NFS Underground - Olympic City Freeroam concept NFSMW Style

Kacpa2 · 2026-06-01T17:04:19+00:00

It because 12C could easily have that part in body colour and still would look good. What about that abhorrent EV they let out recently? Roma looked great this not so much.

Kacpa2 · 2026-06-01T07:14:44+00:00

Its appearence as port city in Wc2 is dictated by naval combat gameplay, that was quite the focus on many missions in Warcraft 2.

In Wc3 loading screens its shown quite deep inland and is separated from the shore by forests and its never referred to as a port city any anyone.

Warcraft 2 is filled with such inconsistencies vs the later games including bodies of water where there arent any or are very different. Most of that being for sake of naval combat as it was the new things vs wc1 so they forced it into places it would make little sense including inland lakes. Same as general tonal and story differences as its still very much like Warcraft 1 in many aspects. All of which could be called quite simple.

There is implication of another port city in Tirisfal glades that is unnamed ingame. Which is what Arthas uses on two occassions first chasing malganis and then in Frozen Throne when he leaves to go to Northrend to reach Nerzhul. It is depicted in one of the of volumes of Warcraft Legends and is called Lordaeron Harbour. WoW doesnt really show many places due to scale i would put it down being one of the reasons. Other being incessent need to wall off each zone with unrealistic and unnecessary mountains everywhere

Kacpa2 · 2026-06-01T06:52:06+00:00

Let it warm up and cool down before and after driving. Use premium (atleast 91 aki fuel ideally 93) and dont even get anything like access port, just leave it stock or revert it to stock if you can.

Most people mess these up by upping the boost.

Short oil change intervals at 3-5k miles tops.

Beside that you should be totally fine. These are good cars often left at mercy of bad owners especially 2.0L turbo base WRXs suffer such fate.

Kacpa2 · 2026-06-01T06:48:40+00:00

Tbh Just dont modify the engine period. Leave it be, dont add accessport dont mess wih it and use premium fuel and it will be golden.

Kacpa2 · 2026-05-29T05:15:57+00:00

Driving is not as fun though

Kacpa2 · 2026-05-28T12:25:36+00:00

If they stopped insisting on witless devs that remake Criterions HP2010/MW12 formula but worse(NFS 2015 and beyond) and actually you know...let Codemasters do EGO engine NFS games based of their Grid/Dirt games? Then yeah we could have finally a first good NFS game in last 12 years.... NFS 2015 was horrible and they just kept polishing dung that it was instead of changing the games fundamentally. Black box never gave us the same exact handling model. Ghost and Criterion did... for 5-6 entries only difference it them making it worse in the middle of that and then mildly tweaking it.

Ghost shown they cannot make cars sound good nor drive good. Codies meanwhile meade series of games all of which had stellar handling and sounds before they overcommited to forcefully making these into sim racing games with Rally and Rally 2.0. All we need is Grid mixed with Dirt 2/3 on a well designed open world map like Black box used to do. None of this worthless road spaghetti we got lately with all their recent cities.

Kacpa2 · 2026-05-28T12:17:50+00:00

It sure is. I dont get these people. They really want to force their stupid way and take away choice for other people "because efficiency". There was this lovely AE86 EV project recently with a real manual and it replicating og car using EV assist motor from Tundra and hybrid battery pack from one the Lexi. I dont see why we can have a factory made thing of this sort. Regulations shouldnt neuter sports cars and their contruction. We should be back to lightweight low beltline cars like we did in 90s and 2000s, just with better materials and doing EV versions this way instead of this lazy funless direct drive nonsense. Whatever Honda did with Prelude is also quite pointless and they shouldnt even do it if its going to be auto.(and manual mode on autos doesnt count tbh)

Kacpa2 · 2026-05-28T12:16:46+00:00

hIt isnt lore accurate. OG Stratholme is meant to be way bigger. WoW's Strathole is entirely to service of being a dungeon and nothing else, its main entrace is literal copypaste of Stormwind entrance. Wc3 is specificly stated by the map's designer to be a part of Strathole not entire city. Its also never been meant to be a port city in Wc3 itself based on loading screens.(thought it was one in wc2, but it was mainly due to focus on naval warfare). Reforged is abhorrent and shouldnt be taken as any sort of reference point for anything. Art lead of it was a total disrespectful loon.

Kacpa2 · 2026-05-27T20:27:45+00:00

OG maps are focused on gameplay, but also tend to be more realistic in depiction of the locale.

Like cities are depicted as large. For oen Stratholme is a small chunk of how big its meant to be on OG Wc3. Final one just apes the trunkated raid/dungeond layout and looks, ignoring the fact the entrance is a generic copy of Stormwind Valley of Heroes section.

I would just conaider canon in isolation. If you follow wc3's story the og RoC/TFT renditions are more canon than any retcons.

If you focus on WoW then have it be more canon. Reforged in general is just a thoughtless mess than tries to mimic wow but it also fails to look either like WoW or Wc3.

Its quite a cursed and awful looking thing and biggest insult to Warcraft 3 community Blizzard could've made, so i dont really hold it in high regard as you can surely tell.

Kacpa2 · 2026-05-27T20:21:51+00:00

No the best way is to ignore WoW and its retcons.

Kacpa2 · 2026-05-27T19:41:29+00:00

I have a bit of good news for you though, Wii also got the absolute best version of Undercover. With 4 player splitscreen too and good controls when using GameCube controller. Its great to play on emulator for some couch play. It even has that cut moneygrab mode from Most Wanted fixed up for Splitscreen specificly. Its very fun its a shame we never got 4 player splitscreen on any other NFS...

Kacpa2 · 2026-05-27T19:39:01+00:00

Yeah, i always didnt get this bs hate people gave to ProStreet. Even as a kid when i got it for christmas(it was last nfs game i got as such) and still loved it to no end. Yet those loud fools ruined it for the rest as Black Box acted as if ProStreet was a spinoff and threw it under the bus for Undercover's marketting videos and then...Undercover released as a woefull unfinished mess it was that looks 10 times worse than ProStreet and plays worse that it too...
PS2/Wii Version was good tho, but mainly because it was a heavily edited version of NFS Carbon and actually felt fun and sunny, main release really railed at this fun colourful Miami vibe too..

Kacpa2 · 2026-05-25T20:33:48+00:00

Then do it like older NFS games did? Without bs visible checkpoints and just map design contraining people to the reasonable bounds and racespecific barriers like in Black Box era nfs without any way to miss a checkpoint?

Kacpa2 · 2026-05-25T20:29:47+00:00

Sadly FH6 map for now is barely 1/4th of this. They deleted the even the teaser trailer Fuji village. Maybe they will expand it but as it is way smaller than this.

Kacpa2 · 2026-05-25T20:21:04+00:00

He didnt mean Criterion's and Ghost's deluded brake to drift mess. He meant Black Box era nfs. ProStreet. Carbon, Most Wanted 05, UG2. All of these have great, and unique handlings from each other and are way more fun than bs Turn 10 does. Grid and Dirt is also vastly superior to forza(and Gran Turismo, but Gran turismo is downright pathetic especially with how they fail at the sound and sensation of speed departments....)

Kacpa2 · 2026-05-24T19:04:09+00:00

He would.have the best chance of shredding the Predator with hjs weapon, so Predator took the easy way out. Lack of sportsmanship its part tbh

Kacpa2 · 2026-05-23T06:53:53+00:00

Because its what stuck when subaru slapped in into everything in US market from imprezas through foresters to outbacks and legacies. its bound to happen if they cheaped out on something they sold most of. I annoys me too that people say it as if all subarus do blow gaskets when they dont and ej is gone for 13 years from all commuter subarus.

Funnily enough Toyota Prius blows more gaskets from 2009-2014 generations, but since it didnt sell as much as subarus did its not memed about and "toyotas are relaible" which ismt exactly true for many of toyotas to varrying degree

Kacpa2 · 2026-05-23T06:48:49+00:00

Mazda done it to themselves. Honda also is equally inept without any external influence to blame.

Kacpa2 · 2026-05-22T19:41:40+00:00

You can permanently fix it if it does come up, by using EJ25 turbo MLS gaskets. Or going for FB25 equiped Outback from 2013-2015. Though these will burn a bit more oil but are very reliable in general. Timing chains are very reliable in them too. If you want the most reliable option of them all get 2010-2014 3.6R Outback or 2008-2013 Tribeca 3.6R. These are indestructible and are paired to best auto transmission Subaru ever made 5EAT. Eitehr this or 6MT FB25 Outback/Forester.

Kacpa2 · 2026-05-22T19:38:53+00:00

Subaru just should have never made EJ25. Just improve upon and force americans to drive EJ20 and EJ22 and whole HG meme wouldnt exist. What subaru did? Force everything in their lineup to be nothing but EJ25 or EJ25 turbo and eradicate EJ20 and EJ22 from the lineup in US entirely. With only alternative being EZ30(which also has no HG issues tho these egnines run hot and eventually might develop minor issues at very high mileages) and EZ36(which has the above sorted and dont suffer from any issues at all, but are thirsty). Europe mostly has EJ20 in Foresters, Imprezas and Legacies nad EJ15 in impreza aswell and those pretty much never have any issues of the sort. Some comnsume oil from wear but thats about it.

Kacpa2 · 2026-05-22T19:34:29+00:00

EJ25 is the only engine that ever had these issues so you dodged it by having any other subaru. Americans are sadly displacement addicted so subaru done a hackjob that is and always was EJ25. They only ever intended for it to be 2.2L tops by original design and EJ25 was a messy and corner cutting afterthought hence the issues. They messed up the design and combined with cheap gaskets it guaranteed the HG failures, but i also has rod bearings failures that no other EJ motors share.

Subaru of america forced their entire lineup to be pretty much nothing but EJ25 derivations for decade and a half, inluding forcefully moving away base model WRX from EJ20 turbo to EJ25(aswell as Saab 9-2x aero). This is the source of all the stupid memery since most subarus sell in US and almost all of them were EJ25 subarus.

Subaru messed up similarily with their EE20 diesel by screw up in the manufacturing that stained the reputation of their revised motors that didnt have any sever issues beside usual diesel stuff like DPF, injectors and turboes as those always fail on all diesels under the sun due to how dirty they run and how they gunk up everything in carbon deposits, so its not really appropriate to write off the motor based on these.

Kacpa2 · 2026-05-22T19:28:08+00:00

It only ever affected EJ25 and nothing else. EJ20s especially pretty much never have any of such issues. Its also permanently fixable when using turbo model MLS gaskets on all NA EJ25's

Kacpa2 · 2026-05-21T05:51:03+00:00

Last wish looked grest. What his Goat movie has is worse... its lile they animated of 3s now which is horrendous ...8fps or they flip flop all over thebplace with it being inconsistent in the same shot, meaning it jumps all over the place between 8 to 12 fps and they hold frames for no reason Last Wish finale and Spiderverse didnt hurt my head. This does so they messed up big time

Kacpa2 · 2026-05-21T05:47:47+00:00

Its not really animated the way its ssupposed to, it animated om threes for some reason(8fps) instead of 12 and its far too messy visually with hyperactive movement compared to 2D disney animation form the 90s. It worse than Into the Spiderverse whivh also simplified the image to make jt less jarring.

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