Driver San Francisco Receives A Race-Time Update

A required update has been released for Ubisoft Reflections‘ incredibly entertaining racer, Driver San Francisco. Focusing on the online portion of the experience, it provides a ton of in-depth changes, improvements and fixes.

Here’s a detailed list of those tweaks:

Gameplay Changes

• Online Gameplay: Any players joining a game already in-progress will be given sufficient ability to shift immediately.
• Online Gameplay: Improved gameplay balancing in Tag mode by reducing tag car performance under certain conditions

Improvements

• Added additional statistic synchronisation points so website statistics more closely match current progress
• Improved traffic variety in freedrive after game completion.
• Online: Improved randomisation of route selection where certain modes would always start their first game with a more limited route variety.
• Online: Improved player icons and vehicle images loading.
• Online: Reduced lag/teleport issues observed when players join a session.
• Online: Improved reward images display when increasing multiplayer LVL.
• Online: Improved session join score by re-assessing it if the leading player disconnects.

Fixes:

• Fixed single-frame camera cuts evident in some film-director replays.
• Fixed progression display of “connoisseur” achievement in the game “Achievements” menu under “Extras”
• Fixed progression display of all fine-grain (>25 steps) achievements in the game “Achievements” menu under “Extras”
• Fixed a specific case of NAN values being sent in game to web data.
• Online: Fixed waiting screens displaying the next mode name incorrectly.
• Online: Fixed occasional crash when a large party joins a public Takedown match in progress, under certain conditions.
• Online: Fixed occasional issue where 7 players could enter a public match with a 6 player limit.
• Online: Fixed crash on returning to the main menu from online under certain conditions
• Online: Fixed player being disconnected from in-game party under certain conditions
• Online: Fixed issue where user spamming rapid shift on mode start would result in odd camera behaviour
• Online: Fixed occasional issue where qualifying mode timer would stick on 50 seconds and not decrease
• Online: Fixed issue where a wrecked vehicle with the TAG would sometimes display a blue highlight instead of red.
• Online: Fixed issue where a player can incorrectly be highlighted with the TAG icon under certain conditions.
• Online: Fixed occasional crash during CTF gameplay.
• Online: Fixed issue where the incorrect player name could be displayed on the profile screen
• XBOX 360 ONLY: Online: added LVL banding filter to Free For All matchmaking to improve matchmaking (already implemented on PS3).