Drift Zones in Need for Speed: Heat are activities to beat a series of score targets along specific routes that can be found across Palm City.
There are a total of 35 Drift Zones across Palm City and are unlocked once the player has reached REP LVL 11.
Drift Zones are found along roads and shortcuts in Palm City. They are highlighted by an icon of a double sided arrow with two chicanes in the middle. Nearby Drift Zones will be shown on the player's mini-map and can be triggered at either day or night, but its location isn't recorded on their map unless they pass near either start point of a Drift Zone.
Driving through a start point will initiate the player's attempt to beat that zone's score target. Beating each of the three star rating targets will reward the player with bank and reputation. Beating all three star rating targets will allow the player to earn additional bank and reputation by beating their personal best score for a zone.
When in a Drift Zone, a score multiplier will increase the amount of points a player can earn whilst drifting. The multiplier starts at a base times one, but chaining multiple drifts together in quick succession will increase the multiplayer to a cap of times four.
Colliding with any solid objects or barriers will reset the current multiplier to times one.
Beating all three star rating targets will allow the player to earn additional bank and reputation by beating their personal best score through a Drift Zone.
Each star rating target has a different reward for the player upon beating it:
There are a total of 35 Drift Zones across Palm City:
- Palm City Raceway: 2
- Downtown Palm City: 2
- Westside: 2
- Cape Castille: 2
- Grenada Wetlands: 1
- Mendoza Keys: 2
- Sandino Ranches: 2
- Port Murphy: 2
- Fairview Fields: 1
- Frontera Hills: 1
- Edgewood Valley: 2
- Fort Callahan: 2
- Blackwood Heights: 2
- Rockville: 2
- Cloudbank: 2
- Sandpiper Forest: 2
- Eden Shores: 3
- Bayview Park: 3
Rewards[]
Collecting all 35 Drift Zones will unlock various items:
- "Drift, Drift, Drift" award
- BMW M4 GTS '16
- "Skids Pattern" wrap editor decals
Locations[]
| Map | Image | Name & Location | 1 Star | 2 Stars | 3 Stars |
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"Abandoned Grounds"
Cape Castille: #2 of 2
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35,000 pts | 50,000 pts | 85,000 pts |
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"Brotherhood Drive"
Mendoza Keys: #2 of 2
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5,000 pts | 10,000 pts | 20,000 pts |
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"City Snake"
Westside: #2 of 2
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20,000 pts | 45,000 pts | 65,000 pts |
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"Clean Air? Not Anymore"
Fairview Fields: #1 of 1
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15,000 pts | 45,000 pts | 75,000 pts |
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"Climate Change Problem"
Sandpiper Forest: #1 of 2
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25,000 pts | 50,000 pts | 65,000 pts |
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"Coal Drift Bro"
Port Murphy: #1 of 2
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15,000 pts | 28,000 pts | 35,000 pts |
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"Countryside Tire Smoke"
Sandino Ranches: #2 of 2
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10,000 pts | 25,000 pts | 30,000 pts |
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"Crazy Sled Ride"
Cloudbank: #1 of 2
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25,000 pts | 40,000 pts | 50,000 pts |
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"Cylinder' Stairs"
Mendoza Keys: #1 of 2
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7,000 pts | 13,000 pts | 17,000 pts |
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"Detention"
Fort Callahan: #2 of 2
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10,000 pts | 20,000 pts | 30,000 pts |
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"Dome Ruler"
Eden Shores: #2 of 3
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25,000 pts | 50,000 pts | 90,000 pts |
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"Drifting Cowboy"
Edgewood Valley: #2 of 2
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15,000 pts | 25,000 pts | 40,000 pts |
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"Drifting Islander"
Eden Shores: #1 of 3
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15,000 pts | 25,000 pts | 35,000 pts |
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"Golf Club Trial"
Bayview Park: #1 of 3
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15,000 pts | 25,000 pts | 40,000 pts |
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"Gotta Skid"
Bayview Park: #3 of 3
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15,000 pts | 25,000 pts | 40,000 pts |
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"Hairpin Smoke"
Palm City Raceway: #1 of 2
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20,000 pts | 40,000 pts | 70,000 pts |
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"Into the Turns"
Sandino Ranches: #1 of 2
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10,000 pts | 25,000 pts | 40,000 pts |
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"Jack-o-lumber"
Blackwood Heights: #2 of 2
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18,000 pts | 35,000 pts | 58,000 pts |
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"Kraken Dust"
Rockville: #1 of 2
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20,000 pts | 30,000 pts | 50,000 pts |
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"Let It Slide"
Fort Callahan: #1 of 2
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15,000 pts | 30,000 pts | 50,000 pts |
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"Lunar Dust"
Downtown Palm City: #1 of 2
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13,000 pts | 20,000 pts | 35,000 pts |
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"Neighbor with Style"
Palm City Raceway: #2 of 2
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10,000 pts | 20,000 pts | 30,000 pts |
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"No Shopping Zone"
Edgewood Valley: #1 of 2
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15,000 pts | 25,000 pts | 40,000 pts |
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"Nothing to See Here!"
Grenada Wetlands: #1 of 1
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15,000 pts | 30,000 pts | 50,000 pts |
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"One with the Nature"
Rockville: #2 of 2
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25,000 pts | 40,000 pts | 55,000 pts |
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"Parking Lot King"
Downtown Palm City: #2 of 2
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5,000 pts | 10,000 pts | 15,000 pts |
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"Sandstorm on the Beach"
Bayview Park: #2 of 3
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10,000 pts | 20,000 pts | 30,000 pts |
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"Sandy Tires"
Eden Shores: #3 of 3
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20,000 pts | 40,000 pts | 70,000 pts |
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"Skidding Downhill"
Frontera Hills: #1 of 1
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25,000 pts | 65,000 pts | 100,000 pts |
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"Shun Was Here"
Port Murphy: #2 of 2
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4,000 pts | 8,000 pts | 12,500 pts |
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"Space Traveller"
Cape Castille: #1 of 2
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5,000 pts | 15,000 pts | 30,000 pts |
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"Stuck Between the Rocks"
Blackwood Heights: #1 of 2
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15,000 pts | 25,000 pts | 35,000 pts |
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"Summer Drifter"
Cloudbank: #2 of 2
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20,000 pts | 30,000 pts | 40,000 pts |
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"Watch Out for Traffic!"
Sandpiper Forest: #2 of 2
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25,000 pts | 40,000 pts | 50,000 pts |
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"Water Leak"
Westside: #1 of 2
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15,000 pts | 25,000 pts | 40,000 pts |