Under the Hood: Performance Customization

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@EA_Ataashi wrote:

Under the Hood is back, and this time around we’re diving into the Performance Customization and how you’ll upgrade your car.

During the early days of NFS Heat’s development, we decided to take a step back and evaluate what we had done over the previous few games, identifying areas we wanted to improve upon. Improvement wasn’t the only thing on our minds. We were looking at creating a Performance Customization suite of options that would provide a solid foundation for the future.

We had a vision where you could create a car that has too much power for its tires to grip the asphalt, or even just creating a true sleeper by adding an incredibly powerful engine to your daily driver. In short, we wanted to give you the options to create the car that you want to make. These are just a few of the ideas which excited us to create this Performance Customization system that we have now in NFS Heat.

The system we’ve built has a lot of different permutations and combinations, so to explain it further, we’ve broken this Under the Hood down into a couple of areas that will explain each of the components of the performance customization.

Engine Swaps

All vehicles have a pool of engines that can be bought and installed onto the car. 

The number of available engines for each vehicle is generally around 7-10, but a few of the more extreme cars available in the game have limited amounts of available engines. 

The available engines for each car have been selected in order to give a variety of sounds while having limits on sizes and performance in order to keep the end-game performance between vehicles more balanced.

So while there are some limitations on what can be done, there are still a lot of options! You can, for example, equip a 2.5 liter Flat 4 Turbo into a Volkswagen Beetle or an 8.4 liter V8 into a Mercedes-AMG GT. Why not install a 4.0 liter V8 into a BMW M3 E46? You can do that, too!

Thanks,

Ghost Driving Experience Team

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i hope that means kswaps