There are far more things the game could do with, for instance working indicators or any other feature, but instead we have this ANNA that takes up space of input usage on a controller and nobody uses it, or am I wrong? This feature we could do without instead focus on bringing in a feature everyone and there Nan has been asking for or at least give us the option let us remove it if we want.
How many people use this feature let me know if you do and if you don’t what would you want the developers to concentrate on instead?
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That’s the understatement of the year.
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Extremely so. I have no use for her during the campaign, and she’s completely useless once the campaign is complete. All she is a glorified GPS. A GPS that isn’t well utilized out of free roam.
Seriously, if Playground want to keep ANNA around, make her do something useful like providing directions in street races. The only reason I keep the braking line on is for navigation for street races since most corners usually come flying at you out of nowhere, and the checkpoint placement is usually lackluster whenever the course turns onto a different street. A vocal warning about an upcoming turn could come a long way.
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OK, though I seem to recall getting good use out of ANNA in FH4 ? Or my mind is playing tricks on me. Grinding through campaign chores maybe ? Flagging the next thing on the list or some such. Can’t say I’ve used it at all in FH5, except accidentally (button mash) so yeah I’d be alright with an “off” option for ANNA.
That said I’ve no idea what if anything I’d want instead. Turn indicators ? What ? So people can not use them just like in real life ? So people can leave them on for miles while never turning or turning the other way just like in real life ? I don’t think I want that kind of realism in the game lol. Although… IF if did have turn indicators that functioned so that the game only let you turn properly indicated turns… and forced you to turn for all indicated turns… think of it as a driver ed tool 
Didn’t they ? In that “short cut” et al story bit ? Or was that one of our “friends” ? I think it was ANNA wasn’t it ? If so, yeah, more like that, an actual AI GPS. I imagine it would take a lot of coding though. And be entirely bug free of course… hehehe. If that is what I’m recalling though maybe it was an experiment in something along those lines. Easy to do for a short scripted bit, much harder for a general utility idea.
Settings->Advanced Controls->Switch Anna / Telemetry / TTS.
TTS is text to speech. I find telemetry helpful for me.
Or to turn it off
Settings->HUD and Gameplay-> Anna Off.
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ANNA did indeed provide directions in the street racing chapter of the Vocho story, but it is as you remember it. It was highly scripted and mostly there to reinforce the concept of not following the mini map’s pre-selected course every time to the player, though this was definitely done more for new players as opposed to returning ones.
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If only they could get ANNA to call out " Chickens ! " 
(…just watch “them” pick up on this and run with it lol)
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VERY redundant. I turned her off. It was either that or throw my gamepad through my screen.
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Thanks for that WhiteBurrito42 ! Now I’m wondering how I missed it or if it didn’t work ? Or, maybe I did turn it off ? I’ll have to look next time lol.
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Anna who? (Exactly what @WhiteBurrito42 said: turned that off, along with Forza Link, as soon as I discovered that was an option).
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I was going to post this. Have used this setting almost from the very beginning.
^and what @Bravo437 said too. Two pointless features of the game.
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I never realised this. I tried reassigning the controller layout to my preference but it wouldn’t allow it as ANNA wasnt assigned a button so thought I was stuck with it.
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Not too mention the fact that the game claims to always promote good sportsmanship, but gives the players a function like Forza Link with quite a few phrases that imo can be interpreted as antagonistic on the surface alone, & then allows the players to spam the same messages repeatedly while racing.
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Yeah like “your too slow” or “what’s the matter, scared?” And ones like “your soo fast” nout like sarcasm 
when your working on an B class tune and they try racing you in an x class supercar
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literally first thing I did was turn Anna off. huge waste of code.
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Yeah, I tried reassigning everything but it was buggy and not close to what I wanted. I’ve ended up swapping the brake/clutch and swapping up/down shift buttons which makes using manual with clutch a bit easier. I chose to get accustomed to it since it seemed like the best available option.
I do like being able to watch a couple of the telemetry screens while driving. I have had tire telemetry up for entire Trial races.
It’s a great convo, I always feel if there’s other things that people want or could benefit from it’s worth discussing.
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She turned you down huh?
J\K 
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The only ANNA that I can think of being purposeful in a driving game.
Forza’s ANNA as I see it, just bloats the game.
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