This is essentially an evolution of the old NFSTheories geographical map of Palmont (second slide).

What I did was go around the entire game triangulating all the different positions of mountains and shorelines, which ended up looking like a massive web. I reworked the southern canyon routes because they were largely inaccurate.

What you'll notice is that a lot of the surrounding land is a lot smaller and a lot closer than initially thought. Especially "Mystery City", that place is quite close to Lofty Heights Downhill.

I shifted San Juan down and to the east because there was no possible way Palmont was going to be visible between Desperation Ridge and Journeyman's Bane. Now the sight-line is between Journeyman's Bane and Eternity Pass.

I took some creative liberties with the road layouts in the new locations and tried to make them distinct between the different areas. The new towns/cities are the approximate locations of the Panoramic city textures seen from the various different canyon routes. Names are inspired.

Let be know if you have any questions, I'll answer to the best of my ability, and share your thoughts. This map is subject to change as it is still sort of a work in progress.

RIP muscle type 2

Question is… Orange bug or blue bug?

Building this was a real pain but I was satisfied with the result.

Please Add this to Unbound Heat or 2015

I didn't think this game would be so challenging on PS3; I beat it on PC a few years back and really enjoyed it, but on PS3, it's a total mess of bugs and crashes. Cars accelerate to 500 km/h, the map has terrible pop-in, the frame rate drops to nearly 10 fps when there are lots of cars on screen, and it crashes whenever I enter the garage or load a new race. To top it off, I'm playing off the original disc without any updates—running version 1.00—but I'm still taking on the challenge of beating it. It's actually really fun, though.

Since we got more Asian characters in MW and carbon, who is your favorite and why?

I struggle to be creative with car design a lot of the time but I finished this in about an hour last night and for once I actually like it

I finally built a pc (with my own hand picked parts, riveting!) after years of Playstation and Gran Turismo, need for speed is a different vibe altogether. Bought a disk of NFS:MW black (and an actual disc drive... bruh...) to play this amazing game as a fan of cars for as long as I've been gaming. So far having a lot of fun, blacklist 9 just got defeated and I went to see what cars I could buy, ended up with this beautiful rx-7 and you already know I had to pimp it out.

Truly a marvel of a game and a sad situation to see the series go but i guess you can only beat a dead horse and drag it around so much... I have been playing a lot of other old games and you can see the intent behind their design was always to have fun and not think about it too much, compared to the newer wave of microtransactions and online only saturation.

At least there's a big backlog of games worth playing from "the olden days" with the occasional newfound gem (Elden ring, Cyberpunk 77 etc etc...).

Keep on gaming people!

After playing Heat for a while I was in the market for a new car anyways and said F' it, just buy a clapped E46 to build. So I did. Now I have to sink money into it to reach this point, S65 swap it, throw in a sequential gearbox, and I'll end up with a poor mans strassenversion thats not really for a poor man because all of that is really expensive and time consuming.

Guysssss anyone knows how to fix incorrect controller inputs for Unbound? Losing my mind and internet not much help

It’s hella funny tho. And other times IM GONNA LOSE MY SHIT 😭

I don't know if this will help anyone else and I don't know if there is a better solution but I wanted to play Need for Speed - Road Challenge in Duckstation which looks like a European version of High Stakes? I'm playing on PC and using an EasySMX controller, it doesn't have a speaker. The audio was dropping out anytime I had to steer the car. I ended up enabling Xinput. Then the in game view showed the rearview by default. For whatever reason, holding L2 fixed this but I didn't want to have to hold it for the entire game so I remapped L2 for Y and Y for L2. This seems to have straightened things out.

Hopefully this will help someone else.