Forza Horizon

[TomN94]

davepoth said:

If you press "select", you will throw a can of red bull at the offending traffic. Possibly.

Oh wow, is that what the new patch was about? It works bloody well!

[S3_Graham]

TomN94 said:

davepoth said:

If you press "select", you will throw a can of red bull at the offending traffic. Possibly.

Oh wow, is that what the new patch was about? It works bloody well!

I got the new pack, car pack is really good. Shame nobody plays it very much. Fun to cruise about in the ///M135

[TomN94]

S3_Graham said:

I got the new pack, car pack is really good. Shame nobody plays it very much. Fun to cruise about in the ///M135

I love the new pack! The M is mental with the M5 engine, love the Strad and the G-Wagon too, the RS4 is just mad. Probably the best pack they have done.

[Chris77]

_Batty_ said:

Wait until you realise the 'rubber band' racing.
Spin?, don't worry, all the other cars will spend the next 2 miles doing 1 mph until you catch them again. Utter toss.
Yet I'm playing forza 4 alot again

That was my next complaint! every race so far I seem to win in the last few corners!

[Remagel2507]

No one probably cares anymore but the April Top Gear car pack has been announced via XBL:

2012 Aston Martin Vanquish

2011 Alfa Romeo TZ3 Stradale Zagato

1998 Mercedes-Benz AMG CLK GTR

2002 BMW M3-GTR

2012 Bowler EXR S

2011 Ford Transit SuperSport Van

http://forums.forzamotorsport.net/forums/3/6053328...

[sorrento205]

best pack yet? still wont catch me spending my hard earned on it though!

Roll on FM5!!

[vescaegg]

The forza games really do take the piss with downloadable car packs. Who buys these packs? They are extortionate!

Make some tracks instead - they would be worth buying at least!

[stephen300o]

I wonder if this title has been judged successful enough to have a sequel? It would have to be hugely improved to bother buying.

[ajprice]

stephen300o said:

I wonder if this title has been judged successful enough to have a sequel? It would have to be hugely improved to bother buying.

I'm hoping that bits of it transfer to Forza 5, mainly the matte paint, night driving and some off road and rally stage tracks.

[kowalski655]

I am so glad I didnt get the season pass,like in FM4. There hasnt been a single car in the DLC that I have been really bothered about

[ukzz4iroc]

I can't believe anyone here plays it. Cartoon handling and silly lifestyle things going on. F4 is by far the better game, I don't think they should waste resource on Horizon.

[RobTVR.]

New pack looks amazing, i will have to get this one!

Anyone else having the shadows glitch on some DLC cars, as seen in this video? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FyqSiQT78Q

[Mr Whippy]

ukzz4iroc said:

I can't believe anyone here plays it. Cartoon handling and silly lifestyle things going on. F4 is by far the better game, I don't think they should waste resource on Horizon.

I don't think they will have wasted much vs the income they have made.

All the physics/cars are probably just direct ports so bar the tracks then they have made £££ on Horizon.

You start to feel a bit bitter against these developers when they just sell you such junk for so much money.


Dave

[JayT]

Whee do you go to get the pictures that you have taken - can someone provide a link please. Thank you!

[RB Will]

A lot of people n this thread have complained about rubbish driving physics in horizon. Are they not a direct port of the ones from Forza 4 ?
They just don't feel that different to me. Possibly softened off a bit to cope with the bumpier roads but I can drive things on Horizon so much better and with a more accurate feel than I can on any other open world game like need for speed, test drive etc.

If they are the same physics I wonder if people are being thrown off by the roads being a lot more open than most race tracks so people are carrying more speed around and just thinking that its more arcadey physics getting them around quicker.

[Mr Whippy]

RB Will said:

A lot of people n this thread have complained about rubbish driving physics in horizon. Are they not a direct port of the ones from Forza 4 ?
They just don't feel that different to me. Possibly softened off a bit to cope with the bumpier roads but I can drive things on Horizon so much better and with a more accurate feel than I can on any other open world game like need for speed, test drive etc.

If they are the same physics I wonder if people are being thrown off by the roads being a lot more open than most race tracks so people are carrying more speed around and just thinking that its more arcadey physics getting them around quicker.

From what I've seen and briefly experienced, the silly big wide smooth roads are what ruin most games like this.

Simply having a whole bunch of tracks that are more challenging (read realistic copies of real quality roads), might make the game much more appealing to non-arcade players.

You have to remember though, probably 50%+ of the buyers of this game probably can't even drive a car yet, and they like to use the 'behind' view etc etc...

It is a shame though that what feels to be missing is simply some good quality courses for drivers who want to appreciate more of a challenge.

Dave

[OwenK]

Mr Whippy said:

From what I've seen and briefly experienced, the silly big wide smooth roads are what ruin most games like this.

Simply having a whole bunch of tracks that are more challenging (read realistic copies of real quality roads), might make the game much more appealing to non-arcade players.

You have to remember though, probably 50%+ of the buyers of this game probably can't even drive a car yet, and they like to use the 'behind' view etc etc...

It is a shame though that what feels to be missing is simply some good quality courses for drivers who want to appreciate more of a challenge.

Dave

That's what I've missed in Horizon as well, there are some twisty roads that are good fun (the run up the canyon roads to the east is the best example) and the terrain is great and varied but most roads are at least 4 cars wide and silky smooth - even off the tarmac. I loved the rally expansion because the dirt on the stages had just the right amount of distortion to it, feeling the car clawing along over the rough terrain.

I'm not saying I want potholes, but narrower twistier roads hand in hand with some tweaks to the steering mechanics - it feels a little slow to respond at lower speeds, even on simulation steering - would make for great fun. Think the rally stages, but tarmaced. There were far too many wide open roads running for what feels like miles...

[RB Will]

Just done a bit of digging and found that Horizon uses the Forza 4 physics engine with certain mods to optimise it for different surfaces that are in Horizon. Don't know if that means the physics on the whole are a bit different or just that it is able to give different settings when you are on different surfaces. So might even be that the physics for driving on the Tarmac in Horizon are a direct copy of Forza 4 ones.

[Big Fat Fatty]

JayT said:

Whee do you go to get the pictures that you have taken - can someone provide a link please. Thank you!

Same as FM4 you get them from forzamotorsport.net, there's a tab to switch to Horizon in 'My Forza'.

I don't think the physics are all that bad, the cars certainly handle similarly to FM4, the game just got boring and had no incentive to keep playing. Once the single player was done that was it as the multiplayer was utter toss. An open world game you can only have 8 players in? Madness I say!

[Chris77]

I think what gets me is massive horsepower, race suspension, lowered, big wheels, low profile SLICK!!!! tyres and the race is half on gravel/dirt roads that hardly slow you down? For all its faults though I have put in nearly 12 Hrs so far, so must be doing something right.