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NFS: Shift - Performance Upgrade InformationNFS: Shift - Performance Upgrade Information
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Sinister 8/15/2009 11:10 AM
Source: NFS:Shift Auto Blog
Upgrading your car in NFS: Shift
Today we’re going to take a little look at Need For Speed: Shift’s Upgrade menu, which allows you to enhance the performance of every car in the game.
Stages I, II & III
Each car in Shift has access to numerous upgrades, with further upgrades gradually unlocking as you progress in the career. From what we can tell, every car in the game has access to the same upgrades.
Each upgrade Stage (of which there are three) allows you to upgrade specific parts of your vehicle, including the drivetrain, engine, turbo, brake, suspension and tires. It comes at a cost, of course and each stage’s upgrade is slightly more expensive than the last. To give an example, the Stage I Drivetrain upgrade costs $6,000, Stage II costs $12,000 and Stage III $15,000.At the start of the game only Stage I is available, with the remaining too gradually unlocking upon reaching a certain point in the career. When that is, we couldn’t tell you. We’ve not got there yet.
Upgrading your car isn’t as black and white as you may expect, though. For example, while an engine upgrade may have a profound effect on your top speed and acceleration, it also marginally increases your brake time. Something to think about, then, rather than simply splashing your cash at the earliest opportunity.
Aerodynamics
Aerodynamics
The fourth tab in the Upgrades menu allows you to upgrade your aerodynamics, with options to improve your body kit and cockpit, as well as reduce the weight of the car. There are three stages to each upgrade. Upgrading the cockpit appears to be a purely aesthetic upgrade, with custom steering wheels, custom seats, additional gauges and replacement material unlocking upon purchase.
Race Parts
Raceboost
The final tab is for Race Parts. From here you can purchase a Nitrous Kit allowing for a good boost in speed (Kit 1 allows for 10 seconds of boost, Kit 2 20), while options for a race exhaust and wider tires offer significant improvements. Oddly, paying for a shorter final drive appears to have more of a negative impact, reducing your top speed and your acceleration, without any obvious positives. That may well be a bug in our preview version, of course.
That’s it for Upgrades. Next week we’ll be looking at the Car Lot, Visuals and Tuning.
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too bad i dont have a good PC nice customization like seats, interior. cool
Ok... Right now I'm starting to be afraid if it won't actually be a combination of GRID, NFS Undercover, ProStreet and UG2... I really hope to be wrong.
Visual Tuning.....Should be real aftermarket stuff.
I like the idea of weight reduction and all that, but I think the interior modification should assist the weight reduction.
Also I'd really love to see the fine-tuning option. It was available in NFSII, NFSIII, NFSHS, NFSPU, NFSUG2, and NFSPS. I loved that feature, especially in NFSUG2, where you could actually dyno your car.
I'd wish putting spoilers increase the performance of the car
And buy new tires!!! Different Tires! ( Goodyear, Falken, etc. )
^ i dont think so.. unless remember in PS when you bought brembo brakes it was red and then you got wilwood it was blac?
I agree that performance customization in UG2 was very good. But in PS they went overboard a bit... You need to have more than a bit of automotive technical knowledge to be able to tune cars properly. Also the amount of options [tons of them] was pretty much the main reason I never bothered with tuning in PS.
^ thats the main reason i always lost online drags :(
from what I have understood about shift, you have the option to tune technical or non technical, meaning a general user can tune basics, where a car nut can tune everything custom.
Maybe you custom your cam lifts,boreheads,etc as well