Ubisoft’s open world racer The Crew is out, to little fanfare. Unlike some other great big social racing games, this one almost works as promised. That said, that doesn’t mean it’s safe from the current scourge of day one patches. If you’re one of the handful of die-hard racing fans who’ve already purchased The Crew, then you’ve probably already been subjected to the patch. If you’re still on the fence, then just know that you’ll have to do some downloading before you get started.
Unfortunately, at launch, the Crew’s most important feature didn’t work; you couldn’t actually join a crew. Now, thanks to the internet and 200Mb of your bandwidth, you can! I’ve not played the game yet, but it doesn’t seem that too many people are enjoying it much right now. It seems like it’s just another of Ubi’s open worlds, bland and lifeless and filled with unnecessary bloat. Some have complained that the driving mechanics aren’t up to scratch. Others though, say the game has a ridiculous scope, and that it just takes a bit of levelling up for it to start being pretty damned fun.
For those who’re hating the way the game feels, apparently it’s just the default controls working against you. According to Reddit, changing the control options makes it all feel quite a bit better.
Go into the Control Options…
- Set Car handling help level to Hardcore
- Set Steering Sensitivity to approximately 3/4
- Set Steering dead zone all the way to the left
- Steering speed factor all the way to the right
This disables annoying assists, quickens the response times, and seems to make it less twitchy too. I tested it using a stock car, before installing any tuning packs, so I can’t say how it will affect but so far it’s improved the game immensely for me.
If you’ve been playing the game, tell us what you think of it. We’ve only just received copies, so we’ll have a review for it as soon as we can.
As for the day one patch, here’s what it fixes, changes, and adds.
Stability & performance
- Fixed some random crashes on all game modes
- Fixed an issue where some crews were disbanded randomly
Matchmaking, connectivity & replication
- Fixed matchmaking and sessions problems
- Fixed invite system in Private PVP game modes
- Improved matchmaking and sessions on server side
Menus and HUD
- Fixed issues related to Leaderboards scoring on Missions and Skills
- Updated info on HUD for Gift packs
- Resolved issues on Localization bugs
- Fixes on Statistics computing values
- Fixes on PVP lobby HUD
- Fixed an issue where the “Mute” option was missing from player cards while inside a PvP lobby
- Fixed an issue where an infinite loading animation of the gamer card picture was happening
- Fixed an issue where the title shows the “Display” name instead of “Gamertag” for the active user inside the Leaderboards from the Driver ID menu
PvP
- Fixed an issue where leaderboard displayed incoherent scoring on PVP Public FFA events
- Fixed an issue where the collision’ and ‘Traffic’ options were not functional within the lobby
- Fixed an issue preventing the HUD from refreshing when a crew member invites the crew master in a PvP public lobby
- Fixed an issue where the crew gets disbanded after coming out of PVP lobby
- Fixed the option to disable/enable voices during PvP events
Achievements and Awards
- Fixed Achievements unlocking issues
- Fixed Awards progression and unlocking issues
DLC / ULC
- Fixed issues related on unlocking the content after purchasing DLC/ULC packs
Missions
- Improved AI behavior in some situations
- Fixes on HUD elements during missions
- Fixed an issue preventing some players to join a mission after a quick coop search
- Fixed an issue where some players in coop/solo missions where sent back to the log-in menu with a service error message
Online
- Fixed an issue where players couldn’t join a session or a crew
- Fixed an issue where players could be missing from the crew list for other players in the same crew
- Fixed an issue that was preventing a player from entering a PvP lobby while in a crew of 4
- Fixed an issue preventing the world ghost record to load and instead of the “Online ID” text “UNKNOWN” was displayed for all the skills
- Fixed an issue where the game crashes when failing to connect to proxy
- Fixed an issue where the game goes into infinite loading screen after using “Quit” and after being idle in the game
- Fixed an issue where the PSN ID’s fails to load on leaderboards and was shown as “Loading” and “UNKNOWN” text
- Fixed an issue where the crew was failing to update correctly after the crew master has removed his Ethernet/Signed-out/Shut down the console and logged in again
- Fixed an issue where the loading time after pressing any button in title screen may be up to 2 minutes long
- Fixed an issue where some users were not joining the crew after being invited
- Fixed an issue where after a forced back to login, the gamer-pic in the friend list couldn’t load
Last Updated: December 3, 2014
ToshZA
December 3, 2014 at 13:10
2014 is definitely the year of the day one patch. And retail-priced, boxed betas.
SmurFyZA
December 3, 2014 at 13:17
I really want this game, like yesterday already. Waiting on the Lazy review first
Spaffy
December 3, 2014 at 13:40
Jip. And with reviewers these day unable to review games until after they are out means no day one purchases for me. Not that the game would work day one anyways
Hammersteyn
December 3, 2014 at 13:24
Saw this at Bt Games. Bought something else instead.
Spaffy
December 3, 2014 at 13:38
😀
RustedFaith
December 3, 2014 at 13:47
Yup beta was boring as hell as well …
Axon1988
December 3, 2014 at 13:27
Didn’t they promise that this game would not get a day 1 patch? Fuck day 1 patches.
Hammersteyn
December 3, 2014 at 13:31
Luckily it’s only 200MB but yeah.
Captain JJ the fair
December 3, 2014 at 13:36
It’s Ubisoft. Their promises mean nothing.
RustedFaith
December 3, 2014 at 13:48
100% correct
Axon1988
December 3, 2014 at 13:49
All the more reason not to support them. I don’t own any ubisoft games… and I take pride in this fact. I even resisted with Farcry 4 / 3 / 2
Captain JJ the fair
December 3, 2014 at 13:53
I don’t support them either. They care nothing for their customers.
ToshZA
December 3, 2014 at 14:02
Far Cry 3 and Child of light are amazing. Don’t be too adamant on your boycott – just boycott the games that deserve to die a horrible and slow death.
Axon1988
December 3, 2014 at 14:09
At first it was on the principle that they made it so damn complicated and tough for me to be a legit paying customer. And then they took it further and started the in-app purchases after I have already paid for the game. Sure other companies do it as well, but I find that wrong on principle. The final straw was the whole day 1 patches.
Hammersteyn
December 3, 2014 at 13:31
Fixed some random crashes on all game modes, but not all random crashes?
Captain JJ the fair
December 3, 2014 at 13:35
Ha. I called it
Alien Emperor Trevor
December 3, 2014 at 13:56
Try predict something harder, is it going to rain in CT next year? ;P
Captain JJ the fair
December 3, 2014 at 13:57
Probably only for two months and definitely not in spring.
Arrancar-4
December 3, 2014 at 13:42
Cant believe anyone can”t see, that day one patches as being nothing more than an Anti-Piracy Strategy from the developers or publishers. I mean really, if you sit down and logically think about it from a business perspective. It makes perfect sense.
RustedFaith
December 3, 2014 at 13:48
You realize the crackers also releases the day 1 patch for the cracked game after it got released … and you can play the on disk DLC’s from day 1 ….
Alien Emperor Trevor
December 3, 2014 at 13:55
I wouldn’t want to join a crew. Because then if someone asked me if I’m in a crew I’d have to say yes. And that sounds like a bunch of kiddie racers who watched too much fast & furious.
Captain JJ the fair
December 3, 2014 at 13:57
Yo foo, I gots mah crew dawg. Why aint yu join mah boys and me fo sum mad axion yo?
Alien Emperor Trevor
December 3, 2014 at 14:00
I recognise the letters, but not the words 🙁
Captain JJ the fair
December 3, 2014 at 14:00
That’s probably what Ubisoft bosses say when they get letters of complaint from customers.
Alien Emperor Trevor
December 3, 2014 at 14:02
You’d think they’d be able to read french.
ToshZA
December 3, 2014 at 14:03
This is the only kind of crew I’m in: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crew_neck
Captain JJ the fair
December 3, 2014 at 14:04
Pah, muggle. ;P
ToshZA
December 3, 2014 at 14:05
OI! CRUCIOOOOOOOO!!!
That seemed a lot less effective without a wand. :/
Captain JJ the fair
December 3, 2014 at 14:06
Haha.
Alien Emperor Trevor
December 3, 2014 at 14:05
If the neck of the crew neck has loose threads, is it a crew neck beard?
ToshZA
December 3, 2014 at 14:07
Nah, just some stubble.
Brady miaau
December 3, 2014 at 14:32
Me neither. My mother warned about crews and peer pressure
CypherGate
December 3, 2014 at 14:30
Im seeing so many articles lately about day one patches for games that im starting to dream about them! Break out into cold sweats hearing “Day one patch patch patch”
oVg elfroot addict
December 3, 2014 at 15:01
Just race your cars in GTAV. Why do you need this shit?
Or wait a few months for Project Cars with its 60fps/1080p.
tedyo
December 13, 2014 at 14:43
When I start playing I get random crashes from about 10-20 secs of playing. “The Crew.exe has stopped working”
My OS is Windows Vista, I hope that isn’t the problem…
I’ve tried reinstalling the game twice, I reinstalled uplay as well, I updated java and all of my drivers, I deleted the Pcstability.xml or something and disabled the proxy connection on Uplay… I want this game to work SOOO BAD but it’s just killing me! I can’t get ENY patches AT ALL, nothing is no our pirate site called “partis” accept a russian fake version… What do I do? Please help…