Hey there,
This issue should have been addressed in the last patch. Please, find here the Patch Notes.
-Groguet
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.
