The Crew website now offers patch notes for a new patch for The Crew Ubisoft hopes to launch on February 12th "to tune and fix major gameplay elements" in the open-world driving game (thanks CarGamingBlog). In addition to tuning, this will also add new content, including four new faction missions and a new PvP elimination racing mode with 10 new tracks. Here are the detailed notes:

Our team has been working on several changes and updates to tune and fix major gameplay elements. We’d like to give you a look at the main changes that will be applied to The Crew in our next major patch, coming February 12.

New Content

• New PvP mode
  The new PvP mode is an elimination race with 10 new tracks available.
• New faction missions
  Four new faction missions will be released with the patch on Thursday, February 12.

Fixes and Updates

Online

• The quick co-op feature has been improved, and several bugs related to joining sessions have been fixed.
  PvP lobby improvements
  • Enabled browsing of players after selecting cars.
• PvP session improvements
  • Matchmaking should now allow players to find more players quicker.

Statistics

• Fixed the issue that was causing statistics to display incorrect data and/or simply reset the data.
  Previous data will not be restored, but new statistics should not be lost anymore.

Awards

• Fixed an issue related to unlocking and tracking the progress of certain awards.

Challenges

• Fixed an issue related to progression on challenges.

Frame rate

• Improved frame rate in cockpit view.

UI

• Fixed an issue when applying certain parts.

Friends

• Fixed an issue related to a friend’s presence in game – their status will be set to offline when they quit the game.

Cars

• Improvements and tweaking of several cars’ handling and speed.
  • Buggy’s grip has been improved in order for it to be able to climb hills as other Raid cars.
  • Fixed a bug where some cars were able to reach an extreme off-road top speed in reverse gear for:
    • Bentley Continental GT
    • Cadillac Escalade
    • Abarth 500
    • Alfa Romeo 4C
    • Hummer H1 Alpha
  • MINI Cooper S in Circuit Spec:
    • Toned down the nitro and grip for MINI Cooper S.
  • Lamborghini Murcielago in Circuit Spec:
    • Grip slightly improved when using nitro.

Missions

• AI behavior in some missions improved.
• AI and police car behavior in chase missions improved:
  • Opponent cars are now less aggressive, and they try more to follow players instead of taking them down.

Gameplay

• Modifications applied to the friction on side barriers in order to avoid wall-riding exploit.