Need for Speed Racing Games

I was playing online last night on the dual competition at Tokyo using the Ford GTs. I got beaten in one round by the other driver who literaly crashed into the outside wall and then continued to drive along the wall before coming back down to ground. Even stranger was the fact that it looked like the car was 4 feet off the ground before it came back down to earth with not even the slightest though of gravity. Slightly strange physics there I think.

can any1 xplainme this?!
Mercedes AMG tier 3 lvl3 upgrades gets 714hp n 836 torque
Laguna seca time 2:20!
Lamborghini Gallardo 725hp 630torque
Laguna Seca time 1:26

So...what's the latest word from the "team"? The patches are progressing and should be ready in ... a week....2 to 3 weeks....? Any info at this point would be appreciated AND the right thing to do for your "customers".
You remember us, don't you? The people that paid hard earned money for your product.

why dont i receive cars iv won?

No won cars here either, EA you suck, stop using your customers as beta testers, maybe hire some people to fix these issues!

Thank you EA for a another NFS FAILURE. As a game developer this game is embarrassing. I can't believe you would even release a game that's unfinished and full of bugs. And to think at one time I actually thought I might have to work for this company. What were you thinking? The EA studio that created NFS: Shift needs to get there crap together because if not I will never buy another game they make again and neither will a lot of my friends. You lost at least 100 buyers because I let them know your game was broken and unfinished. This is like something I would expect from a team that threw something together in a few months. In fact I've seen better games made in 5 months. Have you never heard of ground clamping or terrain following? They're pretty simple algorithms which I used in my own personal racing gaming. I know you went for a simulation racing experience but it was broken at release. WTF?

All REWARD cars are only available in use online or quick race. You cannot use them in career mode. It's not a glitch, this is intentional....

VancouverBlade,


I know shift is a great game, it probably has the greatest graphics ever put onto a game for a console, and I have no doubt that EA will definately fixx all of the problems that are occuring in the game at the moment.
But there are a few things which EA may not see as easily, and I would like to point them out to you.

1. There are not enough cars in the game, this may have crossed your minds at least once, I mean...first of all, there are no ferraris in the game, if this game had ferraris in it, the game would basically be complete, I definately think that.
Also more cars such as: Alfa Romeo, Porsche (more porsche !! ), Lamborghini (the old ones, such as the diablo)..
But when I ask you to add these cars, I don't just mean one or two of these cars, I mean add ALL of these cars, that would be a big UP to the game !!

I mean only having 50 or so cars in a game is a bit of a joke, forza 3 has over 400 cars and GT5 is apparently going to have well over 200 in it. These are the two games that EA need to be competing with if we want shift to become the best of the racing games out before the end of the new millenium decade !!

So, more cars if I may say so myself.


2. Customization.

I understand that EA ave put lifelike bodykits that you would see in Motorsport on cars in NFS Shift, but we would like a bit more customization, even being able to change the colours of the rims would be great.
What I think would be that if EA took the customizing options from NFS Undercover and put them into shift, that would at least be a start, I think that just changing bodykits from one to another is not good enough.
Even things such as seats, have things like:

Different seat colours
different seats (maranello bucket seats, sport seats, etc)
Different steering wheels
different type of roll cages

Things like that would be absolutely awesome, because what I do not think EA realise is that, it's the little things that really matter, all those little customization things and all that which are absolutely tiny in comparison to everything else in the game are what really make that little bit of a difference when people play, it's what brings the smile to the peoples' face.

So, on the subject of customization, a little bit more diversity is needed !!


3. Tracks

This is not a major issue at all, most people love all the tracks in the game and we ar glad to say that EA have actually gotten some of the most famous tracks around to put in the game which is very unlike EA and very good !

But I still think there is more to be done on this subject, even things like the TopGear test track, the licensing for that is bound to be easy to get ahold of, and modelling the track even easier, most people would be delighted to see that, people would buy the game jst to race around the track on that, screw all else !!!
But again, not a major issue, but even a few more tracks every few months would be great !!

That is all I have to say for no,w I hope you all read this and reply/comprehend these issues !!!

One X

ps3.ugotFUBAR wrote:can any1 xplainme this?!
Mercedes AMG tier 3 lvl3 upgrades gets 714hp n 836 torque
Laguna seca time 2:20!
Lamborghini Gallardo 725hp 630torque
Laguna Seca time 1:26

This is a real life issue as far as I know, the AMG whieghs a lot more than the Gallardo, this may be the thing.

WOW!!! This just blows me away...how does something like this happen? So many issues with what appears to be a very cool game from what I thought was a top shelf gaming company. ARE YOU FREAKIN' SERIOUS...Wait for this patch! Wait that update! Pardon my ignorance, but isn't that what R&D is all about before releasing a product to market??? Oh wait, I gotta an idea! Let's slapdick a race game together, make some quick cash and worry about fixing it later!!! Management must be so proud of themselves. Back to Dirt 1-n-2 & Grid for me! Oh yea, kinda like the other guy said, Forza 3 & GT5 here I come! Thanks for the rant, bye-bye SHIFT!!!

Hey all you gamers who keep posting your well reasoned arguments about this failure of a game on this forum are doing so on the wrong one you have to do it on the community discussion forum written by Torque not this one. Vancouver Blade does not monitor this one but for some reason does tend to be informed of what is being said in the community forum something about Torque e-mailing him the responses so copy your posts to there. For as much as we all have posted our complaints and anger here, EA does not read about it here.

boriquavtec this thread was started by VancouverBlade so I would imagine he reads it and tries to get past all the whiners posts to what this thread was started for "SHIFT Issues update and workaround suggestions". It is not that difficult to figure out why he doesn't post more often.

Shift PC
I don't really have any bugs to report this time but I do have a suggestion and a question.

When steering around corners I think there is too much drag. The harder you turn the wheels the more you slow down so on a lot of corners you don't need to use your breaks at all, just keep turning the wheel harder and it works like a second set of breaks. Now I am not sure how this can be fixed without loosing the ability to corner without sliding off the track but I am not a programmer so I guess that is not a surprise.

Now for the question. Why oh why do the wheels not turn on my cars? When I watch a replay I go around corners but my wheels never actually turn. I have owned and played every NFS game and they all did this correctly to the best of my recollection. It's not very important, I'm just wondering why.

Weird glitch/bug: driving a tuned car (any car, any track) with 0 cars in quick race, the car feels great
adding more cars, and then it drives very different, less grip, & a complete different feel

to add: not just on my system, but all of my racing mates noticed this also..

cem_ea_id.Ram001 wrote:boriquavtec this thread was started by VancouverBlade so I would imagine he reads it and tries to get past all the whiners posts to what this thread was started for "SHIFT Issues update and workaround suggestions". It is not that difficult to figure out why he doesn't post more often.

Easy fella....what might appear like whining to you is just consumers irratated by an incomplete product of which they paid full price for.
Nuff said.

Haha Whiners lol Exactly what Ostoneso said We are just Irritated gamers who paid full price for a game that is not fully tested or at times seems fully complete. and as for Blade updating on here when is the last time there was an update not posted by one of the gamers on this forum ?