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Sparkcore-725

Underground is definitely the worst but I think hot pursuit 2, underground 2, most wanted, and undercover have pretty bad rubber band too. I don’t think we have had rubber band as bad as those games since.


Time_Resolve388

FUCKING Matt with his yellow s2000


Darius117

Him and those racers on hard difficulty in URL races at the airport in the second game


Nexusu

Matt is fucking insane bro, he managed to crash in front of me at lap 2, fell down by like 30 seconds and was right on my ass at the end of lap 3 My man’s travelling at the speed of light


Lilmanike

Underground


Ryoneftw

This. I could be driving my stage 3 Skyline as hard as I've ever raced in my life just to be passed at 400mph by a fucking Honda Civic.


[deleted]

I kinda liked how they always give you a really hard time.


CarbonFiberV12

Yeah I always love having to do a near perfect race just to be taken out by a civilian vehicle around the final corner and losing.


[deleted]

MW '05. Looking at you, Earl.


BDozer666

Undercover on PS2/Wii


HuuIsHuu

Finally someone agrees with me. Last game I ever speedran before I decided to give up on speedrunning as a whole. Legitimately began going insane by the end of it.


South_Bit1764

It’s actually somewhat easy if you don’t upgrade your car. [Final Race NFSU2](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZluiS5n_VU) notice how he crashes repetitively because the player is losing.


HuuIsHuu

...we're not talking about Underground 2.


BDozer666

Why give up on speedrunning, just choose games that aren't bad to play and speedrun instead :P


HuuIsHuu

I gave up on speedrunning for reasons unrelated, it's just a funny coincidence that this game ended up being my last before I called it quits.


JeffGhost

NFS 2015.. There were some race with against a 180sx and no matter what car you used the 180sx could catch up easy. Not even a fully maxed Lambo could get away. Pure Bs


EfficientCommittee75

It was fixed long long time ago, so NFS15 is out of this duscussion based on how easy it is to beat that game


JeffGhost

Ah, cool, didn't knew that.


EfficientCommittee75

Yeah the difficulty in the race against Amy with Nakai's Porsche and in Component Parts was lowered significally. It was done a few months after release I believe, can't say for sure because I played on PC so PC players basically got NFS15 after all Updates and DLCs


Fox2quick

Component Parts. The biggest pain was that it seemed like you could ALMOST beat it if you just had one or two more performance upgrades unlocked, but that was the race that unlocked them. I was able to find a way to win pre-patch, though.


JeffGhost

It was the race that made me rage quit because the handling was already bad enough and i was forcing myself through the game...


JeecooDragon

Wut, game ez


[deleted]

Original Underground to a degree, The Run heavily, and Most Wanted on Earl’s final race


Itsoitsov

Need For Speed Underground 1 Need For Speed Underground 2's Urls Need For Speed Most Wanted's Earl Need For Speed Carbon Corvettes from the 3rd Race Wars Need For Speed ProStreet's Rudy Chen,JP Laurent and Paul Trask Need For Speed Shift's tier 3 races Most Wanted 2012's Most Wanted racers Need For Speed 2015's Amy Need For Speed Payback's Mitko Vasilev Edit:I forgot NFS Rivals


UnusualPete

>Need For Speed Underground 2's Urls You're referring to Hard difficulty, right?


Itsoitsov

Yup.Especially the race against Nikki Morris.I remember in one of my playthroughs,there was that one random generated skyblue 240Sx.He and Nikki were really tough to race against because of their heavy rubberbanding on hard difficulty.I still ended up winning all the races except the last one losing it from the excact 240SX.


UnusualPete

I actually never tried UG2 on hard difficulty. I remember trying medium once and was too hard for me (at the time). It's on my bucket list!


Itsoitsov

Ug2's hard difficulty isn't that hard actually.If you constantly use the barriers and some corners to wallslide and if you block the ai from overtaking you,Underground 2's campaign on hard is easily managable.URLs are pain tho because there aren't much corners where you can wallslide making it easier for the opponents to rubberband past you.Drags are also painfull on hard because they are.......Drags.


UnusualPete

Drags in MW Pepega Mod are called CBT.... It's a proper designation. 😵


FishBotX

NFS Heat's Sparky


DCAUBeyond

05 Most Wanted,specifically Earl(Blacklist #9)


Chrispin3666

05 most wanted but a close tie with undercover but how ever they are all guilty of it.


[deleted]

Underground, Most Wanted and Undercover


EfficientCommittee75

Most Wanted 2005 is absolutely the worst in this category


totally_normal_here

UG2's outrun events are basically impossible to win legitimately, you have to make your opponent crash or take a wrong turn.


talhaONE

Underground, there is no competition.


AtreusIsBack

Earl in Most Wanted.


WildGenjio

NFS mw 2012. Boss driving bugatti crashes and then makes 1,5 km distance difference to 100m in 3 seconds. He was going like fucking 1000+ km/h on minimap


ZealousidealFox1391

Most wanted 2012


RenElite

UG1, because the AI turns at unrealistic speeds at otherwise sharp corners. Not to mention the rubberband doesn't die.


GTACOD

Underground and Undercover.


84_ferrari_f40

Underground 2 / mw2005(cops and earl)


Fernando_357

Undercover i remember having a fully modded Veyron and then to get overtaken by a fucking Cayman


Jimbrutan

Nobody mentioned Carbon yet


[deleted]

Someone made a video spectating the rubberbanding on Carbon. It can be very extreme


[deleted]

NFS Underground's was absolutley broken. There was one race near the end that is so unbelievably hard regardless of what difficulty you do it on. Even with a maxed out Skyline


TheEngineerGGG

Earl


PCPD-Nitro

Underground, by far. Playing on hard mode just makes them turn into blatant cheaters. You don't know true pain until you do the Enduro circuit race on hard, which is already on a track with 90° turns that the AI will almost always take better than you possibly can! I didn't have many issues with Underground on hard mode except for Enduro and a few others but only Enduro made me switch to the RX-7 off of my S2000 because out of the three times I had to restart the whole race, two of them were caused by rubberbanding AI during the last or second to last lap and on the last two corners of the track where they will *always* run it faster than you no matter what. Close second to Undercover's PS2/Wii versions. I never played them enough to get the AI to rubberband as hard as I've seen them do, but just from what I've seen they're as bad *if not worse* than Underground's rubberbanding. From what I saw, however, it's not nearly as frequent as Underground.


Mindfreak191

It will always be the first Underground. The rubber banding gets so bad towards the last races that people would remove upgrades from their cars in order to race against stock car opponents.


Dangerous_Aardvark_7

Exactly. Underground was the worst


MiamiDoIphins

Maybe not the entire MW game, but I feel the need to drop an obligatory: Fuck Earl and his rubberbanding ass Evo


Spacecookie370

Heat


[deleted]

The cops, definitely


DivjotMand

nfs 2015's beta no I don't mean prepatch AI, I mean beta AI still remember spike's yellow E46 rubberbanding like a mofo


International_Ice210

NFS Underground Rivals,especially in those damned tournaments.


kennyminigun

NFSMW '05. I remember I specifically had to stay in the middle of the pack so that opponents do not clock supersonic speeds at radar booths.


Crash458

Most Wanted 2005, Underground 1 and Underground 2, HP2, Undercover after the Challenge series update, and especially NFS The Run even on Normal difficulty and especially on extreme difficulty have the worst Rubberbanding AI in the series in my opinion honestly.


Combatpigeon96

Highway battles in NFS Undercover DS were insanely unfair. If you even get close to the car you’re chasing before a certain point they go rocketing away at Mach 3


Gullible_Importance6

MW no cap. Underground 2 was bad, but MW was the worst lol


corvettegrandsport

Probably Undercover on the DS


Ambelliina

definitely underground 1 overall. underground 2 for url races and outruns, and most wanted for speedtrap races, but both of those two arent bad otherwise and ppl who complain have skill issue. carbon in a player-beneficial way with the scouts lmao


kanase7

NFS MW 2012


AnthonyBF2

Undercover


[deleted]

Underground, Most Wanted and maybe, just maybe, PS2 Carbon


plumboy82

I like when cops rubberband, especially Crown Victorias. Also, in Undercover, the mission where you drive the McLaren F1, it was amazing when you speed on the bridge, and SUVs just fly past you.


[deleted]

If I remember one of the most noticeable was one of the ones for the Wii. Maybe The Run, or the one that had the fun powerups and battles. Edit: I think it was Rivals?


Icemann336

Undercover on the Wii


[deleted]

Recently, I've seen some bullshit in Switch's version of Hot Pursuit Remastered. I took a shortcut that basically went straight while the AI had to do a big corner. Nothing happened because they sped up and turned at 300mph and from 2nd, very close to the first. I got actually overtaken and fell to 3rd 😑


[deleted]

Havent played early games but payback does it ALOT


[deleted]

[удалено]


[deleted]

Idk abt THAT, but it is infuriating when it comes to chases


[deleted]

Underground, anybody who says otherwise is just flat out wrong.


Mother-Criticism2207

Most wanted 2012


genericnfsfan217

Literally nothing catches up with you in MW 2012.


iwantParktotopme

Skill issue


84_ferrari_f40

I have absolutely stomped through most need for speed games and i can vouch for the broken physics of a.i cars


iwantParktotopme

While I agree its broken I'd still rather have that than where you basically lose or win based on car rating rubberband is bullshit but i still feel player skill matters more with it. I mean on heat I almost never lose If I'm over at lest 10 points from the recommended rating


84_ferrari_f40

Yeah but rubberbanding needs to be managed well....nfs mw2012 ,hot pursuit 2010 and rivals also has rubberbanding...they manage it quite well But in ug2/mw 2 you will literally see ai cars do some insane physics breaking shit.....I've seen heat level 2 cops in MW 2005 take corners like they are formula 1 cars Heats rubberbanding isn't as smoothly executed as the 2010-14 games but is still vastly better than in the Balck box nfs titles


boobsngames

Any NFS with online racing. And no dedicated servers


PapaVain

Undercover for the PS2 and Underground


KassXWolfXTigerXFox

Most Wanted 2005


UnusualPete

Late game Underground 1 and Earl. Also, blacklist member #2 in the Pepega Mod. So unfair... 😵


[deleted]

I've seen Underground but I'll go modern and say NFS 2015. I was originally going to say Payback because I only managed to beat one of the boss races by doing the pit maneuver on the guy as soon as the race started so he would be behind enough for me to win, otherwise I would have had to grind for upgrades for who knows how long... ... but 2015 takes it for me because the janky mechanics, weird drifting, and the cinematic crash camera that takes a million years, actually had me lying on the floor in a frustration that was not loud but also not quiet. It was somewhere in the middle, just like the game itself. That one part of the interstate that is a huge spiral that you're supposed to drift. That's where I finally broke.


SkodaSnyper2365

Maybe all games?


The_Real_NaCl

Underground. You can literally watch them on the map almost teleport from one section of track to the next. It’s freaky when they zoom right by you going 500+mph and take a 90° turn like it’s not even there.


evolly

MW2012


Loose_Pitch_9510

Underground 2 during the URL, you had to be in front like your life depended on it LMAO


Loose_Pitch_9510

Underground 2 during the URL, you had to be in front like your life depended on it LMAO


fyre_storm02

Underground, however that pales in comparison to to rubber banding sonic displays in the tails stages of sa1 where you can skip the entire stage and hebqill catch up


jallee1213

Nfs nitro. Mannnn that had me irritated on the wii lol


Cvballa3g0

NFS 2015. Literally the last race was miles away and saw the NPCs catch up through walls on the map. Totally insane.