Forza Motorsport (2023)

Jordan 199

Out on the 10th of October for Xbox Series S, Series X and PC.

Game contains 500+ cars and 20 tracks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=em4gv1Ietko

Links: Forza website. Forza on YouTube.

Jordan 199

So how many of you will be playing this from day one? I will for sure.

Potential-Monke

May give it a lash. The Builders Cup sounds interesting. I'd like a good campaign, it's what GT7 lacks.

Jordan 199

Track reveal.

https://youtu.be/odHuAgnD2rg

Jordan 199

Another new track reveal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAsdoXpDRxk

Jordan 199

Some news. There will be post launch content following the games release in October. The Nurburgring Nordschleife layout won't be available until Spring 2024.

TheChrisD

Ideal: 4080

feck off

SuperBowserWorld

Ah, just get a Series X. Simples..

😁

Jordan 199

Footage from Gamescom:

https://youtu.be/yN-TK0M7_TA

Potential-Monke

The Builders Cup is interesting, and is something that GT7 is basically missing. That alone is interesting me!

Jordan 199

All 20 launch day tracks announced.

https://www.purexbox.com/news/2023/09/all-20-launch-day-tracks-have-been-revealed-for-forza-motorsport

Royale with Cheese

In any gameplay videos I've seen this doesn't really look very good. I mean how it actually looks, the car models look fairly poor. I've heard the force feedback on the Forza games has always been poor too, this will be the first one I've played with a wheel so hopefully they've fixed that.

Jordan 199

132.10 GB preload size.

Jordan 199

Will any of you be buying the Premium Edition or the Premium Upgrade so you can play the game five days earlier?

I won't.

Royale with Cheese

Anyone paying money to play any game a few days before release date needs their head checked.

Potential-Monke

Aye, it's a practice that needs to be stopped asap. Either the game is out, or it's not. Was this a thing before Gamepass started adding Day 1 games? Not talking about exclusivity releases a week/month before, just the same game but early if you paid more.

kitsy13

I bought it on steam last Thursday night, the premium edition, I think there is more dlc included with it and I'm looking forward to playing it..Although the guys who buy off Microsoft can preload since last weekend..Steam users can't preload yet !

SuperBowserWorld

DF have a preview here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20PhO8IzVWc

Jordan 199

84 on the Metascore.

Royale with Cheese

I watched a couple of reviews there, getting the impression the driving will fall short of GT7. Sounds like it's developed to be played on gamepad primarily too. Not sure there'd be much point in owning both but since it's on gamepass I'm more than happy to give it a go for nothing.

SuperBowserWorld

Will definitely try on Gamepass before my sub ends at the end of the month to see what the Series X can do with this ...

PsychoPete

Played a couple of hours this evening, it's grand so far. Find the ai very annoying likewise with leveling up a car to modify it. Plays pretty well tho, I definitely wouldn't be paying for it especially as there doesn't seem to be any drift lobbies which is a major let down or even a open area to mess about with friends . Will dump a few more hours into this over the weekend

PsychoPete

I think going to give up on this already mainly for the upgrade system which is absolutely awful. All the car upgrades are locked behind different levels so you've to grind nearly 3 hours for each individual car to unlock all the upgrades and the car level doesn't transfer if you buy another of the same car. You've to earn points to purchase the upgrades rather than using credits, it's an absolutely awful system and ruins the main attraction for Forza which is building a car. Track list is pretty bad too, it feels very much like a completely bare base game and they'll slowly introduce content along the way.

Career is very short and you can't even use any race cars in it because it's a "built not bought" style of races. Not being able to skip practice is infuriating having to do a 3 lap practice before every race which makes it pretty tedious

TheChrisD

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121206466#Comment_121206466

Not being able to skip practice is infuriating having to do a 3 lap practice before every race which makes it pretty tedious

Pause and move to the quit menu during practice, and there will be a "skip practice" option. By skipping though, the game won't be able to give you an estimated lap time or finish position for your "choose grid spot" thing.

Jordan 199

I'm looking forward to giving this a go tomorrow.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121214023#Comment_121214023

Can't wait. I did well resisting the early access tax.

Jordan 199

Took part in the first three races in the builders cup driving the Impreza. Finished fifth overall in the championship.

Going to get my wheel setup later today and see how I get on with that.

Dcully

Game is ok, runs well on my rig but as someone who is more into simracing it wont keep me interested longterm.

Thats not a negative at all just its not like PC sims but itsnt trying to be, the physics and gameplay are perfect for its target audience.

Only real negative technicaly is im getting cracking sound all the time with both speakers and headset.

Looks great plays well for what it is.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121217637#Comment_121217637

That's fair enough. You do need to take it for what it is and don't expect anything more. Most people by now know what a Forza game is and what to expect.

I'm going to play this on xbox. My back is killing me from working all day at a desk and then gaming all weekend at a desk.

Looking forward to sitting on a couch all weekend instead 😀

Royale with Cheese

I played the intro on controller and then tried it with my Fanatec setup. There are no official recommended settings yet so just copied somebody else's on the Fanatec forum. Absolutely awful, borderline unplayable. Gonna need a lot of tweaking this one.

I gave this a go. It's another one of those games where you could make a roast dinner in the time it takes for the game to give you the reins.

The penalties are a bitch. I've got to flush the Forza Horizon out of my system and stop smacking into cars 😄

Is it me or are the narrator voices AI generated?

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121220509#Comment_121220509

The early cars are turds. You've got to play it for a while to unlock the better performers.

TheAnalyst_

Completely unengaging and I've been playing Forza since the start. Similar story to Starfield.

kitsy13

I have it on steam pc, nvidia 3070 I think mine is, well able for the game but the window keeps going 3/4 size ..its annoying having to keep clicking on maximise..anyone else having this problem

Royale with Cheese

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121225717#Comment_121225717

It was fine next time I tried, exact same settings. Couldn't tell you what went wrong there but basically turning it off and on again fixed it.

The feel of the car still isn't spot on though, when you begin to lose grip the force feedback just kind of dies and there's no resistance in the wheel at all. Hopefully Fanatec get some officially recommended settings up soon. I can't be arsed tinkering with it myself.

Initial impressions comparing it against Gran Turismo:

The AI is absolutely miles ahead. I got as far as the hot hatch series before realising you could adjust the AI difficulty, I put it up to 5 and was struggling to beat it immediately without any practice on a given track/car combo.

I love all of the classic Formula One cars. It's also fantastic you can just drive any car in the game you want immediately in freeplay, no needing to grind credits to buy cars just to be able to try them bullshit.

The zoomed in cockpit view where you can only see the dash but no wheel is my go to, on both the Forza games and dirt rally. Would love gran turismo to implement this. That said a radar is badly needed, way too many collisions because I've no idea what's either side of me.

The force feedback seems nowhere near as good. I'll reserve judgement til there are official settings to copy but I think Gran Turismo was just developed more with wheels in mind and is probably just better in this area.

quokula

Played an hour or so.

The amount of handholding and mindbogglingly boring unskippable narration in the beginning is a pain, and the first couple of showcase races aren't particularly interesting. Chose the mustang as my first car proper and first impressions of the handling aren't great. Lacking in feel and so very understeery, particularly for a car of this nature. I like the idea of levelling up your car and spending more time in it to unlock upgrades, but after 3 races I was forced out of the mustang in order to compete in the next cup, so I'm not sure how this system works if the game opens up at all.

Next cup was the hot hatches or whatever they called it, I gravitate to the highest performance index car out of those eligible and of course it's a micro-transaction car that punts you into a shop full of more upsells, such awful grubby design. Eventually chose the Golf and the handling model at least felt more fitting for a car that isn't rear wheel drive. I only made it two races before getting stuck in an infinite loading loop trying to start Watkins Glen though so that's where I switched off.

Not a great first impression. I do like the penalty system, it's harsh but didn't feel unfair and I like being forced to drive properly. I like the idea of levelling up the car depending how it plays out over time. I like some of the ideas with defining key track sectors and measuring your performance through them, I feel like it's helping me get familiar with new tracks quickly. I think I like being forced to practice before every race though it seemed like an odd choice at first. But I feel like the general feel of the driving and the handling model is holding it all back.

And is it just me or are the graphics not that great when actually playing, especially compared to the trailers? Not that it's important but that seemed to be something they were pushing a lot in the trailers but it doesn't look anywhere as good as Horizon or GT7 when playing. I did find it funny that they pushed ray tracing as a big feature so heavily in the marketing and literally the first thing you see when opening the game is performance mode selection where the recommended choice (and the one I chose) is the non-ray tracing one.

brady12

So another letdown from xbox ? When was last time triple A xbox game nailed it . Prob half infinite campaign but as for rest that game ... ya .

ShaneU

Did motorsport always have no songs while driving? Finished the first two tournaments. It's not a patch on Gran Turismo 7 in terms of realism imo

Royale with Cheese

Smart resume is fairly broken for his. Anytime I try it the game usually crashes pretty quickly and needs to be fully restarted.

quokula

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121245925#Comment_121245925

Yeah completely broken. I still haven't got past that Watkins Glen race that crashed first time out, since then I've practiced three times and it fails to resume and forgets that progress when I come back.

It's not even smart resume switching games, just "dumb resume" like turning off the xbox or watching a youtube video, the stuff that worked perfectly well on PS4 a decade ago is broken here.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121245925#Comment_121245925

Yep same for me. I've even had to redo a race, I must have shutdown before a save position.

Now I quit the game fully when finished. It's a problem in general with quick resume for most games but this is particularly bad. Poor coming from an Xbox game. Although they do usually get it fixed with a patch.

But I do love quick resume, when it works. It's such a huge differentiating factor between xbox and PC.

Update 1.0 is out. Solid list of fixes but disappointingly no mention of a fix to quick resume

https://x.com/forza_support/status/1714325518831796383?s=20

Royale with Cheese

Was playing a little bit earlier, tried the entry enthusiast series with a Mercedes 190E. It's a manual car so I switched the assists to manual with clutch and tried driving with a manual box but I can't get the clutch to work at all? Every time you shift up it just revs out like you still have the clutch pedal down while you're trying to accelerate, even though you've long since released it. I had a quick google and apparently this is just what the game does? Pretty poor stuff to be honest, the game is 100% designed to be played on a controller from chase view which is a bit disappointing for anyone with a wheel setup.

PsychoPete

They changed the way the clutch worked. Before you could press the clutch and gear change buttons at the same time but now you've to press clutch, change gear then release the clutch

nelly17

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121220509#Comment_121220509

These are some I found on reddit for my Logitec G902 they made a big improvement

VS 25

FFS 100

SSA 100

MTS 90

PTS 130

RFS 200

LS 85

WDS 0

CSS 0

DDB 75

SS 36

SL 45