that was the first thought but it has a much lower offroad rating than the Lambo Sesto FE, bit surprised by that so went for the highest-rated
of course, there’s those numbers, then there’s whether they translate into what happens in the game, the Lambo was a bit hard to control, certainly compared with the robots in the Paganis, which are obviously going to be better on dirt than a 4wd car
It was nothing to do with console times or anything.
It was to do with when the Forza servers are down and we get presented with a backup playlist rather than the regular playlist that would allow progression on the offline events till the servers come back on line.
You originally said “I never got the reason behind the reserve playlist. Why not let the player do the normal list on the offline content till the servers resume and let it re-sync after connection is restored ?”
What if someone plays FH5 today, shuts down their console and then doesn’t try to play again until Thursday afternoon, but find they can’t connect to Xbox Live? I’m presuming the American Automotive series update doesn’t become available until tomorrow. If it was included with the update for current series, then just pretend someone attempts to play FH5 without the latest update available and is unable to download it. What does the game do? It provides the backup playlist. The game could have also just disable the playlist entirely until it could be updated, but that’s not the route the devs took. The game could handle the situations differently (no update and can’t connect / updated but can’t connect), but it just provides the backup playlist for all scenarios.
The backup series also serves to time gate content, for good or ill. What’s to stop someone from going offline, changing their system clock and unlocking the spring rewards when it’s actually fall, or go back to a previous series they missed? The backup series attempts to block that. A bit silly, but that’s how the devs want to handle the series now that they’ve gone the GaaS / FOMO model.
Why are you going on about time clocks ?
I’m only talking about when the Forza servers are down - nothing else.
All I’m saying is, when the Forza servers are down, leave the proper series running and let the offline content still be worked on.
I have no interest in changing my console time clock.
I’m going on about clocks because I’m trying to think like one of the devs, or the marketing folks that put together the playlist. When the Forza servers are down, how can the game tell what series should be running? The game could base it off the system clock. Can the system clock be trusted to be accurate? If Xbox Live is available, yes. Does the clock being accurate matter? For the devs trying to time gate content, yes. You may not want to change your clock, but the devs are apparently concerned that others will.
So the devs apparently didn’t want to handle Xbox Live up / Forza servers down differently from Xbox Live down / Forza servers down. It simplifies the game code to just use the fallback playlist if the Forza servers are down than check the clock and determine if it can be trusted.
I didn’t even think to check those numbers, but yeah, I’m not sure how accurate they are in this case. In my experience the Sesto FE is a handful even on tarmac, and while the X5 got sideways plenty, I was able to keep it pointed in the right direction most of the time.
The Forza servers are usually only down for 10 or 20 mins at a time so your console should know what season / series you were running before they went down so they could just reload the session from where you left off. It doesn’t happen that often so when it does it should know where you were at the last session and reload that from your last live session and let you play on in offline mode till they come back on. It’s all backed up - hence the syncing on restarting from the previous day / time or whatever.
The backup playlist causes more issues when the servers get back online as I’ve had it lose progression from using that instead. I always ignore and wait for the servers to come back before continuing.
agreed. it was getting tough even for me, and I’m one of the worst offenders
Don’t really know where to put this but the 356 SL has a nice feature that only shows when it’s dark.
It has a functional extra light to illuminate the race number on the tail.
Some other cars like the old Ford GT40s also have the models for such lights but unfortunately they aren’t turned on in the dark like it’s the case here.
Okay, that’s cool. Well played from the devs to add that. It’s a small thing, but such a nice touch.
