Does anyone actually enjoy cop chases in this game?

[Sgt. YippyYap]

I just don't understand how you're supposed to deal with them properly
You either outrun them almost instantly or you get to heat 5 and die

It's very unbalanced

I guess I do enjoy heat 1 and 2. Heat 3 means "GET HOME IMMEDIATELY". If you don't, you're getting to heat 5 and getting busted. Unless you die earlier by insane rubberband rams

Even in heat 3, they will ram you at full speed out of nowhere. But you don't get a lot of cops so it's not that noticeable, but still
And since the wonky collision and damage is in the game, they can chunk you, or not do anything at all.

You also can't outturn the cops. they get million miles of grip. While you need to slow down to take a corner or drift, they will perfectly turn at full speed, even if they are directly behind you and you make a sudden decision to turn.

I actually got to heat 5 by accident. I wanted to get to 3 and then go home. But no
I was driving away and disabled one cop, which raised my heat to 4. And then I was driving with no cops around, in a literal straight line, and the heat rose to 5 for 0 reason after 5 seconds. it was near instant. I didn't do anything
And then there was no getting away. If I managed to lose or disable one cop, 3 more would show in its place. The helicopter is also always literally planted on you. It goes away for 10 seconds and then it comes back. You can't even get to a different street without the helicopter showing up again
And the wonky hit registration didn't help. Sometimes, gently brushing against the cop takes a quarter of your health away, doesn't touch them. Sometimes it's the other way around. Sometimes they full send it million miles per hour into the back of your car and send you flying, you take only a slight bit of damage

I for real don't know what to do haha
can't outrun then
can't out-turn them
can't overpower them

And since it's kinda showed down your throat... you NEED to play at night if you want to progress, unlock new cars and upgrades, which means you need to do cop chases too... Yeeeeeeeeah

needless to say, this cop chase killed my session. I was having so much fun earning money and also racing at night. But then one BS chase happens and it completely ruins the session.
And it's not the only time lol

[Awe]

You can out run the police by going 200+mph (325kmh); this can be done by going onto the highways. You will also out run helicopters.

There are also a few locations where the police AI will have a hard time keeping up or stop entirely chasing you. Places like the race track near the start of the game and the Edgewood Mall rooftops. (Locations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBB6JUcvJoo )

If you are new to the game, I recommend ending the night around heat 2. If you unlock repair kits, you can push for 3 until you have a car that can exceed 200+mph (325kmh).

Once you have a car that can exceed this limit, you WILL have to race at heat 3 and 5 consecutively on the same night and return home for endgame parts. In my opinion, this is one of the most fun part of the game and wish there was more to it.

[derMack]

i don't know how high the "P" value of your car is. but do the following. drive the first night race "red rock tornado" then you drive the second race. I think it's called "Axion" the next race is called "Discovery b" when you've finished that the last race for the night "Flying Dutchman" is then the following. when you've finished the last race you do the following. you go to the end of the road and turn right there and then the next left very important and then you just go straight ahead until you reach the bridge with the circular building above - there you turn right and you go to the main road. you will have almost no police behind you. try it. take a nissan skyline gt-r from 71 or a mitsubishi evo 8. take japan cars. no american cars. also no lambos or ferrari. only japanese. the old boxes z240- 180sx silvia etc... if there is police behind you then do the following you drive to the resort route stay in the resort route no matter how many police are behind you drive on the oval even if the helicopter is coming stay on the oval dr one round after the other. stay until everyone is gone and then you can drive home safely. guaranteed.

[XaYKuNa]

Did you try the 5 D's of Driving?

[HachiRiko]

until you hit rating 300 dont go over heat 3. once your car is 300-400+ heat 5 isnt impossible

[RacingDukes]

Best way to escape cops if you absolutely can not evade them is to have a plan of where to run when things go wrong, for me I always either go to the pier or jump onto the roof of the mall to evade the cops.

[Alard]

there are a few ways to escape from heat 5 if your car has not the strongest tuning parts. like the others wrote, try to use ramps like in the stadium for example, otherwise if you jump over water, the cops does crash also there mostly.

And atleast, there is a trick to escape from every heat level.
If you are on the middle of the map at the old shopping mall, then there is a 2-storey car park next to it. From there you can jump onto the roof of the shopping mall with your car. I've probably done this 30-40 times so far. Of these, individual cops came up about 2-3 times. Even the helicopters fly back to headquarters after a while. That means you escape the heat 5 level on the roof by all means and there is a garage across the mall.

Escaping by Highspeed works also, but it needs to be real fast. At the End of the Game it goes really easy, even if the start of Heat can be a bit frustrating.
It gets easier and it can go probably funny too, just don't give up ;)

[Casual Sun]

Yeah I understand why they put damage in but limiting repairs was a step too far and kinda puts a damper on the entire cop chase part of the game. You can't have intense, endless chases for fun like in Most Wanted, because you're actually in danger of getting your car destroyed. It does introduce the element of danger, which I appreciate, but making the repairs finite means that it's so dangerous nobody is going to ♥♥♥♥ with it and will avoid cops altogether or try to immediately outrun them.

[Genixrune]

This night I was grinding for rep but funny thing happend in the caravan area for no reason this cop drives in to the water so good to see them gone. I think it is called brotherhood drive for drifting. Once the choper saw me and got out pf sight and hid behind a building I got wrecked, grinded well tried from 22 to 39 but I got shutdown hard with my mustang only for drifting man I was salty that took me 3 hours. Fun game had some raging moments but its fun after being hunted on h5.

[IvryRen]

For me, no it sucks, getting into cop chases in NFS heat felt like I'm being chased by a mall security because i stole a candy from a candy store inside the mall. The cop chatter sounds like I'm being chased by an amateur cop who got bored from patrol duty.

Miss the old times where in NFS:MW 2005 cop chases are far more aggressive and the cops are far more serious at taking you down and drag your sorry ass into jail because not only you partaking in illegal street races, you also destroy a bunch of public properties, damaging federal properties and involved in many hit and runs with civilian cars.

[Zizzy]

I throw on some external music and go on hour long chases sometimes (not legit an hour but they last a loooong time). It is so fun to fight them and try to evade them in creative ways and I absolutely love their savagery.

[Mission001]

Literally just go over any jump and the cops will forget how to drive and crash. There's quite a few parts near the waterfront in the main city that has tiny jumps that work for this.
Another common place where a lot of sprint races finish is down by the docks. There's a big jump there that they just simply cannot handle.

As for your original question. I really struggled with the cop chases at the beginning but as soon as I got a few upgrades they become a pretty easy thing to just avoid/end.

[gunvalkyrie]

I can't stand it. It's like playing a stealth game or some ♥♥♥♥. Completely ruins the game.

I don't mind the cops in the races, but when I'm done racing I want the cops to leave me alone.

The only way to escape them is to memorize the map and know ALL the jumps. Then you just jump and jump and jump.

But even if you escape they're freaking EVERYWHERE on the map and just catch you again. So you can't get back to a safe house.

Terrible design that ruined an otherwise fun game.

[SuperSharks]

if you want to escape from cops really fast you can use AWD cars' like Corvette C7, Mitsubishi Evo IX, ect. Or you can watch Militia Gaming Community on youtube.

[HachiRiko]

holy ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ necro

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I love to troll the cops in this game.