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

[LMR DarthMario]

An evolution to the TORA Wheldon 500??

[Richy59]

Still can't see the pictures :/ Sounds great though.

Another pic of the Wheel and some video of it.

[Richy59]

http://www.twitch.tv/MicrosoftStudios
Dan Greenawalt on Drivatars: 
"'What about if my friend's a griefer?"'  Then it's going to grief."
"As a player you can load your difficulty settings... If you choose the hardest difficulty, it's going to choose guys like Christian." "You can choose who you're racing against."
"It learns how to learn. ... It's going to learn things we never planned."


on the Car List:
"There are hundreds of cars." "All the cars have their own personalized career." 
hatches, American muscle mentioned. 
"It starts tonight - we're going to nail down open wheel tonight."


on Physics:
"The testing that we did [previously] is called Cal-span." "We're working with Cal-span right now to get [massive data]"  "It's not even in our current demo."  "By the time we get into a later demo in the summer, it's going to be an entirely new system."


Customization
"You can now paint a car solid gold.. or brushed aluminum." 
"We're no longer doing Auction House and Storefront." "It's easy to follow your favorite painters, those painters get paid on usage." "Whenever I buy a car in the game, these paint schemes get put in front of me, and I don't have to pay for it, but the painter gets paid for my use of it."   "The goal is to take the friction of payment out."
"We've still got the [upgrades]"


Night and Weather:
"We are not supporting night, we do have daytime running lights."  "We're not getting into weather effects either ..."


Wheel support: 
"Thrustmasters is making a new wheel for the XB1. There will be more... I think Madcatz is as well, our team is working with third party..." 


FM.net will have an article tonight about open wheel.
"If stars align, we're going to do another one of these chats on Thursday morning."

[CQR Aero]

http://www.twitch.tv/MicrosoftStudios
Dan Greenawalt on Drivatars: 
"If you choose the hardest difficulty, it's going to choose guys like Christian."

Hmmm, wonder if he's talking about me, or CQR Shifty?!? 

[BG Wumba]

IndyCar championship anyone?

[Matt]

The physics and customisation sound interesting.
I see the current gen physics model going on atm. Which is no bad thing.

[FSR Groves]

So when is TORA going to switch games? Cause I have a feeling many of us won't be able to get the Xbox One and Forza 5 straight at launch :L

[Hainesy]

Haha a lot of half empty glasses here, personally can't wait. For a launch game to look that good bodes well for future incarnations and we know they're not going to fluff the physics up, this is Forza. Weather, more so than night/day, is a bit of a bummer but not really a biggie in the grand scheme of things. They have to leave something to put into future games as an incentive to go out and buy it and that's probably one of those features. Sure, I'd like it in there but it's not exactly a game breaker.

GT6, don't make me laugh. Going by previous GT's (which have been getting progressively worse) that is going to be all about visuals over physics and do we even know if you can paint the cars? If not that's going to make a very boring looking grid.

Looking forward to racing James Hunt's Mclaren, proper F1 cars in their heyday.

[Standaman94]

So when is TORA going to switch games? Cause I have a feeling many of us won't be able to get the Xbox One and Forza 5 straight at launch :L

There's no doubt that we won't be making an entire jump straight away.

We'll most likely see how popular FM5 is, and plan events around that. For instance, if most people don't get FM5 and launch, most of our events will be tailored to FM4.

This isn't a new game, this is an entirely new console. It's no different to if we had said "Now we're going to PS3" - Some people might already have it, but a lot won't, and both parties need to be catered for.

[FSR Groves]

So when is TORA going to switch games? Cause I have a feeling many of us won't be able to get the Xbox One and Forza 5 straight at launch :L

There's no doubt that we won't be making an entire jump straight away.

We'll most likely see how popular FM5 is, and plan events around that. For instance, if most people don't get FM5 and launch, most of our events will be tailored to FM4.

This isn't a new game, this is an entirely new console. It's no different to if we had said "Now we're going to PS3" - Some people might already have it, but a lot won't, and both parties need to be catered for.

Exactly what I was hoping would be said!

And besides, even if the 'Official' Championships like TASCAR and ISCC move over to FM5, the community could still organize events for FM4 and CARS

[CQR Rogue]

^^^ exactly

[Ax4x Kane]

A lot of people pre-judging CARS before launch. Same hype for Shift 2 I remember. But I actually liked Shift 2

[Richy59]

I enjoyed Shift 2 for what it was, but only with a wheel.

I'm looking forward to FM5. I know I raised the point about it being a new game on a new console, but Hainsey makes a great point. Launch games are traditionally pants, and it's not until a few months to a year down the line we start to see the great games coming. FM5 has no doubt been pushed for launch over the last year (we knew in September last year at Britcar that FM5 was coming in 2013) and with them having year about with Playground Games then they will have two years to work on the next game on a console they will have a lot more understanding of. Hopefully by then we will have a better game, and price cuts to attract more people to the console/games available.

I can't wait, and judging by the shakey cam videos of the gameplay I have seen so far it's not different to what people were saying about FM4 which people said was watered down for FM3.

I'm still looking forward to GT6 a lot as well now, especially seeing teh Delta Wing, a selection of N24/GT3 cars and such.

[Ax4x Bandit]

Maybe we can have the same championship on both games?  Have a FM4 and FM5 championship?

[Texaspotatolord]

I think we should just continue championships on FM4 for a few months. Even though I'll try to get the new Xbox I can't honestly say I'd be playing much of FM5 for the first few months. 

There's so much more to keep everyone occupied. And there's a lot of people who won't be able to get it immediately. So I think it'd be logical to keep things FM4 until the buzz of new console starts to wear off.

[LMR Zakspeed]

IndyCar championship anyone?

+100,000,000,000

[Ax4x Kane]

There will be Forza 5 races from pretty much launch day here. Those who get Forza 5 & the XB1 will simply organise their own series. Maybe an Indycar mini series as its spec.

The majority remaining on X360 will continue with Forza 4.

[Hainesy]

Gamespot showing Stage 2 which kicks off at 6pm with Forza 5 HERE

[Biggsy tv]

thanks Hainesy anyone joining the chatbox on forums?

[BG Wumba]

Gamespot showing Stage 2 which kicks off at 6pm with Forza 4 HERE

Forza 4? 

[Standaman94]

Live now.

Does Dan Greenawalt polish his head..? I swear it gets more shiney every time I see him...

[Biggsy tv]

FFS. Turn 10, fook orf with your tyre physics. Everytime you launch a new games, its always "we have partnered with a tyre company and taken their data" blah blah. Be innovative, do something new. Forza 3 was good enough physics. People want day / night. weather, new cars and tracks, support for other types of racing...

[F4H bandicoot]

Indeed, but instead drivataar and multiple layer paint simulation

[F4H Lotterer]

dont forget forzavista for every car lol

[Biggsy tv]

It all seems all old technology. Drivataar seems to be Gran Turismos B-spec mode which was in GT4?

Painting is the only thing that puts Forza above GT right now, GT wins on everything else.

And online match mode? I'd be very surprised if it works, and if we notice that we're racing those similar to our own speed, if we ever want to go into public lobbies again

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