Hey there,
This issue should have been addressed in the last patch. Please, find here the Patch Notes.
-Groguet
Product: Need for Speed: Unbound
Platform:PC
Summarize your bug Linkups and boosted events doesn't appear around the map despite idling for more than 30 mins. even changing lobbies. none of these events appear
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? just getting into a lobby
What happens when the bug occurs? No linkups and boosted events appear around the map
What do you expect to see? linkups and boosted events to occur by waiting for at least 30 mins in the same lobby
Linkups and boosted events doesn't appear around the map despite idling for more than 30 mins. even changing lobbies. none of these events appear despite changing lobbies from time to time
Community ManagerHey there racers,
I am trying to collect as much info as possible to raise this issue. Could you attach some pictures on what you see on your screens?
-Groguet
This is after waiting for over 30 mins which is what its claimed the next linkup should appear but ever since i got on the lobby. no linkups and boosted events even appeared
We are experiencing the same on ps5 we had one link up right after the update which we ran out of time to complete. We have not had one since even after a few hours of game time in and out of races.
Yeah linkups and boosted events never appear anymore since yesterday. Please fix it i love linkups.
Community Manager
@david_jhwong wrote:
@EA_Groguet Do you have any update on this? I’ve been playing several days but still not able to see link ups or boosted event….
I am afraid I have no new info on this. As soon as I know something else I will update this thread and let you know.
-Groguet
@EA_Groguet
As per my & the others' earlier suspicion, I looked around & found out that everyone having this problem isn't from North America, me included. As someone earlier mentioned, using a VPN so as to bruteforce our game to connect to the US server connects you there, which also allows you to consistently get Boosted Events & Linkups. I tested as well and they do indeed appear. However, this is only a partial workaround as due to the distance between our physical location & the NA server is too far, and therefore we can only play at ridiculously high latency. This doesn't feel good in races or anything really, since everyone else would keep teleporting due to network rollback (and I suppose in their point of view, so would you).
And to explain why I could consistently get linkups during the Xbox Live free weekend a few weeks ago, there were probably a huge surge of Xbox Live players which a majority of is from NA.
Can you ask the team to look into this? This seems to be our best lead right now & might end the wild goose chase. There should be a reason as to why only the NA server can consistently get linkups & boosted events while the others cannot. Perhaps investigating the difference in server behaviour might give us an answer & could point to a solution. There could be something that's been implemented in the NA server for the linkup changes & boosted events that didn't get implemented in the other servers, or actually did implemented but is broken for some reason.
I'm playing from Malaysia btw. Aside from my location, there are also people from Australia & Japan who've confirmed having this same problem, and I believe there may be a lot others from other location having this problem as well.
