Destruction AllStars is a game full of crashes. Most of them are the kind you'd expect, but the PlayStation 5 exclusive has been prone to the odd hiccup here and there. Fortunately, developer Lucid Games appears to be working overtime to improve its vehicle-wrecking multiplayer title, as it's just released another patch.
Update version 1.2.3 is live right now on PS5, and it looks like a pretty solid maintenance patch that fixes some common problems. In a Twitter thread, the studio outlines the major points addressed by the update.
Here's all the notes:
- Weekly Reset time has been set to Wednesday 3pm UTC
- Weekly Challenges now award AllStar Coins instead of XP
- XP rewards for Daily Challenges have been increased from 3k to 25k
- Fixed several issues preventing successful matchmaking
- Reduced the frequency of parties being split into different games at the end of a match
- Fixed an instance of the UI incorrectly reverting player level
- Fixed several server crashes relating to Gridfall
- Fixed several client crashes
- Improved some error message descriptions
So, essentially the game should now be much more reliable. Plus, if you beat one of the weekly challenges, you'll get AllStar Coins rather than XP, which seems like a good shout.
In a recent poll, we asked you what you think of Destruction AllStars so far. With this new patch, will you be giving it another shake? Did you experience any technical issues with the game prior to this update? Discuss in the comments section below.
[source twitter.com]
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"Weekly Challenges now award AllStar Coins instead of XP
XP rewards for Daily Challenges have been increased from 3k to 25k"
Even I can't deny those are vast improvements.
Sounds good. I haven't even touched the challenges yet as they replied on the Allstar coins so I might give those a go. I think the first one is free anyway but that seems much fairer being able to also earn in game.
Yet to play this but looking forward to it.
@render Allstar Coins are the ones you normally earn by leveling up - they're for cosmetics/emotes only
Destruction Points (needed to unlock the challenge series) are still store-only as of now
This is still an improvement because before you'd actually earn them faster by just playing the game than trying to do any of the challenges
@Voltan ah yes you are right thanks for pointing that out 🤦‍♂️. That’s a shame then as would have been better to have a way to unlock those just through game play. In fact the least they could do would be to make them a fairer price.
Good stuff, just hoping Mayhem and Gridfall get Party modes because they’re the best modes in the game (IMO) and all I want to do is smash my friends up.
Then play D:AS
This would have been a real steal at $70!
@render I've played the first one (an Ultimo-Jian showdown), and definitely recommend it. Some of the challenges you compete in on your way to your final showdown with Jian are fun and different from the standard modes you normally play — there's one where you have to race around touching checkpoints (some only reachable on foot) before time runs out, and one that is essentially Crazy Taxi.
@hobbes242 Sounds like it's worth giving them a go then. I quite like crazy taxi style games. I can't remember what it was called but one of the mini games in Days Gone was like that but with a golf buggy.
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