The Crew Unlimited devs have prevented the Ubisoft racer's "3rd imminent death", this time via a "Y29K" bug

A pesky date-related bug is the latest spike portion dodged

Ubisoft racer The Crew has avoided yet different shutdown aft being ressurected successful server-emulated signifier by fans earlier this year. According to the modders down its revival project, The Crew Unlimited, a bug would person seen the crippled halt moving erstwhile 2029 rolled around. Thankfully, they accidental a solution's been found.

"This whitethorn beryllium 1 of the astir important updates we've ever released, oregon arguably THE astir important," reads a station from pb developer Whammy4 astir The Crew Unlimited's latest server emulator update, 1.3.0.0. They outlined that not agelong aft the server emulator's 1.0 release, the radical realised that if the day connected the PC it's being played connected is acceptable to thing aft June 2029, the crippled simply stops working.

"As you whitethorn imagine, we were highly acrophobic (how galore deaths is this crippled going to spell through? TWO weren't capable already?)," Whammy4 explained. "At archetypal we were hoping that it was conscionable a bug connected the TCU Server's end, but that turned retired to not beryllium the case. It is an contented wrong the existent crippled lawsuit itself, and is not intentional but alternatively a bug. From our research, we've narrowed it down to either the Summit calendar strategy (from the Wild Run 2015 update), oregon the regular Crate ngo strategy (from the Calling All Units 2016 update). Likely culprit is the Summit, adjacent though thing successful the acme calendar information references thing astir a June 2029 oregon 2029 successful general."

The bully quality is that the squad accidental they've recovered "a little than ideal, but moving fix" for this perchance lethal bug, which they've dubbed "Y29K", by making immoderate changes to the server emulator's software. So, situation averted, adjacent if it sounds similar much enactment whitethorn beryllium needed to effort and find a amended solution for the long-term.

Here's hoping The Crew tin negociate to spell a fewer years without immoderate much existential threats from this point, adjacent if its archetypal shutdown's had the metallic lining of sparking worthwhile statement astir what the extremity of work for online-only games should look similar going forwards.