Few more things from the FAQ
1. Every car is unlocked from the beginning of the game*. You just need to purchase it.
2. Game is running off Frostbite
3. You can play the game without PS+ or XBL but you will to play with other players.
4. Plans for free updates, no plans for paid DLC (or so they say)
5. No microtransactions
6. You can't be the police
*I believe you need to play through the career to get the M3 E46 as they say you need to "unlock" it. Or maybe that's just the GTR bodykit/wrap. Hopefully they explain this at some point.
I like that all cars are unlocked from the start (except the M3 E46, but that's understandable). Also the online requirements aren't so bad now. As long as I can play solo it's okay.
No free DLC/MT - I'm not fully convinced that they will stay true to their word, but we'll see 👍
The big problem is this:
Q) How many cars can we own at any one time?
A) We believe in creating a bond and relationship with your cars. It's about finding a ride and taking it from stock, to stock plus awesome through some of the deepest customization in Need for Speed history.
You will have a five car garage - if you fill all your spaces, you can chose to sell and purchase a new car, or continue to max out your current ride through the extensive performance upgrades available to you so you can take on anyone on the streets.
That's just bull:censored:. In a game about cars and tuning and you want to limit how many cars we can tune???
Hopefully this applies to career mode only and you have a separate arcade mode where you can tune as much cars as you want. Otherwise all that customization options are useless.
If someone has twitter I would really appreciate if they can ask this issue 👍
Handling Customisation
The level of detail is insane and they haven't even touched performance customisation yet.
It looks like a lot, but most are basically just modifying the main slider Grip <---> Drift. It doesn't even hold a candle to Underground 2 tuning. Drift Stability Assist would be interesting to turn off and see how much "simulation" there is in the raw physics engine, but I suspect if you want to be competitive online you will have to turn it on.
Also, there's a mistake here:
Brake Bias
Adjusting the brake bias increases weight transference when braking.
When this is moved towards the front it can destabilise the car more easily transitioning into a drift.
Shouldn't front bias create understeer? *facepalm*
Don't know if it's been mentioned, but
spoilers will effect downforce.
Again, nothing new. In Underground 2 different spoilers give you different amounts of downforce and you can change the front and rear DF separately. In ProStreet with autosculpt I remember you can even see how changes affects your top speed and lateral G in the wind tunnel.
Inb4 Rockstar Lawsuit...
EDIT:
Performance parts!
Again, it seems like a lot, but most of those parts could be lumped under Engine tuning. I really don't think it's necessary to split them up seeing this is an arcade game and people will just slap the highest performance part available once it's unlocked. Having that many parts will just make it annoying when you are tuning a lot of cars.
It's also missing things like Weight Reduction and Transmission (old muscle cars are going to be useless without longer gears).
Overall, I'm certainly amazed by how this game is turning out, but I think they are trying to reinvent the wheel too much here. Streamline the parts upgrade, and make the tuning as detailed as UG2. With a good physics engine, you can pretty much decide how grippy/drifty your car is from suspension tuning. No need artificial stuff like "brake drift assist". For casual players, you could just have a preset setup "Drift", "Grip" and "Balanced".
Looking forward to the Paint & Wrap reveal soon 👍
