Need for Speed: Undercover Road Map and Trophy Guide

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Need For Speed Undercover
Trophy Guide and Road Map

Useful links
Official Website - http://www.needforspeed.com/
Trophy Boosting Thread - http://www.ps3trophies.org/forum/need-speed-undercover/11726-trophy-boosting-thread.html
Review - http://www.gametrailers.com/video/review-need-for/42885
Platinum Difficulty Rating Thread - http://www.ps3trophies.org/forum/need-speed-undercover/11739-platinum-difficulty-rating.html

Overview
-Estimated Trophy Difficulty 4.38/10
-Trophy Breakdown: 46 , 1 , 3 , 1
-Offline Trophies 42
-Online Trophies 9
-Approx Time To Platinum 25-35hrs
-Minimum Number of Playthrough Required 1
-Number of Missable Trophies None, can replay races
-Glitched Trophies Notorious
-Do Cheat Codes Disable Trophies No

Introduction
For those of you that haven't played Need For Speed games, they are a simple street racing game. In Undercover you take the place of an Undercover cop trying to get to the 'big boys' of the streets. (I'm not going to spoil it for you, you get the idea anyway). The fun thing is that it seems that the police are unaware of who you are and chase you, giving the game the added fun of destroying object that are large to try and block the cars getting through. The racing is as always the best part of need for speed with tons of cars for you to choose from. At the start of the Career the races are won with no trouble at all but then for me it seemed that even after pimping out the spec of my Lancer the opponents were on a completely different level. For me this is a good game and was a step away from all the shooters that I have been playing recently and in a way reminded me of the original NFS.
The trophies themselves are easy to get and I didn't encounter many problems whilst palying the game. The only problem you will most likely suffer is the disconnection of

How to go about getting trophies
Step 1 - Offline Trophies
The offline trophies mostly are done in the story mode so I would say play through that first and collect all the trophies to do with the story. After completing the story start to get the trophies where you have to dominate an event, there are 8 races that have to be dominated in the game and they count towards the trophy 'Own the Road'. When going for the 'Completionist' you would earn most of the other offline trophies as well. Offline really isn't a problem and you can always have the choice of going back to finished races afterwards.
-Time taken for offline 15-20 hours

Step 2 - Online Trophies
For some of the online trophies it will require you to have an EA Nation account. By creating one or logging into an existing account you will earn the 'Community Member' trophy. Also when in a race press start and go into the 'Photo Mode'. Take one picture and you'll earn yourself another trophy, but this also requires an EA Nation account. For 'First!', 'Crossing the Line' and 'First of Many' I would suggest starting a Cops N' Robbers game and hope for 7 other people to join. Online is pretty dead so this trophy may need some boosting. As long as your on the winning team you'll get two but you need to come top so having a good car and being quick on your feet when the money appears on the map will mean your more likely to. From playing Cops N' Robbers you also have the chance of getting the Viral Trophy, 'Cat and Mouse Virus'. Many people have been infected so you'll easily get this by just playing.
Notorious is a trophy many people are having trouble with as they believe they have met the requirement and completed 119 races. Make sure you don't get disconnected or quit midway through a race as that means that won't count to the total. Also make sure you cross the finish line because after someone has passed the line it sets off a timer. Cops N' Robbers is the best way to get the 119 finishes as you can sit idle in this and they will still count. By finishing 119 Cops N' Robbers, your bound to earn 'Among the Best' as well.
-Time taken for online 7-10 hours

-Overall Time needed to finish Need for Speed: Undercover - 22-30 hours

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Platinum Trophy
Platinum Trophy
Just get every other trophy in the game.

Community Member
Create or use an existing account to sign into EA Nation
Easy one, just register for EA Nation. Doesnt take long to register.

Active Community Day
Participate in any Community Day
EA sometimes hold random events that could be race weekends and the like. Just finish an event on a community day and you should get the trophy. It regularly occurs but I would hurry up before Need for Speed Shift comes out as I believe EA will stop working on this game. To see if a community day is coming up go to http://www.needforspeed.com/ or look on the forums.

First!
Won a Multiplayer Ranked Game
Just play online and win. If you are having any trouble doing so then I would suggest posting for some help in the boosting thread. The best game to choose is Cops N' Robbers because your in teams and have more chance of winning

Cat and Mouse Virus
Infected with the Cops N' Robbers virus by another player in Cops and Robbers Event
This trophy is a viral trophy and is obtained by hitting your car into an opposing players car who has it. It is widely spread now and you shouldn't have to much problems with this one. If you are struggling just use the forums trophy boosting thread to see if anyone would help you with it.

Crossing the Line
Win a Ranked Multiplayer Cops N' Robbers Event
Just play a lot on this event and you will get better at it. Otherwise just boost with a boosting partner. A good team is your best bet. You could get this in your first 3 attempts of playing. If you are going for the 119 wins you'll learn the tracks and know which parts to go to and steal the money or stop robbers from having the money. If your on the robbers team it helps to have a fast car to get past the cops. Avoid ramming the cops if you have money because your likely to lose the money before you get to the destination.

First of Many
Win a Ranked Multiplayer event against 7 other human players
This can be fairly difficult. Just make sure in the lobby when going into the race their is 8 people. If someone disconnects during the race and you still win, it counts. Try this on Cops N' Robbers as its the easiest to achieve first.

Learner's Permit
Acquire your first car in Career Mode
This is story related and cannot be missed.

Zack Trap
Complete the Zack sequence in 'The Trap' mission
This will come as you progress through the story. You will have to face Zack and beat him to get this. His car can be easily taken down in a few hits so this shouldn't be a problem

Bowling with Hector
Complete the Hector sequence in the mission 'Kingpin'
This will come as you progress through the story. You will have to face Hector and defeat him to carry on the story. Just make sure that you have enough speed when going to hit his car as if you go slow hardly any damage will be dealt.

To Protect and Serve
Complete the Carmen sequence in the mission 'Rematch'
This is a different mission where two guys are following the car that Carmen is in. Stay close to Carmen until they come. Keep close and take down the two black cars. Make sure Carmen's car doesn't take much damage.

Nickel and Dimes
Complete the Nickel sequence in the mission 'Payback'
Another story one. Eventually you will get a call telling you to take down Nickel. Just destroy his car and the trophy will pop up. This is more harder than the previous ones as his car is faster and police are on you.

2 Birds, 1 Stone
Complete the mission Double Trouble
This is close to the end of the career, soon after Nickel has been taken down you will be asked to take down Rose, then straight after G-Mac. Again not difficult just dont mess up and try not to get caught by police

Meet Zack
Face off against Zack in 'Rush Hour'
One of the first trophies you will get. Just beat Zack in a highway battle. This is easily done and the race is a straight down a highway, the only problems you'll have are with the traffic so you would need to manouvre around them, Zack won't interfere with you.

Meet Carmen
Face off against Carmen in 'The Game'
Another character you will have to race. Beat Carmen in a highway battle. This is easily done and the race is a straight down a highway, the only problems you'll have are with the traffic so you would need to manouvre around them, Carmen won't interfere with you.

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Meet Hector
Face off against Hector in 'Versus'
Again just beat Hector in a highway battle. These trophies I cannot explain any easier it's a 1-on-1 race and you need to win. This is easily done and the race is a straight down a highway, the only problems you'll have are with the traffic so you would need to manouvre around them, Hector won't interfere with you.

Meet Nickel
Face off against Nickel in 'Road Rage'
Defeat Nickel in a highway battle. Just stay ahead of him and try not to crash. This is easily done and the race is a straight down a highway, the only problems you'll have are with the traffic so you would need to manouvre around them, Nickel won't interfere with you.

Meet Rose
Face off against Rose in 'Rollercoaster'
Final person you have to beat in a highway battle in the game, just get the distance ahead of her and win. No need to dominate any highway battles for all story characters. This is easily done and the race is a straight down a highway, the only problems you'll have are with the traffic so you would need to manouvre around them, Rose won't interfere with you.

5 Finger Discount
Complete all Hot Car Missions
These are the missions in the career where you have steal a car and take it to the destination. Dont try and be slow hoping the cops will think you're normal. They Don't. Go fast, brake or let go of the acceleration in turnings and you shouldn't have a problem getting the car with the minimal amount of damage made to it

Apprentice Mechanic
Customize a car in Career mode
To do this you must have unlocked a parts shop for any tier car and then on the gps go there. Customize your car and the trophy should appear

Freeze! Hold it right there!
Take a photo and upload it to NeedforSpeed.com
Press start and go into photo mode take a picture. You need an EA Nation account for this

Gold Coast to Ocean
Dominate the Gold Coast to Ocean event
See 'North River Expressway' trophy

East Fasulo Bridge
Dominate the East Fasulo Bridge event
See 'North River Expressway' trophy

Pine Creek & Douglas
Dominate the Pine Creek & Douglas event
See 'North River Expressway' trophy

South Canyon Hwy
Dominate the South Canyon Hwy event
See 'North River Expressway' trophy

East I-5
Dominate the East I-5 event
See 'North River Expressway' trophy

Bay Drive & Harbor
Dominate the Bay Drive & Harbor event
See 'North River Expressway' trophy

Tri-City Run
Dominate the Tri-City Run event
See 'North River Expressway' trophy

North River Expressway
Dominate the North River Expressway event
For all the individual race trophies not only do you have to win, but you have to dominate the races as well. So if you mess up it could be the end for you, just race in a decent car

-Bugatti Veyron
-Pagini Zonda

Any of these two are brilliant for winning in but are pretty hard to control. The races range from easy to medium difficulty but you will need a good car. The hardest ones are the 'North River Expressway' and 'Tri-City Run' so try not to mess up on those ones. To do dominate a race you have to win the race and also do it under a certain amount of time.

Window Shopper
Discovered all 3 Pro Shops in Career
You will unlock the last pro shops a while after you beat Rose for the first time. Story related so cannot be missed

Chase or be Chased
Win all highway battles in Career
This is one of the easier types of races you will encounter in the game and you just have to get past a certain distance or stay ahead until the timer runs out. If you have the Bugatti Veyron which I strongly reccommend that you get, then you should win all of these no problem. They can be finsihed after the story is completed and do not have to be dominated.

Lose the Eye in the Sky
Escape from a helicopter in a successfully completed pursuit
This needs to be done after you have reached Wheelman level 8 and just cause havoc and get the police on you, eventually if the pursuit has gone on long enough the police will bring out a heli. If you keep riding the heli will eventually leave. They are difficult to out-manouvre. Having a fast car would help but no matter what car you are in, the helicopter is faster than you. The helicopter has a time limit for when it runs out of fuel, I am not sure what the time limit is but just wait it out. The cops aren't much of a hassle and even when the helicopter is on you they can't seem to find you easily.

Path of Destruction
Disable 10 Police Cars in a Pursuit and successfully evade in Career
This will come easily when you are going back to do event. Some Cop Takeout events require more than 10 cars to be disabled so try it when going for them events

Get out of the way!
Avoid 5 Road Blocks in a Pursuit and evade in Career
This will come easier later and also if you have had a car for so long it will have a bigger heat (The red bar on the left) If the Heat level is over 3 then Road Blocks will be set up more to try and stop you. If you're driving fast enough you should ram through them and take out a car in the process. Listen out when they say they are putting spikes on the road.

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Aficionado
Purchase or win any 5 cars for your garage
You should get this when you recieve your last pink slip car or before if you have purchased any more cars before. Just buy 5 Tier 4 cars if you want it early.

Keys to the City
Unlock Port Crescent in Career
This is the final part of the map that you need to unlock and will come about 70% through the career.

Branching Out
Unlock Sunset Hills in Career
Just unlock this area of the map. It will come when going through the career.

Hired Goons
Take out all 'Goons' in Career
These are the missions after you took out Rose and G-Mac, they are the last remaining Goons that you have to defeat so just take out their car.

Unstoppable Force
Avoid 50 Road Blocks in Career
This should be gotten when playing naturally. Don't ram through the blocks but there should usually be a gap between the cars, either on the left or right. Go that way and you would have avoided. Do this 50 times for the trophy

Wasting Tax Dollars
Get $100,000 Cost To State in a single pursuit and evade
More difficult than it sounds, try going for a Cost to State event which is about Wheelman 13 or 14, as these would have more cars chasing you. Don't take cars down individually its better if you look on your GPS and see where the closest pursuit breaker is (The yellow caution signs). Make sure a lot of cars are following you and with every pursuit breaker you could get 7 or 8 cars. Do this a few times and you will eventually get $100,000.

Spiked Punch
Avoid a spike strip in a Pursuit and successfully evade in Career
When you have avoided a few road blocks in a single pursuit you will hear that they will be laying down spike strips. Listen carefully to where they say it is (Left or Right) and go the opposite way slowly to be safe. The idle cars wont move until you pass them so dontworry bout them.

Lose the Fuzz
Successfully complete 5 Pursuits
Easy and one of the first trophies that you'll get pursuits can last from 20 seconds to over 5 mins and get harder the more time spent in one. Just turn a lot. Dont go straight down a road they'll know where you're going

Scrapheap
Disable 100 Police Vehicles
Do some cop takedowns and you'll eventually get it. You can average 5-6 takedowns in a single pursuit if you have a good enough car.

Nothing Stock
Discovered all 3 Tuning Shops in Career
Unlocked as you go along, just play career. They, on the GPS are called Parts Shops.

Own The Road
Dominate 25 Events in Career
This is another easy trophy like most of them. Just dominate 25 events. I would worry if you havent done this before the career is over. Some races you'll get by luck and skill. Just play and get better. To dominate a race you have to win the race and also complete it under a certain time.

Love Thy Tires
Avoid 12 Spike Strips total in Career pursuits
This will come naturally, hear out for when the police are putting down and you could get at least 3 in a single pursuit

Among the Best
Won 25 Ranked Multiplayer Events
The easiest way to do this is in Cops and Robbers as your in teams and have more chance of winning. Just win 5 times and dont let your team do all the work. Or you could try and boost this so look in the boosting thread

Notorious
Finish 119 Multiplayer Races in any posistion
Normal Method - Just race. DNF dont count towards this so you actually need to race. This is a very time consuming trophy.
Quick method - Put on Cops n Robbers, and stay idle, read a book watch some TV, go to sleep, these count and their is no posistion. It counts matches not rounds though. This is the easier option and I am sure most people would prefer to do it that way.
As of late the servers have become pretty bugged so you are more likely to get disconnected now, check back to the game regularly if your doing the quick method.

Retired
Finish the Career Story
Just play the story and defeat the last person (No Spoilers here) and the gold trophy will pop up

Completionist
Dominate 100% of Career by beating all the track records.
Many people are getting confuzed with this. Its misleading saying 'Dominate'. You do not need to dominate anything just win every single event and make the Overall Completion 100%, Not Career Completion. All races, jobs, pursuits, cop takedowns etc count towards the percentage so just win every single event and don't worry about dominating.

Most Wanted
Successfully Complete 50 Pursuits
Easiest out of all 3 Golds. With all Cop Takedowns, Cost to States and random pursuits during races, you shouldn't have a problem getting this one.

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This guide is now complete, tips are always welcome though.

[solracthesin]

you dont have to dominate all races, i didnt and i got the completionist trophy. Unless ur talking about the master events, then yea u have to

[deejaydoc09]

Originally Posted by solracthesin

you dont have to dominate all races, i didnt and i got the completionist trophy. Unless ur talking about the master events, then yea u have to

So just master races need to be dominated? That would be better/easier lol

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If you are not purchasing the PSN pack with the Koeniggseg CCX then I strongly recommend that you purchase the Bugatti Veyron as soon as it becomes available because the Highway Battles become rather difficult. Also when you are doing Cost to State, Cop Take Out etc try not to outrun the cops too much as the AI is dumb and they quickly lose interest if you get too far in front. Try to get a few cops behind you before activating the Pursuit Breakers, stopping and waiting near Pursuit Breakers if needs be.

[ma11hew]

Originally Posted by deejaydoc09

So just master races need to be dominated? That would be better/easier lol

is this true ?

because i have been flat out re-playing races.
i read a few things that said everything must be dominated except for jobs. !

[solracthesin]

Originally Posted by ma11hew

is this true ?

because i have been flat out re-playing races.
i read a few things that said everything must be dominated except for jobs. !

yea, after i beat all the races, i got my completionist trophy and i had alot of races that werent dominated. or maybe it just gave it to me, but i dont think so.