Rockstar fixing Midnight Club DLC

By Robert Purchese Published 20 March, 2009

"Unforeseen" Xbox 360 bug to blame.

Rockstar is working to fix the South Central downloadable content for Xbox 360 owners of Midnight Club: Los Angeles.

Due yesterday, the update was held back because of "an unforeseen bug". PS3 players had no such problems, and are happily whizzing through the South Central streets now.

"The Xbox 360 version of Midnight Club: Los Angeles South Central, set to release on Xbox Live and PlayStation Network [yesterday], has not yet gone live on Xbox Live due to an unforeseen bug in the title update," says Rockstar in a statement.

"We are currently working as quickly as we can to resolve this issue, and we will notify everyone as soon as the DLC is made available."

South Central adds new vehicles, parts and customisation tools, plus a map expansion that introduces four new neighbourhoods. The beefed-up premium version can be fetched for GBP 7.99 / EUR 9.99 from the PS Store. The map expansion, however, is free.

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Comments (15) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • Slikz #1 3 years ago

    God dammit!!

    I played it for hours last night waiting for the update, I must say there were quite a few unhappy gamers online.

    Fix up Rockstar!

  • metalangel #2 3 years ago

    Yeah, me too... looking forward to the Range Rover, hurry up it release it, you've already had an extra week!

  • Typhoid #3 3 years ago

    If its not our this week I can't see me ever getting it - Fallout 3 - The Pitt next week, I haven't even started RE5 yet, WOW Uldar patch will hit in a few weeks then L4D update :<

  • Slikz #4 3 years ago

    If its not out this week, I DEMAND another free download in the form of Audi's rather sexy R8!

    Please :)

  • Darren #5 3 years ago

    This DLC was already delayed a week so what the heck was that for if the 360 version still had this "unforseen" bug? I seem to recall one of the early Burnout Paradise free DLC packs suffering from a similar delay on the 360 but not the PS3.

  • maximusfarticus #6 3 years ago

    xbox360lol

  • mfnick #7 3 years ago

    Has anyone else suffered from the road textures completely disappearing for the vast majority of the time since the patch they released agaes ago?

    I cleared my cache & that got rid of it & the patch. Worked perfectly again. Downloaded the patch again to play online & the same thing happened. It makes it unplayable as you cant see the road or other cars. So I cleared the cache & patch again. Its now fine once again but I cant download & use this DLC without the patch. :S

  • Slikz #8 3 years ago

    Yes I have, I installed the game to the hard drive hoping it will make a difference.

    Its no gamebreaker though.

  • mfnick #9 3 years ago

    I think it is as I cant actualy see the actual road. Or traffic. So im either going the wrong way, hitting other cars or driving straight into a railing I cant see because of the messed up graphics. Even half my car is usualy missing as a flat texture seems to be above where the actual floor is.

    Its literaly impossible to win. & i cant instal it as I havent got enough HDD space thanks to XBLA games & TLAD. & MS can go fuck themselves if they think im willing to pay their prices for a HDD upgrade.

  • Whizzo #10 3 years ago

    Oh it's not just me then. I went back to it last night, in preparation for the DLC, and at times there would be missing textures for around 5 seconds or more.

    I thought I needed to reinstall or run from disc but it appears that Rockstar have cocked up.

    This didn't happen when I first played it and I've only ever run it from hard disk, I'm at Idol rank so it's not like I've not put the time into it!
    Edited by 1 at 20/03/09 @ 16:02

  • myke6699 #11 3 years ago

    I think because it's on the 360, it has to pass a more severe test before being released. And unlike Sony there's more technies on the xbox test team. Go 360!

  • cyber_nicco #12 3 years ago

    I haven't had any of the problems others are describing here. So while it doesn't sound like a completely isolated incident, it doesn't appear to be a universal bug,

  • metalangel #13 3 years ago

    @mykke669: don't make excuses for them. A practically finished version was leaked back in January so what they've been doing for the last two months... who knows?

    All I know is that it's still not up!
    Edited by 1 at 20/03/09 @ 18:03

  • maximusfarticus #14 3 years ago

    @myke6699

    Technies????

    Typical fucking xbox retard. Get a dictionary you fucking moron.

  • bmxbandit #15 3 years ago

    Farti, its not nice attacking your own crowd.

  • asilaydyinguk #16 3 years ago

    Gutted, i've waited ages 4 this :D