@neowarrior793: No, the whole point is to sucker people into microtransactions that will add in other sets of pokemon, refill your obligatory "energy meter" so you can actually play more than 5 minutes a day, and any number of other frivilous trash items for your avatar that will look like a 3 year old's drawing no matter what you dress them in.
All rubber banding should be removed. If the player is good enough to get that far ahead of the AI, and the devs can't program the AI to drive better or just give their cars a slight performance boost, then NFS will forever be stuck in the slow lane if rubber banding is needed to provide a challenge.
@muzza93: They're saying that despite the change in setting, this will likely be the same thing as when we went from 3 to 4. Rehashed resources and objectives. Like another article states, expect climbing trees to scout the area, killing X amount of animal Y to upgrade gear, and of course clearing enemy camps/outposts to remove presence from the area. FC really needs to do something significant like the transition for 1 to 2, and 2 to 3. Personally, I think 2 had the right "feel" for what FC was all about despite its flaws.
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