The Crew Motorfest and The Crew 2 are both getting offline modes
Ubisoft Ivory Tower have announced that both The Crew 2 and The Crew Motorfest will be getting support for offline play in a future update, ensuring that they will remain playable long after the servers are eventually shut down.
To mark this announcement, Ubisoft have put both games on sale for the next two weeks. The Crew Motorfest is reduced by up to 70% – it’s cheapest on PC at £18, while the Xbox Deluxe Edition is £22.50, and PlayStation seemingly hasn’t put discounts in place just yet. But you want an absolute steal? Well, you can get The Crew 2 for just 79p!
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Patching in an offline mode is huge for game preservation, and it will also help Ubisoft get back some good will after making the original The Crew completely inaccessible to play with that game’s server shutdown earlier this year. Now, The Crew 2 was a much better game than The Crew, but still, it sucks to see games effectively disappearing.
Motorfest owners have a lot to look forward to, as Ivory Tower announced plans for Year 2 in the game’s post-launch support. It will get its biggest update yet on 6th November, with the game map getting 50% bigger when they add the entire island of Maui… for free!
This will be integrated seamlessly, so you’ll be able to head over to the new island by sea, by air, or by driving across a connecting bridge, without any loading screens.
Once again, the team will be trying to honour real life with an abstracted recreation, though it will feature real roads and locations with the road to Hana, bamboo forests, waterfalls, Kaihalulu beach’s red sands, Haleakalā National Park, and more.
Year 2 will have another seasonal content plan, though with three seasons instead of 4. This will start with Season 5 and a new Made in Japan Volume 2 playlist. There will also be a new PvE mode included in the Year 2 Pass called The Chase Squad, which sadly won’t feature Bradley Walsh, but will have you trying to hunt down racing rivals across the island.
The Year 2 Pass is included
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