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Onrush Servers Are Shutting Down Soon
Electronic Arts has simply introduced that Onrush will shut down its on-line multiplayer servers on November 30, 2022. Originally launched again in 2018, earlier than EA acquired Codemasters, Onrush is an arcade combat-focused racing recreation the place the first aim is not essentially to get from level A to level B the quickest, however fairly to finish quite a lot of aims whereas competing with the enemy workforce.
When Electronic Arts acquired Codemasters, the entire developer’s earlier initiatives moved over to the brand new writer’s umbrella as effectively, with Onrush being one of many energetic multiplayer titles. The recreation’s participant base has slowly plummeted over time, nevertheless, and it has solely taken a number of extra years for EA to resolve that preserving Onrush’s multiplayer servers stay was extra hassle than it was value.
According to EA, Onrush now not has sufficient gamers to warrant preserving its servers up and working, and none of its multiplayer performance might be obtainable after November 30, 2022. With two years having passed by since EA acquired racing recreation developer Codemasters, Onrush appears to have been given time to try to discover its area of interest, solely to fail in doing in order time went on. While it’s a disgrace that that is occurring, it is value stating that every one of Onrush’s offline performance will stay obtainable, permitting gamers to benefit from the recreation’s single-player content material.
One of the potential causes behind Onrush not having a participant base in 2022 is that it solely launched on a restricted variety of platforms. The recreation is accessible on Xbox One and PlayStation 4 consoles, and it by no means got here to any of the opposite fashionable platforms. In reality, Onrush was inaccessible on Xbox for some time when a safety exploit was found, forcing Codemasters to take away it from sale till the difficulty was resolved.
Gamers curious about seeing what Codemasters has been engaged on as of late ought to tune into the brand new Need for Speed recreation reveal that is slated for October 6. The franchise is sure to make a bombastic return to kind following a three-year hiatus after the discharge of NFS: Heat, and if the leaks are something to go by, it is going to make for an fascinating change of tempo.