I’m enjoying the new Forza Motorsport, however I feel the interior volume of the car is a bit muted compared to the exterior, would love to see a be just a bit louder.
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Agreed. I feel like the opponent vehicles are louder in car than my own vehicle.
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I can hear all sound from the exterior of the car (including exhaust and indusction sounds) clearly when viewing from the interior, not the muffled sounds one would expect when sitting inside a car.
Edit: After more testing, the problem seems to be intermittent, sometimes i have correct interior sounds and other times not.
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This is true, unfortunately, for nearly all cars. With some, you won’t feel any change going from cockpit to hood even. Still feels like the sound is stuck in chase cam or something.
The game needs a very large dose of QC.
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100%. Cars need to be reasonably loud with the bass and midrange driving through you. Lol, if that makes sense. Anybody with a surround sound system would understand.
I don’t think the cars are recorded or outputting sound in 5.1/7.1
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Yeah I’ve had this same problem… along with the exhaust being louder if you pan the camera to the front of the car when in reality it should be the opposite…
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When weight reduction is applied, the cars sound still muffled in the cockpit. A car with weight reduction has no sound damping and is way louder. Please work on the car sounds in general and make them more realistic and exiting. Thank you in advance 
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It makes no difference whether you apply weight reduction not.
The cockpit audio is generally bad. Little to no dynamic range or sense of depth. It sounds like you’re in a tunnel and not in a car’s cabin. Applies to every car.
I don’t understand how the sounds can be this bad. Where is the QC dept?
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Front bumper camera isn’t great either
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Ive noticed this in some of the McLaren cars in cockpit view, car sound is atrocious, very muddled, and sometimes switches between engine sounds aswell in some of the McLaren cars. McLaren really got the short end of the stick in this game. McLaren Senna for example got flickering front panel in cockpit view. Turn 10, can you please address the problems with these cars.
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True, it’s the most un-immersive experience they apply some noise cancellation like it’s some luxury bulletproof car and not a race car.
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Porsche is not always much better. I had to restart Builder’s Cup series, because I could not hear 2019 Porsche 911 Carrera S revs… Which made me do too many gear shift misses. I tried to make the car louder with some new parts, but could not make it work well enough… Switching to Supra and my problems were gone. Same issue with Porsche in cockpit and hood views.
Ironically I turned the sound of the other cars up and everything else down. And finally I have a game with somewhat realistic sound levels where you can hear cars on the other side of the track. Instead of like GT7 or other games where the other car’s sound disappears when they get 5 feet away. Them things are louder than you think and you may be hardly able to hear your own car over the 12 other ones around you.
They did better than any other games in this regard.
But I will somewhat agree your own car’s exhaust is hardly audible in interior view, regardless of other cars. They have it “tuned” so it’s just muted but really it doesn’t need muted, just placed behind you (the surround channels)
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If you have your own car at 100% and opponent car at 100%, the opponent will sound louder than your car with cockpit camera. Not sure it really matters though as the cars in FM sounds comically bad.
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This should be realistic based on where the engine placement is and how close it is to the driver. It doesn’t seem easy to accurately place the volume in so many cars. But also the depth of padding between the engine and the chassis, body length and so on.
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They obviously could fix this if they really wanted to. Both engine and exhaust notes are all over the place, and it seems they used a blender as a source for most of the cars.
And everyone who has had a titanium race exhaust mounted on their own car, it’s obnoxiously loud from behind the wheel.
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100% yes, and the motor should be much louder than the exhaust, especially with stock exhausts and no weight reduction.
Uh no, engines are quiet aside from forced induction. 95% of what you hear is the exhaust. If your engine is loud you have big problems.
I think you missed the point. Loud as in the right level of bass and rumble + suppression or muffledness.
Right now most interior sounds are as if the car is revving in a bathtub or tunnel.
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