Need for Speed
45 Achievements
2,200
107-136h
That Perfect Moment
You maxed out all 5 scoring styles in a single moment
35
17.86%
How to unlock the That Perfect Moment achievement in Need for Speed - Definitive Guide
Each time you do a maneuver that rewards you with RP, you'll see in the top of the screen that a circle fills its perimeter with a colour line. Your goal here is to make that circle have sectors of the five possible colours at the same time. That is, green (speed), yellow (style), blue (crew), purple (build) and red (outlaw).
This is how I did it, in the first few seconds of a race, which I believe is the easiest moment to do it: I started an easy "drift train" event with a tuned car with good acceleration.
Some good events for this are:
· "All for one" Drift train event.
· "Threading the needle" Drift train event.
· "Blue Kobra assault" Gymkana event.
· "Moonlight and mountains" Touge event.
· "Use it or lose it" Touge event.
As soon as the race starts, you'll get a purple "0 to 100" Build bonus. Situate yourself quickly behind other car to get the green "Slipstream" Speed bonus. In the first turn, drift, and you'll get yellow "Drift" style bonus and, almost always, blue "Drift train" Crew bonus. If all goes well, crash into another car or destroy an object at the side of the road and you'll get the red Outlaw bonus, either "Crash" or "Destruction" and, if you did all of it quick enough, the achievement should pop.
Green - Slip Streaming (driving right behind another car) or High Speed
Blue - Drift at the same time as another car or Drive at the same speed near them
Purple - At the start you can get 0-60, going max speed, or you can deplete all your Nitro from full
Yellow - Drifting and Air
Red - Major collision or destroying street signs and the like
It's easy to do these at the beginning of the race (which guarantees purple), but it's very possible to do in a race. Simply follow along behind a driver in your crew and you should nearly permanently have Blue and Green. Wait for a turn you can drift on, then perform the drift and deplete all your nitro at once (it's best to have the lowest tier nitro since there is less to use). Finally, run into the other car or hit a street sign.
You can see my video below for the mid-race completion of this achievements. I had a hard time finding a good race to get this at the start.
https://www.trueachievements.com/a209505/that-perfect-moment...
This achievement requires you to earn a 5x multiplier by earning REP for all five play styles (Speed, Style, Crew, Build & Outlaw) at the same time whilst playing. When you perform an action that rewards REP, you will see the corresponding plays style colour show up on the multiplier circle on the middle of you screen. The actions that count for each style are listed below:
-Speed: Slip Streaming, High Speed, Clean Driving
-Style: Drifting, Air
-Crew: Matching Speed, Matching Drift
-Build: 0-60MPH Burnout, Max Speed, Empty Full Nitro Tank
-Outlaw: Oncoming Traffic, Destruction, Crash, Cop Chase
There is a high chance that you will have pulled off multiple perfect moments by the time you complete all 79 story missions by naturally playing the events. If you do not earn a perfect moment however, or you'd like to unlock this earlier, there are two main ways of earning this achievement; Drift Event method and Highway method.
Drift Event method will require you to play any Easy rated Drift Train event, making sure you have a well upgraded car. You will start off with the 0-60MPH Build bonus, you should then quickly continue to slip stream one of the opponents for the Speed bonus. At this point you should be approaching the first turn, go ahead in drifting around the corner which should gain you both the Style bonus and the Crew bonus for drifting at the same time as another racer. You will now have a 4x multiplier if everything has been pulled off quick enough, go on to quickly finish the multiplier off by either hitting an object such as a lamp post or by crashing into something to gain the final Outlaw bonus.
The slightly easier method consists of a one to one race on a highway. A perfect event to do this on is Amy's Sprint race "A Legend's Wheel" where she will race you in a black Porsche, about halfway through the games story. The aim here is to firstly follow Amy to the highway, staying behind her until you reach the highway. Once on the highway, start to drive on the oncoming lane for the Outlaw bonus, whilst driving at high speed for Speed bonus. Continue to fully empty your nitro for the Build bonus, racing past Amy to get Speed matching Crew bonus then quickly pull off a small drift for the final Style bonus. This is easier than it sounds after a couple practice laps. The video below shows a slightly different order, but it is the same event. Video credits to InfectedMogwai