Ability to save multiplayer replays -EDIT: this has been added now.
Telemetry while viewing replays
Best lap and last lap always displayed throughout race.
Spectating
Gifting cars
Ability to create custom groups of cars in your garage
Tuning cars while waiting in the lobby.
Assists fields on leaderboards to show whether people use the full line, braking line or none
The ability to skip the cut scenes!
Personal ghost as well as rival ghost
Update rival ghost 1 lap after beating the previous rival
Ability to set up a race with some qualifying laps before it that determine grid position
Cat and Mouse (but make sure it will not affect drivatar behavior)
When buying cars, an indicator showing if you already own one.
Race results that display correctly (DNF only for people who actually DNF)
When someone quits out of a drag lobby, not having the rest of the cars in the lobby smash into each other because of the reshuffle.
Make tune and design payouts accumulate, not just based on usage within a 24hr period.
Some badges for difficult to attain things like 100000 or even 1 million online wins, reaching level 1000 or maybe 10K, 50K points in a single drift, 100 million in race winnings, etc. Things that few people will get, or at least will not get for a while.
Sticky pavement and grass on Yas Marina, Spa, Road Atlanta, Sebring, Indianapolis. Just something to make cutting the track not even an option. Also slightly sticky guard rails on Bernese alps and Bathurst. Just enough to make wall riding lose time over a proper line. Maybe there is a better way to do it than quicksand. I don’t know, I’m just sick of the cheating.
Car clubs including club garage
Allow guest account to use primary account’s cars.
Auction house
Time to car in front/car behind
More races in career mode
Option to look at race results after career mode race
A method to report other players for griefing
A quick toggle to mute all other players
Would really like to see more tracks added in the future.
Option to toggle slow grass (annoying)
Ability to change the size of stock rims
Ability to paint rims and keep the chrome/machined lip
Ability to make vinyls any special color that available in the game.
More features from fm4 that did not make it.
Auction house, league restrictions, beter livery search, …
Music ! Real music like fm4 not this type of music
Pretty much everything what TG Wormburner posted. We have been hosting competitions in Forza 4 over at xboxworld.nl since it’s launch. When it got more and mor serious we started making after race reports. We have a lot of rules, making racing fair and fun for everyone and the online replays were essential for that. So stuff that we miss the most for online competitions:
Online Replays
Save lobby settings
Get the distance meter working
Show the best lap in a session. Splits don’t do much good without knowing what the time is that’s being split off of.
Dump the invite system for lobby racing. Nothing was wrong with the way it was
Club garage or a shared garage. We can’t gift cars, why can’t we share them?
Forza 5 really is a good game. The things that they have improved on are really a step up. Graphics are good, but more importantly the physics feel really good! So the racing itself is really fun, but doing competitions is hard to do with so many simple features missing!
Both ov wot these guys have said are really on the money please listen turn 10 your basically pushing people away from this gamr really bad start for this title on this console if many had known this would happen they wouldn’t have sold thier old 360 consoles 2 buy the next generation gaming console that with one ov the best racing games like forza to be dissapointed and devastated they cant carry their experience on because ov all their issues get onto it turn10 and co work this out
An icon noting which cars are already in the player’s garage when they are shopping for another car.
Ability to sell cars back.
Storefronts -make it easier to see all the designs/tunes someone has in one place.
In race distance meter to closest opponents.
After a series race allow the player to exit to the menu without having to load the entire next race track and THEN quit.
custom public lobbies
cat and mouse
ability to have multiple buckets on multiple teams.
ability to save custom mp game settings
ability to save replays at the end of a race (not dvr recordings and not with a kinect)
HUD with distance between you and other cars and positions
add a circuit race hopper for tag
or just add the whole playground area back.
These are a few of the things I think could boost the game to a fuller experience.
Apply Decals
Zoom! Trying to do fine detail work is kind of tricky I keep having to drop out to photo mode to see the joins.
Body colour. Selecting a manufacturer’s paint or even being able to select cut out would be a great help to designs.
Editing a shared design without losing stats could be easier.
End of race - career
Give us a leaderboard please. I’d quite like to see where my mates’ Drivatars finished.
Let us quit after a race is complete. Waiting for the next one to load is madness and a bit frustrating.
Show and Record best dirty and clean lap times, not just one.
Let us see a summary of lap times not just my best that might not even have been in that race. (everyone in the race)
Forza Gallery
Seems to be broken. No download stats, no way of liking pics. I’ve got the gone viral achievement but my pics only show about 3 downloads?
Leaderboards/Rivals
Easier way to view my friends times on each circuit/car/class e.g. View friends times with filters. Car, class, circuit.
Create your own invitational rivals challenges (i.e. set the track, set rules, set the time window to run the challenge), a bit like an offline multiplayer, send them to your friends.
Cars
sell cars
show us which ones we own
save an entire config set, paint colour, decals, tuning and config and reload with one click. (I currently do this by buying another car and it’s expensive. )
Replays
Fast forward
Saving clips, not the entire race. Sometimes it’s just those few seconds of magic near the end of a race. Without a fast forward this is even more important.
Export clip (in HD) to other source e.g. Facebook, Upload, YouTube (in no particular order.
Just my opinion,
In Race;
Split times between cars “gta 5 has split times and this is a racing game give me a break”
Players should be ghosted through the first turn of every race “where everyone who trolls crashes into people full speed”
Players should be ghost for 3 seconds when coming onto the track from off “causing unnecessary crashes”
In Game;
Should be able to vote car class and track in lobby "like forza horizon, don’t see why this was removed
Lower the after race or skip xp and money earned screens “takes way to long”
day/night races as well as weather races “every races should not be 70 and sunny”
show how many votes someone has to be kicked
allow switch of cars during a league series
show what cars you already own when buying a car
Cut down on the DLC. Act like every system before the last gen actually worked and had all the game content on the disk that was purchased. Not 60 then 50 for this then 10 for these and 3 for a car.
Many things have already been said but here are two more:
possibility to opt for rearview mirror in other different views e.g. chase cam, dont want to force it on anybody, but I would like to see it as an option in the hud menu (rvm is only available in two views, if it can be added to the other view besides the cockpit view it shouldnt be that hard to add it to others as well)
possibility to use metric units combined with HP instead of kW (if we choose metric units we are forced to use kW, while most of the countries using metric units use HP)
Please add these two minor features, they shouldnt be that hard to implement
Please please please bring back the ahead/behind indicator in the HUD. The distance measurements really helped to know when someone was in your blind spot!
I don’t have Xbox 1 or Forza 5 but still a big YES to this. These are surely the two features missing from FM5 that concern me most. Over the last few months myself and my club members have played a lot of soccer (in FM4, of course). Probably played more soccer than racing. A number of us have put of buying Xbox 1 because Forza 5 sounds like a bad game and the lack of car soccer certainly contributes to this thinking. We have a couple of club members that own xbox 1 and FM5 but regularly come back to FM4 to play soccer. This is silly, FM5 should make FM4 redundant. Having faced iCCXII in soccer, i know he’s a very skilful player and there are many others like him whom only play soccer. There’s not much incentive to purchase FM5 for these people. With regards to the removal of searchable user created lobbies, i can’t fathom the thinking behind this. These last few months of FM4 i’ve used the hoppers quite a lot, but before that i raced user created 90% of the time. By all accounts, FM5 is terrible for racing online which means you just don’t even have a game. I have zero interest in racing single player. Some remarkable decisions have been made in the making of FM5.