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@EA_David wrote:
Update Notes
Environment - Night race intros
You’ve reported long loading screens before the start of races, and we have made an effort to reduce these. While we hope you’ll notice this improvement, you might also notice something else.
When you play after the update, the visual effects will be less spectacular during the intro and start of a night race. More specifically, there’ll be no fancy lights, smoke, fire or spectator’s cars. While this isn’t ideal, we wanted to improve the stability and reduce loading times in the short run, and we are aiming at bringing back these effects in a future update.
Well, it's time for me to play as much night races as possible before this downgrade happens.
Who knows when these effects and details come back... 🤐
EA_David wrote:
Crashes & Freezes
Additionally, we fixed some other instances where the game could freeze or crash, which should increase the overall stability of the game client.
I'll report back on this one to see if random FPS drops and stuttering still persists or not after the update launches.
@GDUBZ1 wrote:
TheRealJony This patch does nothing. Was excited till I saw it doesn't fix anything real.
The update didn't happen yet. lol
There's still 7 hours to wait for PC, 8 hours to wait for PS4, and 9 hours to wait for Xbox One at the time of this posting.
TheRealJony wrote:
EA_David wrote:
Crashes & Freezes
Additionally, we fixed some other instances where the game could freeze or crash, which should increase the overall stability of the game client.
I'll report back on this one to see if random FPS drops and stuttering still persists or not after the update launches.
@GDUBZ1 wrote:
TheRealJony This patch does nothing. Was excited till I saw it doesn't fix anything real.
I played the game for a little while after the update launched. After a certain amount of time passed (without the game crashing), the random FPS drops and stuttering still happens. -_-
You are right GDUBZ1.
We lost the night effects and details for nothing.
Same game is still broken will not be playing it again
Me too, loading screens not an issue, framerate not an issue but the game constantly crashes and freezes for me since i bought the damn thing and now it's so bad that it won't even make it in to the garage after the first loading screen..since buying nfs heat for me it has worked probably around 3 times good with no issues but now it's just broken completely..too make that even worse aswell i now have lost all my money and cars and the only thing i have left now to show all my work is my rep so i will leave it now until there's a new update/patch...not worth the risk anymore
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@TheRealJony schrieb:
@EA_David wrote:Update Notes
Environment - Night race intros
You’ve reported long loading screens before the start of races, and we have made an effort to reduce these. While we hope you’ll notice this improvement, you might also notice something else.
When you play after the update, the visual effects will be less spectacular during the intro and start of a night race. More specifically, there’ll be no fancy lights, smoke, fire or spectator’s cars. While this isn’t ideal, we wanted to improve the stability and reduce loading times in the short run, and we are aiming at bringing back these effects in a future update.
Well, it's time for me to play as much night races as possible before this downgrade happens.
Who knows when these effects and details come back... 🤐
EA_David wrote:Crashes & Freezes
Additionally, we fixed some other instances where the game could freeze or crash, which should increase the overall stability of the game client.
I'll report back on this one to see if random FPS drops and stuttering still persists or not after the update launches.
I agree with you... I'm from Germany and write here, because I think it's easier for EA to read it here. I was reading a german pc hardware magazine article and they write: "Also, EA has responded to the feedback, so that the visual effects at night races no longer will be so bright. There will be no extravagant lights, smoke, fire or spectator cars anymore. So on the one hand the load times are to be reduced and on the other hand the exaggerated effects at Night races for some players is more pleasant."
WHAAAAAAT?! I already hate it when I'm reading it - I'm wondering how this feedback came up? Especially the nights in Heat look stunning and now they are reduced to a minimum because some people think the loading times were to long?! The loading times weren't to long in my opinion and I'm already very sad I have to load this "Update" because I loved the nights especially for the colors and effects - it was looking just great!
EA can you maybe implement something to the game, so we can choose if graphic or fps/loading times are more important to us? I didn't had any issue with the night time or the looks of it and if people have problems with it, a option system were they can decide to reduce the looks of the night time ìs probably much more helpful.
For people like me you did take something out of the game that was important for the atmosphere of the game and worked well ... I'm not interested in wrongly addressed "long" loading times, driving around in this beautiful colorful night is much more important to me - the game has never crashed and the loading times are great, concidering the size of the map.
PLEASE Re-Consider your decision and give us options where we choose for ourselves if we want a reduced-looking night or not! PLEASE!
Who has been complaining about loading times? The loading times have been faster than Payback's!
I watched ONE critical review on YouTube in which the vlogger complained about loading times, and I caught myself thinking that he didn't know what he was talking about.
Now that these effects have been taken away, the game now looks just like Payback, which is to say 'not good enough' for a latest-gen game.
I am happy that crashes and freeze-ups have been improved - those WERE giving me occasional problems, but they NEVER happened during the loading screens/race intros.
These are the biggest complaints I have about the game in its current state:
1) No controller remapping - I would like to upvote anyone who complained about this 1000x if I could - what is this, 2015?!? In 2015 they thought it would be a good idea to release a racing game with automatic transmission only... Then they finally got it right in Payback by giving us manual and at least allowing for a couple of different control-schemes. Now we are back to 2015 I see..
2) Cops are waay too hard after heat level 2. I agree with everyone else who thinks that racing at night just isn't worth it.... I'm going back to Ventura ;-)
3) Fix the dialogue so that the characters don't say the same things over and over and over and over again... I get that it's specific to where you are at in the story, but we spend hours customizing and racing cars WITHOUT advancing the story, so this really needs to be tweaked.
@Kennjul388 wrote:
This Kenneth Johnson text and gamertag is Kenney J i hav one question for ya to ask you it i am a needforspeed fan NFS 2015 to NFS Heat and beyond future my problem is one thing need to be happen is IMPORT THE WRAPS UPLOAD from the previous NFS game to NFS Heat i couldn't import my old Wraps livery i created it
You can import your customizations made in the NFS Heat Studio App into the main game.
However, you can't import your customizations made from previous NFS games into NFS Heat. Unfortunately, you will have to recreate your customizations from previous NFS games.
