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Old 20-10-2014, 18:45
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psn had had a few time outs from around 16.00 to 17.30. reports on psu say its mainly ib the US, I was dropped out of destiny ever 10 mins or so.

Has the ps+ version of drive club been axed?
It hasn't been axed, but the servers are still struggling. They haven't even turned all the online elements of the game on so they can't let a few million more people in yet.

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Old 20-10-2014, 19:33
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When you try and access your club's info, does it grind to a halt for everyone or just me?

I don't think I've ever been able to access the club statistics or challenges for DS 3, even when the servers are working. Maybe it loads eventually but life's too short to sit there waiting forever.

The game is nowhere near stable enough yet IMO for them to be releasing the PS+ version. It'll just undo a lot of the progress that's been made. I like the idea of a territory by territory launch when it does go live but not sure how practical it is.
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Old 20-10-2014, 19:34
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I posted a photo of my 9k mph speed face off on facebook, and one of the guys i used to work with that works at Evo has just replied.
Its being fixed
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Old 20-10-2014, 19:36
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Blimey, in the last 10 days you must not have slept or eaten to get that many stars LOL
Are you taking the mickey by any chance?

It's the drift events which have slowed me right down. Without those I'd probably be close or at completion by now.

Also when the server has gone down which has been pretty often for me I've left it for a bit so that my progress always counts towards DS 3.
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Old 20-10-2014, 19:40
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I have a bit of a serious question. What you guys gonna do after completion? Is there life left in it ?
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Old 20-10-2014, 19:42
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I have a bit of a serious question. What you guys gonna do after completion? Is there life left in it ?
Faceoffs will make it last longer, when its working properly then i guess there is online. I also dont know what the challenge thing is about.
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Old 20-10-2014, 20:11
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I sort of think that in some respects this is a glorified tech demo. Rather like Rage was for idTech 5 (my least favourite graphic engine). It's pretty solid (apart from online but that isn't the engine's fault) and looks astounding. I imagine that DC2 will come along in due course and add more functions, tracks etc. The engine could be licensed out.
In short, while excellent, it's not got that much compared to the GT games and as the developers have said the engine should last for duration of this gen. Licensing out the engine would make a mint.
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Old 20-10-2014, 20:29
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I have a bit of a serious question. What you guys gonna do after completion? Is there life left in it ?
I'd suggested before they should consider a COD type prestige system. Once level 50 reached, option to "prestige" and reset the tour events, plus reset all the cars unlocked (except club ones).
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Old 20-10-2014, 20:36
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I have a bit of a serious question. What you guys gonna do after completion? Is there life left in it ?
Maxing all the accolades, beating times/scores on the leaderboards (when they're fully functional) in both tour and single player. Have you checked out the leaderboards section in the single player, there's individual leaderboards for each and every car on each track, tonnes of mileage in that alone! Then there'll be all the player/club challenges when they're working, as well as the online multiplayer.

Yes DC might get sidelined a little when I get new games for birthday/Christmas, but it's one I'll always be going back to, especially when they get to a stage when they can start adding new content.
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Old 20-10-2014, 21:23
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I dont know how you guys manage it. Some tracks i feel lucky to even come 12.

Servers gone offline for me now so quit out. East Coast school will be getting home in usa.
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Old 20-10-2014, 23:48
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I have a bit of a serious question. What you guys gonna do after completion? Is there life left in it ?
The season pass will add 176 new events to the tour for those that are running out of things to do.

Heres a Linky link to what we can expect.
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Old 21-10-2014, 00:06
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OK. If you're looking to get the podium a 12 car race without any collisions trophy, I will recommend the first race on the rookie cup with the club VW GTI. Took a couple of goes, but the AI is so passive and slow on that track you can easily hang back at the start of the race and slowly progress through to a podium finish (even first place is easy). Hope that helps some of you as I didn't think I was ever going to get this trophy without a tweak to the AI from the developers.
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Old 21-10-2014, 00:12
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The season pass will add 176 new events to the tour for those that are running out of things to do.

Heres a Linky link to what we can expect.
There's only 52 in the main game, that's going to add 300% to the game. Seeing as it's probably a certainty that they're going to have to heavily discount the season pass to early adopters, I'm thinking there is going to be plenty of life for dipping back in to this game over the coming months. I'm guessing we'll see the pass be £10 for a limited period, at which point I think I will snag it as I'm almost at the end of the standard your (finding the hyper events hard though as I said before). I'm now going back over earlier races to add missing stars as I don't think I'll be able to get more than 1 star in any of the hyper events, so need to get some extra stars from somewhere!!
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Old 21-10-2014, 00:26
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OK. If you're looking to get the podium a 12 car race without any collisions trophy, I will recommend the first race on the rookie cup with the club VW GTI. Took a couple of goes, but the AI is so passive and slow on that track you can easily hang back at the start of the race and slowly progress through to a podium finish (even first place is easy). Hope that helps some of you as I didn't think I was ever going to get this trophy without a tweak to the AI from the developers.
I did that on the 3rd race in the Rookie cup. Same idea as yours, but it's a wider track so you can stay WAY away from the AI.

Has anyone done that time trial trophey where you have to beat 3 target times in one go. I don't get it.

There's only 52 in the main game, that's going to add 300% to the game. Seeing as it's probably a certainty that they're going to have to heavily discount the season pass to early adopters, I'm thinking there is going to be plenty of life for dipping back in to this game over the coming months. I'm guessing we'll see the pass be £10 for a limited period, at which point I think I will snag it as I'm almost at the end of the standard your (finding the hyper events hard though as I said before). I'm now going back over earlier races to add missing stars as I don't think I'll be able to get more than 1 star in any of the hyper events, so need to get some extra stars from somewhere!!
I think I'll get the season pass, as I'm don't with the tour (with the exception of 1venomous star). I enjoy the game so I think it will be worth it.

You'll be fine in the hyper events. The Zonda is way overpowered and the hyper events aren't actually that bad.
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Old 21-10-2014, 01:01
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I did that on the 3rd race in the Rookie cup. Same idea as yours, but it's a wider track so you can stay WAY away from the AI.

Has anyone done that time trial trophey where you have to beat 3 target times in one go. I don't get it.



I think I'll get the season pass, as I'm don't with the tour (with the exception of 1venomous star). I enjoy the game so I think it will be worth it.

You'll be fine in the hyper events. The Zonda is way overpowered and the hyper events aren't actually that bad.
I cannot for the life of me control any of the hyper cars. I just slip and slide all over the place. I miss my old BAC Mono
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Old 21-10-2014, 01:13
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I cannot for the life of me control any of the hyper cars. I just slip and slide all over the place. I miss my old BAC Mono
I went back to the race where it's only the go kart type cars as I had to clean up some stars and I used the BAC Mono. Such a great race.

But keep at it. You'll get used to the hyper cars in no time .
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Old 21-10-2014, 09:41
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The season pass will add 176 new events to the tour for those that are running out of things to do.

Heres a Linky link to what we can expect.
Funking season passes should be banned, whatever happened to buying a game and actually receiving the full game!
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Old 21-10-2014, 10:50
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Funking season passes should be banned, whatever happened to buying a game and actually receiving the full game!
I don't really have an issue with season passes. I mean, they could have just released the game as is and called it the full game and no-one would have been any the wiser. They might have thought the campaign was a bit short but as far as anyone would know, it would have been the full game.

Season passes allow the developers to plan out a schedule beyond the release of the game that extends it's life,. Get the base game out, then work on extra content... I can see why that might be annoying to some people, but we're getting the weather patch and all the new tracks for free so I don't think it's a rip-off or anything.

I'll probably get the pass down the line, assuming all the server issues etc get resolved. Despite all the problems it's a great game.
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Old 21-10-2014, 16:49
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Yeah as it stands I'm not giving them another dime but once-if it gets fixed I'll consider it. It's a fairly cheap season pass compared to other games.
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Old 21-10-2014, 16:51
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Yeah, it seems to be quite good value but I'll be holding off until they get this fixed & see if they offer some sort of deal for early adopters/pre orders as an apology for making a complete cock up of launch
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Old 21-10-2014, 17:35
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I've never bought a season pass, I just play what's on the disc/download, usually had enough by then anyway, move on.
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Old 21-10-2014, 18:12
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How the heck have you all managed likes of punching above your weight race. I keep finishing 10th in it.
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Old 21-10-2014, 18:30
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I was just doing the legendary tournament. Came second in the first race, first in the second race then a trophy popped up so I pressed the PS button to see what it was for and the game crashed with a CE error. It was the best I had done in the tournament and I was on my way to finishing in first place 😡 (the trophy was for winning a race using every class of car)
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Old 21-10-2014, 18:47
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Have you just got to keep marching on then come back to races when you've a better car ?
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Old 21-10-2014, 18:49
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How the heck have you all managed likes of punching above your weight race. I keep finishing 10th in it.
What's the issue, the track or the AI? If you're really struggling, practice that track in the single player time trial in the daylight to figure out your limits without the AI pestering you. As for the AI, use them to draft and then out-brake them always. I don't use the rear-view camera much, it puts me off, but I do keep an eye on them little white arrows that warn you the AI is closing in and then I move across as and when to try and block them from overtaking.

I was just doing the legendary tournament. Came second in the first race, first in the second race then a trophy popped up so I pressed the PS button to see what it was for and the game crashed with a CE error. It was the best I had done in the tournament and I was on my way to finishing in first place 😡 (the trophy was for winning a race using every class of car)
I'm so relieved it isn't just me! It must be because of how buggy the game is, rather than us needing to wipe our PS4s. Google tells me that BF4 had this issue a lot. I spent nearly an hour trying to do the 3rd star on that Pagani drift event and it crashed with the CE-34878-0 error twice in a few minutes, so I've come off the PS4 now. Still didn't get the 3rd star - 7,280. I know I can do it, it's just bringing it all together in the one run.
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