The last stage tops them all. Why there is a rain or night almost every race? Does anybody enjoy doing 200 mph without any clue where is he going?
What is Circuit of the Americas doing in Hypercars? This long-wheelbase and overpowered cars just stuck there for life. Why hot hatches took place in Maple Walley without a single sharp turn (which is boring with this type of cars) and hypercars should stumble in Circuit of the Americas at night.
Forza 2 made a lot more sense. Twisty Proving Grounds for beginner cars, and then real tracks for 300+ hp cars
P.S. By Driver’s Cup I meant only the last championship, not the whole single player “Driver’s Cup”, which is fun
Yep, set the track limits to on and ribbon in the hud menu under options. Night racing is to easy then if your eyes can handle the twisty glow…lol
Of course if you are like me and can’t stand to make the game look like Tron, then perhaps try a grip car with a downloaded tune that fits your driving style. Most of the top tunes can easily beat the drivitars set to pro or unbeatable. And, I’m not that fast and tend to make several mistakes running on very long races. Best of luck!
To be a challenge and divert players from one size fits all builds. Real world tracks can be fun in lower class cars simply because of the wild builds needed to go fast.
Circuit of the Americas is a tough track. A real challenge in something with lots of horsepower, even with slicks. Took me a little while to learn the track, a little while to learn the car but it’s not impossible. Crikey, the hypercars are easy compared to the Ultima GTR which has a race there. 1020 HP, street tyres and no spare PI points so you’re stuck with the stock gearbox, no front splitter, and the only way you can fit race brakes and control your brake bias is to put heavy rims on it. I worry for you if you’re finding the hypercars so hard. A good driver will relish the challenge and be a better driver when the race comes to an end. I know I did. By the last race in the series I had fallen in love with the Ultima,. I kept tweaking the tune race by race and in the end I realized it doesn’t need aero or grip. It needs a careful hand firstly, it needs to be driven with the softest of touches. And it needs balance. A well balanced machine is so important because your tyres are never really going to grip anything for long. You need to be sure that when you (inevitably) start to slide the car is going to be predictable. Probably why I enjoy the Hennessey Venom so much too. It’s got silly power and is relatively lightweight but that chassis is born of a long history in motor racing and any idiot can catch a slide in their sleep in that thing. The rest just requires patience. Especially on COTA. Those little chicanes and hairpins, with their left/right direction changes often catch people out. I don’t really know why. They know they are there. Do they bother to learn the circuit? Or is it that they think their aero works when there is no air flowing over it? Or indeed, are they just giving it the same boot load of power in 1st/2nd/3rd gear as they do in 4th/5th/6th? Or are they simply chasing the throttle in the turn while the car is unsettled? Who knows, but stick at it. If you’re struggling with a car in a division, try another. Or just keep doing laps without really thinking about it. You will subconsciously begin to understand the car and will all of a sudden just know your braking zones without actually trying to learn them. You will feed the throttle in perfectly without having to feel for the grip . Motorsport is pure psychological. It punishes you when you allow it to. You let the prospect daunt you and the race will haunt you. The harder you try, the worse you’ll be. If you think about making mistakes, you’ll make them.
As for driving in the rain, there’s nothing better. It’s such a visceral experience, controlling a 2 ton car with a thousand horsepower almost entirely with the throttle. I tune my own cars and I’m no expert at it, but I run regular top 1% lap times in most everything in the dry. Part of me wants to try one of these top tuners tunes but the bigger part feels as though I’m cheating myself doing that. I would rather post the 300th fastest time and claim 100% of the credit than run a top ten time but only feel as though I am half responsible. Rain though, is different. It’s a leveller. You can have the worst tune in the world and still churn out a great time because it’s a test of pure car control. There’s something to be said for accidentally inducing a slide at some crazy angle, catching it, maintaining it all the way down a hill then seamlessly gathering it up back onto the racing line for the next corner. And losing only a few tenths in the process. So much so that you’ll probably want to pause it and hit “record that” on xbox dashboard. Long may the rainy races continue. They have provided me with loads of fun videos to share with my mates,.
The track is ok, but it doesn’t fit with supercars. It is good for slow cars or race cars.
I don’t like Silverstone and Sebring, because thay are totaly flat and therefore have poor visibility. I always struggle to see the turns. Not among my favorites are Maple Valley and Dubai, because all turns there are not sharp and not high speed either, so you just understeer the whole race from start to end. Same applies to Bernese Alps and Rio, looks like every imaginary track Turn 10 made recently is all about long understeering turns.
I don’t like Virginia because again it have very poor visibility of turns.
From new additions (compare to Forza 3) I like the most Long Beach and Bathurst
I love Rio simply for the fact that it’s a dangerous track. One mistake and you’re nosediving into a concrete barrier. It also looks amazing to me, too.
Well all of the things you mentioned are what make them interesting. Sebring is another tough one but it has such a rustic vibe with its bumpy patched up surface. I do sometimes really struggle at Sebring, my perception of apexes always changes when I race there. And for some weird reason, no matter what I’m driving I struggle for traction out of turns. I’d love to visit there and have a closer look in real life. Silverstone I have actually driven in real life, and I go to the Silverstone Classic each year (my brother lives and works in the motorsport industry right next to Silverstone). Love the place. The lack of visibility over distance just requires you to be observant. If you can’t see the turn, remember where it is and take visual references (such as changing kerbs, marker boards).
Driving the hypercars/supercars at tracks like COTA is a skill in itself. As I mentioned, some people get to a point where they perhaps take their downforce for granted. I believe it provides a good glimpse of someone’s car control skills to be able to drive an animal of a car at relatively low speeds like that.
Rio is class. That’s what I would love to see the likes of Adelaide and Melbourne and Monte Carlo. Street Circuits have a certain magic and sense of occasion and it makes for some great TV when someone clips a wall mounted camera at 150mph. Long Beach is another of my favourites.
Last championship was meh. Stopped playing it half way through. The Driver’s Cup in general however I liked. Could be better, needs more diversity I think. Separate career for drag and drift could be cool for example. Forza Motorsport 2 and most of all 3, with the calendar system had fantastic careers.
Forza GP last race in the Nordschleife. Turn 10 trolling at its finest.
Note to OP: the worst event in the career mode is by far the buggies championship. Difficult to understand why they omit race cars from Horizon yet feel like giving us Alumicrafts in Motorsport is a good idea.
The V8 Supercars. They are amazing and raw. V8 Supercar drivers have real driving skill. Go have a look at some videos of the real ones on Youtube to get an appreciation of what they can do.
They handle really well actually, you just gotta be patient with the throttle. They don’t respond well to going full throttle too early. Let the car rotate as you lift off and get it straight before you get back on the power, it really doesn’t take as long as it feels. Also try setting up the suspension quite soft and raise the ride height slightly. This will just take the edge off if you’re find it a bit pointy or snappy.
Man I just did a killer lap at Long Beach and recorded it but damn Xbox live snipped half the video. It is a good demonstration of what I mean.
Long Beach is another of my favourites.