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chris4652009 · 12 Oct 2014 at 22:08

Nismo said:
Still can't get online, not once since Friday!

MOOGLEYS said:
I cant either

I'm not being funny but how are you both failing?

I was on all day Sat and then a good couple of hours today.

JUMPURS · 12 Oct 2014 at 22:10

I couldn't connect to the servers most of the day either.

beachBOYken · 12 Oct 2014 at 22:11

Not had online at all since the latest patch yesterday.

chris4652009 · 12 Oct 2014 at 22:17

Rushy says:

In case you don't already know, the servers are up and running but they are hitting their performance limits, so they won't accept new connections until one of the current online players frees up their space (allowing another to join in their place, which happens automatically and player selection is random).

If and when you get online, you should not have any connectivity issues during the remainder of your session. When you finish and disconnect, you'll free up a space for someone else. This is obviously not ideal, especially given that there are a lot of players waiting to connect, but that's how it's working right now.

chris4652009 · 12 Oct 2014 at 22:19

chris4652009 said:
Rushy says:

In case you don't already know, the servers are up and running but they are hitting their performance limits, so they won't accept new connections until one of the current online players frees up their space (allowing another to join in their place, which happens automatically and player selection is random).

If and when you get online, you should not have any connectivity issues during the remainder of your session. When you finish and disconnect, you'll free up a space for someone else. This is obviously not ideal, especially given that there are a lot of players waiting to connect, but that's how it's working right now.

^^^^That rings true with my experience all weekend.

I've been starting the game up then doing a single race or a time trail, generally within a few mins I get the green message across saying connected with servers, once in I haven't been dropped at all and have been able to stay "ONLINE" for the duration of my time in the game.

daz.rathbone · 12 Oct 2014 at 22:27

Haven't been able to get online once yet :/

kdd · 12 Oct 2014 at 22:47

It is somewhat farcical that the DC servers cannot cope, surely they anticipated the demand.

chris4652009 · 12 Oct 2014 at 22:49

Clearly not.

TheVoice · 12 Oct 2014 at 22:55

kdd said:
It is somewhat farcical that the DC servers cannot cope, surely they anticipated the demand.

They probably did to some extent, but ultimately it's quite difficult to anticipate just what that demand will actually do to a network. It's an embarrassment either way though, especially when it's a problem that happens time and time again with games that have a significant online element.

NorthstaNder · 12 Oct 2014 at 23:10

Having been used to the hot hatches. I decided to do a one off time trial. In the Audi R8.

Ye gods! I nearly crapped myself, the speed is phenominal!

MOOGLEYS · 12 Oct 2014 at 23:53

How are people getting online with this I'm just getting the server error message when I push triangle. I have not been able to connect online since launch. ?

Snot man · 13 Oct 2014 at 01:24

NorthstaNder said:
Having been used to the hot hatches. I decided to do a one off time trial. In the Audi R8.

Ye gods! I nearly crapped myself, the speed is phenominal!

Haha. I think my favourite car so far is the Hennesey Venom. It's not the easiest car to handle, but really satisfying when you manage to come out of corners light on the throttle and blitz away with no wheel spin.

ColEx · 13 Oct 2014 at 01:30

If the servers are hitting their limits now, how the hell are they going to handle all the free ps+ users when/if they actually release it?

I would get a refund on the game if i didn't have to jump through hoops with Sony's CS...

RoboCod · 13 Oct 2014 at 04:58

I love the audi RS5 coupe. I can throw that round tracks all day long.

Nismo · 13 Oct 2014 at 05:59

chris4652009 said:
I'm not being funny but how are you both failing?

I'm simply trying to play the game like anyone else? I don't usually get to play games until around 7.30-8.00pm so I'm guessing the servers have hit saturation point by then. It really is unacceptable for a modern, flagship game to be like this.

Edit - so right after I posted this I fired up DC as an experiment to see if I'd connect. 6am, you would imagine there is little activity. Sure enough I connected straight away, so it's definitely server load issues at the time I would normally play that is my problem.

Maybe I'll just turn my PS4 on each morning and leave it connected until night-time when I actually need it

(probably a wise idea with the PSN maintenance later today!)

LaneyEFC · 13 Oct 2014 at 06:35

Anyone care to give a quick review?

kitch9 · 13 Oct 2014 at 06:52

kdd said:
It is somewhat farcical that the DC servers cannot cope, surely they anticipated the demand.

I don't think I've seen anyone attempt DC's business model before, couple that with the fact it's launched on the most popular platform that's racer starved and it looks like the amount of users attempting to connect has completely caught them out.

They've effectively DDoS'd themselves.

Snot man · 13 Oct 2014 at 07:27

Off work today and had to be up early, got straight on the servers this morning and playing MP fine, let's see how long it lasts

antijoke · 13 Oct 2014 at 07:44

kitch9 said:
I don't think I've seen anyone attempt DC's business model before, couple that with the fact it's launched on the most popular platform that's racer starved and it looks like the amount of users attempting to connect has completely caught them out.

They've effectively DDoS'd themselves.

So this makes it acceptable?

Zatoichi.uK · 13 Oct 2014 at 07:45

Did he say that?