If you gonna stop supporting the game, at least leave it in a playable state.
Right now its impossible to connect to anyone as the game just desyncs everyone, and even if it connects to a session, it sticks to it till your get disconnected for good and you drive in a ghost town.
Playing with friends is now impossible because at the fresh game launch you will not see anyone for a few minutes, then sync up and after 10 minutes you end up desync for good and no one from the group can see each other and it becomes a ghost town with 3 extra name tags floating around.
All the temporary fixes that were mentioned for years no longer help and its now at game's fault not user.
ports do nothing, restarting router do nothing, dns flush nothing, firewall not blocking the game doesn't matter.
So much for a game as a service.... build game in china, milk as much as possible from it, not pay attention to the quality from the product and bail on working on another game...
Please just do the end of the line update that makes the end game at least playable.
Don't get your hopes up. They won't fix or do anything for this game anymore, no support, no maintenance or any other actions. It is bound to die out slowly as more and more players abandon the game. And that is exactly what they want us to do, and switch to the sequel and pay again. The Crew1 is now just 4 years old and already no longer supported, it is ridiculous.
IVORY TOWER is not just a name, it also the way they behave but they have lost one customer.
So its been now 2 weeks since freedrive just completely died out.
Game just outright refuses to sync up to any session, be it solo or with a crew.
Some from my uplay group (thats now 40 people) report that even AI police is no longer present (except for crates)
And this is quite a new behavior for me, since there's no session error, pvp works fine and summit as well, we can connect as a crew to any event instantly.
But in freedrive it's just a ghost town, even after just roaming around for an hour around the Hubs where you can 100% find players.... no drivers poped up.
Some are suspecting a forced behavior for the game to lure players away from the 1st game into the 2nd game...
Edit: OK. The police is actually gone!
After 2 hours of just driving around, i saw no police unit anywhere on the map. No police warning indicator or a bleep on a mini map.
I just bought the game on July 3rd of this year and find it's even more buggy than it was when I bought it. It freezes up more often and doesn't even start up more often and when in game doing crates, the screen would flicker more than it did before. And the ribbon is usually messed up and doesn't come up quick enuf to know where to go. Or the crate is asphalt but ends in dirt and the ribbon only comes up for a minute and you never know where to go. Friggin' way too buggy of a game.
Thankfully I got it next to nothing with all the packs and only paid 20 bucks for the whole thing so not a major loss. I certainly won't be buying the sequal when I was told that they removed a lot of the good places on the map. It looks like they narrowed the streets too so when being chased by the pigs, it's even harder to get around traffic. I really don't see why they didn't put in a traffic on/off option as it gets annoying when they're right in your path most times. lol Not comlaining too much since I got it way cheap tho. Well worth 20 bucks as the map is huge but way too buggy at times to enjoy it.