Volume 7: "Drift and Drag"

Volume 7: "Drift and Drag"
Game
Need for Speed: Unbound
Game Update (7.0.1)
Price
Free
Release Date(s)
Console & PC	May 21, 2024

Volume 7, dubbed "Drift and Drag", is the seventh content update for Need for Speed: Unbound.

First teased on May 16, 2024, it was revealed on May 20, 2024, and was made available on May 21, 2024 at 08:00 UTC / 01:00 PT / 09:00 CET for the PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S releases.

It was succeeded by Volume 8 on August 22, 2024.

As the seventh volume, following on from Volume 6, it features two new vehicles: the BMW M3 Competition Touring (2023) and the Ford Mustang Dark Horse (2024).

It adds new Drag and Drift Pro event types within the multiplayer Lakeshore Online mode for both Free Roam as well as PvP.

League, another new addition to multiplayer Free Roam, includes a series of challenges players can complete to take on the various rivals in Lakeshore with the roster of thirteen opponents changing through out the duration of the volume and each offering their car as a prize for beating them in a one-on-one drag race.

As players participate in Lakeshore Online, the Speed Pass offers rewards for levelling up through 75 levels.

Patch Notes

Additions

• 37 additional Playlists
• 20 Drift Pro event routes (10 new, 10 remixed)
• 37 all-new Drag event routes
• 10 new race routes for the NFS Legends PvP Playlists
• 4 specific tier Playlists for the BMW M3 Competition Touring '23
• 4 specific tier Playlists for the Ford Mustang Dark Horse '24
• Increased max Rank from 200 to 250

Speed Pass

Cars

• BMW M3 Competition Touring (2023) - Free Speed Pass reward
• BMW M3 Competition Touring "Speedhunters Drift" (2023) - Premium Speed Pass reward
• BMW M3 Competition Touring "Underground Drag" (2023) - Free Speed Pass reward
• Ford Mustang Dark Horse (2024) - Premium Speed Pass reward
• Ford Mustang Dark Horse (2024) "Speedhunters Drag" - Premium Speed Pass reward
• Ford Mustang Dark Horse (2024) "Underground Drift" - Premium Speed Pass reward
• Mitsubishi Eclipse GSX "Melissa" (1999) - Premium Speed Pass reward

Body

• Beat-matched Rims
• BMW M3 Competition Touring '23: 3 body kits
• Ford Mustang Dark Horse '24: 3 body kits
• LED Rims
• LED Licence Plates
• Projections
• Rotiform Rims
• Transparent Turbofans
• Underglows

Boosts

• XP boosts

Character

• MP character skins

Decals

• "Ode to Neville"

Driving Effects

• "Burn up the Road"
• "Rip up the Road"

Quality of Life

• Added Manual reset on track
  1. Player is facing the wrong way and speed is under 30 mph (48 km/h)
  2. Speed is under 30 mph (48 km/h)
• Made changes to the suspension damping values

Fixes

• Fixed a bug where the next Speed Pass reward would show the wrong award when the player had exactly enough XP to complete rank 1
• Banner rewards now only shown in the MP reward screen
• Fixed PS5 Dolby Atmos support
• Fixed resetting at high speed on "Gotta be Shittin' Me" so you don't go flying off the track after being reset
• The Audi R8 is now awarded at the start of the game, like all other speedpass cars
• More CPU spike reductions, specifically targeted at activities in the open world and circuit game modes.
• Fixed lobby invites sometimes not showing the "new" sticker when they should be
• Fix collectable XP notifications sometimes showing the wrong value
• Fixed a bug where the camera would try to avoid a car the player has no collision with in Drift events
• Fixed an issue where players would rarely not receive a Speed Pass reward when switching console / savegame
• Fixed an issue in MP when some of the cops that were in an active pursuit of a player would stop seeing them if another nearby player left the server