I sure wish the Forza tuning system wasn’t some byzantine collection of sliders and knobs that never results in a single car feeling fully drivable. No matter what tune I download or make, every single driving experience feels like I’m walking on eggshells just trying to stay competitive in a race. Ruins the experience.
I’d be so much more excited if the game were more arcadey.
That said, I have Gamepass, so I’ll probably find myself trying it out sooner or later. Too bad they have us driving on the wrong side of the road again.
I don’t worry about it, since the AI is so tune-able anyway. Everything is tune-able. Make the AI drivers better, or worse. So that’s why I don’t worry about tuning cars. If I tuned a car to make it worse, I could make the AI easier to compensate. So what’s the point? Unless I enjoy doing it, in which case I’d go ahead and do it.
Amen brother. It took me a while to get used to it again in the demo. Fucking wrong side of the road. Arrrrgh.
It will change weekly, as previously announced. If you are in a race at the time of the change, you will keep racing until the end of the race before you see any change.
If you are simply free roaming, you will get a countdown to the changeover and, after the weather change cut scene, you will get a quick rundown of the weekly events and what’s changed.
You can go cross country, on tracks, … whatever catches your fancy. Your driving line is the blue line that will appear during the race. You drop checkpoints whenever you want to. At any point, you can hit the rewind button to undo the last bit of the race, correct the racing line or the placement of a checkpoint.
I really don’t understand the clothing thing in recent Forza games. Does anybody care about that? Paint jobs, sure, but the only time you see your driver outfit is on a menu screen, and not one you see often.
At least from the demo, your character is out of the car during cutscenes quite a bit. Though I must add, I didn’t care for the options in driver avatars much. I chose a girl with bedhead and an apparently permanent look of surprise on her face. It was funny to see her walk around not talking being shocked at everything. Like the movie stunt you do and are introduced to the movie star that you are apparently the spitting image of? Those two were quite surprised to meet each other, I inferred.
In the demo, they also have these new post-race scenes where they put you front and center and there’s a giant screen behind you displaying your credits and your picture. So I could see my clothes and appearance in detail a LOT in the demo.
I played this last night at a friend’s house and it is a seriously fun game. My only real complaint is the inane modern gaming score system, which is just impossibly stupid, but has been a staple in driving games since at least the original NFS: Shift. Drive well? You get points for not plowing into that wall! Drive like garbage? You get points for plowing into that wall! Not driving at all? You get points for sightseeing! Driving fast? Points! Driving on the road? Points! Driving off the road? Points! Hitting cars? Points! Avoiding cars? Points! Driving on the right side of the road? Points! Driving on the wrong side of the road? Points! Hit your horn? Points! Hit a jump? Points! Skid on the road surface? Points! Find something interesting? Points! Driving in reverse? Points! Drive through a puddle? Points! Driving in a race? Points! Driving on your own? Points! Challenge someone? Points! Win a race? Points! Come in dead fucking last place by ten miles? Points! And don’t forget about ways to add modifiers to all the points you’re getting! But are the points used for “Influence”? Points used to get credits? Points used to get spins? Points used to level up? Do you win cars? Do you win credits? Do you win points? Do you win clothes? Do you win novelty car horns? Do you unlock races? Do you unlock seasons?
I have never seen a scoring system with so many points be so devoid of one…
Points have become pretty meaningless in these kinds of racing games. I just tune them out for the most part. The only thing that matters is the objectives now. Have to finish a hotlap below a certain time. Have to finish the race ahead of a friend’s ghost. Have to finish this special events to unlock the next round of races, etc.
In FH3 you leveled up your skill tree (which is different to your level), which unlocking some features like more radio stations, the ‘photo cars to win money’ feature, extra xp and cars.
I have no idea. I read a note somewhere while in a store page that you could only have the Game Pass subscription for up to 3 years. I guess you could sacrifice an extra $2.7 and see what happens.
