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smoky meadow
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Basically, on the championship events, you face some rivals which have ref names and prior to the race you're told about them. And once you get in the race, you find out they're rather good actually.

narrow lichen
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its a joke lol

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i fucking hate it when people say that as if the current NFS isnt based off of that just to make the 12 year olds who actually never played the BB games satisfied

pine sleet
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mfs asking for UG3 even though we have that already

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asking got mw remaster because they cant just buy mw05 and play it as is

winged rune
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Yes, 2015

pine sleet
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broke asses can't afford a 20yo console to play their game

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or if they have a pc, they're too lazy to emulate

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The PS2 goes for as low as like $20 at a pawn shop I'm pretty sure btw

smoky meadow
pine sleet
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Nah

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We gotta ask for Hot Pursuit 6 smh smh

smoky meadow
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Hot pursuit 6?

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Lets see

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Nfs 3 HP
Nfs hp2
Nfs hp2010
Nfs rivals
Nfs hp2010r
Yeah it would be HP6 you're right

pine sleet
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2010R is 2010R

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I meant MW05

smoky meadow
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Mw05 is HP?

pine sleet
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NFS3:HP
NFSHP2
NFSHP3:MW
NFSHP4(2010)
NFSHP5:R

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MW05 was originally meant to be HP3

smoky meadow
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Really?

pine sleet
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But they renamed it

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yeah

smoky meadow
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I had never heard that

pine sleet
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Remember how MW was a concept since before Underground released?

smoky meadow
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I mean it makes sense why they renamed it
It doenst make much sense as a HP game despite having police

smoky meadow
pine sleet
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Ah, well yeah

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Black Box had wanted to make Most Wanted since Underground was in development

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But originally it was an idea for a third Hot Pursuit

smoky meadow
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Understandable then

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Kind of like how they had UC as an idea for so long

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Prwtty much before Carbon even

pine sleet
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yeah

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Carbon was supposed to be an '07 release

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and Undercover '09

smoky meadow
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And that didn't end up. Happening and sealed their fate

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I wonder if it was Undercover that sealed their fate or if it was Prostreet

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Or maybe even carbon

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Because just like how Heat was Ghoet working on borrowed time, World and The Run were BB working on borrowed time

pine sleet
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ProStreet was the start of it

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because it wasn't Most Wanted

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Then EA rushed Undercover which meant Undercover was unfinished and busted

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and that obviously didn't help

smoky meadow
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Yeah..

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Such a poor situation they were put into

shy summit
vagrant sparrow
pine sleet
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why wouldnt he

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prostreet is the perfect example

vagrant sparrow
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Yeah

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Good idea

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Rushed to all hell

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Same with Undercover

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But that got an even worse end of the stick

pine sleet
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it was more ambitious than what they could handle

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with such a short time limit and limited staff count

shy summit
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The idea was born from "oh shit game a year"

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and the idea was they'd make assets and stuff as a framework for the proper game to then use and build on

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but in reality it was one studio split in two causing both games to be really, really quite broken

vagrant sparrow
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Yesterday I found an unused part of Unbounds map @shy summit

shy summit
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Isn't that most of the map?

vagrant sparrow
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Pfft

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Nah but like

shy summit
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inaccessible area?

vagrant sparrow
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You know how there's the industrial area

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Which is used in the new playlists rn

shy summit
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the bit with the train that travels 2 meters, yeah

vagrant sparrow
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Yeh yeh

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So nearby that

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Is another a bit smaller area

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But heavily industrialised and cluttered with buildings and roads

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Took a pic on it

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Which is kinda just

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Unused

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There's tons of highway exits and on ramps nearby too

shy summit
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I think I know where you mean

vagrant sparrow
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And a pretty cool little bridge that leads into a highway onramp

shy summit
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there's one race that goes through it

vagrant sparrow
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It's a pretty cool area

shy summit
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It's fine yeah

vagrant sparrow
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Idk

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Wanna just cruise around the map later?

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See what we can find

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Feel like I drove about 20% of the map tbh

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Same places over and over

unborn cargo
vagrant sparrow
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Dope shi

shy summit
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there's not many interesting roads in Unbound so I'll pass thank you

pine sleet
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bro just does not like chicago

shy summit
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chicago was pretty aight in WD1

wide crystal
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I see it's the PS1 version

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Nice

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PC version is kinda complicated to run

unborn cargo
smoky meadow
narrow lichen
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gonna try NFS Carbon redux

narrow lichen
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this was a heat 1 chase

narrow lichen
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and another one

pine sleet
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mfs really want the game to just be immensely hard for no reason at the start lmao

narrow lichen
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i finish a race and then get shoved into a chase double the length

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on another note, i really got some new views on the lore

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idk if it was old news or if its actually kinda interesting but, maybe the 300C that let the player go in the intro was Cross?

pine sleet
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No

narrow lichen
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it would make sense because Darius knows him

pine sleet
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or well, it probably was but uh

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that just wouldn't make alot of sense tbh

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From a bounty hunter to suddenly being in a high position in Rockport's PD

narrow lichen
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well to be fair, Darius does know Cross somehow, maybe theres something behind the scenes idk

pine sleet
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yeah that's true

narrow lichen
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maybe there's some corrupt shit going on idk

pine sleet
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it's mostly just another plot hole in reality, a hard one to make sense of on top of that

narrow lichen
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maybe Cross got the player's number from Darius even tho Mia was the undercover cop its really weird tbh

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also all the NFSUG2 player=MW player theories are still dumb and somehow theres still some people that believe them

pine sleet
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MW and Carbon weren't originally connected to Underground

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but Black Box had thrown that out the window by Undercover

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so it's back on the table now

narrow lichen
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The M3 GTR belonged to Darius, Darius gave it to the player so he can gtfo of Palmont (because i guess the supra would be too notorious or something) then the player got to rockport, Razor wanted that car so he sabotaged it, then the player instead of telling everyone or something he just decided to become most wanted in that city, just to come back to Palmont in that same car, somehow Cross followed the player and caught up (i doubt the player wasn't speeding away) and then did shady shit with Darius, who somehow knows him

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too many plotholes, mostly cause Black Box wasn't exactly good at writing a story

pine sleet
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that was what the story was supposed to be

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but the supra was made canon

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and the M3 is a mystery again

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ProStreet made the Supra canon since it's been left behind at Super Promotion

narrow lichen
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the M3 got ruined because of fan service, because it got totaled in Palmont, somehow came back in quite a lot of games after that it reappeared

pine sleet
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It only canonically returned in Heat

narrow lichen
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even in Unbound Razor is canon, and for some fucking reason wants the M3 GTR again

pine sleet
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If any sooner, MW12 and No Limits

narrow lichen
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and for some other fucking reason Razor is in Lakeshore

pine sleet
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That isn't hard to explain

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He simply got out of prison and moved

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Though he's been in Blackridge

narrow lichen
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well he probably just tracked the car down somehow

pine sleet
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Probably heard the news of Mercer, had it found, and got it shipped to Lakeshore

narrow lichen
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tbh if i stole a car and got busted in it because of the semi-original owner, i would not wanna come back to it

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then again, NFS isn't exactly known for greatly written stories

pine sleet
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racing games in general

narrow lichen
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most of the stories feel like filler content

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Most Wanted 2005 is a disgrace to story writing and Carbon tried to build it back up into a normal story

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Most Wanted's story idea is good but the execution is mid asf

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not only the writing but also the acting

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"My 60 footer quarter mile, whatever you wanna throw on the table, smokes everything here"

he says as he is the lowest ranked member on the blacklist

pine sleet
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Couldn't beat a Golf

narrow lichen
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Razor is a walking skill issue if you look at it

pine sleet
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Razor and Ryo casually being the worst villains in NFS

narrow lichen
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also i may just be uneducated in Automobiles but, wtf does he mean by 60 footer? his d... or what?

narrow lichen
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also Yaz wasn't exactly that hateable, because when the player gets ready to take out some revenge suddenly uh oh plot twist! ||she is no longer the villain ||

pine sleet
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I mean she's your childhood friend, she was basically a dumb teenage girl who doesn't know any better

narrow lichen
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i kinda liked the plot in unbound until that moment, they could have saved it as a post-game

pine sleet
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The reason the intro happened was because she was friends with Alec who she was bragging to about the garage

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Alec decided to rob Rydell because of that

narrow lichen
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makes sense

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idk why Tess became the villain tho, but i dont mind it as much cause i fucking hate her.

pine sleet
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Tess was never a villain

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She's just a hustler, she was always just in it for the money lmao

narrow lichen
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well by the end she did kinda fuck up the deal and just ended up putting the player in danger

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Rydell is a homie tho and i love him for that

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kinda sad the Alec guy got absolutely no finish, like, we hear he fucked Yaz over and that's that, we just get the cars back and we dont even like, hit back or anything

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then again, be the bigger man and dont do more damage as revenge

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Heat's story was also imo pretty good

pine sleet
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They've all been pretty shit after 2015

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Payback's writing and it derailing after the highway heist

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Heat should've been more of a revenge story and had Joe as the player AND main protagonist

narrow lichen
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Payback's story is a wannabe F&F movie
Heat is dissapointing

pine sleet
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and Unbound coulda been executed stronger throughout the story, it starts and ends nicely but yeah

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Heat's worst mistake is making the NFS girl the main character

narrow lichen
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i expected Joe to at least appear after the intro in a different way than a reference from Ana

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like my man was a victim in the intro only used as the Tutorial formula NFS usually has which is "taste of power"

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and then cut to the character creator you used twice in your entire life

pine sleet
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People really praise the sense of speed in heat but like

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its only there when you're in a way higher end car

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otherwise the game just feels sluggish

narrow lichen
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Heat did all the gameplay right, but messed up many other aspects

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and then the cop patch came in

pine sleet
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2015 did sense of speed better, Unbound did sense of speed better, and payback felt largely the same

narrow lichen
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the game was hard and fun, but then 12 year olds complained about the difficulty ||and no supra||

pine sleet
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The issue isn't that the game was too hard

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the issue is that the pursuits were trash

narrow lichen
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they made them more trash to be honest

pine sleet
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yeah they did

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Unbound's purusits are decent but we made better through Gauntlets

narrow lichen
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like pre-patch could actually get my buttcheeks clenched at times

pine sleet
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Which I think was smart

narrow lichen
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idk why but i found Unbound's pursuits piss easy compared to heat

pine sleet
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So the cops aren't too hard for lower skilled players after linkups or whatever

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But Gauntlets were ruthless

narrow lichen
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in my playthrough of unbound i never got busted not even once, but in heat i had times where i skill issued

pine sleet
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Because in Unbound your car can actually handle hits

narrow lichen
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the combat in Heat... true tbh

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the car combat in heat is a disgrace to the idea of ramming

pine sleet
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Heat's combat is disgraceful to NFS as a franchise

narrow lichen
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only shunts really deal damage and side-slams are just suicide

pine sleet
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Basically you can rear end a crown vic and it'll take them out if you hit them hard enough (top speed while he's just cruising) and you lose half your health in return

narrow lichen
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speaking of heat's cops, why is the Explorer shown everywhere but never used as a unit

pine sleet
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Ghost failed to bring in a LOT of things

narrow lichen
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why isn't Shaw even like a special unit? sort of like Cross in MW, that would be a very cool thing if i say so myself

pine sleet
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They were too focused on the Not Payback part

narrow lichen
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2 content updates

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in a game that lasted 3 years

pine sleet
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oh no

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Criterion pushed those out

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Ghost was dead before Heat even came out

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Which was a bad move

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I think Criterion should've made Heat with Ghost there for support

narrow lichen
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in heat's lifespan, forza and the crew were getting big updates every few weeks or months, and then Fh5 came out and got a few more, but NFS Heat got a new AM which was basically already in the game but with a new bodykit and a McLaren F1 with an ugly bodykit and then yup

narrow lichen
pine sleet
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It coulda built off of the Rivals thing

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Could be a reason as to why cops have been ramping up in Heat, Unbound, and NL

narrow lichen
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Heat does feel a lot like rivals with the progression a bit

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the way you earn rep is a lot like Speedpoints in Rivals

shy summit
shy summit
pine sleet
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if they were too small then ig there was just no saving heat then

shy summit
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"Saving" heat would require EA to not scrap a studio after EAs own mistakes

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Ghost was effectively shuttered before Heat launched
Heat became the best selling game in NFS history

then we got Criterion and one of the worst selling games in NFS history

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I think I can say that safely looking at statistics

pine sleet
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It didn't do well

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and I blame the marketing more than anything

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and I know that because the first NFS games people think of whenever I end up mentioning NFS are either Payback or Heat

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I tell them about Unbound and they go "There's a new NFS???"

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So a ton of people don't even know it exists

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That's where they mostly fucked up, is marketing

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Unbound flew under the radar

shy summit
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marketing didn't help but the game also was less appealing than Heat

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if you were there during and after the reveal that was clear

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also, Heat didn't have crazy marketing either

pine sleet
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Heat had a lot more marketing than Unbound

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plus Unbound wasn't revealed until a good month from launch

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Heat at least had half the year

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as for the appeal, I only really see that affecting the nfs fans

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though granted there are people who are playing Unbound as their first NFS, either that or it was Heat or Payback

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but a few of them go in expecting to hate it and end up loving it

shy summit
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I think most are the other way round

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again, just going through reviews etc

pine sleet
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Oh no

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Most stick around

shy summit
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player counts don't say so

pine sleet
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Steam's player count sure

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but what about PlayStation and Xbox

shy summit
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Steam is pretty representative tbh

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if a games popping off it's popping on all platforms

pine sleet
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also uh

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no, it's definitely stayed up lately

shy summit
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PS will have a higher playercount for racing games on average I'll give you that

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it's up 800 or so

pine sleet
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It was at like 800 back then

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if that

shy summit
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for context for everyone, this is Payback

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which didn't launch on Steam

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so it's all time peak for a launch game is 2k less than a game a lot of people would have bought on Origin etc

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and then I can again bring Heat into the mix which just says it all

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send that across all platforms

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idk it's just stats

pine sleet
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its just stats yes

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then again you can also look to the community and people who play the game

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for instance

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and imma try to be unbiased, there are people who still prefer heat obviously

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but they'd rather play unbound for the simple reason that heat doesnt have much in terms of multiplayer

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this was before Vol.7 btw

shy summit
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multi helps sure

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again though, stats don't lie

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NFS is also a weird holdout for the singleplayer too

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just peer into user reviews

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this is where the majority of players will air their frustrations

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reddit is with the "core" players, but even with them there's a distinct lack of Unbound love

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there's mainly just "I want black box back" and "oh we have multiplayer again"

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and it's not even good multiplayer xd

pine sleet
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I gave this one an award lmao

shy summit
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yeah it's a pretty good review after what they did to Ghost tbh

pine sleet
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No, that's just EA ever since they became

shy summit
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I mean can you imagine what they'd have done with Rivals if Criterion was kept on it

magic halo
shy summit
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Criterion have a habit of polishing thin paint

pine sleet
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No but then yes

shy summit
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I've just realised you'll need to have done car bodywork or have a hobby in models to get that xd

pine sleet
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I agree, I always thought Need for Speed, be it 2015, The Run, Heat, Unbound, doesn't matter

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NFS should be a $40 game

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$30 probably even better

shy summit
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They do scream AA

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welcome to racing games xd

magic halo
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every game shouldnt cost more then 70

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imo

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unless the value of these games proofs me wrong

pine sleet
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this was a thumbs up

vagrant sparrow
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Nfs limits

pine sleet
shy summit
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this guy says it well

pine sleet
vagrant sparrow
shy summit
# pine sleet

hard disagree on this. Making your smoke cartoony isn't flipping the genre ln it's head

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the games literally one of the most cookie cutter NFS games to date

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(they only had two shapes of cookie cutters though)

vagrant sparrow
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Yap yap

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Game fun

shy summit
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eh

vagrant sparrow
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I give it a 7.5 on the moist meter

pine sleet
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This guy is the truth 😤

vagrant sparrow
shy summit
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7.5 isn't great for a game review though, that's average

magic halo
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damn people be making a whole essay just to get proven wrong now because it got many great updates

pine sleet
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5 is average

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7.5 is decent

vagrant sparrow
shy summit
vagrant sparrow
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We gotta compare it to the competition

shy summit
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Also game reviews like never go below 40

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when they do it's like, just unforgivable

vagrant sparrow
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That's my review

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Starfield is a 4/10 slop

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Motorfest 6/10

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FH5 5.5/10

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What other games were made

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Oh yeab

magic halo
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fair enough

vagrant sparrow
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Payday 3 is 3.5/10

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Cod MW3 1/10

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Battlefield 2042 2.5/10

shy summit
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I forgot about Payday 3

vagrant sparrow
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Yeah it just exists

shy summit
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and I was talking about it 2 days ago

vagrant sparrow
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Lmfao

pine sleet
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alot of people who leave a rate out of 10 put unbound from 6-8

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from what I'm seeing

vagrant sparrow
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Halo Infinite 4.5/10 cos story was kinda fun

shy summit
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the average is 55%

pine sleet
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or moreso 6-7.5

vagrant sparrow
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Cyberpunk 9.5/10

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Hogslopwards slopacy is 4.5/10

shy summit
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recent reviews are actually lower than all time on Unbound too

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guess it's because the Underground update didn't have much underground XD

vagrant sparrow
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Give me new game name (2019-2024) and I will rate it

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Go ahead

shy summit
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so user reviews as per metacritic are 59%, 57% on steam

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it's not a 7 for most people

pine sleet
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It was Underground inspired, it's not trying to turn the game into Underground

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But coloring the shit, adding underground themed parts, and adding an entire game mode from Underground, idk how that wouldn't be enough

magic halo
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i mean they tried especially since its a small team

shy summit
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They did try

vagrant sparrow
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Good effort

shy summit
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for what I presume is like 7 blokes/blokettes, yeah

vagrant sparrow
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Special autistic ops

shy summit
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not enough for me to stick around

magic halo
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fair

shy summit
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too inconsistent, and I can play fiveM for that drift model

vagrant sparrow
shy summit
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the classic

pine sleet
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I agree with like 5/8 of this

magic halo
pine sleet
vagrant sparrow
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Intro

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Yap yap yap

pine sleet
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I thumbsed it up because uh

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69 loma

vagrant sparrow
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Goat bound sexual relationship

pine sleet
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literally this

vagrant sparrow
shy summit
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anyway

pine sleet
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last one

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another 7.5 lol

vagrant sparrow
vagrant sparrow
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L

pine sleet
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the steam deck I hear mixed results from friends

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Some say Unbound runs fine on theirs

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Others say it can't handle Unbound

shy summit
vagrant sparrow
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Lying

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Cap

shy summit
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oh the unbound PC port is one of the worst in the franchise

vagrant sparrow
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Bamboozlery

pine sleet
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fuck no

shy summit
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yeah

pine sleet
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Unbound's PC port is awful but I wouldn't say one of the worst

shy summit
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it's slow as shit on my 7900xt

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modded assetto runs more consistently

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on my old 1070 it was unplayable with FSR

magic halo
shy summit
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like it's just actually an awful port

pine sleet
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Those titles go to ProStreet, Undercover, The Run, and Carbon

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Unbound runs fine on my laptop lmao

shy summit
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they genuinely run better for me

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crashy? yeah, like Unbound

pine sleet
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ProStreet and The Run are unplayable without scripts and workarounds no thanks to their servers shutting down, Undercover refuses to work until I either downgrade the version or my own PC, and Carbon just fucks up constantly

shy summit
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and on period hardware too

pine sleet
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Carbon and Undercover DO NOT like my PC because it's too good

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Unbound runs fine, it sucks sometimes but most of my issues were with the launcher, not the game itself

shy summit
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interesting

pine sleet
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Yes, the cutscenes go silent and then I get softlocked

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I actively have to lower my core count everytime I play it so I just started playing it on my PS2 instead

vagrant sparrow
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Never had this

pine sleet
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same

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idk why it started happening but I'm not gonna bother

shy summit
pine sleet
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maybe

narrow lichen
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yet another pointlessly hard pursuit

shy summit
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what mod are you playing with?

wide crystal
magic halo
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easily beats any car in the game

wide crystal
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https://youtu.be/4VDIljQMRgs?si=ux_DtqrDfyt8q6Tf but looking at this, i find it sad that most of the kits didn't get reused for the other nfs games

Need for Speed Shift 2 Unleashed All Cars Body Kits

0:00 Acura
0:40 Alfa Romeo
2:00 Alpina
2:10 Aston Martin
3:30 Audi
7:30 Austin
7:40 Bentley
8:10 BMW
13:50 Bugatti
14:10 Caterham
14:30 Chevrolet
17:30 Dodge
20:00 Ford
24:50 Gumpert
25:10 Honda
26:50 Infiniti
27:40 Jaguar
28:20 Koenigsegg
28:40 Lamborghini
30:30 Lancia
31:00 Lexus
32:00 Lotus...

▶ Play video
pine sleet
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wait til he sees the cut content

narrow lichen
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wanted to try it out for the extra cars

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ended up staying for the difficulty

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cause the Heat 1 cops are better than base game Heat 5 cops

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i even encountered Craugh on Heat 2

shy summit
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oh, so it's like "battle royale" then

glacial kindle
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mw05 has bangers

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half are just bangers

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and other half are iconic coz the game

pine sleet
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MW05 also has one of the most annoying NFS songs of all time

winged rune
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What is it

pine sleet
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B Side Wins Again

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The intro version sounds cool

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and then the actual song comes on and holy shit it gets annoying fast

winged rune
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Oh yes

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Its horrible but it does fit the game

pine sleet
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and Money fits Unbound

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it doesnt matter, a shitty song is a shitty song lmao

exotic blade
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Sorry if that topic is practically a dead one but it’s the one I saw when I checked the blog

pine sleet
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The point is people want the old school style nfs back

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even though we've had it back for almost a decade now

narrow lichen
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also i hate You'll be Under My Wheels by The Prodigy

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sue me

pine sleet
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I love that song

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The Prodigy is one of my favorite NFS returning artists

narrow lichen
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IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ

pine sleet
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Though it sucks that Firestarter was left out as MWs trailer music

narrow lichen
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its kinda catchy but makes my head hurt hearing "I rock" and "I roll"

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especially in a long race

narrow lichen
pine sleet
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Need for Speed™ Most Wanted Gameplay Video -- E3 2012 Official
Introducing the first ever gameplay footage of Criterion Games' highly anticipated Need For Speed Most Wanted. Watch as an epic race through the city turns into a frantic open world cop chase with spectacular consequences.

To be Most Wanted, you'll need to outrun the cops, outdrive...

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It would man

narrow lichen
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lots of Fat Of The Land would fit in MW12

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also No Tourists (song), We Live Forever, Champions of London and TimeBomb Zone would fit in NFS

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i fucking love the prodigy

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also Nasty (Spor Remix) from NFS 2015 goes hard

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hugely disappointed we didnt have any prodigy after that as far as im aware

pine sleet
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we got like

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two or three in shift

narrow lichen
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The Day Is My Enemy would go hard in Payback tbh

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or Heat

pine sleet
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These two in Shift

narrow lichen
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love this song in MotorStorm Arctic Edge

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Omen was my introduction to Prodigy

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still probably my favorite song

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making me wanna play NFS Shift now

pine sleet
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The handling is messy but god Shift is fun

narrow lichen
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never played shift or shift 2

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really wanna try one day

pine sleet
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Shift 1 has stronger soul to it but Shift 2 is probably better in every other way

narrow lichen
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because Shift 2 (i am not fully sure maybe it was shift 1) has a polish song in it and as a polish man i am obviously addicted to poland in media

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Pull Up is a banger

pine sleet
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Shift 1 most likely

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Shift 2's entire soundtrack is just like

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7 cinematic remixes

narrow lichen
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in terms of gaming soundtracks in racing games my all time favorite is DiRT Showdown

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heavily underrated

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in terms of NFS

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its a tie between Underground, ProStreet and 2015 for me

pine sleet
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For me, ProStreet, Undercover, 2012, and 2015

narrow lichen
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MW 2012 has an underrated soundtrack

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the only song people mention is Fireflies and Hurricanes

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Butterflies*'

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but yeah

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Blue Ghosts by Riverboat gamblers is a banger

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also Light Goes off by RuN Riot

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Payback soundtrack was underrated

earnest estuary
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Empathy

glacial kindle
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best nfs mw05 song

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and when it plays at the end of tokyo drift its heat

glacial kindle
exotic blade
pine sleet
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UG2 and MW05 have mid soundtracks

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I love Blinded in Chains, Decadence and UG2s soundtracks but

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They're kinda mid

glacial kindle
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only one i dislike is unbound

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the A$AP stuff is good but theres wayy better rappers and hiphop they couldve got on there which is modern

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logic, some new eminem, kendrick, ty$

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sorry but i dont think charlie xcx fits hip hop.

pine sleet
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its not hip hop

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the soundtrack is only primarily hip hop

narrow lichen
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the electronica playlist in carbon fucks hard, and its basically unfair advantage mentioning the OST

pine sleet
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tbh

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My favorite rock soundtracks in NFS are easily Carbon, ProStreet, and 2015

pine sleet
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Hot take: HP2 NuMetal > MW05 NuMetal

narrow lichen
narrow lichen
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Hot take: NFSUG2 is mid

shy summit
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I see where he's coming from

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but

pine sleet
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UG2 is solid, the campaign is an absolute bore but everything else is just nice

shy summit
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I can play it because I want the customisation

pine sleet
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I play it because modding it is fun

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It's good practice and a good medium for trying out designs

magic halo
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Lool smoked them all regeras the fact i could barely keep up with a svj coupe is wild

pine sleet
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yet people shit on the Aventador

magic halo
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Ikr

winged rune
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Is the f150 an op drift car ?

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If yes this dude sucks hard

magic halo
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He was close tho

winged rune
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I was drifting with a rental car

pine sleet
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there is no meta in drift pro

magic halo
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Ive seen people drift in pickups

smoky meadow
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Drifto

pine sleet
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You can drift almost anything

magic halo
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True

pine sleet
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So long as it puts power to the back wheels

magic halo
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Its weird still but it works

smoky meadow
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More so than power you'll need torque to keep it going I think

pine sleet
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I should try drifting a Z4

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bc this one guy was complaining it doesn't have enough power for him to make good points

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it was engine swapped btw

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I'll build a Z4 sometime and whoop ass

smoky meadow
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Good luck

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Never tried drifting thr Z4 in Heat

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Barely drove it frankly

earnest estuary
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why

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it's literally a supratheoTrol

pine sleet
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No, it's a Z4

pine sleet
smoky meadow
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You're right

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The handling are so different now

smoky meadow
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It's practically 90%

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All Toyota did was style a new body, tune suspension and slap the badge on it

pine sleet
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People were pissed but that isn't a new practice lol

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The Ford Probe is just a Mazda MX-6

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The SRT4 Neon is a sports coupe PT Cruiser

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The Eclipse is a Sebring, or the other way around I think

smoky meadow
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Yeah but the Supra is the modern day version of it

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And in modern day, there's the power of internet

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Meaning it will spread alot faster and harder then car makers do this

pine sleet
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As a wise man once said. The internet did not create stupidity, it simply spread it all over the world.

smoky meadow
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I guess what pissses people off especially is how they wanted a new Supra so badly and they were teased such a cool concept car
it's the blind fanboyism of people who never udnerstood the Supra was a failure of a sub-brand and never got Toyota anywhere.

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And Toyota never will bring it back after the MK5 either since all Sports cars are dying.

pine sleet
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ICE sports cars are dying*

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Unless Toyota and whatever other companies are working on it can get it out there, hydrogen is the only alternative.

smoky meadow
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They never will get it out there

pine sleet
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and it won't make it, not anytime soon

smoky meadow
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They only tell us sweet little lies.

pine sleet
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Oh no, they have hydrogen cars out and about

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and they work

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It's just that hydrogen right now is expensive

smoky meadow
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There's a differnece between having them out, and having them be popular and successful

pine sleet
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So it's onlt really seen (in the US at least) in California

smoky meadow
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GM made hydrogen cars in 90s

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That never got anyhwere

pine sleet
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Yeah and in an era where everyone is getting ready to go fully electric, this is the timing for hydrogen to come back in

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It had no place in the 90s, same with electric back in the 1800s

smoky meadow
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And given even Electric cars are finding it difficult to find a proper market world wide, doubt that'll happen.

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Regardless of that

magic halo
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Wait, you can actually change the collor of these wheels? I thought it was permanent on one💀

smoky meadow
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I imagine the reason the Supra blew up particularly was both because of internet and the word of mouth
And the fact that people are simply too eager for that car
And I'd say they got lucky, at least the new Supra didn't end up becoming a crossover
unlike a certain other famous and beloved sports car, or two, the Puma and Capri

wide crystal
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And eclipse

smoky meadow
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Yup, goes without saying

kind rivet
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B tier races in a nutshell

pine sleet
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bruh wtf happened to unbound

kind rivet
pine sleet
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the meta

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it used to be so much less common

smoky meadow
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Guess the rise to relenavance caused it

pine sleet
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Damn, it's the Heat players 😭

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RSR toesucking fucks

smoky meadow
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Problem with being a relavent game

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meta sweaty players become plentiful.

shy summit
magic halo
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They got definitely upset that the B pista is gone for sure😂

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Im trying to unlock the evo 9 so i can use it on B class seen its doing much better than my nsx and 180sx

winged rune
magic halo
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Dont think they're smart enough to know that

pine sleet
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Anyways we should push Criterion to add an E Class to Unbound

smoky meadow
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All E classes should come

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Including the pre courser to them

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W123 and W124

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Frankly turn NFS into Mercedes-Benz simulator

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Basically play World Racing 1 xd

pine sleet
smoky meadow
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I didn't realize how it sounded out of context

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But yeah, World Racing 1 is ridiculous

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I ain't exaggerating when I say

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Every single Mercedes-Benz up until the date of this game's release.

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And yes that means 20 different trims of each model.

pine sleet
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bruh

magic halo
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i fucking remember playing that game years ago

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one of the best games ive enjoyed as a kid

smoky meadow
magic halo
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it really is

smoky meadow
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its probably one of the most unqiue among the slew of one make racing games.

magic halo
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yes

smoky meadow
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Hell, so much so that the 2nd game isn't even a one make game anymore.

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It's still available on Steam, though they had to slightly alter the names and models to avoid licensing.

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A ton of mods are available for it however.

magic halo
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damn

earnest estuary
earnest estuary
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W211 or W212 instead

magic halo
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oh no plz not that mercedes

pine sleet
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no

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W210

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superiority

magic halo
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yeah we are lacking mercedes models in unbound

earnest estuary
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Literally the worst looking E Class

magic halo
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190 E was definitely a nice addition but still not my cup of tea

earnest estuary
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||oh wait nvm the w214 exists||

smoky meadow
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it looks so gooooood

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It's a very unusual look admittedly

earnest estuary
smoky meadow
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Mixing the quad headlight design with newer one piece headlights

magic halo
earnest estuary
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I was talking about the w210

magic halo
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LMAO i was exactly looking for that car on google

pine sleet
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W210 is the nicest

smoky meadow
pine sleet
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Actually the best looking Benz is the '07 C230 Sport but still

earnest estuary
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But like I said nvm the W214 exists

smoky meadow
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I don't think the W210 is bad looking.

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Thing with Mercedes is

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You have to understand the design phases they had

pine sleet
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It's such a nice and classy car

magic halo
smoky meadow
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This was the era of Mercedes' entrance into the 2000s

pine sleet
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I'd love to drive one when I get old

smoky meadow
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Mercedes are for old people? xd

pine sleet
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Black, slammed on some Lownharts

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My dad's middle age crisis car was the C230 Sport lol

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with an AMG exhaust system

magic halo
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those old mercedes were truely a beast

smoky meadow
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You know what NFS should add?

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The World's most perfect sedan

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The Mercedes W124 500E

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Nicknamed "The Wolf"

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Makes me happy that somebody recreated the car in Unbound

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Even if it's the smaller of the twins, the W190

smoky meadow
pine sleet
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I

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am broke

smoky meadow
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Well you're too broke for a normal one anyway

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So save up and buy an AMG

pine sleet
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I will just buy a Nissan tbh

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or if I want luxury, a DeVille would be cool

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albeit, it won't be so luxurious anymore

smoky meadow
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I grew up with Mercs around me and on TV.

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So an old Mercedes is simply the dream.

pine sleet
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I just don't want to deal with the problems of a German car lmao

smoky meadow
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Eh, older Mercedes were bullet proof

pine sleet
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not as bulletproof as your cuteness

smoky meadow
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Sorry again..

earnest estuary
kind rivet
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but at least S class isn’t RSX clusterfuck

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still waiting for Testarossa to be unable to go down to B class

magic halo
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like why would you detune a high class car into B class? what do you gain from detuning fast cars?

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get over with this kids😭

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the meta is bullshit here

pine sleet
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I was thinking of making a server for some proper pvp

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different leagues and all

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unswapped leagues, no meta anywhere whatsoever, crew battles, etc.

kind rivet
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actually nvm

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that’d be only restricting forced induction types

kind rivet
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if I’m right you can’t set any car down more than two levels from stock

magic halo
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Thats the thing how did they do that?

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You can only go one tier lower

kind rivet
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well fuck guess it depends on the car ig?

magic halo
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That would been unfair honestly

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For many other A+ cars

kind rivet
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well like the s class rsx meta it isn’t going anywhere unfortunately

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unless they add new cars to change up the meta

magic halo
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True

kind rivet
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or until i keep throwing cars at it until i get a breakthrough

magic halo
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We'll see wat will happen next

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Hopefully they will fix that

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Because no other higher tier should be competing with low class cars civic etc.

kind rivet
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issue is getting someone to join a tier b race

magic halo
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Well in pvp mode theres alway people joining

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Free roam its hard but sometimes they do but then they rage quit..

winged rune
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The filters are just gone

pine sleet
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"ultra realistic graphics" when they just remove the PostFX and make them game look less appealing

smoky meadow
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Still.good to see Rivals.

wide crystal
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looks chinese to me

smoky meadow
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TO be fair, it does look like NFS edge

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which was a chinese version of Rivals and on the same engine.

kind rivet
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you can’t park there mate

smoky meadow
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Pfft

stable charm
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LF someone who can help me finish the take downs in unbound

pine sleet
stable charm
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I just started the game a few day ago

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so

pine sleet
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Sure

stable charm
pine sleet
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no

stable charm
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ea acc?

magic halo
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Volume 8 is almost there!1!1!1!11111!!!!

smoky meadow
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too laaaaaate

magic halo
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Almost

smoky meadow
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Where is iiiiiiiit

magic halo
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Somewhere on earth

smoky meadow
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Ahhhhhhhhhh

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This is me waiting on the update

earnest estuary
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Meow

smoky meadow
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nyaaaa

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I be like

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boobie boobie babba babba

kind rivet
smoky meadow
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xd

kind rivet
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okay i think the heat RSR kids are more prevalent than anything

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next race two of em broke out the 200gtr

magic halo
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Damn

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Well i always see people use the R8

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I never had any problems with the rsr kids in heat tho

winged rune
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Fucking hell

smoky meadow
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helling fuck

pine sleet
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Man, the rare times a random actually did want to race, they were 8/10 times an RSR kid

kind rivet
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for me i ran into more Evos and F1s than anything

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i once had a miata that could have outran RSRs but one power outage later it mysteriously disappeared

magic halo
pine sleet
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me in 2015

smoky meadow
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Impressive

kind rivet
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if anything majority were chronic rammers lol

magic halo
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they only care about having meta cars thats all

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theres no skill to be seen lmao

fallow violet
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Chat how many until next update?

winged rune
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14 days

magic halo
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Almost there!1!1!1!1!11111!!!!

fallow violet
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Yooooo

narrow lichen
magic halo
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Lol

mellow dust
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Do anyone have a crew in need of speed heat

winged rune
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Someone send the gif please

magic halo
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which one?

winged rune
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Read the message above mine and you will get it

mellow dust
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In heat

magic halo
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i do have a crew tho but cant get into heat my ea play has expired long ago

mellow dust
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Ok

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Do anybody else have a crew in need of speed heat

pine sleet
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i have the gif but im working in a basement

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so my data is slow as fuck

winged rune
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Dam

narrow lichen
smoky meadow
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Oh god

magic halo
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True

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When i joined into a crew automatically i became the leader and made the crew better than ever lol

pine sleet
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I built mine solo from the ground up

magic halo
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Atleast you did from the ground up unlike turn10

winged rune
pine sleet
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so true

winged rune
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shit I also circled “solo”

magic halo
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Lmao

kind rivet
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joined just as it ended lol

narrow lichen
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if you know my stances on underground 2, its obvious i have a massive fucking red mist over this game, especially the career mode

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which is why im setting out a challenge to beat the game

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me preparing to get past 2 races in the game

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barely opened up the game for 5 minutes and im already having issues

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lmfao

narrow lichen
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i hate URL races :))))))

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i do love the drifting tho, the drifting in UG2 kinda fun

wide crystal
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the model that only appeared in need for speed carbon of all the nfs games

smoky meadow
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I love the XK

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I never understood why future games didn't get it

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Its barely even remembered being in this game due to its insane unlock procedure

wide crystal
glacial kindle
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Bros playing in 25p

pine sleet
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25 polygons

kind rivet
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in A class PVP and there’s a speed glitcher in a R34 with Walker’s livery

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can see why they speedglitch

smoky meadow
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Jesus chrrkh man

earnest estuary
frank ivy
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does anyone know if nfs unbound progress saves across multiple pcs?

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im contemplating buying it cause its on sale but i'll prolly be playing the game in an internet cafe cause i'll be back in college

mellow dust
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You all remember the old days the crew 1

pine sleet
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Sir, this is a Need for Speed forum.

kind rivet
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i mean cheating in a racing game is so lowbrow

earnest estuary
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yeah i mean

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at least do it right

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that shit's just pathetic

kind rivet
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i honestly could tell this mfer’s age wasn’t in the double digits because his r34 had the paul livery but zero bodykit customization

earnest estuary
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Lmao

kind rivet
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and the aforementioned “lack of knowing how to turn”

earnest estuary
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Rofl even

kind rivet
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funnily enough if there was a race with more corners than straights he’d only win with a two second gap tops

smoky meadow
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That's good

fallow violet
magic halo
pine sleet
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WAIT THE INSTAGRAM ONE HAS MUSIC

magic halo
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Damnn

pine sleet
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The music might be from high stakes

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but the link I found shows NHL

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so maybe, maybe not

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wait that doesnt make sense hang on

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ok yeah its just nhl

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fitting but funny

smoky meadow
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A real bad man

magic halo
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makes sense it is from an EA game so they probably can use some songs easily

kind rivet
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so close

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also apparently the old skyline is now meta

magic halo
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cringe meta car especially being used by some lvl 200 that never touched grass before

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tired of these kids

kind rivet
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tired of it at this point

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so far rebuilt my v8 Carrera S, it’s somewhat crazier now

magic halo
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im glad my Ford GT s class can hold up to those well

kind rivet
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he’s got a Golf too

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(ik ik i bumped him i see)

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@magic halo this mfer has a p1 gtr in S class

magic halo
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P1 GTR in S class??? Wtf

kind rivet
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one thing i like about the current Porsche rendition i got going on is it pulls on R8s

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but that skyline is a whole other beast

magic halo
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True

kind rivet
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it is ridiculously stable and oddly nimble

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so back to throwing 500k at cars to find a counter

magic halo
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Once you crash into a npc you're done for

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No more winning that race

kind rivet
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take a more speed oriented angle in corner-oop there’s a npc

magic halo
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Im more carefull around these sweats i dont wanna push the hardest and end up facing a car at the wrong timing

kind rivet
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well fuck

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brz lost its v8 swap from heat

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ffs

magic halo
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Oof

kind rivet
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anyways I’m goofing around with the centrifugal supercharger

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because fuck turbos and the bias they get

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also because other superchargers aren’t that powerful

magic halo
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I rarely use the centrifugal supercharger but it works for sure

kind rivet
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update: so far looks like am building a viper

winged rune
magic halo
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It goes pretty good on A+

kind rivet
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thoughts on which class the 959 is gonna be busted in

magic halo
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From the looks i believe A+/S

magic halo
#

Volume 7 Retrospective

Between the largest drift scores and the most-picked cars, here's the run down on Volume 7 before cops and racers wreak havoc in the streets of Lakeshore.

Full end of Volume report here.

|| @News ||

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Im impressed seeing the E92 there

smoky meadow
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This is quite interesting

violet heron
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Can anyone help me with Unbound?

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I need one person to assist pursuits with a Mustang

pine sleet
violet heron
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Imma finish my food and get back on

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ZEPHYR4811 add me

shy summit
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Are you the Zephyr from Rivals?

smoky meadow
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Heh

pine sleet
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Nah, he's the 4,811th Zephyr

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thats how many of them died

smoky meadow
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That's alot.

violet heron
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@pine sleet I’m back

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Can we do it?

pine sleet
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we cannot do it but I can help you with your challenge

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I only do it with nima

violet heron
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Ofc

smoky meadow
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Pfft

kind rivet
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oh

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data collected from may 21st to july 23rd

magic halo
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Yeah

pine sleet
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just one day left

magic halo
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17 hours

magic halo
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Literally the R34 skyline as Japanese police car is insane FUCKK YEAHHH

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Seems like they also fixed the issue with the chopper being annoying to escape from. Thank god

wide crystal
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welcome back need for speed rivals

kind rivet
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welp guess i now have a incentive to finish the livery on my vic lol

magic halo
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Would be sick if we also get police smoke and license plate would make your own cop car actually complete

kind rivet
#

can you even use the cop cars in freeroam

magic halo
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Nope

shy summit
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no this update is crazy limited

winged rune
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I thought we would be able to free roam as a cop

kind rivet
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apparently they mean the meet-up things (where you start races)

winged rune
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Hmm

kind rivet
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probably picked freemode because joining mp you can either go freeroam or pvp

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still tho this cash boost on the cop playlist go crazy

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went from 250k to a mil

winged rune
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Yeah same

magic halo
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yup same

winged rune
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This is insane

magic halo
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im not complaining at all lmao

kind rivet
#

some mfer has a Pagani in S class lol

magic halo
#

ew detuned cars

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hypercars should stay in S+

kind rivet
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i somehow got one busted

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tho i got put in a lobby where everybody goes for first place thank god i picked the viper lol

kind rivet
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got busted because someone put spikestrips directly infront one of those tiny ass checkpoints

pine sleet
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LMAO

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I've yet to land a single spike hit

kind rivet
#

I’ve landed a lot

#

but the amount of ai cops is absurd

pine sleet
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You have not played gauntlets my friend

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speaking of, I love that they added more

kind rivet
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I have

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i mean there’s too much Heavy units

kind rivet
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mfw everyone and they momma goes for first and ignores everyone else 😐

magic halo
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Yeah thats annoying

kind rivet
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absolutely foul lol

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spikestrip directly on checkpoint

pine sleet
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nah you're evil

fallow violet
shy summit
pine sleet
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yes yes you've made your point already

shy summit
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PC version is close to unplayable also

pine sleet
#

lie

magic halo
pine sleet
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"close to unplayable" is an actual lie lmao

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i play on pc

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the game runs fine

magic halo
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When im going to ask fahim about unbound he will say the game is totally fine on pc

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Guess he got too frustrated with the cops vs racers event

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Doesnt mean its unplayable💀

pine sleet
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it can be frustrating when you're teamed up on, I can get that but

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thats kinda every event anyways

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some bullshit happens, be it a bug, a skill issue, a rammer, a meta cuck, etc.

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Though I don't really get frustrated when I lose unless it's some bullshit, so getting ganged up on was just fun

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I made it to the start of the final stretch in a race before they finally got me

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I probably coulda done better had I not uh

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detuned my M3 to brake to drift

shy summit
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Game runs worse than before, and it's already unoptimised

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And I noticed significant input latency issues, I had burst not just not register at all once

pine sleet
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oh hell yeah

magic halo
magic halo
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That regera has no chance at all lmao

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The evija is the fastest car in the game

pine sleet
magic halo
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And drives pretty amazing

pine sleet
kind rivet
kind rivet
winged rune
shy summit
smoky meadow
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That's unfortunate

magic halo
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Yeah sucks when people instantly rage quit

kind rivet
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apparently the cop cars don’t scale with set perf levels

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so you can go up against A class cars in S and above cop cars

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such a oversight lol

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@shy summit

shy summit
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😬 no thought head empty game design