Can’t find the test drive mode at All, was it taken out?
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LOL what?
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To enter Test Drive you have to go to Free Play and select Go to Race then the Setup tab and then you’ll be able to enter Test Drive. It’s not available in tuning menus.
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He meant “Test Drive Mode” I think…
I did see it in the race menu when you first start the series of races there is a test drive option but ye game is not easy to navagate in some ways
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I can’t seem to find (if there is) to do an open run on a track, not free play etc. Like when you could run tracks and tune on them or take pictures, etc. Am I missing where this is, or is the gesture removed for this iteration for now?
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No not just you, if you go to free play you can’t select Test drive for some odd reason.
You have to load the track to test drive.
Go to Freeplay, choose a track, load it up then go to setup tab when the track loads. Test drive can now be selected.
You can tune, upgrade and even switch cars from here.
I’ve been test driving cars by loading up a track and switching cars while I still have the track loaded. Saves heaps of time.
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And yet people seem to have missed this post… Quite honestly, on track tuning/upgrading (and even car swapping) seems like an improvement to me; should save on load times once on the track itself. Yeh, should be easier to get to than having to pop into free play; but so long as there are no AI on the track while you are tuning/testing… it really shouldn’t be much of an issue, baring the initial inconvenience of having to go through the free play menu to load up the track you want to tune for.
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The big problem for me is that you can’t tune on the fly.
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Yes you can, you’ve just obviously overlooked it. There is no need to end a session to tune, you can do that while test driving and see the results instantaneously. The added bonus is that you can now upgrade while test driving, swap out cars and even use the rewind function. It’s actually a better system overall, just different. However I would like to see a way to quick-start test drive from the garage tuning/upgrade menus.
So there is no quick way to test your tuning anymore.
And the tuning menu is messed up. The description is only shown as a balloon tip (just a few words, not the full text) and the balloon itself hovers over the title of the actual tuning section, blocking the text. There is all the empty space to the right, but you have to seperately open the info to get the full text.
But why did they remove the quick test drive option?
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I agree, please fix to have tuning available from main menu
this is almost a deal breaker to me… they have made tuning cars so much more time consuming.
i Guess i should be happy that there are a quick way of browsing through race suits. i should start doing that istead of tuning cars…
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Yeah it’s really not that bad stop being dramatic. It’s actually alright and quick to change through cars for tuning once you set up a free play race.
Caught me off guard moving it round a bit but saying it’s a deal breaker is crazy.
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Well you can test drive before a race and tune there.
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Seriously, some of you guys need to relax about this.
Step 1: Go to Free Play
Step 2: Choose your track and set your track conditions
Step 3: Load it up
Step 4: Scroll to the right and click “Test Drive”
You can still tune in the pause menu. You can also switch cars and modify your car without having to leave free play and loading it up again.
T10 did this because track conditions are no longer FIXED CONDITIONS. It’s not like Forza 5 and earlier where there was no rain, and it’s not like Forza 6 where the lighting and weather effects are fixed to a track. These conditions are now dynamic, so YOU, the player, need to tell the game how you want the track to look when you tune and test drive your cars.
I get it. You’re frustrated with this change because god forbid that changes come with a new game, and you’re on the forums to voice your opinion. However, there’s a large difference between providing feedback and whining.
Take a step back, try to see the bigger picture, and realize that most changes have a reasoning behind them.
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The point is they could’ve kept the old way of getting to test drive mode while simply including the ability to change the weather conditions from that screen. That would’ve achieved the same result while being quicker and not eluding as many players as the new method has obviously done.
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Yes Yes we can but heres the problem we want to Tune our cars test adjust and then Share with the community and not have to go in to a race to test adjust test adjust and test some more and then have to quit the race. A test track option in the Tune section was in FM 5 and 6 and concerding that almost ever tune I have in FM 5 and 6 are usless in FM7 due to the new rating system some where to test is a necessity. …
Mind you I did notice that some of the Top Elite tuners just ported there tunes over with out adjusting them and they can not be used for most of the races if not all bar free play.
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This right now is my biggest complaint with the game. For the most part, everything else is superb, but not having a quick Test Drive mode option is irritating.
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