I just started playing NFS:shift and...

scotty777

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Well, I hate it...

I don't have a steering wheel and pedals, so like all other racing games, I'm playing with my trusty Keyboard...

So, I started the game, and I thought "Joy, a game that seem fairly accurate, looks fun (Grand Tourismo bored the shyte out of me), has drifting (big plus), and has great graphics."

So I started the game, chose the BMW 135i, and from there I started to race... Now, I usually like racing on hard, because then I feel I've achieved something (like when you somehow scrape a win, and a jovial feeling overwhelms you), but this time, I thought it's time to relax, and not get frustrated with the game as I want to enjoy it, and I'm on holiday (who wants to start swearing and getting an anger so fierce, your monitor starts worrying about getting punched, then pissed on).

So I start playing, and I realise it's a little more difficult then what I'd assume medium would be. Then came the drifting, which was very different, but after a while, I found it quite well done, and I quite smashing at it :D. All was going well, I mean, there where the odd occasions where I spun off the track and needed to restart (if I don't come first, I get angry :p). However, this was all undone when I did a Porsche 911 GT2 race...

So I started it, and soon discovered many glitches, and the game began to have fun f-ing me over... I would be driving, and then get touched by another car and my steering locks up. Soon enough I discovered I'm eating the wall the whole way, and the frustration I was so looking forward to avoiding seemed to have found me... again.

So it seems like the other cars have super natural abilities to make me spin out, and if I hit them, I spin out and watch them drive away... great. So now touching other cars is out of the equation... it's fine, I'll race ahead to never see them again, and as I did so... and on one corner, my car suddenly (for no reason) began to bounce... and jump... and not turn... then spin out :confused:.

Ok, So the Porsche 911 GT2 race was bs... but I won. Yay... and soon enough I unlocked tier 4... and haven't been able to go any further.


In tier 4, I'm getting my ********* ripped open. I get touched, and spin out. I over take, then get rammed into a wall. I turn a corner and the car bounces like a kangaroo, and then spin out...

I'm sorry, but this it madness.. I can't even make my way to the front because I'm just getting pillaged by the AI. How it 7 cars all ramming into me, or the car I'm drafting slamming on brakes so I hit them and again, spin out, fair?

Honestly, this game is one big pile of horse sh*t.
 
Racing games should never be played on a KB. Either play it on console or use a controller on your pc.
 
scotty. I think your main problem lies with the fact that your are playing it on a keyboard. Get yourself a decent gamepad (I have an XBOX 360 controller) - you won't be sorry... I've been playing it for the last few weeks (mostly on my PS3 and on PC a few times, and love it (expecially the PS3 version :D) . The bugs has been sorted out with the update that was released earlier this week.
 
well, I seldom have any trouble with a keyboard... I remember back in the underground 2 days I owned everyone online when I got my then new ADSL line... but this game is a mixture of awful and impossible.
 
I play it with a keyboard and i find it extremely difficult to play if i don't have some of the assists turned on :(

lol, I turned off all the assists... I enjoy power sliding around the corners and such... So I'm only racing against medium skilled racers, while everything else is turned off... (I set only visual damage on though).
 
You got to have some sort of force feedback to counter any wheel spin and / or nudges from AI. As for performance, I love my Nissan GTR (R35), the all wheel drive and grip it has allows me to nail the AI in corners, quite easily, even though its top end is not fantastic. But then again I am using a force feedback logitech steering wheel, and running paddle shift/semi automatic gear changes....

Play some Colin McRae Dirt, that will hone your reaction time and driving style. After that NFS is easy...

Edit: Underground 2 is the all time best NFS title EVA! They should seriously do a complete remake of the Underground series, man that would revitalise the NFS brand for sure!
 
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You got to have some sort of force feedback to counter any wheel spin and / or nudges from AI. As for performance, I love my Nissan GTR (R35), the all wheel drive and grip it has allows me to nail the AI in corners, quite easily, even though its top end is not fantastic. But then again I am using a force feedback logitech steering wheel, and running paddle shift/semi automatic gear changes....

Play some Colin McRae Dirt, that will hone your reaction time and driving style. After that NFS is easy...

Edit: Underground 2 is the all time best NFS title EVA! They should seriously do a complete remake of the Underground series, man that would revitalise the NFS brand for sure!

+10000000
 
You got to have some sort of force feedback to counter any wheel spin and / or nudges from AI. As for performance, I love my Nissan GTR (R35), the all wheel drive and grip it has allows me to nail the AI in corners, quite easily, even though its top end is not fantastic. But then again I am using a force feedback logitech steering wheel, and running paddle shift/semi automatic gear changes....

Play some Colin McRae Dirt, that will hone your reaction time and driving style. After that NFS is easy...

It's not my driving style... I'm the best racing game driver out of all my friends (in the real world I drive rather slowly though :p, I guess I don't have to prove I'm a man by going "fast" on public roads). So it's not my skillzz ( :p ) that are at fault, it's this game that's 1/2 retarded and 1/2 hating me.

But yeah, maybe a decent steering wheel would make a massive difference :D. I remember rage 3 years ago, there was a Telkom stand that had NFS: most wanted, I owned everyone to the point that they kicked me out the stand :(
 
I finished Shift fairly easily with the keyboard. A lot of the cars are impossible to handle though, but by picking the ones that suit me I got through it with no hassles.
 
Another thing I have found that helps is to be a lot more agressive with bumping and nudging AI, otherwise you just get knocked TFO..

bObbly is also right on there ... porsche sux!! So do any Yank cars.
 
Another thing I have found that helps is to be a lot more agressive with bumping and nudging AI, otherwise you just get knocked TFO..

bObbly is also right on there ... porsche sux!! So do any Yank cars.

Sigh, I don't really enjoy driving like a retarded 5 year old though... I enjoy the precision aspect to the game... Like clean over takes and such... sigh. I guess I'm gonna have to focus my anger onto the AI.

Lol, I'm still using my trusty BMW 135i... only thing is that it's farking tail happy... but drifting with it is amazing...and I'm able to handle it well (even though it's damn unstable).

I'm mainly only having problems with the Super cars...
 
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I finished tier 3 and got bored of the game after that I has already bought like all the tier 4 cars already
 
I tried this and removed it very fast it's a k@k game..
EA was trying to be clever and just added the letter "f" into the real name for this game
>>> NFS Shift
Take the f away to get the real name for this game

Sorry EA.... You FAIL!!!!!!!!!!!! :mad:
 
NFS Shift is more of a simulator than previous NFS titles, and thus, you need to play it as you would a simulator. This means that having some form of analog input would be VERY helpful; analog sticks on a console or steering wheel/pedals on any platform.

Threshold braking is your friend.
 
There is a new 1.2 patch out for the pc version with alot of fixes. Including the bumpy suspension, Team racing in mulitplayer and 5 new cars.
 
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