Need for Speed (2015)
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Traded mine in already, a very short and frustrating game. Getting beaten around corners and on the straights in a 980hp GT3 RS by a Nissan S13 is a little annoying!
Drifting was very on / off as well, tended to come to a complete stop most of the times, or get crashed into by the AI.
Drifting was very on / off as well, tended to come to a complete stop most of the times, or get crashed into by the AI.
HayesDC2 said:
Traded mine in already, a very short and frustrating game. Getting beaten around corners and on the straights in a 980hp GT3 RS by a Nissan S13 is a little annoying!
Drifting was very on / off as well, tended to come to a complete stop most of the times, or get crashed into by the AI.
I got a discount refund from Amazon, so the game only cost me £37.91.Drifting was very on / off as well, tended to come to a complete stop most of the times, or get crashed into by the AI.
Game are offering £30 trade-in, so I might do that against my Fallout 4 order, as to be honest this probably won't be played again after tomorrow.
smithyithy said:
I got a discount refund from Amazon, so the game only cost me £37.91.
Game are offering £30 trade-in, so I might do that against my Fallout 4 order, as to be honest this probably won't be played again after tomorrow.
Exactly why I did it bud, figured I may as well get rid of it now while I can still get a decent amount for it. I got £30 and then along with Forza Horizon 2 I managed to get the new Call of Duty for £10. Game are offering £30 trade-in, so I might do that against my Fallout 4 order, as to be honest this probably won't be played again after tomorrow.
I got level 50 last night and fully upgraded all 3 of my cars. Loving tooling around in my Eight-six and R32 with the latter having over 1,000bhp 
The Viper is less interesting but makes wonderful sound and can still get a drift going. I'm currently trying to find all the snapshot/donut/car parts and am getting close, think only 5 of the snapshot/donut locations to find
The graphics continue to be stunning, like when you stop the car drips (different direction to the rain falling, so it's not drops going through the car) water you've collected. My AE86 is pretty much spot on given the restrictions in the decals. My Calsonic R32 though is in the doldrums, the decals have all "bled" into the surrounding paint which is insane for a computer game, so I think I'm going to have to redo them at some point. Have heard rumours that decal copying & mirroring is going to be brought in "before December" which is great news and will probably wait for that before finishing that particular paint job. Thinking of doing a Gran Turismo 1 - esk White & Blue GTS-T Viper paint job next.
Bad points, the AI mostly. It's getting all too easy even doing the "final" races for a particular character set of events sees me leaving the opposition for dead a long way back. It's like they've turned the rubber banding from Rivals back abit too far. The only exception is the drift train races where you have to be close to the opponents to score, and they seem to only be able to crash into you, abit like GT1 & Forza Horizon 2 tbh.
I also worry about what you are supposed to do when you've finished all the story missions, as I can't see much to do afterwards. Even with my friends in a crew just beating each other's high scores is not enough, it almost needs something like the multiplayer lobbies from the Crew to keep people playing. Maybe there will be some decent DLC in 2016.
The Viper is less interesting but makes wonderful sound and can still get a drift going. I'm currently trying to find all the snapshot/donut/car parts and am getting close, think only 5 of the snapshot/donut locations to find The graphics continue to be stunning, like when you stop the car drips (different direction to the rain falling, so it's not drops going through the car) water you've collected. My AE86 is pretty much spot on given the restrictions in the decals. My Calsonic R32 though is in the doldrums, the decals have all "bled" into the surrounding paint which is insane for a computer game, so I think I'm going to have to redo them at some point. Have heard rumours that decal copying & mirroring is going to be brought in "before December" which is great news and will probably wait for that before finishing that particular paint job. Thinking of doing a Gran Turismo 1 - esk White & Blue GTS-T Viper paint job next.
Bad points, the AI mostly. It's getting all too easy even doing the "final" races for a particular character set of events sees me leaving the opposition for dead a long way back. It's like they've turned the rubber banding from Rivals back abit too far. The only exception is the drift train races where you have to be close to the opponents to score, and they seem to only be able to crash into you, abit like GT1 & Forza Horizon 2 tbh.
I also worry about what you are supposed to do when you've finished all the story missions, as I can't see much to do afterwards. Even with my friends in a crew just beating each other's high scores is not enough, it almost needs something like the multiplayer lobbies from the Crew to keep people playing. Maybe there will be some decent DLC in 2016.
I found the Toyota AE86 to be really good, the usual suspects are also great (180SX/Supra/muscle cars) also the F40 is pretty good if you want the expensive option. I've pretty much only used the AE86 & R32 GTR for my drifting, when tuning I go to the top bar and then select one notch down from having the visible sliders 2 notches left from centre if that makes sense? For pure drifting I put it on the two notches and tweak until I'm comfortable with it.
Is there anything to do once the story missions are complete? Seems daft for an online game that there are only ever four players in a lobby, spread out over a huge map. Plus you only get a grand for beating them, its not even worth the effort of chasing them down in the first place.
It seems not rogue, though they are introducing a bunch of stuff before the end of November. Fingers crossed for fast paced dlc?
Here's what they are planning to add;
More balanced ‘AI Catch Up’
New Wrap Editor features:
Mirror functionality
Improved colour picker
Hoonicorn and Morohoshi-San Diablo
Gifted upon completion of their respective narrative threads
First look at neons
Early in development version on Morohoshi-San’s Diablo
REP increase 50-60
3x Trophies & Achievements
New daily challenges
x30 new pre-set wraps
General bugs, tweaks and improvements
I've done nothing except take moody pictures and got my platinum trophy, ridiculously short but I really enjoyed it and hope they can add to it.
Here's what they are planning to add;
More balanced ‘AI Catch Up’
New Wrap Editor features:
Mirror functionality
Improved colour picker
Hoonicorn and Morohoshi-San Diablo
Gifted upon completion of their respective narrative threads
First look at neons
Early in development version on Morohoshi-San’s Diablo
REP increase 50-60
3x Trophies & Achievements
New daily challenges
x30 new pre-set wraps
General bugs, tweaks and improvements
I've done nothing except take moody pictures and got my platinum trophy, ridiculously short but I really enjoyed it and hope they can add to it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUipNAjACQM from this review it sounds pap don't think i'll be buying when it comes to pc.
I endured 20 mins of that spastic spouting off before I had to turn it off. But I'll run through the points I heard:
- lack of parts on some cars: AGREE, it is annoying but given the release notes for the first update they are being pretty responsive to feedback. He also didn't really touch of the decals which other than lacking an angle measure is pretty spot on so.
- Tuning parts: Disagree, he was only level 32 and hadn't added any of the parts he had unlocked. Add the parts to the cars and it makes a material difference to the driving experience and the noise of each car.
- Always at night: Invalid point, omg, I can't believe it, a game about illegal racing which is almost exclusively held at night is set almost exclusively at night...
- Handling/lots of HP & not spinning out: handling is mentioned above numerous times, you need to tune it to meet your needs, if you don't the whole game is crap. I've got mine set to a burnout: paradise setup and it works perfectly on all my cars. Not realistic HP/Spinning out, it's a f
king arcade racer.
I imagine he goes onto the AI mentioning rubber banding, it's been mentioned alot. I personally only experienced it at the start and in drift train events, all other times the AI was laughably easy. The obvious conclusion is that it needs to be increased not decreased and everyone shouldn't be so st.
Here is the gamespot review, even they who are normally quite critical of games gave it 8/10 and is much more balanced in it's criticisms: http://www.gamespot.com/reviews/need-for-speed-rev...
This is not a perfect game, it is far too short and agree with the visual parts, also the AI should be tuned up and there should be something more concrete for multiplayer. However lots of games suffer major flaws, the crew with nothing to do once you're done, forza horizon 2 with it's pathetic AI. It will be interesting to see what happens but one would hope this would go the same way a drive club and be made much better over time (I remember it being heavily criticized when it came out).
- lack of parts on some cars: AGREE, it is annoying but given the release notes for the first update they are being pretty responsive to feedback. He also didn't really touch of the decals which other than lacking an angle measure is pretty spot on so.
- Tuning parts: Disagree, he was only level 32 and hadn't added any of the parts he had unlocked. Add the parts to the cars and it makes a material difference to the driving experience and the noise of each car.
- Always at night: Invalid point, omg, I can't believe it, a game about illegal racing which is almost exclusively held at night is set almost exclusively at night...
- Handling/lots of HP & not spinning out: handling is mentioned above numerous times, you need to tune it to meet your needs, if you don't the whole game is crap. I've got mine set to a burnout: paradise setup and it works perfectly on all my cars. Not realistic HP/Spinning out, it's a f
king arcade racer. I imagine he goes onto the AI mentioning rubber banding, it's been mentioned alot. I personally only experienced it at the start and in drift train events, all other times the AI was laughably easy. The obvious conclusion is that it needs to be increased not decreased and everyone shouldn't be so s
t. Here is the gamespot review, even they who are normally quite critical of games gave it 8/10 and is much more balanced in it's criticisms: http://www.gamespot.com/reviews/need-for-speed-rev...
This is not a perfect game, it is far too short and agree with the visual parts, also the AI should be tuned up and there should be something more concrete for multiplayer. However lots of games suffer major flaws, the crew with nothing to do once you're done, forza horizon 2 with it's pathetic AI. It will be interesting to see what happens but one would hope this would go the same way a drive club and be made much better over time (I remember it being heavily criticized when it came out).
Thread revival? I just got this at the weekend, along with a PS4 and a fair few other games.
Still on the one starter car (BRZ) and have started unlocking the medium level missions. The handling has taken a while to get used to, but I'm begining to find the right balance. Leaning more towards speed rather than drift as I seem to be absolutely cack at drifting events, so bad that I got stuck on the first crew event. So any tips on that would be more than welcome!
Some of that later cars look good, I just wonder how much you would be able to customise a Lambo or an F40?
Still on the one starter car (BRZ) and have started unlocking the medium level missions. The handling has taken a while to get used to, but I'm begining to find the right balance. Leaning more towards speed rather than drift as I seem to be absolutely cack at drifting events, so bad that I got stuck on the first crew event. So any tips on that would be more than welcome!
Some of that later cars look good, I just wonder how much you would be able to customise a Lambo or an F40?
Visually you can't really do anything to the F40.
If they patched this to do the ridiculous AI catchup / rubber-banding, I'd get back on it.
I'm stuck on a race against a bunch of cars, my car was pushing 200mph and I get passed by someone doing nearly double my speed, I just can't be bothered
If they patched this to do the ridiculous AI catchup / rubber-banding, I'd get back on it.
I'm stuck on a race against a bunch of cars, my car was pushing 200mph and I get passed by someone doing nearly double my speed, I just can't be bothered
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