Manual Shifting Is Coming To Need For Speed
Need For Speed has received mixed reactions ever since it catapulted onto consoles last year. There’s no denying it’s gorgeous to look at, but most gamers seem to find the odd handling and lack of manual shifting to be frustrating. Well it looks like EA is about to fix one of those issues.
On a teaser video released on its Facebook page, a short video focuses on the speedometer with a newly added gear indicator. As the car accelerates, it smashes into the limiter before upshifting, seemingly indicating that the shift was under the control of the user. The real kicker, though, is that the video’s file name is ‘PC_Reveal_Manual’ - doesn’t take a rocket scientist to put two and two together here.
The intriguing part of the file name, however, is ‘PC’. As yet, we only have a ‘Spring 2016’ release date for the PC version of Need For Speed, which was held back to make the most of the extra power available to PC gamers. The full reveal will be tomorrow (Thursday 11 February), so can we expect a PC release date bundled in with the manual announcement?
If that is the case, tomorrow is a huge day for Need For Speed fans. EA just has to hope that its core audience hasn’t already moved on.
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And its my birthday tomorrow
I don’t care much about manual shifting in this game. If I want to shift by myself I’ll play Project Cars or GT6
But I want more garage space 😤
Still not sure if it’s worth buying a PC just for gaming…The indecision is real. This makes it seem more worth it but I’m still not sure. How much does it cost to build or just buy a PC which can play NFS, Project CARS, F1 2015, GRiD Autosport etc on decent settings? I will be playing games other than racing games but racing games are some of the hardest to run because of the physics engines.
I’m pretty sure we will all have to buy it on PC :’(
For those who don’t know we are in pretty bad times for Game Piracy , EA will probably encrypt their game with Denuvo which is the thing that blocks Just Cause 3 / Rise of the Tomb Raider and other recent games … But I don’t want/can’t spend 70€ again for a game that I already finished on console :(
I have a question that may seem stupid, but if I have the pc game can I play online with an xbox player?
Woooow… NFS is crap nowadays
My waiting is over i can finally try this game out
Banging gears. Manual is life.
I’m confused, do they mean being able to use a clutch for wheels with a manual gearbox are are we talking being able to semi-auto up and down gears with buttons etc. If the latter I’m shocked surely that was already included? I’ve never played the game.