This might not be at the top of everyone’s concern list, but honestly it’s pretty high up there for me — the garage and home spaces for displaying cars. From what we’ve seen so far, the footage only shows three cars being displayed at a house. Now don’t get me wrong, I genuinely think this is a great step in the right direction and something I’ve wanted in Horizon for years, so credit where it’s due. The idea of having physical spaces to showcase your cars is awesome and adds a lot more personality to ownership.
That said, I’d be pretty disappointed if they introduced such a cool system but limited it to only three cars per house. Horizon is fundamentally built around collecting cars, and this game could realistically push past 1000 vehicles over its lifetime. Having eight houses but only being able to display three cars in each would feel like a massive missed opportunity — almost a waste of what could be one of the best features they’ve added. GTA V was already letting players display up to ten cars in garages back around 2015, and that was eleven years ago. So I’m really hoping this isn’t just a carryover of the three-car setup from Forza Motorsport and that Horizon actually expands on the idea properly.
The quality of the cars doesn’t matter at all here - we don’t have actual cars in our garages, the 3D models and performance data of the cars exist once per car model somewhere in the game files, and the cars in the garage are just a pointer to that data, along with a tiny bit of metadata (miles driven, number of race victores etc) and an associated tune and design file. Since we already have separate limits for the number of tunes and designs, I never understood why the garage limit in Forza games is so low…with some reasonable data organization, it shouldn’t really affect save file size all that much whether you have 100 or 10,000 cars in your garage - that should only be a couple bytes per car.
If you put 3d car models in a 3d space, with whatever lighting, reflections and the ability to walk around it requires whatever performance. Its not impossible, forza motorsport has one main interactive car and then 3 others on the side.
Save data restraints are due to them being saved in the cloud. In a forza game you have your cars, paint jobs, tunes, replays and whatever else. This all has to fit into whatever little space Microsoft give them.
So it looks like I answered the wrong question general garage size limit vs the cars displayed in the garage in your house, that’s a different issue of course. Guess my reading comprehension wasn’t quite active when I wrote my response.
general garage size limit vs the cars displayed in the garage in your house, that’s a different issue of course. Guess my reading comprehension wasn’t quite active when I wrote my response.