The Crew 2 Inner Drive Update 1.6.1 Patch Notes: Hobbies Added To Main Menu

By Abhinav Sharma Published 05/28/20 EDT

The Crew 2 Inner Drive received a massive update yesterday. The update was released for every platform and is around 20GB in size. It adds some much needed new features and also squashes some major bugs. You will be able to access the new Hobbies feature from the Main Menu itself. You can learn more about this new feature on the official site.

The update also improved the performance of the game on PC and consoles. The console version of The Crew 2 will not freeze for the first few minutes after booting up the game. Graphical Issues when playing in 4K have also been resolved for the PS4 version. You can read the complete patch notes below and on the official site.

THE CREW 2 INNER DRIVE – PATCH 1.6.1 NOTES

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 Ventilated bonus) is no longer active while Air Nitro is in use.
- 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