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So yea; I've decided to categorize and "tutorialize" (yes, I made that word up just now) all single-player reward cards!
I'll be categorizing them according to their objectives and will be noting their difficulty instead. Hope you'll like it! Career Mode
SpeedBreaker
- Time Shift - Use SpeedBreaker once. Its relatively easy, you will use speedbreaker way more than once; no need to worry about this card. [EASY]
Reputation
- Consolation Award - Lose a Race. Don't rush into earning this, it will come naturally too. Let your first loss be an achievement. [EASY]
- First Blood - Win a Race. Yea, this shouldn't be difficult, winning one race is particularly easy. [EASY]
- 1/4 Mile - Win 5 Sprint Races. Sprint races are the easiest, you should do fine with this award. [EASY]
- Making Your Name - Win 5 Races. Once you get the hold of the game, winning 5 races shouldn't be hard either. If you race 2 races per zone, you can unlock Sal faster for easier wins. [EASY]
- Street Racer - Win 15 Races. Keep Sal as a wingman and tune up your car with all parts you can get. That should make winning easier. [EASY]
- Road To Victory - Win 25 Races. For this you will start racing on a second territory too; which means racing against T2 opposition. To make it easier, buy one of the T2 cars from the shop. You can also unlock the Jaguar XK from the challenge series which is a very durable T2 Exotic. You probably have a new wingman by now; try to experience if he/she is more helpful than Sal or not. [EASY]
- Street Legend - Win 50 Races. You can unlock this before spreading to T3; so no need to buy a new car yet; just keep yours well tuned. You will also probably have 4 wingmen by now; so try to experience which is the most helpful for you. [MEDIUM]
- Street King - Win 65 Races. You will have to race in Silverton for this; so buy a T3 car. To unlock one; you can capture zones but there are races that can unlock some cars too. Try racing on: Blackwell Road; North Broadway; Bowen Avenue. These should give unlock a specific type of car for you - All will unlock cars that are not your career type. Also, if you cannot afford a T3 car; race with Nikki. [HARD]
- Downtown Turf - Conquer all Downtown Palmont tracks. This is the easiest when you start with a Tuner. Basically you need to win all races which isn't that hard. [MEDIUM]
- Conqueror - Conquer all Tracks. You're going to have to conquer all 83 (?) tracks and defend them. This is not an easy job, and without a well tuned T3 car and good driving skills; this definitely is a difficult task. [HARD]
- Leader of The Pack - Hire 6 Different Crew-Members. Well to achieve this you will need to defeat all 3 bosses and unlock Nikki and another wingman in the process. THen; fire all of your wingmen and juts hire those who haven't been hired yet. The only difficult part is to unlock Nikki. [MEDIUM]
- Number 1 - Finish Career Mode. You're going to have to reach 100% career completion, so defeating Darius isn't enough; you'll need to conquer all tracks as well. This isn't easy either; you will need to have a good T3 but also very good canyon skills for the duel against Darius. [HARD]
Garage
- Fabricator - Modify your Car with Autosculpt. This isn't a career card; but honeslty there's no other place to categorize it in. Applying Autosculpt to your car is easy and cheap, just be sure to hire the suitable Fabricator wingman to modify kits further. [EASY]
- 3 Rides - Own 3 Cars. You don't need to own them at once, but you will eventually own 3 cars (one for each tier probably). [EASY]
- 5 Rides - Own 5 Cars. You will have the money for it no doubt; but you'll need to get rid of a few cars most likely. But this may come naturally too. If you have any car that's not useful for you anymore (ex.: starter RX8) than sell it of course and replace it with something better (ex.: Nissan 240sx S13). [EASY]
- 8 Rides - Own 8 Cars. Most likely you won't be doing as much car trading to achieve this; but you can easily get it (and the one above) with buying and selling some 240sx stock cars - as they are the cheapest available. [MEDIUM]
- Cuttin' Deals - Sell 3 Cars. If you're planning to get the reward cards above this will come naturally. If you don't want to sell any of your cars, fill in your remaining slots with 240sx and sell them... [MEDIUM]
- Big Biz - Sell 6 Cars. The same goes here; if you have the cash, buy enough 240sx and sell them. If you have the money, this isn't as difficult as it seems to be. I say don't rush into getting this one; you might buy some cars that don't suite you and need to sell them. [HARD]
- Full House - Fill Your Garage. Since there are no class requirements, fill it with 240sx. But if you want to own a car for each purpose; just go natural and buy anything you can afford. [HARD]
- Exotic Aficionado - Fill Your Garage with Exotics Only. You may actually fill it with normal exotics for your own purposes, but the cheapest way is to buy a lot of Breras. Although you will need to sell your current car if its not an Exotic. [HARD]
- Muscle Head - Fill Your Garage with Muscles Only. Same applies as above. Buy Camaro cars since they're the cheapest. [HARD]
- Tuner Addict - Fill Your Garage with Tuners Only. Same applies as above. Buy 240sx cars since they're the cheapest. This reward card is the cheapest out of all 3. [HARD]
NOTE: You can unlock all of the above easily with a remaining of 500k if you unlock "Career Mogul". Guide for that here.
Balance
- Makin' Money - Have a Balance of 30k. This is incredibly easy, a few races will do it. [EASY]
- Stash - Have a Balance of 50k. Earning 50.000 isn't hard. A few races here and there and you'll unlock this one. Most cars even cost above 50k so no worries. [EASY]
- 100K - Have a Balance of 100k. Around 10 races should do this. But if you find it difficult or keep getting caught; set Neville as your wingman for a cash bonus. [HARD]
- Big Bucks - Have a Balance of 500k. You will most likely have to even race a few T3 events in order to reach this much money. But even with owning a few different cars, you can get this before finishing the career. [HARD]
- Career Mogul - Have a Balance of one million. I've wrote a topic on how to get this; there are a lot of solutions. My guide is here and rcgldr's here.
Defence
- Defender - Win a Defensive Race. You will encounter a lot of defensive races; they will become very annoying. Winning them isn't that difficult. Remember to have a scout for sure victory. [EASY]
- Iron Wall - Win 20 Defensive Races. The difficult part isn't winning them, rather encountering 20 defensive races. If you re-play a lot of races before finishing the career, you should be able to get this reward card. [HARD]
Pursuit
- Hard Time - Get Caught by the Police. I think you shouldn't rush into getting this reward. The less times you get caught, the better. You'll probably get caught at least one time. [EASY]
- Vandal - Use a Pursuit Breaker. The only thing you need to do is hit a pursuit breaker... but not even necessarily in a pursuit; just a race. [EASY]
- Fender Bender - Disable a Police vehicle. Shouldn't be hard, you can disable one very easily with using P.I.T.; pursuit breakers; ramming and other actions. [EASY]
- Reckless - Disable 5 Police vehicles in a single pursuit. 5 isn't hard yet, you can take them out with a few pursuit breakers, or ram pursuit cars that are in roadblocks. [EASY]
- 10 Cops - Disable 10 Police vehicles in a single pursuit. Slow down a bit; let the cops catch up on you, and keep them close until you reach a pursuit breaker, that can take out more at the same time. [EASY]
- Brake For No One - Disable 20 Police vehicles in a single pursuit. This might require a longer pursuit. Practice with playing the Trade Paint challenges - they won't risk any cash or the car. [MEDIUM]
- Public Enemy No. 1 - Disable 50 Police vehicles in a single pursuit. Its worth to unlock due to the Chevelle SS; it takes a lot of practice and time, I suggest driving either a high-performance muscle or a well-tuned exotic. Tuners don't hit that well and you'll rely on Pursuit Breakers. [HARD]
- Big Game Hunter - Immobilize a Police Rhino. You can draw the Rhinos into the pursuit breakers easily, but if you drive a fast and heavy car like the Viper; you can immobilize one standing in a roadblock. [HARD]
- Getaway - Escape a single pursuit. Now this is easy, you will encounter a lot of pursuits, if at heat level 1, you'll escape with no problems. [EASY]
- Escape Artist - Escape 5 Police pursuits. This is rather also natural, but you can easily escape a lot of pursuits if you keep your heat as level-1. [EASY]
- Untouchable - Escape 15 Police pursuits. Short and fast pursuits do it. To keep your heat low keep re-coloring your cars. [EASY]
- Houdini - Escape 25 Police pursuits. Its a bit difficult, try to loose the cops with edgy areas, difficult corners and of course, pursuit breakers. [EASY]
- Quick Exit - Escape a pursuit in less than 2 Minutes. With heat level-1 and a fast car this shouldn't be hard. Usually the cop will see you from the front; it'll take time for him to catch up to you. [EASY]
- 8 Minute Exit - Escape a pursuit after 8 minutes. Make up a circuit for yourself and keep driving on it. The circuit should be a place where the cops won't loose you, but will keep up. [MEDIUM]
- 12 Minute Exit - Escape a pursuit after 12 minutes. If you found an ideal circuit, don't stop at 8 minutes, go until you reach 12. [HARD]
- Block Breaker - Avoid 10 police roadblocks in a single pursuit. This is a bit hard. Roadblocks have holes in their side, car's won't park on the sidewalks, that's where you can avoid it. [MEDIUM]
- Unblockable - Avoid 20 police roadblocks in a single pursuit. Try to stay on your 'curcuit'. Don't let the cops loose you because then you won't have any roadblocks placed. Keep aiming at the holes in the side - if you can't, use a speedbreaker. [HARD]
- Stone Wheels - Avoid a spike strip. This is definitely not hard. Just stay on the sidewalk when approaching the spike strip and you should miss it easily. [EASY]
- Wheels of Steel - Avoid 5 spike strips. This is still easy, a 5 minute pursuit usually includes more than 8 spike strips, so if you're at a high heat level, you'll be getting a lot of them. [EASY]
- Iron Wheels - Avoid 10 spike strips in a single pursuit. A bit difficult and risky. Try to use the speedbreaker to aim your car into the empty holes in the roadblocks. [MEDIUM]
- Diamond Tires - Avoid 12 spike strips in a single pursuit. This isn't much more than the last one, so you shouldn't stop at 10 instead find 2 more. On the radar, look for cars that are lone and stationed. [HARD]
- Baiter - Raise the Heat on your car to level 2. This only takes a few minutes. Keep ramming into traffic cars, street light and other. Just avoid pursuit breakers to keep the pursuit running. [EASY]
- Troublemaker - Raise the Heat on your car to level 4. This takes a bit more time. Continue ramming into cop cars and traffic, keep your speed high and cause a lot of fine. [MEDIUM]
- Most Wanted - Raise the Heat on your car to level 5. Once you got level 4 it won't take a lot of time until 5 but it will be a bit difficult. Look out for rhinos and keep increasing cost to state. [HARD]
- Wrecking Ball - Cause a Cost to State of 50k. This isn't really hard just takes a bit time. Try smashing a lot of cop cars and traffic cars. Keep your pursuit at a high level for better performance. [EASY]
- Moving Disaster - Cause a Cost to State of 100k. If you continue the last pursuit you can easily reach 100k from 50k. Keep wrecking a lot of stuff. [MEDIUM]
- Fast Wheels - Cause a Cost to State of 200k. This is incredibly time taking, you can shorten it with a lot of carnage, hit as much poles and bins as you can but mostly keep an eye on wrecking the cops. [HARD]
- 20K Bounty - Have a Bounty of 20k. To raise bounty you're gonna need to destroy cop cars. A few should do the job. [EASY]
- 50K Bounty - Have a Bounty of 50k. Still isn't as hard, keep wrecking the cop cars. Use as many pursuit breakers as you need, just don't loose the cops. [EASY]
- 20K Bill - Accumulate a Fine of 20k. This is way more difficult as you cannot keep track of it. To ensure the success, commit the infractions below. [MEDIUM}
- Wolfshead - Accumulate a Fine of 50k. You need to stay in the pursuit for as long as possible and while in it, keep doing the infractions below. [HARD]
- Battering Ram - Ram 25 Police vehicles in a single pursuit. If you plan to achieve the reward cards above, this will come naturally. 25 strikes isn't as hard as it sounds. [EASY]
- Unstoppable - Ram 50 Police vehicles in a single pursuit. This is a bit more difficult, might not come naturally. Reach a high heat level, like 3; and then there should be a lot of cars chasing you. Also let the reinforcements come in, don't escape and make it recharge. [MEDIUM]
- Crusher - Ram 100 Police vehicles in a single pursuit. This is really hard, you're going to need to wait until enough reinforcements come and of course, don't get busted. [HARD]
- Crime Spree - Commit 6 Infractions in a single pursuit. You can do 7 infractions: [MEDIUM]
Property Damage - Hit anything that can be destroyed: Fine = 100
Hit and Run - Hit a civilian car: Fine = 300
Ramming a Police Vehicle - Hit a police vehicle: Fine = 350
Speeding - 150+mph: Fine = 350
Excessive Speeding - 180+mph: Fine = 150
Reckless Driving - 200+mph: Fine = 1000
Evade Pursuit - Enter cooldown mode: Fine = 300
Unlock
- All Your Base - Unlock all Safehouses in-game. You'll need to control areas: Old Quarter (Downtown Safehouse); Fortuna Heights (Fortuna Safehouse) and Morgan Beach (Kempton Safehouse). The last two are the starting zones so for Tuner drivers this will be a bit easier. [MEDIUM]
- Small Car Lot - Unlock 8 Cars. If you unlock all T1 cars, you can complete this with unlocking the 240sx and the Jaguar XK from the challenges. [EASY]
- Large Car Lot - Unlock 12 Cars. Keep conquering zones to unlock more cars, if you do get the Jag and S13 you'll get this before invading the third gang. [MEDIUM]
- Collector - Unlock 33 Cars. Unless you unlocked some reward cards, you'll most likely need to finish the Career mode before getting this. [HARD]
- 50 Tracks - Unlock 50 Tracks. This can be done before going T3, so there's no need to rush with this either. [EASY]
- 85 Tracks - Unlock 85 Tracks. I'm pretty sure you'll have to finish the Career mode for this, since there are only 83 career races. [HARD]
Street Challenges
- Free Ride - Win a Free Roam Challenge. Just wait a while on enemy turf and then select a point that is easily reachable for you. [EASY]
- Urban Combat - Win 5 Free Roam Challenges. Keep switching areas after a challenge for more chance. Start with you facing the other direction, so that they'll need to turn around. [EASY]
- Urban Warfare - Win 10 Free Roam Challenges. Do the same as above, this should take more than 10 minutes or so. [EASY]
- Head-to-Head - Win 25 Free Roam Challenges. This isn't hard either, just takes hella lot of time. Just keep switching areas for a faster challenge. [HARD]
- Urban Battle - Win 50 Free Roam Challenges. Takes a LOT of time, a bunch of hours of playing. You'll probably get bored before finishing it - but still, keep switching areas and keep racing, don't give up. [HARD]
Career/Main Menu Mode
Canyon
- Canyon Run - Win a Canyon Duel. This is not really difficult, the first boss race can count, so you'll unlock this one naturally aswell. [EASY]
- Downhill Dynamo - Win 5 Canyon Duels. The Career includes 7 canyon duels, so you can still achieve this before finishing the career. But you can also do challenge series or quick race events for this. [MEDIUM]
- Canyon Conqueror - Win 10 Canyon Duels. You're going to have to win some quick race duels or finish the challenge series to unlock this. But it isn't that hard if you like canyon duels. [HARD]
Drift
- Drift Novice - Win a Drift Event. Its not difficult especially if you go with a T1 car. [EASY]
- Burnt Rubber - Win 5 Drift Events. If you're doing the career you should encounter at least 5 drift events to win. [EASY]
- Drifter - Score 100k in a Drift Event. There are some challenges especially requiring this, its really not that difficult. [EASY]
- Drift Pro - Score 250k in a Drift Event. This is rather more difficult, but a lot of practice can help you get it. [MEDIUM]
- Drift King - Score 500k in a Drift Event. A lot of practice is quired - but if you can't get this and the one above, just play a quick race Drift Event and set it to have 4-8 laps. That way it'll be hell easy. [HARD]
Speedtrap
- Speed Freak - Hit 209km/h in a Speedtrap. I don't know about T1, but T2 can easily hit this speed. This is very easy to do. [EASY]
- Cannonball - Hit 273km/h in a Speedtrap. This one is yet very easy, if you go with a T3 car you can easily reach over 280. [MEDIUM]
- Speed Demon - Hit 305km/h in a Speedtrap. You're going to find a clear, straight line for this, I suggest Eskuri Way for example, it starts of with a smooth, straight lane. [HARD]
- Need For Speed - Hit 321km/h in a Speedtrap. I usually achieve this one on Eskuri Way, with a max-tuned Viper. The Viper or the Cop Vette will give you the best acceleration, and since its a straight lane, you'll do fine with it. [HARD]
Main Menu Mode
Challenge Series
- A New Challenger - Beat any Challenge. This is very easy as you can choose which one to do. And of course, the bronze ones are real easy. [EASY]
- Challenge Novice - Beat 3 Challenges. You basicly have a lot of series types that there are 3 of. Like normal racing. [EASY]
- Challenge Journeyman - Beat 5 Challenges. THis isn't hard either because you can still choose from the bronze events. [EASY]
- Challenge Champion - Beat 15 Challenges. You're going to have to start doing some silver challenges, but it still won't be as difficult as the other ones. [EASY]
- Challenge Master - Beat 25 Challenges. This is way more difficult. You'll probably go out of your favour range, so you'll be doing some unwanted challenges for this. [MEDIUM]
- Bronze Medal - Beat all Bronze Challenges. This is actually a bit more difficult since you need to do all kind of challenges - just only the easy ones. [EASY]
- Silver Medal - Beat all Silver Challenges. Now this will take some practice in the areas you are weaker in. [MEDIUM]
- Gold Medal - Beat all Gold Challenges. You will need to practice a lot. If you try to achieve this before the Career is finished, you'll even retry tons of times, but don't give up. This will bost your driving skills and unlock some sweet parts, cars and vinyls. [HARD]
Quick Race
- Arcade Level 1 - Win 3 Quick Races. These can be any race of your choise, so there's no obstacles in this one. [EASY]
- Arcade Level 2 - Win 10 Quick Races. This might become a little bit boring, but definitely not hard, do it with some friends perhaps. [EASY]
- Arcade Level 3 - Win 25 Quick Races. This might start to feel like you're redoing the Career... well this actually acts as great skill practice. [EASY]
- Arcade Level 4 - Win 50 Quick Races. Yes, this is definitely boring now, but as I sad, invite some friends who haven't played before, put on some music or do something to make the training more fun. [MEDIUM]
This is it, I worked 5 hours on this one.
Finally made a long guide.
Edited by Trimmbor, 10 August 2011 - 01:40 PM.
