NFS Carbon.... the hard way

[Doug_Dread]

My 1st Carbon career was conventional, chose a Tuner and upgraded when I could afford it to a mix of Tuners and Exotics. My career was over in a flash, racing was way, way, way too easy.

I missed the days of NFS Porsche and NFS Underground when I had to study some races to get the win, practice every corner, optimise the tuning of the car, test each ‘shortcut’ to see which helped and which didn’t and racing the track over and over again. I remember worrying whether some races would actually prevent me from ever reaching the end of the game!

So I started a new Carbon career with a view to making it much tougher. I chose the wobbly Muscle car route and the game gave me a Chev Camaro SS, which I decided to keep until I either won the game with it or couldn’t go any further. I spent all my cash on performance and didn’t even give it a coat of new paint until it earned it.

I enjoyed it immensely, Tier 2 cars were not a big problem but when the Tier 3 cars started appearing I was transported back to the struggle days of NFS Porsche and Underground where a race win would be celebrated with a rebel yell and a well deserved smoke break! A mediocre game made great!

I finally threw in the towel with only 3 races not won, 2 of these were minor races, a Race Wars, consistently losing to a bunch of Vettes and Vipers, a Canyon race, losing to a Gallardo and, the final Canyon race against Darius and his Audi, so I failed to win my career with the Camaro. Having accumulated savings of over a million $’s, I mopped up with brand new, full-race tuned Murcielago.

Here’s a map showing the territory claimed by my humble Camaro SS:



And here’s the heroic Camaro SS with a well earned paint job and some bling bling and go-faster bits: I won’t show the rear ‘cause it’s seriously banged up from me swerving across the noses of Tier 3’s trying to get past.

[Drift Illusion]

I already made a thread for disscussing Carbon, use the search feature before making a new thread.

[drakkie]

Agreed with you,it is way too easy I finished 62% so far in about 4 hours I'll finish it tomorrow in the bus and subaway i guess

I find the game sucks. A bit too many bugs,ads in the game (!!),ugly cars and even uglier parts. The Autosculpt-feature is a major set-back AND the drivng is far from realistic. NFS PU is what i need Today i decided to install the first ever NFS from '94 again. I actually found it more entertaining

Edit: Pretty damn easy school paid for it,I just copied that version

[Doug_Dread]

I already made a thread for disscussing Carbon, use the search feature before making a new thread.

No, not into resurrecting dead threads.

[NuclearCrap]

No, not into resurrecting dead threads.

We usually consider threads dead when nobody posted in it for about half a year. One day isn't a dead thread, so learn to use the search function.

[Esperante]

I already made a thread for disscussing Carbon, use the search feature before making a new thread.

Don't get pissy, n00b.


If you seriously think it brought the fun of the glory days back, I'll consider a purchase...

[Waugh-terfall]

I was playing NFS: Porsche Unleashed like 5mins ago...

[Doug_Dread]

We usually consider threads dead when nobody posted in it for about half a year. One day isn't a dead thread, so learn to use the search function.

Didn't need to search for it, I followed it when it was alive. I didn't say it died of old age, just sort of fell over and stopped breathing.

Figured it was time for a new angle.

[acfsambo]

wat system do u hav it on?

[acfsambo]

what is the purple star in a haxagon and black ticks in yellow hexagons?

[Doug_Dread]

what is the purple star in a haxagon and black ticks in yellow hexagons?

The hexagons are "Race Wars" events, purple when not won and yellow with black tick when won.

My system:
AMD64 X2 4800+
ASUS A8R32-MVP Deluxe, ATI RD580
2GB Corsair XMS DDR500 RAM
ATI Radeon X1900XTX GPU
120GB HDD
700W AOpen PSU
Samsung 19" SyncMaster 955DF
Benchmarks: 3DMark06 6177 :: 3DMark05 11108 - stock

[acfsambo]

The hexagons are "Race Wars" events, purple when not won and yellow with black tick when won.

The PS2 version must be different.

[NuclearCrap]

Didn't need to search for it, I followed it when it was alive. I didn't say it died of old age, just sort of fell over and stopped breathing.

Figured it was time for a new angle.

Either way, one shouldn't assume too much.

Your system shouldn't score that low, I scored like right between 6000 and 6100 in 3DMark06 when I had my 2.75Ghz 3500+ with a X1900GT with only minor overclock on the GPU, and you should definitely consider getting a better PSU, AOpen doesn't make good stable ones, especially when you have hardwares that demand stable voltages.

[Kooper]

I know I'm probably going to get some "ricer!" accusations, but I'm kind of looking forward to getting my paws on this game. I heard it has some pretty nifty car modding capability, if true definitely worth it then!

[digitalcraft]

I agree this game is way too easy! And short! What gives