On march 9, I realized that by swapping both the unlocks and the tracks around, independently, NFSC would receive exactly that 'new route experience'. how could you randomize a racing game? you could change the physics every couple seconds, and that's been done, but there's no 'new route experience'. Now, no one's ever really gave much thought to a racing game randomizer. in general, there's a rule of thumb: more people are playing randomized game versions than actually speedrunning the base multiple orders of magnitude. In fact, randomizers are so popular that the discord server for the 'The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time' randomizer has 37.000 members, just to give you an idea of scale here. and randomizers tend to be very popular, due to them being both new grounds for both a) casual players - playing through the game again, but different b) competitive players - speedrunning a randomizer involves making extremely fast routing decision AND having good gameplay skills. and shuffle them across any given game, with the intention that players have to figure out their own 'route' throughout the game. it is an umbrella term for game modifications that take key items/unlocks/skills/etc. 'Randomizer' stands for 'Random' + 'izer'. however, there's something else that recently took off that combines speedrunning & the 'new player experience': Randomizers.

In fact, speedrunning is the source of most activity around older NFS titles. you might notice my username here overlaps with that leaderboard. most importantly from a gameplay perspective, unlocks stay consistent between playthroughs (although they change based on what starter car you pick), so obviously there's people speedrunning the game. it's not an XP-based system or an RNG-based 'speedcard drop' system. Now where it gets extremely interesting is that every race AND every territory gives you something specific to unlock. Here's an image of how it all comes together. The city itself is divided into 4 boss areas.Įvery boss area is divided up into 5 (first 3 bosses) / 7 (final boss) territoriesĮvery territory has 3 (most territories) / 2 (one territory per boss area) races in each.

In case you're not familiar with NFS: Carbon (say, you liked MW05 more, or just didn't grow up with the blackbox game), it's career system is quite brilliant. yep, Blackbox era was cool and all, but why NFSC, and why make a post about a mod? There's probably a lot of people wondering why I'm talking about NFS: Carbon here.

Mods para nfs carbon