The Crew Motorfest ramps up environment detail, multiplayer, in sweeping quality of life upgrades

New buildings, more neon, less traffic during competitive challenges and tweaked car handling – ahead of a full Season 6 content unveil, The Crew Motorfest’s significant quality of life changes have been detailed.

Back in November of 2024, a free new island was added, which was both most welcome and a little on the dull side. Consequently, we dubbed Maui as a “platform to build upon.”

So developer Ivory Tower has done just that, build.

Arrived 5th March 2025, a notable update for Motorfest will include a revised Maui, with new and additional buildings, foliage, floating lanterns at night and neon-adorned bridges. Throw in a few fireworks, and the environment should be more vibrant, detailed and festivalish, if that’s a term (it’s not).

Grand Race is set to become more engaging

Motorfest’s main online multiplayer mode, the Grand Race, sees 32 players compete across a multi-vehicle-type event. Following the upcoming game update, this will now be themed, and said theme will change on a weekly basis. What those themes are remains unconfirmed.

Occasionally, Grand Races will appear with increased experience points and bucks (currency) to be earned and fresh weather conditions are set to be added to the rotation.

Publisher Ubisoft also claims a dynamic ‘no collision mode’ at certain slow speeds will avoid costly crashes. At the end of an event, you will be able to jump into another Grand Race without waiting for a 30-second countdown. 

Performance parity

Historically, using manual gears in Motorfest was a clear speed advantage, but in theory, this will change as “both options should be competitive with each other” according to creator Ivory Tower.

The physics system underlying quad bikes will also be tweaked, alongside greater dead zone options when setting up controller inputs.

Over 60 specific vehicles are said to be tweaked both in terms of top speed and also high-speed turning ability. The full list is at the bottom of this article.

Greater fast travel, no traffic during Summit contests

A small, but potentially significant change, is great fast-travel points. According to the changelog, the manoeuvre should become possible at places where you have taken images.

One area that some players found frustrating during the competitive (i.e. online leaderboard enabled) Summit events was coming across traffic at awkward times. Traffic will remain during all other events and while exploring the open world, but they will now be switched off for the time-based Summit Contests. Result.

The complete quality-of-life change list is below.

The Crew Motorfest Season 6 release date

Season 6 for The Crew Motorfest will arrive on PC, PlayStation and Xbox on Wednesday 5th March 2025.

New content, arriving alongside the game changes, has yet to be unveiled at the time of publication. Traxion understands this is soon, and we’ll report back when all the information is available.

The Crew Motorfest Season 6 platform updates

Season 6 Quality of Life Changes

• Traffic ChangesAfter many, many, moons of you guys asking for it we are making a change to the traffic during the Summit Feats.
  • There will no longer be traffic during feats in the Summit Contest.
    • Feats outside of the Summit Contest are unchanged and still contain traffic.
• Challenge Improvements:
  • Vehicle management has been added to the challenge menu and to notifications.
    • Main Stage Challenges:
      • A notification will prompt you to equip the correct vehicle for the challenge and will play a sound effect upon equipping.
      • A notification will redirect you to the bundle of the vehicle if you do not own it.
    • Improved Reward Pending UI
      • Reward pending notification will be more prominent on your screen.
• Hide Collectibles Option:
  • Players can turn on an option to hide any of their collectible icons already collected on the map.
  • Upon collecting your next collectible in-game, a tip will be triggered to inform you that you can hide collected collectibles in the options menu.
• Photo Quest Fast Travel:
  • Players who have unlocked the fast travel feature can now fast travel to their completed Photo Quest locations.
• Collectibles Feedback:
  • Upon collecting a collectable, the camera will now highlight what you have collected before returning to your current POV.

PVP Changes

• Weekly Themed Grand Races: Every week a new themed Grand Race will be available
• Grand Race Boosts: Regular boosted Grand Races will be available with increased XP and Bucks earned.
• No Collision Events: § Regular weekly events with no collision between vehicles for Grand Race.
• New Weather Conditions: New weather conditions will be in rotation for Grand Race.
• All Day Modifiers: Every Saturday, Grand Race modifiers will be active for the whole day from 9am UTC onwards, until the next day 9am UTC.
• Dynamic No Collision Mode: When driving below a certain speed, you won’t cause collisions with other racers in Grand Race.
• Grand Race Flow: You don’t have to wait 30 seconds to finish a GR anymore. Once cross the finish line, you can jump straight into a new Grand Race.
• Main Stage Grand Race Modifier: A modifier will be available for Grand Race so that players can only use vehicles from the Main Stage.

Season 6 Handling Fixes

• Gear Shifting is now more consistent between automatic and manual modes.
  • We’ve fine-tuned the shifting parameters. The manual clutch was previously faster than the automatic, but now both options should be competitive with each other.
• Back-on-track will not trigger as much when landing from a big jump on a motorcycle.
  • Back-on-track was triggering incorrectly previously when landing from large jumps on a motorcycle, with this fix it should a much smoother experience for players.
• Added option for Radial Deadzones in controller settings.
  • We’ve adjusted the dead zones for the left and right sticks, as well as the steering and pedals, to remove the hard-coded dead zone. This should provide a more responsive and customizable experience
• Updated the Quad’s physics to avoid unwanted behaviors.
  • What it says on the tin. The quads should now operate as designed.

Affected Vehicle List

Ford Street T2

• GT 2005
• GT Ruby Edition
• Mustang Dark Horse
• Mustang Dark Horse – Chase Edition
• Mustang GT 2011
• Mustang GT Convertible 2024
• Mustang GT Convertible 2024 – Motorfest Edition
• Mustang GT Fastback 2015
• Mustang GT Fastback Stunt Edition
• Mustang Shelby GT500 2020
• Mustang Shelby GT500 2020 – Interception Unit
• Mustang Shelby GT500 2020 – Road Force One
• Mustang Shelby GT500 2020 – Tribute Edition
• Shelby GT500 2013

Toyota Street T2

• GR Supra (J29/DB)
• Supra (A80)
• Supra (A80) – Ryūjin Edition

Dodge Street T2

• Challenger SRT Demon
• Challenger SRT Demon – Interception Unit
• Challenger SRT Demon Awaken Edition
• Challenger SRT Hellcat
• Challenger SRT-8392 2012
• Charger SRT Hellcat Redeye
• Charger SRT-82012
• Charger SRT-8 Lab Edition
• SRT Viper GTS 2013
• SRT Viper GTS Lightning Edition
• Viper SRT-10 Coupe 2010
• Viper SRT-10 Coupe 2010 MAD Edition

Mercedes AMG Street T2

• C 63 Coupé Black Series (C204)
• C 63 S Coupé (C205)
• GT (C190)
• SL 63 (R230)
• SL 63 4MATIC+ (R232)
• SLS (C197)

Mercedes-Benz Street T2

• SLR McLaren 722 Edition (C199)

McLaren Hypercar

• 12C
• 720S Spider
• 720S Spider Blast Edition
• 765LT
• Elva
• F1
• P1
• P1 Gold Line Edition
• Senna

Ferarri Hypercar

• 458 Speciale
• 488 Pista
• 812 Superfast
• Enzo Ferrari
• F12tdf
• LAFERRARI
• SF90 Stradale

Pagani Hypercar

• Huayra
• Huayra – Rubicone Edizione
• Zonda F
• Zonda F Primary Edition

Saleen Hypercar

• S7 Twin-Turbo
• S7 Twin-Turbo Glacier Edition

Chevrolet Hypercar

• Corvette C7 ZR1
• Corvette C7 ZR1 Convertible
• Corvette C7 ZR1 Convertible – Long Range Edition
• Corvette C7 ZR1 Gold Nugget Edition

Bentley Racing

• Continental Supersports 2010

KTM Rally Raid (Quad)

• 525 XC (Race Spec)

KTM Motocross

• 450 EXC 2015 Red Bull Edition