NIGHT-RUNNERS PROLOGUE

NIGHT-RUNNERS PROLOGUE

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The Best Beginners Guide to Night Runners
By kale
This is a guide specifically made for beginners, mid/late game content won't be covered.
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Step 1: What car do I buy?
Your first car is guaranteed to be either the Sannis Livisa 180RS or 200RS.
What's the difference between the two?

  • The 180RS has a 5MT (or a 4AT), which provides more torque than the 200RS
  • The 200RS has a 6MT (or a 4AT), which provides quicker acceleration than the 180RS, and has a sunroof unlike the 180RS.

Your first car in this game should be have no major issues, any car with major issues are bound to suck.

I HIGHLY recommend you try to get a grade 4 or 5 car, as these cars are the few with nearly if not PERFECT engines.

Never buy a car in this game with an automatic transmission, they are significantly slower than their 5 speed/ 6 speed manual counterparts. Not only are they rather slow, but the racers on Tatsumi PA WILL call you out.

If you can't find a car with these requirements, restart the game and look at the auction house again.
Step 2: Who and where to challenge to races
Once you get your car, you have to head over to the Tatsumi PA to challenge your first racer.

Obviously, since you're riding in a stock car, you should challenge the easiest driver available for you to challenge, who is Daisuke.

In Night runners, you're required to put in a wager before a race starts.

The first racers you challenge won't be too difficult, but will get progressively more difficult as you challenge faster and faster racers.

When you win races, you get Rep. With Rep, you get to challenge higher tier races at the cost of them being difficult.
Step 3: What do I buy for my car?
Since in this game, AI rubberbanding has the potential to softlock your save (when you run out of money and can't win races anymore, which has happened to me), so you have to upgrade your car to stay ahead of the other racers on the road.

If you plan on actually winning races, I strictly recommend to only buy performance upgrades until you get rich. When you get rich and have money to spare, buy upgrades first and then buy cosmetics.

Currently, the best upgrade setup for beginners are:
  • Semi-slick tires
  • Prototype camshafts
  • NOS

Even with the upgrades, you should lose less races but you will still lose fairly often, no matter what.
Extras
No, you can't change your name without resetting your playersave.

The AI in this game fear two things:
  • Tunnels
  • Corners

For some reason, when you get ridiculously behind/ahead, your opponent has a tendency to fall through the map. Because of this, winning is just that much more easy during the new patch.

Regarding the engine light colors, your performance doesn't get affected until it shows up red

Feel free to message me if I missed anything :D

The Mid-game guide is up now, so when you get passed the early stages of the game feel free to move on from this guide.
46 Comments
coz 10 May @ 12:39am 
okays guys basically add 5 bilon horsepower to your car but also cooling so it doesnt explode, get better suspension so you dont fly into the guardrail and mac 2 and use a controller to spare your sanity

also xy to shift on controller and qe on pc i think idk
gsavin 25 Mar @ 6:10pm 
where do i do performance upgrades? only see customize
Tako 21 Feb @ 12:09am 
to open map press start button on the controller and d pad down to map and d pad left or right to change locations
to open gps press d pad left then to change the map size press d pad up
tyrese 30 Jan @ 7:58pm 
bro i cant even move cant reset car cant open map
neongameing09 12 Jan @ 5:15am 
Hi man, just added the game to library and started using a controller but still can't understand how to operate the map and GPS. Help!
Roberto 9 Jan @ 5:59pm 
how do improve 0-100km, acceleration
sandler 4 Jan @ 11:31am 
where can do performance upgrades? I did like 3 races and just got some nice bumper etc xD
kale  [author] 16 Jul, 2024 @ 7:15pm 
do an oil change bro....
TheHoope 12 Jul, 2024 @ 4:56pm 
how repair engine ?:D
i win race 36 with engine light lol
kale  [author] 27 Jun, 2024 @ 5:07pm 
by reparing your engine....