Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit Remastered brought back one of the better entries in the series on PlayStation 4, with upscaled visuals and all the DLC rolled into one package. It's not the highest effort remaster ever, but the game itself remains a super fun arcade racer. One feature fans of the franchise love is customising vehicles, and this is something that was sadly missing from Criterion's Hot Pursuit. However, a big update is about to hit the game that will remedy this shortcoming.
Yes, a livery editor is being added to the remaster. As part of the next patch for Hot Pursuit Remastered, you will be able to adorn your favourite cars with custom designs. When you're in the vehicle select screen, two new icons will appear in the bottom right — one takes you to a selection of livery presets, and the other allows you to make your very own wraps. Want your Bugatti Veyron to have yellow polkadots and a big pink star on the bonnet? Have at it.
Custom wraps will show in online races, but can't be shared with other players, so the feature is for personal use and for showing off to strangers.
This isn't the only thing coming in the update, though. Were you left a little disappointed by the remaster's performance? Well, there's good news — if you have the right hardware. Those of you with a PS4 Pro will be pleased to know that this update will enhance the game's frame rate and resolution, boosting it to an "uncapped 50+ FPS" and 4K. If you're playing the game on PS5 via backwards compatibility, the game will run at 4K and 60 FPS. To enable these improvements, a new Maximum setting has been added in the options.
Finally, this update includes a wide range of bug fixes, which you can read up on through here. All in all, it sounds like a great update to the game — we're certainly keen to see it running better on PS5. Will you be hopping back in the driver's seat to check out these changes? Honk your horn in the comments section below.
[source ea.com]
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why not just add new cars then?
Add , Rx7, BRZ, S15-16, LC500, LFA, Supra, Slk, M4, 720s, ext.... I can go all day. I hope that the new NFS is what we all want , Most wanted and Underground type game. We want open world with two or more cities. Midnight club , Underground 2, and Juiced 2 type of customization. An awesome playlist. Our own place like TDU2. A wide variety in cars like Midnight club, we want Supers, Hyper, Suv, trucks, bikes, hatches, EV's, muscles , JDMs. Let us make our own body-kits, and display the cars we made inside an in-game shop like in Midnight Club LA. All that with a killer online free mode . But will it ever happen...........
Also, they should make the map interactive like NFS Most wanted but on a next level. No other game that I know of had that feature. Made getaways much easier.
I wish their older ps2 back catalogue like NFS Underground 1 & 2,or SSX/SSX Tricky etc. were on the ps2 classics range...no mtx nonsense to deal with on those ones!
Just add it to EA Play already.
Fantastic news, this is one of my favorite racing games of the last 5 years or more. Especially being a huge burnout fan. 60fps 1080p on my PS5 is nice, but the Boost to 4K will be fantastic
How could they call this a "remaster" if it was never 4k in the first place? Smh
All theses remasters...its getting boring..please try harder to justify a ps5 purchase..we have yet to see any ssd benefit,great dualsense support and immersive audio...
@zebric21 Is true! Apart from Astro's Playroom, I've just been playing PS4 stuff on mine, and most of that not even enhanced for the machine.
Was a Day One buy because I'm a tech nerd but, even three months on, the console is about as far from an 'essential' purchase as you can get imo!
@ShiningStar Right? If I wouldn't have gotten one for free, I don't know if I would have bought it by now. But with MLB the Show coming up in April.....
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