The Long Drive, but you're hot. Drive The Long Drive's endless road in first or third person while Need for Speed Heat style cops hunt you down. The Long Drive's own driving physics stay.
Controls
| Key | What it does |
|---|---|
| Enter | Open the garage (tuning) while stopped inside the yellow circle |
| N (hold) | Nitrous (buy it in the garage first) |
| T | Steal a parked or wrecked cop car (on foot, next to it) |
| C | Third-person view (The Long Drive's own key) |
What's in it
- Wanted level 1–5: patrols, ramming cruisers, roadblocks and a helicopter with a searchlight. Get boxed in for 5 seconds and you're BUSTED: you lose half your cash and go back to your last save.
- Garages every 5 km: stop in the yellow circle and press Enter. Tuning works like Need for Speed Heat, in grades Stock → Street → Pro → Race → Elite → Ultimate, for:
- Engine & Turbo
- Transmission (up to 400 km/h)
- Tires & Suspension
- Brakes
- Chassis
- Nitrous
- Body kits and paint: try parts on for free, then press Buy to keep them.
- Free car at every garage: take it (your old car is sold) or sell it for cash.
- Make money: distance driven, staying hot, and wrecking cops by ramming or shooting them.
- Lose your heat in one of three ways:
- wait it out in a garage circle;
- grab a blue plate swap: it drops 2 stars and makes you invisible for 30 s;
- pay the cops off in the garage.
- Every car runs on plain petrol, with no oil to mix.
Getting in and out of Need for Speed Heat cars
The Heat car bodies sit on top of a The Long Drive car, so their doors don't open. The Long Drive's door prompts still work:
- to get in or out, aim at where the door is and use the door open/close prompts that show up;
- after that, press C for third person to see your car.
Need for Speed Heat cars (optional)
With Need for Speed Heat installed and Frosty Editor 1.0.6.3 (free, github.com/CadeEvs/FrostyToolsuite) unzipped into %LOCALAPPDATA%\HeatLongDrive\FrostyEditor, the mod reads your own copy of Heat the first time you play. This takes a few minutes in the background. Then you get:
- a stock Heat starter car (Challenger, '69 Charger or F-150 Raptor);
- 16 more Heat cars, classes D to S, with their real stats;
- Heat's own body kits;
- Heat police: Corvette Cop, Crown Victoria, Explorer and the helicopter.
Without it, the mod still plays fully with stand-in police models.
Test keys
- F9: +$1000, as many times as you like.
- F10: +100 heat (raises your wanted level).
They are there for trying things out quickly.
No files from The Long Drive or Need for Speed Heat are included. Credits: BepInEx (MIT), Kenney Car Kit (CC0).
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