NFSU2 - Possible bug or just a dead end?

[FatRakoon]

SERIOUS PROBLEM - REALLY NEED HELP ON THIS ONE

Ok, I have goen through the entire thing now... As far as STAGE 2 anyway

I have done the whole of Jackson heights, all of both yesterday, and today, I have been running around the entire city, and I have found NOTHING... Apart from general traffic of course, but no races and no other racers.

I checked my messages, and I found one that says that that girl wants her car back??? - I dont have her car? - these are my own built up.

Anyway, a fair while later, I gave up my Supra... ( Fastest for drag ) and then nothign happened, so, a while later, I gave up my baby MX5 - ( Perfect for everythign except drag ) and then after about another hour of failing to find anything, I gave up my A3.

So, now I am left with stock cars

I found an extra feature in the game "F4" that lets me see my career stats and I find that there are 2 shops I missed in Jackson heights, so I went there, never found a shop as such, but I have found a Drag race.

Now, my problem is this...

My car does not even get into second gear and the others have all gone?

The car I am in is stock and I am tryign to race these, and its absolutely impossible.

Have I completely buggered myself up or is there some bug I have come across in the game?

Why did she ask for the car back when I dont have it?

Why is there no more cars on the road?

Why have I just spent my well earned 16K on only one race knowing that its impossible to win?

I am now trying to cheat as I am on my last few quid by canceling the race, and I have had several races where the oncoming traffic hits the other racers, and twice I have managed to sneak through, but I think I have had 40 or so races and maybe 10 times I have managed this, but each of those times, even though I am flat out and in first place, one of the other cars, shoots past me doing way quicker than I am.

Unless I fluke and all the others get totalled its not going to happen.

My kids have been helping me out cos we have been at it all day today and even they are sick of the game.

What can I do?

 

[cokecan]

you sure the gearbox isnt set to manual?

this isnt a bug in the game i know of (played this quite a lot on PC a while ago)

there is a bug but this isnt it (somethin about not recieving any money after winning races when you've completed all the stages and gone onto the world map bit to do the rest of the races i think)

that emssage about her car will be from the begenning of the game, doesnt it save up your messages?? or just keep them if you dont ever read them. chances are its been there the whole time

by selling all your cars i think you may have shot your self in the foot a bit, though you still may win a few races providing there are no long fast straights (having said that, i dont think the comp cars ever get that far infront of you)

not sure what you can do, but try goin to the world map and seeing if there are any races for you to do there??

 

[FatRakoon]

I have gone between AUTO & MANUAL and Manual can offer that small bit of improvemenet in some ways, but only small.

The Message was NOT there previously... Its the last Message I have received... I have had NO OTHER MESSAGES SINCE THAT ONE.

Sure I may have come across that other bug too, cos I went to the world map, found a few undone races, did them and earned not a bean?

Shot myself in the foot? - Understatement I think there?

I have given up on that one... I have restarted a new career which is annoying me, but what else can I do?

 

[HangTime]

There's a whole bunch of races you can access through the garage menu that aren't shown on the map - make sure you do all of those. Also saves you the hassle of having to drive to the venue.

As regards drag racing, check what key you have mapped to gear shift. Gear changes are always manual in drag races, even if you are using automatic gearbox.

 

[FatRakoon]

Yup, all those "Hidden Races" from stage 1 and 2 are all done. Stage 3 does not show up on thatlist, however, according to everything else, I have points from stage 3, so whether thats right, I dont know.

Also yes, Gear Change... Going back to my old PRE-JOYSTICK days on the old 8 bit computers, I always mapped my keys P - L - A - S and SPACE for up - down - left - right and FIRE... for GEAR changes I use O and K and the [ key for Nitrous... Seriously, I would not have managed to get as far as I have done if I was unable to control the car surely?

I know that on the DRAG races, I need to time the gears as good as possible, but seriously, I have had absolutely perfect starts, and perfect gear shifts in many many many of the races, its got to the point now, that if I dont have a perfect start, its an ESC key job and restart it, and even with perfect starts and perfect gear changes,I can get perhaps around the first corner, and the other cars have gone!!!???

THIS CANNOT BE RIGHT SURELY?

I have completed all the Drags up to this point, and sure, I have lost a few, and I have won a few, btu now, all of a sudden, they are impossible to even come close to winning unless all 3 of the other cars wipe out!

Anyway, today, I have asked around and a guy who recons he is a seasoned NFS player, has been round and had a play... He started piddling about for a bit and sure enough, he is way better than I am, and he has tried to have a go, and he recons the game is borked so I should try reinstalling it... We did that, and I have lost my saves, and this is really annoying because I have done another career and I am around that very point with the second career and thats also gone too, so I am once again having another try.

One thing I would like to ask before I go... I was using a Toyota celica the last career and I found that turning corners is well hard, suffering from serious understeer... And tips on improving that - or the Toyota supra.

My favourite car is the Mazda MX5, btu its top-end and acceleration are not good enough for later so any tips on those?

What do I need to do to unlock the stage 2 stuff? - I did manage somehting but it was only one or perhaps 2 things? - I dont want to go reading a walkthrough cos I will only end up cheating my RS off!