After patch it works perfectly. Finally I can put back all my wraps. Salutes to Ghost
Almost 150 people have reported this exact problem. Of cours not everyone experiencing this bug has made it to these forums yet so just imagine the amount of people suffering from this bug.
10 days after launch we've had no official reply from EA yet. It's a game breaking bug not allowing people to enjoy the game or save their progress. It's a shame there is no information about an update or fix yet, even though many people in this topic have helped to narrow this problem down and find the cause of it all.
For everyone with a ps4 not responding to anything anymore... Don't immediately pull out the power cable. Press and hold the touch button on the ps4 itself for 15 seconds and it should also turn itself off.
For now, if you do still want to play and minimize the chances of crashing... Strip down your car and remove most visual customization from it. (My car has just 5 aftermarket parts equipped) Also don't use a (complex) wrap and just paint your car in one color. After you've done this, quit te lobby, go to the main menu and load up your game again.
Just to confirm, same happening on XB1 and yes, the possible causes can be narrowed down to:
- too many visual parts
- too complex livery / paint
- racing in downtown area
I had no issues whatsoever up to approx. rep lev 15 when i was driving mostly 2 basic cars (Mustang and Civic) with rather simple painting and very little 'body parts' (as I was saving for performance upgrades). Problems started when I bought a 3rd car and started playing with it, added a lot of customization & complex paint, got it above 240 and unlocked new set of downtown races. Then - it started crashing in most of these races, whenever the race path got close to downtown area it was guaranteed to crash (regardless which car i used at that point, even with Civic!).
To experiment a bit, I scrapped the new vehicle altogheter, reverted back to good ol'TypeR, powercycled the console and actually, it worked fine for a whole day of playing (even on the same downtown races it was crashing - Barrier, Prestige, Tornado..). Then again, i invested in Nissan GTR and customized the f**k out of it - problem reoccured, again same symptoms in same races.
I plan to experiment some more with simplifying GTR design and retrying (i scrapped visual PARTS - still crashing - but i also still have complex livery on it. will just paint it black :P) Anyway, what is most annoying is complete lack of acknowledgement of this situation from EA side. A simple "we are aware and working on a patch" would be enough. People complained on NMS for example but at least they've published patches every 2 days after Beyond launch, with detailed notes, addressing issue by issue for several weeks. With full transparency and honesty.
Still, NFS Heat is the best racer i played for long time (and I have Forza Horizon 4 installed too - prefer NFS!). Gets me back to Underground2 days, with some ProStreet vibes too, and I loved this part so much.
@RaphaLegendsI'm talking about the button on the ps4 system itself, not the controller. It should work even if the whole system has stopped working. I looked it up because it didn't feel right to pull out the power cable every time.
@Clancy772 I wouldn't say 160+ reports on this thread would represent thousands of users around the world been affected with the same issues because they either do not know how to report it or too lazy to assume other users would fix the problem or return it the game and hope for a patch.
