What's new in Shift 2 Unleashed Patch 1.01

Apr 29, 2011
  • Common - Online - Catch Up Events - All users are prompted with the same message at the start of a catchup pack/catchup duel event
  • Cars - Car wheels intersect or float in the air when the player uses wheels wirh a different diameter to the AI
  • Online – Catch Up Modes – Once in-game there is no onscreen objective based message for either the fast car or the slower car/pack.
  • VIP Rewards - SHIFT1 PC does not write the entitlement that SHIFT2 looks for correctly
  • Online Modes - The host's car is not visible to at least one of the clients in an online lobby
  • Online - Players cars are occasionally crashing during rolling starts before the player takes control
  • Screen Transistion - Autolog - Player can momentarily get stuck within autolog when launching an event via the speedwall
  • Front end - Loading screen - Speedwall - First lap of event sometimes not being recorded by total time resulting in unobtainable World and Regional times
  • Cars/tracks - Visually the steering wheel when racing in cockpit views appears overly sensitive at the beginning of the turning circle
  • Online - lobby timer - Lobby timer is not appearing to reset back to 1:45 for the client players after a host migration takes place. The new host does see the timer reset.
  • Autolog - Speedwall - Erroneous speedwall times - Times can be set within and event which are unrealistic and unfeasible to acquire.
  • Tracks - Drift - The last corner on Miami Park Drift track now gives more drift points
  • Career - Drift – AI opponent scores are very hard to beat on Miami Park Drift in the last event in Drift Championship
  • Camera initialization bug - Certain player views do not initialize correctly at race start
  • Physics & Handling - Input lag/delay present on steering wheels
  • Cars - McLaren MP4-12C - The Modern A Invitational event cannot be completed with Full Damage settings due to engine blowout
  • Online - If a client joins a lobby at the 00:10 mark, he will be stuck in a technical hang in the lobby and the other players will be stuck in a loading screen technical hang
  • Cars - Team Need for Speed Mazda RX-8 - The game can remain in a tech hang in the loading screen of events\races when the Team NFS Mazda RX-8 car is used.
  • Common - Online – Catch Up Modes – Once in-game there is no onscreen objective based message for either the fast car or the slower car/pack.
  • VIP - NFS Undercover VIP not awarded when playing shift 2
  • Retail Only - Players stuck on a black screen at the start of offline events
  • Photo Mode - Tech hang seen when taking photos in certain resolutions
  • VIP - Hot Pursuit LE writes a different entitlement to SE, thus will not be picked up by Shift 2 VIP