Notes on the February 2018 patch
- We're introducing the AllDrive mode: Hangouts, which will let you explore Fortune Valley side by side with your friends and other members of the Need for Speed community.
- A new item will appear in the garage - upgrade kits.
- New types of underglow.
- New types of tire smoke.
- To help improve item management, we're adding the ability to sell or trade unused Speed cards.
- We've made some changes and improvements to Photo mode.
- New filters have been added to Photo mode.
- We've made several improvements to the main menu
- Decals will no longer flip vertically when copied from one side of the car to the other.
- Previously, traffic cars took the name "Ghost" too close to heart, but now they can't drive through barriers in the "Lane Change" event.
- The Porsche 911 Carrera RSR 2.8 occasionally had flickering textures; that's now fixed.
- Now, after the video at the airfield during the "Bandit Race" event, a fade to black occurs.
- Fixed an issue where players' background sounds in online play were transmitted to other players.
- When restarting the "Night Shift" event, the camera will now behave correctly.
- Fixed a crash that sometimes occurred after completing the "Shift-Lock" event.
- Fixed an issue where players occasionally had no access to the Speedwall.
- Occasionally, when the video intro to the airfield race was skipped, players were shown a static image of Tyler's Skyline. It's no longer static.
- Now the subtitles that appear after defeating Gaio Riviere no longer show top-secret debug strings. If anyone asks, you saw nothing.
- The "Pursuers Evaded" section on the Journal tab now displays the correct number.
- Now, after completing the "Blocker" event, there are no longer incorrectly displayed subtitles.
- Fixed an issue where the game would sometimes crash at the start of the "All or Nothing" event.
- Continuous drifting for 8 seconds in the Nissan Fairlady ZG now unlocks front bumpers for all cars.
- Players no longer receive a duplicate ECU part from the draw for the Ford Mustang relic.
- In the "Residential Drag" event, there was a car that managed to park in the ground. Now it parks normally.
- When setting the "Body Damage" option in Photo mode to "off", the damaged hood of the Ford Mustang relic super build will now close.
- Fixed an issue where the road segment west of the drag dealership had incorrectly set collision. Now the car behaves as expected when driving over it.
- Now, for accumulating 50 stars from events, you will, as expected, receive a shipment.
- Mac will now correctly receive the off-road version of the Subaru Impreza WRX STI as opposed to the race version.
- Changed the color of the "Rhino" on the minimap so it's easier to spot. Not that it'll help you any, of course...
- Now, when smoothness is set to 0, the wrap's smoothness will match the car's smoothness.
- Fixed texture flickering on the Ford Mustang relic race super build.
- Sometimes players experienced reduced frame rate on the third leg of the "Heist Gone Wrong" event. It's fine now.
- When switching the controller to keyboard and back, the controller will no longer constantly vibrate..
- Fixed a bug where the Nissan Skyline 2000 couldn't transfer to you as an abandoned car.
- Zooming in and out of the map after selecting a Speedwall will no longer leave that Speedwall selected.
- Decals can now be applied to the right side of the Porsche Panamera's trunk.
- Now, when the Rocket Bunny trunk is installed on the Honda Civic Type-R 1992, the exhaust flame displays correctly at the exhaust pipe.
- The 5th checkpoint in the "All Life Is Drift" drift zone will no longer give players an incorrect checkpoint missed message.
- The license plate on the Chevrolet Grand Sport will no longer change if the player entered an even number of letters and then changed the diffuser.
- The "Traffic Toss" challenge will no longer work with parked cars.
- Previously, pressing L1 or R1 during the credits with the game's creators played random sounds. That's now fixed.
- People will no longer float above the ground during the "On a Knife's Edge" event.
- Fixed an issue where players would sometimes disconnect from the network while in a Speedlist.
- Added subtitles to the abandoned car voiceover.
- The final Speedlist results window will now remain visible a little longer - previously it closed too quickly.
- Some breakable objects in Speedcross events previously passed through the ground - they're now placed correctly.
- Fixed camera placement - it was placed incorrectly when adjusting the rear diffusers on the INFINITI Q60S.
- The wrap for the Volvo 242 that covers the front bumper no longer covers the Ghost headlights if they're installed.
- The Plymouth Barracuda can now be upgraded to level 399; previously it was capped at 398.
- Now, when a player finds an abandoned car, the game no longer plays the voiceover suggesting to find it.
- Fixed an issue where the Plymouth Barracuda had errors when creating a wrap.
- Decals will now display correctly on the Need for Speed hood for the Mazda RX-7.
- Fixed an issue with the Volvo Amazon where the color of the roof vent windows now matches the car's body color.
- Fixed an issue with the BMW M3 Evolution II where textures on the windows were distorted when decals were applied.
- The Nissan Skyline 2000 had a texture bug that caused problems with displaying the area around the windows.
- Players will no longer be able to drive under the drift ramp in the "Valley Struggle" Speedcross event.
- Improved visibility of markers in some Speedcross events.
- Trees no longer grow through the drift ramp in the Speedcross event "Valley Struggle". All offending trees have been replanted.
- In the Speedcross event "Valley Struggle", the concrete barrier and drift ramp no longer float above the ground.
- Improved camera movement when moving from the "Sound System" interaction point to the "Roof" interaction point on the Volvo 242.
- When driving the Volvo 242, the headlights with covers on the grille no longer emit light.
- The Nissan Skyline 2000 now has the correct default placement when applying decals to the sides and rear.
- Decals can now be applied to the side skirts of the Dodge Charger, as expected.
- Decals can now be applied to all areas of the Need for Speed front fender on the Plymouth Barracuda.
- Decals will now display correctly on the Ghost splitters of the Plymouth Barracuda.
- Fixed a bug where some Speedcross jumps would send the player outside the map.
- The bolts on the Pandem rear fender of the BMW M3 Evolution are now covered by decals.
- Player positions will no longer randomly reset when climbing a certain hill in the desert.
- The Coca Cola trucks had distorted textures on the brake discs; the distortions have now been removed.
- The "Holtzman" achievement and prize will now unlock correctly.
- Sometimes in the cutscene for the "Boss" event, cars floated above the ground. Gravity now works correctly.
- When driving at high speed after jumping from the ramp in the "Holtzman: Gathering Storm" event, players would sometimes fall through the map. The ground is now more solid, and cars will no longer fall through it after this jump.
- The exhaust pipe on the Nissan Fairlady 240ZG will no longer overlap with the Alchemist diffuser.
- Fixed numerous issues with visual customization on various cars.
- Many other changes and improvements have been made.