Unable to create Lobby-Booted while entering garage-unable to play online
This is going to be long, but it seemed to work for me:
Console: PS5
Multiple DLC's
NO MODS
Game saved on Console (NOT expanded SSD)
Over 100 cars and not sure about custom wraps.
I had the following issues that seem to progress the longer it was ignored:
- I would get an error message stating that a lobby couldn't be created.
- After getting that error message for a while, I would get kicked out of the lobby when I tried to enter the garage in free roam.
- After adjusting to that and changing my cars in the meet ups, the final progression was I was unable to join a lobby.
I could access the menu that allowed you to select single player or online play, I would choose free roam, but after a loading screen that seemed like forever, I would see a black screen, then I would get kicked back to the main screen and would be signed out of EA.
Issue: There seems to be a limit of cars and wraps. I'm not sure if the server is attempting to load everything in your garage for quicker access, but it seems to break the game.
After trying multiple things, I figured this out:
BOTH... of your cars and custom wraps in your single player garage AND free roam garage, counts as individual cars and wraps. Once you go above 100ish cars (combined), you'll start to have 1 if not all of the issues that I had.
Fix: And this is painful; Sell cars and delete wraps. But there's a catch. IF, you had a custom wrap on your car, and you sell that car; the wrap remains, and the issues remains. For those cars, you have to sell the car, then select another car, go into the wrap modification page, select ALL WRAPS. Then, you will see the custom wraps you have "applied" and custom wraps that don't say "applied". THOSE wraps that don't have "applied" above them belong to cars you have sold. DELETE THEM! If, you have wraps you don't like OR wraps on cars you hardly use, delete the wraps. Use whatever color that comes with the car natively.
NOW, remember I said both single player and multi-player shared the "car and wrap count". You have to go into your single player mode and do the same thing. EVERY CAR you win/unlock on multiplayer, you get in single player and doubles your car count. Sell them!
AFTER, you sell cars, delete wraps from BOTH garages, you'll need to re-sync your game data: Shut the game down, make sure your console data is synced with your cloud data, Re-launch the game and try to get in. You should have no problems until your car counts rise again.
I'm sitting at around 130 ish cars but only 40ish custom wraps and didn't have an issue after doing the above UNTIL last night where I unlocked and new Cop Car. Now, the "unable to create lobby" error is back. (I have also won some cars due to the season progression). I'll have to go into single player and multi-player and delete those cars to get rid of that error....again.
GRIPE to EA: You have a game that: Requires you complete certain challenges with certain cars in different classes which requires multiple cars. YOU award cars as players progress through the seasons. YOU allow customization of cars and purchase of multiple cars. YOU have multiple events that require special parts to participate in that you can't modify immediately before a race, requiring you to have multiple cars with different set ups (drift pro for example). YET, IF YOU DO ANY OF THAT TO AN EXTENT, YOU CAN'T PLAY THE GAME. I'm personally about 1.5 error messages away for asking for my money back, as I can't DO what the game advertises a player SHOULD BE ABLE TO DO. You've created a game that awards progression with cars that then breaks the game so you can't play. Makes no sense. This isn't a new issue, i've read about this in other forums for the last year or so. PLEASE FIX!
TO the players: I hope this helps and gets you back online. Let me know if it did or if you need to be talked through anything.
