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Need for Speed: Payback has a day one patch

Fixing issues like performance, crashes, and more.
Petter Hegevall 7 November 2017

In three days, EA and Swedish developer Ghost Games will release the highly anticipated Need for Speed: Payback, and for those who aim to buy the game and go street racing from day one, you'll want to grab the first patch for the game, as this corrects a bunch of unwanted issues.

For the entire patch notes you can look at the official website, but we've included the main bullet points down below. Are you hyped for this new entry in the racing franchise?

• Improved game performance during the event 'Solar Sprint'

• The event 'Aki kimura: The Drift King' will no longer sometimes cause a game crash

• The 'Silver Canyon Getaway' event will no longer cause a crash after the first spike strip

• Improved performance within Ranked Speedlist

• Fixed a crash that would sometimes occur during initial loading

• The game will no longer sometimes crash during the purchase of Shipments on a non-English language

• Repeating the event 'Drifting the Block' several times will no longer cause the game to crash

• Fixed a crash that occurred after the race between Mac and Jess to the airfield

• The game will no longer hang on a black screen at the start of the third section of the 'Convoy' mission

• While playing through 'The Highway Heist' mission, the game will no longer hang after the 'Get to the Rendezvous' section

• All checkpoints during the event 'Safety Last' will now award bonus time

• Improved cop AI within the 'Failed Heist' mission

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