Bauke777 wrote:- eventually, I suppose we are all racing the same, but fastest car :'-( So the grid is always filled w/ the same boring car, which is: ...?
You see a lot of BMWs, Carrera GTs, Murcielagos, Elises. However in ranked mode or in unranked mode with performance matching, performance is automatically adjusted for each car to make all entries competitive.
Bauke777 wrote:- what's w/ the countdown in the upper right corner! It goes from 50 to 7 to 30... eh?
Once adequate connections have been achieved for all racers in the room, the countdown timer starts at 60 seconds and counts down. Should a new player join the room, the timer will pause while the connection is established. If there is no activity in the room for a few seconds (this includes joins, chat, changing cars, inspecting opponents' cars), the countdown timer will automatically jump forward to 10 seconds and continue counting down from there. Once it hits about 4 seconds, the race is locked in. However, if anyone chats etc during the 10 seconds, the timer is reset back to it's original place to give ppl time to do what they need to do.
So, the fastest way to get a race underway is to say nothing, do nothing. However, I have a hunch that there's a super secret way to get a race started with a shortcut key. I have yet to find out whether this is true on not.
One more thing, I believe that if anyone is in a private chat with another user, the race will not start until that conversation finishes. It's just a hunch at this stage too.
Bauke777 wrote:- the concept of NFSU2 of having 1 car for each racetype is gone? So I just pick a car, even already in a room, and race?
Yep. You can choose any car from Career, My Cars, Bonus or Stock at any time prior to the race starting, even with 1 second to race time. Of course, there's a car select out in the lobby, too.
Bauke777 wrote:- do you have to complete the singleplayer to get everything out of the multiplayer game (cars, tracks, ...)?
Not as far as I'm aware, but then, I am at 98% or something in offline mode.
Bauke777 wrote:- do we have a EU server and a US server like NFSU2 (pls say no)?
Again, not that I know of. It all seems to be the one big server. It's a pity in some ways, since despite my 12/24mbit connection, I get awful connects to the EA Servers from way down here in Aussieland.
Bauke777 wrote:- console users and pc users are mixed (pls say yes)?
Couldn't say tbh. I haven't seen anyone say that they're on a console. I would've thought Xbox users would be limited to Xbox Live, but I could be wrong, it's happened before.
Bauke777 wrote:What do u guys think???
I think about cookies a lot, but I'm sure that's not too important right now..
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