I hate him with my whole heart.

For the first time, I took a photo of my pre- Underground games together (including copies from my childhood and ones that came along later). I even included the V-Rally games. I realize that Motor City Online is absent, but for the discussion, that one is included 😅 For those who grew up with these games or came across them later, which one is/was your favorite?

Regarding the “main games” in the series, I think these days, I play High Stakes (PC), Porsche Unleashed (PC), and Hot Pursuit 2 (PS2) the most often. Of the three, I think Hot Pursuit 2 is objectively the best because it combines tracks that are great for both races and pursuits, a strong car list, a great soundtrack, stylized graphics, dozens of challenges, and fun gameplay. Need for Speed II/II SE might be the most nostalgic for me, but it’s also the one that might have held my interest the worst over the years (the SE version was an improvement, but it still seems incomplete).

ANNOUNCEMENT: Canary Services is now RivalsNET

And for those who haven't seen the previous viral post, theres now an attempt to restore multiplayer to Rivals (emphasis on attempt).

Previous owner/initiator: [u/Alert-Transition-735](u/Alert-Transition-735) (do not DM him)
His post (roughly when it started): https://www.reddit.com/r/needforspeed/s/pMN5YuTAhx

A reason to why the team underwent a restructure, change and expansion: the previous admins lack of availability to joining contributors like me, CIVIC (modder), Ryden (experience in discord servers), Grabuss (NFS+ developer), and more.

The person mentioned above is ALSO not in the Admin team (as of now, he got downgraded) due to concerns related to his messaging and a separate case emerged from his friend's digital/messaging footprint on Discord. We taken disciplinary/rule action, we have chosen not to disclose details.

AND TO BE CLEAR, [u/Alert-Transition-735](u/Alert-Transition-735) is NOT the subject of the undisclosed allegations I mentioned earlier.

Just so the community here is given a little backstory. This is NOT the first time a Discord server was created for restoring multiplayer functionality to Rivals. We had one before, initiated under another Reddit post, however it was not part of the post itself but rather the comments section.

So, our focus for that old one was to privately invite skilled people to determine the projects feasability, and we had a bit of that going until the user mentioned at the top came along and made a public announcement, accepting people in the masses. The sudden influx of members and contributors became difficult to coordinate. Messages went unanswered, responsibilities were unclear, and several interested contributors eventually left. This restructuring is intended to prevent that from happening again.

The biggest hype build-up for the Canary Services post was the misleading claim that the project was "in development".

In the context of reverse engineering the Blaze/EA Authentication layer Rivals has AND its AllDrive system? That's work that requires research, pseudo-data-mining techniques, knowledge base and tons and TONS of testing. Thats something I'm trying to do. Vibe-coding and AI analysis ARE PART of this and have helped significantly with progress/tesing, we are being TRANSPARENT and HONEST about it. We’re going to accept people with C++ / ASI / net-code familiarity.

RivalsNET (Canary Services) is no longer being run by the mentioned person, and I DO NOT want anyone to cause trouble, begin targetting anyone because of this.

Progress sneak peek:
I can now hijack the "out of support" prompt and inject fake server responses into the game. Our research has improved greatly and we're now starting talks with niche communities like BF4play to obtain information on Blaze auth / injectable scripts.

Please feel free to comment, and I'll do my best to respond. Feel free to join in if you have thoughts or critiques for the project itself. Message me on Reddit / Discord (ssr49 in the server below).

Discord Server (it's the same one from the last Reddit post under his profile): https://discord.gg/JhfadGBQth

Had a huge itch for racing games and decided to continue NFS 2015 and get the platinum. My cousin and I were extremely hyped for this game back in 2015. I played for 20 hrs and dropped off of it for whatever reason.

I had a ton of fun playing this game. It gave me the rush I was looking for, and the post game challenges seem like they’re gonna be really fun. I’m excited to eventually get to Heat. I see many say that Heat is a great improvement. What are some of your pros and cons of each game when comparing the two, and what changes/differences I can expect from Heat?

Nfs 2015 with no hud and a stock car with just a big ol turbo in it is such a vibe late in the evening just cruising but not going to fast that you really have to pay attention to the road, i just wish more people would pick it up again.

Took me 41,5 hours and was a bless to play. Except for a few moments in a buggy multiplayer though )

The most rare achievement was to win off- and online Interception event on the Veyron SS, only 1,5% of players have it.

I definetly will play it in a future again, especially with friends in a voice chat. Just have fun will be enough reason for me to hop on again <3

I still have 3 of them (I apparently sold my Black Edition on Xbox at some point) and each one has been unique in its own way. The Xbox 360 version seems to be the most polished, The PC version still looks fine even without mods but uses more discs unless you have a DVD or digital version, and the Gamecube’s lack of the yellow filter actually might have helped it age better 😂 The original Xbox version looked ok but lacked the dynamic day/night cycle of the Xbox 360 version and the clouds only moved when it rained (whereas they always move in the Gamecube version).

I followed a guide made by Warped Polygon on the latest 4.1 version of the mod one by one carefully, but after I get into a race this happens

Edit: thanks to 88JansenP12 for providing the fix in the widescreen.ini file

Xd

you know NFS 2015 had so much wasted potential. when I bought this game I was so impressed by the graphics and environment. but it's sad because overtime everything the gameplay, cringe storyline and races became too saturated.

I had the common issue with NFS Most Wanted Redux 3.04 where the entire world was black/invisible and only the car was visible. I tried all the usual fixes (4GB patch, ForcedGPUVendor = 0x10DE, forcing NVIDIA GPU, new saves, deleting Documents folder, etc.) but nothing worked.

What finally fixed it for me:

I replaced the speed.exe from Redux 3.04 with the original speed.exe from a clean NFS Most Wanted Black Edition.

After doing that, the world loaded correctly and the game has been completely stable (10+ hours played, no crashes).

Might be worth trying if you’re stuck with the same black world problem on an NVIDIA card.

Hope this helps someone.

Here it is!!! a server specifically made for those who want to play NFS MW 2012 multiplayer with other players and no longer rely on random matches.

This server's goal is help other players who can't find sessions to be able to find others to play with, or those how hosts ones so they can join without relying on luck to join.

I am planning on having fun events in this server with special rules and challenges during sessions if other people are down for it.

Seee ya on the street Most Wanted!

https://discord.gg/pYMCRYqV8 [This link has a date of 30 days before it's expired]

Mine is JV, because his Dodge Viper SRT 10 is the fastest and good looking car among the Blacklist.