The Crew Motorfest - General Discussion

[warp9engage]

Uhh if it's the same guy you responded to in my quote, he's wrong. During free roam you can hit traffic, but not players. At least in my game.

Could it be that you are dealing with free-roaming AI and not actual players? Apparently the free-roaming AI are ghosted but players (whose arrows you can see on the mini-map) aren't. At least that's what's been explained to me.

 

[MOPARbarrett5]

Here are my best moments so far.

I am planning on XBOX Series S and the game runs okay but the directly captured gameplay has no sound and the framerate isn't the best. I haven't played any of the story or online yet but am still having a lot of fun. The game has potential for a lot of stunts and fails which will make for good content but I'm probably not going to bother with much progression or competition until the open beta.

 

[strela]

The grind is the same but since there are custom races it's 1000 times better now. Just this morning got this little beautiful.

While grinding for Senna saw a strange icon. So I did the Porsche challenges and got this.

Spoiler: maybe a spoiler?

Had no idea what that is and how to use it. It turns out it's a new vanity item.

Who would have thought it's such a simple yet fantastic idea.💖

 

[R3V]

Its same idea, as in tC2 - timed exclusive SP vehicles, than you could buy it with in-game cash.

I didn't play TC2 enough to understand the MT economy, but that sounds terrible also. I think the best game that dealt with MT's is COD's battlepass pre-blackcell. All items are cosmetic, cars are free to earn if you play enough games. In-game currency shouldn't be hard to farm in difficult races.

Could it be that you are dealing with free-roaming AI and not actual players? Apparently the free-roaming AI are ghosted but players (whose arrows you can see on the mini-map) aren't. At least that's what's been explained to me.

Yes I stand corrected. Came here to edit my posts after testing it. I don't understand why they put AI racers on free roam.

 

[GTvsForza]

The AI racers in Freeroam are there to point you to a race event. Wish there's a way to turn them off

 

[Nacho Libre]

My Sunday musings:
Money was not an issue at ALL since I made enough pasta to even buy the bundle required for the week's playlist. Remember, if playing is enjoyable it's not a grind.

Do Ivory Tower's goombas work while we sleep? Because performance was much better than yesterday.

Let's talk about the airplane controls, because they are much better. Flying events will be much bearable for those, like me, who dread them.

Kill the stability system but do keep ABS, otherwise you cars (Hypercars in particular) will be unresponsive and won't break. Traction control in sport setting is Ok.

I hope someone will work on Pro settings for the vehicles because the system changed and now is on a per car basis.

So I leave Oahu with regret, I can't wait to go back. I'm sure of my purchase now, and I wish the developer all the success they deserve.

 

[inCloud]

Mainstage numbers:

1-2=50.4k, 2-3=151.2k, 3-4=252

Categories(need to be completed to level Mainstage):
1=?. +5%exp/5LP/50.000B
2=+50.4k 5LP/100.000B/
3=+151.2k Mini Cooper TC/+5%exp/5LP
4=+252k Clothes+Title
Ideally, you need to complete all three.

Mainstage:
1=200k
2=+300k
3=+100k
4=+100k
5=+100k

At least ~1.000.000exp needed for obtaining monthly car reward.

 

[inCloud]

Anyone know how change songs/stations? There are tooltip in cara menu, but it doesn't work for me

 

[kartman21]

I found the resolution mode pointless on consoles, especially on Xbox série x were there is some serious frames drop and tearing and I've not seen some huges différences on the graphics, the game seems to run a bit better on PS5, and haptic feedback on the controler are way better

Regarding wheel and FFB, tested with my T300RS, not bad, big improvement over TC2, but not as good as FH5, but it's playable with a basic but informative FFB, it's nice to play on cockpit view with a wheel 👍

 

[R3V]

I found the resolution mode pointless on consoles, especially on Xbox série x were there is some serious frames drop and tearing and I've not seen some huges différences on the graphics

Regarding wheel and FFB, tested with my T300RS, not bad, big improvement over TC2, but not as good as FH5, but it's playable with a basic but informative FFB, it's nice to play on cockpit view with a wheel 👍

Don't mean to tell people what to do, but what's the appeal of using a wheel for an arcade game?

 

[inCloud]

Affixes(and legendary affixes from parts):
Rich 1%*20(1-3) 20+21
Legend 1*20(2-6) 20+42
Goldfinder 2*20(2-6) 40+42
Lucky 2%*40(14-25.5) 80+178.5
Pure 0.5*20(3-5) 10+35 inTC2=3-8
Extra pump 0.1*40(2.5-5) 4+35 inTC2=3-8
Ventilated 0.25*40?(0.8-2) 10+14 inTC2=(1.7-4)
Rocket(air nitro) 1*20(1.2-2) 20+14
Resourceful 0.25*40(0.8-2) 10+14 inTC2=(1.7-4)
Frenetic 0.1*40(1-3) 4+21
Drifty 0.25*40(0.8-2) 10+14 inTC2=(1.7-4)
Tricky 0.25*40 10
TH 0.5*20(5-10) 10+70
Collector 0.5*20(3-8) 10+56
Bulldozer 0.4*40(6-12) 16+84
Shifty 0.25*40(5-10) 10+70
Air int 0.25*40(3-6) 10+42 inTC2=3-8
Trailer 0.25*40(5-10) 10+70
Air Outtake 0.25*40(3-6) 10+42
Bender 0.25*40(3-8) 10+56
Trawler 0.25*40(ws in gv)(1.2-2) 10+14
Hothead 0.25*40 10
Slippery 1*40 40
Extreme 0.5*20 10
Skilled 0.25*40(5-10) 10+70
Perfectionist 0.25*40 10
Gateway 0.25*40 10
Cluster(gsb in dr) 1*20 20
Iron grip 1*20 20
Clean driver( less loss) 1*20(1-3) 20+21

Set bonuses:

• +25% exp
• +15% bucks
• Loot digger x2
• Sniffer x2

 

[whannel]

Does anyone played it with the wheel? How is it? Is it better than The Crew 2? I noticed it has great wheel rotation animation

Used it with Logitech DD, never went into settings anywhere just my own on the wheel from ACC at first, then it felt better with the Forza profile I use, turned down a notch;

Felt great, better than FH5, way better than The Crew 2, maybe a touch wobbly after some turns but I'm sure there will be a setting to solve that. Probably a better feel when turning than any game I've used the wheel on to be fair.

 

[kartman21]

Don't mean to tell people what to do, but what's the appeal of using a wheel for an arcade game?

You can enjoy free roam driving with a wheel
Have you ever try the horizon games with a wheel ?

 

[inCloud]

Rewards for playlist challenges:

• B
• Clothing
• CC
• Title
• 3 Vanity items

Audio pack vanities:

• Electric engine
• Jdm v6 turbo
• Flat-4 old
• Flat 6
• American dream kit(?)

 

[strela]

At least ~1.000.000exp needed for obtaining monthly car reward.

You mean the Huayra is a monthly reward car? And the whole leveling will restart? So now we will get monthly Mainstage and weekly Summit events? Plus stories that will be added. Motorpass or something alike will be probably a thing too. Uff,
So that means the levels and leaderboards will reset too each month? So there's no levels like icons and you get Legend points (icon points) by doing those activities. Ok, now I'm starting to see how some things changed.

I'm really loving the new handling more and more. F1 and race cars in particular. Without NOS racing F1 and race cars is really good. I know that you could ignore it, but it's just different when you turn them off. Only when racing. And the boats? They nailed the boats imo.
Battle Royale on the other hand is just strange. Ok, I don't understand what is going on. Who is an ally and who a rival. Even after watching others I didn't properly understand what were they doing.

 

[inCloud]

You mean the Huayra is a monthly reward car

Yeap. You get it.

Ok, I don't understand what is going on.

1) you choosing drop spot with plane
2) you beating **** out of enemies and picking powerups. Shield gives you additional health bars, Glove additional damage, Tire filling you team ultimate bar.
3) Circle clothing and damaging everyone outside.
4) After you fill you ultimate bar, you can activate timed Monster truck powerup. Invincibility and DAMAGE.
5) Last man standing

 

[T0MMY3688]

After 2 days of hearing the NPC and the GPS non stop talking, decided to mute it and the game end up a lot more enjoyable. I really like the classic cars playlist too, no GPS and just a screenshot of the turn you need to make is a nice gimmick for the playlist.

Played more of the custom mode too, I hope that mode will be expanded in the future. Will be nice to have a opponent car picker like in FH and maybe some control on the length of the race if it is a circuit.

I still can't get any of the grand race or demolition derby to work, sat ther for quite a while and at best I got is 5/28 players for grand race but it never starts. Maybe the matchmaking don't work as well in Asia, I still don't see that many player in the open world either.

Anyone know how change songs/stations? There are tooltip in cara menu, but it doesn't work for me

open Cara, press "Y" on the Xbox gamepad and it will jump to a music menu. I think left or right on the d pad to change station and pressing "A" skip the song.

 

[nukleabomb]

I still can't get any of the grand race or demolition derby to work, sat ther for quite a while and at best I got is 5/28 players for grand race. Maybe the matchmaking don't work as well in Asia, I still don't see that many player in the open world either.

Pick europe as a server preference in game settings. Seems to give me full lobbies.

 

[T0MMY3688]

Pick europe as a server preference in game settings. Seems to give me full lobbies.

I didn't know there is a preference and can be changed, will try that out if there is another beta or when I grab the game during a sale.

I think the beta is ending in a few hours, will be ended by the time I'm off work.

 

[evldave333]

Been tinkering with the photo mode, much nicer looking than the previous game...

 

[inCloud]

Do you need dedicated thread with progression details? Affixes, Summits, Mainstage details, ets.

 

[MOPARbarrett5]

With about 15 minutes left of the beta I randomly found someone for the first time actually wanting to cruise.

I got some footage from that and enough for a part 2 best moments video within a few days plus there must have been a hotfix because there is sound and good framerates with direct capture videos now.

 

[Ak1504]

Beta was cool, had a lot Fun 😎

 

[juanffy18]

What a great game, nice job Ivory and what an incredible recreation of Oahu, that TDU nostalgia feels are insane. The best open world racing game for me in years.

 

[cashville770]

The Crew Motorfest Beta was fun.im excited for the full game in September.

 

[Ak1504]

 

[GTvsForza]

These modes are chaotic in a fun way. I'm definitely doing more when the game fully releases.

Also a nice touch with the Demo Derby cars having small lights.

 

[Terronium-12]

My single biggest complaint playing on PC over the weekend is can we please disable the god awful TAA?

The ghosting is so bad.

 

[R3V]

You can enjoy free roam driving with a wheel
Have you ever try the horizon games with a wheel ?

I have and driving an unrealistic physics game with the wheel always felt very weird and unnatural. Honestly, even Forza Motorsport felt extremely weird. To each his own I guess. Gran Turismo is as unrealistic as I'll go with a wheel.

 

[kartman21]

I have and driving an unrealistic physics game with the wheel always felt very weird and unnatural. Honestly, even Forza Motorsport felt extremely weird. To each his own I guess. Gran Turismo is as unrealistic as I'll go with a wheel.

Okay, well, long story short, Motorfest with a wheel is far more realistic than Mario kart and has a more realistic FFB ;-)

More seriously, with a wheel I found the cockpit view far more enjoyable in this game with excellent animations, the FFB act in a normal way when you can feel the limits of grips and the chase bounce, it's pretty basic but compare to the olds the crew 1&2, it's a major improvement, yes for the 2 older games of the sequel, driving with a wheel was pointless and painful, I've try it once and never came back again, controller was the way to go

Anyway, everybody is free to choose the way to enjoy the game, at the end, this the only thing that really matter