To kick off 2018, Electronic Arts and Ghosts Games revealed that a new online feature will be coming to Need for Speed Payback this year. This feature is the much requested Online Free Roam mode that would allow players to explore Need for Speed Payback's large world with others online.
A central feature of many recent Need For Speed games has been the online free roam mode. Driving around an open world with your mates and being able to challenge others was an immersive (and most importantly, fun) experience, but when Payback was released last year, it was absent.
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Cars are mechanical goats. Sure, you can teach them tricks and make them move with purpose, but they'd rather lark about chasing and butting each other. It's silly, then, that Need For Speed Payback does not let cars scamper freely around together in a multiplayer free-roaming mode. Plenty of that game is pure daft--especially the writing, our John will tell you in his Need for Speed Payback review--but a car playground could go some way to redeeming it. So huzzah hooray, EA have announced an Online Free Roam mode is coming free to Payback some time in 2018. Better late than never.
Right now, Payback has a little multiplayer free roaming action while players are waiting for lobbies to fill up - but only then. Imagine the woe of only getting the mode you want in short bursts while the game counts down down to taking you away to something it insists you'll enjoy more.
Yesterday's tweet announcing the addition said "Online Free Roam coming 2018" without any more details. Further tweets clarified that the mode will be free for everyone, and that it's still being worked on so the devs can't give a launch date yet.
Payback sounds enough of a mess that, even as someone who enjoys doofy posturing carcrimes, I haven't been interested so far. But if a few friends are enticed by multiplayer free roam and the game goes cheap enough in a sale, ah, maybe.
Official replies to the tweet confirm that online free roam will be part of a free update to Need for Speed Payback rather than paid DLC, and that no release date has been set yet - Ghost Games is still working on it.
Online free roam was available in 2015's Need for Speed, which was also developed by Ghost Games on the same engine as Payback, so its absence from the release build of Need for Speed Payback was somewhat puzzling.
EA and Ghost Games know Need for Speed: Payback got a rather cold reception on launch, and they're continuing to rehabilitate its image -- in this case, by bringing back a feature from the previous game. The creators have revealed that they're adding an online free roaming mode to the game sometime in 2018, echoing a feature from the 2015 Need for Speed release. You can technically roam around now while waiting for a lobby to fill up, but this should let you drive to your heart's content.
It's not certain if this was always in the cards or an after-the-fact addition. However, it is an acknowledgment that dropping a major online feature of the previous game probably wasn't the greatest idea. NFS games aren't typically known for deep, thought-provoking single-player storylines, so Payback only had so much to do if you'd finished (or just didn't care for) its solo mode. While this isn't likely to sell you on the game if you weren't interested before, it might encourage a closer look if you've been at least mildly intrigued.
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BySteve Noah Published on February 13, 2018ShareTweet CommentA new Need For Speed Payback patch is scheduled to arrive today, featuring the much anticipated free roaming, EA calls Alldrive. Check out the rest of the patch notes, in the February update below.
For example, a firm may decide to invest in an asset with an initial cost of $1 million. Over the next five years, the firm receives positive cash flows that diminish over time. What is the payback period? As seen from the graph below, the initial investment is fully offset by positive cash flows somewhere between periods 2 and 3.
In essence, the payback period is used very similarly to a Breakeven Analysis, but instead of the number of units to cover fixed costs, it considers the amount of time required to return an investment.
While the payback period shows us how long it takes for the return on investment, it does not show what the return on investment is. Referring to our example, cash flows continue beyond period 3, but they are not relevant in accordance with the decision rule in the payback method.
The other project would have a payback period of 4.25 years but would generate higher returns on investment than the first project. However, based solely on the payback period, the firm would select the first project over this alternative. The implications of this are that firms may choose investments with shorter payback periods at the expense of profitability.
Another issue with the payback period is that it does not explicitly discount for the risk and opportunity costs associated with the project. In some ways, a shorter payback period suggests lower risk exposure since the investment is returned at an earlier date. However, different projects may have exposure to different levels of risk even during the same period. Project risk is often determined by estimating WACC.
Financial analysts will perform financial modeling and IRR analysis to compare the attractiveness of different projects. By forecasting free cash flows into the future, it is then possible to use the XIRR function in Excel to determine what discount rate sets the Net Present Value of the project to zero (the definition of IRR).
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Payback 2 is a mobile online multiplayer action video game developed and published by Apex Designs Entertainment Ltd. It is the sequel to the original 2001 Payback game,[1] and was first released on 4 October 2012 for iOS, became free to play in 2013,[2][3] and was released for Android on 10 October 2014[4] under the title Payback 2 - The Battle Sandbox.[5]
Upon Payback 2's initial release, TouchArcade praised it for being a competent "Grand Theft Auto clone", but criticized its lack of a good story.[12] Slide2Play would criticize the game, claiming that it "...still has issues with its basic design. Winning a race is literally as easy as pushing forward... it's hard to target the (other) bad guys in the game's on-foot shooting mission... Shooting is also made difficult by the fact that everybody on-screen is tiny and seems to blend in with the dull environments."[13] Several journalists noted having issues connecting, or finding, people to play with online as well.[13][8]
Online multiplayer free roam is coming to Need for Speed Payback. Ghost Games and Electronic Arts confirmed the popular request is being worked on now, with an expected release later this year for all players. Currently, multiplayer free roam is only possible during lobby waits while queuing up for races. The coming update will allow players to take their arcade rides onto the streets of Fortune Valley and act like YouTube stars without being yanked out of their tomfoolery to play an actual match.
In addition to bravery, you also need to find various means to make money to complete the missions. Since the game is in an open environment, you freely do whatever you want, be a real mafia and do all that it takes to earn money. You can smash cars, hold up passersby, etc.
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