Higher SCPD Cop Rank cops are placed closer to the pack of racers and lower rank cops are placed nearer back.

The starting grid of a most wanted session is arranged with racers having a lower wanted level placed closer to the front of the pack and higher wanted level racers being placed nearer the pursing cops. It is made up of two teams with up to eight total players for a cops and racers session. Most Wanted is included with the Armed and Dangerous pack.

Main article: Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit (2010)/Most Wanted In multiplayer, there are five available game modes three included with the release of Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit (2010), and two included as part of the Armed and Dangerous pack. If a suitable match can not be found, matchmaking will prioritise the game mode ahead of the player's selected performance series, and join an open slot of any game mode if no match can be found.ДЇriend Recommendations will suggest friends of friends to add to a player's Autolog friends list. Through Quick Match, players are given the option to choose their preferred game mode and performance series. Quick Match is public matchmaking and will find an open slot in a lobby aligning to the player's choice of game mode. They will need to back out and host a new session to change the performance series. The host of the lobby can change the game mode, event locations, and teams. Within this section, players can also choose to make their lobby either 'invite only', which will require invites to sent to players before they can join 'friends only', which will only allow players on the friends list of a player in the lobby to join and 'public', which opens up the server to all players. Players can also view their friends Autolog statistics from this menu.Д¬reate Friends Game allows players to set up custom game lobbies with their own selection of game mode, event, and players. Join Friends allows players to view their friends list via Autolog and can choose to join friends in sessions with open slots or invite friends to a friends only game lobby. The amount rewarded is based on the player's performance, the total number of participating players in that session, and the winning faction of the event. Players can earn bounty as they continue along the event route of any multiplayer session, and additional bounty is awarded based on their performance at the end of the session. Once a session is locked, players will move to a car selection menu limited to a specific performance tier and faction specific cars. Joining a multiplayer lobby for an event will highlight the game mode, event route, performance series, weather conditions, time of day, route distance, current players, and the players participating for either faction. Upon accessing multiplayer, players can choose to join friends, create a private session, join a quick match, or view friends recommendations.

Players can access multiplayer from the main menu of Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit (2010) and is open from the beginning of the game. Multiplayer, also presented as Hot Pursuit Online in-game, is the online multiplayer and matchmaking component of Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit (2010).

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