Back in Forza Motorsport 4 and prior games when setting up custom online races, you could literally hand-select exactly what cars the AI opponents would race against you in, down to the factory paint job, even being able to chose cars from your own garage! This made for a massive increase in freedom to create whatever race you wanted, & it was genuinely endless fun despite the tiny number of opponents you could select back then. This feature needs to come back, & here’s why:
Selecting the AI’s cars greatly increases the player’s creative freedom to make whatever race they want, anytime. From creating serious races like recreating real historical races with period-correct race cars or challenging yourself by doing a 1v1 against an AI in a considerably faster car, to more fun stuff like pitting every model year of Ferrari against one another, or pitting giant trucks to race against micro-cars, and my personal favorite: Pitting every car in the game from the same year against one another. So for example, a 1971-only race with an array of beautiful muscle cars romping past tiny Lotus Elans, or a 1983-only race featuring frumpy GMC Vans taking on Turbo Volvos & Audi rally icons.
This was truly endless fun with endless creative opportunities & nearly infinite replay value despite the original feature being so limited & the game being so old. It’s the only reason I still occasionally open up & play FM4. It’s an often forgotten feature but when people are reminded of it, they can’t believe how much fun they had with it, or more importantly why it wasn’t put in later games.
Hand-selecting the AI’s cars desperately needs to be an option in this game, & should even extend to free-play races, not just online events. To make things even better though, the option to race against your own cars from within your own garage could further extend your creative freedom tremendously, allowing us to do everything from test our top-of-class cars against each other to see which is most competitive, to silly races between a field full of jelly suspension cars rolling & flipping at every corner. This would really open up the door to a nearly endless amount of things to do & should also be seriously considered.
Forza Motorsport clearly wants their player base to feel like they have the freedom to create whatever race they want. Desperately trying to create workarounds with buckets, multi-class races &/or super specific car restrictions, then constantly loading & exiting races until the car list was acceptable is such a headache, and super inefficient. Please don’t force us to have to do that anymore. As a long-time fan playing since Forza Motorsport 2, I trust that T10 won’t disappoint!
