Im just some guy on RU-vid who posts videos here and there, but for the love of god dont watch my old videos or you will be damned to my age of cringe when i knew no bounds of my own pubescent horror.
For those who don’t know what happened or are confused, the cop and racer ending are both connected. In the racer ending, Zephyr crashes into the police blockade. In the news highlight, it was feared that Zephyr was dead, but he isn’t. After Zephyr wakes up, he starts up the damaged Ferrari and drives off, never to be heard again. In the cop ending, the cop (fate) takes down Zephyr, but he spins out and was left in critical condition. Fate was then terminated because of his actions. Some time later, Zephyr never to be heard again, Fate takes Zephyr’s spot as the top racer. So here’s my theory. Fate caused Zephyr to crashed into the police blockade by spinning him out, but that also caused Fate to spin out as well. In the end, Zephyr isn’t dead nor arrested. He either left the county or retired from street racing altogether.
I see these as one giant connection, no matter which side you play. If you play more as the racer and complete its story, you finish the race but in turn zephyr crashes and is likely in a dream and remember the News says that he can't likey survive something like that. It's unfortunately the quote that seals the deal for this character "they say that speed kills, but if you aren't speeding, you ain't living." It means if you are not pushing yourself to the limit, you're not really experiencing your true potential and I think that's the last moments zephyr ever has of true life and likey died in the hospital or Right then and there. and for the cop, I think I can patch together with the racer when you take down zephyr. You and your car are left in critical condition as you run to the hospital with zephyr. The cops terminate you from the force because of how reckless you were to take zephyr down. In turn you are enraged and become a full-time street Racer and inherit your F-8 (or fate) name You become the new best street racer in Red view county and continue pushing street racing further further into Red view county Identity in the end it's the end of a racer's life and the start of another.
Honestly normally I don't say it but I love the german voice more than the emglish one. In the cop ending the cop sounds a little insane and in the racer ending zephyr sounds more hurt and overall it's more epic in german language
I think the last missions should've been a 1v1 pvp only mission to make what ever u think would be cannon because both f8 and zephyr are master drivers so therefore should be a player vs player thing as that's what it would really be like instead of fighting bots x3 it would make it really interesting to see how things play out tho cops helicopter spike strip spam can be a little annoying some times I say this as a racer and cop like I just find it op ;-;
Would've been cool, but that would basically mean that if the servers ever shut down (which I believe is happening soon) you could never play that last mission again
F8/Fate became the very thing he swore to take down or he could be on another undercover mission while the Red-view county PD says they ‘fire’ him just so that other racers won’t know anything
He did got fired. However both the cops and racers don’t know that the cop in the campaign was exactly F8. Zephyr points it out but it’s not really proven. F8 after getting fired assumedly steals the Enzo back from the impound lot and it’s when he turns into a fully fledged racer as a form of “payback” from getting kicked out of the force. Idk both ending just really end with this bitter cliffhanger that leaves more questions than answers tbh
Not really. F-8 wanted to capture Zephyr so he crashed into him as hard as he could, so Zephyr is "killed". Cops caught him "killing" a criminal, so they terminated him for his reckless actions. F-8 got furious and decided to join Zephyr (the racers) against the cops.
Im glad in the race ending zephyr basically dies because it shows the cops success in the end and it shows how they have taken the w and stopped racing but in the police version i think is actually cool in a sense
well this was the last decent nfs game that i played, payback was just a slot machine simulator, and heat was just optimised so bad is was just abandoned but atleast heat was fun
Probably because his unsanctioned clandestine operation was discovered. During the Go Rouge cutscene, notice RCPD64 (a fellow officer F8 was chatting with) commented his actions as "This is crossing the line."
Note: F8 = the protagonist of the COP career. Zephyr = the protagonist of the RACER career. *COP CAREER ENDING THEORY* F8 was terminated from the police force after going after Zephyr, he first became F8 after "Going Rogue" which is chapter 5, I believe. F8 busted 10 racers, and in chapter 6, "Shot at the big leagues" it shows information of how F8 triggered major racer violence overnight. When F8 attacked Zephyr and won, they were terminated from the force and got pissed off, turning to become a racer. *RACER CAREER ENDING THEORY* Zephyr started out as a small racer, who then gained extreme notoriety. In a race, they won and then crashed and his fate unrevealed. Please note I have _not_ played the RACER career too far, I have only played the COP career up to "Promoted" so far.
@@GTAniko2008 if you notice cutscenes and hear the news broadcast you will see that Zephyr actually proved he is not afraid of the cops and F8 was not his rival. On the other hand F8 was working for the FBI and was carrying out their plan on taking out Zephyr once and for all. And in doing so F8 realized that the FBI betrayed him and fired him out from the Police Squad. F8 was just following orders. So after the betrayal, and Zephyr being dead due to the collision caused by F8, F8 decided to take Zephyr's place and become the ultimate Rival against Racers as well as Cops so that's why he said he is now unbound, unshackled and free and thus he challenge everyone to beat him and in doing so he will make the racers famous, and give other rookie cops purpose. Because Zephyr opened his eyes completely. I hope this will clarify you more clearly now. This game was actually like the Batman V Superman movie because of the similarities.
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What I think happened: zephyr drove into the road block and is presumed dead but then awakens and drives away but then chapter 10 of the cop career happens: as zephyr is driving away f8 comes after him but zephyr manages to outrun him so then f8 proceeds to collide as hard as he with zephyr which makes him critically injured but zephyr escaped again. Then f8 gets terminated from the vrt and joins zephyr against the cops. There's alot of hints that zephyr survived both crashes like the engine sound at the end of the race ending and if u pay close attention to the cop ending you can't zephyr's car in the crash site that means he manages to run away
I just finished rivals and 2015 yesterday(ps4) but for cop career i was happy it wasn't like the final race for the racer career that was pure torture with the veneno and its horrible durability
@@theblacktrainboy373 should have used the huayra, also saving/farming some points for its upgrades. safe strat is using max level jammers and turbo, the CD on jammer gets so low and its duration so high, you can be constantly nullyfying all the cops techs, including the chopper and roadblocks (which are simply stupid in rivals as the former can just shit spike strips while moving and roadblocks can consist of JUST a ton of spike strips with near no gap)
@@dbclass4075 after posting that comment I proceeded to finish need for speed rivals many times and now I've become too lazy to play the game now 2015 is not very good I've finished for ppl 3 times now I think if I play nfs rivals then it's to destroy ppl for no reason
I feel like VRT made up the cop we play as for being fired, as they know that every racer in the county would go nuts if he was still on duty, instead the cop took up the alias of F8 and is deep undercover for the VRT
No, cop ending is continuation of racers ending, after zephyr starts his engine, you can hear police siren approaching fast at zephyr (racers cut scene ends) 0:50 (Zephyr saying about "they say the speed kills but if you aren't speeding, then you aren't living" which further implies his fate) That police siren is f-8 going full speed at half dead zephyr then hitting already destroyed p1 so hard that he was terminated from the force for reckless driving, he may have critically injured or straight up killed zephyr so zephyr cannot race ever again. After termination f-8 took zephyr's place as a top racer)
@@soniclink-mr3ci i don't think so, why did f-8 got terminated from the force? Reckless driving? The vrt had rights to cause chaos for racers so that's not the reason. I think reckless driving is not about ramming into the car but severely injuring or straight up killing zephyr.
@@Silberfisch62_Xbox woah this comment was 2 years ago and i recently got back into rivals, and i still can't help but say why in the world does zephyr almost die because of a crash that is extremely tame compared to other crashes
@@ydertbh5742 Yeah, they could have made something more dangerous then like if F8 (police campaign) used too much violence they could have just made him shoot (with a gun) at Zephyr or something. Would make more sense then.
