Finally got my hands on the pack.
The Project 8 was the standout for me. Handles and brakes like a champ despite it’s surprisingly heavy weight for a stripped down car. Will probably drive this the most out of the bunch.
The Hammer Wagon looks great and drives well too. However, @geistwriter definitely said it the best. This is a Syclone versus Typhoon situation. Only difference between the two is weight and appearance. Just a classic case of picking your poison.
I didn’t hate the Battista actually. One of the better EVs in the game in my opinion. But I still didn’t like it. It still weights too, has too much horsepower for its own good, and for a Pininfarina design, it just looks like the front end of a 458 was poorly grafted onto the body of a Nevera. Back end is ugly too, and it sounds awful.
As for the Bentley, I’m sure many have already seen my complaints about it in several threads. And yeah, my points still stand after driving it. Adding the convertible over the coupe is just puzzling to me. It makes an already heavy car even more heavy than it needs to be, takes away rigidity from the chassis, and results in a poorer drag coefficient. I think what makes this car’s inclusion even more baffling is the fact that this is a standard GTC, not a GTC Speed, especially since the Speed launched in 2022, the same year as the Continental we just got. I don’t know if this was a developer choice, an outsourced partner choice, or a choice made by Bentley themselves, but regardless, whoever made the decision made an extremely poor one.
Stuff like this is why a good chunk of my 750+ car wish list is composed of models we technically already have or have had in prior games, but have improved performance because somebody in licensing or modeling never stopped to realize that they were not adding the definitive version of a particular car. This can forgiven in hindsight if the definitive version has not come out yet, but with older cars, or even more egregious scenarios like this with the Continental, it’s just… odd and sometimes even lazy, to put it politely as I can.
Overall, not bad. A gigantic step above the last pack, but again, some weird choices being made here. Also, I didn’t mention it earlier, but having to pay for the Battista when Motorsport 8 players got it with said game at launch is classic Forza DLC tomfoolery I don’t want to see revived.