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iGearhead's avatar
8 years ago

Technical issues with NFS Payback

There are just a few issues I have with Payback. When online, the lobbies often never start even if everyone pressed 'Ready'. Then, sometimes after a race the list will freeze or not respond... Usually happens when there are people in the freeroam about to join the race. The loading screen is way to long. When a race is about to start, you'll see a Image of your cars front fender. The front fender is pixilated and has no detail. Then as the race race starts all of the textures slowly fox themselves. This involves trees and bits of the pavement and even other cars.

This has nothing to do with the servers but the collision is honestly horrible. The collision is no different from the last game except the cars are slower. If I were to approach someone's bumper for example, it would lead to a total spin out of that person rather than just a genuine bumper touch. Sideswiping is udderly ridiculous and overpowered.
-This is irrelevant to help regarding the trial but just an observation of the racing.

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  • EA_Andy's avatar
    EA_Andy
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    8 years ago

    Hey @iGearhead

    Which platform are you playing on?

    How often are you seeing the freezing?

    - Andy -

  • The freezing last night was happening almost every list I entered. Like I said, usually happened if people had just joined previous to the speedlist standings. The countdown would hit 0 but never actually start the next race. This also happens when joining the speedlist. I didn't really matter if it was a fresh list or a current one. If people were in the freeroam on the 1m20s previous to the list starting, sometimes the list wouldn't actually start even if everyone hit 'ready'. This happened about half of the time.
  • When i load the game I get frozen and game crashes, I got past that for a few hours then crashes again, now I can't even drive without a crash. Is this game DOA?

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    8 years ago
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    I was playing this until this morning. When i woke up the game freezes now. The NOS acts like the I'm holding down the button. I'm not getting any points while driving around anymore.Frozen cars on the road. cops going through cars. Seems like a major glitch. Restarted it 5 times. i don't want to download over just in case i lose all my progress. XBOX 1 console. 75mb internet. Is there an update or does the game automatically update? We Need one, and right after i said that the game was pretty good. i should have kept my mouth shut. Any help would be great. 

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    8 years ago
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    I have exact same issue on xbox one with crashing to home or locking up completely. The partial as unfortunate solution until they fix servers for xbox one is turn off ""auto connect to EA servers" and "share usage data/bugs." These are both under settings and far right option. You'll be gimped from all shipments and multiplayer as you'll be playing completely offline. We need a fix ASAP. I didn't get to play my deluxe edition early du to it crashes during intro or after loading save file and driving 20ft.
  • My offline game keeps freezing on XBox One. It happens everytime I play. There seems to be no rhyme or reason to it. There are also more cars that are frozen, that I can drive through, than not. Naturally, I contacted EA for help. They were supposed to chat with me 45 minutes after my request was made. 8 hours later, they had still not responded. This is the worst customer support I've seen. I have the deluxe version and this is not the product I paid for!
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    8 years ago
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    Has anyone figured out why no one can stay connected. It’s so annoying how are you supposed to play a game that doesn’t work and there seems to be no answer on how to fix

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