Need for Speed

The Mental Block event is located in Crescent Mountains in the upper portion of the map. Ken Blocks car is available for $0 in the garage after you've completed Manu's (Style) story missions.

Be sure to join a game by yourself. With other players in the game, there's a pretty good chance that they'll interfere, even if they're just free roaming. How to play alone: Hold the button -> Settings -> Game Settings -> Play Alone.

Use the brake to initiate drifts and avoid using the e-brake too much since this slows you down more. Ken's car is fully tuned for drifting so it might slide a lot more than you're used to. It also makes it a little difficult to straighten out after a drift. Release or feather the gas to help control your car in these situations.

Try to get most of your score from the mountain sections in the first half of the course. If you can maintain a decent angle and keep your speed up at least 70MPH, you should be getting 10-20k per drift easily. Once you're in the city, there's less room for big drifts so it'll be a little harder but there are still plenty of opportunities for high scores.

Do your best to not hit any walls, especially in the mountain section at the beginning. Even lightly bumping the wall will cause you to lose all your points for that drift. Bumping into other cars or traffic will not cause you to lose your points for that drift.

You'll want at least 200k when you get to the tunnel. If you hit too many walls on the way down, it's probably worth it to restart.

Some people are unlocking the achievement just getting the required score and not having to finish the event, but does not work that way for others. It's a little buggy in that regard. Finishing within the time limit is really the only way to guarantee you'll unlock it.

As you can see in the video below, I do pretty poorly in the city section and still (almost) make it to the end and unlock the achievement, so there is some room for errors.

You find this event on the top area of the map.

- You need Ken's Car, which you can buy for free in the garage. It is only availible if you have finished the entire Manu storyline. (Credits to erod550)
- You need 350.000 Score
- You should finish the race (Some persons got the achievement without finishing. Some including me not.)

This is a realy hard achievement which needs a lot of tries and training.

Make sure you get enough points in the big curves at the beginning. By only hitting (and not ), its possible to get 15.000 points each curve.

At the first circle (where you turn arround) you should have 100.000-150.000, If you drive through the tunnel, you should have arround 200.000 to 250.000 points.

If not, restart (or train the remaining part of the track).

Its realy hard to get points in the city after the tunnel. And you need speed, to get the finishing line.

Hi i also had problems with this achievement
But once i use the E-brake in tight corners and nitro
Nitro you should use in all corners it builds up speed and points
If you going to hit the wall release the RT gas and steer of the wall
I also get points in fast corners by drifting and using nitro

don't be afraid using E-brake if you going to fast at a corner but use the nitro to gain speed
It is easiest wat other peaple say by getting 200000 or more if possible befor you hit the tunnel aria because after the tunnel is the more difficult part you make more mistakes it has tight corners hier i use the E-brake and nitro alot
Hope this helps Some peaple

my mental block was that I wasn't drifting correctly. If you're going for this one, hear me out.
It just clicked today, and I started getting the drifts much much better, and crushed it. Before, I was getting scores in the mid to high 200s, with a couple runs above 300, my record was about 310k. I was getting to about 150 - 180k by the tunnel.

I primarily use the brake to drift, though I will often just tap the handbrake to get it started. As soon as the drift starts, especially on longer drifts in the switchbacks, hit the nitrous, and hold it through your entire drift. Don't really bother much with nitrous before the drift starts. The nitrous is key. Use nitrous and fluttering the gas to stop yourself from hitting the walls, and brakes if you have to. Once I started using nitrous in the drifts, I want from getting about 10k on a good drift on the first corners to getting 15k or more, and being able to more easily control the car and nail more drifts.

I did 2 runs once I figured out the drift. The first run I had maybe 210k at the tunnel. I had 340 at the end, but time also ran out with .5 miles left. The second run, I had 250k by the tunnel, and I hit the wall losing 20k on the 360º drift. I ended the run with less than 5 seconds left, and 380k.

nitrous is key.

here's a video of a later run, where I broke 400k:

- Get Ken’s car for FREE from the store after beating the STYLE (Manu’s) story line

- Go to the "GYMKHANA" event titled "Mental Block (Hard)"

- Avoid using the e-brake drifts, they’re slow and get you less points, also avoid walls at all costs, they can end a good combo real quick

- The more points you can build before the city the better, points are harder to come by in there

- Compare your totals at the Roundabout and the Tunnel to see how well your doing, here’s what I had... ROUNDABOUT -> 120,000pts | TUNNEL -> 209,000pts


It will take a few tries to get comfortable with this game's tough driving mechanics that at times can have a mind of it's own locking drifts, not drifting when you want etc. , but you do start to get a feel for how the car handles so practice makes perfect for this cheev

Theirs lots of good guides here I recommend reading through, having just popped this I'll share my thoughts.

First, it's not just you, yes this games vehicle physics are f***ing awful.

I really struggled keeping kens car in a straight line but was pretty good at keeping it sideways, however I timed out constantly about 6 checkpoints short because I was too busy keeping 'er lit.

My solution here is to get to the tunnel with 230k points, very doable imo. In my run I hit the wall a few times before the tunnel and came out with 374k at the end of the race.

Remember to pump LT before the turn, then smash RT to swing her out, if its feeling shallow and like you're going to hit the outer wall, use the handbrake and nitrous to keep you off.

I can't stress enough how useful it is just letting go of the trigger to avoid hitting barriers and to straighten the car back up.

When you come out of a drift the car will slightly crab in the direction you were drifting, I.e you were going round a right hander, so all of the inertia is throwing you left to the outside wall, when you leave the drift make sure you over compensate and steer toward the inner wall to counter the crab walk.

I should also mention contrary to real life, hitting the nitrous will help straighten you out even when you let off the gas, also useful.

Last but not least take some time to get use to throwing the car out on the slight bends in the mountain, don't wait for the big u turns, I was making a good few k just sliding on the slight curves, again, big angle, nitrous to keep you off the outer wall, over compensate on the exit to avoid crabbing into the wall.

In the city, you'll enter via a barrier and head right, then into an s bend past some buildings and then back out through a gate into an immediate right hander followed by a left. This is a massive left with a full open and almost always empty road, when leaving the last gate go hard round the left hander for big points, then focus on speed from here whilst racking up what you can in the smaller turns.

Towards the last few checkpoints their is a huge sweeping right hander into an open lorry loading bay, the area is awash with red light and its maybe checkpoint 80+ on the track, again hit this huge, at the end of the straight through the lorry loading area is a tight u turn for some decent points followed by a right 90. This is where I tried to have my 350k before a sprint to the finish.

Hope this helps anyone still in need of this.