The Crew 2 [2018]

[luisniko]

I keep seeing user-made decals featuring pictures that seem to be imported from external file. Dafuq?

[HaRdSTyLe_83]

who the f*$ck chose the prices for the cars. the aventador costs 790K $ while the Zonda R costs 400K ?

[luisniko]

State of the game now: some people put on nostalgia glasses and suddenly The Crew 1 is the superior game because it had landmarks to discover. "No landmarks = downgraded map"  Some say because TC1 had that long single cruising race. We technically still have that now in some races, including the Hyper Car race. Some also said that full-map-spread Skill challenges (that people spammed to grind parts for) is no longer having the sheer amount of quantity and doesn't reward the same here. And thus TC2 is a casual game for them. Let's forget the inflated price, insane grind, anti-power-level jackpot reward system, and the two major updates and paid DLC that technically overhauled the game since launch. Some people really dare to call The Crew 1 as 'racing game' while they discredit everything The Crew 2 have such as Pro Settings and actual race matches. Not to mention some even complaining about future contents being FREE OF CHARGE instead of paid individually or by Season Pass (basically you can pay them with Season Pass and get earlier access  and ownership on future vehicles). Good lord...

 

Edited July 4, 2018 by luisniko

[Reformed Squid]

This game has so many flaws but I'm having a blast anyways

 

Also super fun with a wheel (after messing with the wheel software settings) because it feels like you're playing at an actual arcade

[HaRdSTyLe_83]

9 hours ago, luisniko said:

State of the game now: some people put on nostalgia glasses and suddenly The Crew 1 is the superior game

the crew 1 was sh*t, i got it for free when Ubisoft was giving it away, (says alot, when a publisher just give aways a full AAA title) played a couple of hours and that was it. 2 has a couple of flaws but at least the moved away from pushing the ingame currency like in 1.

[Tchuck]

This game is just stupid fun. A bit grindy, but it feels good to drive the cars, it feels good to fly the planes, and it's just fun.

 

Spent some time last night flying around with a buddy over Las Vegas, doing some maneuvers, and overall just dicking around. Loving it!

[PondNewt]

A bit of a rookie question as I've never played either Crew game before but do you race against npc drivers or other human players for the bulk of the game?  I assume it would be npc drivers but with it being an online game I wasn't entirely sure.  But I read that you need to place in the top 3 to unlock certain trophies and I imagine that would be a lot easier to do against npc drivers than it would be against real people. 

[luisniko]

23 minutes ago, PondNewt said:

A bit of a rookie question as I've never played either Crew game before but do you race against npc drivers or other human players for the bulk of the game?  I assume it would be npc drivers but with it being an online game I wasn't entirely sure.  But I read that you need to place in the top 3 to unlock certain trophies and I imagine that would be a lot easier to do against npc drivers than it would be against real people. 

It's full online game, but it's pretty much fully playable single player. There are race against NPC and time attack race against ghost NPC. Some are totally single performing, such as the Drift and Air Acrobat. All of these have leaderboards.

 

The game is through a major overhaul from the first game. Both are irrelevant to one another.

[einjzmolf]

giv standard gloss paint for rimz

 

and low

 

[ｘ]

Hi

 

[luisniko]

Found on Reddit. I'm copy pasting from mobile phone. I'll neat it up later. Pro Settings guide:

 

Ground

 

 

Spoiler

 

Global

 

Traction Control - Limits wheel spin under throttle. Less - allows the tires to lose grip more frequently.

 

ABS - Allows the tire to rotate under hard breaking. Full + will simulate you pressing/depressing the brake pedal. Makes it so you can somewhat steer while fully on the brakes.

 

ESP - Reduces the cars power in order to gain traction. Think of it like traction control but at the ECU level. More + will limit power on the car in order to maintain traction. End feel is car is slower in corners but less likely to slide.

 

Slide Help - Counter-steering in drifting. More + helps with maintaining a slide and transitioning into a new one. With less you can transition drifts much faster but greater chance is a *180.

 

Specific

 

Aero Distribution - Side of the car airflow is pushing down. Different uses here. Less in the front will cause understeer.

 

Diff Distrib - AWD Cars Which side of the car will have the most power. More + to the rear allows for oversteering.

 

Gearbox - Gear Ratio. More + will give you more top speed but reduced acceleration. Less - Will have you slapping through gears quicker but reduces top speed.

 

Tire Grip Front/Rear - Sticky Tires. Play around with these sliders. Reduced front produces understeer. Reduced rear produces oversteer.

 

Brake Power - Pressure of the pads on the rotor. More + will slow the car down faster but also has a higher chance of locking up the brakes.

 

Brake Balance - Ratio of front to rear pad pressure. More to the front will cause understeer during braking.

 

Susp Comp Front/Rear - Upwards travel of the wheel over a bump. More + is stiffer. Higher it is the more likely you will lose initial traction over a bump. Good for TC where there are few bumps.

 

Susp Reb Front/Rear - Downwards travel the wheel after a bump. Less - will cause the vehicle to be floaty. More + will make the car settle faster.

 

Susp Geom Camber Front/Rear - Vertical alignment of the wheel to the body of the vehile. Less - results in the top of the wheel more towards the body. More + is the opposite, bottom of the wheel towards the car. Generally, a little less will give you more traction in the corners but less on the straights.

 

ARB Front/Rear - Anti-Roll Bar. More + allows less body roll. This stiffens the car. Less - will allow the weight transfer but also reduces the reaction to the turn. These can also be used to induce over/under steer.

 

 

 

Water

 

 

Spoiler

 

Global

 

Drift Assist - TBD

 

Specific

 

Weight Distribution - Front to Back leaning. Acts very much like holding forward or backwards on the stick. More + is weight on the front. Reduces top speed but gains control.

 

Rudder Angle - Surface area of the rudder in a turn. More + will allow you to turn much faster at the cost of speed.

 

Braking Power - How quickly you can slow down. More + allows you to stop faster.

 

Buoyancy - How floaty floaty you are. More + will give the boat more surface area above the water.

 

Hull Friction - Resistance of the water to the boat. Less - allows for some sweet water drifting.

 

Trim Tabs - Tabs that trim? More + allows quicker transition between left and right turns but at reduced speed.

 

 

Air

 

 

Spoiler

 

Global

 

Auto Climb Control - Keeps you sober. On maintains altitude if level. Off you will start dropping altitude until you have to con-air in Las Vegas.

 

Knife Flight Assist - Pulls a knife out in a gunfight. While on in the knife fight, it will counter control the rudder to help maintain your level. If left off, you will be defenseless and have to use your teeth.

 

Automatic Landing Gear - Where landing meets gear. Left on, gear will come out on its own near the ground. Pro mode will have it off, allows for more speed closer to the ground if you do not intend to land.

 

Ground Cushion - Mother nature's pillow. Rate at which plane pitches up when near the ground. Less - reduces the distance to the ground. -Contribution by miljon3

 

Ground Effect - Sweet body kits. - The lift produced by real-world phenomena when flying close to the ground. Less - reduces this already slight effect. -Contribution by zhpete

 

Specific

 

Plane Reactivity - Sensitivity of the Control Stick. Less - reduces how quickly the plane adjusts to your control. More + makes it snappy.

 

Stall - Threshold at which you lost control. Reducing gains speeds but at the cost of possibly not being able to control your plan. Suggest reducing until you can still performs tricks or turns. Increase if stalling.

 

Wings Dihedral Angle - *How perpendicular the wings are to the fuselage. * Haven't been able to determine a visual difference in game but stats indicate that more + gives you better roll rates.

 

Yaw Briskness - Rudder effectiveness. Less - reduces how much your plane will "drift".

 

Pitch Briskness - The up/down efficiency of the African Swallow. Less - Reduces the rate at which you fall and rise.

 

Roll Briskness - Do a barrel roll, but slower. - Less - slows down how fast you roll the plane.

 

Stabilizer Incidence - Rear wing/stabilizer perpendicularness to the rest of the plane. More + will cause your plane to constantly reduce altitude.

 

Wings Incidence - Rate at which you hit birds. - More + will cause your plane to constantly increase altitude. 

 

 

Edited July 8, 2018 by luisniko

[vashekk]

 

 

[einjzmolf]

 

 

[Rewdalf]

Game is pretty sh*tty, to be honest.

 

I have over 200 hours on TC1 (story was short, but easily twice as long as this one), and I finished TC2 with barely 30 hours on record (and that's counting a lot of BSing around and making liveries...)

Most of the "modes" feel like they were just tacked on, like aerobatics and monster trucks. Complete chore to play them, boring and uninspired.

Boats handle like bricks and I hate them, but very surprisingly I ended up loving Jet Sprint quite a bit. Those little things handle great when you disable all of the assists and just have at it.

 

But, they have fixed almost no issues from the first game, including the god awful "MMO" category it files itself under. There is virtually no interaction between players.

Driving is slightly better, but you can say that about any game when comparing it to TC1, and rubberbanding AI is pretty much a core game mechanic.

 

Only redeeming qualities it has are the huge map, ability to customize cars with factory paint and wheel options, and probably one of the best photo modes.

 

So here are some photos.

 

 





 



 









 





 

[StuntCurry707]

test

 

[StuntCurry707]

^^^^ i've got more than enough coin so i decided to step out of los santos. this is my epic GTAO whole U.S map xpac (chilling in my vehicle at all times) with a miami safehouse. screw the haters, adding planes and boats is a fvcking game changer.  i couldn't wait to cruise around beautiful vice city in a speedboat like the boss i am

 

 

 

 

this game makes waiting for the nightclub update 100x easier 😎

 

 

 

eyo rockstar..add this plane in the future and i'll finally buy (and pistol whip the sh#t outta ron) a hangar lol

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

look at the sneaker game..aaawww how cute..matching kicks!!  😀

 

 

[vashekk]

Made some liveries. All are shared on PC

 

 

(lettering changes with car color)

 

[luisniko]

I f*cking give up on the Hyper Car race. Insane show of rubber-banding and NPC driver accuracy.

 

Popped 800k for an Agera and still can't win the lowest match.

[HaRdSTyLe_83]

The rubber banding only works while they are behind, once they are close they dont have the juice to overtake you, i made it with the ferrari in stock with no upgrades the first time, and been doing it with the p1 now fully upgrade + icon bonus and been keeping around 15sec in front of them

Edited July 12, 2018 by HaRdSTyLe_83

[Rewdalf]

Oddly enough I've had nothing but luck on Hypercar races.

They catch up fastest on corners or windy roads, but for some odd reason get left behind on the straights...

I've done all the races on normal and hard, only having to cut off a rubberband car a few times.

They're strangely polite, and will back off if you block them...

 

I did most of the races in the Zonda too. Surprisingly stable, even with all of the assists off. I only keep a little bit of ABS to help with braking.

[einjzmolf]

[VROmead]

21 hours ago, luisniko said:

I f*cking give up on the Hyper Car race. Insane show of rubber-banding and NPC driver accuracy.

 

Popped 800k for an Agera and still can't win the lowest match.

What platform are you on? 

[luisniko]

2 hours ago, VROmead said:

What platform are you on? 

PS4

 

[VROmead]

2 minutes ago, luisniko said:

PS4

 

Ok, I can help you out in a few I just have to get a haircut in about 10 min and then lunch so I could be on an hour or 2..

[luisniko]

9 minutes ago, VROmead said:

Ok, I can help you out in a few I just have to get a haircut in about 10 min and then lunch so I could be on an hour or 2..

Thanks for offering the help.

 

Apparently I don't have PS+ at the moment. So we can't team up.

[luisniko]

I made and shared this GTAFORUMS logo on PS4. Decal tag: Stripes, Logo, Video Game

 

 

Emblem is derp. Looks like old lady carrying a spoon. But whatever. It's budget quality.

[luisniko]

Okay, I'm sick seeing things like this. Normally I would ignore, but I guess I will put this as a casual reminder for adult gamers (or as adult consumers in general).

Giving feedback and complaints are great. You are participating in shaping the game's future. But how the f*ck do you want to shape the game's future when all you have in your complaints are bunch of nitpicking, subjective, and bunch of other irrelevant matters and things you can neither prove or explain? This is NOT the way to go, man.

 

Spoiler

1) Downgrade since E3 2017;
2) AI is terrible, especially for civilians on streets.. sometimes they get stack in the middle of the road without any reason and create a BIG chaos around, sometimes they hit other cars or other objects like traffic lights and more;
3) NPC's body and Clothes Textures aren't horrible, the are just Scary, open the photo editor and go close to a bus or any vehicle that transport NPC's and you will be freakign scared out, i swear, their legs and armas are.. stretched and distorted.. + some other times they have them into their own body (in poor words without arms/legs);
4) Photo Editor Don't have Zoom Option or Rotation of the Camera (atleast with my controller);
5) NPC's on races are just rediculous because they pass through cars, traffic lights and ANYTHING is around them (except for buildings or walls);
6) NPC Cars Path when turning are rediculous aswell, they just turn on the sidewalk;
7) Badly or missing animations for Steering Wheels, exhausts and others;
😎 Can't customize the License Plate, just the simple ugly "THE CREW 2";
9) Can't skip the intro of the game (atleast for Controllers);
10) You can actually make small structures collaps just with your motorbike and all these objects have a weight like a piece of paper or not.. wait.. right, piece of paper have more weight than TC2 objects;
11) Visuals Glitches when you go behind or under a waterfall;
12) Objects horribly placed on the ground between or into other objects, like you can see clearly the part of it go through the other one;
13) Water come from nowhere (walls, underground, terrain, anything except right spawn points like idk.. some unions from other parts when water come from or.. for example a dam and others;
14) Floating grass/objects/parked NPC Cars and anything you can imagen (too houses);
15) Your own vehicle could floating in some places;
16) Weird blurry Cut Scenes and the Intro of the game too if i open the game all Ultra Setting in 2K/4K Res;
17) Disgusting rendering textures of the entire world (included objects cars and anything other, too trees and ambient stuff);
18) Camera glitch if you go in 1st person and then try to make the water pull you down (i used a dam to get that done), you will see the vehicle go down but the camera/head remain static and you can see too through water the terrain;
19) You can walk under water;
20) Uou can't in anyway sell your own vehicles or atleast delete them;
21) Crew Credits make game finished in 1 minute for rich peoples, disgusting and horrible way to let players "earn" new stuff;
22) Unrealistic Houses, well.. who the f***k have planes and cars in his Own House, like you enter in it and instead of have a normal Living Room;
23) Can't invite your friends into your own house and have fun (like GTAV for houses and Yachts), play billiard or other fun old games on the TV instead of keep watchign the fake beautiful graphic Cinematic Trailer of the game;
24) Game keep sayign that you are driving/flying in the wrong direction too if you aren't in a race or really in a Real wrong direction;
25) Objects with big hitboxes like a wall seems 2 walls hitboxes, you hit the nothing, the air;
26) Your Own Character (when on motorbikes) don't have any collision, he/she can pass through anything, terrain, walls, buildings, street lamp, traffic lights and more;
27) Missing so many beautiful cars and old glories;
28) Wrong parts of floors together;
29) NPC Cars don't recognize roadowkrs / construction sites and hit them;
30) Unrealistic Clothes movements when in Motorbike;
31) Horrible Civ on foot spawns (under the bridge, underground and more);
32) No cops/firefighters/paramedics but you can clearly see these type of vehicles in the game (Firetrucks, Police Cars and Ambulance's);
33) Disgusting amount of exploits and breaking glithces into the game;
34) Photo Mode Make bikes sound different when exiting and return to free roam (drive mode);
35) Uplay don't recognize/show Game Statistics like other games;
36) Can't buy your own apartment or customize it, until something liek that will come out is completely useless to own apartments in the game because are just same like all other players;
37) Can't sell or trade items//cars;
38) You don't receive any rewards when going to discard a upgrade for a care (like a suspension mod).

 

This is my answer to all those points.

 

Spoiler

1) Downgrade of what? Graphic? I see it's less vibrant, reflective shader, and losing a few others. No big deal if it's all for the sake of gameplay optimization or tonality.
2) They are do make roadblocks, just like any other open world game with traffic. I've never seen them breaking traffic lights or collide however.
3) They are. Just like in TC1 or any other racing game. But then again it's a driving game and I'm in a high speed vehicle looking at the street. I'm just glad they are not flat cardboard.
4) You are eligible to call yourself blind, just like in your thread title, because of this. Zoom and Rotate are in the first tab when you enter Photo Mode.
5) Yes, I hope next time NPC opponents will stop on red traffic light and traffic jam for you. Seriously.
6) Which NPC you're talking about? Race opponents? Sure. Normal drivers? I've yet to seen it tbh.
7) Please elaborate. Especially the 'others'. What is the missing animation for exhaust that it should have had?
8 ) Yeah. I didn't see anyone appreciated that TC1 so-called custom plates either. So...
9) What intro of the game? Developer and publisher splash screen? Or intro as in the beginning part of the game?
10) Objects do bounce afar. If they were have more weight and mass, you would trip over yourself. And if Ubisoft changed that, I hope it's exclusively for you.
11) Interesting. Where is the waterfall? And what do we have to do behind the waterfall until the visual glitch is jarring enough for a prolonged time?
12) You mean clipping. That sucks. I guess.
13) I don't understand wtf you're talking about. Water out of nowhere what?
14) As I have seen, there are be misplaced grasses or objects or floating. Not as many and as obvious that it should be a huge case. 
15) Terrain hitbox problem I guess.
16) That sucks. I hope you're not talking about Depth of Field and practically a blurry render of motion picture instead.
17) Just like point 3
18) You mean like there is nothing underwater or there's no sort of underwater effect?
19) That's f*cking-A, isn't it? You mentioned a glitch that allows walk into water but you didn't mention a glitch that allows you out of your walking area.
20) Why do you need to?
21) That's funny. You wouldn't unlock disciplines, let alone the vehicles under it, in under a span time of 1 minute.
22) Indeed. Only video game characters do that.
23) I guess that's because the game is dedicating itself to be a driving/racing game. Although crew gathering could be a nice off-vehicle meeting point.
24) That's because you have a Waymark on and the game is reminding you that you are in the wrong way from your destination.
25) Okay. Interesting.
26) That would make the bike not viable option to be played on if that's the case.
27) That's great. I guess I do have my favorite cars not in the game but it's not a deal breaker because they can't please everyone
28) Please elaborate and with picture. I want to see.
29) Which NPC cars again? Racers? Or normal bypassers? Racers, again, sure. Those construction roadblocks sometimes just serve also as a shortcut hint and I have yet to see bypasser cars do that.
30) Like how...?
31) Okay. I haven't seen them in underground tunnels I passed through. Not sure if I need to loiter around there first, but I wouldn't do that.
32) Well. For whatever reason they remove Police. But I guess I'll have it conveniently.
33) Disgusting amount? Damn. So far I know there's only a fame grind. But then again I don't do it.
34) Interesting. You should provide a video for them.
35) That sucks, I guess.
36) It is indeed sucks that I can't buy apartment in other cities while they obviously have it around. But I don't see how not letting me customize it renders it completely useless beyond its actual functions it brings that are can be said quite close to being the core part of the game, which is car customisation.
37) What to sell and why would you need to sell cars? You mentioned this previously
38) I noticed so and I think it has to be addressed. At least a few Bucks or option to trade it in for other parts across vehicle type would suffice

 

As you can see from my screenshots, I have a lot of joke decals and that's because I don't really care about the game or the genre in general. I'm not a car guy myself, so I don't know a lot about it. But I do think I'm obligated to develop feedback seriously within the area that I can talk of.  The complaints above can be trimmed into a fewer legitimate points than it actually was written. That will save time to write and read.

 

Sorry for the long post. Rant over.

Edited July 15, 2018 by luisniko

[ṼirulenⱦEqừinox]

So how is the rubberbanding?

 

It was horrible in the first game so I'd like to know how bad it is before I purchase the game myself

[Guest Billy Russo]

I really want to get this game, because I loved just doing road trips on the first Crew game, but not sure it's worth the money.

 

What are your guy's thoughts? Is it worth it if you just like driving around for road trips, and buying cars.

[VROmead]

2 hours ago, Breaking Bad said:

I really want to get this game, because I loved just doing road trips on the first Crew game, but not sure it's worth the money.

 

What are your guy's thoughts? Is it worth it if you just like driving around for road trips, and buying cars.

It's definetly worth it for that due to the fact that's what the game excels at. I've been doing exactly that and haven't gotten even close to bored yet after a month. It takes time to get a lot of vehicles so that will keep you busy as well.