It’s been quite literally a long and winding road since launch, but DriveClub is almost ready to race. Evolution Studios has spent the past ten or so days putting out flames on the game's servers, but has insisted on its Facebook page that “the majority of players should now be able to connect and play online”. We can confirm from our end that things are now working largely as intended.
This includes the ability to join the game’s titular Clubs, race with others online, and compete in Face-Offs, which are dynamic challenges that appear as you play. The developer does caution that it’s still updating its servers behind-the-scenes, so you may yet experience some issues – but hopefully these are now the exception to the rule.
All of this means that the PlayStation Plus version can’t be too far away. While the Runcorn-based developer hasn’t provided a written update, it has stressed in the past that it’s committed to making the complimentary copy available as soon as possible. With a massive influx of players set to join when it publishes the spruced up sampler, though, it better make sure that everything’s water tight this time.
[source facebook.com]
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Here is what I still Can Not do:
Today is day 12 since it released and all the Community Features this game hyped up are still unavailable to play, saying DC Almost works now is far from the fact. Sure you can connect online, sometimes on a good day, and you can earn points toward your club, but there is still so much missing.
@FATAL-USMC yayyyy!!!
Why is the picture for this article from gran-turismo and not driveclub?
@mistakable they were going to get a pic from driveclub but it didn't work.
What a disaster this game has been since it's been announced. First it was suppose to launch along side the ps4 launch then it was delayed until February they delayed again until now. Still servers are a joke and everything is so counterproductive for a game that is suppose to be all about friends and community.
I picked this up today, figured I'd play offline and practice until it is up and running. I've been able to connect 4/5 times, liking this more than what I've read. I understand I've missed a lot of the "nightmare," but this is exactly the kind of racing game I like. It'll do until Gran Turismo comes out.
@Dangerfield Ooooh, low blow buddy.
But I laughed.
I just want to try this good forsaken, but pretty game.
Yeh, I agree with @FATAL-USMC, the game is NOT "almost" working. I can stay connected most of the time so finally my XP is being logged for my Club, and I can access the lobbies regularly. Unfortunately only 1 in game in 5 actually gets through the connecting players stage. It's literally 20 minutes of trying to get in a race before one finally works. So yeh, the basics are up and running, but the servers are still clearly overloaded. I wouldn't be holding out for the PS+ version any time soon.
It has been working for me since yesterday. No issue going online, accessing club features or joining multi-player races. Maybe I haven't tested everything, but nothing has failed for me in the last 24 hours. Fingers crossed it continues. At the very least it is a huge improvement.
Yep let's all celebrate the fact it's "mostly" working...... Till the psn version comes out and we back to square one!! Roll on "The Crew", Drive Club has lost me and other players now, I have 0 interest in this!! So many promises, yet the only promise they seem to be able to keep is Disappointment!
Really? I know this is a PS-specific website but I've considered it one that is mostly against praising nonsense, even if its first party. Are we really going to praise Evolution Studios for almost getting a game working that they had 11 extra months to work on? Just sad.
I was looking forward to this game, but I won't support a broken product. Evolution had almost a year longer to get this game working, and yet they've released a slap in the face to the consumer. Anyone that is supporting this are just allowing this kind of crap in the games industry. A consumer's biggest weapon is their purse/wallet, and developer's will get a product in ship-shape very quickly if you withhold a sale from them. Stop buying a product in the hopes it'll get fixed!
@Gamer83 where do you read praise..?
If anyone wants to join a top 700 club with one active member, and one who doesn't bother so much, add me on PSN....gilbertoconcerto. I'm in the top 200 drivers, when it works. Active players welcome to help stay up there.
Part of me wants Evolution to make this work, but another part doesn't and it's sad. It's fun when it does work. It is, but the frustration has outweighed the fun.
With Project Cars delayed its all we got for now on the driving side of things.
@Crimson_Ridley The amount of people who excuse this nonsense is unbelievable. You are spot on. We stop buying, they stop f#%king up. Guaranteed.
yep, they really choked on this game, a complete disaster. I was thinking of buying it, but I'm going to pass. They need to revamp that studio because this was a horrible mess that shouldn't have happened.
@Dangerfield
SNAP!!
Hopefully they get the plus version working soon, I'm looking forward to trying it. It really is a shame, and an embarrassing launch. I don't know how they thought were prepared when it got botched this bad. Whoever's job it was to say it was ready, and get the servers working, for launch, is probably looking for another job now.
@FATAL-USMC I completely disagree.
◾I can take my friends from a party into a MP match
◾I can get club Stats
◾I can look at Club Accolades for progression
◾I can look up club leaderboard scores
◾Face Offs work
@JohnnyBastos yeah this is the only issues I'm having with MP now - it take 5+ games to actually sync and race.
Its a fun game but the bugs are very annoying. They also need to fix the ai. They crash into you and you get penalized for their bad driving. When a car rams my rear end it is the ai's fault.
Remember GTA ONLINE? Well, it wasnt the greatest launch and they spent weeks trying to resolve it. But what they did do, and I can only speculate that it helped the initial phase, was they waited two weeks from launch to release the online aspects.
Maybe companies should heed that and follow suit unless they are 100% certain itll work.
Im loving DriveClub, but I also wanted a car racing game from the start of the PS4's life. I picked up DriveClub with full knowledge of the online issues and even though the online aspect of DC it the main part of the game (and broken) Im still enjoying the single player Tour whilst I wait patiently for Evolution Studios to get DC running the way that they've intended from the start. Im enjoying DriveClub so much that im even thinking about purchasing the season pass, which is something I haven't done since Gears of War 2 on the XB360.
Yeah DriveClub's online issues are far from sorted as me and my friends still struggle to get into the same races together but when they're sorted, DC imo, will be a top new ip.
Just an absolute disaster of a launch. People should boycott this game to show these companies that, as consumers, we won't put up with this junk.
To make it worse, as another comment said, the game even got delayed. What the hell were they doing that whole time? And don't get me started on the game not having cars outside of Europe......until the DLC comes, that is.
I will not be purchasing this load of dung.
"It’s been quite literally a long and winding road since launch, but DriveClub is almost ready to race. Evolution Studios has spent the past ten or so days"
JUST ten days...once again you guys emphasize evolutions blunder as much as you can without praising the effort they're taking to get it all working, christ gta took much longer to fix and it didn't get nearly as much sh*t as dc is getting.
@viciousarcanum
Just stop it, they had 11 months to get this right and failed. This game has been a failure from the start.
@viciousarcanum I think we've been very fair, actually.
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