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Hit The Ceiling

Hit The Ceiling

Reach REP Level 70

How to unlock the Hit The Ceiling achievement in Need for Speed - Definitive Guide

Hot Rod update broke all the old methods. The fastest method is now to complete the new race Speed Tunnel. It rewards 20k rep for a 30 second race. Sorry cry

Here's the old solution:

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10 Dec 2015 05:09

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This is a pain with all the glitches being fixed now... There's no way you will get to level 70 if you complete all the events...
So, I tried some things out. Trying to get my car get stuck on objects etc, nothing works.
But apparently, you can get 300 REP when doing donuts. I rubber banded my controller (left stick and RT) and kept doing donuts.
Every 10 seconds or so you get 300 REP.
1 hour will give you roughly 108000 REP.

This is a great way if you don't want to grind to REP 70, but VERY VERY time consuming. cry
I will do this for 1-2 hours every day while completing the daily challenges. Currently at rank 59 so still a long way to go...
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By mcnuggests on 16 Sep 2017 17:07
@Dylan from what I can gather you get a cop to chase you to that destination and just drift around in circles.
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By on 10 Dec 2015 11:00
Correct. Drift in circles.
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By Eurydace on 10 Dec 2015 13:08
Oh you get knocked out all the time. Just start a new drift. Drifting isn't what's important anyway until the last 30 minutes or so (you get more points over time - it takes 10 min to get 100k at the start and 10 seconds at 2 hours).
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By Eurydace on 10 Dec 2015 15:20
Anyway, I had the bar 75% towards drift. Just practice a bit and you'll get used to it. The lotus was fully upgraded but that isn't important.
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By Eurydace on 10 Dec 2015 15:21
Good guide, what's the amount of rep to lvl 70? Cheers
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By NetroDude on 10 Dec 2015 15:45
13.422 Million
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By Eurydace on 10 Dec 2015 16:16
When you crash, you lose all bonuses. Found that the hard way.
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By Gaidxn on 10 Dec 2015 18:19
cry
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By Eurydace on 10 Dec 2015 20:16
I found using Ken Blocks car the easiest for drifting, also using all your NOS in one go is really quick with this car and get's you to a x3 really quickly.
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By on 10 Dec 2015 20:34
Yeah ^^ Kens car is definitely the best for drifiting. Unless of course you can tune your own ride to have the same or even better drifting mechanics.
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By Ratpoizen on 11 Dec 2015 19:00
I'm not sure I understand this solution. My score doesn't consistently go up while being chased by the cops. Is it only a combination of things, like being chased while drifting? Also, after about 10 minutes or so the cop car just disappears and I go into cool down - is this a bug?
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By on 11 Dec 2015 22:40
It does increase slowly over time. In my video you can see I'm getting 20k (before 2x bonus) per cop chase bonus (which happens every 5-10 seconds). When you start, you only get like 300.

The cop disappearing is a bug.
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By Eurydace on 12 Dec 2015 00:35
This still works?
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By Lavindathar on 12 Dec 2015 19:13
Went from 50-70 in 1.5 hours with this method. My wrists hurt at the end but I got the achievement.
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By The Last Flight on 13 Dec 2015 01:05
Yes it does, i started to do this at level 50 and i went to level 58 within 47 minutes
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By Ant#2827 on 13 Dec 2015 01:21
@Lav This is new. It definitely still works.
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By Eurydace on 13 Dec 2015 07:24
i have to do one big drift?
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By Vingador Brambz on 14 Dec 2015 01:35
Nope. Drift isn't as important. Mainly it's time. Just drift as much as possible.
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By Eurydace on 14 Dec 2015 01:51
1h46m, from lvl54 to 70. Thumbs up for me!
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By Vingador Brambz on 14 Dec 2015 03:33
If you do it with a friend to get drift train you get one more multiplier
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By Tjena Kexet on 15 Dec 2015 10:03
great guide!!Did me 1 hour and 30 min from 57 to 70. You get the most points for combos until you reached 1 hur + of purchase. So now i can wait for the next free dlc.!! :D
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By DrSchmock on 15 Dec 2015 11:41
No the drift is totally irrelevant. Drift gets you like 500 if you do it for a minute. You're drifting for the 2x multiplier. The points come from the cop chase.
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By Eurydace on 18 Dec 2015 18:41
There's still an AFK method, you just need a Golf GTI. Did it yesterday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcgIlMkj3uA
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By nengun on 20 Dec 2015 10:02
Yep the AFK method its working, i did it with a Lancer EVO, and a Supra-
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By lSoNl on 20 Dec 2015 22:11
Eurydace, I applaud you for finding this solution and thank you for sharing it clap.
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By B0BCAT on 23 Dec 2015 14:25
Nice ;) thx
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By H8teCore on 26 Dec 2015 17:48
I have tried that afk method but when I get on top of the fans I always slide off
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By RYN16 on 27 Dec 2015 14:08
How long did the method take when you were on the Vans?
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By Kyotic GBaby on 29 Dec 2015 15:41
It should take twice as long as this one. So four hours.
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By Eurydace on 29 Dec 2015 16:12
Doing the Van glitch right now, this may take longer but it is less effort as you can just leave it running.
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By supadryz on 01 Jan 2016 15:24
New method for leveling up. You don't have to do anything at all. Leave the game once you've done the glitch and just come back later ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G5KAEr0JKI
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By TF Polska on 05 Jan 2016 11:36
Man I had it going but damn cops hitting me.
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By on 06 Jan 2016 22:19
bro TF THAT WAY IS LEGIT OMG
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By on 06 Jan 2016 22:30
nice guide
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By Tommy Chong Fan on 04 Feb 2016 16:11
yes it still works
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By RiseofMrBlonde2 on 23 Feb 2016 05:24
I might try this later and see if the new Hot Rod update patched his out.
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By Capricious Cont on 03 Mar 2016 15:39
I believe this has been patched. I tried it last night and was in a pursuit for 30 minutes and was gaining the same XP. ): I've done it before and by that time I was getting 7 or 8k every 30 seconds.
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By Oxymorfiend on 05 Mar 2016 07:47
Currently I'm trying the Speed Tunnel drag race as it's the quickest 20k I'm aware of. Anyone know of something else post Hot Rod update?
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By Oxymorfiend on 05 Mar 2016 07:49
Anybody know a easy way since the hot rod update? This is getting tedious now.
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By Tys XIII on 09 Mar 2016 09:48
The most fun way to get this achievement would be to complete all the races again. Repeating the speed tunnel would take for ever and would be a pain in the ***
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By shoxyy on 29 Mar 2016 14:16
-1. No details on how much xp you need for 70.
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By LuckyKant on 18 Oct 2016 13:50
+1 for writing how much XP is needed for lvl 70
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By Gerbasgamer on 11 Jun 2017 19:35
laugh How did I miss that? facepalm
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By LuckyKant on 11 Jun 2017 19:40
The Speed Tunnel Race takes almost exactly 90sec for one cycle (incl. loading screens) for roughly 25.000 points.
When you've finished the game you should be around level 50 (this includes Eddie's extra missions), which is at around 6.500.000 points. You need around double that for level 70.

So, you'll have to do Speed Tunnel ca. 260 times. That's 6.5h of doing the same exact thing over and over again!!!
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By Dr Marty on 20 Nov 2018 03:26
Was lvl 60 when I started, I get 27/29k points per race ( record almost 32k ) but still needed to do it around 150 times.. 50 more to go. :,)
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By SaP RaZzor on 10 Jan 2020 23:51
You should aim for prestige completion - at least Basic Bronze - while doing this, those races can give you about 65K according to one of my Autolog records. Better medals give you better rewards but completing all the events first is probably wiser than wasting a day (or week, let's be honest) trying to get gold on one.

Speed Tunnel is found in the South-West location of the map on a yellow-marked road (the highway) on the map, by the way. Prestige must be turned off to find it. The icon is a white circle with 2 flags. It's probably wise to include this information in the solution.
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By FarmYardGaming1 on 10 Jul 2023 11:00
You basically just have to get a decent REP from each drift. Anything 10k upwards. Think my highest was something like 300k in one drift but you shouldn't get that high in case you crash and lose it. So get small amounts, bank your score then drift again. On average, 30-40k REP per drift is easily enough.
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By Ratpoizen on 18 Dec 2015 18:37
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EuryDace has a very nice guide, but for people like me who has a bit of trouble holding a clean drift around circles for awhile without hitting a cop or messing it up, this wasn't doing it for me very well.

Here's what I ended up doing and it actually seemed pretty fast and easy, it nets in around at least 100k every 3 minutes if you do it right (shouldn't be difficult) I won't claim it's the best method but I believe it is a pretty good one (imo) and worked good for me.

Sorry in advance for the long reading!

*THIS IS BEST DONE WITH A FAST CAR THAT CAN HIT 0-60 VERY FAST*
What I did is from the garage, go left around the corner and straight down the road, over the bridge (Los Sol Bridge) and to the left should be a police station (if a cop is there, you're in luck!) If you're still having trouble finding it, look just left of the garage for "Macdermid's MileMile(Hard)" on the map. I kinda show the location at the end of the video below.

This is where it gets fun, you don't absolutely need a cop but it makes it faster. From the top of the bridge, sprint to the other end just past the police station (or until you see the "high speed" multiplier) then hit the e-brake to do a 180 (try not to over turn for more) and turn around (so you get a "drifting" multiplier). Come to a complete stop so you can start to get another 0-60 multiplier and speed off back to the bridge until you see another "high speed" multiplier then e-brake back around, get the drifting multiplier again, rinse and repeat over and over. Btw, most of these points come from the 0-60 multiplier so get it when you can!

EDIT: Thank you TONI III04 for this tip. If you want another multiplier, go for the "Perfect Nitrous" multiplier. This is best done with either the nos tuning set to full power or having a low capacity tank (or both options)
I didn't think of this cause when I did this I had a lot of duration on mine and it didn't drain by the time I needed to turn around so make sure you don't have a long Nos duration for this like I did.

With a cop you can get even more multiplier to help and possibly keep the score from ending and if you can get any near misses, go for it! But don't hit civilian cars or they will just be obstacles in the way. From my experience, you can hit a cop as fast as you can go and you wont crash so smash them if you want to for another multiplier if you want. Keep this up and do it right and you'll be getting at least 100k in 3 minutes easily.

If you start getting a lot of cops like, lets say.. 5+ and they block the road a lot, run for it and come back later, you don't want to get busted or the fines will be pretty hefty but if you escape then that's money for you to get.

For me, I used a maxed out GTR Premium with extreme grip tires but had tuning around 30% to the left for a bit of drift. This car (at least mine) has 1233hp and 0-60 in 1.67s, but you can use whatever as long as you have a fast car.

By the time I needed to grind to 70, I was rep level 55 or so and had already done all events, so this can be waited on for awhile, while you go through the story and you'll get good cars by then anyways so money wouldn't be bad. Don't forget to do dailies!

This is a little clip I made to kind of give an idea of what i'm talking about, plus some people prefer video (this is my first guide btw)
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Oh, thanks! I forgot to mention that! I didn't even think of it cause my nos had a lot of duration so it never drained before I had to u-turn again. I'll add that in.
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By Chaze on 29 Dec 2015 01:04
This solution is amazing! Now that all the glitches have been patched I started doing speed tunnel.. After 10 minutes I felt like giving up on this achievement! This method is way faster and actually fun! :)
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By z I ToP CaT I z on 25 Mar 2016 20:47
I also used this style to get the points And I would like to add the possibility to use nitrous also to get REP. Therefore its needed to use aroundhalf of the nitrous to get the "perfect nitrous" bonus perhaps every second or third time you get the 0-60 multiplier.
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By TONI III04 on 29 Dec 2015 00:32
It also brings just around 200 points each but when done often enough there should some thousands of points get scored with.
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By TONI III04 on 30 Dec 2015 19:12
This is alot better than speed tunnel
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By My Name is BaRt on 31 Mar 2016 11:40
good guide thumbs up for me
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By OnTheSeshhLad on 12 Apr 2016 14:25
Awesome find!
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By TheIrishBeast on 14 Apr 2016 08:44
Patched.
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By LuckyKant on 18 Oct 2016 13:56
LuckyConquerer2, I just redownloaded the game and tested it out on a fresh account as of today (10/18/2016) and it still works perfectly fine. There must be something you're doing wrong, perhaps slow vehicle or not keeping up the multipliers? Either way, it is not patched. Yet.
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By Chaze on 18 Oct 2016 18:35
Using a max upgraded Viper. I will try again. Cheers.
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By LuckyKant on 18 Oct 2016 19:09
Getting around 80k in 5 minutes
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By LuckyKant on 18 Oct 2016 19:58
That's still good, although I did notice when I did it again that the scores were slower. Maybe they changed how many points you get for stuff.
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By Chaze on 19 Oct 2016 03:57
Seems like it. There were many people doing the same thing, so it must be working. Boring though so I think I will spread it out over a few days. Probably 30 minutes per day, alongside daily challenges. Thanks for the comments, +1.
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By LuckyKant on 19 Oct 2016 04:01
Fastest solution post update. Thanks!
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By Blckbird007 on 03 Aug 2022 10:52
Great solution! Thank you!
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By UnlexSGX on 15 Sep 2022 10:42
My points don't seem to increase as much as in the original video. Does anyone have a similar experience? Still more fun than reloading the Speed Tunnel...
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By qManballin on 21 Oct 2022 04:01
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In order to reach level 70 you will need to earn a total of 13,420,000 REP. This is an increase of roughly 7.4 million REP from level 50. This is quite a grindy achievement but there are a couple choices on how to earn this, 

The first method is to simply find a quick and easy event that rewards a decent amount of REP. One of the best events for this is the "Fueled for the Fire" (Hard) Time Trial event. You can earn roughly 40,000 REP in this event every 2 minutes including loading times. That's 200,000 REP every 10 minutes, 1.2 million REP an hour. 7,400,000 million REP in little over 6 hours, but this is assuming you're already at level 50 from finishing the base game. 

The second method is considerably faster, which takes just 2 hours to go from level 50 to 70, but is more skill focused. The first thing you will want to do is find a cop. The easiest way to start a pursuit whilst in freeroam is to travel to the location shown below to the south side of the map, where a police cruiser will always be patrolling the area under the highway bridge (if not, then drive away and return until it shows up).

Once in a pursuit head near the bottom left of the map between El Rey and Franklin Terrace areas, there's a Touge event called "Use It Or Lose It" (Easy). You will want to lead the pursuit to this event location without getting busted. Once you have reached the location, there will be a large roundabout, your goal is to constantly drift around this roundabout whilst in the chase, this will allow for a large 2x boost for REP (for cop chase and drifting skills). The cop will not get in your way so you can easily concentrate on drifting, any semi-upgraded car is suitable. Make sure not to get into a major crash that shows the mini crash cutscene or you will lose all your REP. 

The below video shows a visual guide to the method. Video credits goes to Eurydace Gaming. 

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