Applies to: Windows and Linux
Topic: Online and network
FH2MP replaces the Xbox Live services FH2 used before they shut down in 2023. Everyone connects to one FH2MP server; there is no hosting and no peer-to-peer.
Works
•Online Free Roam: open world with other players, start events together, King and Infection.
•Online Road Trip: vote on the destination and class, then race a series of events.
•Car meets.
•Rivals: lap and speed leaderboards with ghosts, plus a monthly Rivals challenge. Results also show on the website.
•Clubs: create, join and chat.
•Liveries, tunes and photos: share and download through the game's own menus. Thousands of liveries are already there.
•Drivatars made from real players in your solo races.
•Turn signals, hazards and horns of other players (with Extra Options and HonkHonk).
•Friends, direct messages and club chat in the launcher.
Your career
You can play the whole career while connected. Online is only active when you choose Online Free Roam or Road Trip. Single-player progress, credits and cars are kept in the same save you use online.
The career itself can't be played together with friends; that wasn't possible in the original game either.
Not available (yet)
•Private sessions. To play with friends, hold a slot in the same lobby from the launcher: see [How to join Online Free Roam and Road Trip](/tutorials/joining-online).
•Photo mode during online sessions (same as the original game).
•Storm Island online.
•In-game voice chat. Use Discord or similar.
•Changing time and weather in online Free Roam: the server decides.
Lobby size
Free Roam lobbies and events hold 12 players.
Rules
Play fair online: no nitro mods, no mod menus, no cars faster than they can be. See [Mods that don't work online](/tutorials/mods-and-online) and Why was I flagged?.