Losing Cops | Racer career NfS Rivals Guide
Last update: 01 February 2017
Police in Need for Speed Rivals is surprisingly high efficient and furious in catching Racers. You have to remember that and do not underestimate their actions, because otherwise your escape can be quickly ended, resulting in losing all speedpoints gathered in the given session, as mentioned above.
Initially police actions are limited only to using standard police cars and their number and performance depends on the current level of pursuit. Remember to avoid collisions with police cars at high speed, because they are very powerful and durable and as a result they can significantly damage your vehicle. So watch out in situations when you can crash with them frontally and in places when you deliberately slow down (turns or hideout area). You also should not forget that police cars have pursuit enhancements which are available in Cop career (more information about them can be found later in this guide).
As you "advance" to next levels of the pursuit, police actions will become more and more aggressive. You'll notice this not only by the appearance of a greater number of police cars but also by usage of more advanced pursuit technologies by the police. Try to constantly monitor police actions so you will be able to early react to spikes scattered on the road or police blockades.
Each police pursuit can be successfully ended in one of two basic ways. First way involves losing police cars by disappearing of their sight for a longer period of time. This mechanism works on the principle that after moving away from the police for the sufficient time, a bar indicating the progress of the pursuit appears at the bottom of the screen. The pursuit will be ended when it is completely full but unfortunately it often happens that it doesn't get filled and the pursuit resumes. In such situation you have to look for another opportunity to escape and start charging the bar from the beginning.
The best way to lose police and fill the pursuit bar is getting off the paved roads. Try to look for shortcuts which are not shown on the map and also look for bigger locations adjacent to the main road (like farm). Police cars have usually problems with patrolling such areas and as a result a chance to lose cops increases.
IMPORTANT NOTE - losing cops doesn't mean that for next couple/dozens of seconds you can feel completely safe, because police keeps patrolling the area where the pursuit was ended. So do not try to turn around and return to this area, because you could be easily spotted and the entire fun will start again.
Another way to end the police pursuit is getting to any hideout in the game world. During the escape from police cars I suggest looking around the map for icons symbolizing hideouts or quickly use EasyDrive navigation window and order it to show the way to the nearest hideout.
Note - you do not have to wait until you lose police cars because you can move to the hideout also during the pursuit (screen above). What's more it is not connected with any additional penalties, so it is always good to try quickly moving near the hideout and press a key/button which moves you inside it to deposit gathered speedpoints.