Re: Official Forza Motorsport 5 Thread - Part 1 [locked]

[Biggsy tv]

I thought Forza 4 was Forza 3.5? So does this make Forza 5, Forza 4?

Post of the day  

[Guest]

I was disappointed with the lack of new features (and lack of information initally), but it does appear that Turn 10 have actually listened to what people want in Forza 5:

- Dedicated servers
- Open wheel cars (historic F1 and Indycar announced so far)
- Proper real world tracks (Spa and Bathurst now confirmed) - more appear to be in the pipeline

It feels like this is the most 'motorsport' focused Forza in a long time, I'm genuinely looking forward to it now!

[nickyf1]

i wonder if this means the Nissan and Merc V8 supercars will be in it...


Jack Daniels or Norton Altima   

Nissan is sh*t

Erebus motorsport is where it's at

Great comment. Very constructive.

[CQR Jono]

It feels like this is the most 'motorsport' focused Forza in a long time, I'm genuinely looking forward to it now!

I hear where you're coming from Mark and I'm looking forward to it's release as much as anyone - however, although it may be the most 'motorsport' focused Forza for a while, for me it's still not particularly 'motorsport' focused until it includes some quite basic features:-

• Aero repair during pit stops
  
• In lobby tuning
  
• Better support of endurance races (driver swaps, etc)
  
• Plus many more!!
  

Let's hope some of these will be announced soon or included in Forza 6....................or will it be Forza 5...........or Forza 5.5 - I'm confused  

[Guest]

Yeah I do agree with you on that - I suppose where I'm coming from is that Forza 2 > Forza 3 > Forza 4, each was a step backwards in terms of motorsport and I was worried that Forza 4 > Forza 5 would be the same again. But it does seem they've refocused somewhat back towards real world tracks and racing cars - I really don't care for electric hatchbacks and wooden estate cars from the 1960s, that's not motorsport to me. They've revealed so little about the multiplayer or anything yet, there's still time for a few more surprises on the front!

[F4H Lotterer]

They should of just taken FM2 and made it look nice as for me that game was the dogs testicles.

[Guest]

+1 Trash. Forza 2 was superb, loved the 'red time' penalty system over the dirty/clean lap system.

[Guest]

Forza 5 will be playable at Eurogamer (I heard rumours to the contrary, but Eurogamer have confirmed it now):

"Visitors to the show will be able to check out a bunch of games from the launch line-up, going hands-on with Forza Motorsport 5, Ryse: Son of Rome, Killer Instinct, Kinect Sports Rivals and Project Spark. A theatre demo of Dead Rising 3 will also be available for attendees."

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-09-05-xbox-one-and-games-playable-at-eurogamer-expo-2013

[CQR HABURi]

Would all this Cloud gaming making in lobby tuning more viable for Forza 5?

[Guest]

Why? Forza 2 could do it without no cloud. The reason it was dropped was because it was corrupting save games when people tuned in the lobbies, so rather than fix the bug(s) they dropped the feature...

[Biggsy tv]

Actually what MAGiC is say does make alot of sense. The only thing I disagree is the "I was disappointed with the lack of new features (and lack of information initally), but it does appear that Turn 10 have actually listened to what people want in Forza 5:" seeing as by now we would have the first waves of cars being confirmed, although now Bathurst is a tick, not too long after Spa, that looks to be changing now.

But yea, this now seems much more motorsport focused than the previous 2 incarnations. Even Prague looks like it could be a proper closed road circuit, not a track which you can go round in 5th gear throughout, or a track that has cobblestreet half way through which runs out your controller batteries in 5 seconds. More real world tracks, originals that seem more realistic, plus other features such as tyre compounds are back too!

I still think a major beat was missed by the fact that there is no night racing or weather. Hopefully tracks like Le Mans will have the "time of day" option added, but at this time it looks like things are getting better again.

My only issue is finding £490. I think my sofa will be ripped apart tonight, see if I dropped any note down there.

[Guest]

I should clarify what I meant by 'lack of information' - they focused so much on trivial details to start with (orange peel paint and leather stitching on the gloves), rather than on the real 'meat' of the game. Imagine a launch trailer featuring Indycars around Indianapolis, V8 Supercars around Bathurst and classic F1 cars going though Eau Rouge at Spa. We'd have all been sat here open mouthed with our credit cards ready! The games looking better and better the more they reveal, they just seem to go out of their way to make us not want to like it with their PR and marketing. Bizarre!

[TG Wormburner]

Mark, they've never done that. They have never started leaking information about their game until late August. This game is being released later and the information also comes later on. It's pretty much the same time schedule. Car leaks did happen slightly earlier (early/mid August) but I assume the car list is much smaller than the current one.

Lobby tuning was removed from the game because of the corruption. This is an assumption but an offline portion of the game was being adjusted in an online game mode. Think about the games you play. Call of Duty, every class and gun you use you cannot mess with offline for online play. The web app they have you need to confirm and download the class upon entering online. Battlefield is two completely different sections of the game. FIFA, completely different sections. You can go on and on and on. You could have two different tuning sections or your lobby tunes were not adjusted once you came back (like if you tune in leaderboards).

[Guest]

Yeah I know Worm, they do like to tease us don't they! Just once I'd like them to WOW us instead. I guess they do what they think works best for the mass market, us hard core racers who know the importance of Indy, Eau Rouge, Bathurst are the minority Still, it's all in there in the game, waiting for us to enjoy when it's released, that's the main thing!

[Standaman94]

Lobby tuning was removed from the game because of the corruption. This is an assumption but an offline portion of the game was being adjusted in an online game mode. Think about the games you play. Call of Duty, every class and gun you use you cannot mess with offline for online play. The web app they have you need to confirm and download the class upon entering online. Battlefield is two completely different sections of the game. FIFA, completely different sections. You can go on and on and on. You could have two different tuning sections or your lobby tunes were not adjusted once you came back (like if you tune in leaderboards).

But... THE CLOUD... OOOOHHHHH SHINEY

[CQR Jono]

In lobby tuning has been around for years on PC games though - I play a bit of Power & Glory v3 (I love those old boats Mark wants to see disappear!!) which is based on the GT Legends platform.

When in an online lobby I can load up my offline tunes, make adjustments, save them and there's never any issues - it's as solid as a rock. I'm sure that Turn 10 could make it work if they wanted to if Sinbin can manage it on a game that was released in 2005! I appreciate I'm using a PC title as an example but what is the XBone if not a PC in a fancy frock?!?

[TG Wormburner]

But then you have to recode something that is already coded. I'm sure if it was easy or possible we would have it in the game. It is requested daily.

Mark, I agree with you. I'd like to know everything about it in June.

[Guest]

It could be an Xbox technical/architecture issue - it could be the multiplayer side is 'partioned' off in memory, to restrict hacking and tampering, so any tuning done in the multiplayer part would have to be returned back from that 'protected' area back to the main game. I don't have enough technical knowledge of the inner workings of XBL, but I have read things before about how things are 'sandboxed' off inside to prevent cheating, hacking etc. Worm probably knows more, but probably can't say lol

NEON found a video the Xbox One V8 Supercar build - interesting new 'Xbox One RACING' logo, never seen that before, maybe Turn 10/Microsoft have realised there's some mileage in this motorsport/racing lark after all, not just car culture

[Standaman94]

interesting new 'Xbox One RACING' logo, never seen that before, maybe Turn 10/Microsoft have realised there's some mileage in this motorsport/racing lark after all, not just car culture

That's the first thing I noticed. We'll see where that goes I guess.

[CQR Jono]

Worm probably knows more, but probably can't say lol

Yeah..............damn you Worm and your insider knowledge  

I don't understand the technical side I just know it's 'possible' - maybe I should get one of our consultants to explain it all to me!!

[TG Wormburner]

I don't know anything.

[Guest]

I believe you.

[Guest]

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I've just done mine and it's taken 90 minutes to get to the pre-order page, Swap page and confirmation page  

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And the Pre-order confirmation screen:



Good luck!

[Ax4x Kane]

I've had a couple of friends who have had problems with shopto.net. They preordered TDU2, it didn't come for first week of release, contacted them about it, took another week to get here and they charged him for another game.

I've always been quite traditional in the fact that I prefer to buy in store on launch day rather than preorder. But since blockbuster closed near me it seems I'll have to preorder the console online

[CQR Jono]

I've used ShopTo loads of times and they've been exemplary - in fact I've not had a pre-order turn up anything but a day early yet  

Unfortunately it would appear, if rumours are to be believed, it's likely that GTA V will be the first one to turn up on day of release  

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