Fun platinum?

[OmegaRejectz]

Besides the three online trophies, which seem to not be difficult, are there many annoying trophies? The guide says 35 hours, are you spending 30 of those hours just casually playing or spending 15 playing and then 20 bored doing monotonous tasks?

[BIackgate]

I actually enjoyed this platinum more than I expected. Racing at night to gain RP is quite a rush because if the cops get you, you lose all that you've gained for the session. It's a shame they went full lazy mode on the trophy icons, however. I don't recall spending a lot of time grinding either. 

[Darling Baphomet]

The platinum sucks, imo. The races are good, but there's not much racing. The story is pretty easy to breeze through, and getting to a high car level is pretty quick as well. You'll end up spending at least 10-15 hours doing annoying ass collectibles, of which there are hundreds.

[golfstar59]

How does this compare to payback the 3 star activities were such a huge grind in that 1 is this more of the same or is this a better experience?

[MyNameIs_Rainman]

NFS once again tacks on a bunch of collectables. Pointless things like the flamingos..serve literally no purpose than to smash something. I still have the drift challenges across the map to do, I just for the life of me cannot get a car with a solid set up, everything just feels all over the place. And the online trophies but those honestly dont seem time consuming, its the drift challenges that ahev put me off for so long

[The-Smiths-85]

The platinum isn't too bad, but it's far from being enjoyable in my opinion. I like collectibles in games, so that's not a problem. However, getting 3 stars in every activity can be tiring, especially the drift zones. Jumps and speed traps are OK for the most part. But the drift system isn't too good in this game and the occasional traffic can bring some frustrating moments.

[MickeyMixLipa]

The game is pretty decent, although IMO 2015 is still the much better game. At this point I'm at endgame so 400+ grinding, collectables and activites. 

 

Most of the collectables and activites are alright but the Drift ones are annoying. Not because they're hard but the drifting in this game is really..questionable? In terms of gameplay it's still much better than Payback. 

[SmeagolBX]

I think that the platinum wasn't too bad every thing apart from the 3 starring every activity and the collectables were a pain in the ass but i you don't mind that overall a fairly easy plat

[me_is_caveman]

I'm avoiding this game in case they release another Prestige DLC like nfs 2015.

[totallycrushed]

57 minutes ago, me_is_caveman said:

I'm avoiding this game in case they release another Prestige DLC like nfs 2015.

No need to worry about something like that anymore, the game is older now and Ghost games got rebranded to Criterion not too long ago. There won't be updates to Heat.

[Chris_Alvareno25]

Very fun plat!

[pro_cow_tipper]

Had a great time with this one.  Shame that there is no PS5 patch with 60 fps and faster loading, but this game is much older than I thought it was.  The online world actually works surprisingly well especially at night.  Whenever I got a new car, I'd ride around and do a chunk of collectibles so I never really noticed the grind.  The only thing I truly felt to be grindy was the 1 mil rep in one night as it's 30+ minutes of making a speed trap / jump circle.  I had to do it twice as a random cop found me when I had the game "paused" with about 50k left.

 

The RX-7 is absolutely broken for the drift challenges.  Use all elite+ parts where applicable except for pro tires and suspension, and you will almost have to go out of your way to not get three stars every time.  I'd recommend changing the drift button to brake instead of the gas in quick tuning menu as well; I found that to be much more intuitive.