I know technically a party chat issue is more an issue for xbox tech support, but as it only happens on Forza 7 I’m posting this here.
I race with a group of guys I’ve been racing with for years and we generally stay in a party to chat to each other while racing (particularly after the game chat issues on the last game when there were too many people in the room).
We have all been finding that when we join a multiplayer session (and weirdly also when you leave as well) that it puts you in game chat despite remaining in the party. You then either have to go to party controls to return to party chat (by clicking switch to game chat, then clicking switch to party chat).
Also had a few issues when joining lobbies with either missing the first race despite joining before or during the intermission countdown (with plenty of time left on it, ie 30-40 seconds rather than being on the launch countdown or while it is loading the cars in during the “waiting for cars” phase. Have also had it where I repeatedly don’t get in to the race once in a lobby rather than just the first race.
Finally have had audio issues on several tracks (and haven’t had the blade/party/friends list open during lobby screen) and it seems to happen in the same corner area every lap. For example on Prague short reverse the first corner and up to the chicane after that is really bad with it the sound seeming to slow down or not run in sync. It does it on the same section whether on the short or full circuit, reverse or not.
These are all issues on a normal Xbox One and on both disc and digital copies of the ultimate edition.