I’ve been holding off and saying much of anything here, but it’s time I stated what’s on my mind.
I’ve played FM since the OG Xbox, I’ve watched the series evolve to greatness with FM4, then falter with FM5, go back to greatness with FM6 and FM7.
I’ve played every Horizon game. I own every game in the Forza series, except FM23.
Over the course of release there are things that have been fixed, but it seems like every update seems to break something else.
Let’s start with the career mode. It’s abysmally lacking, all previous games I could play for months and still not scratch the surface of the career mode. FM23, I haven’t touched it much (I’ll go into that later,) I could sit down and play for a week straight and probably complete the entire Builders’ Cup from start to finish. We were told new events would be added to career mode permanently and currently, that hasn’t happened. Instead we have the ‘Featured Tour’ as series of events, that are time locked and time limited with exclusive reward cars. This is the reason why I haven’t played much of the Builders’ Cup.
I spend the majority of my time playing doing the proprietary series to earn a car that I may or may not use again. We were told the game would be more focused on motorsport and less on road cars, yet there have been very few events to back this up, majority of them have been road cars. There has been one series in total that focused on actual racing cars and it lasted a month.
It’s time for the lies to stop. T10 and Microsoft need to step up and deliver what was promised. Permanent events added to career mode, where? Replaced by the ‘Featured Tour,’ a FOMO mechanic that makes no sense for FM23. The open garage area that we could walk around in as shown in the original cinematic trailer, where? Replaced by the homespace, where we can put one car front and center and 4 more in the background you can barely see. I keep hearing player engagement, well that wouldn’t be an issue if the game was enjoyable to play in the first place and less like a chore. It works for Horizon, for the most part, I can play for an hour and earn the car for that week. FM I play for an hour and I’ve completely part of a four week series and have nothing show for it.
Now, onto the bugs. It’s been 2 updates and the game still crashes after completing a series on the Series X/S consoles. My driver suit randomly changes to the orange suit, that’s been going on for a while.
I’m not sure what happened with the practice sessions for Open class in single player, but it auto ends so fast I can’t even see my lap times. Adding a 15-30 second timer would at least allow players to see their final laptime. I believe this has something to do with online, but it seems like some coding would make it possible to differentiate between single player and multiplayer.
I’m sure I have more, but I can’t think of it at the moment.
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