A slew of fixes that need to be addressed no matter what, Kaizen!
Before I start, I want to say that I contacted an EA manager who I won't name and gave them a lot of very frank feedback about the current state of Unbound not being in the best it could be because of all these persistent bugs I've found and learned. All I ask is for fixes and not more content, as much as people would want the latter more. So allow me to list all the bugs that were left unfixed that I and likely many others have been having, working my way from the smallest things to the bigger ones...
- Minor Bugs
While I don't think these ones specifically will be addressed, these ones still annoy me a lot. The first minor bug that I have came across is that when I select a specific Driving Effects Tag in the game before jumping into any online game mode, they revert back to the default "Witness Me" effect, so I'd have to go back into the garage and equip the effects I wanted when I really shouldn't have to do that. It has been a thing for a while now, and it still hasn't been addressed yet!
The second thing I've come across, and I've also made a post about this as well, is that on the Cop Editions of the Porsche 911 GTS and Nissan Skyline, if the Undercover body kit is applied, and then switched back to the standard body kit, the main color of the car will be an unchangeable dark grey color just like the Undercover body kit. On the Skyline specifically, there's also some green saturation on the police livery as well, and you can't revert the color back to the white like how it's supposed to be.
Some of the visual stuff in the Lockdown game mode don't exactly work like they're supposed to. The rap meter at the extraction screen doesn't work as intended such as filling up all the way and saying "Complete" even when you don't have enough Rap to get all the Aims, the number of gained Rap under the bar itself not being listed correctly, and at the vehicle selection screen when entering a Lockdown game, the game itself defaults to the Evija, or the best vehicle players currently own. Selecting a vehicle before finding a Lockdown game doesn't seem to matter there.
And now we have the Daily and Weekly Challenges not showing like they're supposed to. Kaizen hasn't really updated the game ever since they left for Battlefield, which is why the dailies and weeklies are acting like this. The only times that they do display is when you're already in a game mode and they refresh by midnight. By that point, you're able to do them. But still, I shouldn't have to wait until then during a game to do those! And if I go into a different game mode, they disappear and I can't do them at all until the next time they refresh while I'm already in a game!
Oh yeah, and let's not forget the overabundance of AI cops in Hot Pursuit playlists. Need I mention the terrible spawns in those playlists? As well as people getting thrown into a Lockdown game before they have a chance to select their vehicle with crossplay turned on? - Specific vehicles in Lockdown not appearing in Lockups like they're supposed to
After playing the Lockdown game mode so many times, I decided to ask the community about all the obtainable vehicles in the Lockups specifically. On the NFS Wiki, there's also vehicles that can be obtained in Weekly Rap Rewards. ...Supposedly, that is. Someone in the NFS Discord server responded to my post as well as someone else's post about the Weekly Rap Rewards. And when someone mentioned that a small chunk of cars were supposed to be in Lockups, I got so discouraged after finding out that some of the cars listed in the Weekly Rap Rewards were part of that group. The list of cars that are supposed to appear in Lockups are as follows:
-BMW M1 (1981) Legendary Custom
-Dodge Charger R/T (1969) Legendary Custom
-Ford Crown Victoria (2008) Epic Custom
-Ford F150 Raptor (2017) Epic Custom
-Land Rover Defender 110 Double Cab Pickup (2015) Legendary Custom
-Rudiger's Mercedes-AMG C 63 Cabriolet (2018)
-Nissan Silvia K's (1998) Epic Custom, Stage 1
-Nissan Silvia K's (1998) Epic Custom, Stage 4
-Plymouth Barracuda (1970) Epic Custom
-Porsche Panamera Turbo (2017) Epic Custom
-Bugatti Chiron Sport (2019), Stock
-McLaren P1 (2013) Rare Custom (370 Performance Rating)
And the Lockdown update said that the vehicle assortment in Lockups would change on a weekly rotation. But, they're nowhere to be found when playing the actual game mode. So this is something that is considered to be bigger. - Liveries not saving, being duplicated, and unremovable, also not allowing the color of the car to change
This also relates to the Error Code 9 that appears when it says "unable to save" or something. However, this is what I experienced not long before speaking to the agent. So because of a livery I was saving on the Aston Martin Vulcan, the saving was taking too long and I had to restart the game so that I didn't have to wait. When I rebooted the game, the car didn't have the livery equipped. So I went back in and tried to equip it in my Library, only for the livery itself to not only show incorrectly on the car, but also to permanently take up a slot because it was "Already Equipped" (it really wasn't).
Then I tried changing the color of the car itself. And while the finish was changeable, the color was not. No matter what I did, the car's color would stay the same. The Hue slider was completely out of order on the Vulcan, and I couldn't make the livery I was going to create for it, leaving me very frustrated and upset. Now the "equipped" liveries are there just to take up space and I can't remove them no matter what I do. I tried everything and nothing seemed to work. - The lack of an anti-cheat system
In all honesty, I really don't expect this to be addressed at all because EA doesn't have the interest of putting an anti-cheat system into their games on the EA App (all they want is money, let's be real), it would still be good to see like how Hot Wheels Unleashed 2 does it with Easy Anti Cheat for example. I even made a video rant about this, so it goes over some good points, and some random stuff that people probably wouldn't care about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7-VnssLbLo
Kaizen. I encourage you to address at least the majority of these issues as much as you can. As much as I hate to say it, you guys are clearly not done with Need for Speed Unbound. We want this game to get the fixes we want. Some people may say that these fixes will never come, that I'm being pessimistic towards the team just because they left Unbound for Battlefield, and that they doesn't owe us anything at all.
But you know what? Many were expecting Need for Speed Unbound's second year of support to end on a clean slate, only to get a very disappointing last patch to the game. If Kaizen really wanted to make the ultimate Need for Speed experience, they should've put out at least a few more patches to address the issues that are still happening in Unbound before departing! So yes, they DO owe us something! Because if something is not done about these problems ASAP, people will eventually stop caring about Unbound like they are right now!
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