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Well the day was eventually going to happen, Thought maybe it would survive till 2020..
R.I.P TDU2 Online
Online Services Shutting Down Soon
5 November - TDU2
5 November - TDU2
Dear TDU2 Fans,
The last 7+ years have been amazing thanks to your full throttle support, and we'd like to thank you all for being part of the Test Drive Unlimited 2 community.
This week, online services for Test Drive Unlimited 2 will shut down globally. The game will still be playable offline with local play and still available in your Steam library for download, so fans can still keep racing, but features including online head-to-head race matching and the TDU2 Casino will no longer be available.
Thank you for all of the great memories, and see you around the next turn.
The Test Drive Unlimited Team
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TDU, GRID, Assetto Corsa, pCars, NCG, The Crew, Dirt, Forza: MadManCK
Clubs: TDU2: Luny's Fair Friends (VP-Exec), GRID AS: TDUDT (Pres) DT-Racing Team: Team Leader
Eden Games Can Kiss My Mustang
TDU, GRID, Assetto Corsa, pCars, NCG, The Crew, Dirt, Forza: MadManCK
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DonnieBrasco
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With the exception of the bad physics in mind (as the only counterargument) i would have proposed to our club to do a last cruise on Oahu. Even if that would have meant for me driving with keyboard again, because i have no useful wheelsettings for this game. But as you already wrote this time the soon® was instantly, which is astonishing for Atari/Edengames (or whoever is/was still responsible for the servers).
This game was my gaming-comeback-story after i didn't play anything from 2005 until 2011. At the same time TDU2 was the first game i played online with other people and the game became the foundation of our close group/club (Ohana Cruiseanostra, formerly the Oahu Speedcruisers). Beside that through TDU2 i also got in contact with all of you and a lot of other very kind gamers.
Another thing that made me spend uncounted hours, beside the over 4.500 hours ingame, was the moddingthing. I never did that before TDU2. It didn't matter if it was modding the cars, helping others and writing tutorials about it or creating tons liverys for the community which you could use with texmod.
I never spend so much time in and for any other game. Thats why TDU2 will always have a special place in my memories.
Hopefully there will be a TDU3 soon and not soon®.
...eulogy over
This game was my gaming-comeback-story after i didn't play anything from 2005 until 2011. At the same time TDU2 was the first game i played online with other people and the game became the foundation of our close group/club (Ohana Cruiseanostra, formerly the Oahu Speedcruisers). Beside that through TDU2 i also got in contact with all of you and a lot of other very kind gamers.
Another thing that made me spend uncounted hours, beside the over 4.500 hours ingame, was the moddingthing. I never did that before TDU2. It didn't matter if it was modding the cars, helping others and writing tutorials about it or creating tons liverys for the community which you could use with texmod.
I never spend so much time in and for any other game. Thats why TDU2 will always have a special place in my memories.
Hopefully there will be a TDU3 soon and not soon®. ...eulogy over
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Sad times but it has been on the horizon for some time now. 
I am hearing some disturbing news on the TDU 3 front, someone who claims to know one of the devs tells me that the game has been put on hold
Also rumors about Atari still holding some shares in the TDU franchise and it seems like they are interfering in the production of the game.
I am hearing some disturbing news on the TDU 3 front, someone who claims to know one of the devs tells me that the game has been put on hold
Also rumors about Atari still holding some shares in the TDU franchise and it seems like they are interfering in the production of the game.
Atari probably regrets selling the table silver. But they should remind themselves that they almost destroyed a successful franchise. With similar potential impact as the NFS franchise.
So, from my perspective, Atari has no rights anymore. Only to TDU1 and 2. The server support is a positive exception.
Maybe the new right holders should have gone for the whole TDU franchise. There is still a lot that can be done with the older titles, while the new one is being developed. But there is also the potential fallout from the community over these neglected and badly supported TDU titles, that can have an impact on the new owners, Big Ben Interactive, as well.
Maybe one of the reasons why they only chose to go for the Test Drive franchise and not the previous titles.
I do know some of the people behind the TDU1 server initiative. They might give this a shot as well. I have seen some TDU2 alternative online screenshots a while back. The Casino is a different story, as that was operated separately, i think.
I will wait for TDU3, as TDU2 was dead the moment they let cheaters rule the game. And keyboard players top the leader boards. Add to that the nerfed physics. This was done because one of the Atari executives could not play the game with their initial setup, which was more simulated btw. Believe it or not. Sometimes one person can ruin a complete game for 1000s of players. Because of the flawed TDU2 physics, the FFB did not work properly.
Seb Tixier explained this to me. He made the physics for TDU1 and The Crew and went into detail how physics and FFB are related to each other. Add tot that the specific parameters of each wheel and each car and road type and variation setup and you understand the massive amount of work that goes into making a good driving game. Good physics usually leads to good FFB as well because of that.
IMO TDU1 was more fun to drive than part 2. I had to use "artificial" FFB in TDU2 to make my wheel useful. Some players, mostly Thrustmaster users, could get a more decent FFB out of TDU2. But support in general was very limited and the FFB was flawed.
I do not think we will have these issues with BigBen Interactive, as they make some awesome Rally games as well. And Rally physics as a base for TDU3 driving physics can turn out to be very good. I really don't hope they will step into the same "Arcade trap" Ivory Tower did with Crew2.
An open world driving game with realistic driving physics is still what we are looking for.
So, from my perspective, Atari has no rights anymore. Only to TDU1 and 2. The server support is a positive exception.
Maybe the new right holders should have gone for the whole TDU franchise. There is still a lot that can be done with the older titles, while the new one is being developed. But there is also the potential fallout from the community over these neglected and badly supported TDU titles, that can have an impact on the new owners, Big Ben Interactive, as well.
Maybe one of the reasons why they only chose to go for the Test Drive franchise and not the previous titles.
I do know some of the people behind the TDU1 server initiative. They might give this a shot as well. I have seen some TDU2 alternative online screenshots a while back. The Casino is a different story, as that was operated separately, i think.
I will wait for TDU3, as TDU2 was dead the moment they let cheaters rule the game. And keyboard players top the leader boards. Add to that the nerfed physics. This was done because one of the Atari executives could not play the game with their initial setup, which was more simulated btw. Believe it or not. Sometimes one person can ruin a complete game for 1000s of players. Because of the flawed TDU2 physics, the FFB did not work properly.
Seb Tixier explained this to me. He made the physics for TDU1 and The Crew and went into detail how physics and FFB are related to each other. Add tot that the specific parameters of each wheel and each car and road type and variation setup and you understand the massive amount of work that goes into making a good driving game. Good physics usually leads to good FFB as well because of that.
IMO TDU1 was more fun to drive than part 2. I had to use "artificial" FFB in TDU2 to make my wheel useful. Some players, mostly Thrustmaster users, could get a more decent FFB out of TDU2. But support in general was very limited and the FFB was flawed.
I do not think we will have these issues with BigBen Interactive, as they make some awesome Rally games as well. And Rally physics as a base for TDU3 driving physics can turn out to be very good. I really don't hope they will step into the same "Arcade trap" Ivory Tower did with Crew2.
An open world driving game with realistic driving physics is still what we are looking for.
PC Player
TDU, GRID, Assetto Corsa, pCars, NCG, The Crew, Dirt, Forza: MadManCK
Clubs: TDU2: Luny's Fair Friends (VP-Exec), GRID AS: TDUDT (Pres) DT-Racing Team: Team Leader
Eden Games Can Kiss My Mustang
TDU, GRID, Assetto Corsa, pCars, NCG, The Crew, Dirt, Forza: MadManCK
Clubs: TDU2: Luny's Fair Friends (VP-Exec), GRID AS: TDUDT (Pres) DT-Racing Team: Team Leader
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BATA_MANTA
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I couldn't agree more on Madman. When I discovered TDU title I couldn't imagine that a driving game would be so immense. I was comming from NFSU2 and NFS Most Wanted (the good one) so the most shocking things were the Oahu map and the driving physics for an "arcade" game.
I spent ton of hours on TDU1 but sadly without online connection because it was the cracked version.
Then I heard about the release of TDU2 and that was my opportunity to have a blast on a open multiplayer racing game.
I remmember good days on TDU2 before bikes patch where I allways check the CRC challenges and beat them and when the airport sprint pvp race had over 15 lobbies.
After that patch, CRC went down thanks to cheaters making 9999 points on speed challenges or 0:00.001 times on time attacks also with unreleased vehicles like Lancia Delta S4 or Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale.
For the moment I hope they continue improving Project Paradise mod for TDU1 and at least make pvp races available.
I spent ton of hours on TDU1 but sadly without online connection because it was the cracked version.
Then I heard about the release of TDU2 and that was my opportunity to have a blast on a open multiplayer racing game.
I remmember good days on TDU2 before bikes patch where I allways check the CRC challenges and beat them and when the airport sprint pvp race had over 15 lobbies.
After that patch, CRC went down thanks to cheaters making 9999 points on speed challenges or 0:00.001 times on time attacks also with unreleased vehicles like Lancia Delta S4 or Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale.
For the moment I hope they continue improving Project Paradise mod for TDU1 and at least make pvp races available.