Forza Motorsport 5

[Lefty]

The 60's Brabham f1 car around the ring is an amazing, erm, challenge. Very impressed with the new model of the circuit.

[Mick87]

ajprice said:

Anyone gone sub 7 minutes an a standard P1 or LaFerrari?

6:51 in the LaFrrrari and 6:56 in the P1.

Both dirty laps but once I get used to the track a clean faster lap will be easy.

Nurburgring has finally made me come back to the game. Looks stunning and is loads of fun.

[H22observer]

ajprice said:

I noticed the elevation in some parts a lot more than before in FM4

Same applies to Laguna Seca.

I would love to see Turn 10 recreate Maple Valley Raceway in FM5.

[Arun_D]

Very impressed by the Nurburgring model. Great to have it back

[ConcreteBuffalo]

How did I miss this!?

Now the nurburgring is back I will have to stick this back on, may even be time to shell out on a steering wheel.

[vescaegg]

Christ. Ive put off on the xbox one as nothing really jumped out at me but have since seen loads of stuff to get me excited and now want one.

This is what I need want at the moment. Some isnt out yet but lets say by the end of the year;

Xbox bundle with titanfall (best value deal).
Forza 5
Racing wheel
GTA5
Halo 5
Halo old skool collection
Forza horizon 2
far cry 4.

Its about £950

Ouch.

[Gun]

Love the Audi from the Nurburgring pack cars, it sounds ace!

[Conor D]

H22observer said:

ajprice said:

I noticed the elevation in some parts a lot more than before in FM4

Same applies to Laguna Seca.

I would love to see Turn 10 recreate Maple Valley Raceway in FM5.

You should see some of the tracks in Project Cars. 3D scanning to a whole new level.. Didn't even recognise parts of Silverstone and Laguna Seca it's so drastically different to what I've been playing for years.

[mmm-five]

Don't know if it's just a viewing/camera angle effect, but all parts of the track look narrower & the inclines don't 'feel' as steep as when I'm driving it for real.

Even in something like the Fiat 500 it looks like there's barely enough room for 2 cars to go side by side, when I know I've been three abreast in those same places.

[King James]

Currently flying round the full circuit (no GP) in a stock E30 M3. Loads of fun but my times are dog slow! I blame the annoying light dazzling lol

Got me playing it again though.

[davepoth]

mmm-five said:

Don't know if it's just a viewing/camera angle effect, but all parts of the track look narrower & the inclines don't 'feel' as steep as when I'm driving it for real.

Even in something like the Fiat 500 it looks like there's barely enough room for 2 cars to go side by side, when I know I've been three abreast in those same places.

On the old forza model, it was substantially wider by all accounts. I think the most obvious point on the old game was going down Fuchsrohre. When I drove the track in real life for the first time I was under the impression that there was plenty of room for the line to be straight through all of the corners, but it was so much narrower than the Forza version that there was quite a lot of turning involved.

I guess it's a bit of a question whether we want an accurate track or one that's good for racing.

[Mr E]

I'd forgotten how hard it is to put together a clean lap (forget about the time).

However, my new alfa sz (in yellow) is very striking.

[John D.]

DLC cars - can they be won/bought in the game or are they only available via the marketplace?

I'd rather not shell out more of my hard-earned for cars which I can get just by playing the game.

[kowalski655]

AFAIK you buy the DLC packs with real money(either individually,by car pack, or with a season pass that gives you ALL packs) and then in game you buy the cars with game credits you earn by racing.
(I dont have FM5 but this is how it was in 4 & Im sure it hasnt changed)

[John D.]

Ok thanks. Thinking about it I think I've been looking at this a bit backwards!

[mmm-five]

kowalski655 said:

AFAIK you buy the DLC packs with real money(either individually,by car pack, or with a season pass that gives you ALL packs) and then in game you buy the cars with game credits you earn by racing.
(I dont have FM5 but this is how it was in 4 & Im sure it hasnt changed)

It started out like that, but after complaints from users you get a one-off ability to buy the DLC cars for 0 credits/tokens.

[ajprice]

Yep, I bought the season pass a while ago, in an update since then I could get the DLC cars in the game without paying game credits for them.

[kowalski655]

Good,that makes far more sense. Especially as people were using real money tokens instead of paying using credits in FM4,that's just crazy

[ajprice]

Forza 5 servers just went down and took multiplayer and Rivals with it. I'd just done 9:58 in the 'ring Transit spec challenge 'I could do that in a van'. My time had better be saved!!
Servers back. Time not saved...

NNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

Edited by ajprice on Tuesday 17th June 18:55

[Petrolhead95]

ajprice said:

Forza 5 servers just went down and took multiplayer and Rivals with it. I'd just done 9:58 in the 'ring Transit spec challenge 'I could do that in a van'. My time had better be saved!!
Servers back. Time not saved...

NNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

Edited by ajprice on Tuesday 17th June 18:55

I've been on for an hour or so now and the servers haven't got down