Driveclub To Suffer Further Disruption For “Essential Diagnostics”

Driveclub is going to get worse before it gets better as Evolution are currently running diagnostics to try an improve the server connections. The bad news is that the diagnostics may interfere with the lucky few who do manage to get on to the severs.

During the next 24hrs we are running essential diagnostics to help us improve the performance of the servers. This may disrupt online play for you when you do get connected.
We are sorry we don’t have more news to share right now but we will keep working hard to get you all up and running online as quickly as we can.

Evolution do seem to be doing their very best to sort the problem, albeit with little success.

Source: Facebook

37 Comments

  1. The game is fundamentally ready, they just seemingly haven’t got enough servers up and running on the back-end. Seems silly for them to have made this mistake on a first party title but at least they’re fixing it! :)

  2. Hoping the server issues are sorted out and the plus version is released soon. It does look beautiful but don’t want to splash out full price if the handling is dodgy.

    One of the main benefits of playing the Crew Beta was to find out the handling was awful and I have a feeling this won’t be changed before it’s launch, I could of brought it on release and not got on with it at all.

    Just hoping DriveClub plays as nice as it looks.

    • I found the car’s handling in The Crew crap to start with but after playing with the settings it was much better, the sensitivity setting seemed to make a bigger difference than you expect.

  3. The single player needs playing first anyway to unlock cars. When you go online you can use a loan car to enter a race that you’ve not unlocked a car for but you don’t gain any fame/xp etc. We’ll you earn it so that you can see what you’ve earned but then they tell you that you can’t have it as you were driving a loan car.
    Kind of cheesed me off when I realised this.
    Managed to get online for about 90 mins or so last night, it’s slow but once in a race/event it’s fine.

  4. I was considering buying this as a day 1 purchase. Then, being a previous BF fan I thought “hey there’s a decent demo dropping the same day”. So I proudly waited. Then the demo slipped. Then the server issues appeared. Then the demo slipped more then this (evo studios design head tweeted today that the ps+ version won’t be live Friday). I’ll wait for the ps+ demo still but the sour taste of the launch has reduced my appetite for the retail game. Maybe I’m getting snobby, maybe I’m just fed up of the era of the unfinished release. The de rigeur day 1 patch. This isn’t why I own a console, I own a console to have a break from PC Gaming and all the driver issues, patches glitches, hackers and bugs that come with it.

    Hey Evolution Studios?! *golf clap*

  5. With a quiet weekend ahead of me I decided to buy the £35 upgrade edition this morning. Guess I’ll be sticking to the single player for a while then.

    • Tried it yet?

      • Sadly its still downloading. Just spotted in the comments that you bit the bullet and decided to get it. Fingers crossed we aren’t left disappointed :)
        I skipped Infamous SS, rented Knack and have no intention of getting LBP3 or The Order 1886 so I sort of felt obligated to buy at least one Sony exclusive this year, lol.

      • Just went on the online store to check the status and it’s still downloading. Wish it would show the progress. Apparently it was also downloading the Dragons Teeth DLC for BF4 which I’ve already got so I cancelled it in case it was downloading that first.
        Time to head home soon seeming it’s a Friday so it’s not got long now to hurry the hell up and get downloaded!

        I’m hoping it’s gonna be fun and that the critics have been a bit harsh.

        Spoke to yet another mate who’s enjoying it but he did say it felt a bit unfinished and it’s not that deep as far as driving games go but he is getting addicted & is glad he bought it. He seemed to think the low review scores are unjustified in his opinion.

  6. Bummer, i was hoping they might get the plus version out there for the weekend. Still quite looking forward to playing it.

  7. Hey TSA crew, you didn’t let Evolution take over and handle the TSA Forums over the last few weeks by any chance did you?

    • I wondered if something was wrong as when I went into them before they appeared empty?

      • Must be coming up close to about a month since they last worked for me. A few people have mentioned it. At first I thought it was my browser playing up.

  8. Had a quick go on the game earlier with access to a friends PS4 and it certainly does herald the dawn of next gen graphical capability.
    Gameplay wise it absolutely screams Forza in my personal opinion which is no bad thing.

    Very nice but not the behemoth expected, that’ll be Polyphony Digitals job ;)

  9. It’s still a rad game!!

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