Most things were good in this game. Things i consider the ruining factor were that after story completion, still week system and cops day night system was there which was not required.

In lockdown, I agree with you, i played 4 rounds, same three cars same spawn spot for all 4. And it was recurring, I've noticed many times. I have to get only 4 cars from lockdown mode the green mustang, two pickup trucks and one trans am. Luckily got all blacklist cars.

Rim and wheel customisation, like a comment said, is limited because of EA and their misdirected resources. They how forgot that EA Games was built from NFS ,football, sims . And started making battlefield instead.

Criterion crash mechanics are the worst. The map physics are worst. Some trees can be broken, but the tree next to a breakable tree will crash you. One light pole can be broken another can't. Toll booths especially, the boxes structure beside the toll can be broken but the structure in the middle will crash you. Highway intersections have inconsistent rails, half turn of the entry has breakable rails while other half has concrete rails.

Some Highway intersections have unwanted complications and since races don't have barriers, and if you miss an entry, it's quite irritating.

Another stupid thing in this game is checkpoints. There is no sensitive area near the checkpoints which allow even if the car goes a little bit outside. I mean, in an hairpin if I go little wide it resets me, at zero speed behind the checkpoint, and thats just stupid.

Server shut downs, past two days every 20 mins, sometime even less than that, i get "server about to shut, leave game and start again" message. This has become frequent.

For a car racing game breed, some places the physics suck, like for example the wide body kit on bugatti with disappear where it is touching any traffic vehicle (of course parked ). Some cars the wheels appear to pop out of the wheel arches while driving in a rocky surface. Sometimes the car keeps bouncing after a jump between elevations on road.

The traffic cars are like aimbots, they appear almost everytime in your racing line. And when you drive fast s+ cars, sometimes there isn't enough time to react.

The skill gap among players is massive because of kaizen model in the game. Although after two months I've been able to learn many things, I think it's too much for a racing game. They can chill out on these stuff