The open-world racer The Crew will receive a very substantial patch next week (March 18) which adds a tons of new content and fixes a number of bugs. Let’s run through the juicy bits: The new PVP mode “Blitz Brawl” tasks players to drive into scoring zones to score points. The zone, once initially entered, will give all players within it points for 10 seconds and then a new scoring zone will activate on another part of the map. Blitz Brawl can also be played in teams so teamwork is essential here, there are 10 new Blitz Brawl missions in all: two for each region of the massive map. The new patch will also see the inclusion of the Vintage Car Pack DLC which includes the Chevrolet Corvette C3, Chevrolet Corvette C2 and the Spyker C8 Aileron. To accompany the new vintage car pack there will be four new faction missions. Other changes include the addition of six new specs for cars, less chance of the slow-mo crash sequence (this will make a lot of people happy!), an increased sense of speed, many handling improvements, increased police intelligence and tons more! For the full changelog see below. What do you think of all the updates? Which are you looking forward to seeing the most? For more info on Ivory Tower’s open-world racer check out the official site. The Crew’s March 18 Update Changelog: Features: New PVP mode available – Blitz Brawl Blitz Brawl is a fast-paced game mode where players rush to scoring zones and fight to stay within them. A scoring zone is activated by the first player who enters it and remains active for the next 10 seconds. During this time, any player inside the zone will score points. Bonus points are also awarded to the player who activated the zone. After 10 seconds, the zone is deactivated and a new one will instantly appear, randomly chosen from a list. Stay alert! In team games, the team’s total points are what count. Working together is crucial. Blitz Brawl comes with 10 new missions – 2 for each region. Faction vs Faction PVP mode is changed to Crew vs. Crew This mode no longer takes in account the factions of the players. New UI filter in lobbies Added searching filters in the lobby by Car Spec and PvP game mode. New UI on searching lobbies A timer has been added to the UI (while searching for a lobby) that will depend on the network setup (NAT) type. New Content: Vintage Car Pack DLC with 3 new cars : Chevrolet Corvette C3 – available in Fullstock and PERF Chevrolet Corvette C2 – available in Fullstock and PERF Spyker C8 Aileron – available in Fullstock and PERF 4 new Faction missions unlocked with the Vintage pack. ROUTE 66 – Race mission THE SCORE – Collect mission A FISTFUL OF DIRT – Race mission BAYOU BRAWL – Race mission 6 new tuning specs Chevrolet Camaro RS 1969 – Circuit 1967 Shelby GT 500 – Circuit Chevrolet Impala Sport Sedan 1967 – Circuit 1969 Dodge Charger R/T Hemi – Circuit Chevrolet Silverado 1500 2010 – Dirt Ford Focus RS 2010 – Circuit CAR improvements: PHYSICS Improved global collisions with traffic cars and landscape. Lowered impact of the breakable objects. Reduced the chance to trigger a crash sequence when colliding with environment or other cars. Now, it only happens when the user is driving at a very high speed. Improved jump receptions (enhancing Raid handling in particular). Reduced bumps on Snowy Trails surface to enhance handling CAMERA Changed the Follow Near camera on all cars in order to: enhance the driving experience give the car more presence on screen Increased sense of speed on every Camera Reduced Camera movements on jumps and when using nitro. Improved Camera movements in cockpit view for more visual comfort Fixed minor issues on specific cameras : 370Z Circuit Cockpit back-view RUF 3400K Raid Cockpit back-view CAR HANDLING Fixed wheel spin issues (especially when using nitro) on: KOENIGSEGG Agera R – FS/PERF FERRARI LaFerrari – FS/PERF LAMBORGHINI LP640 – CIRCUIT MERCEDES-BENZ SL63 AMG – PERF/CIRCUIT PAGANY Huayra – PERF BMW Z4 sDrive35is 2011 – CIRCUIT NISSAN 370Z – FULL STOCK/STREET/PERF/CIRCUIT Improved handling on: 2010 CHEVROLET CAMARO SS – STREET 2012 DODGE CHALLENGER SRT-8 392 – STREET FORD MUSTANG GT 2011 – STREET 1967 SHELBY GT500 – PERF 1969 CHEVROLET Camaro RS – FULL STOCK/STREET/PERF Fixed some Full Stock top speeds to be more realistic: 1969 DODGE Charger R/T Hemi 2012 DODGE Challenger SRT-8 2012 DODGE Charger SRT-8 2012 JEEP Grand Cherokee SRT-8 2015 FORD Mustang GT Fastback FORD Mustang GT 2011 BMW M5 2011 VOLKSWAGEN Golf GTI FERRARI 458 Speciale Fixed the RUF 3400K Raid having issues with the 5th gear and improved suspensions Improved steering and stability at high speed for the MINI Cooper S in FULL STOCK, STREET, DIRT and PERF specs. The nitrous effect was also reduced a bit. General improvements: Improvements on the prologue tweaks in missions. Improvement on behavior of Cops AI Improvement on opponents AI in missions related to user’s car level to have a better game experience in the Race missions. Tweaks on Motion Blur effect at high speed – the effect is more visible on the environment. Skills : All skills except “Jump” and “Climb” will now grant twice the amount of Bucks and experience. Story Missions: The last mission of each region will now grant twice the amount of XP and Bucks. Missions are: Crumple Zone Family Matters Fearful Symmetry Burn Coburn V8 Faction Missions: Bonus faction missions (unlocked by the winning faction each month) now grant 7.5 times their amount of Bucks (60000 Bucks at the level 50) and 1.25 times their amount of XP. Some Faction Missions as well as PvP races have had their rewards adjusted to better match their duration. Bug fixing: Wall-ride: Increased the friction factor between the player’s car and walls along the roads. Fix for some Statistics that allows recovering some lost progress: Progress on game Missions Skills Sub-stats for the medals won on Skills. Progression on certain Challenges. Some issues preventing players from joining crews have been fixed. Rewards: Fixed the wrong rewards when level up in faction missions, PVP missions and Send friend missions. Awards: All the rewards related to Win and Complete under Events are fixed. Fix on finding and joining Public sessions. Leaderboard scoring display fixed for PVP missions Fix related to AI traffic cars in freeride.
That's great to hear. The Crew hype has died down quite a bit, hopefully this will raise player numbers back up to a good level.
Great to hear they are working hard on optimizing the game further for a better experience for the players. I'm most curious about the vintage car pack and I'm sure it would integrate very well with this very well rounded game.
The Crew has gotten a decent amount of support since its release, but I have to imagine the user base is a lot smaller than the developers were hoping for by now.
Meh, it seems like a normal thing to do. I mean, provided that it's Ubisoft, and they don't usually do very substantial patches, this actually seems decent.
It's sad that we praise Ubisoft when they do what other companies do regularly just because Ubisoft is notorious for doing so little normally. -_-
