Ubisoft's MMO racer 'The Crew' will receive its big January update next week, which developer Ivory Tower is presenting in more detail today.
In addition to new features and content, several bugs have been fixed as usual, and new vehicles are being added. in detail look like this:
Chase Matchmaking
Improvements to matchmaking for chases should result in less unbalanced chases, such as 1 cop against 3 or 4 street racers.
Balance of abilities
To ensure even greater equality of opportunity during chases, changes have been made to the following abilities:
- Flashbang (Street Racers): The duration and intensity of the flash have increased.
- Impulse Shock (Street Racers and Cops):
- The cooldown time has been increased from 30 to 40 seconds.
- Some extreme handling effects have been mitigated.
- Endless Nitro (Street Racers): The cooldown time has been reduced from 30 to 20 seconds.
Balancing the police AI
- The police's involvement has been changed so that it now increases as the chase progresses.
- Furthermore, we have adjusted the AI so that it is less aggressive and challenging for players with lower vehicle levels, and more so for higher vehicle levels.
New vehicles
- The McLaren 12C GT3 will be added to the police fleet on January 25th.
Bonuses
As previously announced, we are updating our reward system. The reward determines how many Bucks the winner of a chase receives. The reward increases or decreases depending on whether you win or lose chases.
Everyone starts with the same bonus value of approximately 8250, which can rise to 16500, but can also drop to 0 after many defeats.
Two different rewards exist side by side, one for the street racers, the other for the police.
Leagues for police and street racers
Two new leagues are being introduced for police and street racers, each further divided into four categories. Players can advance from the 4th to the 1st division in either league (police or street racers).
Your rank will be displayed during chases, but also in your profile ID, where other players can see it to find out who they are dealing with.
Leagues and rewards are good indicators of the skill level of your teammates and opponents. So you should take advantage of them!
Bug fixes
- Navigation device: The GPS display should no longer disappear.
- Various fixes to physics problems with police vehicles and roadblocks: From now on, players should experience less frustrating collisions during chases.
- PvP rankings: An error caused incorrect information to appear. This has been corrected.
- Achievements are linked to equipped parts: Some achievements were not properly linked to the parts equipped on the vehicle. This has been fixed.
- Sweet Sixty Uplay badge: Corrected.
- Indian Chief Dark Horse: The visual glitch that some of our players noticed at HQ has been corrected.
- Zoe's call after completing the prologue of The Crew Calling All Units: After the next patch, Zoe will only call the owners of The Crew Calling All Units.
- Correction of a bug that occasionally prevented abilities from being triggered correctly.
- Successes linked to fines: Some successes, such as “Do you accept checks?”, “Invoices, invoices” and “Harsh penalty”, were corrected.
- Summit Events: Some events were linked to incorrect weather, the wrong time of day, or the wrong vehicles. This has been corrected.
- User interface: Fixed an overlap on the chase reward screen with a level 1497 police vehicle.
- The chase reward system has been reworked to allow for the integration of a new league system. Cases where the wrong reward was assigned or incorrect vehicle parts progress appeared have also been corrected.
- Fixed a bug where some players' ranks were not displayed in missions and test challenges.
- Correction of a bug where the currency was not correctly specified when purchasing a Summit access pass.
- Correction of the bug where all parts from level 51 to 60 only had the acceleration bonus.
(Update)
Patch 1.19 is now available for download.
[asa2]B01KUOH1V6[/asa2]
