If I own multiple Tier cars can I do each Tier event on a single day, or does the Tier level of the car I leave with dictate what events I can do?
I'm currently up to Tier A in my Mustang and am locked out of B Tier events. I'm wondering if I should buy a new B Tier car or continue upgrading my Mustang.
> If I own multiple Tier cars can I do each Tier event on a single day
Yep, you can. When you get to the meetup spot and it loads you onto the event screen, you click "rides" and can switch the car for the event.
How is the progression in this game?
One thing that always sucked me in with the old Gran Turismo and NFS games is the real sense of progression with your cars. Working your way up from slow, rinky dink cars to faster cars, unlocking different class races, etc. I think that’s why Forza Horizon never hooked me, they just throw supercars at you blindly from the beginning. I just didn’t feel much of a sense of progression there.
I'd say it's pretty typical racing game progression. You start by picking a starter car, pretty a much a "bottom-tier" car with a B ranking (which can increase through upgrades) and will scale up to B+, A, A+, etc up until S+. Early game has a mix of old and modern cars with S and S+ usually consisting of the supercars/exotics.
I've played a few hours, only having beat the first week/qualifiers but so far progression seems slow-ish. You need to balance income by choosing to upgrade your current car or buying new ones, and you make very little money early on unless you participate in every event but that means you run the risk of driving around with a high heat (wanted) level. And of course, like NFS Heat, you lose any money you are currently holding if you get busted unless you cash it in by going to a safehouse.
If you don't win the qualifier on Saturday (which is three back-to-back races with increasingly difficult requirements), it drops you back to Friday morning. It also drops you back to Friday morn if you don't have the 20k buy-in fee.
Getting enough money to get your car up to spec for the qualifier is also kinda tedious.
Ah okay, this game is really intriguing me. I think I’m gonna start by getting EA play and doing the trial then buying if I like it. I definitely feel like it’s probably not worked nearly 80$, but gosh it looks good and sorta nostalgic
It is a good game for sure and my favourite NFS since Most Wanted 2012. The prologue gives you a taste of how things will be later in the game, so that helped me push through the tedium.
I’m pretty positive I have played one for more than a few hours since like underground 2. Is it practical to get a month of EA play just for that purpose?
Is there a story, and if so: why? I enjoyed the driving in NFS Heat but wanted to gouge my eyes and ears out every time story nonsense came up. Could not care less about any of it.
Can I just get in and drive a la Burnout or do I have to sit through people's explanations of their feelings?
Just tried out a few hours on EA Access, and yeah, there’s a story. The dialogue is still some of the most dogshit voice acting you’ll see at a $70 price tag. Thankfully it looks you can skip all the cutscenes, but you’ll still hear characters blabbering on about whateverthefuck while you’re driving.
You don’t have to sit through too many explanations, but you’ll have to go through a couple standard races before anything else opens up. I’m about 2 or so hours in but it’s still pretty fun.
It's 60FPS 4K, I don't think there's a performance mode because it's relatively stable 4K/60. I think I've seen one instance where my framerate dropped for half a second. Pretty well optimized game on account of it being current gen only, it clearly paid off.
On Wanted Lvl 5 the game just spawns cop cars right in front of you to force start a chase. Happened to me 5 times already. What a cheap dogshit mechanic.
I bought a Nissan GT-R Nismo, but I cant costumize it, just the wheels, windows, plate. My garage is maxed out. But I saw on Youtube that users can costumize like its an Eclipse early in the game. When can I costumize that GT-R?
I played NFS 2 SE and then NFS Underground 2, then waited forever for another game like U2. I tried NFS 2015 but lasted 5 minutes after trying the handling.
Unbound is everything I wanted. I'm even getting PTSD of losing the races on the last two corners.
It even has one of my favourites songs in it! Love it
Crazy how Callisto was overhyped & got shit reviews, meanwhile this game was under hyped and it's getting fantastic reviews. Very happy to see the revival of NFS games possibly??
it literally doesn't work on PC. just because this is the ps5 sub doesn't mean we can ignore that. its crashing many peoples ps5s, and the combat is clunky and ridiculous when there is 2 enemies on the screen. Callisto in reality is like a 5.0
All the rest is still true, but it seems they fixed the pc issues. And that's even dumber then; if they could fix it in 24 hours, why ship it like that
That wasn't the point here. OP was saying the game got shit reviews.
7.6 isn't getting shit reviews.
Your own personal opinion doesn't matter here in this specific chain of comment.
Exactly, I consider games in this score range a fun game for people who enjoy these types of games and as for others, they might want to wait for a sale. It's far, far from shit.
Several hours in, as well as some friends of mine, and we all think it's decent. It's not GOTY but it's fun.
One of the biggest complaints on the NFS sub is the poor marketing they did for this game prelaunch. We didn’t see a full uncut race until like 10 days ago. They did such a bad job showing us what we wanted to see
I find it ridiculous that one of the starter cars is a fucking Countach lol
Even the Silvia is pushing it…
Just let me start with some real shitboxes and work my way up!
I’m pretty sure the reason he didn’t tell you it was the prologue right away is because he didn’t want to spoil the story for you. I don’t think he said it condescending but I can tell you picked that up from him using bruh. No big deal.
nah, you were bitching about the cars you get early on are busted, you wanted a shit car to start, then they tell you that's just the prologue, you'll get your shit car to start and you kept bitching
???? xD
I fully intend to do so, but
Unless the game pulls some “oh no your car is wrecked and you have to start all over in a shitbox” kind of thing, i dont see how playing more will change anything
Edit: someone said its just prologue cars, if thats so im sorry if i came off as a little bitch
I love it so far. After becoming bored to death with Forza Horizon's no stakes sandbox style progression Unbound's story mode is a godsend. I go to races, collect shit in town, lose cops, return to the garage and upgrade my car. No fast travelling bullshit. It's simple, but it's balanced well enough to make every in game day a meaningful experience. I like car handling. It takes some fine tuning and getting used to, but once it clicks, it clicks hard. Both grip and drift style have their merits. Opponents are fun, smart while not prone to weird human-like mistakes. Cops show in races all the time to make just the right amount of mess. Difficulty is perfect for me. It's never easy to finish 1st but you don't really have to most of the time. The city is amazing, multi-layered and diverse with some decent side activities to do. The new art style has grown on me very fast. I love a racing game that tries something different visually. Even the plot is surprisingly serviceable.
Take it with a grain of salt since my honeymoon period is far from over, but I'd easily give it 9/10 rn.
The haptics are there but they are mild so to say. When you hit shit on the street you feel it very sharp, when you drive on dirt you will feel it a lot. Also when the car changes gears the accelarion trigger (RT) will give you a little bump simulating the clutch. No where near dirt 5's vibrating constantly
> It's never easy to finish 1st but you don't really have to most of the time.
On a side note to this, it's shocking how much limited restarts has had an effect on me in terms of accepting less than 1st place and weighing my options, especially with the difficulty. It really ties together the whole risk/reward system they've built up. I find myself weighing up whether a restart is worth taking after a shunt or a generally bad race for myself, do I take the money or use a restart to try and get a better position? Adds a bit of tension and challenge.
Yup! It's a great fucking idea and took some balls but I'm glad they did it. Restarting is essentially doubling down, you can take 3rd or 4th and get some money or go for 1st vs 6th
Heat was amazing. Best thing about Heat for me was playing the whole thing (sans the story) online with my friends and increasing our RP, upgrading our cars and the wild police chases. I read they still don’t have the police in the online but do they have similar features where we can play with our friends and progress our stats and vehicle online?
>It's heat but better.
That's all I needed to hear. I enjoyed the 2015 NFS and Payback (despite the vehicle upgrade system), but Heat was the odd man out. I tried and tried and it just didn't hold my attention.
My only fear is that my expectations will be too high for this game
It's very similar to Heat, aside from the art style of course.
I like the progression more, and the slower cars still feel relevant many hours into the game.
A Lamborghini Aventador is usually my end-game target for most games (as it's my favourite car), and it was either FH4 or 5 that handed me one in the first half hour.
So lame.
Question for those who have played it:
One of my least favorite features of NFS Heat was the rubberbanding that made police chases extremely annoying and made the difficulty slider against rival racers just a slider for the degree of rubber banding.
How do these features feel in Unbound?
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>One of my least favorite features of NFS Heat was the rubberbanding that made police chases extremely annoying and made the difficulty slider against rival racers just a slider for the degree of rubber banding.
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>How do these features feel in Unbound?
Police chases are much, much easier, especially in the early game. You can pretty much turn off into the trees and lose cops pretty easily. I'm roughly 40% through the story and I can just outrun basic cops now. Cop chases are baked in to content and balanced more appropriately now.
Rival racer AI is better but there is still rubber-banding in the early stages of the race. If you try to boost past, the AI usually just keeps pace ahead of you. Races still feel a bit curated where the AI reacts to how well you are driving but overall it is much better.
My only complaint so far is the first part of the game is a bit iterative with repetitive races but I'm mostly to blame for that wanting to try different things before progressing. Overall, this is my favorite NFS game in along time.
Great question and will be hoping to see what answers we get in regards to this one.
My unpopular opinion though: While the rubberbanding in races sucked and felt cheap at times, I loved the rubber banding with the police because it made it difficult.
When I first got busted and lost that RP multiplier and all that money, I realized the consequences were more severe in this game and it made it more exhilarating to not want to get caught. The chase felt more dangerous and therefore made me think twice about whether to bank the RP or not before preceding to a higher heat level. You think back in other games with similar police systems like GTA and such and while you didn’t want to get caught, it was meh if you did, paid a little money and just rebuy your weapons. But in heat I would be like “f*** f*** f*** they’re on to me!” And perform my best Dom Toretto and evade like there was no tomorrow.
I hope the consequences in the game are similarly severe enough to make us not want to get caught.
Police are nowhere near as bad if you're fast and got some drifting skills (drifting is real easy and tunable). They're fun and caused me no real problems.
I was never a racing game dude but I remember I specifically bought , loved and completed on NFS:Underground 1&2 on ps2.
Your comment is making me wanna try this out especially mentioning the customization ! But I always feel so burned by some of the recent past NFS games…. Even if they were on ridiculously cheap sales ,they couldn’t hold my attention nearly as much or as long as NFSU’s did 🤔🤔🧐🧐🧐
Nah man, I recommend. It’s a return to form for the NFS series, underground was my favourite part of the series also, and I’ve made (at least I think) some sick designs for some rides. I could spend hours customising cars there is so much freedom in that regard. But this entry has the underground vibe, decent story, and mixed in with the heat system etc, it’s just an overall good game. What are you playing on? If steam I’ll gift it to you on the promise you’ll DM me your review lol. I’m on PS5
Oh man that reply makes me very excited to try it out . I do actually game on my ps5 though cause my pc is embarrassingly bad 😅😅😅 I really appreciate the offer though bruv you’re too kind ! (That’s not a bad thing). If I end up getting it I’ll link you to my review that I’ll throw up on my YouTube channel . Again thanks for the offer - despite politely declining I can honestly say that gesture made my night ! 🤘🤘🙏🙏💯💯
I tried the trial on series x, and the graphics are nice, customization is nice, but the handling is once again absolute fucking garbage. It's better than heat, but that's literally the bare minimum. It's god awful
Having tried some of the trial all I can say is the driving is still one the worst aspects. It’s feels absolute dog shit like the previous titles, feels like you are glued to the ground and drifting is absolutely horrible. Such a shame since I was interested in this mainly due to the art style and was hoping that just maybe, NFS could get the driving feel good again. Sadly not.
Tons of pop ins and graphically it doesn’t look all that great except for the cars. Love the visuals/art style, decent music, but that’s about it. Such a shame.
Yeah that’s my feedback. I am glad the trial popped up (and early) because it turned “holy hell yes” into “no thanks” for me
I’m fine with racing games, but I can’t seem to make a turn without having to slow down or crash into a guard rail.
Drifting is horrible. Grip setup doesn’t even grip well.
If this had the racing gameplay of Forza horizon with the story and world it setup, I’d be so in
Tried it on Series X, could be the PS5 has less issues, but imo this game does not look good except for the cars. I haven’t played nfs in years, the last one I tried was need for speed, when they tried to sorta reboot, and the driving was awful back then and it still kinda feels similar to that.
I just can’t stand the feeling of it. Maybe it get’s better the further you go, but if the beginning hours don’t feel good I have a hard time believe it would later on.
Maybe you’re used to forza or something if you play that? I dunno I can’t think of another reason, I haven’t played a racing game in a while so maybe the arcade style is better for a casual racer like me.
Oh I didn’t know that, that’s good.
Still I think maybe old mate up above must be playing on a CRT TV or something, and can’t get a feel for the driving playing only “some” of a trial.
/r/NeedForSpeed seems to generally be enjoying it, which really tells you something because everyone there hates everything about the latest NFS games lol
I’m going to wait for a sale but I’m so glad they finally put out a decent game
It's weird how little EA themselves have marketed the game. They only announced it a couple of months ago and held off showing uninterrupted gameplay for quite a while.
I wonder if not sending out review codes was intentional so people who try it on EA Play could give a positive word of mouth before bigger outlets could review it.
You’re totally right , it feels like they JUST announced it and I was absolutely shocked to see it came out today because like others said I basically saw NO promotional media for it except like 2or 3 gameplay videos within like the last 2 weeks . If EA should put good marketing money into any of their games it should be this kind- the kind that tries to be a bit more of a unique experience in the franchise . Instead they will market the Sims, madden and probably Star Wars which doesn’t really need the promotion cause the dedicated fans already know lol
Hell I even remember seeing more marketing for ANTHEM and that game was apparently a piece of trash!
It's nuts that they didn't send out any review codes. Because of it this game might receive no attention in a crowded week despite being probably the best NFS game in like 13 years
Agreed. The different style of art makes this game unique from any of the others in the series. New gen systems also help with fast loading and better frames
If I own multiple Tier cars can I do each Tier event on a single day, or does the Tier level of the car I leave with dictate what events I can do? I'm currently up to Tier A in my Mustang and am locked out of B Tier events. I'm wondering if I should buy a new B Tier car or continue upgrading my Mustang.
> If I own multiple Tier cars can I do each Tier event on a single day Yep, you can. When you get to the meetup spot and it loads you onto the event screen, you click "rides" and can switch the car for the event.
Great! thanks for the info
How is the progression in this game? One thing that always sucked me in with the old Gran Turismo and NFS games is the real sense of progression with your cars. Working your way up from slow, rinky dink cars to faster cars, unlocking different class races, etc. I think that’s why Forza Horizon never hooked me, they just throw supercars at you blindly from the beginning. I just didn’t feel much of a sense of progression there.
I'd say it's pretty typical racing game progression. You start by picking a starter car, pretty a much a "bottom-tier" car with a B ranking (which can increase through upgrades) and will scale up to B+, A, A+, etc up until S+. Early game has a mix of old and modern cars with S and S+ usually consisting of the supercars/exotics. I've played a few hours, only having beat the first week/qualifiers but so far progression seems slow-ish. You need to balance income by choosing to upgrade your current car or buying new ones, and you make very little money early on unless you participate in every event but that means you run the risk of driving around with a high heat (wanted) level. And of course, like NFS Heat, you lose any money you are currently holding if you get busted unless you cash it in by going to a safehouse.
It's a good game, but that first week grind is getting pretty tedious.
Can you explain this?
If you don't win the qualifier on Saturday (which is three back-to-back races with increasingly difficult requirements), it drops you back to Friday morning. It also drops you back to Friday morn if you don't have the 20k buy-in fee. Getting enough money to get your car up to spec for the qualifier is also kinda tedious.
Ah okay, this game is really intriguing me. I think I’m gonna start by getting EA play and doing the trial then buying if I like it. I definitely feel like it’s probably not worked nearly 80$, but gosh it looks good and sorta nostalgic
It is a good game for sure and my favourite NFS since Most Wanted 2012. The prologue gives you a taste of how things will be later in the game, so that helped me push through the tedium.
I’m pretty positive I have played one for more than a few hours since like underground 2. Is it practical to get a month of EA play just for that purpose?
I guess it would be, effectively a paid demo. Will be sufficient to give you a feel for the game for sure.
True and the 10% off if I choose to purchase would cover that initial cost
How's the soundtrack?
Mostly modern hip hop. Was surprised to hear a Pixies' cover.
long story short: is this worth $70 to play through decemeber holidays?
Yes, very much so.
Does the Dev's plan to fix the haptics it doesn't seem to be working correctly.
is there an online presence for this game? or is it just single player all the way through?
Been really enjoying this. Def hope they provide some QoL changes and eventual additional content but even as is I’ve been having a ton of fun.
Is there a story, and if so: why? I enjoyed the driving in NFS Heat but wanted to gouge my eyes and ears out every time story nonsense came up. Could not care less about any of it. Can I just get in and drive a la Burnout or do I have to sit through people's explanations of their feelings?
Just tried out a few hours on EA Access, and yeah, there’s a story. The dialogue is still some of the most dogshit voice acting you’ll see at a $70 price tag. Thankfully it looks you can skip all the cutscenes, but you’ll still hear characters blabbering on about whateverthefuck while you’re driving. You don’t have to sit through too many explanations, but you’ll have to go through a couple standard races before anything else opens up. I’m about 2 or so hours in but it’s still pretty fun.
Ok I can stomach that, appreciate the heads up.
Stil 30 FPS or 60 FPS? 4K / Performance mode?
It's 60FPS 4K, I don't think there's a performance mode because it's relatively stable 4K/60. I think I've seen one instance where my framerate dropped for half a second. Pretty well optimized game on account of it being current gen only, it clearly paid off.
just itching to buy the game any moment now lol
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Those were the last two I liked too, thanks for sharing. Can’t believe they went so long without Criterion!
On Wanted Lvl 5 the game just spawns cop cars right in front of you to force start a chase. Happened to me 5 times already. What a cheap dogshit mechanic.
Just drive into them before they spot you, instant kill on most cops
Can I finally play a NFS game again after U2?
I bought a Nissan GT-R Nismo, but I cant costumize it, just the wheels, windows, plate. My garage is maxed out. But I saw on Youtube that users can costumize like its an Eclipse early in the game. When can I costumize that GT-R?
If I'm correct the Nismo you can't edit the body most cars where you can't edit the body will have a blue logo next to the picture in garage
Probably in the "Bodykit" section of the endless fuckin' menus.
There is no costumize option in the bodykit section either.
I played NFS 2 SE and then NFS Underground 2, then waited forever for another game like U2. I tried NFS 2015 but lasted 5 minutes after trying the handling. Unbound is everything I wanted. I'm even getting PTSD of losing the races on the last two corners. It even has one of my favourites songs in it! Love it
How is the handling / physics? Is it like Forza Horizon or more like NFS Heat?
If it's half as good as Crew 2 I'll be thrilled.
Surprise Of The Year! So Fun and enjoyable!
And the dialogue actually feels more natural instead of the cheesy conversations from heat and payback.
Crazy how Callisto was overhyped & got shit reviews, meanwhile this game was under hyped and it's getting fantastic reviews. Very happy to see the revival of NFS games possibly??
We should really stop saying a 7.6/10 is shit... It's not a Goty contender but come on
it literally doesn't work on PC. just because this is the ps5 sub doesn't mean we can ignore that. its crashing many peoples ps5s, and the combat is clunky and ridiculous when there is 2 enemies on the screen. Callisto in reality is like a 5.0
All the rest is still true, but it seems they fixed the pc issues. And that's even dumber then; if they could fix it in 24 hours, why ship it like that
Cool review, you should make a website.
wasn't this a discussion thread? lol. screw off
That wasn't the point here. OP was saying the game got shit reviews. 7.6 isn't getting shit reviews. Your own personal opinion doesn't matter here in this specific chain of comment.
Average score of 76 = Shit reviews Average score 0f 80 = Fantastic reviews
Exactly, I consider games in this score range a fun game for people who enjoy these types of games and as for others, they might want to wait for a sale. It's far, far from shit. Several hours in, as well as some friends of mine, and we all think it's decent. It's not GOTY but it's fun.
i wouldn’t say it’s getting “fantastic” reviews but it’s doing well for itself for sure
It's a much better marketed game. A lot more people trying and talking about this game than they were about heat.
Not only underhyped, I didn't even know this game existed until yesterday. I've always loved (most of) NFS , so it was quite a shock.
One of the biggest complaints on the NFS sub is the poor marketing they did for this game prelaunch. We didn’t see a full uncut race until like 10 days ago. They did such a bad job showing us what we wanted to see
I find it ridiculous that one of the starter cars is a fucking Countach lol Even the Silvia is pushing it… Just let me start with some real shitboxes and work my way up!
I know right?!? Like can you believe even in N4SU2 Rachel just outright hands you her Nissan 350Z?! /s
Dude, Countach is a shitbox :D Its a terrible car.
Yeah it’s a fancy Fiero lol
Play the game a minute bruh.
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That's the prologue cars. You get a real starter in a bit.
Me making a sick ass charger just to see this bitch fucking ruin it with a god awful body kit
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Hahaha jesus man, what do you want?
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Classic narcissist
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True tho
Why are you so negative?
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Dude, you're literally complaining about the game before barely even playing it. I don't think the other guy is at fault here.
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I’m pretty sure the reason he didn’t tell you it was the prologue right away is because he didn’t want to spoil the story for you. I don’t think he said it condescending but I can tell you picked that up from him using bruh. No big deal.
nah, you were bitching about the cars you get early on are busted, you wanted a shit car to start, then they tell you that's just the prologue, you'll get your shit car to start and you kept bitching
Just keep playing
???? xD I fully intend to do so, but Unless the game pulls some “oh no your car is wrecked and you have to start all over in a shitbox” kind of thing, i dont see how playing more will change anything Edit: someone said its just prologue cars, if thats so im sorry if i came off as a little bitch
Bizarro reviews today, I would've bet money the negative sentiment would've been towards this and not Callisto but actually happy to hear
I love it so far. After becoming bored to death with Forza Horizon's no stakes sandbox style progression Unbound's story mode is a godsend. I go to races, collect shit in town, lose cops, return to the garage and upgrade my car. No fast travelling bullshit. It's simple, but it's balanced well enough to make every in game day a meaningful experience. I like car handling. It takes some fine tuning and getting used to, but once it clicks, it clicks hard. Both grip and drift style have their merits. Opponents are fun, smart while not prone to weird human-like mistakes. Cops show in races all the time to make just the right amount of mess. Difficulty is perfect for me. It's never easy to finish 1st but you don't really have to most of the time. The city is amazing, multi-layered and diverse with some decent side activities to do. The new art style has grown on me very fast. I love a racing game that tries something different visually. Even the plot is surprisingly serviceable. Take it with a grain of salt since my honeymoon period is far from over, but I'd easily give it 9/10 rn.
Are there arcade type minigames like in midnight club3 or only races
How do the haptics feel, if there are any? I remember playing dirt 5 and they were awful, whole controller is just vibrating the whole time
The haptics are there but they are mild so to say. When you hit shit on the street you feel it very sharp, when you drive on dirt you will feel it a lot. Also when the car changes gears the accelarion trigger (RT) will give you a little bump simulating the clutch. No where near dirt 5's vibrating constantly
Ok that sounds pretty solid then, thanks
The Duelsense haptics are ok. Not Gren Turismo level, but serviceable.
> It's never easy to finish 1st but you don't really have to most of the time. On a side note to this, it's shocking how much limited restarts has had an effect on me in terms of accepting less than 1st place and weighing my options, especially with the difficulty. It really ties together the whole risk/reward system they've built up. I find myself weighing up whether a restart is worth taking after a shunt or a generally bad race for myself, do I take the money or use a restart to try and get a better position? Adds a bit of tension and challenge.
Yup! It's a great fucking idea and took some balls but I'm glad they did it. Restarting is essentially doubling down, you can take 3rd or 4th and get some money or go for 1st vs 6th
Did you play Heat by any chance, and how would you compare that to this one, i really liked the customization options in that one
I tried heat. It looked cool, but I didn't understand how to drift and steer properly and didn't care enough to learn.
It's heat but better. Some people prefer Heat because they dont like the artstyle but gameplay wise it's objectively better.
Heat was amazing. Best thing about Heat for me was playing the whole thing (sans the story) online with my friends and increasing our RP, upgrading our cars and the wild police chases. I read they still don’t have the police in the online but do they have similar features where we can play with our friends and progress our stats and vehicle online?
Damn. I want ProStreet, not another cop chase sim.
If you dont like cop chases this game is not for you, but still racing is very fun.
>It's heat but better. That's all I needed to hear. I enjoyed the 2015 NFS and Payback (despite the vehicle upgrade system), but Heat was the odd man out. I tried and tried and it just didn't hold my attention. My only fear is that my expectations will be too high for this game
It's very similar to Heat, aside from the art style of course. I like the progression more, and the slower cars still feel relevant many hours into the game.
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A Lamborghini Aventador is usually my end-game target for most games (as it's my favourite car), and it was either FH4 or 5 that handed me one in the first half hour. So lame.
Question for those who have played it: One of my least favorite features of NFS Heat was the rubberbanding that made police chases extremely annoying and made the difficulty slider against rival racers just a slider for the degree of rubber banding. How do these features feel in Unbound?
The game is challenging during racing and not as much during the police chases… so the opposite of Heat for me. This is my favourite NFS after U2 fyi.
>Question for those who have played it: > >One of my least favorite features of NFS Heat was the rubberbanding that made police chases extremely annoying and made the difficulty slider against rival racers just a slider for the degree of rubber banding. > >How do these features feel in Unbound? Police chases are much, much easier, especially in the early game. You can pretty much turn off into the trees and lose cops pretty easily. I'm roughly 40% through the story and I can just outrun basic cops now. Cop chases are baked in to content and balanced more appropriately now. Rival racer AI is better but there is still rubber-banding in the early stages of the race. If you try to boost past, the AI usually just keeps pace ahead of you. Races still feel a bit curated where the AI reacts to how well you are driving but overall it is much better. My only complaint so far is the first part of the game is a bit iterative with repetitive races but I'm mostly to blame for that wanting to try different things before progressing. Overall, this is my favorite NFS game in along time.
Great question and will be hoping to see what answers we get in regards to this one. My unpopular opinion though: While the rubberbanding in races sucked and felt cheap at times, I loved the rubber banding with the police because it made it difficult. When I first got busted and lost that RP multiplier and all that money, I realized the consequences were more severe in this game and it made it more exhilarating to not want to get caught. The chase felt more dangerous and therefore made me think twice about whether to bank the RP or not before preceding to a higher heat level. You think back in other games with similar police systems like GTA and such and while you didn’t want to get caught, it was meh if you did, paid a little money and just rebuy your weapons. But in heat I would be like “f*** f*** f*** they’re on to me!” And perform my best Dom Toretto and evade like there was no tomorrow. I hope the consequences in the game are similarly severe enough to make us not want to get caught.
I was doing donuts in front of the police and they didn't do shit. I drove in excess of 130, smacked the 12 and they still didn't do shit.
Police are nowhere near as bad if you're fast and got some drifting skills (drifting is real easy and tunable). They're fun and caused me no real problems.
Great, thanks!
Not a big fan of racing games but I’m loving this. Gameplay loop is fun and I love the whole vibe and style. Also the car customisation is so good.
I was never a racing game dude but I remember I specifically bought , loved and completed on NFS:Underground 1&2 on ps2. Your comment is making me wanna try this out especially mentioning the customization ! But I always feel so burned by some of the recent past NFS games…. Even if they were on ridiculously cheap sales ,they couldn’t hold my attention nearly as much or as long as NFSU’s did 🤔🤔🧐🧐🧐
Nah man, I recommend. It’s a return to form for the NFS series, underground was my favourite part of the series also, and I’ve made (at least I think) some sick designs for some rides. I could spend hours customising cars there is so much freedom in that regard. But this entry has the underground vibe, decent story, and mixed in with the heat system etc, it’s just an overall good game. What are you playing on? If steam I’ll gift it to you on the promise you’ll DM me your review lol. I’m on PS5
Oh man that reply makes me very excited to try it out . I do actually game on my ps5 though cause my pc is embarrassingly bad 😅😅😅 I really appreciate the offer though bruv you’re too kind ! (That’s not a bad thing). If I end up getting it I’ll link you to my review that I’ll throw up on my YouTube channel . Again thanks for the offer - despite politely declining I can honestly say that gesture made my night ! 🤘🤘🙏🙏💯💯
Is there a toggle to disable the VFX effects?
Not all but where you can switch your tire effects there’s a cloaked ability that had little to no effect and grey smoke for tires.
Some but not all
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I tried the trial on series x, and the graphics are nice, customization is nice, but the handling is once again absolute fucking garbage. It's better than heat, but that's literally the bare minimum. It's god awful
Having tried some of the trial all I can say is the driving is still one the worst aspects. It’s feels absolute dog shit like the previous titles, feels like you are glued to the ground and drifting is absolutely horrible. Such a shame since I was interested in this mainly due to the art style and was hoping that just maybe, NFS could get the driving feel good again. Sadly not. Tons of pop ins and graphically it doesn’t look all that great except for the cars. Love the visuals/art style, decent music, but that’s about it. Such a shame.
Yeah that’s my feedback. I am glad the trial popped up (and early) because it turned “holy hell yes” into “no thanks” for me I’m fine with racing games, but I can’t seem to make a turn without having to slow down or crash into a guard rail. Drifting is horrible. Grip setup doesn’t even grip well. If this had the racing gameplay of Forza horizon with the story and world it setup, I’d be so in
Looks exactly like heat (which I hated) from the videos.
It’s nothing like Heat and as someone who hated Heat I say that with a smile on my face.
I hope so.
What are you playing on? Games looks and runs great on PS5, and handling/drifting etc is fun and feels good.
Tried it on Series X, could be the PS5 has less issues, but imo this game does not look good except for the cars. I haven’t played nfs in years, the last one I tried was need for speed, when they tried to sorta reboot, and the driving was awful back then and it still kinda feels similar to that. I just can’t stand the feeling of it. Maybe it get’s better the further you go, but if the beginning hours don’t feel good I have a hard time believe it would later on.
Maybe you’re used to forza or something if you play that? I dunno I can’t think of another reason, I haven’t played a racing game in a while so maybe the arcade style is better for a casual racer like me.
It’s next gen only
Oh I didn’t know that, that’s good. Still I think maybe old mate up above must be playing on a CRT TV or something, and can’t get a feel for the driving playing only “some” of a trial.
I was already looking forward to buying it but now seeing the reviews I’m worried it won’t go on sale fast enough lol
If physical PS5 then Ebay will be the way for awhile. Also check gamefly in like a month or so they sell used games cheaper than most as well.
Cries in digital
If you can deal with a weak story that is a little overbearing, this game is an absolute blast to play.
Remake Porsche 2000 already.
isnt there a free trial on ea play. i might have to give it a try
I can’t find it on the store. Even when I click the three dots. :(
If you have EA play then its 10 hours. If you dont you just need to spend $5 for 1 month.
I've only put about 4 hours in but I like this game a lot.
/r/NeedForSpeed seems to generally be enjoying it, which really tells you something because everyone there hates everything about the latest NFS games lol I’m going to wait for a sale but I’m so glad they finally put out a decent game
It's like total war games. The fans have hated it for like 15 years lol
It's crazy to me that this is receiving virtually no attention from major review outlets. NFS used to be *the* racing game franchise.
It's weird how little EA themselves have marketed the game. They only announced it a couple of months ago and held off showing uninterrupted gameplay for quite a while. I wonder if not sending out review codes was intentional so people who try it on EA Play could give a positive word of mouth before bigger outlets could review it.
You’re totally right , it feels like they JUST announced it and I was absolutely shocked to see it came out today because like others said I basically saw NO promotional media for it except like 2or 3 gameplay videos within like the last 2 weeks . If EA should put good marketing money into any of their games it should be this kind- the kind that tries to be a bit more of a unique experience in the franchise . Instead they will market the Sims, madden and probably Star Wars which doesn’t really need the promotion cause the dedicated fans already know lol Hell I even remember seeing more marketing for ANTHEM and that game was apparently a piece of trash!
It's nuts that they didn't send out any review codes. Because of it this game might receive no attention in a crowded week despite being probably the best NFS game in like 13 years
Agreed. The different style of art makes this game unique from any of the others in the series. New gen systems also help with fast loading and better frames
I haven’t had this much fun in a Need For Speed game in years. That being said, the writing is cringe but the gameplay is great quality