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2ELI0
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4 years ago

Where is PVP for Multiplayer?

Hello NFS Community,

After having read the IGN article about NFS Unbound (interview with the creative director of Criterion Games, Crimmons, here the link: Exclusive: Need for Speed Unbound Has Finally Been Revealed, And It Looks Very Different - IGN) and what the website currently says about the multiplayer, I am afraid that this game is going to suffer a similar fate like Heat did. 

I quote: 

"Take your racing to the next level and make your friends your rivals in multiplayer. Connect with the online street racing community in underground Meetups across Lakeshore and discover the best routes through the city in Freeroam."

PVP stands for player versus player as you might already know. The lack of a proper PVP system in NFS Heat caused the game to die rather quickly. No proper lobby system as it's found in NFS Hot Pursuit Remastered for instance, is a huge dealbreaker for the LONGEVITY of this game. 

Starting a match and hoping that some player might join is incredibly frustrating and it has proven to be unsuccessful. 

Now my plea to the EA Community Managers for the sake of this game:

Please forward this important feedback to the Criterion Games developers that they implement this essential feature.

God knows what results might come from it, hope dies last. I still can not believe how they would as it seems build on this speedlist system only which has failed miserably in the past game. 

Please share your views in the comments if you will. The more people share these concerns the merrier.

Thank you. 

@EA_David 

@Braddock512 

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    2ELI0
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    3 years ago

    Thank you, Braddock. @Braddock512 

    Yet the new article confirms our assumptions.

    There won't be a classic PVP system where you can create public or/and private lobbies and wait for people to join so you can race.

    How is it that nowadays the developers go away from this concept? Be it The Crew 2 (PVP was added later), Forza Horizon 4&5 and NFS obviously. 

    This is just sad. Similar concept as in NFS Heat which failed miserably. I really hope these feature gets added eventually. Just make both possible like in NFS Hot Pursuit 2010/2020 which includes classic matchmaking by creating private/pub lobbies and additionally freeroam for the people who enjoy that.

    Imagine this scenario: You don't have friends who are online, how do you want to race with other people? You ask for others to join and have to hope that they accept an invitation in said server. Yea, good luck with that.  

    I really want this NFS to succeed after the past disappointments. It can't be that difficult. 

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