Evolution Studios has announced that the first piece of paid DLC will be made free for all who have bought Driveclub, due to the problems the game has faced since launch. The two packs, Ignition Expansion and Photo Finish Tour, will make available five new cars, 22 more tour events, 10 extra trophies, and 10 livery items. This content will be going live on the 25th November in North America, and the 26th of November in Europe. Season Pass holders may feel they’re losing out, but fear not as Evolution is expanding to include four extra packs. This means a total of 38 cars, 176 events, and 80 liveries will be available on top of this free DLC.
That’s not all in terms of updates as this Tuesday a new one will roll out for Driveclub, and this will include both fixes as well as three free tracks for players to race around. Photo mode will also be added.
• India – Yedepalli
• Scotland – Wester Ross
• Chile – Los Pelambres
• Improved multiplayer collision physics to reduce frustrating spin-outs
• Adjustments to soften the corner cutting penalty system
• Options in the club menu to view everything your club has unlocked
• A fix to allow all club owners to update their club badges.
There is still no update on when the PS Plus edition of Driveclub will release, nor on things like the game’s weather system.
Source: Facebook
MrYd
Some of the comments on that Facebook post are a perfect example of Why We Can’t Have Nice Things.
The game’s been pretty much working fine for the past week or 2. They’re giving away 2 lots of free DLC. And yet people are still acting like a bunch of muppets and demanding their money back.
Hopefully the challenges feature will be turned on soon as well. And the weather. And at least it’s not like a certain other game I could mention that wants you to wait over a year for promised features because they’re obviously too busy working on a PS4 version despite having sold about a billion last-gen copies.
JR.
To be fair those people have a right to ask for their money back. They were sold an unfinished game. Two bits of Dlc which probably should have been included in the game to begin with does not make up for the weeks that they were unable to play a game they were mis-sold. A broken, unfinished game that should never have been released in such a state. A game they paid full price for. They have a right to be pissed off and they have a right to ask for their money back. And maybe in a few months when (one would hope) the game is working 100%, they can pick the game up again at half price. If we stand up to these half-assed rush job releases, it won’t happen again next time.
MrYd
I suspect anyone who bought the game when it was released and hasn’t got a refund yet probably doesn’t have any right to it now, especially if they’ve been playing it for the past month.
Legally, they probably had a case to start with. The game was at least partly broken (apart from the large amounts of game that worked fine). You would probably have a good case that it wasn’t fit for purpose.
But 5 weeks later, you’ve lost any right to a refund. The best you can hope for is they fix it. Which they mostly have, apart from the challenges.
And I don’t think you can call a game delayed by a year a “rush job”, can you?
JR.
Sure, it was delayed by a year but that doesn’t mean it isn’t a rush job, it just makes the whole situation even more ridiculous. The game wasn’t ready/properly tested and they rushed it out anyway because another delay would have been heavily criticised. Although, it probably cost them more to release the game as it was in the long run.
I hear what you’re saying but I was under the impression that some people who bought the game digitally and requested refunds were being given the run-around and were still chasing up refunds five weeks later? In that case, I would still argue that people had a right to their money back, no matter how many pieces of free dlc they are compensated with and regardless of whether the game seems to working now or not.
freezebug2
Must be my internet connection then because the game has not worked fine at all for me, almost every other race has the disconnected from Driveclub servers message appearing on screen to this day.
I’m still waiting patiently for a slight inkling of online possibility but it ain’t happening…I think i’ll just level 50 it and say my goodbye’s.
Damn shame as it’s a cracking racer :(
camdaz
I’ve not got the best internet connection but haven’t suffered any server disconnects this week, until today when it happened in a couple of races. It happened late afternoon when, I suspect, the load on the servers would be greater.
Also sorted my oversteer issues – turn off the steering assist in wheel options – handling is good!
3shirts
My connection is good but I still get connection drops in Driveclub and trying to get into online races is more miss than hit. If I get into one there is no chance I will get into the next one in that lobby, it always drops and I have to try another event, and sometimes it locks up and ‘connecting to server’ and I have to close the whole game!
It’s not fixed at all and challenges are still not even enabled. The honeymoon period for an online game is over, most of my club barely play now, so there is very little to hold on for.
I’ve enjoyed the game but I can see why some people are frustrated.
freezebug2
@Cam You are one of the lucky few bud, a whole week without any server drop is just a forelorn hope in my case.
See, I’ve given my PS4 console the best start by using ethernet cable connection but DriveClub still sticks two fingers up to any hope of a durable connection to it’s servers.
Not much more I can do, it’s the games coding that’s ballsed anyway not server distribution. So until there’s a mahoosive patch which practically re-codes the whole game it’s curtains I reckon :(
@3shirts Sadly that’s an inevitable outcome for most people, even those with the fading hope of a fix on the horizon :(
camdaz
@Freeze, I play mostly in the afternoon when there are probably less demand on the servers. I did have a lot more connection drops and stupid challenge targets on Saturday, hopefully the patch on Tuesday will improve connections etc.
funkyellowmonkey(ps3 id)
yeah, some progress is a good thing at least. photo mode seems cool as there is alot of nice scenery and such in the game. new tracks are cool too along with more events and trophies, nice.
can’t wait for replays and weather system update, it will be the icing along with everything working! ;)
TSBonyman
The fixes will be most welcome, especially the tweaks for the corner penalties and online bashing. I haven’t mastered all of the existing tracks in the game yet but three new ones sounds good all the same and i’m looking forward to playing with the Photo mode.
MrYd
Hopefully more cars mean they come with more of the “accolades”. Which means more easy XP to get up to level 50.
Somewhere around level 25 my progress was slowing down. Somewhere in the mid-30s I started levelling up quickly again as I knocked out more accolades. I think it’s slowing down again as the XP needed to level up starts to go up and the time it takes to finish a level 5 accolade gets a bit silly. Not too bad, but a few new cars could help.
3shirts
I agree. I slowed to a near halt at 38. Focussed on a couple of accolades to grind out to 40 and unlock the last car (the Gumpert) but now I barely see the bar move after an event.
Bornindafire
Hoped they fixed CPU Ai
Carrot381
Asked for a refund early this week. Hopefully will get one cos this game is quite a way from being finished in my opinion, regardless of the server issues.
Really disappointed with the whole Driveclub experience which is a shame because the core gameplay is actually very good.
xIONx
I returned mine to Asda for a full refund. The DLC sounds limited, not great compensation for the early adopters.
They lose.