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    November 26, 2020

    The Crew Current state of the game (salt ahead)

    Current state of the game (salt ahead)

    Posted: 26 Nov 2020 06:01 AM PST

    PSA: This is my opinion and is not supposed to reflect the opinion/experience of everyone.

    Where do i even start with this one.

    I took a several weeks long break from The Crew 2, due to mediocre Summit rewards and overall feeling kinda tired of the game as a whole, i saw the new "The Chase" trailer and got interested again, i watched several of Akor_'s videos covering the update but i thought it's still fine it's a police update and you can't really F-that up can you?

    Oh boy was i in for a surprise.

    First i started making some money one day prior to the release of the update to buy all the cars that would come with the update, first thing i noticed, broken AI, yes i know many posts have been made about Scott and his ridiculous strength in some races, i beat him, i liked the challenge but then i checked the time he was driving, on PC he was driving a top 200 time in the Chaeyung event, let me say that again, a TOP 200 time, now the difficulty increase would be all good if the other AI racers would be the same, but they're not, so no Slipstream aka if you're in second and Scott is not in slipstream range he'll advance much quicker than you can catch up, has this been fixed in the latest update? No, no it has not.

    Alright so Scott is broken, we already knew that, no big deal right? Is prob the only one right? Well, no, you see there is a Rally Raid Event where you drive through a swamp Baeyo or something like that is the event name, thought i give it a quick run to get a time on the leaderboards, did the race, flawlessly, no crashes, perfect line etc. didn't win the event, tried again, same result, i did beat this event before so i thought must be on me, that i just sucked all of a sudden, watched a YT video of the race, followed the video down to the letter, same result, i lost, i then switched my Nitro set with one that has the Muddy Perk maxed on all parts and i won, so basically the race is borderline impossible for everyone who doesn't have a full Nitro Chemist set with muddy perks on them, awesome, has this been addressed in the update? No, it has not.

    Anyway, day of the update, i won't even get into the fact that 2 summit reward cars could be purchased for a short time and the maintenance extension, that happens in many games so let's just skip to the update and what it brought to the table shall we?

    Let's start with the Battlepass, it's bs, it's p2w, not self-sustaining unlike other BPs and it features among the worst items i've ever seen, i do not care about those emotes, the shitty vanity items, the clothes, the CC, the money etc, i don't, i care about the cars, most of which are locked behind a paywall, ok but then i saw the only, not viable but literally the only option for f2p players, a Dodge, don't get me wrong, i don't dislike american cars but in the game they feel super clunky, have among the worst acceleration and feel really heavy, massive respect to everyone who drives them as their main cars in the game in every event, i can't, safe to say the SR category races were horrible, not fun in the slightest, my car sucks (IMO), enemies rubberband all over the place, if you take down 2 healthbars and enemy crashes against another car 10 secs after you don't get the takedown, if you crash them from behind they take only 2 bars of damage unless you hit them with a speed of >350km/h, if you're unlucky the physics will just slide the enemy over your car without taking any damage and some crashes kill your momentum completely giving the rubberband AI even more of an advantage, the mode favors parties to an insane degree, much more so than slipstream prior, the HC races were fun btw mainly bc the Veneno behaves completely different and is actually fast enough to takedown enemies in rapid succession even with the rubberbanding but that brings me to the next bad point, the Summit pack, usually when you go and select the summit bundle you get a vehicle to drive for every race, not the best but it gets the job done, this time, nope, Interceptor units are not part of the Bundle, you have to buy them on their own or in their very own Bundle which costs 1.8mil, awesome.

    On top the police is only present in 4 different event races right now i think? No openworld police, no chases, hell there isn't even AI police in the events, it's just you, no police exclusive skills either like the ones you had in TC1, stuff like EMP etc, well tbf the events are just takedown events so skills like EMP etc would prob kill any difficulty that mode was supposed to have to begin with but still, the event races feel basically like Demolition Derby on a road instead of an arena, and even then DDs are more fun bc there you have perks that spawn that give you increased damage and whatnot, this chase mode just feels boring, uninspired, totally not fun unless you play with friends or get a better vehicle and kinda pointless, i really have no idea how you can f-up a police update that badly, they should have made the event the other way around, you are one of the bad guys and have to escape from the police, that would have been fun, not this Burnout in bad mode.

    Now let's talk about how the game runs real quick, i can max out the graphics on my system and run the game at frame cap (60 for those who don't know), now like i said i did the summit and in one of the races you jump from a building and shortly after you enter a tunnel, the game started lagging like crazy, every second a freeze frame, i thought ok, might be one me, lowered my settings to literally the lowest, problem persists, i opened up MSI Afterburner and Task Manager on the second monitor and checked what might cause those microstutters, nothing, everything was chilling, several races later the game crashed, just like that, no error message, no lag, nothing, i checked and turns out my graphics driver crashed, i then went back into the race i did before, first race was fine, second race, microstutters, i shut the game down manually, GPU driver crashed, i went to get a Laptop, installed the game, ran the same race, first race fine, second race microstutters, quit the game, driver crashed, so it's not just my PC but multiple PCs and the same race that causes the driver crash.

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    This is it for now, like i said this is just my opinion and i know there are many posts like this already but i had to vent my frustration a bit, that was by far the worst update to this game so far, by a long shot.

    I would include a TL;DR but i don't want to i think there's too much wrong with the game in too many different areas atm to boil it down to a single sentence.

    submitted by /u/eXz_xAlyssa
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    Tried to play me like a fiddle

    Posted: 26 Nov 2020 06:42 AM PST

    Imagine if when you went into reverse the reverse camera came onto the screen. I just feel that would make this car 11/10

    Posted: 26 Nov 2020 05:59 PM PST

    Mitsubishi Eclipse GSX

    Posted: 26 Nov 2020 05:21 AM PST

    What a beast

    Posted: 26 Nov 2020 06:17 AM PST

    The dark knight C8

    Posted: 26 Nov 2020 03:25 AM PST

    #Bringbackcontractstc2

    Posted: 26 Nov 2020 12:10 PM PST

    May be start a #bringbackcontractstc2 ? I mean it probably won't work taking that TC2 is greedy AF. But it's worth a try

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    They put the C7 logo on the infotainment screen in the C8 ��‍♂️

    Posted: 26 Nov 2020 12:13 PM PST

    There is a New Ruler For The City

    Posted: 26 Nov 2020 02:37 PM PST

    The F12 is a beauty.

    Posted: 26 Nov 2020 03:04 PM PST

    This is the most low effort DLC ever created

    Posted: 26 Nov 2020 05:30 AM PST

    What the actual fuck is this shit?

    This is just a really bad attempt of Stuntman/Hot Pursuit.

    They're no background, this is just a bad hunting of stupid IA poping on each other's.

    They could have had so many things to make it cool, like an helicopter following, road events, things to do other than takedown, ram PNJ in a specific location to make them hit a wall or tree.

    At the end of the race we should have the replay of the shortcut we just did.

    I feel like the DLC was created in 2010.

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    You win some, you lose some, you wreck some!

    Posted: 26 Nov 2020 07:52 AM PST

    New Yorker

    Posted: 26 Nov 2020 07:38 AM PST

    This might be one of my favourite American muscle cars ever! (Chevrolet Corvette C8 Stingray)

    Posted: 26 Nov 2020 07:39 PM PST

    '70 Dodge Challenger R/T

    Posted: 26 Nov 2020 08:25 AM PST

    I'd rather chase the ball.....

    Posted: 26 Nov 2020 03:12 PM PST

    Here are some photos of me and my 2 of my friends enjoying the new update! My friend has that livery on the heli it's really rare because you cant customize it anymore

    Posted: 26 Nov 2020 02:34 AM PST

    I’m not quite sure how I feel about the reskins but it’s something new you can enjoy. Just like the summit awards that so many people go for. I just hope we get to see better cars because this ones very bulky and would take some time getting use to.

    Posted: 26 Nov 2020 03:46 PM PST

    My first requested Design

    Posted: 26 Nov 2020 03:14 PM PST

    Is anyone else having a bug with the "finish with less than 5 seconds remaining" motorpass challenge?

    Posted: 26 Nov 2020 06:14 PM PST

    I've done this twice now. The first was iffy with like 4.95 seconds left when I finished, so I did it again with a more assured number(3 seconds or so), but none of those counted for the challenge. Have any of you had this issue too? It's annoying since it's by far the most difficult of these challenges to pull off currently.

    submitted by /u/79Blazer4x4
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    Just how low can IVT get? (rant)

    Posted: 26 Nov 2020 12:28 AM PST

    Having preordered the GOLD edition of this game for 80 of my precious bucks in blind faith that this game will be just as good, if not better, than The Crew 1, which I adore to this day, all I got in extra for the 20+ dollars I should've paid instead was some extra IGC rewards and a few days of early access to some cars for like 2 months and then nothing. Little did I know back then that I'd feel more and more sorry for that 80 dollars with every update.

    The fact that vanity items are either locked behind summit rewards or paywalls (because CC is an irl paywall, even more so now that the daily contracts are gone) is already scummy af IMO.

    "git gud lol" well guess what, I don't spend my little free time I have grinding events to hopefully get better parts from the RNG crates that are often lower level or have much worse perks than the parts I have. I'm not Akor_ to do 4-5hr long livestreams every day. And I'm no pro player anyway. I just want some neons on my car, like, y'know, how I had the option to do so in NFS UG2. Oh, even common grade neons can cost up to 20k CC? And you only have access to just certain vanity parts at a time? Miss me with that BS.

    And now, even that little free source of CC is gone. Now, you even have to pay up to get the rewards you still have to work for. The new gameplay is just a sad copy of Hot Pursuit's hot pursuit gamemode. Just ram vehicles until healthbar drops to 0. Do that 12 times in an event, do 8 events and you're done. Oh, I meant 8x3, because for whatever reason, this game forces you to play it through 3 times to get access to the highest difficulty which gives the best rewards.

    And I haven't even touched on the massive grinding issues this game has. It's insane. There are several disciplines where I have beaten all events on ACE difficulty, yet I'm nowhere near to a maxed out vehicle - as far as level goes anyway. And I'd still have to grind for epic/legendary parts over and over and over and over again. And if I even get one, it'd still need to have the perks I need. If not, I can just retune them, right? Sure, but with every retune, the price for retuning increases, even more so with rarer parts.

    It's honestly sad to see that Ubisoft/IvT is pulling a Fallout 76 with this game - instead of fixing and improving what already is in the game, they put in more and more unfinished content in the game with each update, with more and more features of said updates locked behind paywalls. I don't mind mtx or paid DLC being in a game, as long as its sensible and you don't get massive disadvantages for paying up. But TC2 has gone awol from anything "sensible" with this update.

    Edit: Ok, let's do some maths

    You could get 1.5k Crew Credits from one daily contract, or 5k if you got a high-reward one, but that wasn't common, atleast I never got one ever.

    Now you can get 20k CC in Motorpass' free rewards.

    A Motorpass lasts 2 months, so about 60 days.

    That leaves you with 333CC/day. That's right, 22% of what you could originally get

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    Tried some drifting in glacier park

    Posted: 26 Nov 2020 12:26 PM PST

    Rapid Blue is my favorite color for this car

    Posted: 26 Nov 2020 03:10 PM PST

    Daily quests exactly the same???

    Posted: 26 Nov 2020 08:49 AM PST

    I had exactly the same quest in the Motorpass as i did yesterday. Is it the same for you??? The only reason why I wasn't completely negative about the motorpass was because i hoped that they would have implemented a lot of different and exciting challanges and ways to engage with the game everyday. But if you're gonna tell me that theres actually less variation here than in the live contracts this is absolute dogshit!

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