Need for Speed Payback

if you want to quickly go through and get platinum, then:
immediately set the difficulty level to medium or easy, for a simple reason: the opponents in story races (the first passage of the competition) will have the specified technical rating, so you can simply improve the car more - and you will already win without problems. At a high level of difficulty: opponents' cars are ALWAYS adjusted to your rating, and even if you start driving a car with a rating of 399 in a competition with an opponent level of 200, he will still be hanging on his tail and any mistake can cost the race.
reach the end of the race, even if you lose: a) you also get money for losing, b) opponents can also encounter traffic or a tree and fall off a cliff, so you can snatch victory even when it seems that “everything is lost.”

Collect all the relics right away and don’t spend extra money. Take a Nissan 240Z for drifting, and one of the two Chevrolet or VW Beetle for off-roading. For dragging any oil car such as Ford Mustang GT, Chevrolet Camaro, Plymouth Barracuda, Dodge Challenger. Maybe a relic. On Skyline, which is given at the beginning of the game, I went to the end of the race. For chases, the stock Audi A6 is normal. The main thing is not to spend tokens in the store, upgrade with spare parts that fall out or buy spare parts in workshops. More than enough for the plot. But after the story, spend tokens on cars that you will use to complete 3-star tests. For high-speed racing, Outlaw parts, Chidori drift, Carbon jumps are better. Try to place all 6 of the same brand, preferably with 3 bonuses. For radars and speed, buy Regera. You will need it for achievements, it is the fastest, if you also pump up the acceleration with outlaw spare parts and get used to the controls, then even on the off-road you will not set records with it. The Huyara is better to drive, but much slower and less powerful. You can do the jumps on an off-road vehicle like the ones I recommended, otherwise I foolishly did it on a Porsche Panamera. By the way, the latter is very powerful and fast, but it skids a lot. In principle, the jumps are easy, you can even do them on sports or racing ones. With drift, take a speedcross car like a Dodge Charger and you won’t know any grief. If this add-on is not available, you can buy a Lamba Hurricane, the same Dodge, from a regular drift dealer. A Nissan relic will work too, you’ll just suffer longer without the speedcross add-on. Well, of course, download everything to 399, and tokens will help you with spare parts bonuses.

Interactive map .

* - the plot is easy, but some game competitions can cause difficulties (see Active lifestyle )
** - the total time is greatly influenced by how quickly you cope with gaming competitions. The game requires you to do everything possible (100%) - collect all the items (100), defeat all the racers (20), break all the shields (20), complete all 145 competitions with 3 stars, complete 15 racing online.

Map of all chips and shields
Map of all gaming competitions
Location of all free riders