Is it just me, or do the cars backfire way too often?

Forza Horizon Legacy Horizon FH2 Discussion
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I’ve noticed that the cars in Horizon 2 backfire a lot more than in FM5. Cars that I’ve never seen backfire at all in FM5 backfire like crazy in this game.

I was just driving a stock Jeep Wrangler, and it looked like I was playing Need for Speed: Underground, and just used the nitrous.

It’s really weird and distracting.

It doesn’t do it all the time, though. Sometimes it’ll be doing it almost every time I rev the engine, but then I’ll go into the garage and come back out, and I can’t get it to backfire at all, so I think it might be a glitch.

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You were probably running way to rich before you took it to your garage. The mechanic got your air fuel mixture right now. ; )

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Cars with higher horsepower tend to backfire more that’s just how it is, and quite honestly it is really quiet in FH2. Look up car backfiring it’s almost gunshot loud in some cases so just be happy it’s not obnoxious. oh and do you know what’s happening when a car backfires? because it actually quite cool in my book haha

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Maybe they’ve all got antilag timing?

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that would be like every time you let off the throttle it backfires constantly, Forza hasn’t put this in a game before.

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I know that. It does happen quite frequently. It would be nice to see show up in a Forza one day.

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I remember this thread from FH1.

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It’s just you.

Cheers,
Ace

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Who’s this guy and why has he stolen my sign off?

I kinda like it when my Capri backfires, makes it feel more like a race car!

Cheers, Ace

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That would be awesome if they had some sort of anti lag upgrade for turbo cars. I would put it on a Honda and laugh at how stupid it sounds.

Most cars do seem to backfire more than they do on any other forza game. I have a stock VW beetle and it backfires and shoots flames out of the exhaust a lot

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Yeah, there’s definitely something wrong. I was driving a stock BRZ, and every single time I shifted, it shot flames out of the exhaust.

That car has never backfired in Forza 5.

It looks ridiculous.

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I noticed that old cars (like the Jaguar XK or the Ferrari 250 GTE and California) backfire a lot. That’s a thing that happens in real life, too: old cars have less restricted exhausts, and used to run on leaded fuel, which means that in order to avoid knocking when running on unleaded, many adjust the carburetors to run a bit richer. When you’ll start asking a lot from the engine, bam, backfiring happens.
Supercars also backfire if you let the throttle go while the engine is at 100%. They do that in real life, too, because y’know, cars aren’t emission-tested at 300 kph.

All in all I wouldn’t say cars backfire too much (if there’s such a thing as “backfiring too much”). But if you have BRZs backfiring… I don’t know what’s wrong with your game, then.

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Who’s this guy, and why does he think I stole his signoff?
Well, I happen to be one of the most important nobodies there is. I blend in with the crowd, but I can stand out as well.

Aha in all seriousness, I didn’t think we shared a signature like that. Oops. Might have to change mine.

Cheers,
Ace