Is Need for Speed ​​Rivals Worth Playing in 2024 ?

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How is Need for Speed ​​Rivals doing in 2024 ?

[Wet Valley Mayor]

• Despite the lack of crossplay, there is a decent size of multiplayer lobbies.
• SSD helps in reducing the amount of bugs and glitches most players experienced in HDD.
• Being an old game, all DLCs are now bundled together in the base game.

For whether you will like it or not, ask yourself the following questions:
• Do I want to play as a police?
• Do I want a Hot Pursuit game that had AIs in FreeDrive?
• How tolerant am I facing against a suicidal police platoon?
• Does customization matter less for me?
• If wanting something more, how willing am I to mod?

Consider this game if the answers are mostly, yes. If not, consider Hot Pursuit Remastered, Heat, or Unbound instead.

[lemon]

Originally posted by Wet Valley Mayor:

• Despite the lack of crossplay, there is a decent size of multiplayer lobbies.
• SSD helps in reducing the amount of bugs and glitches most players experienced in HDD.
• Being an old game, all DLCs are now bundled together in the base game.

For whether you will like it or not, ask yourself the following questions:
• Do I want to play as a police?
• Do I want a Hot Pursuit game that had AIs in FreeDrive?
• How tolerant am I facing against a suicidal police platoon?
• Does customization matter less for me?
• If wanting something more, how willing am I to mod?

Consider this game if the answers are mostly, yes. If not, consider Hot Pursuit Remastered, Heat, or Unbound instead.

Well said, sir. Well said.

[nafcom]

Originally posted by Wet Valley Mayor:

• SSD helps in reducing the amount of bugs and glitches most players experienced in HDD.

Thanks for this! I was about to install this game on HDD before!

[31stylez]

Rivals is a good game, it's fun, brutal, rewarding, more fun as a cop though. I do not recommend starting out online, play offline until you have cars good enough to handle the super cars of the online people who have been playing for years! Trust me when I say, they WILL target the new people!

[jc20202020223848]

I reckon Need for speed rivals is worth playing in 2024, I love it. But the Police are very brutal and sometimes they go so fast that they crash themselves. However, I find that when i play online, the players cars are laggy, and jump always, can anyone help me with this or is there no way of sorting that out?

[Wet Valley Mayor]

Originally posted by jc20202020223848:

I reckon Need for speed rivals is worth playing in 2024, I love it. But the Police are very brutal and sometimes they go so fast that they crash themselves. However, I find that when i play online, the players cars are laggy, and jump always, can anyone help me with this or is there no way of sorting that out?

There is not much control on public lobbies apart from the game trying to match your player level (difficult for an old game, since a lot of players already have a high rank).

What is marginally controllable is a private or friend lobby, and said friends are in the same geographical area as you do to minimize the pings.

[Maksimz]

Originally posted by 31stylez:

Rivals is a good game, it's fun, brutal, rewarding, more fun as a cop though. I do not recommend starting out online, play offline until you have cars good enough to handle the super cars of the online people who have been playing for years! Trust me when I say, they WILL target the new people!

Nah I have 50 hours, i just play around with the newbies or just leave them alone because they are not good enough to make me have an enjoyable experience. The one thing i hate in this game is the spike strip ability and shockwave, esf and all this bs. You end up playing with people who just go in a circle and spam repair instead of actually getting chased like they are supposed to...

[Perelandra]

I also recommend Brawltendos Framerate Unlocker, so you can play Rivals with 60FPS+ WITHOUT any Framerate related bugs.
And if you want an harder Ai, more NPC police car variations etc. you should check out "Need for Speed Rivals+" from GrabussPC.

[Wet Valley Mayor]

Originally posted by Perelandra:

I also recommend Brawltendos Framerate Unlocker, so you can play Rivals with 60FPS+ WITHOUT any Framerate related bugs.
And if you want an harder Ai, more NPC police car variations etc. you should check out "Need for Speed Rivals+" from GrabussPC.

Now multiplayer compatible (if the instructions are properly followed).

[stefanmadrax]

No it's not worth it, it's locked at 30fps and it's miserable. If you don't have problem with 30 fps cap then you can play it

[Markie]

Originally posted by stefanmadrax:

No it's not worth it, it's locked at 30fps and it's miserable. If you don't have problem with 30 fps cap then you can play it

Read the posts directly above yours.

[Zephyr]

People still think about playing Rivals? Its one of the best when it comes to visuals, as well as police brutality.

Personally ive spent over 650hrs on PC (yes, its better than newer titles which i have besides Payback because im sane) with another 300hrs on PS4.
Online is still alive, and ive managed to form a clan somehow. Look for -Heat- tags

Back to the question, is Rivals worth it in 2024?
YES if:
You dont mind customization, it is there but no fancy bumpers, spoilers or anything - just like in Hot Pursuit
You love police brutality (i would recommend Rivals+ with 1.8 AI for extra challenge)
You like to play online where everyone could at any point wreck you
NO if:
You hate bugs, this is the worst NFS title when it comes to bugs - recommended SSD as well as editing GstRender.MeshQuality from 1 to 3 in documents>ghost games>rivals>settings>open PROFILEOPTIONS_profile
You hate 30fps cap (easily can be changed to 60fps with mod. Higher framerate will cause Rivals to be more unstable, safe spot is 90fps)
You hate the fact that there is basically no story

Those are the main ones that i could come up with. Rivals is still great even with all those bugs, its quite entertaining to see what will happen when [x] will do [y].
Best played with friends, seriously.

[ßαßα YαGα™]

i installed nfs rivals like yesterday, and on the start screen enter key is not working. kindly help if any one goes thru similar issue.
Please & TY

[Perelandra]

It's an known bug. You can only "fix" this bug, by launching the x86 executable in the game folder (NFS14_x86.exe).
I personally recommend using an gamepad (which works flawless with the x64 executable), but of course its your choice.

[BlueSky]

Originally posted by Zephyr:

You hate 30fps cap (easily can be changed to 60fps with mod. Higher framerate will cause Rivals to be more unstable, safe spot is 90fps)

Best played with friends, seriously.

is 60fps enough or I need to get 90 for best experience? I can't feel the difference
and I have no friend to play with

Originally posted by 31stylez:

play offline until you have cars good enough to handle the super cars of the online people who have been playing for years! Trust me when I say, they WILL target the new people!

yeah, this one I can relate. this is old game, is so rare to meet people, yet when they found new player, they just destroy it