Need for Speed Heat Trophy Guide & Roadmap

November 7, 2019 by Gage 271 Comments

Need for Speed Heat Trophy Roadmap

Estimated trophy difficulty: 4/10
Approximate amount of time to platinum: 30 – 40 hours
Offline Trophies: 37 (0, 3, 6, 28)
Online Trophies: 6 (1, 0, 2, 3)
Number of missable trophies: 0
Glitched trophies: Nothing Yet
Does difficulty affect trophies?: No, can be played on Easy (this only affects race AI and Drift Trial score requirements)
Minimum Playthroughs: 1
Free-Roam / Level Select after Story?: Open world at all times, can replay any race whenever you want
Release Date: November 8th, 2019

Introduction

Welcome to the Need for Speed Heat Trophy Guide (NFS Heat)! Heat is the fourth Need for Speed game developed by Ghost Games, after Rivals, the 2015 Reboot, and Payback. Heat takes from every game Ghost has created so far, throwing out the speed card setup from Payback and returning to a traditional method of paying for parts for your cars after you earn the ability to buy them by leveling rep. The game has a similar trophy list to that of Payback, but removes the open world named racers and has a little more focus on playing with other players in the open world.

Step 1: Play Through Story Paths and Rank Up

Progression for the game is fairly open, after the initial story bits and explanations you are largely free to play as you want, whether that just be racing to get more money and rep or following along the story. You should aim to complete each branch though as you can, as they give you access to the different race types as you finish them, along with giving some free parts and unique iconic vehicles from the series.

Step 2: Level to Rep 50 and Grind for Money

Once you’ve finished all story branches (you’ll need to get to Rep 40 for one) you’ll then want to aim to finish getting to Rep 50 so you have access to most parts and cars for purchase. You’ll be aiming to get yourself set up to do all of the open world activities at this point, so you’ll want to have a few cars for different situations. It can be largely personal preference what you use, as with the engine swap setup the game has you can push most cars to a fairly high performance level. The only one I’d advise specifically going for would be the Koenigsegg Regera, which returns from Payback and is one of if not the fastest car in the game again, so it is what you would want to use for road activities.

Step 3: Three Star Open World Activities and Collectibles

Once you’ve got yourself set up with your vehicles (or as you’re working on them if you wish) your next main goal will be to find all the collectibles and three star all open world activities. Collectibles will appear on your full map after you have been near them, so at this point you will likely have most already displayed on your map. Open World Activities function the same and normally appear when you are near them, and this is where most of the actual difficulty of the platinum comes from. The requirements for them aren’t changed by difficulty select, so they have the same requirement for everyone. Many won’t be possible to three star until you have almost maxed out cars, so this is why you leave most to the end. The drift zone ones will likely give the largest issue, as they don’t have anywhere near the same amount of leeway as the Drift Trial events do.

Step 4: Miscellaneous Cleanup

Once you’ve finished all the collectibles and open world activities you should just have some of the remaining misc trophies left, such as tuning, cop takedowns and chase escapes, and online related trophies.

Useful Tips, Tricks and Guides:

Need for Speed Heat – All Collectibles & Activities Locations Map