The official Twitter account of Need For Speed shared some interesting information about the latest part in this legendary racing series. As it was revealed, Need For Speed will be a complete reboot of the series and not a sequel. In addition, it was confirmed that the game will require an online connection in order to be played.
@DeanRheims NFS will require an online connection, but the benefits are nice. More variety and a more rewarding experience with friends.
— Need for Speed (@NeedforSpeed) May 28, 2015
Naturally, PC gamers asked whether the game’s framerate would be locked. Unfortunately, Ghost Games could not confirm – at this point – whether it would be locked at 30fps or not.
@HechtJoshua Hello Joshua. We have not announced details such as a frame lock as of yet. Watch this space for more info.
— Need for Speed (@NeedforSpeed) May 28, 2015
Now while this may disappoint some, the development team confirmed that the game will feature fully dedicated servers. Not only that, but some improvements have been made to its AllDrive system (here is hoping that these improvements will ‘enable’ 60fps).
@AE86FTW We will have fully dedicated servers and great improvements to the AllDrive system.
— Need for Speed (@NeedforSpeed) May 28, 2015
Later on, Ghost Games tried to justify why the game will require an online connection, by saying that this will allow players’ friends to be part of their narrative experience.
@JonBarry3 Being connected will allow your friends to be part of your narrative experience, something only possible through connected play.
— Need for Speed (@NeedforSpeed) May 28, 2015
Regarding the game’s camera views, it has been confirmed that there won’t be any cockpit view in this new Need For Speed game.
@Mateusss_costa You'll be able to choose from multiple camera angles, but the cockpit view didn't make it in this time.
— Need for Speed (@NeedforSpeed) May 28, 2015
Last but not least, Ghost Games confirmed that Need For Speed will feature both single-player and multi-player game modes.
@MkTetsujin Need for Speed includes both multiplayer and single player.
— Need for Speed (@NeedforSpeed) May 29, 2015
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EA managed to kill a game, while not even being released yet. EA are really good.
Hell yeah. I lost interest before i even got to see the game. It’s amazing how good they are. I’ll give them that much.
EA wants to bury the new NFS before it even comes out =))
“Being connected will allow your friends to be part of your narrative experience”
I don’t have friends who played games. I don’ believe in friendship.
#stopruiningIPs
Haha same cash grabbing garbage from EA. I expect NFS will take another break after this.
“the cockpit view didn’t make it in this time.”
It never does, unless it’s Shift or the way old NFS games.
As for the framerate lock, I expect it to be at 30, once more.
We got better games, why even look at this trash anymore. Project Cars and Asseto corte or whatever is way more worthwhile. Or go play Grid series or the awesome now dead burnout. There is Dirt too.
try to ask for fine customization, free roaming or try to ask why the cars are so slippery on a sim (unless its forza horizon) you will be stoned to death by the sim community . XD
Fine customization, we had shift 2. Free roaming, forza, burnout paradise, older NFS with mods. Slippery.. .sim… …. *stoned to death*
Wow, have this people learned nothing from the past?
Why cut off a large percentage of your market by forcing them to be online, on services that you are 99.9% probably not going to be able to maintain.
Cause pc is all piracy and new consoles need the net 99.999995% of the time anyway.
By today’s “standards” it doesn’t matter. There will be a lot of preorders and It will sold millions anyway.
#StopPreorderingShit
#NeverStopPreorderingShit
#StopLivingIn1939
Does anyone else die a little inside when they hear “30 fps is fine”, I can’t be the only one who uses cockpit view. Recommend need for speed pro street it’s $10 and looks great on 144hz
I tested to lock witcher 3 to 30fps, I almost got sick. It was that bad.
I don’t feel that, but I do get the urge to call peasants to console users. When I see these articles, I really think that it is an apt “insult”. Amazing.
I might say One Thing -> The 50-60FPS is bare minimum in fast paced games.
I like 60-85 FPS a lot -> in BF4 Ultra i have solid 75+ Average and game is so smooth then 😉
Wait, wait, wait! A franchise that has a (not only, but) higher than normal appeal to monumental douchebags will have a online component? Yeah, I can’t think how that could go wrong…..
I’m not experienced in online games, to be fair. Still, I wonder if words “connected play” and “narrative experience” even should be in one sentence.
As long it’s not always online just to play solo campaign unlike the crew where it’s a always online, I’m fine.
can anyone explain to me the technical reason why they lock it to 30 fps?Game engine not capable?
Its frostbite so it goes above 30fps but AllDrive system and always online are the reason for the 30fps, same as NFS rivals
Some games use FPS as timing for things. It basically down to laziness.
like the old doom?
Like 9000 ps2, ps1, gamecube and wii games. Also, nfs rivals.
ok. I must ask… what does it mean the game is a “reboot”? what story, characters or lore are they exactly rebooting? why is “need for speed most wanted” a sequel to “need for speed underground”? that’s like saying you are rebooting fifa, mario party or final fantasy.
NFS RIVALS runs at 60 FPS if you unlock it with that tweak from command line.
I hope this one will have a in-game option
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDA37BmvNwM
Looks like this game is gonna be always disconnected.
Online only? No thanks then. Wake me up when you add the lan option back. I still play in Lan most of the NFS games with my friends. Also, what if i wanna go on vacation and i’m out of internet? Should i just play the older NFS games? Fine. Then i don’t need to buy this one. Online only = No buy.
Diablo 3 was the last game to trick me. I still play DIablo 2 when my net runs out. Same goes for Torchlight 2.
what was the last open world LAN supported NFS or racer you played..? :-S
NFS Shift, and i got pissed when they removed it with Shift2. Also we are playing the older NFS games like Most Wanted and HotP.
Untill that point i was buying all the NFS games (we all were, me and my friends). Hey, if the don’t like my (or my friends) money, it’s all the same to me.
I can just keep playing the good old games (old doesn’t mean bad so) that i already have. Hell, i got around 40 amazing games for Lan right now. We play them every day and it’s a ton of fun.
Warcraft 3,Age of Empires 2, Diablo 2, Counter strike, C&C games,Battlefields (all before 3 and the online only shit).
Bottom line is, if they remove the main feature i’m buying games for.. well.. then i will stop buying games. I don’t stop playing Chess cuz its too old or the gfx are too horrible. I stop it when it gets boring, and so it happens that all the retro games are still amazing as ever.
You go play Starcraft 1 and tell me it sucks. Even in 30 years i wil still play that game.
LOL, look, another pile of thrash…
I knew it!! I knew EA will F*ck this up
I will buy it, finish it and return it to origin 🙂
No offline, no cockpit, no purchase.
Whens that last time you EVER seen a NFS game with Cockpit view? Get over it.
Since when do we let previous games hold us back?
This is a arcade racer it doesn’t need cockpit view. Go play FH or Project Cars if you want cockpit view.
Call me what you want but im just being honest more then half of you clamoring for cockpit are not even real NFS fans. Now im not going to defend the always online thing because even im a bit skeptical of that (although ill hold my opinion till I actually see the game in action).
True there is nothing wrong with options and I dont blame you for wanting options but still most arcade racers (especially NFS) dont need cockpit view and how NFS normally plays as far as gameplay, cockpit view is just completely awkward for arcade racing franchise like this and if you played as many NFS games as I have you would at least sort of understand this. What’s next?…Burnout is gonna need a cockpit view now?
You like it, you buy it.
Don’t tell other people how to spend their money, EA shill.
Im not telling people how to spend their money its your cash. Im telling people to actually put some sense into theirs heads complaining over completely silly minor things they dislike about the new NFS and one of the MAIN ones is no cockpit view.
What’s next?…Burnout is gonna need cockpit view too? Oh crap how about Road Rash too if they ever make another one. Hell lets just slap cockpit view on Mario Kart too while these games respected devs are at it.
They really, truly, honestly, never ever learn do they? SimCity had the worst launch in history making EA a laughing stock amongst consumers and now they want to do it again?
well if u unlock the FPS its great 😉 60 FPS perfect on Ultra
did you even watch the video?
the game sucks ballz its unplayable
when its locked at 30 FPS yes
Do yourself a favor and watch TBs video
its even worse when fps is unlocked..
Also and better LET’S NOT PLAY WITCHER 3 until the next patch and driver.
EA and Ghostgames please stop telling me how to play an NFS game. Justifying an always online connection because of friends and social interaction is lost to me. Social media should not be a part of my gameplay experience. If you are depending on social media as part of gameplay then you are doing something wrong. Gaming ,at least for me, is an escape and friends and family should be involve in my terms. Just do something innovative within the game itself please!
F**k EA and all of their games, i still can’t enjoy DAI because of that s**ty DRM and it asks me to validate my copy every 72hours, it’s like i am as a customer a thief by default until it proves otherwise by validating my game over and over again, same s**t with GTAV.
“benefits are nice”
there are no benefits in Always Online crap, it stops modding, you can’t play your game however you want, you don’t own your game anymore when they pull the plugs, it’s a DRM and a bad one.
not just that, by making their games online only, they take away the story, nice level design and more content. that means it’s just a or few maps that you and some other a**holes forced to play with each other and making your own story crap (forcing you to buy dlcs or maybe some pay2win elements). it doesn’t work, at least make a new IP do not force online only in existing IPs like NFS,battlefront,rainbow6,fable,etc…
one more thing! how many times they rebooted NFS to date ?
I won’t even be bothered pirating this, no cockpit view, probably locked to 30 fps, no thx, I’m not a console peasant.
No cockpit view = no interest.
Since when does NFS have cockpit view?!? Let me guess I suppose you want the next Burnout to have cockpit view too…ridiculous
Meh… People still care about EA games? I always expect their games to have sh*tty design choices now. Every time they announce a new game, I am like “Ok… so whats the catch?”. Soon after that they come up with sh*t like this.
The hell are you pansies complaining about no cockpit view. When is the last time you seen a NFS game with a cockpit view? Grow up.
Actually when I think about it, you are right. Why would we care about cockpit cam when its an arcade racer.
I’m guessing if they’re not talking about the frame-rate lock, it’ll be there again (as if AO DRM wasn’t’t bad enough already). F’ EA.
nope, smooth 28340400440 fps
new > old
Whats next? More expensive = better? ;p
yeah.
YEAH, MORE EXPENSIVE = BETTER
LESS EXPENSIVE = SH*T
NFS SHIFT and SHIFT 2 ARE NOT OPEN WORLD RACERS!!!!! Most wanted was 1 player open world and Hot Pursuit once again NOT open world! sooo..?
Burnout is? That one had a pretty open world lol. Midtown madness did 15 years ago. Night Club did. A ton of racing games did.
Just because it’s its open world and NFS never done it, that doesn’t mean they can’t add LAN. But whatever really, it’s gonna be a crappy game anyway. Nothing can live up to the past great games.
EA just put shit after sh*t. Nothing too interesting or world changing. Just same old same old, and they remove features that were in their games for the past 15 years. Thats EA for you.
Burnout paradise did NOT have LAN support, well not the conventional kind anyways, you could only start parties and exchange controllers! open world racers DONT offer open world since the PS2 they never have, maybe as a split screen and select track, but deffo not heres an open world to explore. its never happened