Forum Discussion

8 years ago

So will there be multiplayer freeroam or what?

I have preordered the game, played the 10 hour trial, loved it... But, I am worried to see that there is much talk around the internet saying that there will be no multiplayer freeroam. That is like ...

Anonymous

8 years ago

Gonna be honest haven’t read all the comments so I’m sorry if this has already been said (seem like most of you maybe aren’t seeing the bigger picture) when a game is first released a game developer has to guess the traffic in multiplayer they often get it wrong (GTA5 Online be a prime example) and with this miscalculation this leads to bad multiplayer experience like lag, sync problems and disconnects now we don’t want this. Paybacks be out about about a week now so my theory is Ghost a just trying to assess the online traffic this game will have which may mean a delay in free roam. In regards to speedlists to my knowledge they load on a different server to the freeroam sessions. Example, each speed list and all it players belong to one universe while ALL the free roam players are on one universe. Far more traffic in free roam then in speedlists. Once again I could be way off on this but this is what I’ve been told. So in my opinion Yes online freeroam is happening just hold you horses guys

Also Ghost the hell is up with these loading times like 2 loading screens each one 5mins just to be put into speedlist like man please annoying as hell.

monzai1

8 years ago

Atleast they could give an official answer if it was on that purpose, so we didnt have to complain anymore and wait for the dlc?

ALLpro16
8 years ago
Yeah, I think we deserve some confirmation about what's going to happen. I finished the single player story a few days ago and I'm left here thinking: "Okay, so what now?" 50 hours of gameplay and I have all the super cars that I wanted to get. I can't drive around with cops chasing me; I can't drive around with my friends in free roam. Although I didn't particually like Need for Speed 2015, at least it had Cops AND online free roam. It's pretty obvious that they copied many things from 2015 in Payback, so why not just keep online and the cops too? Tossing out two of the franchise's biggest selling points must've been a better idea in someone's head. I kind of understand getting rid of online free roam; There were people complaining about how the last game HAD to be played online. But I think I can say that the vast majority of players would've liked to see online free roam stay. However, I have to question: why, in this two year development cycle, were we (the players) not given this information ahead of time so that we could voice our opinions on the changes? I love how EA made that announcement before the game's release and basically confirmed there would be online free roam, but then edited it after it was already public and pulled the phrase "online free roam" from it. It would be nice if we could hear from someone at EA...... Hey, I'll give them props for a couple things though: I love the songs and the cars 😂
- Anonymous
  8 years ago
  I agree, I cancelled my preorder but will definitely buy the game once online free roam comes out. That it if it does. Only issue is that EA need to work on their communication and let us know what is going on so the community stop complaining.