Re: Multiplayer Free-Roam

There is online freeroam, but in lobby mode, very short, just multiplayer mode is more long.

How is that mode? U can be in lobby mode with a friend?

For while this is "wait mode" lobby, but the world is free and so the next speedlist loads, I can to play with a friend but in speedlist, if the my friend and me stay out of the event also.

That is a loading screen and nothing more. It is not a proper multiplayer free roam, and should stop being claimed as one.  You cannot host car meets, you cannot run into and meet new people, and if the host starts the race at any moment, you get thrown into a race whether you wanted to or not, as you may have been cruising around with others.


Payback is built on the same game engine as NFS 2015,  removing multiplayer free roam took more effort than it would've if it was kept in the game. So there is NO excuse for it not being in the game, and the fact that the speedlist loading screen puts players into the world together for a brief moment, means there is NO reason it can't be the same drop in-drop out multiplayer free roam like in NFS 2015.

All that, is if you ignore the fact that it was a promised feature, that was only very recently removed from their official post, most likely after the majority of preorders had already come in.

Everyone should refund and boycott Payback  UNLESS Ghost games addresses and fixes this. It's not difficult to patch back in, and they know it. Let's see if they listen to community feedback, like they claim.

I'd like to inform you that removing online free roam is detrimental to the game's life span, if you don't come out and officially address this problem many fans will leave the game, and for those who already bought it they'll eventually leave and play your competitor's games where they manage to provide what's missing in Payback.

You claim to listen to fans (doesn't seem like it considering how customization in NFS actually regressed overtime, just look at UG2 onward, and you'll see how customization kept devolving yet you still stand by the "authentic & real" body parts and such, when you know for a fact that we just want variety in everything instead of the opposite. Again look at UG2, you might learn a thing or two) but that's besides the main point I'm trying to address. We've been rightfully complaining about Payback's lack of online free roam mode for a fair while now, and the fact that this issue came up before the game is even officially released will undoubtedly affect the game's sales, and no matter how high your numbers go up. just know that those numbers won't be as high as they could potentially be thanks to the brilliant decision of excluding what is known to be a staple in the open world racing game genre by now.

Also what the hell is up with no cops in free roam, what's the point of having a cop system in the first place? Want tips on how to fix them? Easy! Take a look at 2005's NFS Most Wanted and you should learn something... New? I guess? It truly is sad that I'm referencing two NFS games that are well over 13 years old to improve the latest NFS game. NFS has definitely evolved in certain aspects, but in return severely regressed in others. Do yourselves a favor and hire some loyal NFS fans who are interested in a Game Design career to help you fix your games the right way.

You've taken a year off without a NFS game to eventually deliver a complete game, not a game which gives fans the right to complain about it before it's even officially released, and rightfully so on the fans' side. You need to address this issue to the public regarding whether you intend to include an online free roam mode or not (because clearly you deliberately kept that piece of info away from fans during your big marketing campaign); before the official release date, because that's what makes sense from a business perspective AND as an answer to loyal fans who don't deserve such a slap to the face. SAVE your GAME. DON'T LET IT DIE.

Sincerely yours

A fan who grew up playing this franchise.

and no 4k support or hdr why??? and also no free roaming cops why dont we have cops???? we need cops

might as well just download game then wtf is that lobbie whith friends thats calld lan not a online game

When I saw this I thought to myself that if they were to take this Lobby Freeroam and just tweak it and patch it up they would have an easy fix to this issue

Are u sure about that, or u have a little hope that they introduce the Free roam in a next patch??

well i decided to buy game anyway just to support EA and represent some Faith in the Need for Speed Franchise  but i cant really recommend someone to buy it at the moment  game is mostly offline and after your done whith the story mode that can be played just by downloading game from random torrent , theres not much left to do exept the bugged * speed lists lol

and they dont even come foward and say we are working on the patch to implement these features is just complet silence and thats what scares me the silence from there part  

Hello all,

I've seen a bunch of negative feedback and hate towards EA over ONLY free roam. I highly doubt, if free roam were part of the multiplayer experience, that any other negative clusterbombs would have been dropped so hard on the developpers.

Remember, the story is relatively cringeworthy, but most NFS games including cinematics and a proper story line are, I don't know if any of you genuinely remember the story of NFS 2015 but I cringed all the way through, the only thing that made it more bearable was the fact that they were real images instead of CGI. Otherwise who cares?

The game isn't getting the props it deserves, and allthough I am thouroughly dissapointed with the developpers when it comes to online free roam, I can greatly appreciate the game.

The driving is very arcade like (this is nothing new in NFS so let's give that argument a rest)

But the cars in the game are great, the graphics are what I was expecting, the map is awesome to drive around and I personally prefer the new speedcard system, it's much harder to level up as fast as in the previous game and you can tune your car to how you like it with bonuses etc. 

Now that's out of the way, here's my thoughts on online free roam :

I have played payback since the first second it came out, I stayed up all night to play and was working the next morning, getting home from work all I did was play, until I fell asleep. I loved the game so much and couldn't wait for my friends to finally get the game. I hadn't even tried multiplayer yet, I wanted to get through solo play and enjoy the map and other features before randomly driving around with friends. I found out about two days ago that online free roam wasn't in the game, and have been desperately hoping for news of some new update to add the feature back into NFS.

Even though I understand my opinion is pretty much nothing on EA's radar, I wanted to say that payback really, REALLY needs to be fixed, start with free roam, then patch everything afterwards to allow better matchmaking etc. But unless free roam is added, people are just going to keep screaming like children. 

In short, thanks for the game, absolutely love it, but please fix it.

Sincerely,

Massive loyal fan to the franchise.

SIDENOTE FOR 'Pre Order' GAMERS : Don't pre-order unless you know wtf is going to happen with the game, you don't have to get a masters in economics to KNOW that's a bad investment.

Mate, in every multiplayer match I was in there were cars lvl 399 and 150-175, who had 0 chance of winning. Matchmaker is horrible broken, that alone is a reason for negative feedback.

I mean this thread is now pinned on the game info forum, so atleast that's something right?

@ViperDeMLG Its pinned like 3 days now lol and I come in to check it everyday, but they still are keeping silence which really disturbs me, like I said above, I feel like an animal that hes been used to milk some money then thrown away and ignored lol however odd that sounds :3

@Dron26RU_ID hopefully they're working on it but eh.. I'd like to see some progress or an announcement soon, cus i've been waiting to buy the game

@ViperDeMLG I got that feeling when you finished the story mode and now all I gotta do is speedlist all day and do achievments... and speedlisting at this stage is in veeery bad form lol level 399 match with level 150 n stuff haha its ridiculous, and its just 2 types of races, race and rally... and that is all to the multiplayer lol... I like the graphics part is good, the story line is good, but the people that made the multiplayer must be some lazy cows tbh.... Like EA need to go and give them a few kicks in the * to start moving with the game... because they really are lowering peoples respect to EA altogheter, even though ghost made it, but they made it for EA didnt they.