The Crew 2 Offline Mode Now Available

A caller offline mode for Ubisoft’s The Crew 2 is disposable now, which volition let owners to play the racing MMO offline if desired. The functionality – dubbed Hybrid Mode – has been explained successful afloat connected the publisher’s website.

According to Ubisoft, Hybrid Mode gives america the “freedom to choose” however we privation to play The Crew 2. That is, online mode (which is “the archetypal acquisition arsenic it was designed from the start, implicit with multiplayer features, leaderboards, summits, and assemblage sharing”) oregon offline mode (which the steadfast describes arsenic “a caller experience”).

“Whether you’re looking to sphere your progression for the aboriginal oregon simply bask the state of playing without a connection, Hybrid Mode ensures The Crew 2 remains accessible for years to come,” explains the publisher.

To transportation progression into offline mode, players tin simply prime “Export to Offline Save” aft a league online. Doing truthful volition make a transcript of existent progression successful the game’s multiplayer satellite stored locally connected a idiosyncratic PC oregon console. Ubisoft notes online and offline saves are separate, however, truthful advancement made offline volition not transportation backmost implicit into online saves. Players volition beryllium capable to re-export online saves to update offline files astatine immoderate time.

Custom liveries volition not transportation to offline saves.

An offline mode for The Crew 2 was announced past twelvemonth successful the aftermath of the the shutdown of the archetypal crippled successful March 2024. Disappointed players of The Crew (which was not a free-to-play game, but became inaccessible for its owners to play aft its shutdown – adjacent solo) were justifiably acrophobic astir The Crew 2 suffering the aforesaid fate.

“We heard your concerns astir entree to The Crew games,” Ubisoft said astatine the time. “Today, we privation to explicit our committedness to the aboriginal of The Crew 2 and The Crew Motorfest. We tin corroborate an offline mode to guarantee agelong word entree to some titles.”

Ubisoft was subsequently sued aft the shutdown, a suit the steadfast responded to by insisting that buying a crippled doesn’t springiness players “unfettered ownership rights” to it, but alternatively lone a “limited licence to entree the game.”

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