NFS Shift Patch 1.02 out!

[RadeonX2]

Download
http://www.needforspeed.com/web/nfs/downloads

Patch 1.02 includes five new cars (Toyota Supra Mk IV, 1967 Shelby GT500, 1967 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray, 1969 Dodge Charger R/T and the 1971 Dodge Challenger R/T). There is a new game mode called Team Racing which pits Team Red vs Team Blue in an intense battle for track domination. The maximum number of racers in an online game is increased from 8 to 12.

Here are the details for the new patch.

NEW CONTENT/FUNCTIONALITY
- Increased the maximum number of online players from 8 to 12

BUG FIXES - CROSS-PLATFORM

- General game stability and performance improvements

- Improved car handling

- Fix for issue where some cars would bounce on their suspension during high load situations

- Fix for grass sometimes being displayed out of position

- Fix for intermittent incorrect driver duel results

- Fix for inverted balance slider operation

- Fix for online wins and losses occasionally being calculated incorrectly for drift races

- Fixed issue where loaned career car would inherit the player's career car tuning settings

- Fixed various usability issues with the advanced tuning screens

- Fixed lap timing for first lap of rolling start events

- Fixed car tuning settings sometimes not taking effect

- Fix to prevent rewinding past the start of instant replays

- Fixed car livery occasionally appearing all white during driver duel events

- Fixed incorrect screens being shown when player is disqualified

- Fix for occasional invisible opponents appearing during online drift events

- Fix for intermittent hang when skipping quickly through post-race screens

- Fix for intermittent hang when pressing X repeatedly in My Cars screen

- Fix for missing race groove on point-to-point tracks

- Prevented car livery resetting to default after an online race

- Fix for advanced tuning not staying unlocked on reload

- Fixed invitational event cars getting their setups corrupted and becoming undrivable (e.g. Veryon and Carrera GT)

- Fix for Lamborghini's having a low top speed when upgraded

- Fix for Corvette Z06 and Dodge Viper not able to move at the start of some events

- Fix for some upgraded AI cars bottoming out causing some instability over bumps

- Fix upgrade menu bug

- Fix for a force feedback strength settings save bug

- Fix multi-player settings for AI opponents and drift mode

- Fix for vinyls being incorrectly applied on rear wing

- Fix for a hang in lobby when accessing friend's list from car select

- Fix for profile load bug which skips save select menu when holding down Enter key

- Fix for jumping body parts when car resets

PC SPECIFIC
- Improved ATi graphics card support

- Improved dynamic vertex buffer usage (performance optimization on all PCs)

- Fixed crashes on certain PC configurations when changing shadow settings

- Fixed intermittent crash during first lap of races on certain PC configurations

- Disabled forced dampening for custom wheel presets on PC

- Optimized multi-GPU PC operation

- Fix for intermittent missing surface sounds on certain PC configurations

- Fix for intermittent black skies

- Fix for LAN menu hang for client when host quickly returns to main menu

tested the new patch so far im lovin' it! the handling so far is excellent. The Horsepower bug is still there, if you have already owned a car in career mode and tuned it, the stock cars in quick race will be having the same HP as in career mode. can't still skip race intro vid. overall the patch is a must download if you have encountered problems, well most of us do!

 

[Hybrid_theory]

improved multi gpu support!!!!

impoved ati support!!!!

yay cant wait to try it. hopefully solid smoothness now.

 

[RadeonX2]

improved multi gpu support!!!!

impoved ati support!!!!

yay cant wait to try it. hopefully solid smoothness now.

I was impressed how the car handles now and im using keyboard! plus the friggin supra is now included!

 

[wolf]

How long till steam users get it? i want the supra and GT500 so bad, also ATi performance improvements sounds sweet.

 

[RadeonX2]

How long till steam users get it? i want the supra and GT500 so bad, also ATi performance improvements sounds sweet.

no ETA yet. been browsing nfs shift forum there is no word on steam update

http://forum.needforspeed.com/eaforum/posts/list/345998.page

 

[Hybrid_theory]

I was impressed how the car handles now and im using keyboard! plus the friggin supra is now included!

maybe drifting will work with the wheel now

 

[cadaveca]

Doing the "works" mod to many cars screwed the handling so bad...:shadedshu...I stopped playing. Hopefully this patch will fix the issue...I see that a couple of the cars are listed as being fixed!

 

[PP Mguire]

Wow alot of new muscle!!! YES!! Now ill have to play this game again (I count Supra as muscle because....its a mother fucking Supra!!)

 

[wolf]

Wow alot of new muscle!!! YES!! Now ill have to play this game again (I count Supra as muscle because....its a mother fucking Supra!!)

The mighty 2JZ will always have a place in my heart, supra's rock.

Cant wait to get my hands on it, the GT500 and the Charger.

 

[PP Mguire]

I 67 Gt500

 

[wolf]

Come on steam, I'm gonna go to bed and it BETTER be there by morning.

or else.

or else what?





















Exactly.

 

[RadeonX2]

now this is sad, tuned my Supra to the max bought all parts and it only gave 466 HP. the Supra cannot be converted to works. onto the race, started off pretty quick 0-60 around 3-4 secs got to third gear then bam, the gear ratios were so short changing gear to fourth around 6k rpm up to 6th gear. I tried change the car settings to top speed and the aero to speed. no change. still the gears stuck at 6k rpm. The car was only running 100mph on 6th gear shadedshu:shadedshu. I would like to post a video is there a free software?

 

[DRDNA]

30 second clips are free with fraps demo

 

[RadeonX2]

here's the vid! sorry for the bad quality

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmdGegYEVbA

 

[cadaveca]

here's the vid! sorry for the bad quality

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmdGegYEVbA

That's the same issue that I have been having...the 4th tier manufacturer races are impossible now, because alot of the cars just won't even turn, as well!

At first I thought it was due to my G25, but I re-installed the game and started over, and was left with the same behavior, at the same point.


I don't think I'll buy another NFS game ever. Such horrible quality in programming! Should have never been released!

 

[RadeonX2]

That's the same issue that I have been having...the 4th tier manufacturer races are impossible now, because alot of the cars just won't even turn, as well!

At first I thought it was due to my G25, but I re-installed the game and started over, and was left with the same behavior, at the same point.


I don't think I'll buy another NFS game ever. Such horrible quality in programming! Should have never been released!

tried the viper with 902 hp for a quick race, the car doesn't turn well as you said I need to really slow down just to make a good turn. The RPM bug is also in this car. Now the weird thing about the viper's rpm bug is it does not occur in cockpit view switching to rear view or 3rd person view the bug appears.

 

[cadaveca]

I don't know how they can release a game with bugs that outright breaks the game. It's in-excusable.

MInd you, was it blackbox that did shift? If so, they are no more anyway...and it doesn't strike me as odd that the programming house was closed when the release products like this.


Mind you, I guess NO PATCH SHOULD EVER BE NEEDED TO FIX BASIC GAME FUNCTIONS. EVER.

I dunno what's happened over the past 5 years, but actual quality has dropped so low that it's no wonder that people are moving to consoles...but consoles have the same issues too!




I used to enjoy playing games, and they have largely become a source of frustration.


I jsut finished installing the patch, and will try the game out later tonight after my wife gets home and can take care of the kids...I'll report back whether the majority of the issues have been fixed, but based on what I've seen so far, I'm not very hopeful. You and I have completely differnt system configs, but hte asme issues, so it's not anything we are doing...unfortunately.

 

[PP Mguire]

The problem with consoles is that you cant patch to fix general bugs.

For the Supra. Try running it in manual. You might be able to get it past 6k and be able to actually shift through your gears. Another thing is you can put it off of automatic tuning and try tuning the gear ratio yourself. I would demonstrate myself but unfortunately i cant play it with the patch yet.

Edit: I cant get the new cars. Sooo wtf? I tried purchasing and they arent there in the garage.

 

[cadaveca]

Seems like they spent too much time on graphics, and not enough time on the base engine...can you talk about mismanagement of resources, much? :shadedshu

That's not really why I was posting though...consoles get patches too, now. THe first time I saw that, I literally stopped playing my PS3 and 360...(BTW, this patch is for all versions)

You should be able to pop a game in a console, and it just works....not having to wait 25-45 minutes for a patch to download and install.


I own well over 500 games now...all bought new, most on the first day of releases...I bougth Dragon Age and NFS:Shift on day one...

But from now on, I won't pay more than $20 for any title. Bioware is local to me, and they employ a few people I know, and while dragon age will be patched, none of the bugs I've had are game breaking. SO they are one company whose titles I don't mind paying $50 for.

How many of the lsited fixes aren't engine-related?

"- Increased the maximum number of online players from 8 to 12"

Wow. One out of 39.

 

[EastCoasthandle]

I am not sure what you are talking about? The Supra runs fine for me. Since it's not "The Works" car I've not seen any issues. Have you uninstalled then cleaned out the registry of all need for speed related info then reinstalled the game using patch 1.02 only? If not give it a try.

 

[cadaveca]

I am not sure what you are talking about? The Supra runs fine for me. Since it's not "The Works" car I've not seen any issues. Have you uninstalled then cleaned out the registry of all need for speed related info then reinstalled the game using patch 1.02 only? If not give it a try.

Thanks for the advice...I'll give that a try if it doesn't fix things. I did re-format before the patch came out, and did not notice any difference...was so very frustrating(obviously).

I thoroughly enjoyed the game until it broke itself. I went from so happy(probably one of the best arcadey-sim racers out there, when it works) to so disappointed...lol.


It was good enough though, that I'l ltry just about anything at this point.

 

[PP Mguire]

Anybody know why it wont put the extra cars in my garage?

 

[EastCoasthandle]

Anybody know why it wont put the extra cars in my garage?

You have to uninstall. One person suggested to remove all registry entries for Shift as well. Then reinstall the game using patch 1.02 only

 

[PP Mguire]

It wasnt even installed. I installed the game when the patch finished downloading and i installed the patch and hadent even opend the game yet. I then put my save in and it shows i can get the cars and i have garage slots but wont give me the cars.

 

[option350z]

It wasnt even installed. I installed the game when the patch finished downloading and i installed the patch and hadent even opend the game yet. I then put my save in and it shows i can get the cars and i have garage slots but wont give me the cars.

I still have the same problem but here is a way I just found out how to acquire those cars. You have to first chose the one you want, hit enter, the select cancel and hit enter to ok it. Then go back in to the car lot and purchase the car. Its a pain that EA didn't really test this patch before hand.