Offline "8 Players meet in the Wildcats' Baseball Stadium" method still works in Remastered

[jhenstridge]

I just succeeded in acquiring this trophy using the method described in this forum post:

 

https://www.playstationtrophies.org/forum/topic/151205-8-players-meet-in-the-wildcat-stadium-offline-method/

 

In short, you need to do the following:

1. Play enough Road Rage events to raise the takedown target. I did as the post suggested and got it to 14 takedowns, which was on my A Class License.
2. Start a Road Rage event in the city. The aim is to have enough time to reach the baseball stadium and have reached the event's takedown target. At this point all the other cars should be trying to take you down.
3. Drive into the stadium and start doing laps while the other players follow you in.
4. Wait for the trophy to pop.

 

The online for the game seems mostly dead, so it seems unlikely that you'd find seven other players to get this trophy organically. The other three online trophies required for the platinum should be achievable with one other player, which is a much simpler proposition.

[MMDE]

The real difficult online trophy is the one for the bikes btw.

[Eispan]

I remember doing this when I played the EU Remaster and it worked like a charm.  However the online is said by a lot to be dead.  The Big Party trophy also requires 8 players I believe and this can be a problem as well.  The Bikes DLC also need 8 players - got this before by being lucky that there was a group (probably boosting) that were doing bikes.  I just ignored the meet-up and winged it on the motorway until the trophy popped then stayed on to do challenges.

 

I have the NA version and I cannot deny that I am very anxious to even start this game.  Criterion should have gotten rid of this 'big party' trophies for the remaster knowing how pointless they were when the PS3 version became old.  These type of trophies kill the game's marketability for future trophy completionists.  I imagine BP-R totally being dead when the PS4 itself becomes a legacy game. Looking at the boosting sessions here, folks could barely reach 3-4 players, barely half of what is required.

 

I will be damned if EA would even contemplate of releasing another Re-Remaster for the PS5 or even the PS6 - rather than a proper 'remake' or re-imagining of Paradise City. Well this technically sounds like a sequel, so yeah... that.