friends

[head4cker]

hi new here dunno if if this has been brought up before but since ive added ppl to my friends list i can no longer find them ingame when i go to the map screen and just filter to friends i can see the red dot to say where my friends are i can drive straight past them and not see them we arrange a point to meet but yet i cant see them and vice versa i could see them perfect before i added them to my friends list even joined a club and still cant find em when were in free ride

any help much appreciated

[j6ngo1977]

Yeh this seems to be a problem, finding friends. As far as I understand there only 8 players in a session: Here's an explanation which is on one of the admin threads:

Difficulty to find Friends
This is partly due to the server becoming saturated during peak hours. It will much easier to find your friends when the server capacity is increased.

Currently filters work only on the map - they are not properly implemented while driving. This will be fixed in the forthcoming patch and players will then be able to see only their friends in the game if they wish.

There follows some additional guidelines to make playing with friends easier:

How to play with your friends:

1- The first player goes into a less densely populated area as shown on the map, then zooms in to the island. Other people that want to join him then select him from the map. Players will join a session that’s not full in this area, so the chances are high that this will be the first player’s session.

2- As an alternative, the MS game invite is a very powerful tool, and can be used from a multiplayer lobby as follows:

- create a multiplayer private session
- send an invite to your friends
- race as you want in the created session
- if you get bored of the race you're in, you can change for another one and bring the whole party with you (option available once race is over, before restarting another one)

3- Another way to play with friends is to create a club, meet at the club and start play from there.