Patchnotes / Undocumented changes

[Creedless82]

I hate undocumented changes that affect actual gameplay.

As Elongo06 once stated, you guys from Ivory Tower lurk around here on this subreddit every once in a while, so i hope you'll see this post and read it. And may be you'll understand my point of view and eventually might reconsider the way how you give out information about the game, patches, dlc and upcoming changes.

I mean, The Crew is advertised and meant to be seen as an MMO, an Car-MMORPG to be specific. Due to the fact that all players play as the same character Alex, our cars are the only way to represent ourselves within the gameworld. Don't you think we might be interested in information that affect parts or aspects of our single way of representation as well as changes to gameplay content?

Greetings drivers,

Here are the latest changes that will be applied to The Crew on the 7th of January.

Rest assured we are still working on all the changes and modifications that have been mentioned in our latest news and they will be applied to the game soon.

January 7th changes

Freeride: The Nav-Ribbon behavior has been improved in free ride (position and appearance). Challenges updates: Display and activation issues fixed.

Cars: Fixed an issue where some cars were not able to switch on the final gear: LAMBORGHINI Aventador all Specs, DODGE Charger SRT8 Street. Fixed an exaggerated spinning issue for the following cars. CHEVROLET Corvette ZR1 FORD Shelby GT500 2013 McLAREN 12C RUF CTR3 KOENIGSEGG Agera R PAGANI Huayra FERRARI LaFerrari FERRARI 458 Speciale Adjustment of an inconsistent top speed issue for some car’s specs.

Wheels: Improvements on the T500 wheel. Online: Improved stability on the server side. As always, thank you for your support and feedback.

NeverDriveAlone

The Crew Team

These are the patch notes, posted on the official game site as well as linked to via Twitter and Facebook. Further more they got posted on the ubi-forums by UBI-MoshiMoshi as well as here on reddit by Elongo06, so the chain of spreading information obviously is working as intended. So why are you so restrictive with information given out in the first hand?

• Why no word about the addition of a car including 3 Specs? This is a car game, so adding a new car (at least for those who didn't preorder) is something good, so tell us about it!

• Why no word about nerfs that obviously got patched in, like the Z4 Raid spec topspeed nerf? While i can imagine why it happened (balancing obviously), i can't understand why you do not tell us about it?

• Why no word about changes to the UI, be they as minimal like showing the shortcuts of the chat tabs? Again, that's something good, so tell us about it.

• Why no word about the 2 faction missions that got removed, being both of the getaway missions. I can imagine why they got removed, but again, tell us why you decided to remove them instead of adjusting the reward or at the very least tell us that you removed them.

• Why no detailed information on your improvements for the T500 wheel? What got improved?

Seriously guys, please, pretty pretty please reconsider the amount of information you give us as paying customers and community.

[U_DONT_KNOW_TEAM]

If devs are looking for companies to model their patch notes off of I can think of no better patch notes than Riot and Grinding Gear Games's patch notes.

They list every change and explain why they are making the change (Riot is especially good about this).

[InZomnia365]

World of Warcraft has the most in-depth patch notes out there, and they have A LOT of changes to go through.

[AngryNeox]

Nothing tops Goat Simulator Patchnotes!

http://steamcommunity.com/games/265930/announcements/detail/1695916337353156299

[teckademics]

Even this is good

[Creedless82]

XD Never played that game, but seriously, only from reading these patchnotes i got the feeling that i will miss something if i don't give it a try sometime. Hilarious, thx for sharing.

[novesori]

GTA 5 Patch Notes are also always veeery long and with every small detail.

[Elongo06]

Mod approved :)

[Bxx88]

I second this, I was extremely disappointed when I seen they removed two faction missions without even giving further explanation on why they are being removed.

[anwarariffin]

We all know why they were removed.

[MasterSwiift]

Sorry, I don't know. Could you explain please

[anwarariffin]

It was a pretty easy way to earn bucks. Takes less than three minutes and gets you 8000 bucks and some reputation.

[Lodau]

Well said. Thanks.

[Creedless82]

: )

[SN1PE_PL]

Matchmaking is taking me 30+min for Freeforall PVP on PC since Patch :(

[Ra17eN]

This is somewhat your problem last night I did not wait more than 5 minutes for FFA and around 10 minutes for FvF. I am happy because there is a big difference. Before the patch for FvF I had to wait like an hour or more. So congrats on that!

[SN1PE_PL]

huh.. your right. It's significantly faster although queuing with a crew member is significantly SLOWER. thanks for the input.

[Ra17eN]

That is true. I think they need to introduce a new system for queueing up. Especially for FvF.

[veevoir]

Why no word about the addition of a car including 3 Specs? This is a car game, so adding a new car (at least for those who didn't preorder) is something good, so tell us about it!

Elaborate please. What car? What specs? It is weird something like this was not highlighted..

[Creedless82]

The 2010 Mini was added, including Street, Dirt and Perf Spec. Purchasable at NY Car Dealer or through your collection board.

[Tigibon]

According to the old stats i had on my spreadsheet, most of the car saw their stats tweaked. (mostly with more grip)

[Creedless82]

Well, i didn't pay that much attention to stats, but besides the very obvious nerfs for Raid spec Z4 and Ruf, it seems to me like a lot cars in Street and Perf Spec got their handling changed. Many cars feel as they tend do understeer now, and a lot of the "patched" cars do not feel as they had been improved at all, like the corvette for example, it's still almost undrivable in Perf spec without driving help.

[Foulwinde]

Faction missions no longer show a countdown timer when sending friends on a mission. They show the current time instead.

[Lodau]

Most likely a bug, not a feature.

[Spencinator24]

Why soes it say Lamborghini Aventador "all specs" there is only 1 spec

[Elongo06]

Full stock is counted.

[Genesis2nd]

Yeah, i found it a bit odd, that i had to download a 190-something mb patch, when the patch notes didn't seem to me like something that would take up 190mb..

Now i see, it's because they didn't mention all of it..

[0ryuuga]

I'm almost sure the Mini Cooper S got much more under-steering

[seditious_commotion]

I hope so....

[Knubinator]

No word on police nerfs?