I wonder where the ability to make Championships went with Blueprints for Forza Horizon 4. I suppose you can’t get everything from Forza Horizon 3. Or could you… that would be pretty good. Also a few more things on the feature whist list that would be a dream on seeing…
Underbody LED Lights on some cars with color and other unique customizations, that’s one way to scream cool car.
And an Auction House option to resell your car that failed to sell with the ability to change pricing without even leaving the list for the cars you are selling. Man, I hate it where you have to collect your failed to sell car and check the car list to resell that damn car. Something easier would do just fine.
My biggest issue with the Horizon series is that its one of the least user friendly games Ive ever played. These issues are what makes me tired of Forza and then switch over to another game after playing for only an hour.
Slow Menus - Everyone has complained about slow menus so I will be quick with this one. The game has a lot of menus when you are trying to do races or working in the garage, so when you have 2/3 of your game filled with slow menus it becomes a drag.
Poor menu design - Nothing is more infuriating then when you are going through your garage or trying to find something in the auction house and when you hit “back” and the game kicks you all the way to the beginning. This is one of the big reasons that I never use the auction house and hate going through my garage, it turns a simple search into a vapid task where you need to re-input all of your search options to find what your looking for.
Very little support for organizing - I hate trying to search for that one car and then guessing which one has rally tires or race tires. It shouldn’t be hard to have a system that allows us to better sort our cars other than the favorites tab.
In game list of cars - I am somewhat of a competitionist so I like having every car at my disposal. My issue with this is I need to consult an online list every single time want to check what cars I don’t have, half of the time I find a car on there that I didn’t even know existed! I think it would be beneficial if the auto show displayed every car including exclusive/secret cars, but the cars you cant buy could be grayed out to show that they cant be purchased. With this they could also add a “buy from auction house” option so you don’t have to memorize the car model, name, and year, then back out to the auction house and find it.
Fix online racing - I would love to do online races but they become so infuriating when someone punts you off the track every time. This could be solved by having “no contact” races or by lowing the player limit from 12 to 6 or 8. I also hate playing online races because of the crappy point to point race! Its not a fun race and encourages people to take the wrong car for the even, I shouldn’t see a v8 jeep with rally tires on a road racing event.
My biggest issue with the Horizon series is that its one of the least user friendly games Ive ever played. These issues are what makes me tired of Forza and then switch over to another game after playing for only an hour.
Slow Menus - Everyone has complained about slow menus so I will be quick with this one. The game has a lot of menus when you are trying to do races or working in the garage, so when you have 2/3 of your game filled with slow menus it becomes a drag.
Poor menu design - Nothing is more infuriating then when you are going through your garage or trying to find something in the auction house and when you hit “back” and the game kicks you all the way to the beginning. This is one of the big reasons that I never use the auction house and hate going through my garage, it turns a simple search into a vapid task where you need to re-input all of your search options to find what your looking for.
Very little support for organizing - I hate trying to search for that one car and then guessing which one has rally tires or race tires. It shouldn’t be hard to have a system that allows us to better sort our cars other than the favorites tab.
In game list of cars - I am somewhat of a competitionist so I like having every car at my disposal. My issue with this is I need to consult an online list every single time want to check what cars I don’t have, half of the time I find a car on there that I didn’t even know existed! I think it would be beneficial if the auto show displayed every car including exclusive/secret cars, but the cars you cant buy could be grayed out to show that they cant be purchased. With this they could also add a “buy from auction house” option so you don’t have to memorize the car model, name, and year, then back out to the auction house and find it.
Fix online racing - I would love to do online races but they become so infuriating when someone punts you off the track every time. This could be solved by having “no contact” races or by lowing the player limit from 12 to 6 or 8. I also hate playing online races because of the crappy point to point race! Its not a fun race and encourages people to take the wrong car for the even, I shouldn’t see a v8 jeep with rally tires on a road racing event.
Currently, If I create a blueprint, All options like season, weather, time, etc are fixed and if want to change just 1 thing I should create another blueprint.
If I want to play all the options in juse 1 simple route, I should create thousands of blueprints, I think this is too waste of time and space.
I think DEV should change this systems.
What I recommend is that every blueprint should have its default options, but we could change options when we make an event.
In this system, Blueprints that use default FH4 routes don’t have to be shared because user could choose every options when they start an event.
Thousands of shared bluprints that uses same route could not be shown in custom routes and this really makes window clear.
And in this system, I create a custom route, just 1 blueprint is needed to play every options like season, rank, etc…
In current system, you should create too many blueprints just only to play with diffrent options every time, and this is really waste of space.
Lots of players, including myself, have asked for some sort of garage in the game where we can tune, paint, etc… our cars. This would be so much cooler than pulling up to a house with no garage or some ambiguous building at the festival site.
When you add this to the game, I think you can add to the immersion by showing us working on our car. Have a split screen with the tuning interface on the left and show us working on the car on the right. It wouldn’t have to be anything fancy, just have the hood up and show our character bent over seemingly working on the car.
Again, I think it would be cool if the inside of the garage was customizable. You can keep it simple at first. Just let us hang some vinyl groups on the wall.
One thing that needs to be done is a real Tach and gear changes. Ok haters please dont think im bashing a great game cause im not lol. But the engine speed doesnt even come close to matching the tach needle location. And when driving with an automatic, the gear changes should be throttle position based. Example: If i am holding my trigger at 10 - 20%, then naturally the gears would shift from 1st to 2nd to 3rd and so forth even if im only traveling 60mph. But once throttle is pushed further toward say, 50%, then the transmission would kick down a couple gears for the required power based upon driver trigger input. And if at 80 - 100%, then the gears would naturally tach out to redline (or close to redline) before shifting to the next gear, like a real transmission would. I was driving the Trans Am and had my throttle at 16% and it was at 5000 rpm in 1st gear at 55 mph and it was quite annoying to hear the engine so loud instead of the automatic going through gears. So to just cruise, i would have to switch to manual just to keep the rpm’s low and engine noise low. Which is what brought me to the tach. When i would gear up, the engine was at 2000 rpms and it was still kind of high on engine sound. In real life, a car at 2K, would be rather quiet (unless it has a fart pipe) for an exhaust. But on the game the engine rev doesnt match the tach needle position. Sorry for the long post.
For me there is one big problem since the latest update: censored words in songs. Just listening to some of the songs in Horizon XS, I noted many songs had words cut out from the original song from release. These said songs include “Headphones - WALK THE MOON”, “Rapture - Underoath”, “Run For Cover - The Killers”, “The Evil Has Landed - Queens of The Stone Age”, “No Wolf Like The President - At The Drive-In”, “Over and Over and Over - Jack White”, “Just Can’t Ignore - Pennywise” and “Deathwish - Red Sun Rising”. That’s pretty much the majority of just one station alone! These cuts in the vocals just ruin the songs for those of us who enjoy listening to these songs. Plus I’ve noted the removal of “Die Trying - Eyes Set to Kill”.
Sure, I understand that this is to meet the ESRB rating, but there should be an option to actually be able to listen to uncensored music, or being able to listen to censored or uncensored music based on age. By that, I’m suggesting that there should be an age limit to which players listen to the two versions of songs, probably around 16 to which explicit songs are available to listen to; two playlists effectively for the radio stations that feature songs that have been edited. Like I said, it’s the cuts/holes that ruin these songs and make them less enjoyable. If you ask me, personally, some of the edited songs aren’t really explicit.
I really agree on this article. Since last update I don’t use radio in FH4 because of censored songs. There should be another option that can play uncensored original songs.
I would have to agree with this. I just put all the tunes in Spotify and play from that.
I did notice that the band CHVRCHES had a song edited, Never Say That, the word GOD was removed from the song… Really? An ESRB Rating of E Requires the word GOD to be removed? It would fall under Lyrics - Mild references to profanity, sexuality, violence, alcohol or drug use in music - I’m not seeing the word GOD or DEVIL fall under the Lyrics requirement for failing ESRB of E.
[Pre-Chorus]
All you want is to play at playing god
But I’m falling in, I’m falling out
All you need is to play at playing god
And I’m falling in, I’m falling out
IT WILL BE COOL IF THEY KEEP OPEN WORLD GAMES LIKE GRAN TURISMO AND STUFF AND U CAN ACTUALLY DRIVE TO RACETRACK AND BACK TO OPEN WORLD AND IT WILL MAKE YOUR POINT GO UP FASTER AND SHOW OFF YOUR CARS TO WOMEN AND MEN WHO ATTRACT U, GAMER CAN MEET EACH OTHER ON LINE OR OFFLINE… I WOULD BE HAPPIER.
I was hoping at some point we could have a way to control the seasons in freeroam (in an offline mode). Since the game isnt fun to play, the only thing I use it for now is driving around and taking pictures, unfortunately only spring and summer look nice so I am only able to use the game 2 weeks of the month. Would appreciate controllable seasons.
If Dev develop FH5 in the future, it’ll be great if you make map size a lot bigger then FH4. It takes almost 10 minutes for 1 lap of Goliath, but I think it should be more than an hour to travel 1 circle of entire map. Now, map is too small to travel.