Hello all! First time poster here and also first time Forza player. I downloaded this on the Games for Gold program and after trying it I wish I had been playing Forza games for years! I’m new to racing games in general and after only 2 hours I’m hooked like a fish!
I’ve read that if you buy a car the game will auto upgrade it to max in the class. For now this is good for me because I have no idea how to tune, what factors to consider over others, etc. Even a bad auto tune would likely be better than an attempt on my own right now. I would like to learn to tune but right now I just want to play a while, acquire more cars and then later learn finer nuances such as tuning.
The question: if I let the game auto upgrade a newly purchased car, may I later retune it myself once I’ve learned to tune so that I could tune it more to my liking? Or is that car once and forever set up once the game auto tunes it?
I understand that if I can retune I will likely need to purchase parts or whatever for the upgrades, I am fine with that I love love LOVE a great grind, I will be spending loads of time in-game earning creds and having fun in all of the modes (right now I’m eyeballing Rivals).
You can understand it clearly if you go to the tuning shop in the main menu and go inside any part to upgrade.
You have a list of 3 or 4 options including the stock and you can change everytime you want. You keep the new part forever (in the save file) and always keep the stock of course.
And if you just want to start all over you have an option to return to factory settings, so you don’t need to remember or go one by one and/or category by category to remove parts.
(I don’t remember the button but it should be inside View or Menu, the button prompts are there in the screen anyway)
*But buying a new car don’t auto upgrade. You need to select the option to auto upgrade. It’s funny how some people don’t care and just race in the stock settings and still win the race. =P
Of course downloading tunes will do wonders if you are so needy of victories. Remember to play fair and don’t smash others if a car happen to be faster in a straight ok.
Thank you Tatl360! This is a big comfort. So far I’m early in-game, I’ve only run the first 3 career races to get my Drivatar going and then I’ve done some hot laps on Rivals. I figure Rivals is a great place to learn to drive my car before continuing Career while also giving me a fun goal, all while earning creds and XP.
I started with the Mazda RX-8 R3 auto upgraded. Since then I’ve read your post and checked out the Upgrade shop. Thanks for all of the guidance on this! With this starting car at least it seems I can’t see much to improve it without changing it’s class beyond what the auto upgrade did (the first group of Career races is C Class) but I might be able to lighten it and change the tires, some small tweaks like that. I’ll try it tonight and see if if handles any better on the same track I ran last night in Rivals to compare.
To that end, if my tweaks end up making the car handle worse for my (lack of…guffaww!) style, I can take your advice and restore defaults and then I can use the Quick Upgrade feature to set it back to the game’s auto upgrade settings, right?
I also checked out some downloadable tunes (the descriptions, I didn’t try them). I didn’t see anything I wanted on my current car (a lot of the RX-8 R3 tunes were made for speed or drifting rather than handing) but I can see how this might be great once I get some better cars!
I promise to drive as if I was trying to race for real, like a good sport who wants to live to race another day! I hope my Drivatar picks up that tendency as well Career mode or online multi I want to get good at this and be a clean racer while I’m at it (if you see me online or my Drivatar and it seems aggressive or haphazard it is only because I don’t know how to handle the car yet! I’m trying not to even tap other cars)
I love love LOVE a great grind, I will be spending loads of time in-game earning creds and having fun in all of the modes (right now I’m eyeballing Rivals).