Add option in event setup to toggle Auto drive on or off when paused

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Please please make a simple option in event setup to enable or disable auto drive in private multiplayer.

The auto drive feature when paused is handy in public multiplayer lobbies, but in private test drive lobbies where lots of us just hang around lapping sporadically and casually, often pulling up at turn 1 to hang out and watch people lap, auto drive is incredibly annoying, like, deeply annoying.

The main reason just so you can pause and look at the event leaderboard. Eg you are sat at the side of the track, you see a load of cars racing, you want to join in but you need to know what class they are in, so you press pause to check the leaderboard but then the car starts driving into oncoming traffic and scares cars racing on track, and if lobby host turns ghosting off, you will end up smashing into oncoming cars. In this context, auto drive actually makes the lobby less social as it means it is difficult for players to “hang around” safely, just like in FM7 Open track days (which you need to bring back badly).

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YES YES YES ! THIS IS PRETTY MUCH MY ONLY SERIOUS ISSUE! A SIMPLE TOGGLE 100%

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Thanks for reply, tbh the launch of track days has pretty much remedied this for me as I barely use private track days now, public track days are brilliant, this issue isn’t present :ok_hand:

Edit: idk if this is still a thing in private lobbies. If so, the Forza gods need to replicate public track day lobbies for private lobbies. In terms of rules fuel tyre wear rules etc, it should all be the same so it’s familiar with players

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Track days are great but if / when you like / need to tune a car there it’s a mess. Select pause menu while driving on track → car ends up to a wall, to grass or what ever there is (and using setup manager while on track also changes camera view which seems a bug).

When pause menu is selected, I think the best option would be both, actually:

  • If your car is moving → it goes instantly to ghosted auto drive.
  • If your car is stopped (outside of track limits) → auto drive is always disabled.