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rcgldr's avatar
8 years ago

Please host official Undercover patch 1.0.1.18

Soon after Undercover was released (Nov 2008) there were two patches / upgrades. Example for English / US DVD version (before steam).

NFSU_v1.0.1.17_enUS.exe (released in Feb 2009)

NFSU_v1.0.1.18_enUS.exe (released in May 2009).

Version ... 17 is still on EA's large download server 

but ...18 was removed.

1.0.1.18 adds the Challenge series which in turn unlocks 3 special cars: Battle Machine RX7, Speed Machine 911, Dominator Z06. (Note if starting a new game / career, a player can do Challenge series before doing career, allowing the 3 special tier 1 cars to be used in career mode.

Some web sites still provide downloadable copies of the 1.0.1.18 patches, but EA doesn't have any official downloads that I can find.

If the Steam version is different than the original DVD version, is there a 1.0.1.18 patch for the Steam version?

I assume if there is an Origin version, it's the same as the DVD version?

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  • Then you get rid of the Gt 500 stripes

    There is no Mazda that can beat an American Performance car and Porches are over powered  a Mustang Gt can kick Porches rear  as it has more torque.It is is one of the most under powered cars in the game.I know how much NFS feels about American cars as they don't know a thing about them unless you live in the US or Canada.Marc really didn't know much about  American or racing for that matter..\

    This is why a lot of people use trainers to fix balance issues and my dominate will always be American and the Camaro is good at T1.I never really cared for the tier system doesn't work well.

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    rcgldr
    8 years ago

    > how much NFS feels about American cars as they don't know a thing about them unless you live in the US or Canada.

    Undercover was made by EA Black Box, based in Canada. They're aware of the relative performance of the cars, but choose to ignore the relative performance of real world cars when deciding how to "tune" the cars in the NFS games. Carbon did have the Z06 as the fastest career car, with the non-career  Audi Lemans (like an R8) being faster at a few tracks. At the extreme, for Underground 2, the Corolla, a starter car, is the dominant race car.

    > Marc really didn't know much about  American or racing for that matter

    Marc did have a racing background, and was a driver in the Toyota Atlantic series (similar to Indy Lights):

    In my opinion, the development team chose which cars to make dominant and not Marc. Marc probably played more of a consultant role in how to tune the cars to handle in the manner that the team wanted. The worst case was NFS World, which kept changing performance and game aspects in order to keep players spending real money on a series of ever dominant cars and gambling (card packs) with real money in an effort to get performance parts.

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    rcgldr
    8 years ago

    > Steam version

    Thanks for the info, but the point of this thread is to ask EA to put patch 1.0.1.18 for PC DVD version back on their download server, where it used to be hosted. The 1.0.1.17 patch is still there, so it's unclear to me why the 1.0.1.18 patch got deleted. The original and official 1.0.1.18 patch can be found at other web sites, but it would be nice for EA to restore it back on to their own download server.

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