Build Posting

[simple spruce]

That's an absolutely brilliant udea

Nfs games as of late just don't seem to ever wanna put a straight enough road to test top speed

Heat didn't do ir, Unbound doesn't do it

Payback could have definitely benefited from a salt flat

It could have even served as the main racing location of the last drag crew

To be fair there are only two drag crews anyway

I guess at the end of it just all comes down to mismanagement with payback

If only they let the devs make Hashtag as intended

We would have been better off

[paper granite]

It’s a weird type of inconsistent

based on the terrain you’re on

my charger wheelhops on certain turns

[simple spruce]

It's really strange

And sadly not good enough

This isn't what fans would want from NFS drifting

[paper granite]

yeah i see what you mean by inconsistent

sometimes you can skid in third gear

then suddenly you can’t even break the tires

but I’ve always been a burst grip jockey

[paper granite]

plus some cars feel very light

[simple spruce]

That can definitely get on one's nerves

[simple spruce]

I do prefer some weight but sometimes light cars just point more

Just weird Heat/Unbound things

[paper granite]

tbf i only like heat more than unbound because of the singleplayer freeroam and freedom of choosing events

unbound does have some new features that i fall head over heels over but the challenge system

[paper granite]

mines

bullied

[simple spruce]

hehe, lovely Challenger I must say still

I love the Challenger

[paper granite]

most of my heat xbox builds are geared towards sound

sometimes even down to how fast the engine revs up

[simple spruce]

hmm, I never thought of taht to be honest

but it does make sense

I never upgraded my Plymouth Cuda that much

Because I like the grumbly noise at lower and slower RPMs that it has when not upgraded much

[paper granite]

I was cooking too

(if you’re wondering why i dive bombed the car i was waiting for the truck to do that weird slowdown thing that they do in heat)

[simple spruce]

Hmm, I didn't know they did such slowdown thing

[paper granite]

when they encounter traffic probably

[lament musk]

Medusa

[paper granite]

welp

could’ve sworn the jump wasn’t mandatory

[simple spruce]

That's quite strange, never had noticed

[worn birch]

I remember before that if you did do the jump it would respawn you to the lower level

[surreal osprey]

It is basically but sometimes it doesnt come up lmao

[surreal osprey]

2j ago man nfs feels off without audi

[shy atlas]

I would've loved a TT RS

And maybe an Avant

And definitely an RS3

[worn birch]

I felt no difference

[exotic parcel]

Same

If anything it’ll probably end up the same as Toyota

NFS will feel weird with Toyota coming back

NFS might eventually end back up like that with Audi as wel

[surreal osprey]

I want an Rs6 more than a Toyota in nfs

They got it in forza why not in nfs??

[exotic parcel]

Because Forza is a car collection game

NFS adds what’s relevant/most desired

[simple spruce]

I don't ecen know if Toyota will ever come back

[simple spruce]

I hope not. Audi cars have always been a staple of NFS games with at least the R8 or something

Even Underground had Audis

[exotic parcel]

Same with Toyota but hey

Besides there aren’t many important Audi’s in NFS anyways

Only about 3 or 4, 2 or 3 of them nobody giving a damn about

[karmic saddle]

because NFS is about illegal street racing and Toyota don't want their cars in that

[surreal osprey]

Was refering to audi... Not toyota ik they wont come ever again

Like i wished to ever see the Rs6 here :/

Rs6 in nfs sounds like a dream come true

Its already badass af tho

[karmic saddle]

maybe Audi is thinking the same thing

[surreal osprey]

A family car that can get away from the cops imagine lmao

[surreal osprey]

I hope they will ever return because audi hasnt disappointed me yet for ther cars

[karmic saddle]

to be honest I forgot Audi was in NFS Heat and wasn't really bothered much when I heard that there were no Audis in Unbound

[simple spruce]

Nobody gives a damn about the Mercury Couger in recent nfs games either

[exotic parcel]

That tweet was untrue

It’s more likely to do with either the fact that they dont want them licensing only one or two cars or they’re just overcharging

[simple spruce]

Yet they can bother wirh licensing 10 Lamborghinis?

[exotic parcel]

But that’s Ford

[simple spruce]

Its the same parent company who licenses these

[exotic parcel]

and people care more about Lamborghini anyways

[simple spruce]

And nobody cares about Mercury cougar

Yet its still here

[exotic parcel]

Yeah but people wanted muscle cars in Payback

and the Cougar is a Ford

[simple spruce]

They didn't want an irrelevant one

Where is the challenger

[exotic parcel]

Nono, they wanted muscle cars. They added muscle cars

[simple spruce]

They added allt of them yeah

[exotic parcel]

They added the Cuda, another Mustang being the Cougar and so on

[simple spruce]

And people want Audis as well

At least the R8

[exotic parcel]

If anything the license ran out with Audi and they didn’t care to add it back because people only care about the R8 anyways

Which is a possible reason they haven’t added Toyota either

[simple spruce]

I mean they can always spark interest themselves

Nobody asked for the 190E

Yet here it is

And they did it

[exotic parcel]

They failed to in Payback

[simple spruce]

Not the fans

[exotic parcel]

The only Audi people cared about was the R8, the S5 is literally Jess’ car and nobody cares about it

Difference is the 190E is 1. A Mercedes which people care more for and 2. A returning car

You know what was more popularized in Payback?

The M5

The S5 is a ghost compared to that, no pun intended

[exotic parcel]

My final point is you’ll get this alot more often than you probably think

A fuckton of people don’t care and/or don’t realize they’re there in the first place

But the A45 in Unbound is recognized and the C class is technically also a returning car but it was also introduced in Heat, the AMG GT is more popular and the Maybach is relevant to Unbound

[karmic saddle]

there was a tweet about that?

[exotic parcel]

Toyota UK tweeted that they didn’t want their cars in a street racing setting

That was what sparked the controversy

[karmic saddle]

yeah I didn't know about that, I only use Twitter for making video and stream announcements but even then I stopped using it for that

would rather spend my time playing Area 51 than read whatever is on Twitter (which is mostly a bunch of shit anyway)

[exotic parcel]

I use Twitter to keep up with NFS and look at memes lol

[karmic saddle]

to be honest I just assume they are in the next game because at least 75% of the cars are from the previous game...which were in the previous game....which were in the previous game and so on and so fourth back to 2015 so I don't take much notice of them not being in the next or current game

[simple spruce]

Because they didn't try and make it popular

[simple spruce]

"Nerds"

[paper granite]

in heat it’s drift handling is very different

[simple spruce]

I know its the best drift car in Heat

Muscle cars in general in heat are great

[exotic parcel]

WRX

Hawkeye

[paper granite]

takes some styling from the hoonicorn liveries

(still have to y’know actually finish it)

there’s a mosquito trying to eat me

[simple spruce]

Good job

It looks great

It's hard to make this car look good in this game

But it looks great when you nail it

[exotic parcel]

Honestly it's the paygay grilles

fucking bulletproof shit

[simple spruce]

Yeah they honestly never work

Payback in general didn't do such a good job with muscle car parts

[exotic parcel]

most parts

the A45, Giulia, and Civic were the only ones with good stuff

The DB11 though

One of it's generic bumpers mixed with the Black Market kit

Is fucking sexy

[simple spruce]

Yeah the DB11 got a weird deal as well

And yeah definitely

Most cars in Payback just didn't have good parts

Most old cars didn't get new parts

And the ones which did looked worse

[exotic parcel]

The gasser mustang was pretty cool tbf

[paper granite]

yeah i don’t think the mosquito is happy

mfer literally rammed the side of my ear at mach 5

[simple spruce]

It was, but a shame it didn't appear afterwards

[simple spruce]

Hehehe

Got the meme Civic

[paper granite]

@simple spruce r34 drivers are hella sore losers lmao

[exotic parcel]

Yeah that sucks dude, I rarely drive mine because of that reputation it’s gotten

[paper granite]

LOL

I TOOK HIM OUT ON THE LAST LAP LMAO

[paper granite]

chances were he would’ve probably beaten me on the straightaways

but decided to ram into me for just in case

[exotic parcel]

I was thinking of hopping on again soon

[paper granite]

so last race i broke out the Charger and caught up to him on the final corner

[exotic parcel]

I got to Earl in Mid Wanted and I’m finishing up the F1 Black Market on Heat rn

[paper granite]

didn’t let off the brakes and ran into him full speed

went flying into a wall and crashed out

perfect revenge

[simple spruce]

Who said anything about the R34

Eitherway

I've began to like the car a bit more now

And yeah their shit gets to their heads

Is the R34 in Unbound any good?

It was terrible in Heat

[paper granite]

B class it seems really competitive

but i still have to rebuild my rsx after the vol 2 update so

[simple spruce]

Hmm

Then maybe they are good for something afterall

[tropic basalt]

There was an R34 asshole conversation earlier

This is why offline is better, just dominate everything in a car that otherwise sucks

[simple spruce]

There was? I didn't see it

It is true

[paper granite]

and to add to that he had it in bayside blue

[simple spruce]

But online is important these days too

[paper granite]

not knocking the color in any way

[simple spruce]

It is extremely generic

[paper granite]

my offline meta build was a C8 then i moved to a two tone red pinstripe M1

inspired by the Quadra Type 66 hero car-esque type of styling

anyways time to clear clip gallery

[simple spruce]

I wish to make good liveries if I can

But I never can..

[paper granite]

it’ll be a rough start

[simple spruce]

It always has been..

[paper granite]

when did you start making liveries tho

[simple spruce]

I have made liveries, or tried to, on many games

Most notably Heat and FH4

Sometimes they came out alright

Alot of the times I'm just not sure what to do or have any real inspiration

So I end up replicating real life liveries anyway

[paper granite]

noice

tbf i did start out making liveries on fr legends

2018 ish

[simple spruce]

It's nice being able to make liveries that precise on a mobile game

It's impressive

[paper granite]

😭 somewhat

majority was LED taillight conversions

and one random livery for the 86 that i had zero idea with

[simple spruce]

Oh yeah it's pretty cool how FR legends lets you put the decals over the lights too

Changing the cars looks

[paper granite]

but for inspiration I’ll stroll through the community tabs and do something that’ll you never find or rare styles

like how there’s a gazillion renditions of Dom’s RX7, the Veilside RX7, things like that

but there was no rendition of the ProStreet RX7

well there was one

but it was pretty buried

or I’ll ponder a story, then set the theme

[exotic parcel]

All the way up to A+ at least yeah

[paper granite]

……phantom captures

whyyyyyyyyy

[simple spruce]

That's a surprise

[paper granite]

can’t download the clip of me introducing a skyline fanboy to a wall after being weird

(dw in game)

in other news

[worn birch]

Reminds me of that one scene in the new transformers film with mirage

[exotic parcel]

Not really

It's just that pretty much every car that was really good in previous NFS titles is good again in Unbound

[shy atlas]

I figured that by separating cars into different classes Criterion created multiple new metas which means more chances for a car to shine

[exotic parcel]

Even then people continue to drive a wide variety

[simple spruce]

The R34 wasn't one of those though

I owned the R34 back in Heat

Easily one of the worst cars I had ever driven

Understeer city

[exotic parcel]

R34 is one of the best cars in Underground

Only being bested by the RX-7 iirc

[simple spruce]

I am not talking about Underground

the R34 was the final car you unlocked in Underground anyway

It better have been good

it was good in Prostreet, not sure about Undercover or Carbon

Never drove it in Shift either

But if I am going by recent NFS games alone

The car was so bad in Heat I am surprised it's any good in Unbound

[exotic parcel]

It's pretty good in both of them actually

speaking of carbon

[simple spruce]

huh?

Mazda dealership?

I don't remember brand specific dealerships in this game

[exotic parcel]

It's only for Mazda

It has a special RX-8 and I'll show you after I beat this race

I remember telling my friends there was a secret dealership in Carbon that had the Miata hidden within it

It was a half lie

[exotic parcel]

@simple spruce

[simple spruce]

Hmm.. that sure is new to me

So it's like a pre-tuned Rx8 just?

I am shocked I went on this long without every knowing about this car

[exotic parcel]

It's hidden after all lol

[simple spruce]

very well hidden

How do you unlock taht dealership even?

I have completed Carbon many times

[exotic parcel]

In the main menu you need to enter a cheat code

[simple spruce]

I have never seen that one

Ahhh

Yeah these old blackbox games did rely a fair bit on cheat codes and such

Energizer Viper, Coca cola Zero VW

[karmic saddle]

the free Audi TT and Evo X

[exotic parcel]

?

oh

[simple spruce]

Yeah those too

[karmic saddle]

for some reason I can't get the Evo X code to work

but the others worked

[simple spruce]

Hmm, strange

[exotic parcel]

I think it was removed after the patch

[karmic saddle]

could be because I know it works on the Wii

[paper granite]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1101975022827995156/1111254614755524698/102a0aec-6dc9-4b6e-b970-2bebee30f62e.mov

@simple spruce

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1101975022827995156/1111254953693028362/3f2104b8-d24c-4059-a220-0606d0b12b35.mov

then broke out the charger and did some trolling

[simple spruce]

Does slip streaming work in this game?

And yeah that r34 fella is a loser

Punting you and himself out of the win

That revenge was granted

[paper granite]

it regenerates burst nitrous

another mosquito dead

funnily enough after i sent that r34 to the shadow realm i got second

might sell the rsx and buy a ek9 because it does that weird break traction while turning things which equals a lot less speed, or i might just rebuild it from scratch

[twilit hound]

it looks like it was an accident

im not sure

[paper granite]

the first one where he came close to me maybe to avoid a low wall

but the contact by the bridge didn’t seem like a blind merge

[twilit hound]

no

[paper granite]

talking about the one near the end?

[twilit hound]

yes

[paper granite]

maybe it was but what was there to avoid that he’d merge that far

because guardrails in unbound are basically paper plates

[simple spruce]

Excellent then

[surreal osprey]

That is definitely fun to watch lmao

[paper granite]

I have zero clue how i came from dead last to second

but that corner with the M1, ooh i was feeling it

[surreal osprey]

I guess ur talent says alot lol

And seems like that dodge drives pretty good

On A class i believe?

[paper granite]

B

[surreal osprey]

B?!! That thing got better acc than my raptor😭

[paper granite]

i did build it with a few mods

unlike the rsx

i think i maxed handling on the rsx or got it close then whacked a turbo in it

[surreal osprey]

Nice

My acura is on A class and it does drive amazing

I do kinda wanna try it on S class since ive seen its fast af

[paper granite]

probably got lucky lol

[paper granite]

[simple spruce]

Nman that's perfect prostreet

[exotic parcel]

Not the goal but thanks

[surreal osprey]

I kinda wish i could put the license plate on the front too

On any car atleast

[simple spruce]

Honestly it's perfect without even trying then

You need to teach me your ways Nico

How do you make your cars feel so authentic

[exotic parcel]

the fd was simple

i ripped off some twitter art

[paper granite]

I made the rear fenders carbon for the r32

probably sent it here before

[simple spruce]

Ooooh

Clever

[simple spruce]

I still wanna be as good as you

[twilit hound]

https://tenor.com/view/1-2-12-1-2-buckle-my-shoe-buckle-shoe-gif-5257590768008384750

[shy atlas]

drippin

[surreal osprey]

Me after gonna get 100 RSRS in nfs heat

[exotic parcel]

cringe

People unironically buy multiple RSRs?

[paper granite]

i only had two in heat, one was a meme car but one i attempted a livery for

[exotic parcel]

I had one that sat there rotting away

[paper granite]

same lmao

[exotic parcel]

My buIlt RSRs are in 2015

One on PC and one which probably isn’t even there anymore on PS4

[surreal osprey]

Nice

[surreal osprey]

Well its still a car

[surreal osprey]

Thats cringe af basically people are just toxic cuz they only use op cars on every class...

[surreal osprey]

I dont use it like that tho

I just want a collection

Its not really worth having so many of them and not gonna use it tho imo

I know that

Maybe 2 or 3 but more than that its too much

But i just want to collect

Im becoming like magnus walker

You are the next Magnus walker

Except on a budget

A cheaper magnus walker

Yeah

Well does it count

Cool

If i have other cars

I do have other cars

Yes ur right

Im trying to do the mclaren f1 black market challenges

On heat?

Mhm

Ah nice

Remember i have ps4

Well now i have ps5, but idk if i want to play nfs unbound

I would say its worth if ur bored i did the same when i didnt have much to do on heat like a year ago

I play unbound not alot

Even tho it does have cars there that isnt in nfs heat

And can tell you the F1 is fast

Yep it is fast

[surreal osprey]

The maybach

But im sad that the other car is….

[surreal osprey]

And eclipse, ford crown (b-b-b-but its in the mod), mods dont count

New lambo countach

Yep

And you get the point

Atleast unbound got things heat doesnt lol

True yeah

But i really dont want to play the story..

Trust me you do get 1m at the final race btw lol

But yeah its cringe af

Ughhh

But the money is actually worth

I cant stand cringe campaign stories now

You can get such decent money every night when u get to the s class cars

I know but i cant stand Tess

Ugh tess thats even worse

But rydell is cool

Rydell is cool

Hell yes

FUCK I FORGOT ANOTHER FUCKING CHARACTER NAME

Also Tesstarosa

[surreal osprey]

Jazz

yes

YA LIKE YAZZ

That one

Shes alright…but so pointless to betray you to then help you because of Tess and some other bad guy

Ikr

Tess isnt even a good villain

Its so dumb

Wtf

Heat was way better but sadly short

I think heats story imo yes i know its short

But fucking hell its way better

Exactly

Yes ill admit Ana was a pain in the ass

She was for sure

Because she cares more about racing and her car than her brother Luca

Hoped one day she could shut up

And then later on she realised that Luca had tough times

Lmao my brains went downhill

She cared more about herself than Joe

And no not Joe Mama

True

She cared more about herself than Joe nearly getting fucking killed or something like that

But not like she could stop shawn hes agressive

Especially in her 350z

True

Not a change against a camaro ss

Yet you had to help her

Those V8 MOTORS are heave af

Yeah

The only car I would use is shaws camaro

Well his car

Or hellcat

[surreal osprey]

Like she thought she deserves it after not helping

Yeah

Hes camaro is cool tho

Yeah

When blackpanthaa said about Shaw was a funny thing

If he was in unbound that would havd been way better then any cops there

“This guy looks like tyler morgan”

[surreal osprey]

I agree

Lmfao youre underestimating shawn

Thats what blackpanthaa

Ik

Hes c r a z y man

Yeah

Tbh i want to see tyler morgan again

He wasnt that bad tbh

Hes mid tho atleast i could stand hes voice than the other 2

True yeah

I miss most wanted 05, prostreet and carbon

I only miss the vibes of prostreet

Mia’s fit

That was the best game but also such odd handling to me compared to what ive played ug2 1

My brother is lucky

He gets to play the old games

Lucky

While I had fucking call of duty modern warfare 3

And bo2

And battlefield 3

[surreal osprey]

Still lucky af that game is nostalgic too

And the only Need For Speed game i had

Guess what it was

Actually screw that 2

I never got the change playing mw3 only mw2

It was SHIFT and Hot Pursuit

[surreal osprey]

I mean i did like the og cods

Shift oh god

I do still lol

But for some reason Hot Pursuit was better than Shift to me

Is that a weird thing

Wich hot pursuit?

The 2014

I only played the 360 and the wii version

The one that got remastered

Ah that one

Yeah

I used to play that game when i got it for second used

I didnt like the game because you couldnt do engine swaps and etc

It was fun af i remember playing that game in the living room

Yeah

But now i had nfs 2015, payback and heat

[surreal osprey]

I liked it it was very simple for its time wasnt complicated to understand tbh

Fair enough

My brain wasnt ready for the inside of an engine and all the stats tho

Just enjoy and hurt the cops as much as you would like

Yeah

I like how 2015 cops are like

The most easiest thing

True

Then payback was like, they do good

But they go shit

But its a bit easier than unbound

And then heat is more aggressive and challenging

Unless you do jumps over water

Or hide somewhere like containers

Yeah cops couldnt jump yet lol

Yeah

[surreal osprey]

The most op place

I wanted the cop corvette

But you cant get it

Unless you mod or some thing

True

But you can get the car itself

But not the same

Without the headlights and etc

I mean roof lights

But heat is so weird

They add the ks cars

The corvette right

You cant customize it

And has a roof

Whilst the other one the standard

Doesnt have a roof but you cant get the roof

Yeah

Sadly you couldnt

I think the next car i would get is maybe

Im now or idk saving for the p1 gtr or laferarri but i have to win 30 times in a ferarrina class to unlock it.... While the fxxk only needs 5.... What ...

I did build an offroad regera

I did however a offroad aventador but i think i sold it in the game

Im also pissed off that they didnt add that bodykit on the honda nsx

Theres no bodykit for the nsx?

WHY

You know that bodykit

That race bodykit

Yes

They dont have that bodykit in the game

Thats sad af

So weird

Ikr

Plus its so annoying that they wont add remove hoods and etc until nfs unbound came in

Or removing the hood

Either

Wait u said that didnt notice it

What you mean

About the removing hood

I meant

Its annoying to explain

Dont worry i understand

I meant i like how they remove the best things and wont add the best things

Yet adding things that are pointless

And at this point, theres no point of begging criterion or whoever is developing the game now, tbh idgaf who it is…

Its criterion and ea being the boss

Yeah

The main producer of nfs

Them

Alright then

Im going to build a car based of one of my 1/64 car

Got bored so yeah lets get to it

Nice

Im not the best but ill try

Can tell its gonna be a black car

Yeah

But wich car you'll see

[surreal osprey]

Bmw m3 e46

Nahh close one

I already builded my dream car but i dont have a e46 irl those its too hard to find one in 1/64

Fuck

I dont know

What car is it @surreal osprey

A M4 lol or a E30

Might do both

Do both

[exotic parcel]

You know what I'm gonna do in Unbound?

These three could totally be done

370Z, Huracan, 911 Turbo

I just need to unlock the third

Matter of fact

That would barely be the beginning

World has a fuckton of custom cars

Exhibit A

okay this one has no right to look so good

But yeah you get the point

[surreal osprey]

Will take a while but almost done with the m4

[surreal osprey]

Man i miss the 1M

[exotic parcel]

We have the M2 now tbf

[karmic saddle]

1M will always have the rarity factor

[exotic parcel]

ig

[karmic saddle]

they only made 6,309 of them

was initially limited to 2,700 but that doesn't seem to be the case

[surreal osprey]

Exactly and also the typical AI car lol

[simple spruce]

If only the game had the Gallardo

[simple spruce]

Holy hell, you've made so many cool liveries

From every corner

[exotic parcel]

These are presets

[simple spruce]

The demand for it was insanely high

it was kinda like the original BMW M3

Where BMW only produced them in few numbers for the sake of homologation for their race cars

But the car was so popular and in-tune with what people wanted they were just always making more and more batches of them

[simple spruce]

even better then

That these were made by the teams themselves

Taht super promotion NSX too

[exotic parcel]

Unbound has a cherry blossom plate

You know what it would go perfectly with?

[simple spruce]

I wanna recreate Battle machine, React team sessions and Super promotion in a modern style game

I wish I had GT7

its customization is the closest to what prostreet had

[karmic saddle]

pretty sure those were normal 1 series BMWs

1Ms are wider than the normal ones

[simple spruce]

A cherry blossom on the car?

[surreal osprey]

Could be

[simple spruce]

Oooh

That's pretty good

[exotic parcel]

It's one of my favorite World cars

[surreal osprey]

Right there it is

I would love having one as 1st car

[exotic parcel]

Again, at least we have the M2 which was essentially the 1M's successor

[karmic saddle]

1M was a weird looking car to me

[surreal osprey]

1M is a unique bmw

[karmic saddle]

didn't care much for the M2 to be honest

[simple spruce]

I can definitely see why. I don't tend to like Cherry blossom designs much but whenever they're as well done as that, the appeal is instant

[surreal osprey]

And gladly doesnt have big grill

[exotic parcel]

Yeah I found it rather ugly, but Black Box did what Black Box does best and give it it's body kits which are beautiful

The M2 on the other hand, I adore it

[simple spruce]

Shame about the latest upcoming model that is apparently gonna cost 80k

which is just ridiculous

[karmic saddle]

not far off from an M4 here

[exotic parcel]

It's a topline BMW so 80k is kinda expected

[simple spruce]

yeah but it's a m2

[surreal osprey]

For the m2?

[simple spruce]

the old M4 costed 60k

[surreal osprey]

Thats alot for a 2 door tbh

[simple spruce]

The m2 is supposed to be a sort of easy access sport car

[simple spruce]

Yeah BMW prices, and I imagine all car prices are seeing massive inflation

[karmic saddle]

depends on the currency because I say a new M4 is 82K but that's in £

[surreal osprey]

The G82? Or the F90?

[simple spruce]

euro and pound seem relatively close

[surreal osprey]

Not really

[karmic saddle]

the latest one that is out

[surreal osprey]

Euro is worth more than pound by 1.00

[karmic saddle]

or "fat ugly grille" model as people would probably call it

[surreal osprey]

Ah damn

Honestly i used to love the new m4 now i hate it

I just cant accept the big grill

[exotic parcel]

Well since my wifi is back up I'mma run through my few picks for what liveries I'll be implementing into Unbound

[surreal osprey]

It ruins totally the car

[exotic parcel]

Just remind me to share them when I post the final results because I might forget

[karmic saddle]

it's supposed to be a call back to their heritage but I think they took too long to do it

[surreal osprey]

If you look back at the old iconic m4 you can see how clean and basic the front looked the rear of the new m4 is pretty good so far

[exotic parcel]

heritage?

[surreal osprey]

Yeah theres a heritage

[exotic parcel]

You mean like vintage BMW?

[karmic saddle]

yeah like their 30s cars and stuff

[exotic parcel]

fair enough then

Doesn't really work on the modern cars though

[karmic saddle]

it probably would have if it wasn't so sudden

[surreal osprey]

Yeah

[simple spruce]

I'll try to

[simple spruce]

and if it had been done more gracefully

the m4 is just a bad design

The big grille worked better on the M3 of the same generation

[exotic parcel]

this one will be a pain in the ass but it's doable

[simple spruce]

it wouldn't be such a pain

if Unbound had the decals

[exotic parcel]

it has the SP logo but only the speech bubble

[simple spruce]

2015 had the most legacy decals
Then it got lessened and lessened as time went on through Payback, Heat and Unbound

[exotic parcel]

So either I trace the logo or hide away the bubble, which the latter will be an easier thing to do

Unbound has all three SP decals still so its fine

[simple spruce]

or you could just make a text

[simple spruce]

Wish it had the other 2 as well

[simple spruce]

battle machhine and react team session

[exotic parcel]

I had to trace it for my Sakura Z though 😭

So proud of that thing

But as you can see on the side of the bumper, I was gonna add a list of decals

[simple spruce]

How did you "trace" it?

[exotic parcel]

but couldn't because although the decal limit wasn't filled, the game said I ran out of space

Which was fixed in Volume 2 so it's all good

I just need to get back onto it

[simple spruce]

Was the decal limit less than Heat's?

[exotic parcel]

I placed the SP decal and placed a bunch of small stripes to fill the text

[exotic parcel]

its the same

[simple spruce]

That's just insane..

You did a Forza/gran Turismo kind of thing

On NFS

Insane

[exotic parcel]

essentially yes

[simple spruce]

And tehn you'd say you're not insane you're not insaaaaaaane

[simple spruce]

Hmm, weird then. Cause the decal limit was never an issue for most people on Heat

And certainly not on Unbound either

yet they fixed a non-issue

[exotic parcel]

lol

[simple spruce]

They made a palace car livery on World? huh

[exotic parcel]

It's based off the Palace Golf

[simple spruce]

Why is everyone able to make good liveries save for me

[simple spruce]

it's bizarre that it is on a Civic

[exotic parcel]

Your liveries are nice

[simple spruce]

None of my liveries seem original

[exotic parcel]

I have trouble with original liveries lol

[simple spruce]

You don't!

You make them on a daily

[exotic parcel]

Trust me, I do lol

That's why I'm grabbing references

[simple spruce]

i wish to be superior too

I wanna be able to look at some references

And be able to create something amazing

Is that too much to ask for?

[exotic parcel]

Nah

It's just a matter of staring at your inspiration, and just doing it

Something will spark in your mind as you go on

[simple spruce]

Yeah but..

I feel like that happens so rarely..

I wanna have a spark wherever and whenever

Like I got myself a Mustang GT on prostreet

it's a perfect track day car

And i wanna be able to make a perfect track day livery for it

[simple spruce]

Yet another perfect livery

[exotic parcel]

It can sometimes be as simple as just slapping decals anywhere like this S14

[simple spruce]

I have tried doing that

Yet it never worked for me

[exotic parcel]

It's a good starting point, even then it often looks good as is

or maybe something simple like this two-tone

two-tones are some of the easiest

or just use an existing design you think looks cool

[simple spruce]

I genuinely feel like a fool

Cause I've done sooo much of this

Almost every single idea here

Yet why does nothing look good on Prostreet..

[exotic parcel]

I think it's just a low self esteem. I can relate since I do have a shitton of scrapped projects because of it

[simple spruce]

it is most likely what causes it all the time..

At least now I know you have done exactly what I have so often because you couldn't think of anything

[exotic parcel]

I trashed this livery because honestly I think it's awful

Looking back at it maybe it wasn't too bad but

I didn't like it very much so it's gone now

[simple spruce]

If i was able to make such a livery, I'd throw my hat to the sky

Cause that's great

I've so rarely managed to make liveries I was actually proud of

[exotic parcel]

Even one of my proudest liveries came with a bit of doubt, almost got scrapped but I decided to just stick with it for the time being

and I've been using this S2000 since, even added some more decals to it over time

[simple spruce]

it looks great

[exotic parcel]

and it's just a legacy decal copied over itself

[simple spruce]

I need to do something..

[exotic parcel]

with the bottom one being black and transparent like a shadow

I got rid of this one

this one too

and this

[simple spruce]

perfect Underground

[exotic parcel]

This one is a ProStreet replica

[simple spruce]

I recognize it

Beautiful

the car in Unbound is the same model as the one in Prostreet

so it works well

[exotic parcel]

I think I deleted this one

This is just the Evil-R

[simple spruce]

The one that inspired the fast and the furious car

[exotic parcel]

Oh nono

[simple spruce]

And you recreated it so perfectly

[exotic parcel]

The Fast and Furious Evo was another demo car of theirs

[simple spruce]

Oh so there were two?

[exotic parcel]

The Evil R came after I believe

Tokyo Drift one was an Evo VIII, Evil R is a widebody(?) IX

[simple spruce]

I thought the Fast and Furious one was meant to be this but it was chanaged up slightly

I guess I got it backward

[exotic parcel]

Nah, the RX-7 and Evo were outright demo cars

[simple spruce]

Were the 350Z'es demo cars too?

[exotic parcel]

another deleted livery, I paired the only Art Factory vinyl Unbound had and it's galaxy fans

Takeshi's Veilside 350Z was a demo car

I dunno about the golden one

[simple spruce]

I imagine it was

But what do I know

[exotic parcel]

The Louis NSX was also a demo car I believe

Oh this one was just terrible, and I made two variants which are both long gone now

[simple spruce]

So I guess the only original project of the movie was the RB mustang

[exotic parcel]

Pretty much yeah

[simple spruce]

It's honestly amazing

[exotic parcel]

Literally just white lol

[simple spruce]

Got yourself that 370Z nismo

[exotic parcel]

ripped off my 240Z livery which was a rip off of a real 240Z

[simple spruce]

does the 370Z nismo have parts now?

[exotic parcel]

Nah, the Nismo cars are still stuck to rims and plates only

[simple spruce]

Come on man..

What point even is in these cars

[exotic parcel]

The difference between the Nismo cars and the Porsches is

The Porsches were supposed to be customizable, the Nismo cars are meant to be special cars

[simple spruce]

Which is hilaruous

But sensibly it should be the other way around

On which earth is a Porsche meant to be more customizable than any Nissan

[exotic parcel]

Same with the M4 GTS which people hate because it was customizable in Payback when it basically replaced the M4 coupe entirely

[simple spruce]

Same with the Cayman GT4

which was replaced by the normal Cayman in Heat

[exotic parcel]

Oh, the GT4 is customizable too

[simple spruce]

The fuck is this joke man..

[exotic parcel]

The GT4 was always customizable besides Heat

[simple spruce]

why is Porsche getting the special treatment

[exotic parcel]

It's NFS tbf

[simple spruce]

NFS, you don't have an exclusivity deal anymore

Porsche is dead to you

it should be dead to you

You don't need to suck their cock anymore

[exotic parcel]

they're not dead to NFS, but yeah, the deal has been done

[simple spruce]

Yet the RSR has been OP for 7 years now

and Porsche still gets special treatment

[exotic parcel]

Porsches have been OP since MW lmao

[simple spruce]

At least it wasn't the same Porsche every time lol

[exotic parcel]

It was always the 911 Turbo though

Hell, Rudy Chen drives the Turbo

[simple spruce]

through porstreet and undercover

That was it

[exotic parcel]

MW-Undercover*

[karmic saddle]

Carbon didn't have any 911s

[simple spruce]

That's an older one though

[exotic parcel]

Carbon has the GT3

[karmic saddle]

as an Online exclusive car if I remember correctly

[exotic parcel]

Even then it's still the same model, same story

Yes but regardless it was still there

and it was pretty damned good

Oh, the 911 Turbo is in Carbon actually

[simple spruce]

Dedicate your entire life to Porsches even still

[exotic parcel]

It was added in later with the G35

[karmic saddle]

but to be honest I only knew of the GT3 being in Carbon a couple of years ago

[karmic saddle]

only knew about the G35 being in Carbon as a DLC car yesterday

[exotic parcel]

MW all the way through Undercover had a 911 Turbo and it was always good as hell

[simple spruce]

AWD bastard

Esepcailly annoying in Prostreet

[exotic parcel]

Porsche hadn't been OP in Shift I don't think, unless it is which I can see being a thing but I wouldn't know

It's a solid car in The Run

The RSR was OP in every NFS it touched besides World possibly

Even then it probably is really good in a certain class

[karmic saddle]

don't really remember much about NFS World, that was probably the least played one I owned

[exotic parcel]

oooh nice

[simple spruce]

that's a cool look

[exotic parcel]

so um

Apparently there is an Arkwright theory

which canonizes Hot Pursuit 2010 which is funny

which is a bit of a stretch but its more fun so why not

I'mma run through the black box cities and see if there was ever anything to potentially relate (spoiler: ||no lol||)

[exotic parcel]

Nah lol

Arkwright theory is a dead end

My best bet is Chau Wu having something to do with it

Only reason is because both the Gambler and Chau had cars with certain tech in it that they wanted

But that's kind of a nothing burger so eh

[surreal osprey]

Now thats clean

[simple spruce]

It's too much

And for once I feel like I've done a decent prostreet feeling livery

[terse geyser]

street pro

[surreal osprey]

Street miata

[exotic parcel]

Yeah I’m definitely gonna make that livery in Unbound

For the R34 and S13

[fervent quarry]

inspired by the need for speed underground rivals racer

just fixed these small details

[exotic parcel]

Wait

That's still doable lmao

[simple spruce]

It looks really good

[surreal osprey]

Nice gtr

[fervent quarry]

thanks

[exotic parcel]

For the thingy they're doing

I'll be doing a few more

[worn birch]

Very cool I like it

[simple spruce]

You've taken some really good pictures

Brilliant work

Those are perfect

[exotic parcel]

okay so

The Eclipse is a very nice AWD drifter

[simple spruce]

You can drift AWD cars in this game?

[exotic parcel]

You can drift anything pretty much

RWD and AWD are obviously better than FWD

The RX-8, Eclipse, and 350Z are the best ones I've tried so far

[simple spruce]

You couldn't really drift most AWD cars in Heat

There were some exceptions of course

[worldly sparrow]

Abandoned Eddie R34 build I did back in 2021

I lost the original livery due to me either starting a new game or something

But I recovered some images of it

[exotic parcel]

huh

[worldly sparrow]

2020 actually

[exotic parcel]

Oh my fuck The Tempest by Pendulum has softly sung into my ears for the first time in a long time

Surprisingly, it hasn't played a single time throughout my Undercover run

[simple spruce]

You did a really good job

It feels perfect for the feel

[exotic parcel]

Challenge Series 240SX

[simple spruce]

I remember this from the race wars challenge]

[fervent quarry]

ah yes, the 240sx with magic powered headlights

[viscid fjord]

https://tenor.com/view/tran-race-jesse-racing-trust-me-gif-21569142

RACE WARSSS

[exotic parcel]

Oh Aimee me and Nima were theorying over NFS yesterday and guess what we figured out

[viscid fjord]

What

[exotic parcel]

Four Riveras (counting roberto)

[viscid fjord]

Huh?

I'm confused what you mean lol

[twilit hound]

the family

the riveras

[exotic parcel]

Our theory is Gallo Rivera from Payback is an older cousin of Ana and Lucas Rivera

[viscid fjord]

Oh, ok

But who's Roberto

[exotic parcel]

Lucas’ dad

[twilit hound]

no way

[viscid fjord]

Oh yh, been a while since I completed heat

[twilit hound]

ive never seen this

[exotic parcel]

Basically they were from Fortune Valley but moved to Palm City at a young age, Gallo had his RSR which inspired Lucas to get a 993

In the 2000s, which of course he still has by 2019

[twilit hound]

ooooo

[steel wing]

Do we have access to the Mantis kit yet?

[surreal osprey]

Idk

But that bodykit is clean

[steel wing]

I'll take that as a no.

[exotic parcel]

no

Volume 3 isn't even out yet

[simple spruce]

This is propwr prostreet

[simple spruce]

Roberto is a handsome fellow

But it did always confuse me

Why the Camaro in the picture has the splitter

But the car model in the game doesn't

It makes no sense cause that splitter is in the game

You can just equip it

[exotic parcel]

Accessable beach when

[simple spruce]

Someone needs to recreate that exact car

[simple spruce]

Really mice

I do wonder though

We know Roberto was a legit racer

But was he also an illegal street racer?

Or is that Camaro just a show car?

Or does he genuinely go to prostreet alike events in a car like that

[steel wing]

Fuck

[exotic parcel]

He kinda ProStreet'd the Showdown

He was a Showdown champion in the 90s

I never read this car's bio

[simple spruce]

Hmm..

Yeah I gyess if there were showdowns back then

Which there were

Cause the Super promotion guy did say how he's been managing these events since the 90s

The only issue is that Prostreet takes place in real world

Not in NFS world

We don't have Fairhaven, Lakeshore and Rock port there

[worldly sparrow]

Is he also Hispanic?

[simple spruce]

Yes he is

He is even more Hispanic than Lucas and Ana

[worldly sparrow]

Huh

So it's probably intentional

[simple spruce]

It is very likely yeah

And it does connect the gang in Heat to the gang in Payback

Since Lucas must have visited Gallo sometimes

And Gallo and Tyler were childhood friends

[worldly sparrow]

I assume the rwb 996 was a reference to him

[simple spruce]

So they must have seen ech other

[simple spruce]

I assumed it was because Lucas liked Gallo's style and car and saw how well it handled

So he went back to Palm city and sourced himself a 911 as well

With the same RWB style

Jyst not the same 911

[worldly sparrow]

Or rather that they drive similar cars because of being inspired by each other

Both are former big leagues from what we know

[simple spruce]

Gallo definitely is older

[worldly sparrow]

Which would explain why they could afford such expensive rides

[simple spruce]

Lucas was a racer on his own in Palm city

It's likely the mechanic shop made good money

And being Roberto's son who kept winning everything was helpful to the funds too

And the 911 is the only car that is Lucas' own as far as we know

[worldly sparrow]

How long does heat take place after the prologue?

[simple spruce]

Not that long

Maybe just a day or two

A week at max

Since Ana had just gone alone since Ricky and Joe took off

[worldly sparrow]

Also have you noticed that all 3 last NFS games start with a time jump?

Payback with a one year time jump

Unbound with a year jump

[simple spruce]

That's true actually

Never noticed that

[worldly sparrow]

Heat also with around a month jump

[simple spruce]

Must be taking after old NFS games I suppose

Most wanted, Underground 2, Carbon, Undercover

They all have time jumps

Or its a just a good story telling method

[worldly sparrow]

UG2 time jump was just set up to explain why main char is in a different location

I don't count it that much tbf

[simple spruce]

It was still a time jump

Since it is I think a few months after the crash

[worldly sparrow]

Yeah

I think he was in hospital

[simple spruce]

Mmhm

[worldly sparrow]

And afterwards went far away from the heat back home

Pulling some connections

Getting in contact with people there where he's going

[simple spruce]

Yeah the connection with Rachal helped

And considering he probably wanted some revenge

He was lucky that he went exactly where his cause of almost death was

He likely had lost alot of his rep in UG1 map after the crash