Driveclub

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I played Driveclub for the first time in a while last night with a mate. The servers were incredibly slow and at least half the players where ghosting all the time despite me and my mate both having a good ping. Is that a general problem with the game again or were we just having bad luck?
 
Don't forget that the ghosting comes from the other players' connection - if they're bad, it is going to make the experience less than optimal. Still, it's better than previously, when a ghosting car or two would cause the race to crash part way through - at least it keeps going now.
 
The servers seem to crash on me when I try to pick a race after I finished a time trial or a race. The server haven't improve much since launch.
 
lldantell
The servers seem to crash on me when I try to pick a race after I finished a time trial or a race. The server haven't improve much since launch.
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Sounds like you should look at the MTU options - for some reason the PS4 with certain games caused problems in this area: an MTU of 1450 is recommended by Evolution for those who have problems with online connections.

Here's one link for you to look at if you are unfamiliar with the MTU situation: https://www.reddit.com/r/PS4/comments/2qo489/ok_rps4_lets_talk_mtu_max_transmission_unit_to/

Renewing licenses for the game also has helped some folks. You really shouldn't have had problems like that - not for this long, not unless your ISP is really shoddy.
 
MeanElf
Sounds like you should look at the MTU options - for some reason the PS4 with certain games caused problems in this area: an MTU of 1450 is recommended by Evolution for those who have problems with online connections.

Here's one link for you to look at if you are unfamiliar with the MTU situation: https://www.reddit.com/r/PS4/comments/2qo489/ok_rps4_lets_talk_mtu_max_transmission_unit_to/

Renewing licenses for the game also has helped some folks. You really shouldn't have had problems like that - not for this long, not unless your ISP is really shoddy.
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I am not sure about my MTU but the connection in my house is decent. You might get a lag spike or two but you can deal with it without too many issues.
 
lldantell
I am not sure about my MTU but the connection in my house is decent. You might get a lag spike or two but you can deal with it without too many issues.
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See if the MTU settings help - I know different people have found that different numbers help them, some go for 1450 whilst others drop it lower. Hopefully that works, otherwise it might be best to talk to your Sony store.
 
Came across a few real life pics on India in Munnar on the tea plantation area and I think DC/Evo have captured it pretty good, green rolling hills with sandy/orangy dirt tracks and tea plantations either sides of the roads. Even the trees look the same :)

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Talking of photos...something strange is happening this morning. When in photomode, I'm no longer getting the notification in the upper left corner that I have just taken a screen-shot. Everything is working fine, except that - I also can't go from game to PS4 UI now either, it just pulls up the same challenge each time.

The screen-shots are there, so at least it's taking them...it's just weird. Anyone else getting this?
 
All fixed now - did a good ol' fashioned reboot and that corrected everything - still weird, as I shut down at least once every day; seems it's getting hung up on a challenge.
 
A small quote from Eurogamer's interview with the boss of Sony

Well, it wouldn't be far for them to walk to get on the stage. Moving on to another game that's had big support this year, DriveClub. What's the future of that series, and Evolution?

Shuhei Yoshida: DriveClub has sustained its momentum. They needed to spend time to really rewrite the server-side of the game. We weren't expecting this many people would buy a PlayStation 4, and have PlayStation Plus membership. Because the title was originally titled for the launch of the system, the number of potential people to download for free for the PS Plus version would be much smaller than two years after the launch. We realised the daunting task of supporting potentially millions and millions of people to download and play. The team needed to go back to the drawing board and re-engineer the server-side.

While they were doing this, they kept releasing new content and people continued to play the game and enjoy it. I'm really happy with how things went forward.

Does the series have a future beyond this game?

Shuhei Yoshida: The driving genre's a very difficult market right now. The team, we need to find a great angle for the racing to continue, to come up with a new racing game, if we're to look at another racing title. Creative ideas come when things are tough, so that lightbulb moment, I'm looking forward to.
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For me this means that currently there won't be a DriveClub 2 or a new Motorstorm
 
With the team chopped back like they were, I think only the service angle for DC is likely. A real shame as I feel that Evolution pulled it all back very nicely and the game already has a great angle, as there really isn't anything else like it out there.
 
I haven't seen a lot from their launch issues because back then I didn't follow the game. I can only judge what I have currently in my PS4 and it's simply a beautiful polished game. I think as well it will continue as a service with maybe a second season pass and even a third one if there is enough interest.

Looking forward to the big update they have planned in octobre! Wonder what it all will contain. However if they want to continue the game as a service they will need to add some additional game-modes and some extra locations. Maybe they could give us an ingame version of GT6's track creator :dunce:.

I just wonder how Sony and Evo will see their growth in revenue for a game like DC if they continue to support it as a service. Will season-passes add enough to keep the game profitable?
 
MeanElf
With the team chopped back like they were, I think only the service angle for DC is likely. A real shame as I feel that Evolution pulled it all back very nicely and the game already has a great angle, as there really isn't anything else like it out there.
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More tracks - hopefully in at least one new location - and more cars and I think DriveClub can keep me entertained for quite a while to come.
 
Miths
More tracks - hopefully in at least one new location - and more cars and I think DriveClub can keep me entertained for quite a while to come.
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New tracks have been mentioned by them already, so hopefully soon - a new location isn't entirely out of the question maybe and more cars plus trophies are also coming (so more tour packs.)

True indeed, it will keep entertaining for a while yet.
 
I wish they make a Drivelcub 2 on top of the base game. Same engine, same tracks and cars but then a whole load of new content and event types and cars and trophies and locations all behind a paid-for update (players could still play online with Driveclub 1 tracks with previous content). It'd be a pretty huge update, sure, but my chances of getting a Driveclub 2 are narrow and this isn't fair. :'( Driveclub > HDD space.
 
With such a large scale of after -sale support, you would wonder what Evo have in mind to solve the problem of a potentially massive day one patch for people who buy the game today, that's why they'll probably release a Complete Edition before a sequel is announced.
 
doblocruiser
A small quote from Eurogamer's interview with the boss of Sony



For me this means that currently there won't be a DriveClub 2 or a new Motorstorm
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I would guess driveclub 2 is a certainty at some stage. If nothing else, economics dictates there will be. Sales before ps+ were over 2 million and with the following and support why would any company miss out on the potential sales regardless of whatever improvements they can or can't make. The only issue will be not clashing with GT7. Don't worry a follow up is a certainty, it's just when not if.
 
I used to be in the gt6 forum because I create tunes for them and yeah they are very active. Now I am probably not going to tune very good in gt7 because driveclub have stock settings and the cars in project cars be very difficult to drive if you change something like cambers and toe.
 

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