Electronic Arts and Ghost Games have announced that Need for Speed Payback will receive an online free roaming mode in 2018. The teams did not reveal any additional information about this mode, though we expect to hear more about in the coming weeks or months.
Online Free Roam coming 2018, Happy New Year from everyone at Need for Speed! 🎆 pic.twitter.com/Ht8cRsvQQA
— Need for Speed (@NeedforSpeed) January 1, 2018
These past couple months, EA and Ghost Games released a number of updates for this latest Need for Speed title. While performance has been slightly improved, the game still suffers from various CPU optimization issues.
Last month, the game received its latest update that allowed players to acquire abandoned cars, introduced a new mode called Sprint Runs and added steering wheel support.

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Remove that Denuvo cancer and I’ll buy the game on PC even if its far from a NFS game.
Poor stockholm syndrome 🙁
I mean it’s EA we’re talking about. It would be surprising if they DIDN’T screw it up.
I’m going to spend all my time in the DMV filling out forms and talking to my car insurance company representative. That’s the kind of racing game I want: no racing, all admin.
i hope this includes an fov slider for triple monitors!!!!!
I just replied to the tweet about the same issue about multi screen and FOV, it is horrible the support 🙁
If any of you guys have twitter please help out and favorite my tweet(or post your own reply to their tweet about the PC’s FOV issue) so they take it seriously and fix the game(aka have a dynamic FOV instead of hard coded).
Sucks they don’t care but I guess that is EA now.