Today is the release date for The Crew in most territories, as Ubisoft's open-world driving game is now out everywhere but Japan, where it's expected on Saturday. The Crew website has details on a day one patch to support the release:

Features

1. Drivehub challenges are activated.
2. Faction war activated. At the end of the month, the winning faction unlocks 2 bonus faction missions per region.

Bug Fixes

Stability & performance

• Fixed some random crashes on all game modes
• Fixed an issue where some crews were disbanded randomly

Matchmaking, connectivity & replication

• Fixed matchmaking and sessions problems
• Fixed invite system in Private PVP game modes
• Improved matchmaking and sessions on server side.

Menus and HUD

• Fixed issues related to Leaderboards scoring on Missions and Skills
• Updated info on HUD for Gift packs.
• Resolved issues on Localization bugs.
• Fixes on Statistics computing values.
• Fixes on PVP lobby HUD.
• Fixed an issue where the “Mute” option was missing from player cards while inside a PvP lobby.
• Fixed an issue where an infinite loading animation of the gamer card picture was happening.
• Fixed an issue where the title shows the “Display” name instead of “Gamertag” for the active user inside the Leaderboards from the Driver ID menu.

PvP

• Fixed an issue where leaderboard displayed incoherent scoring on PVP Public Free For All events.
• Fixed an issue where the collision' and 'Traffic' options were not functional within the lobby.
• Fixed an issue preventing the HUD from refreshing when a crew member invites the crew master in a PvP public lobby.
• Fixed an issue where the crew gets disbanded after coming out of PVP lobby.
• Fixed the option to disable/enable voices during PvP events.

Achievements and Awards

• Fixed Achievements unlocking issues
• Fixed Awards progression and unlocking issues

DLC / ULC

• Fixed issues related on unlocking the content after purchasing DLC/ULC packs.

Missions

• Improved AI behavior in some situations.
• Fixes on HUD elements during missions.
• Fixed an issue preventing some players to join a mission after a quick co-op search.
• Fixed an issue where some players in coop/solo missions where sent back to the log-in menu with a service error message.

Online

• Fixed an issue where players couldn’t join a session or a crew.
• Fixed an issue where players could be missing from the crew list for other players in the same crew.
• Fixed an issue that was preventing a player from entering a PvP lobby while in a crew of 4.
• Fixed an issue preventing the world ghost record to load and instead of the “Online ID” text "UNKNOWN" was displayed for all the skills.
• Fixed an issue where the game crashes when failing to connect to proxy.
• Fixed an issue where the game goes into infinite loading screen after using "Quit" and after being idle in the game.
• Fixed an issue where the PSN ID's fails to load on leaderboards and was shown as "Loading" and "UNKNOWN" text.
• Fixed an issue where the crew was failing to update correctly after the crew master has removed his Ethernet/Signed-out/Shut down the console and logged in again.
• Fixed an issue where the loading time after pressing any button in title screen may be up to 2 minutes long.
• Fixed an issue where some users were not joining the crew after being invited.
• Fixed an issue where after a forced back to login, the gamer-pic in the friend list couldn’t load.