Driving a Golf GTi online is great fun, until someone rolls into the lobby sporting a Veyron. Well, thankfully, Polyphony are on the case and although we’d have preferred this sort of thing to be in from the game’s launch, dropping a new patch to limit online races to specific car classes after just a few days is pretty quick going.
In an interview with Eurogamer, Yamauchi said that they had “received a lot of demands for having more regulations placed on the online play” and as a result are going to push out an update this weekend that will “include things like max power restrictions and weight restrictions.”
“It’s like a living creature, dynamically growing as we speak,” said the Polyphony head. Indeed.
Since launch the servers have been battered by the sheer amount of people wanting to play the game, which has affected the offline mode just as much as the online. “The data centre was set up to handle 500,000 connections but the number of connections we received greatly exceeded that amount and there was a high chance of experiencing problems as a result,” said Yamauchi.
“Online updates are planned of course for leaderboards and matchmaking,” he also revealed.
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minerwilly
Some over reactions here , ok its overloaded . They are going to fix it swiftly . Great … end of story . Life goes on , we arent starving to death .
It has a MASSIVE amount of stuff to do in offline mode . Just stay signed out of PSN when playing and you will not get the menu lag .
maccas09
I’ve had no problems online at all. last nite the game came in to its own with me, had some epic races, as a petrolhead this is the simply the best game I’ve played.