Cops
Personally, I am liking the game. My biggest gripes are difficulty and cops. This game on relaxed doesn't seem relaxed. I've had a crazy time trying to win races. One of the big issues are the police...
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This has already been mentioned in this forum, but it cannot be stressed enough how much the game experience is ruined by too frequent cop chases and redundant chopper patrols.
The fun in this game comes from the races, missions, car upgrades etc, but it's all too often interrupted by cop patrols which especially on higher heat levels are sometimes impossible to avoid.
I've read many comments where players where quitting the game in the middle of a cop chase, because they where tired of starting yet another cop chase after having just finished two or three others when all they were trying to do is get to a mission.
I think there are several improvements that could be done in this regard:
- remove the choppers altogether - there are enough car patrols that are successfully ruining the experience anyway.
- reduce the amount of patrols, especially once you manage to escape a chase - a successful escape should be rewarded, not punished by throwing you into another chase.
- add another difficulty level which greatly reduces the police frequency and the speed with which the heat is raised for those who want to enjoy racing and not spend 80% of the time on escaping from the cops and avoid rage quitting.
- let the heat decrease after a short time of not being in an active chase
Let's make NFS fun again!
I am happy that more and more people are calling out this bulls*it and hopefully this is enough for Criterion to fix the cop density.
There is no reason to have them all over the map equally and on every corner. I would rather take instant chase like in the older games rather than a meter than does not help because 2 seconds later, another cop appears and starts a chase.
Choppers should not be removed but reduced. Two at the time, even on "Relaxed" difficulty is too much. And that easiest setting is not even easy. Sure, less damage but the AI racers and constant cop trouble suck.
Yeah, it's pretty ridiculous. Yesterday I booted the game again to give it another try, and of course a cop chase started within seconds.
I escaped, hid and waited for some clearance to reach a mission, but I couldn't move because there were two choppers and three police cars roaming around and the entire mini-map was basically red.
I waited for a few minutes with my engine off until some cop notice me anyway and triggered another chase. That just kills all the fun. I'll wait until this is fixed.
