| enditall727 said: I got Driveclub at launch and was able to get a couple online races in before the servers got shut down. I avoided playing all together because I didn't want to do anything while not being in a club yet. I would check frequently to see if the servers were back up but they wern't for a couple of days. So I was like "fuck it!" and decided to play some single player instead but I kept getting kicked off. You know like how in Destiny it will kick you off of the game and send you back to orbit if something happened to your connection? Yea the same was happening to me in Driveclub as if it was an Online only game or someshit. So I tried again like the next day to see if the servers were back up and they finally were(this was yesterday) so I immediately joined a club and tried a single player race and was able to play. I then tried to play another multiplayer race but it kept saying that I couldn't because something would happen with the connection. Also, the challenges mode was down despite the servers being back up yesterday. As I was playing the single player, I was thinking " where is that weather that I was seeing in those video?" We already had to wait an extra year for the game to release and now that it's here.. we still have to wait for the full game to release in a damn patch. Before I tried Driveclub yesterday I noticed that there was a patch available so I installed it before playing. I dont know if that was supposed to be the weather patch but I just know that I havn't seen it yet in the couple races I've played All in all, this whole Driveclub situation was a complete #Fail! This online shit IS NOT the future of gaming |
Odd. I have been playing single player since launch and am lvl 49 currently, haven't had any problems with connection loss affecting single player. Just that red banner saying connection lost most of the time. Clubs have been working since last Monday, dynamic face offs in races since Thursday, multiplayer races work if you're patient. I'm not so I play single player mostly. 15 sec loading time vs wait to join lobby, wait for player connections, wait for car selection, wait for race start.
Sadly last night it became less stable again as the weekend started. Club leaderboards disappeared again, single player leaderboards still work but are slow to update. (Club) Challenges are still disabled, the server code is a mess.
Weather was never promised for launch, it's coming in a free content patch with another location, only promiss is before years end. More like a reason to get back to it later than wait for it.
Sadly this online shit is nothing new. Instead of peddling game engines, maybe some robust standardized online engine would help.
