What went Wrong with The Crew Motorfest? 

Gonna add some criticisms from my 20ish hours: - The AI is painfully bad in this game. Not only do they rubberband hard, but they also have zero spatial awareness. They crash into you, others, into trees and other objects. PS2 racing games had more sophisticated AI than this. - Once you completed all the playlist, there isn't really anything interesting or fun to do in singleplayer. Boring collectibles that give you nothing interesting and hundreds of "challenges" as the game calls them, which can be as entertaining as driving 20km with a specific car at night. Especially fun when you can't control the time of day. - The map is very hit and miss. Some areas like the festival site are nice, but there are also areas that are completely void of anything. The areas around the volcano come to mind, they are mostly empty and visually bland. The lack of traffic and pedestrians from the previous games certainly didn't help. - Some more specific PC stuff: Ultrawide and HDR support were laughable for a game that's asking full-price. I also didn't enjoy my framerate taking a nosedive every time I used photo mode, which the game begs you to use at any given moment. Overall the game really failed to captivate me. I'm not a fan of live service games so I was willing to give it some leeway, but there's really nothing that could hold me attention at all. Just yet another racing game that's merely an iteration of ideas we've seen before, mostly done better as well.

I just don't understand why modern racing games feel the need to have cringe worthy dialogue, Cara has to be the most annoying npc I've ever heard

Live service have ruined videogame industry

From my 50 hours of playing the game I have had a blast but I can see the problems with the game

'locking fast travel behind 10 hrs of gameplay' sounds tiringly familiar to Gran Turismo 7's 'locking ultimate parts and engine swaps behind many many hours of gameplay to grind for money to buy more cars to raise an arbitrary level'

They traded some of the series identity to just make a Forza Horizon. Going from a huge US map to a tiny Oahu map did disappoint lots of people that liked cruising or the map variety in TC2.

They honestly should’ve stuck with the motorfest being a DLC, going from a huge map to a small map feels like a downgrade to me low key

If you think the UI is bad, try changing to manual mode with (xbox X/Y) as your shifting buttons. The UI pops up while driving so when your shifting it will be hitting UI dialog options causing you to restart events / feats or accepting other dialog options.

The driver perks system and upgrades are disabled for pvp hence fair pvp. The only thing that carries over are the pro settings I believe.

You asked a very good question at the end. What is the goal of the game? That is exactly my problem with modern games of this kind. There is no goal. And a lot of the players seem to like that. All they want to do is just drive around. Whether alone or in multiplayer. The best example is Forza Horizon 5. Horizon used to have an objective. Over time, however, they have watered down the formula more and more to please the masses.

whats wrong with it is the fact that they didn't release it on steam

Sure the playlist is good, but it's just bunch of races with different cars, physics feels wonky, and The Hawaaiian map, felt Test Drive Unlimited is way better to capture the Hawaiian island

I’m primarily a GT7 player and I hated TC2, but shockingly I’ve been enjoying this game a lot (despite the flaws). PS5 has been needing something like this for a very long time. I just wish the game wasn’t so grindy and didn’t have the stench of live service attached to it. I liked your comment on modern games not having any sort of focus or goal in mind. Sometimes I do feel lost playing TCM as I can’t even use the cars I’m spending millions on to purchase and customize in the playlist races.

theres only few things you can adjust for grand race pvp- visual customisation,and pro settings ,so yes "the op tunes" are viable ,if you manage to tune your car well,you will have a advantage,everything else doesnt count,every other upgrade mechanic is for summits

I’ve enjoyed this game so far, but these are valid criticisms. There are definitely things that I wish they would improve upon, specifically the lack of good single player content outside of playlists. They could just add more events and it would be fine, but I don’t know if that’s the direction they’ll take them game. I would like to see a map expansion though, I think that would be interesting. Maybe we’ll be able to travel to some of those other islands that are around, or something. I think as it stands at launch it’s a little bit underwhelming, but there’s a lot of room for improvement. Ivory tower has shown that they can do a good job with DLCs so I have hope that they will right the ship, so to speak. The driving physics are pretty good though at least there’s that.

Needs to be more PvP modes

The Crew Motorfest is, with the mechanics taken partly from The Crew 2, a Free to Play game with a pricetag. You can play without grinding but you'll get either frustrated or bored quickly.

Perhaps in many ways I may be considered an 'odd man out' in this regards, but for me personally I really feel that Motorfest has so far been the best that The Crew has had to offer. It to me really felt more rewarding in regards to the driving mechanics compared to the games before it, and I appreciate the downscaled approach as the "condensed" US maps were honestly quite terrible in The Crew 1 and 2. There's certain regards that I feel this game does *FAR AND AWAY* better than The Crew 2 could ever do (Physics, Visuals, and Car Sounds to name a few), and I may be potentially addicted to Grand Races due to the sheer chaos they bring and that feeling of satisfaction when you can fight your way to victory. That being said, I feel this game could've potentially been an all-timer if it was allowed to have more time in the oven and not be forced to stray down the paths of being akin to that of Forza Horizon. Though in fairness, my understanding from those in the know is that this was more Ubisoft's requests than Ivory Tower's own. I wish publishers would stop insisting on trying to make their games like Horizon. Its also charging too high of a price tag, and the way they were very *vague* about how Crossplay in this game actually works still genuinely infuriates me. The fact that at they can just say "play with your friends across all platforms!" but then lack the ability to actually form crews through crossplay, the NAMESAKE OF THE GAME, is incredibly insulting. I hate that we live in a timeline where now we need to rely on publishers having to be *super specific* about something that should just be a fucking given. Oh, and avoid playing the game on Xbox if you own one, as that port in particular seems to have several optimization issues, most notably with long loading times at random that are most frequent when finishing a Grand Race. This is not present on PC or PS5 (though they have their own fair share of issues.) Lastly, its missing many of the QoL changes that The Crew 2 eventually got over time. The one that sticks out the most to me is not being able to just swap a parts set from one car to another, you have to do it manually again. Very tedious. I genuinely like playing Motorfest and I definitely will be playing it more than I ever did the first two games, but it pains me how this could've (and SHOULD'VE) been so much more.

I'm (sorta) glad I wasn't the only one to see these issues with the game. Even in the Beta, the playlists seemed neat, but kinda shallow with no real grand progression to speak of. Of course, the lack of a definite progression is a problem of most modern racing games, so it's not unique here. Somehow it didn't occur to me how much MTX is put in this $70 game, especially for not really having a whole lot to do with the cars you do buy. I was disappointed to see houses/garages go away, especially now with the upcoming competitor (TDU:SC) currently slated to not have (individual) houses. It was a small feature, but it gave the previous game some "gravity" to where the player could stop and admire their vehicles (as well as modifying them). I'm honestly not sure how Ubisoft could steer (pun unintended) this game to be what legacy racing game fans would want.

I was like 'God damn I HAVE to mute all of them' after listening half of entire dialogs in this game. Especially CARA's one...💀 (+ Does this franchise even have their own identity? That's my real question..)

Personally love sim games but arcade games can be really fun too, I'm loving motorfest been playing for a week now

nothing went wrong, motorfest was mostly made to make people who played tc2 satisfied and it did a great job.

Personally i think the game is great and have played it since early access, its held my attention a lot more than horizon ever did so im thankful for that. Iv actually had no issues even from launch with crew disconnects or fps drops. My PC isnt terrible roughly mid range. Asking people to avoid the game because you dislike it isnt exactly a nice thing to be saying however, the game has flaws but i don't think saying to avoid it is the correct call.

What really went wrong is the game servers, constant crashes all the time. This game should have been an add on DLC for TC2, the cars are 2 expensive, it took me 4hrs to get the money for the F1 playlist. Still need the Lamborghini for the dream ride playlist. And lastly, the fact that I paid $130.00 for the ultimate edition and only got the basic game that's sold for $59.99 is a HUGE problem, and finally, trying to get ahold of Ubisoft for support or help, Good luck with that.

I'm a long time Crew 2 player and I simply will not be playing this game. Ever.

The first the crew was the best

Ubisoft is what is wrong with this and every game distributed by them

For me Crew Motorfest is a decent game and a good alternative option for an open world racing games if you bored with Forza Horizon, even Playstation player can now enjoy a Horizon like racing games in their consoles lmao. All jokes aside, Motorfest physics and handling wise is much better than The Crew 2, but yeah i agree with you that the physics it's still not the best out there for an arcade racing games and still a bit weird that certain car classes like the Racing class still feels like a normal road car rather than a real race car, except for the race cars if you touch the grass then your car will sbinalla immediately, this is really annoying if it happens for me in The Grand Race PvP even though yes it is realistic. Some Playlists is actually good and some of them are boring and meh, i kinda dislike the idea that you have to purchased certain vehicle to unlock the playlists but you can't use it anyway because the game always loaned you vehicles to progress the playlist, wow how generous. After you completing all of the playlists the game feels empty, unless you do Playlist Challenges (kinda a bit boring if you're playing alone), Grand Race & Demo Royale PvP, and The Summit. The main selling point for Motorfest is always the Grand Race, 28 Players racing with collisions on is fun and chaotic in a same way. I really enjoy Grand Race but i still expect they bringing back normal PvP races like they did on The Crew 1 & The Crew 2. Overall it's good game, but after you completed all of the playlists and challenges the game is kinda mid because after that you just do grinding some stuff or doing Grand Races, at least Motorfest is offering you a lot more to do some other activities on Day 1 release rather than The Crew 2 on Day 1 where the game is really empty back then.

As someone who has hundreds of hours in this game, The Crew 1 and The Crew 2, this video is 100% correct. I thought this game would be The Crew 2 but better in every way, and its not. Cringy and annoying dialogue, all you do is grind, Playlists, PvP, and Summit. This game was a letdown for me.

As this being one of my 1st games in “the crew” series alone I was pretty excited to the point where I was able to convince a handful of friends to get the game as well, I literally have over 100 hours into this game already nd I can’t even begin to stress how much I agree with this video also Ik I’m on Old Gen but the constant crashing of the game (hourly) and bugs really make me want to stop playing as I have damn near grinding so much I have over 72 cars nd only use 5-10 🤦🏾‍♂️ the pvp (grand race) is a literal shxt show. One bad move and you’ll go from literally 8th to 24th, also the split stream system is toooo o/p nd I understand the whole legend point system thing but come on realistically if I’m going over 180+ on a straight away with nitro - no way yu should be able to just use my split stream to pass me up at a turn… not to mention you’ll sit there and bump me then I go flying into the wall.. Also it seems like the person in 1st place tends to never be seen until the finish line 😭

My biggest problem with motorfest are the ai racers in freeroam

The Crew Series has always been visually striking but truly lacking in the physics and AI department. its essentially like driving around a box with wheels attached that turn. as someone that has been playing since Forza 4, i was hoping this game would be more since i love open world drivers with stunning visuals, if only they made the physics more like Forza Horizon series which isnt even that Sim inspired mind you.

What went wrong was the idea and game itself. TCM WAS MADE FOR INVESTORS. Tc1 was way better than both of them.

The Biggesee issue i had with the Crew 2 was the missing keyboard settings, there wasn't even a notification or a tutorial..so i end it up

My biggest gripe with this game is the unusual performance hit I'm getting. Anywhere in the dense vegitationI get stuttering despite getting near solid 60fps on the benchmark tool. Plus no dedicated fullscreen option and only borderless. Why? I have a feeling this is part of the issue, I don't know. Even capping to 30fps it just drops to 10fps Locking certain achievements / goals to crew only is also lame, I'm saying this as yes...I don't have friends that play racing games and hardly get invited anywhere in lobbies. So I can't even get gold titles because of this. I'm personally glad I'm just using Ubisoft+ for a month or two just for this game, I'd be mad if I paid full price. Afterwards I'm getting it on sale when it comes to steam. This game is still fun, but I think this game is here for me until Solar Crown comes out.

I have approximately 60 hours in. I hope they keep updating the playlists, once they're done and you've already played the grand race 20 times, it gets kinda boring. The game just needs more single player content 👌

I regret buying it already two hours in the same day it launched and I haven't played it since. The game just feels so clunky and boring.

Definitely a game that I'd only pick up once it's dirt cheap

anyone can help me? " If you have enough space in your inventory, you can collect any item from your Mailbox by highlighting it and selecting "Get". but i click get and it says ur stock is full how to make it possible to get gold items from mail box ? HELP!

An Ubisoft game that doesn't have a tailing mission!

Does it take long to level up and get alot of money and max out cars in this game cuz im thinking of getting it

After beating all the playlists I've found I'm only having fun with the grand races

The biggest crime is the locked 60fps

when the honeymoon period is oven and now the negativity will start to begin. typical gamers

Nobody talking about the issue with racing with friends ??? Every time I start a race with my friends it fails to start the race and we get stuck on a loading screen. Plz help

The problem was the whole game foregone story for grindy live service. It has no clear vision for what it wants to be, it's the most boring game ever, I spend most of my time replaying Playlists to complete a progress bar just for parts to show off at an imaginary car show, to win more visual parts. Where is my crew? Wtf happen to the crew?

The game was fun. I tried the free trial and subscribed to Ubisoft+ for one month to finish all the races. The tuning system is bad but I was able to adjust it enough to enjoy it. Finally they allowed me to us to change the button layout, otherwise I would have skipped it again

the game have problems, but at least we have the grand race that is so good and then remember, ubi will support the game with updates for at least 4/5 years, so at lower price the game is worth

I loved the crew 2. It wasn't perfect but it certainly had enjoyable physics. Motorfest however.. Zero sense of speed, 140mp/h barely felt like 60. Doesn't matter if it's 4wd, fwd or rwd, all cars start sliding for no apparent reason. Which makes it even weirder that it is absolutely impossible to do a donut. The car will do a 180-270 degree slide and then start moving forward. Then there's the wonky menu, bad u.i and, well, alot of the things you mentioned. It really baffles me that they decided to rework the physics instead of further improving on what they had. Really thankful and happy they decided to have a free weekend so i could try it out. I would have been pissed if I hade discovered how bad it is after paying as there is zero chance of a refund. And yes, i always play these games the way they're meant to be played, with no driving aids.

I just like to drive slow for hours

The Crew literally lost it's identity after the second game came out I just can't find out what is the true identity of The Crew because of that

I was going to say I wanted a new game that wasn't a festival racer, but now I realize what's even the point in buying a new racing game anymore? Most new cars now a days look like ugly spaceships and are either over-designed to hell, or so under-designed that they look like a dystopian future on wheels. Not to mention that it seems like no company knows how to do a proper arcade handling model anymore. Need For Speed is STILL struggling to make it work despite being the very last game in the street racing genre. What's the point anymore? I'm going to stick with my PS2 racers. At least with those you get the entire game, don't have to pay a single microtransaction, and you get to keep it forever.

I like the game so far and haven’t ran into the issues mentioned in the description I liked the crew2 so figures I like this game as well. I will admit the ai has some hard rubber banding but I’m just glad the game is providing me more of a challenge the crew 2 was way to easy and this game feels just right I play on four difficulty and it’s pretty hard. I can’t imagine playing on five a person would have to be insanely skilled to play on five difficulty.

I have a lot of fun for playing grand race online. But I agree that game need map expansion update and new rim

Great concept but the physics are AWFUL! That is the most important thing to me in a racing game

Another annoying thing is custom rims have very bad graphics and its not branded like bbs or like that, and brake calipers too looks crap

This game will just get better with a couple patches and I hope they support it like they did with the crew 2

I play with all dialogue sound off, Nitrous Sound effects off and music and hud off... much better.

this game lacks "balls" to be a proper racing game. again devs and pr with their broad audience of fortnite dancers and cheap one-hit rappers...

Not being able to use your own car for any race in the game annoyed me. I don’t want to loan a car even though I already own the required car… 😡

Lmao it's satisfying to see how Motorfest flopped after a year of 15 year olds screaming at the top of their lungs that it was better than Forza Horizon 5.

Honestly i play this game like 2 weeks and im already bored

So much fun on Crew2 despite having STUPID small number of friends that u can link with for the size of the map. Should have been 10 players minimum or ability to host private lobbies/sessions

I really despise the ai in this game, the ai is dumb stupid, turning up the difficulty just straight up only upgrades the ai’s cars, the ai still ram into stuff on the highest difficulty Then when you win a few races the games like “hey i see you were having a little too much fun”

After playing motorfest for 40 hours, I realize how good crew 1 was... I'm so sick of these Festival racing games. It's just all the same and that's why I didn't play horizon 5 Crew 2 was good but now I'm just tired of these meaningless festivals etc... I do like the playlists, especially made in Japan, drift experience, donut media and racing... but I don't recommend buying motorfest, unless you haven't played horizon and you're not fed up with all these festivals racing games 🤷🏻‍♂️

They should of fixed the fps issue along time ago for the Epic PC Version of the game, when trying to use Direct Drive Steering Wheels such as the Cammus C5. My frames went from 60fps on the controller to 14-20fps when trying to use my Cammus C5 Wheel for some reason.

Only problems i have with this game is the random game crashes and occasional freezes along with the game being more buggy when im in a crew maybe its just because im on ps4 but i dunno if other people are having this problem aswell

I knew this game was a wreck when a car I had to drive for the tutorial could barely turn if you didn’t use brake to drift. I can’t believe I actively had to search for cars that drove properly

A dude blocking a bridge me and a bunch of other players had to cross in free roam is now my formative memory of what a bad new game looks like.

Is it just me but on ps4 the game keeps crashing like not crashing after awhile of playing it, it crashes after only playing for 10-20 mins…..

The only problem I had in this game is the grinding for the main stage and summit rewards, counting I also have a job and I play other games too!

Motorfest felt like it was developed as an expansion for TC2, then ripped and repackaged as a full price game at the last second.

Turbo noises are annoyingly loud on stock cars and supercharger whine is barely noticeable.. the shifting behavior is straight up WEIRD and cars with dct should have little to no drivetrain “wobble” not to mention the obnoxiously loud clunking every time you switch gears makes me want to puke. The road noises are nonexistent and it breaks the immersion that my tires are actually connected to the road.

Ubisoft trying to compete with Forza Horizon and failing massively at it. Something, something, breeds innovation /s

Honestly, The Crew Motorfest should've been a DLC of The Crew 2 instead of some stand alone Game or a spin-off in some way.

The only reason i still play the crew is for the bikes, if Forza ever added bikes id never touch The Crew again.

I buyed a xbox one x just for forza horizon 4. I buyed a series x just for horizon 5. I love forza. Now im addicted to motorfest and cant even think about playing forza. Of course there are some things they need to improve and the drifting sucks. But for some reason its much more fun. I hope they support the game well because it has a lot of potential

Some of the challenges are requiring you to play in a crew. I dont have any friends that like racing games and i dont play with random people i dont know

I can easily say in the 12 or so hours ive accumulated. I've crashed about seven or eight times.

The game isn’t the best but I still have fun playing these criticisms are valid but I still enjoy it and knowing the crew the updates will help this game immensely give it time it’s not forza horizon so I hate the direct comparisons both games have their place and it’s not like we are forced to choose between the two you can have both.

My game the crew motorfest keep frozen on me when I enter the game its was frozen and thats why I closed the application And open it up cause it was frozen on me

honestly i just want a street racing game like old nfs, but this game fills my itch for racing, I actually enjoy the crew

Bought this game because I wanted a game that's like forza horizon but refunded when I found out 1 day after playing it that it was always online and you needed PS+ to play it the fact that I paid 70$ for a game only to have to pay 80$ a year just to play it straight up a nope for me. I'm only getting this game at a really good price

I liked crew 2 but then I completed the story and started playing online and my maxed out car was being left by pay to win cars n this new crew game looks the same

My only issue with this game are the shitty servers, literally can't play with my friends at all which is killing my hype slowly.

i am getting tired grand races is just 25 noobs smashing me into a wall . while 2 3 normal people run away

The Mutliplayer with friends is still broken and peoples cars in freemode still randomly vanish

Nobody ever mentions that a big chunk of the car list is locked behind crew 2.....so new players or someone who wants to start fresh is screwed out of nearly half of the cars in the game. Crew motorfest should have just been a DLC for crew 2 insyead of a full $70 release......its a greedy scam from ubisoft honestly.

As good as a game is I wont be wasting my money on a game I cant eventualy play because the servers shut down. Look at the og the crew, not even 10yo and it'll already become unplayble come march. F ubisoft

i know im a bit late but motorfest seems like ubisoft shitting out a unfinished worse version of fh5 to only appeal to playstation users

I find the length of playlists a strong point actually.

Strongly agreed as shown on 8:03-8:20 I strongly agreed 👍 💯 that test drive unlimited 1 and 2 fast travel takes you anywhere on the map but on the crew motorfest to unlock fast travel for 10 playlist I just don’t understand it at all.

There are no qialogues in custom races. Once you finish playlist race you can play custom race on this track.

you can set the difeculty on max and win it is just very difecult

The playlists arent bad at all. If you have played NFS Unbound then you will feel a bit of fresh air seeing all the playlists and being able to try out new cars without needing to buy them first. You can always go back to those races later w your own cars. Lol they did that right. Fast travel makes game maps feel tiny. Having to physically go from one point to the next allows the map to feel much bigger so you totally got that one backwards lol. I turned Cara down all the way and turned up the effects and atmosphere volume. Cant hear her at all.

1.If you played the crew 2 and imported 200-300 cars, there is not enough cars in motorfest to keep it interesting (unless you just want to buy every car). 2.I wish they would have improved on owning houses/apartments instead of removing them completely. Finally this game isn't as grippy as TC2, I can start breaking 15 miles before a 90° corner in motorfest and still smash into it.

Where is our avatar house in this game. It was so satisfying choosing the cars for your house

Can’t wheelie on some bikes, frame rate is somehow atrocious on the newest Xbox, every character who opens their mouth just makes me wanna fight em, not paying $70 just to play on a smaller map with shittier quality. The Ubisoft delight

forgot this exists already

In case Cara’s voice sounds familiar, that’s because it’s Tracer from Overwatch. (Overwatch2 didn’t go so well & she needed a new job)