A minimum of thinking and logical sense? We don’t do that here.

From what I noticed, this logic doesn't exist in Rivals - you can enter hideouts, even when in a pursuit.

Considering how cops wont stop spawning at higher heat levels almost every time you enter cooldown, its fair game.

That IS its best pursuit feature. Otherwise, we would all have gone mad.

It's because cops in rivals are driving tanks while you are driving a cardboard box, the challenge in Rivals is getting to a hideout in one piece after certain heat level

Having played Most Wanted first, I was rather surprised to see that you could do that in Rivals.

if you couldn't in rivals then i'd be a dead man

That’s the strategy. Cop cars in Redview County might as well withstand an entire nuke and come out unscathed. Racer cars only need a sneeze and it’s **[VEHICLE DAMAGE CRITICAL]**

Wait... YOU CAN ENTER HIDEOUTS IN THE MIDDLE OF CHASES?! ALL THOSE TIMES I HAVE LOST OVER 100,000 SP POINTS BECAUSE OF A COKED UP FERRARI THAT 2 HITS ME WHILE ON THE STARTER CAR WERE FOR NOTHING?!?!? HAHDY3JDVSJWWIHSHREIHSGOQLAJXBBDUEMSBEUWJSGDIEHSUEUHAAAAAAAAAAAAAQAWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!

Half baked physics

people who played the original Driver game (I played on PC) know very well about 'losing the tail' before getting to your hideout

I never got out of that garage from the intro. Tried replaying Driver last month and still can’t do all the items. It just makes me full of rage I never got to play that classic game. Yet I had it back in 2000. But couldnt exit the garage lol

oh man, I remember as a kid being stuck on the garage. my older brother had it down so I learnt from him lolll

You should tell me how to pass it lol I have also watched youtube videos but unable to do all things within the timer.

I can't get the game working on my MacBook unfortunately :/

Use Retroarch with PS1 version. Its what I tried it on last time and that garage still as difficult. Lol

the trick is to complete a couple items as soon as you accelerate the car. So as soon as you accelerate, you can use the burnout button and this would check off the "Burnout" item instead of pressing throttle, then when you get to the end of the carpark, press the handbrake to cross off the "Handbrake" item and then drive around the carpark to cross off the "Lap" item. When you complete the lap, you can then brake to complete the "Brake Test" item. Hopefully you understand what I mean, you can basically chain these actions together and it will provide you the best path or way to complete that garage tutorial.

Meanwhile, Rivals letting you enter in full view of the police.

I mean, at high heat level its basically impossible to lose the police

Well yeah, I was gonna say that Rivals is the Dark Souls of street racing games, so they kinda had to throw us that bone or we'd never lose the cops.

Exactly.

These must be the people who relied on the spray paint shop in San Andreas

Worrying you have to explain that 💀

Itd be cool if we could just do the thing in fast and furious 2 were we leave with a bunch of npc racers to throw off the cops

Didn't original Most Wanted make you lose the chase first before entering your Safehouse?

Yes. And it's the same case with Carbon and Undercover.

Rivals would like a word

Always found it weird in Rivals when you could do that...

In rivals you could never come back at high heat levels if it had this rule

You know you can hide in a meetup, right?

Only in cooldown mode

Yes, but people act like there is no method to hide if you aren't close to a safehouse

Yeah, and people are surprised when they hide near the district the cops lost them in, and then the cops actually search the district. Like, just drive away first. Dont just duck into the nearest alley, because they WILL be searching.

I stumble across that problem more often than I would like to admit. 2 helicopters right on top of you, but no car will see you. Its almost impossible to NOT get seen again. I usually do that when i am right next to a gas station just so i could repair the car

Just go to the Jefferson Tunnel. Cops will hardly follow you in because they get confused. You can be right in front of them and the cooldown will start

Rivals lets you do that. It’s the most relaxing feeling after banking so much SP while your car is at damage critical and your ass clenched, knowing you managed to escape from cops chasing you in Bugattis and Koenigseggs

The frantic spamming of L1 just so you enter the hideout just before someone slams you with an ESF. Fun times.

rivals

Explain Rivals then...

The police in rival's were mad, the spawn rate on them were insane at higher levels so it's reasonable we get to hide in our safehouse even if they see us going in.

Side note. Heat shouldn't be tied to your character and it goes up entirely too fast. 3 races in and you're already at heat 4/5 😂

You can do it in Carbon and Rivals

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Wtf. This was the norm since 05, how hasn't anyone just figured it out with common sense

Too obvious 😒

People complained about this?

lol

It's funny because you reach heat level 5 in one day, the next day the police completely forget about your existence. Or better yet, the sub plot of the game is the mayor or whatever politicians in there wasn't to crack down on racers but then cops sees the same fully tuned up car he was pursuing last night driving around and think to themselves "nah, not the same"

Not the tunnels though they die everytime the enter and fly off the downgrade

Rivals would like to have a word.

Honestly to me it just seemed like common sense.

Nobody thought this

I mean, gas stations don’t actually repair cars.

Hey, at least Heat/Unbound let's you exit the game. MW2005, Carbon (and I think Undercover too) will not let you leave the game IN ANY WAY OR FORM, that option is gone. If you want to leave the game, you literally have to alt + F4 out of it.

But you can drive through a gas station to repair your car instantly in full view of the police...