Need for Speed Payback Trophy Guide & Roadmap

REP is earned for pretty much anything that you do: drifting, driving on the wrong side of the road, a near miss with another vehicle, jumps, driving in slipstream of opponents, completing events.

The two best ways to farm REP are:

1. Method #1 (Fastest REP): Replay the Drift Trial “Drifting the Block”. Unlocks early in the game when you get to do drift trials for the first time. It gives 118,124 REP each time + 17,000 Credits (if you sell the resulting card). The event only takes 2 minutes with loading times and transition screens. It immediately puts you back at the start of the event.
   Per Minute = 60,000 REP / 8500 Credits
   Per Hour = 3,600,000 REP / 510,000 Credits
2. Method #2 (Fastest Money): Replay the Circuit Race “Hyperspace Circuit”. Unlocks during the final act, at the end of the game. It gives 144,000 REP + 31,000 Credits (if you sell the resulting card). The event only takes 3 minutes with loading times and transition screens (with a fully upgraded car). It immediately puts you back at the start of the event.
   Per Minute = 48,000 REP / 10,333 Credits
   Per Hour = 2,880,000 REP / 619,980 Credits

It’s going to be a very very long and tedious grind. It’s the most time consuming trophy in the game and after doing all other trophies you’ll probably be just Rep Level 25 or so.

To upgrade the car you must win randomized upgrade cards from races. You can also buy them at tune-up shops or trade in old cards to “roll” new ones. Every 3 cards you trade in can be used to make one new upgrade of your choice (this is done at tune-up shops in the “Trade-In” section). It’s recommended you go with a race build. Those have the most events in the game. The Nissan Fairlady 240ZG works good and is available after the first offroad quest line. I tried to upgrade a drag build and got stuck at performance level 200 because the next event was level 320 and impossible to beat, and old events / shops no longer sold or rolled higher-level cards. Therefore, a drag build is not recommended.

Recommended Build: Race Category – Nissan Fairlady 240ZG.
Best Races to farm Upgrade Cards: Midnight Run (available very early in the middle of the desert, only takes 1:30 min, has a fast travel next to the race start), Hyperspace Circuit (in the town south-east of the map, takes 2:00 min, puts you back at the start of the race after finishing it, fastest way to farm money in the game).

By default, all Derelict Cars start at or around Level 100 which is the lowest in the game. Level 399 is the highest possible level so it’s going to be a long path. It’s advisable to work on this from the beginning to minimize farming time later. Yes, getting upgrades takes longer than buying a new car from a dealership, but you’ll have to do it anyway to get this trophy. Best to combine it with story-related races to reduce the grind later.

For all their locations & unlock requirements, see: Need for Speed Payback – All Derelict Car Part Locations, or check the videos below.

Ford Mustang 1965

Available after beating the league boss “La Catrina” (race quest line).

Nissan Fairlady 240ZG 1971

Available after beating the league boss “Udo Roth” (offroad quest line).

Volkswagen Beetle 1963

Available after beating the Shift-Lock league boss “The Underground Soldier” (Drift quest line).

Chevrolet C10 Stepside Pickup 1965

Available after beating the Riot Club league boss “Big Sister” (Drag quest line).

Chevrolet Bel Air 1955

Available after beating the first Runner quest line.

*Easy Exploit Tactic (Working with Patch 1.03, November 12th 2017)*

There is a beneficial “glitch” to get this trophy without ever having to upgrade a derelict car, confirmed to be working with patch 1.03: Get any car in the game to level 399. The easiest option is to buy the Koenigsegg Regera and equip one upgrade in each slot at a tune-up shop, then it will instantly be level 399. Head to any race for which you have a derelict car. I went to the drag race “Riot Club” (not sure if it’s specific to this one drag race, but I assume it works with any other race as well). Make sure you are driving your level 399 Koenigsegg Regera before getting to the race start. Then press to select your derelict car for the race and the trophy will instantly pop. My derelict car was only level 200 but for some reason the game recognized it as being level 399 because my main car that I was driving before the race was 399. The level briefly transfers over and causes the trophy to unlock way before it should. Feel free to report in the comment section below if this worked for you and what race type you chose.

They let you customize the physical appearance of your car (change the hood, front bumper etc). What you’ll notice is that most of these are locked. When you scroll over a part to upgrade, it will show you the unlock requirements. Many of these require a fair bit of story progress (e.g. driving at a certain speed or completing speed traps with 2-star ratings requires you to get a very fast car first). Finding collectibles is also required for some visual customizations.

Do note that different cars have different Customization Points. Look at your cars in the garage’s Visual Customization Menu to see the unlock tasks. Then complete those tasks to get the customizations.

1. Desert in Middle of the Map (you get this garage automatically in an early story mission)
2. Green area left side of Map
3. Red area right side of map
4. Big town at bottom right side of map

 = Americana (Nitrous + Air)
 = Outlaw (Speed + Nitrous)
 = NexTech (Speed + Brakes)
 = Carbon (Acceleration + Air)
 = Chidori (Acceleration + Brakes)

You can buy their parts at tune-up shops, win them from races, or trade in tuning parts to “roll” new ones (this is done in the “Trade-In” section of tune-up shops). The best strategy is to collect as many upgrades as you can from winning races. Then buy the missing brand parts from tune-up shops. The inventory of shops refreshes every few minutes. However, it has the same inventory for all of the tune-up shops, it’s not different from shop to shop. There are 6 parts per manufacturer: Head, Block, ECU, Turbo, Exhaust, Gearbox.

Each brand has one trophy for equipping all 6 parts of that brand. It’s wise to combine it with upgrading a Derelict Car to Level 399 for trophy “Another Man’s Treasure”. While upgrading a Derelict Car from Level 100 to 399 you will collect lots of different parts with that car. Do note that parts you earn are only usable with the car you earned them with. When you send car parts to the garage they cannot be used with other cars. Just try to stick to one brand per car.

In the Trade-Ins section of tune-up shops you can actually roll parts of a specific manufacturer. One very easy way to get all 5 trophies is to save up trade-in parts until after the story. You get lots of these from Base Shipments. One Base Shipment is awarded every time you gain a REP level, but it requires you to be connected to the online services. When you have 80 or so trade-in parts, go make a manual backup of your save game (PS4 Settings > Application Saved Data Management). Now roll the manufacturer upgrades at a tune-up shop and buy missing ones. Then restore the save game to get your parts back and repeat the same procedure with the next manufacturer. This way you can get all parts from all brands within 10 minutes, without actually losing any money or parts (can copy back the save game afterwards to get all parts back).

Make sure that you equip the parts at the tune-up shop, not in the garage. There are reports of players not earning these trophies when equipping the parts in the garage (equipping them at the tune-up shop unlocks the trophy instantly).

Press Options-Button > Multiplayer > Casual Speedlists / or Ranked Speedlists. Complete 5 events in one session in either mode. Can be combined with trophy “The Climb”.

Press Options-Button > Multiplayer > Ranked Speedlists. Complete any 10 events in this online mode.

The autolog will show you the times / scores of people on your PSN friends list before every race. You then have the task to beat your friend’s best score. Either add up a bunch of people with the game or create a second PSN account and add yourself. Then get an easy to beat time in an early story race. Switch back to your main account to beat the time of your second account.

To see daily challenges, press Options-Button > Challenges. They are different each day. Just complete any one of them and the trophy is yours. When you’re connected to online services this is almost certainly an automatic unlock. Some challenges are really easy, e.g. “Win 4 events”.

I got the trophy from a drag race.

You can also press while on the road to enter live tuning. Then you can adjust the gearing for slightly more top speed.

240mph equals 386,24 kmh.

The Koenigsegg Regera unlocks after beating the story. For this trophy / achievement you must buy the “race” version at the race dealership, NOT THE DRAG VERSION! Winning Drag Races with the Drag Version does not unlock the trophy.

The Regera costs 794,205 Credits. You can farm credits by replaying events and selling cars / performance upgrades you no longer need. Opening shipments is also a fast way to get credits.

Play the race “Midnight Run”. It’s in the Desert area in the middle of the map and the shortest race in the game. It only takes 1 minute to complete. You must place 1st in the race without hitting any other cars, guard rails, walls, rocks etc.
You are allowed to hit street signs, they don’t damage your car. If you hit something other than street signs, restart the race to try again. It may take a few tries. Most importantly, you should try to pass all opponents at the first bend in the road. The trickiest part is not hitting any opponents as they tend to drive very recklessly. The sooner you take the lead, the better. You still need to drive fast though. Otherwise the opponents will catch up to you and possibly crash into you from behind. Just practice the race a few times.

In all likelihood this will come naturally during main story events. It can be farmed by replaying Runner events, especially the last ones from the end of the game. Ram into cop vehicles to take them down. Do this to 100 cop vehicles in total. Just play through the story. If you don’t have this trophy after the story, replay events. Until then you don’t really need to farm this, just try to ram cops whenever possible during Runner races.

In total there are 145 Activities (435 Stars):

• 30 Jumps (90 Stars) — You need to drive over a ramp and jump as far as possible. Easy when tuned for acceleration and airtime.
• 40 Speed Runs (120 Stars) — They required you to drive through some checkpoints for a quarter mile or so and build up speed.
• 45 Speed Traps (135 Stars) — Just drive through one certain point at very high speed.
• 30 Drift Zones (90 Stars) — Requires you to earn drift points on a short track. The score is calculated by drifting angle, speed and multiplier. Getting all multipliers along the way and not crashing into anything (which voids the multiplier) is vital.

Car Recommendations:

Speed Traps, Speed Runs, Jumps = Koenigsegg Regera (Drag Version, Fully Tuned with 6 x Carbon Parts).

Drifts = BMW M4 GTS, BMW M5, Nissan 240ZG (for offroad drifts can use an offroad vehicle).

Also see Need for Speed Payback All Activity Locations.

After the story you then need to beat all 20 roaming racers (including the bosses). They are marked via green arrows on the map. Each faction has 4 racers and a boss. Beat all racers of a faction 3 times to draw out the boss. In roaming races you only have 1 opponent and must stay in the lead for a certain period of time. The driver who stays in the lead for longer wins. If you lose you can challenge the same racer again as often as you want. After the story they are very easy to beat, especially when you drive a level 399 car.

They only show up on the map when you’ve gotten close to them, just like all the other collectibles.

For their locations refer to: Need for Speed Payback – All Roaming Racer Locations.

You’ll get this automatically while going for the trophy “Who Runs This Town?”.

Chevrolet Bel Air Part Locations (only after beating the first Runner quest line):

First you need to progress to the end of chapter 4. This is when the BMW M5 unlocks at the Drift Dealership (the dealership is marked on the world map with a green icon).
The BMW M5 costs 112,905 Credits. Make sure you are actually buying the M5 and not a different BMW. Only the BMW M5 works for this trophy, other cars of this manufacturer don’t count!

Now play the drift trial “The Drift King”. It’s the final drift race in the game, unlocked in chapter 4 after beating all other drift trials. It’s the longest drift trial where you can rack up the most points. It may take a few tries to reach 350,000 points. If you’re short on points you can pause the game before the finish line and select “Restart”. If this is giving you trouble, it’s advisable to upgrade the car first.
Your drift score is a combination of speed and drift angle. There’s also a multiplier. The multiplier increases whenever you’re drifting and drops when you’re not (so long drifts are beneficial). However, using Nitrous will freeze the multiplier, so use Nitrous between drifts to keep the multiplier up. Really drift at every bend in the road, not just at big turns. At high speeds even just tapping the handbrake for a split second can get you 10,000+ points on a straight road. With some practice and an upgraded BMW M5 it’s not too bad.

• De’Aaron
• Jesse
• Lindsay
• Evangeline
• 1% Club Boss: Natalia Nova

The fastest way to upgrade the car is by repeating the race “Midnight Run” in the middle of the desert, buying upgrades from Tune-Up Shops or “rolling” new upgrades by trading in 3 old ones.

Also see: Need for Speed Payback – All Roaming Racer Locations