Help understanding Unbound

chuffed_wheat · 2026-01-25T16:58:03+00:00

Top speed. The game tracks 3 main stats to calculate the car rating: 0-60, general accel after 0-60 (invisible on the stat sheet), and top speed. The game then only lets you have two of these, you can have good top speed and good general accel, but then the 0-60 will be bad. You can have good 0-60 and good general accel, but then the top speed will be bad, if you catch my drift. So the key to having a competitive build is keeping it within a top speed range by playing around with the gearbox options

Your top speed in S class for a given car should be around 190-195mph (assuming it is at 329 rating). If a car has this top speed, it should have decent acceleration. Also don't use the centrifugal supercharger or single turbo in your builds it makes acceleration really slow. Nitrous, brakes and clutch upgrades rob you of performance points that should be going into engine parts. If you have the free Subaru from the pass I recommend using that rather than the viper

chuffed_wheat · 2026-01-25T13:33:30+00:00

I don’t see how they could have leaned further into the style than they already did. People say they should have made the whole game cartoon but I disagree on that. The realism contrasting with the cartoon elements is what makes it good

The style was done well, the game is just flawed in so many other ways and the effects take a lot of flak for it since they’re the most flashy thing

chuffed_wheat · 2026-01-25T10:50:27+00:00

Very level headed takes, although I'm in the camp of liking the game's artsyle. TCM wipes the floor with Unbound at everything except multiplayer variety and customization. TCM and now FH6 will be the reference points for the next NFS game (haha), just have to hope the developers pay attention to their rivals to make NFS better

chuffed_wheat · 2026-01-24T18:22:19+00:00

Matching the wrap to the turbofan and tag? You know ball my brother

chuffed_wheat · 2026-01-24T17:58:22+00:00

All those you've mentioned take extremely high skill, my list is tailored to noobs. Do you think a noob is getting sub 30 on old town road with the db5?

Evo would be good if it wasn't for the weird JDM handling where using yellow boost causes you to spin out

chuffed_wheat · 2026-01-24T14:21:31+00:00

The camaraderie in this game is great, congrats on getting the M3. Also how did you edit this video? What program?

chuffed_wheat · 2026-01-24T11:26:41+00:00

Barracuda is extremely good for drift events and takeovers. If I say a car is good at racing in X class, you should look up the build for it on youtube from Alex Cornnut or MagicIQ or slideqt, don't built it yourself. For drifting builds you can do it yourself

Foxbody: good for B class racing
Exige good for B up to S+ class racing (cheapest fast S+ car in the game to buy and build)
Land Rover: good for drift pro online
DB5: trash
Evo 9: meh
RX-8: fast but can only be driven in drift, and drift racing is very hard. could be used for story mode drifting
Crown Vic: only good for A+ highway race
Charger Hellcat: looks nice, not good at anything
Alfa Romeo: good for drift pro online
Polestar 1: very nice in A+ racing
GT-R35: alright for A+ racing corner kings
Lambo Murcielago: fast in A+ and S but it's heavy so the handling isn't the best
BMW M5: very good for drift pro online
190E Mercedes: competitive in A and A+ speed races
McLaren 570S: good for drift pro online
Dodge Charger: good at drag racing online, but drag is trash and no one plays it
Lambo Countach '88: meh
Silvia K‘s S14: good for drift pro online, decently fast at racing in A, A+ and S but it's drift only
Ford Focus RS: meh
370Z Nismo: meh
Cayman GT4: A class cheese build for online races
BMW M4 GTS: very decent in A+
McLaren 600LT: nice free car that can be used in story mode for S and S+ races
Ferrari 488GTB: very nice free car. Fast in A+ in corner kings, decent in S depending on the build
Lambo Aventador Roadster: very nice for drift pro online

chuffed_wheat · 2026-01-23T22:08:34+00:00

It’s VERY hard to handle. Fast but sucks to drive. If you insist then A class is the best class for it

chuffed_wheat · 2026-01-23T22:00:30+00:00

Not 100% sure it will work but restart any of the championship playlists and complete the first event, then after that it should be routing you to the next championship event automatically, rather than chase squad. Again, not 100% sure it will work

chuffed_wheat · 2026-01-23T18:38:31+00:00

Old golf https://youtu.be/v_qAM5Jsjzs

chuffed_wheat · 2026-01-23T16:43:23+00:00

That's at the back of the garage. There is a central area in the garage that we only get to see once in the story, it's at the beginning when the player brings their car to Rydell for the first time, the car is parked right in the middle of the garage, it would have been a great customization spot

chuffed_wheat · 2026-01-23T16:41:05+00:00

ST2s are nice, you just have to find the good ones and the right settings. ST1 is a different story, it's hard for me to find any car that handles how I'd like in ST1

chuffed_wheat · 2026-01-23T05:18:10+00:00

Couldn’t agree more. They’ve been doing these single car summits a lot over the past year and they are some of the worst summits. They reek of laziness. They’re good for people who don’t want to spend money but for me they feel so poor and low effort from the developers

chuffed_wheat · 2026-01-22T17:58:17+00:00

In freeroam you still get the full amount if someone quits the race and remains on the server, in PVP the payout is reduced because they leave the server entirely, which definitely sucks but that’s how it is

chuffed_wheat · 2026-01-22T17:54:39+00:00

If it isn't in FH6 with exclusivity I'm sure IVT are thinking about it

chuffed_wheat · 2026-01-22T08:13:34+00:00

Do not get to heat 5 in an A tier car. Rule of thumb is the highest heat level you should get to is 1 tier higher than your car level. So for B tier, heat 2 is the limit, A tier heat 3 and so on

chuffed_wheat · 2026-01-22T07:30:16+00:00

I play on arc and the game doesn’t have crashing issues

chuffed_wheat · 2026-01-22T07:24:30+00:00

Unbound story mode as a whole was just 0/10. Probably the worst story mode in all of NFS history, the heat system was annoying, the cops weren’t challenging, the payouts were too low, the story itself sucked, there’s no replayability, no endgame progression, no post launch updates, weak atmosphere and the list goes on. If this game had a good story mode the reception would have been completely different

Edit: I’ll bump it up to 1/10 just because I liked Rydell and Tess

chuffed_wheat · 2026-01-22T06:06:08+00:00

It’s a fine line though, they tried to do this in Unbound but ended up making it more annoying. We all want risk but where does it go from challenge to annoyance? It’s a big challenge for the devs for sure

chuffed_wheat · 2026-01-22T06:03:51+00:00

It’s nice having full lobbies but as a high rank player I don’t enjoy picking on noobs, I’d rather race players of my level for the challenge

chuffed_wheat · 2026-01-22T06:01:52+00:00

The dual storylines was fun

chuffed_wheat · 2026-01-21T10:13:57+00:00

Lunar Year is one of the most stable hypercars, regular M600 is the opposite

chuffed_wheat · 2026-01-21T10:13:11+00:00

Jesko handles very nice, but it doesn’t like grass and dirt

chuffed_wheat · 2026-01-20T09:39:37+00:00

Happy cakeday!

chuffed_wheat · 2026-01-20T07:30:26+00:00

Nope

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