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On 12/1/2016 10:41 AM, Justisaur wrote:

A couple corrections & updates on Calling All Units DLC for The Crew.  I 
  wouldn't have replied here for the updates, but the misinformation I 
had is pretty glaring, so needed to be corrected.

 > Calling All Units -  DLC for The Crew.  I bought it yesterday and got
 > to play with it a couple hours.  I mostly got it because you have to
 > to raise the level cap to 60

The level cap was raised to 60 for everyone even if you didn't buy it. I 
wasn't seeing any xp from PVP, but there's been a number of display bugs 
that are fixed now, that might have been one of them.

> It looks like getting to 60 will be quick

I'm 60 now. :)

> I'm already 57 - all in the
> new cop missions, which look to be the way to make money/xp fast now.  I
> get $7k & 20k xp per mission, and you can do the first one really fast
> most time - probably less than 30 seconds, possibly under minute with
> overhead (pressing buttons/loading pre & post mission),

Best I've done is 14 seconds on one of the cop raid missions, and it's 
maybe 30 seconds of overhead, so it's even better than that.

>
> I'd mention if you do get CAU don't bother to upgrade your cop cars, you
> get huge part bonuses doing the cop missions, I was getting something
> like a +64 level part each time, and had my Street cop car maxed out in
> an hour of doing that, while you normally get something like +8 doing
> skills.  I made the mistake of blowing $350k on upgrades for the circuit
> one before I realized that, and the parts were level 50 instead of 60 so
> will be useless when I get to 60.

There was a complete overhaul of the reward system, even for those who 
don't have the DLC.  So all missions will give better rewards, all 
rewards are scaled to your car & (supposed) difficulty of the mission or 
skill.  Jumps which can be spammed quickly will give small (+2?) rewards.

I imagine the cop mission rewards will be reballanced eventually as 
getting a +64 level part and $7k from a 14 second mission seems way too 
easy, but it's a nice reward for those who bought the DLC.  I'm not sure 
if there's any missions/skills that can do this if you don't have the 
DLC, as I've only been working on my cop cars so far.

>
> Which brings up another point, it looks like they added a new type of
> part, which has a diamond, and gives bonuses to all of the stats, so it
> looks like there's no more having to decide between a bonus to braking,
> grip, acceleration or speed.  I've mostly (perhaps only after 50?) been
> getting diamond parts, so it looks like they won't be hard to get.  I'm
> sure that'll piss some people off who liked their secret perfect
> combination of bonuses that gave them just enough of an edge, but it
> means less grinding and a fairer playing field, I'm all for it.

There's some complaints that the new level 60 diamond parts can actually 
make some of the cars worse.  I saw one complaint that dragsters are 
worse with them than the old level 50 acceleration part, which shouldn't 
be the case.  the diamond parts are for everyone again, not just the DLC 
owners, so this affects the entire user base.

> The PVP part of CAU I didn't like so far.  I got invited to chase some
> guys as a cop (which it seems you are every second in free-drive), but
> It didn't seem like I had the slightest chance to catch them.  I'm not
> sure if it's again just that I suck, or it needs some re-balancing.  I
> did it before trying the missions, which is the same situation only
> against an AI, now that I've had some practice, I might be better.  I'll
> have to try it again and on the bad-guy side.  Apparently you can get
> some cars through the PVP of CAU, but I haven't looked into it yet, and
> I'm not going to try it again until I'm level 60 and maxed out on parts
> at least for my circuit cop car.

I've read a lot of complaints about the new PVP from the cop side, also 
I didn't realize before, but anyone without the DLC can do the bad-guy 
part of the cop PVP, and only those with the DLC can do the cop part, so 
typically you'll have 3 or 4 bad guys to one cop, and the bad guys can 
just spam their flashbangs, and make it near impossible for the cop to 
win.  I hope this gets fixed, or it'll make the cop side PVP useless.

I'll also add I found the voice & scripts of the new character you play, 
an English female cop extremely annoying. She always sounds snobby and 
trying to be clever but failing.  You play her whenever in a cop car 
instead of the previous male criminal-turned Fbi protagonist.  I went so 
far as to change the audio language so I didn't have to listen to her so 
much, but some of the annoying still creeps through.  I'm going to look 
through the settings and see if I can find a way to turn the speech 
audio off. Part of the issue with her voice is probably the repetition, 
as with 14 second missions you have to hear her say the same things over 
and over.  Even the FBI agent you worked with before is getting annoying 
with all the repetition.  This is the only game that has a female voice 
I hate that I've ever played.

The only reason I can see to buy the DLC at this point is if you want to 
grind cop car missions for money at 3-4x what you could get from PVP 
(previously the best payout), which frankly will get boring really fast, 
I'm already bored with it after around 2-3 hours, but have managed to 
keep it marginally entertaining by trying to beat my best times.  Or you 
just want to have some cop car skinned cars with sirens. Wee-Ooo! Wee-Ooo!

- Justisaur