suspension settings... So if youre running stiff suspension it helps to shorten the bump stop and if youre on soft suspension it helps to make it taller... Messing around with this I have been able to eliminate the uncontrolled bouncing you get hitting bumps in the road...

 

[H20HYBRID_GT]

The latter isn't a bug or a glitch (I presume you get a warning message, or it is greyed out?).

Not really a bug, but it appears like one if your gamesave gets corrupted. I had that with NFScarbon and it seemed like having something to do with too many cars in garage... It's a stupid feature anyway and I wish they'd just remove it like it happened with RE5.

Thanks for the heads up I guess I haven't done many (if at all) quick races. I'll check it out tomorrow, and I'm hoping that they are not limited in availability to "quick races" only, otherwise there's not much real benefit for me

Unfortunately you can only use them there, plain stupid IMO


As for more bugs: anyone noticed most online leaderboards are just blank (except career and some more strange things like best time on Nordschleife is 1.5 seconds ??) ?

 

[NLxAROSA]

As for more bugs: anyone noticed most online leaderboards are just blank (except career and some more strange things like best time on Nordschleife is 1.5 seconds ??) ?

When you log in at needforspeed.com and try to access the leaderbords you get a notification that says the leaderboards have been disabled due to 'unexpectedly high access'. I guess we'll have to wait until they get enabled.

 

[F1KimiFreak]

yet another bug: this happened to me on spa: best lap time became mine race result time, so apparantly i was 2m50 faster then the 2nd guy ...

beginning to wonder how many bugs there can be in an game... world record game here?

 

[Ske]

PS3: Framerate issues at several tracks, even when I'm alone on track. (Donington short, Willow Springs HTM, Glendale noticed so far)

 

[H20HYBRID_GT]

When you log in at needforspeed.com and try to access the leaderbords you get a notification that says the leaderboards have been disabled due to 'unexpectedly high access'. I guess we'll have to wait until they get enabled.

Oh, didn't know that. 👍

yet another bug: this happened to me on spa: best lap time became mine race result time, so apparantly i was 2m50 faster then the 2nd guy ...

beginning to wonder how many bugs there can be in an game... world record game here?

 

[sejtur]

yet another bug: this happened to me on spa: best lap time became mine race result time, so apparantly i was 2m50 faster then the 2nd guy ...

beginning to wonder how many bugs there can be in an game... world record game here?

LOL I was thinking exactly thesame... maybe this game won't have the sales record, but the bugs record they can have. Seems like noone wanted to test the game for them, haha.

 

[ANFD]

PS3 PAL glitch:
In menu's the game sometimes think I'm pressing the right arrow, while it's not pressed. The game keeps thinking it's pressed all the time and scrolls to the end of the menu when it can go no further to the right. The select an event before that it's very hard.

Sometimes I have this, sometimes not. It's possible in every menu where you can scroll sideways.

If you're using a wheel, the wheel has to remain centered while in the menu or the game will scroll to either side depending upon which direction the wheel is turned to.

 

[sejtur]

If you're using a wheel, the wheel has to remain centered while in the menu or the game will scroll to either side depending upon which direction the wheel is turned to.

D'OH! That I didn't think of that... I think that was the problem, thanks. 👍 it's not really a bug, but it can be annoying. Do you also know why the steering wheel configures in between the races and menu's?