Bro.. that’s the only motto when you’re up against earl.. you can’t beat him if you don’t use tactics like doing whatever you can to block him from crossing you..
I've recently heard that developers sometimes make their games easier on purpose after clearing a big challenge so that it feels like you acquired mastery over it. So now I wonder if Earl is designed to give you exactly that sort of feeling
At least in this game. Back in Underground 2, it was always better to have a head start and cross the finish line about 10 seconds or more before the next one does for max reputation.
@@Okord_Obasi here's 2 things you can do Focus blocking on the last part of the track, pay attention when the percentage reached somewhere around 70%, that's when you start the blocking game Or Get extra options, and disable catch up. It will turn off all AI's capabilities of rubberbanding you, even the cops
@@Okord_Obasijust beat him after so many tries here are some tips :- avoid first short cut and make lead with him as much as possible.when cornering avoid drifting cause it will slower you . Specifically in last few bends also drive car with good handling like porsche . Good luck bro ❤
The funniest part about earl is he is the only blacklist member that is mentioned to be scared that you will actaully beat him so the guy is literally giving it everything he's got to win.
@@cvct_lo I didn't remember which member was a scared one but when I read the title I knew it was him, because the entire blacklist was trivial to beat, I probably haven't restarted the races over 10 times in total (excluding Earl), except the Drag races, they have a learning curve to remember which lanes to take if you don't want to not use the brake. I haven't even restarted once when I beat the top 4 members but the race against Earl was the one I needed to restart 3-4 times. He was definitely the hardest to beat.
bu arada çocukken oynadığımda duvarlara vursamda earli ilk seferde yendiğimi hatırlıyorum fren hiç kullanmazdım sadece w basarak hatta nitroyu sonuna kadar harcardım nitronun çubuğu yeşile döndüğü an nitroya basardım
@@ghostliver I didn't usually used the brake unless there is very hard turn. I usually let go the pedal to keep it up the speed and keep drive on the right road so i don't crash into NPC vehicles on the left road. I don't like using time slow and drift in this Most Wanted cuz I know I will crash. 😂
Playing this game again after 10 years… i think this game was above my standards when I was kid . I use to struggle alot for collecting bounty and couldn’t make blacklist 4 due to bounty shortage. But today i am enjoying this game even more ❤ .. currently ready to take down Razor😊
It's the game combined with the track, not the enemy. The game was something, which is called a "rubberband-effect" in your language in it's standard-settings. That's the reason aswell, why you won so many races, even when you enemies were far gone for a while (and there exactly comes this effect, it can affect the CPU to drive better or worse to make races more fun). The track is long, has very very much sharp corners and hills, which is not good for most of the cars in the game. You need small, light-weighted cars with good handling. The RX-8 was an okay car for this. RX-7 would have been insanely good. The GTI would have insanely good aswell. Just two examples. It's funny, how naive and one-sighted you are, that you think, you are "the god" for getting enemies, that were 3k miles away, but if computer enemies do this, they are hard or something...
But that's the fun of it... If u truly want to say that u mastered the game, then try winning without any cheats or trying to block/ram the blacklists whenever they try to rubberband ... Even Earl only does so twice in first race, and maybe 3-4 times in second... If u just drive cleanly, u are sure to win... Just let him pass and he will slow down... Its when u try to keep them behind at all costs that they are right on ur tail the whole time...
I did today. Beat him after 11 years of return in my Chevrolet Cobalt SS 😅 Edit (18th of September, 2024): I beat him again without restarting, this time with Fiat Punto.
Top 5 Hardest blacklist races: 1. Earl’s sprint race 2. JV’s drag race 3. Jewel’s drag race 4. Baron’s drag race 5. Jewel’s sprint race Honorable mentions: 1. Ming’s speed trap 2. Big Lou’s 2nd circuit race Edit: in no way are these races “hard”. Definitely still beatable on one try but will give you the most challenge out of the already easy blacklist races. Also adding Ming’s speed trap since he’ll actually keep close in terms of points and hold a lead in the race/pass the finish before you causing you to lose points.
I remember playing this race back in 2012-13 maybe. At 80% of the race he suddenly starts driving like a God. Straights, corners, it did not matter to him at all, he kept driving like a maniac throughout and made me say such bad words to the monitor that it's not appropriate to put those here. Difficult race indeed.
I saw another video where Earl hits the stone at the 89% of the second race like he did in the video, and he rubberbanded so fast that he nearly overtook the player on the hill before the finish line
It's the game combined with the track, not the enemy. The game was something, which is called a "rubberband-effect" in your language in it's standard-settings. That's the reason aswell, why you won so many races, even when you enemies were far gone for a while (and there exactly comes this effect, it can affect the CPU to drive better or worse to make races more fun). The track is long, has very very much sharp corners and hills, which is not good for most of the cars in the game. You need small, light-weighted cars with good handling. The RX-8 was an okay car for this. RX-7 would have been insanely good. The GTI would have insanely good aswell. Just two examples. It's funny, how naive and one-sighted you are, that you think, you are "the god" for getting enemies, that were 3k miles away, but if computer enemies do this, they are hard or something... Just don't be in front for all of the race and you can overtake him easy, cause he starts driving very bad at that time...
When i started carreer to unlock all boss cars Earl was the only one that won against me (only once in like 10 races because his car wasn't showing in the cards)😂 so there are 2 possibilities: 1. i'm a pro or 2. Maybe i played it with a powerful pc and there is less rubberband
Earl is by far the hardest boss of the blacklist in NFS MW, he is programmed to make you hone your skills, that's why there is no traffic so you can drive on the edges. In my playthrough I disabled the rubber band effect and still he closed those gaps (even 1km gap) so fast at the last 20% of the sprint race. #1 for me in difficulty, after him the bosses felt so easy.
The reason why he is rubberbanding even without catch up on is because you dont have a decent top speed yet he reaches 370 kmh with ease on the long straight of the second race i even tried the race with the 100 opponents mod and some earl's reached 400 kmh because they were far behind
What makes Earl so difficult is that AI can handle corners much easier than players. That final stretch in the sprint race is a worst case scenario, tight corners which take away your momentum in a game where maintaining a high speed is more important than cornering, grassy edges which take away your traction and therefore your ability to accelerate out of them and the fact that off screen, the AI essentially corners perfectly with no speed loss due to rubberbanding. You can see this when you are far ahead of your opponent. You will notice their arrow suddenly change direction on corners with little to no loss in speed. We have to keep calculating what our car will do between turns, which causes us to overthink and make mistakes, whereas AI just follows the route and it is down to luck whether they hit something (like a perfectly placed statue for example)
Honestly I never knew Earl was hard until I watched this video, actually the game AI made way too much effort to keep the player an all time champion in this game
It took 4 tries for me to beat him, wasnt too hard but the problem was that I was way ahead of him for the first ~85% of the sprint, then in the last few corners he gained rocket speed and overtook me
When I first played the game when I was a kid, yeah he was ridiculously hard to beat. But I played the game again as an adult and surprisingly got past him at the first try.
Yeah, ill never forget Earl, every playthrough i did, he was the hardest, had to restart once or twice, what a game man, so many memories , had it on pc that didnt work so well, and then on ps2, this is a true masterpiece
As a kid, i didn't know about rubberbanding, AI, or any of that stuff, i just thought Earl was the Michael Jordan of drivers and his car the most amazing machine ever created. You can imagine my disappointment after unpluging and reloading my ps2 a million times to get his pink slip and finding out that the car was like B tier
The worst thing about rubberbanding Earl is that you think "wow I can't wait to get his car, this thing must be an absolute rocketship" and then it's just ok.
I just did another playthrough of this game and got to about 85% when Earl just sped up beside me and the photo finish was pure badass. Earl flying right above me at the finish line. Its a photo I had to keep
Yes i got a eclipse gsx full built 4g63t big garret gt3576r with a 4g63t full built piston valve head ported match injection wather meth with écu dsm link v3 lite is a fking bomb
Literally the hardest blacklist racer I have faced 50x over. This guy really gave me a hard time every time I faced him and all that just to keep you from entering Rockport City. The toughest thing about Earl was that he knows how to outmaneuver you in tight corners and won't hesitate to use his ride to bump into yours.
Unfortunately this game had slingshot so it made it far more engaging as you couldn’t just lap your opponent. One reason why I love this Nfs. P.s I decided to buy carbon collectors edition, underground 2 and most wanted but there was no black edition for 360 😭
@@aaryanpal1258it's called the rubberband effect ig... It makes the game a bit more engaging. If the opponent is far behind, they'll catch up fast and if the opponent is far ahead, they'll make them slow down. Or else the game would be a bit too easy or hard
One thing that I want to mention here is that the devs have made a mechanism called "Catch up" which you can't turn off in the main campaign. Sadly this is one of the reasons why every other car even the local racers too will match the potential of your current car even if you upgrade it to the max. But Golf GTI can easily beat any sports, muscle or supercar in this game if you continue to upgrade it. That car is a beast. ❤
That final downhill uturn in the final sprint.. suddenly your car jumps around like a drunk and he drives perfectly.. frustrating and satisfying when beat..
Although most people hate this rubberband mechanic, I personally like it because it gives an opportunity for replay value for games like NFS Most Wanted and Carbon. This rubberband makes beating the game possible in various number of ways, making it interesting to try out and find new ways to have fun with the same old game. Most Wanted Challenges 1) Beat the game with any bad handling cars. Like Vauxhall Monaro VXR, Mercedes SL500, Aston Martin DB9, Lamborghini Murcielago without using performance tuning to change the steering and handling 2) Beat the game with starter cars alone. Like Lexus IS300, Chevrolet Cobalt SS, Fiat Punto and Volkswagen Golf GTI 3) Beat the game with only stock cars. Meaning any car is allowed but no purchases from the shops 4) Beat the game with stock starter cars only. Meaning only Lexus IS300, Chevrolet Cobalt SS, Fiat Punto and Volkswagen Golf GTI cars are allowed and no performance upgrades or spoiler, body kit purchases should be made. For this challenge, later blacklist milestones regarding speedtraps might need to be done with a separate faster car but other than that, only stock starter car should be used for all cop chases, races and blacklist boss races. Carbon Challenges 1) Beat the game with muscle cars alone. Especially the older looking ones like Chevrolet Camaro SS, Dodge Charger R/T, Dodge Challenger, Shelby GT500 and Plymouth Hemi Cuda. Corvette and Viper are not allowed because they are too OP. 2) Beat the game with exotic cars alone. Especially lower end ones like Aston Martin DB9, Mercedes CLK500, Mercedes SL65 AMG 3) Beat the game with starter cars alone 4) Beat the final 4 boss race event with every single car in the game 5) Beat the game with stock starter cars alone. No performance upgrades allowed. In fact some ppl have done which most ppl would think is flat out impossible. Which is beating Carbon with stock Alfa Romeo Brera and stock Chrysler 300C from start to finish. All these challenges are possible only because of rubberband.
I like rubberbanding because it gives me fun for race with opponent honestly I like earl and razor not for their car also the way they fight you in the race earl split race and razor circuit race
Vic was also a difficult opponent. Much like Earl, during the sprint race, Vic would slingshot his way onto first place when you're like 85% done and because his car is generally better modified than yours there's no way you're gonna catch up to him.
In fairness, even without upgrades the Lancer Evolutions are some impressive machines. But when upgraded and tuned to that degree they're absolute MONSTERS
Bruh, I'll never forget the time Earl catched up on me from 1km distance That dude skyrocketed even with a lot of corners, EA literally tried to make that A.I one of the hardest Boss in the game
He has some brutal rubberbanding, just let yourself be overtaken before the 70% completion mark and if you retake the position after the AI wont be so stupidly op in the final segment.
Honestly.. I've had my real experience in racing with blacklist #9 myself and it took me a while to dominate and it wasn't easy; that car (Evo8) is fast as hell without any debates. Earl is literally the hardest one to defeat😅.
@@Severance-ftIdk bout you guys, but I always WASH Ronnie in every race because to me he's super easy. Even more light work if you can gather all the junkman performance stuff which helps tremendously (people sleep on the junkman stuff and how much faster that can make your car's in game) because Ronnie always hits the first pole after the start and gets stuck there as well as he gets stuck near the big roundabout near the tunnel right around where the small bridge jumps are in the industrial area in Rockport/Camden Beach area on the 1st and 2nd race.
if you guys wanat a tip on beating earls sprint... you need to increase the turbo by 1 and increase the nitrous by 2, when you get to 56% or 57% of the sprint race conveniently just as you are entering the city... then once you exit the beach at 69% put the controles vice versa order... btw also always reduce the breaks to nill for max speed🙂...trust me
His rubberbanding is ridiculous, but it also benefits you if you are behind. Last time I beat him I just crashed and spun on purpose for the first 60-70% of the race giving him a huge lead and I still got him in the end. I think this strategy is actually easier than driving legit
Man I gotta tell you I got this kind of anxiety from only 2 things, Earl's Ride and 'Dahaka' Chasing you in POP Warrior Within, those were the 2 of the most stressful moments I've ever had in my childhood, thanks for this video broo!! made my day!!
It's also worth noting this is the last Blacklist Rival you race, that uses a Japanese car in the upcoming line up. It's actually kinda crazy to think that in the next game the only two boss cars that are Japanese Tuners are Kenji's RX7 and the Evo IX 🤪🤭
The trick for speedtraps is to wait a few seconds before leaving the start, that way you can focus better on getting speed, instead of crashing into other pilots and losing points. If you can get 100 km/h of advantage over another pilot, you're actually 10 seconds ahead of him.
I really didn't find every blacklists too hard it's just the traffic that is terrifying, i only use 1 car when i finally unlock it, and it's the ford mustang
I beat him using porshe Cayman. I stopped playing this game because of earl, but then one day i decided Earl gotta go. Made him crash and won at the last moment. Mann he was hard to beat.
I've finished the game without touching the pursuit braker. Not even once. Later got to know it's usage. And in this, you can easily defeat earl using baron's porsche Cayman. Its getting tough here because of the Mazda.
Ok I know it's not just me at the second race with Earl there are two turns where he somehow magically speeds up and it was so annoying I played most wanted a few times when I was younger Earl was the most annoying
6:27 This is the turning point of the race I too had used an Evo 8 several times, but couldn't defeat him The time i used Baron's Cayman i had gotten him but at the moment guy turned on his rocket 🚀💀 Then i was able to defeat him with evo 8 itself 😂
I can confirm thelat the rubberband ai is a thing. Even with infite super boosters they'll catch up to you in a minute even when theres a 2000+ meters gap between you and the racers. Not just with him but with ALL racers. Earl just had a really amped up rubberband AI for some reason lmao.
Notice how Earl’s best time is 4:24 yet OP finished at 3:53? If Earl hadn’t crashed he’d have beaten his best time by 30s, which is like 11% faster. Ego (aka rubber-banding) is the best performance part!
The key to defeat EARL in last race is to use speedbreakers wisely especially at the difficult corners and disable the speedbreaker when your car is alligned perfectly with the track and also dont forget to use the NITRO when your speed gets below 150 kmph or 95 mph and maintain your speed to 240 kmph or 150 mph Therefore you will be able to defeat EARL easily I also used this strategy to defeat EARL by using BARON's porsche............
Earl, my favorite blacklister. I always take pride in taking his ride and whooping everything else with it. Probably my 2nd favorite car of NFS MW BE 2005
In my Perfectionist runs of Most Wanted, I had to confront most of the bosses several times on hard difficulty to get the pink slip as a first card (on first reveal) and Junkman parts as second, and I never had any problems with beating each of them. I started following some NFS:MW content on YT recently and I came across a lot of players struggling with Earl on easy mode... which is totally mind-boggling to me.
I didn’t realize how hard he was until this video. I never restarted this race I need to do another play through of this game I love it. I remember I made multiple profiles for this game lol.
Earl is infamous to take the last turn before the finish line. He is the only blacklist member to have a great tailgate gap and is always close to winning.
I never had a problem with him usually because ive always had Baron's Porsche, so it was always a breeze. Played through that game countless times and somehow always got Baron's car.
Wow. After more than 10 yrs, refreshing childhood memories. This dude uses Slow motion at some steep curves. I had done it without slow-mo... And I was 13 then
I actually never known the community considers Earl as the hardest one since i beat him on the first try JV however... Let's not talk about how many retries needed for me to beat him (i did saw some people who also considers JV as the hardest one)
Idk if beating Earl meant that the game was going to get easier from there - that only happened if you won Ming's Gallardo. What I do know is that the pursuits were gonna be hell after Earl.
I beat him with my over tuned Supra. That borderline 360 degree turns at 4:00 and 4:27 were hell. The mental toll of maintaining the lead for that long track was crazy
Earl brake checks a lot, i needed to retry 4 times even with a fully upgraded Evo 8 (fully upgraded with parts available at that stage in the game, not ultimate parts)
I remember when i play this Game in My Gamecube, win the golf and race to go 6 with ming. If You want the most easy to all, win the golf and upgrade it, (he coming with turbo and that help in the start or exit in the curves)
The AI Race Path for Earl is designed to be hard, and I experienced it myself, I have a max'ed out vehicle (apparently by using ExtraOptions + Junkman parts) and the AI still manages to catch up to me. The rubber banding for this game sucks imo, it's obv noticable when you somewhat cheat the game by having a max'ed out car early in the career mode.
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Man ...u did more effort to keep him behind your bumper than winning the race🌚
hahahahahaha, you're right😅, he can overtaking me if i stay focus to winning the race
@@KewerMengakakk6262😂damn bro
Jv : 🤔🫠🫠
Bro.. that’s the only motto when you’re up against earl.. you can’t beat him if you don’t use tactics like doing whatever you can to block him from crossing you..
@@KewerMengakakk6262 The RX8 is not strong against the Blue Lancer, but the Cobalt SS is no match for it2
I've always thought of Earl as the Gatekeeper of the Blacklist. If you could get past him, everyone after him felt easy.
I've recently heard that developers sometimes make their games easier on purpose after clearing a big challenge so that it feels like you acquired mastery over it. So now I wonder if Earl is designed to give you exactly that sort of feeling
True
I say the acceleration of the evo is just crazy good that makes earl so fast out of corners
Until ming that is
Except Webster
Earl taught us it doesn’t matter if you win by an inch or a mile winning is winning
It was taught by Dominic Toretto long before MW.
😂
At least in this game. Back in Underground 2, it was always better to have a head start and cross the finish line about 10 seconds or more before the next one does for max reputation.
Earl in first race: "I sleep."
Earl in second race: "Real SHIT!!?"
fr hahahhaa
I'm stuck in the second race, no matter how hard i try, he seems to be closer
@@Okord_Obasi here's 2 things you can do
Focus blocking on the last part of the track, pay attention when the percentage reached somewhere around 70%, that's when you start the blocking game
Or
Get extra options, and disable catch up. It will turn off all AI's capabilities of rubberbanding you, even the cops
Earl is serious in last race because it's the decider who will win
@@Okord_Obasijust beat him after so many tries here are some tips :- avoid first short cut and make lead with him as much as possible.when cornering avoid drifting cause it will slower you . Specifically in last few bends also drive car with good handling like porsche . Good luck bro ❤
The funniest part about earl is he is the only blacklist member that is mentioned to be scared that you will actaully beat him so the guy is literally giving it everything he's got to win.
EXACTLY the only one who doesnt underestimate you and the hardest to defeat in my opinion
Gave it his all, he went ultra instinct
@@cvct_lo I didn't remember which member was a scared one but when I read the title I knew it was him, because the entire blacklist was trivial to beat, I probably haven't restarted the races over 10 times in total (excluding Earl), except the Drag races, they have a learning curve to remember which lanes to take if you don't want to not use the brake. I haven't even restarted once when I beat the top 4 members but the race against Earl was the one I needed to restart 3-4 times. He was definitely the hardest to beat.
@@META313. It’s Earl Rog mentions it in the Earl boss race unlocked voice text he sends you.
My young self never understood the importance of braking in racing games I’d just fly into walls and 250kph and wonder why the game was so hard
bu arada çocukken oynadığımda duvarlara vursamda earli ilk seferde yendiğimi hatırlıyorum fren hiç kullanmazdım sadece w basarak hatta nitroyu sonuna kadar harcardım nitronun çubuğu yeşile döndüğü an nitroya basardım
Yeah, it's because the game didn't punish you for crashing and you didn't learn.
@@ghostliver I didn't usually used the brake unless there is very hard turn. I usually let go the pedal to keep it up the speed and keep drive on the right road so i don't crash into NPC vehicles on the left road. I don't like using time slow and drift in this Most Wanted cuz I know I will crash. 😂
Playing this game again after 10 years… i think this game was above my standards when I was kid . I use to struggle alot for collecting bounty and couldn’t make blacklist 4 due to bounty shortage. But today i am enjoying this game even more ❤ .. currently ready to take down Razor😊
@@anishshubham4934 i heard rumors this Most Wanted will be remake. If so i hope for the best.
My anxiety when I hear his engine behind me📈📈📈
😂😂😂
Us: How can you speeding up in the corner?
Earl: Yes
😅😅
Fujiwara zone lmao
It's the game combined with the track, not the enemy. The game was something, which is called a "rubberband-effect" in your language in it's standard-settings. That's the reason aswell, why you won so many races, even when you enemies were far gone for a while (and there exactly comes this effect, it can affect the CPU to drive better or worse to make races more fun). The track is long, has very very much sharp corners and hills, which is not good for most of the cars in the game. You need small, light-weighted cars with good handling. The RX-8 was an okay car for this. RX-7 would have been insanely good. The GTI would have insanely good aswell. Just two examples. It's funny, how naive and one-sighted you are, that you think, you are "the god" for getting enemies, that were 3k miles away, but if computer enemies do this, they are hard or something...
dude got EVO thats why
Cuz evo baby 💯👌🏽😔👌🏽
Every race starts with clean drive but ends with "i want to win this no matter which path i drive".
hahahahhaha😂😂
Literal
Literally every race!
But that's the fun of it... If u truly want to say that u mastered the game, then try winning without any cheats or trying to block/ram the blacklists whenever they try to rubberband ...
Even Earl only does so twice in first race, and maybe 3-4 times in second... If u just drive cleanly, u are sure to win... Just let him pass and he will slow down...
Its when u try to keep them behind at all costs that they are right on ur tail the whole time...
Whoever raced Earl without restarting is a hero!
I did today. Beat him after 11 years of return in my Chevrolet Cobalt SS 😅
Edit (18th of September, 2024): I beat him again without restarting, this time with Fiat Punto.
@@blaze_02 i did it with the Lexus since this year lol. plan on beating Razor with it too
@@jahhmal i beat earl with stock punto
I did. The real deal is some random shitty speed trap race for jewels,
It's harder to beat Vic than this Earl guy in my opinion... Took him out with Vic's Toyota Supra😂
Earl: you're lucky we're not in 5 races like Razor
i'm ded if there's 5 races against him💀💀
Kewer: calls himself "yousuck" in the game
Earl: and i took that personally "starts rubber banding"
lolllll
I remember kids asking other kids' older brothers over to finish this race
Lmao ahha i was the older brother😹
@@uvuvwevwevweossaswithglasses me too
Haha i asked and my brother refused. Took me about 25 tries at my first game. Now i can beat him on race 1, without the use of speed break.
@@biroattila21 nice
@@nsawatchlistbait289 not nice we just grew up and thats kinda sad and happy too
EARL WAS LISTENING TO DECADENCE IN THIS ONE
So why had his Feed the Addiction off on his radio?
Stfu lmao, Earl was literally Feeding The Addiction because he's a professional driver omegalul, that mf can literally go Lightning McQueen style
Top 5 Hardest blacklist races:
1. Earl’s sprint race
2. JV’s drag race
3. Jewel’s drag race
4. Baron’s drag race
5. Jewel’s sprint race
Honorable mentions:
1. Ming’s speed trap
2. Big Lou’s 2nd circuit race
Edit: in no way are these races “hard”. Definitely still beatable on one try but will give you the most challenge out of the already easy blacklist races. Also adding Ming’s speed trap since he’ll actually keep close in terms of points and hold a lead in the race/pass the finish before you causing you to lose points.
Ronnie keeps crashing and one of them he starts glitching out like the Grip King on nfs pro street
JV's drag race got my palms sweating on that ps2 controller 😂
both ming races was harder than jv
drag races are awful on keyboard
Are you forgeting the 198mph speeding ticket at #1?
That shit was hard from the way it was started.
I remember playing this race back in 2012-13 maybe. At 80% of the race he suddenly starts driving like a God. Straights, corners, it did not matter to him at all, he kept driving like a maniac throughout and made me say such bad words to the monitor that it's not appropriate to put those here. Difficult race indeed.
I agree
So true lol and then we cursed our car like wtf this sh*t is so slow
I saw another video where Earl hits the stone at the 89% of the second race like he did in the video, and he rubberbanded so fast that he nearly overtook the player on the hill before the finish line
It's the game combined with the track, not the enemy. The game was something, which is called a "rubberband-effect" in your language in it's standard-settings. That's the reason aswell, why you won so many races, even when you enemies were far gone for a while (and there exactly comes this effect, it can affect the CPU to drive better or worse to make races more fun). The track is long, has very very much sharp corners and hills, which is not good for most of the cars in the game. You need small, light-weighted cars with good handling. The RX-8 was an okay car for this. RX-7 would have been insanely good. The GTI would have insanely good aswell. Just two examples. It's funny, how naive and one-sighted you are, that you think, you are "the god" for getting enemies, that were 3k miles away, but if computer enemies do this, they are hard or something...
Just don't be in front for all of the race and you can overtake him easy, cause he starts driving very bad at that time...
When i started carreer to unlock all boss cars Earl was the only one that won against me (only once in like 10 races because his car wasn't showing in the cards)😂 so there are 2 possibilities: 1. i'm a pro or 2. Maybe i played it with a powerful pc and there is less rubberband
Plot Twist: Earl has speedbreaker too.
trueeeeee
Doesn't he smoke weed?
Maybe that's the key🤔
@@Millu30yooo 💀💀
@@Millu30 natural speedbreaker😂🚬
Earl is by far the hardest boss of the blacklist in NFS MW, he is programmed to make you hone your skills, that's why there is no traffic so you can drive on the edges.
In my playthrough I disabled the rubber band effect and still he closed those gaps (even 1km gap) so fast at the last 20% of the sprint race.
#1 for me in difficulty, after him the bosses felt so easy.
one of hardest boss in nfs history
The reason why he is rubberbanding even without catch up on is because you dont have a decent top speed yet he reaches 370 kmh with ease on the long straight of the second race i even tried the race with the 100 opponents mod and some earl's reached 400 kmh because they were far behind
You can not fully disable the rubber band, it's hardcoded just like assists in prostreet
@installshieldwizard3017 it's the "catch up" settings. You can turn that off
@@valferdinandmonissabiano8641 But only in quick race
6:38 never have I felt such joy over the sound of someone hitting something!
😅😅😅
You knew it was over when Earl hit that sign but if he doesn't it's a race to the end with him on your door.
@@shaddow2022 He's a nightmare in those last few turns, might not have won if Earl didn't crash there...
Lucky sonofabich❤😂
What makes Earl so difficult is that AI can handle corners much easier than players. That final stretch in the sprint race is a worst case scenario, tight corners which take away your momentum in a game where maintaining a high speed is more important than cornering, grassy edges which take away your traction and therefore your ability to accelerate out of them and the fact that off screen, the AI essentially corners perfectly with no speed loss due to rubberbanding. You can see this when you are far ahead of your opponent. You will notice their arrow suddenly change direction on corners with little to no loss in speed. We have to keep calculating what our car will do between turns, which causes us to overthink and make mistakes, whereas AI just follows the route and it is down to luck whether they hit something (like a perfectly placed statue for example)
I think ai handle corners so well because they use the handbrake. Try handbrakeing around the corner
@@michaelharris-2001the Rubberbanding AI still can take corners at 400kph. It's not the handbrake
Honestly I never knew Earl was hard until I watched this video, actually the game AI made way too much effort to keep the player an all time champion in this game
It took 4 tries for me to beat him, wasnt too hard but the problem was that I was way ahead of him for the first ~85% of the sprint, then in the last few corners he gained rocket speed and overtook me
When I first played the game when I was a kid, yeah he was ridiculously hard to beat. But I played the game again as an adult and surprisingly got past him at the first try.
I believe you but who was hard for you then?
@@djdelarosa25 you probably played 1.3 version which nerfed him a lot
@@violentjingo7899 I did. I didn't know that, makes sense.
Yeah, ill never forget Earl, every playthrough i did, he was the hardest, had to restart once or twice, what a game man, so many memories , had it on pc that didnt work so well, and then on ps2, this is a true masterpiece
this game bring back memories
As a kid, i didn't know about rubberbanding, AI, or any of that stuff, i just thought Earl was the Michael Jordan of drivers and his car the most amazing machine ever created. You can imagine my disappointment after unpluging and reloading my ps2 a million times to get his pink slip and finding out that the car was like B tier
The worst thing about rubberbanding Earl is that you think "wow I can't wait to get his car, this thing must be an absolute rocketship" and then it's just ok.
I thought this car was good,
Great in looks and Good in performance
Naa I liked his car. Used it up until to beat Ronnie haha
Nah, I beat razor multiple times with that evo
@@bigsmoke5837 Big Smoke?
That you?
@@BubbleGumGuy-gx1xjall we had to do was follow the damn train, CJ.
I just did another playthrough of this game and got to about 85% when Earl just sped up beside me and the photo finish was pure badass. Earl flying right above me at the finish line. Its a photo I had to keep
a photo to proof earl is the hardest boss in nfs history
@@KewerMengakakk6262 a photo for the rest of time my guy
yep
Post the proof here
Darius and the LMQ Concept drives very well in the first race and canyon. Usually only way to pass him is in the long round about
It's becuase he drives an EVO, man. Those 4G63Ts are the four banger equivalent if the 2JZ GTE.
Yes i got a eclipse gsx full built 4g63t big garret gt3576r with a 4g63t full built piston valve head ported match injection wather meth with écu dsm link v3 lite is a fking bomb
I can say 4g63t upgrade is a monster
Bro that evo launches perfect everytime plus most of the power is sent forward
Literally the hardest blacklist racer I have faced 50x over. This guy really gave me a hard time every time I faced him and all that just to keep you from entering Rockport City. The toughest thing about Earl was that he knows how to outmaneuver you in tight corners and won't hesitate to use his ride to bump into yours.
yessss
Unfortunately this game had slingshot so it made it far more engaging as you couldn’t just lap your opponent. One reason why I love this Nfs. P.s I decided to buy carbon collectors edition, underground 2 and most wanted but there was no black edition for 360 😭
Slingshot like they will get speed boost ir get teleported behin u if u get too far??
@@aaryanpal1258it's called the rubberband effect ig... It makes the game a bit more engaging. If the opponent is far behind, they'll catch up fast and if the opponent is far ahead, they'll make them slow down. Or else the game would be a bit too easy or hard
@@allentomjose7824 ohh i get it now thank you very much bro
It makes the game bullshit is what it is. Fucking hate rubberbanding. It's literally allowing the AI to cheat, it's unrealistic and unfair
I'm still confused, how Earl is not in the top 5?
This guy deserve better in the blacklist rank
@@ridermanyt8029 fr
He has one of the best looking boss cars the game. If I didn't get his pink slip. I'd do it all over again
fr, one of my favourite blacklist car
Earl was one of the racers in NFS Underground 1
One thing that I want to mention here is that the devs have made a mechanism called "Catch up" which you can't turn off in the main campaign. Sadly this is one of the reasons why every other car even the local racers too will match the potential of your current car even if you upgrade it to the max. But Golf GTI can easily beat any sports, muscle or supercar in this game if you continue to upgrade it. That car is a beast. ❤
That final downhill uturn in the final sprint.. suddenly your car jumps around like a drunk and he drives perfectly.. frustrating and satisfying when beat..
fr
Although most people hate this rubberband mechanic, I personally like it because it gives an opportunity for replay value for games like NFS Most Wanted and Carbon. This rubberband makes beating the game possible in various number of ways, making it interesting to try out and find new ways to have fun with the same old game.
Most Wanted Challenges
1) Beat the game with any bad handling cars. Like Vauxhall Monaro VXR, Mercedes SL500, Aston Martin DB9, Lamborghini Murcielago without using performance tuning to change the steering and handling
2) Beat the game with starter cars alone. Like Lexus IS300, Chevrolet Cobalt SS, Fiat Punto and Volkswagen Golf GTI
3) Beat the game with only stock cars. Meaning any car is allowed but no purchases from the shops
4) Beat the game with stock starter cars only. Meaning only Lexus IS300, Chevrolet Cobalt SS, Fiat Punto and Volkswagen Golf GTI cars are allowed and no performance upgrades or spoiler, body kit purchases should be made. For this challenge, later blacklist milestones regarding speedtraps might need to be done with a separate faster car but other than that, only stock starter car should be used for all cop chases, races and blacklist boss races.
Carbon Challenges
1) Beat the game with muscle cars alone. Especially the older looking ones like Chevrolet Camaro SS, Dodge Charger R/T, Dodge Challenger, Shelby GT500 and Plymouth Hemi Cuda. Corvette and Viper are not allowed because they are too OP.
2) Beat the game with exotic cars alone. Especially lower end ones like Aston Martin DB9, Mercedes CLK500, Mercedes SL65 AMG
3) Beat the game with starter cars alone
4) Beat the final 4 boss race event with every single car in the game
5) Beat the game with stock starter cars alone. No performance upgrades allowed.
In fact some ppl have done which most ppl would think is flat out impossible. Which is beating Carbon with stock Alfa Romeo Brera and stock Chrysler 300C from start to finish.
All these challenges are possible only because of rubberband.
I like rubberbanding because it gives me fun for race with opponent honestly I like earl and razor not for their car also the way they fight you in the race earl split race and razor circuit race
Vic was also a difficult opponent. Much like Earl, during the sprint race, Vic would slingshot his way onto first place when you're like 85% done and because his car is generally better modified than yours there's no way you're gonna catch up to him.
yeah, i feel his first race was difficult
And then you get his Supra and it just wheelspins everywhere xdd
I think it's because Vic and earl have hold of two cities
More than razor and bull ?
@@user7fm9ed8zrazor was honestly pretty easy
Back in the day, this corner at 4:26 is my nightmare. No brakes, no speedbreaker, just pure skill. Now, it was tuesday.
In fairness, even without upgrades the Lancer Evolutions are some impressive machines. But when upgraded and tuned to that degree they're absolute MONSTERS
I agree I defeat razor with earl evo 8 best feeling ever even it was op in carbon
The way my heart was pumping racing this guy 😣😫
😂😂😂
Me: damn looks like we gotta brake at this corner.
Earl: wait we can brake?
6:38 That big stone was the only way 😅 now I remember
yeasss, it's the only way (fr fr)
Bruh, I'll never forget the time Earl catched up on me from 1km distance
That dude skyrocketed even with a lot of corners, EA literally tried to make that A.I one of the hardest Boss in the game
He has some brutal rubberbanding, just let yourself be overtaken before the 70% completion mark and if you retake the position after the AI wont be so stupidly op in the final segment.
Earl will come to life in the final moments of the last race. Especially near Camden beach.
yeahhhh
Honestly.. I've had my real experience in racing with blacklist #9 myself and it took me a while to dominate and it wasn't easy; that car (Evo8) is fast as hell without any debates. Earl is literally the hardest one to defeat😅.
yeah, razor is literally nothing compared to him
Personally found Ronnie harder than him. Him, Earl and Izzie certainly make the top 3 for me
ronnie is harder imo bcs of the tracks
@@Severance-ftIdk bout you guys, but I always WASH Ronnie in every race because to me he's super easy. Even more light work if you can gather all the junkman performance stuff which helps tremendously (people sleep on the junkman stuff and how much faster that can make your car's in game) because Ronnie always hits the first pole after the start and gets stuck there as well as he gets stuck near the big roundabout near the tunnel right around where the small bridge jumps are in the industrial area in Rockport/Camden Beach area on the 1st and 2nd race.
@@jordanprice9285 could ya gimme some info on junkman parts?
if you guys wanat a tip on beating earls sprint... you need to increase the turbo by 1 and increase the nitrous by 2, when you get to 56% or 57% of the sprint race conveniently just as you are entering the city...
then once you exit the beach at 69% put the controles vice versa order...
btw also always reduce the breaks to nill for max speed🙂...trust me
You are right bro. This guy is tougher than Razor and I think he should be number one on the black list.
His rubberbanding is ridiculous, but it also benefits you if you are behind. Last time I beat him I just crashed and spun on purpose for the first 60-70% of the race giving him a huge lead and I still got him in the end. I think this strategy is actually easier than driving legit
Man I gotta tell you I got this kind of anxiety from only 2 things, Earl's Ride and 'Dahaka' Chasing you in POP Warrior Within, those were the 2 of the most stressful moments I've ever had in my childhood, thanks for this video broo!! made my day!!
It's also worth noting this is the last Blacklist Rival you race, that uses a Japanese car in the upcoming line up.
It's actually kinda crazy to think that in the next game the only two boss cars that are Japanese Tuners are Kenji's RX7 and the Evo IX 🤪🤭
That's the only way to defeat Earl in that sprint race, when you make sure that he misses that last curve cut and hits the statue😂
definitely rightttt
6:41 When Earl crash on this location, thats a win secure.
yeppp
It’s been almost 20 years and I still remember that S turn towards the end of the sprint, I don’t know how many times I lost to him there as a kid.
The trick for speedtraps is to wait a few seconds before leaving the start, that way you can focus better on getting speed, instead of crashing into other pilots and losing points. If you can get 100 km/h of advantage over another pilot, you're actually 10 seconds ahead of him.
I really didn't find every blacklists too hard it's just the traffic that is terrifying, i only use 1 car when i finally unlock it, and it's the ford mustang
Bro after beating the blacklist racer, the best feeling in the world is knowing that you get the pink slip to their car
fr
I beat him using porshe Cayman.
I stopped playing this game because of earl, but then one day i decided Earl gotta go.
Made him crash and won at the last moment.
Mann he was hard to beat.
The most annoying part was if you didnt get the car at the end its “welp, do over”😩
ikrrrrrr
The worst part of all!!😅
I didn't get the car, but the thought of going through hell all over again was too scary for me to retry
On Carbon, if I don't win Angie's Charger, I just buy one and upgrade it. That thing is a powerhouse
Years after finishing the game, I got to know there is a time slow feature, damn all spikes I went through and restarted pursuits.
And thats one of the many reasons that make old games good, they are actually challenging
6:40 I died while at that conner.
but with a great luck, you can defeat him on that corner :D
You can easily kill Earl by hitting that church sign, that way he won't rubberband until he gets back up again.
I've finished the game without touching the pursuit braker. Not even once. Later got to know it's usage.
And in this, you can easily defeat earl using baron's porsche Cayman. Its getting tough here because of the Mazda.
Ok I know it's not just me at the second race with Earl there are two turns where he somehow magically speeds up and it was so annoying I played most wanted a few times when I was younger Earl was the most annoying
he should be the #1, not razor hahahhaha
@@KewerMengakakk6262 agreed 👍💯
Yes I had my share in that experience 😂😂😂 it's kinda frustrating after a little while
5:06 finally, someone who knows how to do a late apex in long corners for better exits.
What is late apex
A what in what for what
Is there any other way to move than that, in such corners? Like how?
Earl Baron Ming... These 3 hold the blacklist
6:27 This is the turning point of the race
I too had used an Evo 8 several times, but couldn't defeat him
The time i used Baron's Cayman i had gotten him but at the moment guy turned on his rocket 🚀💀
Then i was able to defeat him with evo 8 itself 😂
I can confirm thelat the rubberband ai is a thing. Even with infite super boosters they'll catch up to you in a minute even when theres a 2000+ meters gap between you and the racers. Not just with him but with ALL racers. Earl just had a really amped up rubberband AI for some reason lmao.
Man I don’t know why but Earl is tougher than any other Blacklist member...
that's true, he is the hardest for me
I defeated Earl with luck. Towards the Sprint's finale maybe 70-75%, he kinda got stuck which gave me enough time to get too far ahead from him
6:40 Earl: Ahh shit, here we go again
lol
Notice how Earl’s best time is 4:24 yet OP finished at 3:53? If Earl hadn’t crashed he’d have beaten his best time by 30s, which is like 11% faster. Ego (aka rubber-banding) is the best performance part!
The key to defeat EARL in last race is to use speedbreakers wisely especially at the difficult corners and disable the speedbreaker when your car is alligned perfectly with the track and also dont forget to use the NITRO when your speed gets below 150 kmph or 95 mph and maintain your speed to 240 kmph or 150 mph
Therefore you will be able to defeat EARL easily
I also used this strategy to defeat EARL by using BARON's porsche............
You read my mind perfectly. Yea. That's what I just did 😂😂
This was so satisfying to watch, you drive so well & fast. Bringing back memories
ohhh, thankyou
Without rubberband you could say; he tuned his car so illegaly, this is also exotics and muscles.
what i've learned from this video: this guy uses speedbreaker really well
thank you man! :)
Earl, my favorite blacklister. I always take pride in taking his ride and whooping everything else with it. Probably my 2nd favorite car of NFS MW BE 2005
In my Perfectionist runs of Most Wanted, I had to confront most of the bosses several times on hard difficulty to get the pink slip as a first card (on first reveal) and Junkman parts as second, and I never had any problems with beating each of them. I started following some NFS:MW content on YT recently and I came across a lot of players struggling with Earl on easy mode... which is totally mind-boggling to me.
I am disappointed that people underestimated the Lancer Evolution VIII.
I think this is mostly due to the lancer already being a faster car, while also being AWD and the circuits having a lot of uphill roads
I didn’t realize how hard he was until this video. I never restarted this race I need to do another play through of this game I love it. I remember I made multiple profiles for this game lol.
Imagine earl was blacklist #1 and having 5 different types of race to against him 💀
that might gonna be my worst nightmare ever💀
It's going to be racing horror game
And having him using speed hacks (Rubberbanding)against you
Race him dirty if you want to win. If you want to race him clean, you'll keep pressing that restart.
Earl is infamous to take the last turn before the finish line. He is the only blacklist member to have a great tailgate gap and is always close to winning.
I never had a problem with him usually because ive always had Baron's Porsche, so it was always a breeze. Played through that game countless times and somehow always got Baron's car.
Same because i was trying to unlock every boss's car
Wow. After more than 10 yrs, refreshing childhood memories. This dude uses Slow motion at some steep curves. I had done it without slow-mo... And I was 13 then
That RX8 is such a beast
I actually never known the community considers Earl as the hardest one since i beat him on the first try
JV however... Let's not talk about how many retries needed for me to beat him (i did saw some people who also considers JV as the hardest one)
Idk if beating Earl meant that the game was going to get easier from there - that only happened if you won Ming's Gallardo. What I do know is that the pursuits were gonna be hell after Earl.
Pursuit kind a easy in heat level 5 you just need to avoid crash, spiketrap and Rhino rest one is easy
6:40 even rubberbanding won't help him now!!!!!
the way he got stucked😂
@@Xenoplays1.0 LMFAOOOOOO, FRFRFRFR
Him and Vic were unusually hard. Tip 5 are easy because by then you have a pretty much complete car with even some junkman parts
Man I remember racing this without any slowmo just full speed and racing like Chick Hicks from Cars.
Bro he was the only one who made me cry...
same
I beat him with my over tuned Supra. That borderline 360 degree turns at 4:00 and 4:27 were hell. The mental toll of maintaining the lead for that long track was crazy
Earl brake checks a lot, i needed to retry 4 times even with a fully upgraded Evo 8 (fully upgraded with parts available at that stage in the game, not ultimate parts)
When I first played NFS and got to earl I won all the races with him on my first try
I remember when i play this Game in My Gamecube, win the golf and race to go 6 with ming.
If You want the most easy to all, win the golf and upgrade it, (he coming with turbo and that help in the start or exit in the curves)
This mf Earl beat me so many times right at the final jump of the 2nd race. I was just a kid and got so pissed off 😂
lmfaooo
I had the Toyota Supra fully maxed out and It still took me multiple retries to beat him literally made me want to snap the game in half.
me too, hahahhaaha
Literally me 15yrs ago
I always found myself restarting that race 2-3 times every time I get to him
It’s very sad moment when you finally manage to beat him then you get unlucky and don’t get his car
Never! I sold my soul to the devil for that lancer every God damn time 😂
The AI Race Path for Earl is designed to be hard, and I experienced it myself, I have a max'ed out vehicle (apparently by using ExtraOptions + Junkman parts) and the AI still manages to catch up to me.
The rubber banding for this game sucks imo, it's obv noticable when you somewhat cheat the game by having a max'ed out car early in the career mode.