After playing some custom rally routes that were surprisingly well-made, I had an epiphany. Perhaps Playground Games should’ve invested time in creating a dedicated rally mode instead of the Eliminator and Super7. It would’ve taken place on the main map, of course, so it would be available for players without Xbox Live Gold, and I can already image some of its deep details, such as having Alex from Dirt Racing Series be your co-driver as a nod to Colin McRae.
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they already did this exactly as you said with forza horizon 1, and they never repeat a expansion so highly unlikely
True, but I think its high time they break tradition.
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um, Storm Island and Fortune Island are pretty much the same thing.
There is one and it’s called Fortune Island.
Without dirt, there is no rally. It doesn’t make much sense.
I updated the title and my previous posts since I don’t think I did a particularly good job at explaining myself. What I had in mind wouldn’t be an expansion like Fortune Island or Lego Speed Champions. It would be a new mode available via an update, especially since as another user pointed out, they don’t tend to make the same expansion twice. Also, in regards to the dirt paths in the game, I think there are enough in the game to justify the mode. Maybe not enough to make dirt only stages, but certainly enough for mixed surfaces and even a few tarmac only stages.
Yeah, but it’s not dirt and they probably know it. You can’t build rally on it and not to look very strange to drive.
This was already done with FH1, so it could be entirely possible to do, but I also remember the rally mode being a massive difficulty spike over the main game and not actually all that much fun. It also felt a bit out of place compared to the rest of the game and didn’t really utilize the map very well.
That said, if done well I could see it being a nice addition to the franchise as another race mode with both dirt, asphalt and mixed rally stages.
It will be big thing because you can be a competition for rally games. But you need dirt surface physics first in the game. I thought M8 could bring it but it’s very far now.
Storm Island in H2 was the best attempt at that. You will not find anyone in multiplayer though. It was only a few of us when it was new.
Except for there was never any multiplayer on Fortune Island. Yes a weekly trial but nothing more. At least for a year Storm Island had somebody to race. They also didn’t have debris and barriers all over the place on Storm Island. Spent the bulk of my H2 time there.
I assume you liked your car being brought to a dead stop by a bush then? Lol
Never had that issue, I was good at it. lol. I understand it was not really a rally but it was better than what they have now. You didn’t need to use a truck and it was fun driving the rally cars. It was not very popular to be fair and pretty rough at times with a few jerks who thought it was a demolition derby.
I’m just talking about in general. Lol. Going back through the series it’s always a learning curve again with what trees/environmental elements you can and can’t drive through. Try and go through any bush in FH1 and you’re stopped, certain trees in FH2 can be ran through, FH3 you can run through most everything except for those thick trees, same with FH4.
I wish I would’ve gotten the rally expansion back then, it’s almost a cruel joke that they still have the announcement come up for FH1 when I start it up lmao
Rally, last time I checked, wasn’t a multiplayer experience to begin with…its you versus the clock versus death-by-tree. Why not just create a rally course, share the blueprint code and time trial your friends…which…is Rallying, no?
The problem with releasing any kind of Rally experience in the world of Horizon is always this: The maps are just too damned small, expansion or otherwise, to get any kind of real terrain variation that won’t immediately become repetitive. Rally in H1 was more them using the same roads in Colorado but changing them to dirt, and it wasn’t open world right, it was Point to Point races via menu like going through a Motorsport game right?
Yeah, rally is pretty much just time trial races. In FH1 the times the AI claimed they did were much, much better than they could actually do in real racing at a given difficulty level so it felt like they were always cheating. It did feel like a motorsport game mode that was tacked onto Horizon. Speaking of which, I really hope the next motorsport game gets dirt racing, even if its just rallycross circuits.
Totally agree that one of Horizon’s biggest weakness is the tiny maps. Hopefully that will finally be remedied in the next game.
I pretty much imaged this rally mode for Horizon Solo in mind. The best (and really only) way to incorporate Horizon Life into it is with leaderboard times.
Also, I’m flattered that someone thinks I have some online friends to play Forza with. XD.