# NFS Unbound OUTLAWS Mod > OUTLAWS by Stargirl is a complete gameplay and visual overhaul for Need for Speed Unbound on PC. It relights every hour of the day with a deep purple-and-cyan night grade and wet asphalt, swaps in a 74-track soundtrack, rebuilds car audio, gives FWD, RWD and AWD cars their own handling, reworks crashes, police and the economy, and adds 20 to 60 engine swaps per car with every bodykit unlocked. - Creator: Stargirl - Latest version: 1.23 - Game: Need for Speed Unbound (PC, all store versions) - Price: free - Disk space: about 3 GB once installed - Download size: installer 1.3 GB, Frosty .fbmod 1.2 GB, manual install 2.7 GB - Official download: https://www.nexusmods.com/needforspeedunbound/mods/640 - Official site: https://nfs-outlaws.com/ ## Features - Every hour of the day relit, with a deep purple and cyan night grade - Wet asphalt reflections, reworked weather, fog and smoke - Reworked sky for morning and overcast conditions - 74-track OUTLAWS soundtrack, 60 tracks rotating in free roam - Rebuilt car audio: engine notes, turbo and induction sounds - Per-car handling: aero, tyres, steering, drift, chassis, damage and stance - Distinct FWD, RWD and AWD driving behaviour and reworked drift styles - Reworked crash rules for racers and cops, damage graphs and detachable parts - Crash cameras removed; scripted barrel roll removed, physics rollovers kept - 20 to 60 new engine swaps per car, extended gearing and drivetrain swaps - Forced induction options, reworked torque curves, transmissions and nitrous - All bodykits unlocked, including rarity-gated kits, and part restrictions removed - Police heat levels 3, 4 and 5 reworked to be harder and smarter - Rebalanced event payouts, buy-ins and second-hand dealer - Restyled HUD with custom fonts, dark menus and a reworked speedometer - Standalone or modular installation with a one-click installer - Online play option that resets car performance to stock for fair lobbies ## Installer options - **Core** (always included): Garage and customization, engine swaps and performance items, car audio, police, economy, interface, cameras and boot video. - **Handling & Physics**: Per-car aero, tyres, steering, drift, chassis, damage and stance. Leave it off to keep the stock driving model or another handling mod. - **Performance**: Engine torque curves, transmissions, forced induction, nitrous and the generic swap engines. Off = vanilla power figures with all OUTLAWS engine swaps. - **Race gates & checkpoints**: Brings the vanilla race gates and checkpoint markers back. OUTLAWS hides them by default for a cleaner view. - **Burst NOS**: Brings vanilla Burst Nitrous back: drifts, near misses, burnouts, jumps and takedowns fill the burst tanks again. - **Online play**: Lets you race online with stock car performance, because online lobbies need vanilla tuning. OUTLAWS blocks online play otherwise. - **OUTLAWS soundtrack**: The full OUTLAWS custom soundtrack. Off = the game's original music with its original track names. - **Unlock everything**: Every car, player cop car, part, vanity item and gadget is available from the start, in the campaign and in Lakeshore Online. ## How to install 1. **Start clean**: Take off other overhauls that touch the same stuff, then verify the game in Steam or repair it in the EA app. The installer checks that your game files are original before it changes anything, so this saves you a failed first try. 2. **Get it from Nexus**: Download the OUTLAWS installer from the Files tab on the Nexus page (1.3 GB) and run it. 3. **Pick an edition**: Standalone (the recommended one) puts all of OUTLAWS on in one go. Modular lets you take every module on its own, visuals and AI difficulty included. 4. **Set your options**: Core is always on. Everything else is a switch: Handling & Physics, Performance, race gates, Burst NOS, Online play, the soundtrack and unlocks. Not sure what you want? The planner below shows what each one does. 5. **Show it the game folder**: Browse to wherever Need for Speed Unbound is installed. If OUTLAWS is already on there, the installer tells you which parts, and the summary shows how much disk space your setup needs. 6. **Install and play**: Hit Install, then start the game the normal way. Want different options later? Run the installer again. It puts your original files back first and then applies the new set. Frosty Mod Manager is an optional manual route: repair the game, clear the Documents cache, Frosty caches and ModData folder, import the OUTLAWS modules (01 CORE required), apply and launch through Frosty. ## Videos - [Need For Speed: Unbound OUTLAWS](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U49nulmiP9Y) (01:12): official intro - [NFS Unbound OUTLAWS Mod | Install in 1 Click (No Mod Manager!) | Steam & EA App EASY INSTALL](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgihuUwTb3w) (03:39): installer walkthrough ## Online play OUTLAWS blocks Lakeshore Online by default. Enabling the Online play option (the OUTLAWS Online Patch) resets car performance and handling to stock tuning so online lobbies stay fair. ## FAQ ### What is the NFS Unbound OUTLAWS mod? A full overhaul of Need for Speed Unbound on PC, made by Stargirl. It relights every hour of the day and swaps the soundtrack for 74 tracks. Car audio, handling, crashes, police and the economy got redone as well, and every car gets 20 to 60 engine swaps with the garage opened up. It's free on Nexus Mods and comes with its own installer for Steam and the EA app. Frosty works too, if you prefer it. ### Can't I just run a few smaller mods? Sure, plenty of people do. OUTLAWS covers lighting, audio, handling, police, the economy and the garage in one package, with every system tuned against the others, and anything you don't want can be switched off in the installer. If you only want one small change, a small mod is lighter. If you do mix mods on Frosty, put OUTLAWS at the bottom of the list so nothing overwrites it. ### Do I need Frosty Mod Manager to install OUTLAWS? No. The installer patches the game directly and you start Unbound the normal way afterwards. Frosty is there if you already manage your mods with it. Just don't use both on the same game copy. ### Can I play NFS Unbound online with OUTLAWS installed? Yes, with Online play switched on in the installer, or the ONLINE PATCH if you're on Frosty. That puts car performance back to stock tuning, so nobody shows up with a modded car in a lobby full of stock ones. Until you switch it on, OUTLAWS blocks online lobbies. ### Do I need to start a new save? It's strongly recommended, especially for the reworked story mode. A fresh save avoids conflicts with other mods and broken save states, and an old save with a full bank account skips the grind the economy is built around. Keeping your old save can work, though some bugs may still show up. Back it up either way: it's the file called 1 in Documents\Need For Speed(TM) Unbound\SaveGame\savegame. ### Can I install only parts of OUTLAWS? Yes. Pick Modular in the installer and you get every module on its own, visuals and AI difficulty included. Standalone has switches as well, for Handling & Physics, Performance, the soundtrack, Burst NOS, race gates, unlocks and Online play. ### Does OUTLAWS replace the NFS Unbound soundtrack? Yes, every vanilla track. 74 tracks go into all eight music banks and 60 of them rotate in free roam. Want the original music back? Turn the OUTLAWS soundtrack option off and it returns with the original track names. ### Does it bring back Burst Nitrous and race checkpoints? Both are off by default. The Burst NOS and Race gates & checkpoints options in the installer bring the vanilla versions back. ### How do I uninstall or change options? Run the installer again. Reinstall puts your original files back first and then applies the new options, Uninstall gives you the stock game back. Until then the originals sit in OUTLAWS_Backup inside your game folder. Verifying or repairing the game in Steam or the EA app works too. ### Which versions of the game does it support? The 1.23 installer supports the Steam and EA app versions of Need for Speed Unbound on PC. The download is 1.3 GB, and once it's installed OUTLAWS takes about 3 GB, whichever route you use. After a game update, check the Files tab on Nexus for a matching OUTLAWS release before you reinstall. ## Optional - Not affiliated with Electronic Arts, Criterion Games or Nexus Mods.