@beerz My words might be harsh, but the cops issue is a serious game breaker for me. The moment I start the game and get trough the day part, I already get frustrated that the heat lvl is more than half towards max after a few races. That means that at night the cops are waiting on every corner already. Which in turn means I have to play Solid Snake/Agent 47/Sam Fisher to get to an event and try getting some more money. 1 mistake and I have to cheat myself out of a cop chase, mostly having to go back to the city where there is some form of blockades that might stop the police. And the city is practically the only way to lose the choppers. When you finally have gotten rid of them, the heat is max lvl andit is almost undoable to get to your event without having to take 20000 detours and go cross country. And then right before where you need to be a copcar spawns, you are stuck in a tunnel, and undercover cop sees you or you make a small error and another 30-60 minute chase leading you away from your destination and towards the city again.
And then I haven't even talked about how race events have 0% to do with your skills and everything with if the AI lets you win or not. That is how failed the programming of the rubberbanding/AI is. They put boosts/NOS in the game for coolness factor/gameplay element, but why do that if without any of that the AI lets you gain on them, but when you use NOS/ triple boost, the AI suddenly matches your new speed? Or the AI suddenly drives away from you when you are driving the race of your life and is going so fast they are never to be seen again?
This game is seriously broken on lvls beyond bugs and right into lackluster programming. And we are talking about Devs that have taken on the Criterion name, the same house that produced the summum of arcade racing, like NFS HP 2010 and Burnout Paradise. Then they screw up like this. And it is not as we haven't been telling them. Multiple large posts here. I made a 7 tweets long post on twitter, a nice sounding one. I tried EA help on twitter. Critical reviews show that the AI and police are huge issues. Youtubers and redditers complain about it. I paid 90 euro for a game that is so broken on key recurring gameplay element and there is no place that will give me my money back (played too long on steam, EA help chat refuses to listen what really the problem is, Criterion only talks cool on twitter but does not respond to real problems. I keep on looking for any reaction or update from Criterion/EA that they heard us and will be looking into the problem and nothing. Only these BS "family" talk, doing as if their game is perfect and not a cloud in the clear sky, only focussing in their news outlets on new content. All the while I am sitting here with a 90 euro game that is broken on a programming failure lvl and one that when I play normally, making me want to throw my keyboard trough my TV and my PC through the window.
And then these Criterion dudes come smiling here, frankly telling "we have delivered this broken game to you and now we be on a deserved holiday, leaving you with this halfworking product that we sold you without telling you it only works half like you expected, not telling you if we will be ever going to get back to it and finish our work properly." Happy holidays....
So yes, I sit with a 90 euro technical blunder that I can't start up unless I want to go shopping new hardware, while Steam says "Can't help you, go to the dev/publisher for your issues", EA either keeps silent or plays dumb if you ever get through their maze they call their support sit. And then there is the developer themselves that only knows how fling ignorant posts on social media, furtherwhile ignoring any feedback, not giving any sign of knowledge of major issues in their product only to say "Screw you guys, we are off for the holidays, have fun frustrating over our half finished product, we will be back with additional cinent you can buy for it".
So yes, I am quite frustrated and angry about 90 euro I thrown away while trusting in the name Criterion, that seemingly is worth s**t these days.
Skate Team
