Cops get really easy to evade by the end game to be honest. In races they are even easier to get rid of because they don't just chase you. Waiting for athe pack of racers after you win then splitting from them can lead to some easy 5š„ escapes as the cops always split to chase them to (till the AI racers despawn from going to the edge of your map.)
plus ramps are basically a unlimited use pursuit breakers that kinda can be exploited with map knowledge (that I don't use cos I actually wanna play the game, challenge and improve my skills)
Going 200mph I left all the cops in the dust. At heat 5 with no ramps no roofs just running. And I did it on stream too with a ton of witnesses to back it up.
Cops starting and mid game seem impossible because they do serious damage where your around the 100-140mph mark. But soon as your in the hi 100s, 170 200+ the police really have to sweat to get close to you. All of them complaining "My cars red lining can't keep upš"
So the rubber banding definitely does have limits. You just need to have a lead if they are qlready right next to you doing the formation they will stay next to you regardless of speed but the sec they fall 100 metres back the chances of catching you at 200Mph+ Is zero even on straights. the cop balance was definitely designed around end game. I fear if they actually improved how easy the cops are mid and low progression. Players at end game would find the cops boring. Unless they made more heat levels that only unlock at Rep level 40 cos soon as you hit that magic number you have almost all elite parts and even corvettes get left behind. In hi heat races The racers are definitely MILES faster then me. And the cops struggle to chase my 350 Performance car. Can you imagine how useless they would be when you have the Ultimate parts ?
Now as I do believe heat 3 is hard around rep 0 to 20 around 30 3 is easy then at 40 rep 4 and 5 is easy. In fact the only threat to me now is the camara shake destroying my distant visiblity of civilian cars Spikes and Rhinos. Nothing else can scratch me till i crash or slide off road where my car don't belong
Maybe a racer and cop separate Difficulty options would help the people struggling
As for me. The easy escape exploits fixes seem like more of a priority. Why spend you time playing the game when little timmy is up top a container in the shipping yard farming 2million Rep every 30 mins or so? Get that crap out the game or force reset people for being in a unpathfindable location after 3 secs. Same goes for jumps. If people use them let cops put barriers in front on a cool down timer. Get rid of these cheese exploits so people actually play the game and improve
The more time you spend actually getting beat the more strategies you come up with. Hitting the win ramp won't make you get better at the game. And out playing the cops to ram eachother and avoid getting rammed is a thing learned throw game play. I'm not one to throw out Git gud but??? With a faster car. Upgrades and basically 3 full repairs and 2 half repairs the cops become a actually joke that actually need buffing raither than nerfing
Most people here will disagree and thats fine but I would ask that people atleast get to rep 40 and get your cars past the 300 level point. You will see a literal Night and day difference in cop difficulty. I actual get low speed busted more than wrecked now as corvettes are quite the 0mph box you in so you can't move artists when they spin you out or very rarely get a kill switch on you. But again this is so rare because only the chopper can keep up to me now and that lasts like 2 mins at times. Really makes you appreciate the work Ghost put in to these copsš„°
You just need to play the game a bit less like 05. Build yourself up then when your ready both skill. Car and rep wise cops are a semi challenging semi easy breeze to lose.
Getting busted by way of 0MPH you can do nothing but nod and say GG as your end game cars are way more over powered than anything the cop AI have.
Only technical things like camara shake really hurt your ability to escape at end game.
Don't mess with anything more than 3 untill you are atLEAST rep 30 at the minimum. Slow down enjoy the game you don't need to rush into the end game heasts so early. Going out getting one or 1 rep a night is how how you get to the end game. Or you can risk it go hi heat and get rewarded for it. 50 nights really ? Just 50. The games just dropped. I'd expect people complaining about this 2 weeks in but like basically 1 day? Proves people are not far enough yet I'm sorry. Spend more time with it. Rushing this game unless you are exploiting won't work.
