The game will quickly transfer everyone to a new session, so this isn’t a problem until you reach the point where progress is lost. To make matters worse, every multiplayer session is hosted by one of the players in that session, and when that host leaves the session is over.
Actually, according to the game’s logic you’re never actually guaranteed the chance to cross paths with another living soul, so I really hope you enjoy playing with bots. A multiplayer session can go on for hours and hours before you cross paths with another living soul. With the small player limit and large game space this plan is problematic as well. The alternative is to follow the game’s logic of organized chaos, and just choose to run into people as you randomly cross paths. It’s a problem that might be impossible to solve if you’re playing with strangers who have no reason to listen to you. The big issue with Rivals is that it lacks a lobby system to organize events, so you become the system that must convince everyone to play together. Since the six player controlled cars can drive where they want when they want, it doesn’t take long for everyone to spread to the map’s four corners. While All Drive is a fluid and impressive system, Rivals has a player limit of only 6 people and a game space that is best described by words like giant, colossal, immense, mammoth, gargantuan, and also stunningly beautiful. Any event you begin will start right then and there. The All Drive system is unique in that there are no load screens to stop the action in Rivals. They can even drive up to other people (real or A.I.) and challenge them to one-on-one races. Basically, the open world is the multiplayer lobby, and people can drive to whatever event they wish to compete in whenever they want to compete in it. In contrast, Rivals has what the developer calls the All Drive system. The game would then drop these teams onto a section of the open world map to chase each other to the finish line. You see, Hot Pursuit used a traditional multiplayer lobby system that would force people onto teams of cops or racers. Sadly, after expending a lot of time and money EA still failed to recapture the thing that made Hot Pursuit so great playing cops and robbers with other people. That’s why Need for Speed: Rivals feels like EA took the superior car handling and physics from Most Wanted and mixed them with the gameplay of Hot Pursuit. Most Wanted taught Electronic Arts that people really want to play cops and robbers using extremely powerful, and more importantly virtual, sports cars. While Need for Speed: Most Wanted was a solid title for 2012, it never captured the hearts and minds of people in the same way that 2010’s Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit did.
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