Need for Speed Rivals servers

[★sleeping swan★]

Can u still play NFS Rivals online with a friend or are the servers shut down. I want to buy this game to play with a friend but i dont know if its still possible.

[Killergaming]

The game is fully playable as online gamplay works through someone being the session host and the othes joining that session, which has nothing to do with ea. Ea just saves your game progress

[Wet Valley Mayor]

You can. Do note the purpose of the servers is for cloud backup of save game. For the multiplayer, it goes as follows:
• One of the six players will be chosen as the host.
• The host's device will be used to centralize the gameplay of all players.
• Whenever that host quits the game or goes offline, host migration will occur (choose a different player as host), which often interrupts gameplay.
• Host in garage still counts as "in-game" and will not result in migration.

Note: this game do not have crossplay. If your friend is on a different platform, consider this game instead: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1328660/Need_for_Speed_Hot_Pursuit_Remastered/

[My Limp Generator]

The servers in Rivals are P2P and just like Wet Walley Mayor says it can interrupt gameplay.

[P J]

You sure guys/gals?

[Wet Valley Mayor]

Originally posted by P J:

You sure guys/gals?

Just set All-Drive to your preferred setting, and you are all set. Early career, it is recommended to set it in Single Player to avoid trolls invading your session.

[Perelandra]

Just adding some additional info: while it's correct that lobbys are P2P, there is still a master server required, which is hosted by EA. The P2P lobbys are registering on the master server(s), so others can find your lobby.
So if EA shuts down the master server, you can't play Rivals online until someone recreate the master server.