Heat Evolution

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Heat Evolution
Welcome back to Palm City. This is Need for Speed: Heat like you never experienced before. Featuring various upgrades across the board to deliver a definitive experience like no other.



Features

Story Compatibility
Heat Evolution is 100% story compatibility right out of the box and does not require any story compatible mods to work. The days of having story compatible addons are the thing of the past. You can now jump in with the main mod and no longer have to worry if the game is going to work or not.

Improved AI
The backbone of the entire racing experience is on the AI, and this mod improves both cop and racer AI across the board - from more competitive opponents to elevated police strategies. Each difficulty has been revamped and improved for a more engaging gameplay experience.

New Lighting
All Visual Environments (VEs) and interior areas have been given a complete overhaul, improving upon the game's visuals while simultaneously keeping that distinctive Need for Speed: Heat feel. These improvements also fix some of the game's core graphical issues, which should make things more pleasing to the eye. We added optional night and garage VEs so you can customize the look of your game just the way you like it.



More Customization
Your car is center stage: Now there are more ways to play with it. All hidden parts for eligible cars can now be equipped, new license plates and brake calipers spices things up in detail, all purchasable engines have been updated and rebalanced on all cars, and brand-new engines are now available, allowing you to mix up your build even further - or create a totally new monster.

Enhanced Global Audio
Hear your car sing! Audio improvements have been done across the board, with forged engines now receiving their own unique notes to make them distinct from their non-forged counterparts and turbo sounds have been updated to give that flutter everyone likes.



Quality of Life
Of course, this wouldn't be an Evolution of Heat without some essential quality of life improvements. This includes fixes to several bugged headlight/taillight models, improvements to road reflections, updated textures across Palm City, and fixing stance tuning across all eligible cars.

Online Compatibility
Heat Evolution is online compatible by using our online pack to give players the best online experiences while using the mod. You won't get banned using the mod online so go and have some fun!



Credits

Evolution Works Team
aSwift, Jzborder, Clxbsport, Pottis, Rattler, James, Elaymm4, Brawltendo, NFSLYY, Yorpie, Lactate, Laura, Marcoaskal, 7ndrew, Compton1017, Cringeneer, Arthur

Evolution Works Testers
Ziimbiian, Adamshea, D13g0v5, Thecardude98, Exy, Sukuna, FN, Kensuke


Patch Notes

Heat Evolution 1.2

• The main mod is now compatible with the story and no longer requires a story mod to work
  
• Removed cash from night races since it breaks gameplay making the day races irrelevant
  
• New day garage getting rid of the overcast garage to work with the story
  
• Cops rebalanced due to the main mod now being compatible with the story
  
• Updated cop forced induction sounds so they aren't annoying when in a chase
  
• Damage reduction, Increase damage, and repair aux items updated
  
• New wing for the RSR
  
• New spoiler and rear bumper for the 240Z
  
• AI and difficulty overall changed for easy, medium, and hard
  
• Rebalanced and sorted all purchasable engines on all cars
  
• 5 new engines added to the mod: Mazda 4 rotor, Carrera GT V10, Audi quattro S1 I5, 22B WRX, Boss 302 racing engine
  
• 40+ new engine sounds
  
• New sounds for the ultimate single and twin turbos
  
• Fixed supercharger bug that has plagued Heat since release
  
• Updated performance figures for some existing engines and the new engines
  
• Updated brake calipers and added new colors using the brands that already exist in the game
  
• Updated UI icons for customizing
  
• Updated virtual space lighting
  
• Fixed the AMD GPU flashbang issue
  
• Updated AI usernames
  
• Restricted a rsr part due to it being a broken vanilla issue and can't be fixed
  
• A new Initfs_win32 file to put into your Heat patch folder to make the game look better at all graphics settings and so HBAO full can enable in the mod
  
• Optional blur mod made by Brawltendo (Brawl Blur) to give NFS Heat a 2015 like motion blur
  
• New addons added due to community requests
  
• New 2nd garage addon
  
• New optional main garage VEs and Night VEs
  
• Updated existing addons
  
• QoL fixes

Update 1.2.1

• Fixed the palm tree lighting from being wrongly reverted at night in the mod
  
• Updated the main garage VE
  
• New F40, R8, and GT4 sounds
  
• Updated the LS7, Zonda R, and S85 V10 sounds
  
• Fixed the GT4 and 718 from being bugged
  
• Cops tweaked and spike strip usage has been reduced a bit
  
• Radar Jammers updated
  
• Fixed supercharger sound from muting in races
  
• Online compatibility mod updated
  
• New Lakeshore Night optional VE in addons
  
• Updated the 2nd garage addon
  
• Minor QoL fixes

Update 1.2.2

• Tweaked AI scaled them back a smidge
  
• Fixed 399 AI bug
  
• Fixed possible story crash
  
• Reverted rep and Heat cycles back to vanilla due to community feedback
  
• Tweaked the volume of the 180sx exhaust and Toyota 3S-GTE
  
• Fixed tunnel loudness
  
• Fixed the Camaro cop being in the ground in slammed stance
  
• New Harder Evo Cops addon
  
• Minor QoL updates

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Comments

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Anhminh (May 20, 2025 @ 05:31)

M3 GTR Sound Mod It's amazing but it need a louder

Zdravo (November 28, 2024 @ 12:20)

Amazing mod! I'm loving it so far. The visuals seem to have some anti aliasing improvements, looks smoother and nicer.
Also the M3 GTR sounds amazing, did you update that? Has a more realistic raspier sound to it.