DriveClub [PS4] review

[Mr M0by]

Guessing I'm in the minority but I'm enjoying more and more.

Not a minority of those that appear to have played it for an hour or so. I've now completed all events leading up to the Amateur Trophy and have unlocked 70 of the available 90 stars so far (all that FAME forever lost to my club) and have really enjoyed it. The AI difficulty and challenge expectations have stepped up somewhat and there's a fair bit to do for me to earn my missing 20 stars, let alone max out he other events to come. At the minute it'd definitely score it around 7.5 IMO but as it's getting better and better the further I get in to it and with online play, leaderboards and challenges to come, I can see me playing through this for quite a while.

Have sent PSN friends requests to dave and Hartley. Everyone else is already on the list. Looking forward to seeing what times everybody has been setting.

[TonyDA]

Is there any kind of bordersdown club I can join - Id is Tonyda1971

[MoFo2]

Yep, search for "bordersdown" if/when you can get online.

I have played for 2-3 hours today, not a second of server-fun for me. Whether you get connected (and stay connected) seems totally random, varying from person to person. I've read on various other forums and some people are online for hours, while others drop in and out, and some claim they've barely been online.

[TonyDA]

Mofo - thanks. Am actually online now, first time since getting the game on Tues, so have joined!

[MoFo2]

That's great TonyDA, start getting those fame points

I really hope Evolution can patch in some way of transferring my offline points to the club, otherwise I feel I have "wasted" 3 million points.

[Mr M0by]

3 million? What level are you at already? I'm on level 16 I think with around 980,000.

[MoFo2]

Well, to be more correct I'm at 2.9-something, level 29. Some of the events give you 150,000+ points if you complete all the goals, level up on various accolades, drift, draft etc etc

[ETC]

Well I picked this up on a punt, it seems good plays like PGR to me I like it so far and I hate racing games. Is the network down though? I keep getting errors

[TonyDA]

We're up to Level 8 now! 😀😀

Have spent most of the afternoon building up my stars, and trying to get them all from the first batch of races. Really enjoying it so far - it certainly isn't perfect, and it'll feel a more complete game when the online side of things is blemish free, but I've spent the past three hours on it and the time has flown.

Watching your club level go up at the same time as your own driver level is actually very rewarding - will be a real shame if, next time I log on, I can't get the online side to work.

[MoFo2]

ETC: Network is down, some people manage to connect, other don't. The whole online part is a bit unstable to put it mildly and the free PS+ "demo" has been pulled from PSN (until further notice) in hope to ease the stress on the servers. You can however still buy the full game or the PS+ upgrade (the same as the full game, but with a discount for PS+ members).

Edit: Great, TonyDa. Hopefully I can enjoy the fruits of all your hard work when the server-gods let me in

[MoFo2]

New patch out:

1.03

- implement several game-side fixes to reduce server load.
- fixes an issue that may cause clubs to become corrupted.
- fixes out of memory crashes due to multiple large avatars in the friends list.
- fixes occasional game-side crashes when uploading large amounts of progress data.

Edit: It seems the patch is only available in EU atm.

Edit 2: Patch available for US accounts as well.

[dave heats]

I really hope Evolution can patch in some way of transferring my offline points to the club, otherwise I feel I have "wasted" 3 million points.

Exactly what I'm hoping for mate. I finished the single player mode yesterday, basically did the entire final 1/3rd of the game without any online syncing. In fact, this basically means I finished the single player with the game barely being online at all. Not really acceptable.

Still, it's great. i have to say the sensation of speed in this game is genuinely frightening at times. Really does feel uncomfortable doing 210mph down a Norwegian hill. The way Evolution have captured this feeling of speed is quite brilliant.

[MoFo2]

You're fast, I did the Legendary trophy just yesterday. Managed to stay online for the whole event and contribute to the club and I think the club has helped me too because now I have over 4 million points.

Regards to speed, I find some of the Indian tracks more frightening. All those trees, bushes and magnitude of colors making the road feel even narrower and after a long stretch you can barely see the turn and have to oh-shishishi****-brakebrakeBRAKE!

[teddymeow]

Reading tweets from Rushy he said that the points will be credited to your club eventually.

I played twice last time. First time was 30 minutes pre-dinner and I connected fine. Second time was pre-dinner and no connection. Bugger!!

[MoFo2]

Did a 25-lap single event and set the difficulty to "amateur". Had no problem advancing to 1st place within the first lap, so you would think that my lead would only become greater for the rest of the race? Nope, when I'm in the lead all the other cars become flawless racers just waiting for me to make a mistake and overtake me. When they're ahead of me again they start making mistakes again.