FH3 Constructive Feedback

Forza Horizon Legacy Horizon FH3 Discussion
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Welcome everybody! Here you can list issues that you have come across or things that need improvement.

Drivatars: In Forza Motorsport, Drivatars work fine, but in FH3 atleast in freeroam, they are horrible. I constantly get hit by them and they will not move at all, they are just very frustrating. I wish I could turn them off. Anyone else have any input on the Drivatars?

Drivatar Lineup: I am currently Level 92, and I’m still not part of anyone’s lineup, and the Drivatars I almost always get to recruit have never even played, they’re just a level 1. That needs to be fixed, no reason why when plenty of people have played I’m being given players who don’t even own the game.

Cars: So where are the rest of the cars? I don’t understand why Forza constantly leaves out cars that were in a previous game. You already designed the car and etc, put it in the next game. Well all know Forza wants to do the least possible and get as much money as they can for it, so why not put the cars you already made into the next game? Cars like Acura TSX/NSX, Aston Martin DB9/DBR1/DBS, Mustang Boss 302, Saleen S281, Camaro 35th Ann. Ed., Mitsubishi Eclipse, and more… all cars that used to be in a prior Forza that’s no longer in the game. Are these cars no longer worthy? We could have 500-600+ cars if they kept ADDING cars instead of removing a bunch and then adding different ones. All Porsche’s and Volkswagen’s have ceased to appear. Honda has a very narrow selection along with Acura. Remember when Forza 4 came on 2 discs, the 2nd being all cars. That was true Forza, they could still do that for us now but they would rather hold out on the cars and release them as DLC. Car selection is very disappointing.

Convoys: One of the times Drivatars are nice to have around is for the Convoys, I haven’t had any issues with the convoys that I can think of, and it’s a pretty cool feature if you don’t want to drive alone all of the time. Not much else to really say. Good job there.

Drone Mode: If your into filming/photography, then you’ll probably like Drone Mode, which was a very cool and much needed feature, in my opinion. It gives a different way to take on Forza, and see the game in a whole new way than ever before. However, the drone only goes about 10-15ft off the ground, that is not high enough and it makes it really hard to use it proper over such a diversely changing landscape. The drones need to be able to go MUCH higher in the air than now. Other than that issue, awesome feature.

Fuel: I noticed in the Oct. 14 update notes, that when you run out of fuel you can keep driving. That defeats the whole purpose of having a gas meter in the first place, and that’s part of the extra payout for the difficulty. I don’t drive in simulation damage anymore because of the Drivatars constantly totaling my car in freeroam, so it doesn’t really affect me, but that was still stupid to change. If you don’t want to run out of gas then don’t drive on simulation, that’s part of the challenge.

Garage: When scrolling through My Cars, the main picture lags quite often, and it makes it hard for me to scroll through my cars because I like to look at my cars as I go through to see what I want to drive. Also, not long after owning the Penhall Cholla and the BMW 1M the images have completely disappeared. I still own the vehicles you just can’t see them anymore in My Cars.

Audio: Overall the audio is pretty good, however the tunnel sounds and echos are horrible. It doesn’t even sound like your driving through a tunnel. I think Motorsport once again, has better audio than Horizon.

Misc:

  • When driving in cockpit view, you hardly feel any speed. You don’t really fell like you’re moving until about 100+. Cockpit view needs more motion blur like in some of the other views. We need a better sense of speed in cockpit view. Some cars appear to have darker windshields than others too, seems weird.

  • Tuning setup randomly changes sometimes. I was driving one day and my car was fine and then all of the sudden my car wasn’t slowing down and I plowed through a ton of stuff and when I checked the brake pressure it was at 10%. I have heard others with the same issue.

  • When using telemetry, sometimes the suspension section doesn’t display information (one shock is usually blank, with no reading).

  • Need a way to be able to use ANNA and Telemetry at the same time without having to use one or the other. I mean I switch back and forth and I can do it pretty quick but it’s just a hassle.

  • I think vehicles reset too soon when flipping and etc, so many times I’m about to roll over onto my wheels and I get reset. And if your car get stuck upside down or on it’s side, you have the ‘Reset Vehicle Position’ button.

  • My game crashes sometimes when entering the festival site

That’s about all I have for now. I will add to this post as I remember and come across more things. Now that we’ve heard what I have to say, it’s time for us to hear what you have to say. Happy Saturday! Have fun in Australia!

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Drivatars: I agree with your assesment of the drivatars, they are just as dumb as rocks. I’d go so far as to say at times it feels like they are doing all they can to make my life harder.

Cars: As far as the cars are concerned, you have to consider how much licensing the images of these cars cost. for instance porsche licensing I believe is still owned by EA so turn 10 would have to pay EA. Honestly I wish it was as simple as you put it but it really isn’t.

Drone Mode: I agree

Garage: Its a mess, especially when you have over 200 cars. Funny thing with the scrolling, sometimes its good and others its not.

As for ANNA I’d like to shut her up permanently, PERIOD! Its so annoying for her to continuously suggest things to do, especially when I’m already doing something that I WANT TO DO…

My own feedback

Liveries: They should be organized by manufacturer and model, for instance: a viper livery should be under dodge/viper. Its so unorganized right now, and then sometimes the car pics won’t even load making it even harder to find what your looking for.

Tunes: Like liveries tunes should be classified by manufacturer and model, i’d like for them to take it a step further and even classify them by stages within the manufacturer/model menus. I run different setups and am constantly tweaking my setups so this is a big one for me.

We also should be allowed to load different tunes from the pre-race screen, and or switch out gear at that time.

thats all I can think of for now.

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Yes, I agree I wish ANNA could be turned off. She always suggests things when I’m already doing something and she usually suggests what I’m already doing.

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Menu Settings> Sounds > you can disable the GPS (ANNA).

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It would be really nice uf you could see what’s the car’s stock engine. When you go to upgrades it shows the name of any available engine swap. ie V10, V12 etc , however the base one just says stock. I can’t know the factory engine for every car there is you know, it wouldn’t harm to put the name right beside on the specs so as soon as you’re browsing cars in the autoshow it shows up or maybe someplase else, just please put it somewhere

In the case it’s already there or If anyone knows of any place in game where i could check that that would be awesome please let me know.

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Here’s me list:

-Cruise control
-On/off for ANNA
-On/off for headlights
-On/off for police lights
-Drone mode in replays*
-Drone mode/photo mode altitude increase

  • biggest missed opportunity in game
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Menu Settings> Sounds > you can disable the GPS (ANNA).

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Unfortunately that only turns off her GPS directions. She is still free to harass and babble on incessantly as she tries to suggest things for you to do (which if you wanted to do, you would already be doing).

She just needs to be silenced and go away on a permanent basis.

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I actually don’t mind the GPS aspect of ANNA but I don’t want it suggesting a route to the next event or goading me to do some stupid bucket list. Turn left in 100 yards is fine.

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Ability to turn ANNA off
Ability to mute all online instead of needing to do it one by one
Ability to get to mute option in between races so you don’t have to try and do it while driving
No music EVER, unless I turn the radio on I don’t ever want to hear music coming out of the game.
Better ability to sort garage. All favorites in front all non-favorites out of sight

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Yep. These are my 2 biggest gripes.

Also, I don’t like the fact that the bucket lists have preset radio stations. This means we have to fiddle around with the radio while attempting the bucket list. More often than not, this means having to restart the bucket list because I messed up while trying to fiddle with the radio.

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Give us the ability to modify Car Classes, “Super Cars, Super Saloons, etc” so that we won’t have to create a blueprint for each event. Or…Give us the ability to copy a blueprint from one event to another.

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It would be good if more variety of cars were added into races, for example in one category there were 3 Silvia S14’s. Which could have easily been replaced by another car in that category.

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The traffic! Traffic is great for immersion and interest in an open world game, but there are ways to do it well. Halfwits doing 40mph on the racing line in the middle of a speed/drift zone is not doing it well.

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a few of us that have the digital download, keep getting freezing problems. Is this going to be fixed

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The cockpit issue has to do with the field of view (FoV), not motion blur or anything else. It’s significantly narrower than hood view, which provides a more natural sense of speed. I find cockpit view rather useful for truly fast racing, precisely because you get to see things as if they were moving at a slower pace. For most racing, I prefer hood view, to be able to judge speed better into corners and over bumps.

Yes, that crash into festivals needs to be fixed. But if the game is going to crash, there is no better place for it. Relaunching the game puts you right back where you were.

ANNA absolutely must die. I don’t just want her silenced. I want her put to the rack, burned at the stake, and beheaded.

[Edit: Er, that last one was a joke. Thought I’d better spell it out. People are so sensitive these days.]

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Here are some of my main concerns:

Drones: Drone height needs to be increased (like everyone says). Also, why can’t you sed other people’s drones in online if they’re using them? The festival AI drones are visible but not player’s drones.

Engines: Add engine titles and not just specs.

Forzavista: When you engine swap the car, the explode button doesn’t work and you can’t open the hood. (Kinda understand why because it’s a different engine, but if the engines were modeled just copy it to the car it is swapped into (Also, turbos and superchargers would be cool to see in the engine).
Getting out of car while it is on would be another feature.

Wheels: Rim paint glitch still exists where certain rims will change to their original color when rotating, and change back to the paint you chose when you stop.

Steering Wheel: Why is there still only 180° of steering wheel rotation? Long-term Forza problem.

Horns: Same horn for every car? Small thing.

Club Garage: The club garage was a great feature that has been gone for a while now. If it were to return, it could be expanded upon by adding a club storefront or club tunes section.

Private Sharing: Another feature long lost but needed. Back in FM4, you were able to send cars, tunes, vinyl sets, and designs directly to people. The only way to share designs, directly, now is through the storefront which really isn’t direct. Please bring this back.

License Plates: Another small problem. If plates are country specific, where are the japanese plates?

Car Meets: They’re somewhat pointless. If you could drive on top of the parking garage, and choose to activate the car meet, that would be better. And if you could drive in with other people in an online freeroam and look at their cars, that would work better too.