The way the online event banner pop down option is the same button as every other action to access any other thing in the game is the single worst aspect about this game. whoever programmed that feature or decided it was necessary should be indefinitely banned from working on any future game production for anyone for any reason. I repeat for those who don’t understand or haven’t realized this, The “Enter online event” action button prompt that pops up every 2 seconds every time someone starts a new race is the exact same prompt used to access anything else in the game. but the “Join online event” prompt takes priority, therefor, whenever trying to enter anything other than the current event being started, you must wait 15 seconds for the prompt to time out and pray that another one doesn’t immediately starts back up. I have been thrown into hundreds of races I never wanted to enter while trying to access other things, now I’m sick of it. Get rid of this “In your face” alert prompt that everyone in your session is booting an event and if you try to do anything else you will be thrown into this event, and give this game what it desperately needs, a “Current Race” tab on the start menu. For a game that Boasts “Seamless multiplayer” your multiplayer seems to have a great big “Seam” right in everyones face preventing them from doing anything else. An active session race list would be ideal in that you could flood any freeroam session with as many players possible and any race that is started by an individual is found in a list, not an ingame prompt. To that point, a 12 person freeroam is sad, its sad that this game didn’t think itself good enough to support more than 12 people in this massive open world. The only thing anyone can say about 12 people in an online multiplayer feeroam in 2014 is that it is a very sad sight and it almost makes me ashamed of this company that I have supported for so long.
Oooh, this is actually a really good point.
Yah, change the button for it please.
Not so sure about the rest of your post.
Please paragraph, a wall of word’s is painful for the old eyes
I agree about the banner thing being an issue, I’ve hit the button accidently and been thrown into races I didn’t want to be a part of.
Another bad thing about the banner is it doesn’t tell you what kind of race it is since theres street/circuit/drag/cross country. You are guessing the game type when you join the race as well…
Also I don’t see why its instant on events, but on bucket-lists it just makes a way-point so that you have to drive the entire way when the person will probably just give up and leave the bucket-list by the time you get there.
I wish they had small lobbies in the free-roam that can just be open up when your starting an event or bucket list so you have more management and you stay in the free-roam just committed to the next race/road-trip/bucket-list/new free-roam that the host of that lobby makes
I have only just bought this game and also got thrown into several unknown races, and can’t see any way of cancelling once you have accepted (accidentally or not). Am I right in thinking that you also have to wait for one race to start before anybody else can start a race of their own or am I missing something?