27 May 2020

The Crew® 2 Inner Drive – Patch 1.6.1 Notes – May 27 [PC/PS4/XB1]

Patch 1.6.1 brings new content and fixes to The Crew® 2 Inner Drive. It will be deployed via a maintenance starting at 10am Paris time on Wednesday May 27, and your game client will automatically update to the latest version once it is live.

For more information about the brand-new HOBBIES feature, check out our dedicated article.

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DETAILED PATCH NOTES

Estimated patch size: 20 GB

FEATURES

HOBBIES

[Add] New HOBBIES feature now accessible via the dedicated tab in MAIN MENU.

AVATARS

[Fixed] Gloves are no longer considered mandatory clothing items.
[Fixed] Avatar's leg is shaking in Customize Avatar menu.
[Fixed] Newly equipped clothes take more time to disappear than the body of the avatar, while user is in 1st person view in House.

SHOP

[Fixed] Top speed conversion is not applied on vehicles within a Bundle preview.
[Fixed] Placeholder images used for Bundles in Shop instead of correct visuals.
[Fixed] "Owned" tag is not displayed on Season Pass ticket in the Shop.
[Fixed] Owned bundles disappear from Shop after rebooting the game.
[Fixed] [STADIA] Prices are displayed with numerous 0’s after the comma in the Shop.

VEHICLES

[Add] Motornation is welcoming a new addition to the Touring Car discipline: Touring Bikes.

MISC

[Fixed] Renault Megane RS back window textures glitching during customization.

PHYSICS

[Improved] Air Refill (incl. Ventilated bonus) is no longer active while Air Nitro is in use.

o This is part of ongoing work by the handling & physics team to better adapt Air Nitro and its specificities to the live game. A dedicated test phase has already been run, and work continues, but we wanted to release the Air Refill tweak ASAP to limit its exploitability.

[Fixed] Ford Focus 2010 SR has no Air NOS and Offroad Speed Cap.

WORLD

MISC

[Fixed] Icons disappear from world map after restarting the game.
[Fixed] A checkpoint validation box isn't large enough in The Strip West.
[Fixed] Opening and Closing map while in tunnel can cause vehicle to transport to water.

TECHNICAL

PERFORMANCE

[Fixed] Freeze when opening vehicle preview in HQ, after teleport from Catalog.
[Fixed] Delay between animations on the hood visual part, when cycling between hoods.
[Fixed] [PC] Major performance issues present since patch 1.6.0 (Inner Drive).
[Fixed] [CONSOLES] Stutters and 5-15 second freezes encountered during first 5-10 minutes, after booting game.
[Fixed] [PS4] Graphical glitches appear when game resolution is set to 4K.

MISC

[Fixed] [PS4] Synchronization error message on PS4 when using Photo Mode.
[Fixed] Ubi Club rewards are sometimes unavailable.