From today’s WIR:
Thoughts on this? Hopefully this will be one way people can get their hands on cars that have been past forzathon or rivals rewards that they missed out on.
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The Holden Commodore wasn’t available until now.
My guess … it’s just a mistake and they mixed the Holden Commodore with the Holden Torana FE ( which was available in the Josef Newgarden Bounty Hunter).
Makes the Holden Commodore the first car which is currently only available via the livery or photo contest.
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Personally, I’m not a fan of exclusivity.
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Looks like it’s just a way to make sure comp winners can choose a car they haven’t already acquired through other events.
Lame , How come GT sport gets production Toyotas and we dont??
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Always a question of licencing, exclusivity deals and so on. Porsche had a deal with EA for years and thus GT and Forza had to use RUF to get at least Porsche look-a-likes in theirs games.
In case of Toyota I don’t know why we have some weird ones but no street cars.
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We probably still have an active license with Toyota Racing Development. And the Arctic Trucks are sold under their brand so they’re technically not Toyotas. Still though, it’d be nice if T10 gives us a sitrep from time to time. At this time it’s just static on the satcomms.
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T10 already commented publicly on the Toyota situation back near launch time. There won’t be any Toyota production cars in FM7. They were pretty clear about that in their release. And … it’s because of a Toyota decision … not a Turn 10 decision.
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Lame. How come Forza Motorsport gets stuck with you and GT Sport doesn’t.
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Actually some nice incentive. This is a positive for the game imo. Allthough it’s a small number of players that benefit.
I like this new addition to the prizes.
Apart from a few tracks where I’m top 50 (sometimes top 10) in certain classes, I’m actually not that quick. Certainly not quick enough to challenge events like bounty hunter on a regular basis. But I can paint, so I have a chance to use another element of the game to grab some prizes.
Anyone can compete in the contests. The photo contests are probably the most accessible, although the best are hard to catch up to!
Only issue I have with this is that there are a small number of people who seem to win every photo contest, so will Turn 10 make an effort to reward different people each time?
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Well, I will admit that I don’t monitor the photo contests … but I would not want them to give prizes to just anyone because they haven’t gotten a prize before or because the same people usually win. A contest is a contest. If there are better photographers who take better pictures then they deserve to win more of the time. That should be incentive for others to practice more and get better.
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While we’re on the topic of T10 sponsored contests in the Forza games … something really needs to be done for tuners. I don’t know what the answer is or how to reward tuners better for their work … but they create just as much quality content for the Forza community and in comparison to painters or photographers they get almost no reward or recognition for their work.
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You have some truth there, but the tuning market is completely dominated by the handful of well-known tuners. It’s fairly easy to become a legendary painter, because people can actually see your design, but the quality of a tune to someone looking for one is entirely linked to the name of the person who made it.
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Your response just confirms my point. There are lots of great tuners out there … just as good or better than the ‘handful of well-known tuners’ that you mention. But because there are no official contests or widely available ways to have tunes featured … it’s very difficult for those tuners to get the recognition and following that they deserve. If you don’t have a Twitter, Mixer or YouTube following or are already a well-known tuner … what ways are there to promote your work like there are for painters or photographers?
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True but how can you rate tunes like paints? It’s not something that can be accurately or fairly judged. Plus, judges are not going to want to go through all the tunes and try driving them all to see what feels best for that individual driver.
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Oh, I agree 100% that tunes are much tougher to judge. That’s why I said above that I don’t know how it should be done or what would be a good reward structure for tunes. My main point was that for all the work they put in and content they create … compared to painters and photographers … tuners are getting shafted.
In some ways, it is but you do get asked do you like a tune but it appears you can’t search a Gamertag to look for their tunes and what cars they suit. Once it disappears of the ‘New’ in the choices offered up. Similar with the paint designs if you just started and are not Pro or Legend status. I noticed with the DLC content I got the day it come out and did a design for the 67 Nissan III whatever it was and shared it. Bit slow the first day then as people downloading the new cars 145 DL’s over the next couple of days but the minute it leaves the design choice for others to view it is gone out of sight and DL’s stop dead. I probably spend nearly as long tuning a car as design and once I get it in the top 10 hardcore I share it and at least if someone is looking it is available to them even if in a different car via the leaderboard. Both aspects of the game could do with a revision in that department.
It can now quite easily you just take the Human driver out of the race Set Assists to Super easy Breaking, Super easy steering, Auto Box TC and stability if needed to on and let the game drive the car best tune will set the best time while this mayl not work on some tracks it will work on most C,D,B and A class cars can get arround the track quite well with TC and Stbility off S and up my need to have TC turned on depending on track and type of car.
Submit tunes for testing and let the game do the driving all the person testing needs to do is hold down the acceleration trigger.
You can try this your self grab a stock Homoginsed car not tuned and do 3 laps then tune it and do 3 more laps compare time if tune is better than the stock time will improve.