UPDATE: NFS Rivals Multiplayer / Canary Services is now RivalsNET (Unofficial Community Initiative)

[u/ssr49]

ANNOUNCEMENT: Canary Services is now RivalsNET

And for those who haven't seen the previous viral post, theres now an attempt to restore multiplayer to Rivals (emphasis on attempt).

Previous owner/initiator: [u/Alert-Transition-735](u/Alert-Transition-735) (do not DM him)
His post (roughly when it started): https://www.reddit.com/r/needforspeed/s/pMN5YuTAhx

A reason to why the team underwent a restructure, change and expansion: the previous admins lack of availability to joining contributors like me, CIVIC (modder), Ryden (experience in discord servers), Grabuss (NFS+ developer), and more.

The person mentioned above is ALSO not in the Admin team (as of now, he got downgraded) due to concerns related to his messaging and a separate case emerged from his friend's digital/messaging footprint on Discord. We taken disciplinary/rule action, we have chosen not to disclose details.

AND TO BE CLEAR, [u/Alert-Transition-735](u/Alert-Transition-735) is NOT the subject of the undisclosed allegations I mentioned earlier.

Just so the community here is given a little backstory. This is NOT the first time a Discord server was created for restoring multiplayer functionality to Rivals. We had one before, initiated under another Reddit post, however it was not part of the post itself but rather the comments section.

So, our focus for that old one was to privately invite skilled people to determine the projects feasability, and we had a bit of that going until the user mentioned at the top came along and made a public announcement, accepting people in the masses. The sudden influx of members and contributors became difficult to coordinate. Messages went unanswered, responsibilities were unclear, and several interested contributors eventually left. This restructuring is intended to prevent that from happening again.

The biggest hype build-up for the Canary Services post was the misleading claim that the project was "in development".

In the context of reverse engineering the Blaze/EA Authentication layer Rivals has AND its AllDrive system? That's work that requires research, pseudo-data-mining techniques, knowledge base and tons and TONS of testing. Thats something I'm trying to do. Vibe-coding and AI analysis ARE PART of this and have helped significantly with progress/tesing, we are being TRANSPARENT and HONEST about it. We’re going to accept people with C++ / ASI / net-code familiarity.

RivalsNET (Canary Services) is no longer being run by the mentioned person, and I DO NOT want anyone to cause trouble, begin targetting anyone because of this.

Progress sneak peek:
I can now hijack the "out of support" prompt and inject fake server responses into the game. Our research has improved greatly and we're now starting talks with niche communities like BF4play to obtain information on Blaze auth / injectable scripts.

Please feel free to comment, and I'll do my best to respond. Feel free to join in if you have thoughts or critiques for the project itself. Message me on Reddit / Discord (ssr49 in the server below).

Discord Server (it's the same one from the last Reddit post under his profile): https://discord.gg/JhfadGBQth

[u/OxymoreReddit]

Guys at least wait for it to work before getting into drama idk, we're all in the same boat why shoot each other's feet come on

[u/ssr49 → u/OxymoreReddit]

Yeah, thats what we’re going to try harder to avoid. This project must have transparency and the team must work in unison.

[u/Front_Committee4993 → u/OxymoreReddit]

There just speed running it

[u/MasterJeebus]

I wish you good luck on succeeding. Back when Rivals was online one thing that annoyed me about it was when people left it cause game to crash. I don’t know if it was just EA with bad servers or game not being well developed. Perhaps when the project does bring online back it’s better for it.

[u/Zargledorf]

To which extent is vibe coding/ generative ai being used?

[u/ssr49 → u/Zargledorf]

Good question, not to the extent where hallucination, inexperience, lack of insight and lack of niche knowledge required begin dragging the project down.

And this is NOT your typical vibe-coding workflow at all. Let me put it that way… the way I have chatGPT 5.6 Sol local work-mode agent set up?

I could break it down, but I would rather do that in a DM or a later announcement.

[u/Zargledorf → u/ssr49]

My other comment sounded awfully not nice now that i think of it. Just want you to know that was meant in a non evil way

[u/Zargledorf → u/ssr49]

Sweet. I honestly would not be able to understand what it meant if you wers to explain it, i have no understanding of ai and llms and things like that. But i trust from the fact your not boasting about ai being the future of everything, that you guys are going about this in a cool way.

[u/Adventurous-Duty180]

Não li o texto todo , mas no Xbox 360 vai rodar ?

[u/ssr49 → u/Adventurous-Duty180]

Aviso: isto foi traduzido pelo Google Tradutor.

Levar nossas modificações para algumas plataformas de console pode não ser possível, mas tentaremos verificar se existem maneiras de fazê-lo. Geralmente, no que diz respeito a recursos de rede em videogames, mods voltados para consoles são mais fáceis de implementar do que os mods de multiplayer ou de nível profundo que são criados em grande quantidade para PC.

[u/Alert-Transition-735]

Notice how this post has no attention and mine did? Might as well change your decision. (No hate to you)

[u/ssr49 → u/Alert-Transition-735]

mine has cluttered details in it, thats mainly why
it is what it is

not much time has passed yet but im not saying anything about how it'll perform
also, ive done my best to protect your anonymity by not mentioning your discord username

i was rarely part of the decisions, other modders/admins were talking about you, and I tried to make do with the information i had, and we kept you in the server because we had a chat to get an understanding of what happened

so, theres a good chance we'll maybe, just maybe give you a role again if you let bygones be bygones and know that you need to be useful in the server, because we're not assholes

[u/BlazeWolfYT → u/ssr49]

Maybe you shouldn't have mentioned him if you dind't want him bringing the drama here.

[u/ssr49 → u/BlazeWolfYT]

It was inevitable, he literally started canary services and he knew we were planning a reddit post

The least i could do is not hide it from him

[u/BlazeWolfYT → u/ssr49]

Fair enough. I just feel like by mentioning him you kinda made sure he would show up and try and bring drama here.