Just came back to Forza 4 after not playing for a while, and OMG. Almost every public lobby is infested with crashers or morons with super fast cars finishing a drift race before you can drift 2 laps?
It’s almost impossible to get a good contest going without someone ruining it. Is this what Forza has become, or am I just unlucky?
Generally the public lobbies nowadays has become a children’s playground. I remember some guy trying to tandem a B-Class 240 with -5 camber and +5 toe on all fours and then saying I had no control because I had to overtake him due to me not being able to drift at 20mph around Sunset, just bloody ridiculous. It’s an entirely different discussion with the hoppers because you can strike lucky in most (for me) but then find “that guy” who either a) doesn’t know what he’s doing or b) is the one that rues everyone’s time in hopper lobbies.
In all honesty, do not go into either user-created or hopper lobbies. Just drift with friends unless you wish to risk it.
I guess I’ve just been lucky because the User Created lobbies have been normal for me, every now and then you get the random idiot who wants to ruin everyone’s good time but for the most part it’s still just as fun as the first day i fired up the game(for me anyway).
On the hopper side I can’t say much because I haven’t been in one of those in like a year I think.
I used to play Forza with a couple of buddies but they were not very good at racing and now won’t play because they always lose v me. They also couldn’t drift for toffee so lost interest pretty quick, which forces me into public or user created lobbies. That said I haven’t had any problems with user created lobbies just the public ones which are a nightmare.
Maybe I should join a drift team?
There’s not too many known teams left but there has been some new teams, and new faces. My honest opinion is that it’s a waste of time looking for a team. They either become inactive or everyone leaves the team. Your better off finding a few people that can tandem with you and adding them. Just my two cents, completely up to you what you want to do.
I must be a lucky one, but I don’t go in public lobbies, I always create my own, then at least you can control the lobby. If your about, send a friends request… and maybe we can have some fun.
Ok, thanks. I’ll throw one over when I’m on next.
Crashers drive me to the breaking point of insanity. There should be some system that detects it and removes them from lobbies or even in game or something. Its really sad to see so many of them nowadays, when most people just want to meet new people and drift with new players around the world. Its also bad that they use decent drift cars to ram or crash others which then promotes when someone joins, and selects that vehicle, that its instantly a crasher. My personal prome example is the 2009 Jeep SRT-8. its superb for AWD drifting, Fujimi, maple valley, Catalunya. It loves them all. I pull it out in an online game, I get kicked because its what crashers use. its ruled out as a car that I score 85k a lap on maple valley in, purely because some players don’t like being beaten, others don’t understand the rules of competition and online games. I just hope that one day, crashers will get their comeuppance, and that online is restored back to all its glory.
-Slidewayzz
I would find that a scanner embedded in the game with be futile, just for the reason that it will be too hard to develop and implement into the game. I think that a better option that does branch off your idea though, is a tally. The tally should record the number of times a driver hits an opposing player, and sets a limit for the lobby which no one is allowed to exceed. If they exceed it, they will be automatically be backed out of the lobby and then kicked out of the session. This will apply to all drivers.
Even though this seems like a more reasonable idea, there is two main problems that I see, even with my own idea:
It’s Forza 4, it’s nearly 4 years old now so don’t expect it to be introduced into the game, possibly more recent Forza titles
This idea is still unrealistic, like most solutions, because they, like at the beginning of this post, be worthless, mine especially. This is because there could be accidents where it can kick the wrong person and people can find loop-holes (like they always do) to turn the solution on its head.
So hopefully this outlines the problems that the Forza Franchise faces when it comes to game development.
I know there are many issues with the idea, but some form of solution in newer forza titles wouldn’t be a bad idea, if it could be developed successfully with minimal flaws. I do find that submitting an “avoid this player” review does help avoid those players, as it reduces the chance of joining the same game. Though in all fairness, there will never be a 100% successful solution, unless they all grow up and learn its for a community, to meet new people, have a laugh, not be a **** and ruin the experience for everyone else.