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8 years ago

Feedback and Suggestions

(apologies if there is a duplicate post somewhere, having issues)

Hello EA and Ghost, I thought I'd offer some feedback regarding NFS Payback and figured this would be the best place to do it at.

I'm having a pretty great time playing the game: it is a massive improvement over the previous title in virtually every aspect. I do feel that some things need changed, however.

Gameplay


OFFROAD DRIVING

The thing that bugs me the most about offroading is the fact that you pretty much have to stick to the designated path, else you lose speed. If you go off the path for even a split second, your speed drops by like 20 MPH. I find this to be very annoying because the surfaces are rather similar. In reality, a rally tuned WRX STi or a big, beefy Raptor isn't going to care about the tiniest change in terrain. Please alter this.

AI

While the rubberbanding isn't as bad as the previous title, it's still there, especially on hard difficulty and it's most prevalent in the Runner Events. Every time somebody goes to ram you, they slingshot at you like a cannonball was just shot from a cannon when they were just directly behind you matching your speed a second prior. I've also noticed that If you take a hard turn, the cops/House Enforcers eat the wall, then are back 2 seconds later. The rubberbanding is also pretty bad in the offroad events. However, I've noticed that it's not as bad on medium difficulty, at least for the offroading. It's still bad for the Runner events. Drag and Race seem alright. Please alter the AI a tad bit so the rubberbanding isn't as bad. Yes, we want a challenge on hard, but we don't want it completely unfair. 

COPS

Two things. One, the cop AI are suicidal. They rubberband like mad and try to take you down with no regard to themselves. You miss a turn and here comes two cops smashing into you at 150 MPH taking themselves out. This makes the cop events no fun on top of the fact that you're also timed and can't really fight back else you lose valuable time and likely are to fail the event. To make the cop events better, I suggest ditching the timer and adding a health bar instead. Also, for bait crates, I suggest ditching both the course and the timer, and let us escape the cops freely. Keep the bait crate concept but ditch the destination and instead, we get the rewards for just escaping. 

WRAP EDITOR

All I want is to be able to move decals with the d-pad for precision reasons.

Cars, Tuning, Parts


CAR SUGGESTIONS

*OH GOSH WHAT MORE DO YOU PEOPLE WANT*

2006 Ford GT

1970 Dodge Challenger R/T

De Tomaso Pantera (with GT5 conversion)

Nissan Silvia S14

2004 Subaru WRX STi

Subaru Impreza 22B STi

Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X

Audi Quattro (with Rally Conversion)

McLaren F1

WHEELS

Would really appreciate some new wheels and also having the Welds not being exclusive to Drag and Offroad. One of the thing that bugs me is that No Limits has Enkei and BBS but Payback doesn't (and an Enkei decal appears in Payback!). I know that the developers are different, but you should still have a license for that I think? Also, if it is possible to bring back Rays/Volk, that'd be awesome. American Racing would be a good addition.

SUSPENSION TUNING

In the E3 build, there were options for Rake and Track Width, however, they are absent from the final game. Please add those features back: some of my cars I feel would appreciate a wider track.

Thanks for reading and keep doing good with Payback!

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