The Crew Motorfest - General Discussion
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I thought, at first, that as we're getting points, it meets the definition that score breaker increases score in points-based feats, but it's actually increasing the distance, so I think that is a bug. Summit escapes are the same thing in that the performance is a distance which is then turned into points, and it doesn't increase distance in those (at least I don't think it does, I'm not sure I've ever tried it!!!!!).
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A change I noticed when I completed all the Red Bull challenges today was that there are no longer online ride-in a crew requirements. It irks me that I've not been able to box off all the challenges previously (because of online requirements), so I'm pleased with the change.
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Apparently Jets and another Water vehicle disciplines could come at a certain point later. Probably to be taken with a grain of salt.
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Yeah jet shows up on the Red Bull custom races but is greyed out until its released I guess.
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No, you probably used a main stage car that gives 30% XP bonus. Only XP (Bucks) magnet and Loot Digger work on Loot Boxes.
Speaking of XP.... Just saw a video posted by Music_maker63... and how he gains 2000 levels every single month. 🤦♂️
Edit: That car of his has +1 million kilometers? +621k miles? 😭
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I think he's using something automated, and should have his profile at least reset, or just banned which I think would be harsh. Kind of feel bad for the guy to have that mentality, as it completely ruins what should be fun. It might be that he is actually playing it himself... thats a bit sad.
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Any sane person would think he is using some cheat. But I'm not sure anymore. After all I saw players on this forum pulling some crazy numbers. I just know this guy is doing 2000lv each month since the first month and he was never banned.
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Ive been pondering it maybe some device that records his inputs, and then plays in a loop. A waste of electricity if you ask me. Might just be a type of mental health issue compelling him though, I have ASD and OCD and that's probably why Ive boxed off every playlist, 95% of the challenges and every car bought.
By the way I noticed that doing custom mode on the red bull race with the timed button press (to get nitro fill start) might be bugged. It was very inconsistant between car classes. Dont go pulling your hair out if the nitro doesn't respond to perfect presses, having played many hardcore shmups / beat em ups Ive honed my timings, im confident something was amiss.
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Well, I've now bought the game...
First thoughts - graphics on Series S are a bit like FM7 versus FM23 - higher quality but at the expense of a lot more blurring due to all the anti aliasing. Personally, I'd MUCH rather have lower quality graphics running smoothly.
Having said that, the game looks amazing!
Not a fan of all the in air giant balloons (not a fan of them in FH5 either)
Completed the first Playlist (decided to get Donut out of the way as was expecting that to be the worst...), then saw the long list of Challenges and Custom Mode unlock... And that's multiplied by 20+ playlists... There goes my social life
God that Raptor cone event was awful...!
Did all that without importing my garage, then decided I was being stupid trying to start from scratch and was then impressed by the instant transfer of 100+ vehicles. They really implemented that well 👍
However, I realised I'm at a MASSIVE disadvantage in the Summits because of my limited progress in TC2. For example, you need the RB14 this week, but I've only acquired the RB13 in TC2 so far.
And weirdly that means buying TCM just means me having to play TC2 more and therefore I will have less time for TCM bizarrely.
As every time the TCM and TC2 summits roll over on Wednesdays, I'm going to have acquire cars for both the TC2 AND TCM in TC2, so that I have the cars in both games.
Some tips please. It seems like the order of priority for TCM is:
1. 3 playlists completed to unlock Main Stage
2. 10 playlists to unlock fast travel.
3. Then start working through Custom Mode to get tickets as the shop items are time limited, albeit not as short term as summits?
4. Work through Challenges on those 10 Playlists
5. At some point finish the remining playlists.
Or is there a good reason to do all the Playlists first before Custom Mode and Challenges?
I'm a bit irritated that there is no 100% map/road unlock like there was in FH5 and TDUSC. And in The Crew ONE!
I spent hours enjoying doing that in The Crew ONE R.I.P.
trying to unlock every bit i could of the Chicago lake
Also, I did a quick check and Kamehameha 's statue is missing from Waikiki sea front (and the McDonald's just across the road from it ). The rest looked very familiar though...
First thoughts - graphics on Series S are a bit like FM7 versus FM23 - higher quality but at the expense of a lot more blurring due to all the anti aliasing. Personally, I'd MUCH rather have lower quality graphics running smoothly.
Having said that, the game looks amazing!
Not a fan of all the in air giant balloons (not a fan of them in FH5 either)
Completed the first Playlist (decided to get Donut out of the way as was expecting that to be the worst...), then saw the long list of Challenges and Custom Mode unlock... And that's multiplied by 20+ playlists... There goes my social life
God that Raptor cone event was awful...!
Did all that without importing my garage, then decided I was being stupid trying to start from scratch and was then impressed by the instant transfer of 100+ vehicles. They really implemented that well 👍
However, I realised I'm at a MASSIVE disadvantage in the Summits because of my limited progress in TC2. For example, you need the RB14 this week, but I've only acquired the RB13 in TC2 so far.
And weirdly that means buying TCM just means me having to play TC2 more and therefore I will have less time for TCM bizarrely.
As every time the TCM and TC2 summits roll over on Wednesdays, I'm going to have acquire cars for both the TC2 AND TCM in TC2, so that I have the cars in both games.
Some tips please. It seems like the order of priority for TCM is:
1. 3 playlists completed to unlock Main Stage
2. 10 playlists to unlock fast travel.
3. Then start working through Custom Mode to get tickets as the shop items are time limited, albeit not as short term as summits?
4. Work through Challenges on those 10 Playlists
5. At some point finish the remining playlists.
Or is there a good reason to do all the Playlists first before Custom Mode and Challenges?
I'm a bit irritated that there is no 100% map/road unlock like there was in FH5 and TDUSC. And in The Crew ONE!
I spent hours enjoying doing that in The Crew ONE R.I.P.
trying to unlock every bit i could of the Chicago lake Also, I did a quick check and Kamehameha 's statue is missing from Waikiki sea front (and the McDonald's just across the road from it
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3 playlists to unlock main stage is definitely the first thing to do.
Once you've got main stage, doing the weekly challenges is the best way to get credits, as you get the credits and XP for the challenges on top of for the activities themselves, making it very productive.
10 playlists to unlock fast travel is definitely a high priority, as the game is pretty annoying till you have fast travel. The only problem is it can be a struggle for credits as many of them only give you back around the same credits that you paid for the car to access the playlist, and on some you'll even make a loss. So I would first do all the ones you can do for free, and after that, the ones that are fairly cheap.
From memory, I think Donut, American, Made in Japan and Porsche might all be free? Then you can do Made in Japan 2 with the car from Made in Japan. The Off Road and Drift ones also have a 2nd playlist you can do with the car from the first, so they're also quite cheap. The single race Maui playlist is quick to do, and might also be free? That would be 10 without spending much money. Some notes on other playlists:
There's one called Ocean and Sky or something like that, I think that's a decent one to do to unlock useful events, feats and get multiple vehicles for doing it.
Vintage Garage is a good one to do to unlock the Kombi event which is one of the best events if you ever want to grind money/parts/XP.
Electric Odyssey is good playlist to do as the Taycan is a very good car for many events, and doing that playlist gets you access to the Hummer E-xpress event which you see in the video strela posted above.
I also like the Liberty Walk, Lambo, Motorsports and Dream Supercars playlists, these all have events with good routes IMO. Some of those have expensive requirements, though.
The prestige ticket shop is NOT time limited, so there's no rush to get prestige tickets. You can gradually work through custom mode by doing the weekly challenges on different events and car categories each week. I haven't personally done a custom race grind, it feels a bit tedious to do the same event over and over again with different car types. Most of the cars in the prestige shop are completely optional, the only exception is the newly added R34 Black Panthaa is an extremely competitive car.
I also haven't personally done much working through challenges, but once you've done the playlists and unlocked the challenges, many of them just randomly trigger when you play the game, even if you're ignoring the challenges.
Having played the game on 4 accounts, my advice is to not grind parts, just enjoy the game. You can get platinum in the summit no problem at all without perfect gold parts sets. You can merge 3 blue parts into pink and pretty quickly get full pink parts sets that way, they get you most of the way there. You can also get half gold sets now when you have 3 of the same type, and there's very little difference between half sets and full sets, you can get extremely high up on the summit leaderboards with half sets.
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Well, I've now bought the game...
First thoughts - graphics on Series S are a bit like FM7 versus FM23 - higher quality but at the expense of a lot more blurring due to all the anti aliasing. Personally, I'd MUCH rather have lower quality graphics running smoothly.
Having said that, the game looks amazing!
Not a fan of all the in air giant balloons (not a fan of them in FH5 either)
Completed the first Playlist (decided to get Donut out of the way as was expecting that to be the worst...), then saw the long list of Challenges and Custom Mode unlock... And that's multiplied by 20+ playlists... There goes my social life
God that Raptor cone event was awful...!
Did all that without importing my garage, then decided I was being stupid trying to start from scratch and was then impressed by the instant transfer of 100+ vehicles. They really implemented that well 👍
However, I realised I'm at a MASSIVE disadvantage in the Summits because of my limited progress in TC2. For example, you need the RB14 this week, but I've only acquired the RB13 in TC2 so far.
And weirdly that means buying TCM just means me having to play TC2 more and therefore I will have less time for TCM bizarrely.
As every time the TCM and TC2 summits roll over on Wednesdays, I'm going to have acquire cars for both the TC2 AND TCM in TC2, so that I have the cars in both games.
Some tips please. It seems like the order of priority for TCM is:
1. 3 playlists completed to unlock Main Stage
2. 10 playlists to unlock fast travel.
3. Then start working through Custom Mode to get tickets as the shop items are time limited, albeit not as short term as summits?
4. Work through Challenges on those 10 Playlists
5. At some point finish the remining playlists.
Or is there a good reason to do all the Playlists first before Custom Mode and Challenges?
I'm a bit irritated that there is no 100% map/road unlock like there was in FH5 and TDUSC. And in The Crew ONE!
I spent hours enjoying doing that in The Crew ONE R.I.P.
Also, I did a quick check and Kamehameha 's statue is missing from Waikiki sea front (and the McDonald's just across the road from it
Totally agree about the raptor lol... I would play the game however you feel thats its charm there's efficient ways to get money, but its the journey not the destination. Its hollow getting to the point of completion, I envy you having so much to do. Going about snapping photo's was a nice way to get started for me.
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I recently bought the Ford Mustang Mach-E GT and did a video on it.
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I have a question.
TCM allows you to paint some car OEM colors onto other cars from the color history, but some models, such as the Delorean and McLaren Elva, do not support OEM colors (they are saved as gray in the color history, as shown in the image below).
Does anyone know of a unique OEM color that can be painted from the color history but cannot be created with the color adjustment function?
I know that the Blackpanthaa R34's chameleon color and the Lowrider GNX's candy green meet this condition...
Note: This image is an attempt to preserve the OEM stainless silver of the Delorean, but in reality it is preserved in "recent" tub as just a plain grey.
TCM allows you to paint some car OEM colors onto other cars from the color history, but some models, such as the Delorean and McLaren Elva, do not support OEM colors (they are saved as gray in the color history, as shown in the image below).
Does anyone know of a unique OEM color that can be painted from the color history but cannot be created with the color adjustment function?
I know that the Blackpanthaa R34's chameleon color and the Lowrider GNX's candy green meet this condition...
Note: This image is an attempt to preserve the OEM stainless silver of the Delorean, but in reality it is preserved in "recent" tub as just a plain grey.
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Well, I've now bought the game...
First thoughts - graphics on Series S are a bit like FM7 versus FM23 - higher quality but at the expense of a lot more blurring due to all the anti aliasing. Personally, I'd MUCH rather have lower quality graphics running smoothly.
Having said that, the game looks amazing!
Not a fan of all the in air giant balloons (not a fan of them in FH5 either)
Completed the first Playlist (decided to get Donut out of the way as was expecting that to be the worst...), then saw the long list of Challenges and Custom Mode unlock... And that's multiplied by 20+ playlists... There goes my social life
God that Raptor cone event was awful...!
Did all that without importing my garage, then decided I was being stupid trying to start from scratch and was then impressed by the instant transfer of 100+ vehicles. They really implemented that well 👍
However, I realised I'm at a MASSIVE disadvantage in the Summits because of my limited progress in TC2. For example, you need the RB14 this week, but I've only acquired the RB13 in TC2 so far.
And weirdly that means buying TCM just means me having to play TC2 more and therefore I will have less time for TCM bizarrely.
As every time the TCM and TC2 summits roll over on Wednesdays, I'm going to have acquire cars for both the TC2 AND TCM in TC2, so that I have the cars in both games.
Some tips please. It seems like the order of priority for TCM is:
1. 3 playlists completed to unlock Main Stage
2. 10 playlists to unlock fast travel.
3. Then start working through Custom Mode to get tickets as the shop items are time limited, albeit not as short term as summits?
4. Work through Challenges on those 10 Playlists
5. At some point finish the remining playlists.
Or is there a good reason to do all the Playlists first before Custom Mode and Challenges?
I'm a bit irritated that there is no 100% map/road unlock like there was in FH5 and TDUSC. And in The Crew ONE!
I spent hours enjoying doing that in The Crew ONE R.I.P.
Also, I did a quick check and Kamehameha 's statue is missing from Waikiki sea front (and the McDonald's just across the road from it
Art imitating life... 😎
Thanks for all the feedback everybody 👍 Was a long session tonight (who needs sleep
), completed the Made in Japan playlist (enjoyed that one) and the Maui island tour to unlock the Main Stage. That gives me 2 fast travel points on Oahu and one on Maui, avoiding the need to cross that bridge constantly!Noted that I could get to level 3 Main Stage fairly easily. Level 4 is beyond me this week. Also I can't see myself worrying about getting much in to Legend level on Main Stage, as I don't want to spend all my playtime focused on one thing.
That also unlocked Main Stage Legacy Year 1 which I didn't expect (even more things to do!
)Bought the "Racing" Bentley for the Summit event (that seems to be a new category for TCM, so those cars don't need unlocking in TC2 first?). Summit seems very competitive on Xbox - don't see me getting more than Bronze for some time.
Have a strategy set out for each week now...:
1. Complete Summit events in The Crew 2 buying at least one Summit car each week and getting the Gold reward.
2. Complete available Summit events in TCM. 3. Check what if any cars need to be purchased in TC2 to meet TCM Summit conditions and run more races etc in TC2 to buy them and unlock them in TCM.
4. Return to TCM, do the additional Summit event.
5. Now check what the Main Stage challenges are and do races etc to clear those. [Thanks for the tip of using these to clear the Custom Mode events bit by bit.]
6. If I ever find the time to get to 6, I will then start looking at Challenges, Main Stage Legacy Year 1 and remaining Playlists...
Running TC2 and TCM side by side will be time consuming, but will give endless variety in stuff being done every week...
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It's fine to not get any of them past 3 in the first week, you'll easily get them all to 4 over the course of the month if you do the summit and weekly challenges. Also, enter a car in the custom show and vote for yourself each day, you'll get XP from that as well. In total, I think on my alt accounts where I just did the bare minimum each week to do the summit, custom show and weekly challenges I still got to legend level 20+, and I think I often didn't even do the 2 grand races challenge.
Note that you can do anything in the game and it will progress your legend level. Every activity in the game that earns XP is included in one of those 3 "branches", and once a branch reaches 4, XP from that branch increases your main stage level. So no XP is ever wasted, it either goes into moving one of them up to 4, or increases the legend level once it's at 4. At the end of the month you get legend points for 12 + legend level, so if you reach legend level 20 you'll get 32 legend points.
The summit is cross platform, but I don't think console players are at a huge disadvantage as the game is limited to 60fps on PC. You'll do a lot better as you get used to the different physics, the new routes, assist settings (don't have ESP on comfort, it's unbelievably slow), and accumulate legend points and parts.
One thing I didn't mention is that when you do an event you can choose between playlist, main stage, and custom, but doing them in main stage mode still counts as checking that category off in custom mode. You can do 2 of the weekly challenges at once, as there's always:
- win 2 races in difficulty 3 or higher with a car from the main stage bundle
- win 2 races in main stage mode
The cars from the bundle are always eligible for main stage mode, so you set difficulty to 3, do a race in main stage mode, and use a car from the bundle, then move on to a 2nd race, and you've completed both those challenges at the same time, plus they count for prestige tickets if you haven't done them before with that category.
Another good way to double up is the 5 feats and 20km freedrive. If you use a bundle car and do escapes as the feats, you've generally more or less done 20km after 5 escapes, but you really need fast travel for this to be quick and easy.
Note that once you've bought the bundle, or even if you haven't bought it but already had the cars, it doesn't show you the bundle in the shop, so you have to check elsewhere to see which cars were in it.
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I think im going to stop playing summit's until reseting is stopped, I got platinum legit last week. This week however playing legit is not good enough for platinum... I dont want to be on a leaderboard with people who cheat, it maddens me I cant get a true read of where my skill level is against other players. Ive reached a level of finesse on this game after 1100 hours and it is a complete waste of time playing competitive as it stands... meh. I might pivot to Forza in April for something different.
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I promise you it's not resetting that's stopping you from getting platinum. I think I only used a reset in one place in the whole summit, and I hadn't even worked that one out when I did them on the main account, so these are all without any resets.
I can improve that total by 20k+ if I do the 6 races again, those were my first attempts. If you pick one of the 6 races you want to see, I'll record a run and share it so you can see how a guy in his mid 50s can just drive around the track and get those scores.
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