Italian Automotive update (Series 24) | Forza Monthly livestream August 11

I’ll hide it.

There. Done.

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First up from the returning cars for me, was the ‘74 Lancia stratos.

It has the berlinetta v8 swap with CSC. You can fit this engine + off-road tires in A class with the body kit. Not fully tested but should be highly effective and competitive for dirt scramble.

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Ehy guys in FH4 there was a manner to buy all the DLC cars in one time without to buy them one by one, In FH5 I didn’t find that function, have the Devs eliminate it in FH5?

This sounds like a decent and doable swap. Anything besides the LS. :+1:

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Yeah, the berlinetta engine with the CSC is quite decent for a class road/street.

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Haven’t seen a single LS3 swap while looking over the 8 returning cars.
A good sign since PG seems to learn but it obviously means the cars will lack in comparison.

The '17 Giulia has the perfect amount of weight reduction to bring her to 799 on Rallye tires and no aero. Since weight reduction values are arbitrary I assume this has been done on purpose. Maybe someone at PG realized how builds are made.
It’s still only average because the V6 is not good but nice to see some thought put into programming.

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Still there.

Enter festival, autoshow tab, across to car packs, view all, press ‘start’ to redeem

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Game took over two hours to re-install (on a 500Mb connection!)
Re-synced my saved game profile.
Bought the new Italian cars (Paid £2.99 as I used some Rewards points to get a £5 gift card)

Game loads without problems. The small splash screen only shows for a few seconds now, there’s a black screen with rotating circle after the company logos screen for about 20-30 seconds, but all is well.

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I’ve taken a few whacks at that car and found the weight reduction upgrades to be very bad value for the PI they cost. My best tested build only had the first weight reduction in it, and I only did that to counteract the stiffening I put in, which the car reacts very well to.

Even then it struggles to get good power to weight ratio vs other A class super saloons, but at least I got it to a point where it was beating unbeatable drivatars on my test track. It’s best lap was about a second behind the car I was testing it against, the BMW 1M.

I might try for a PvE 850 or 825 build when I get my second one through the playlist. I feel with a bit more upgrades it can better shake it’s stock issues, but I utterly refuse to do a drivetrain swap or add Forza aero to the car.

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Tried the 33 Stradale with Kapien’s S1 Dirt tune for myself just now.

Very good but I think broken is exaggerating a little, it’s broken in a straight line but falls down on handling compared to the very best, especially on tarmac.

Got it to #64 on Baja California so it’s clearly top 100 capable material on a suitable course for it, but I personally don’t see it consistently challenging the quick BS, CLK-GTR or Lola times, and you’d have to drive the Alfa much better than you would one of those 3 to achieve a similar time.

In races vs good quality opposition that would be even more pronounced, you’d have to take more risks in the 33 than if you were driving any of that trio.

Edit: Got it to #43 on Tapalpa as well, same story as above though.

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I’ve been looking and thinking and that Lancia and Alfa both have AWD systems I’m feeling like an inventive team leader and his tuning and building team could come up with innovative ways to incorporate modern drivetrains into the venerable old 124 Spyder frame.

To that I say job well done! Let’s rock with this new 124 AWD Spyder.

There’s even greater things on the table now that Williams Martini Racing has signed on as the primary sponsor!

Share code: 153 136 864

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Anybody else finding it impossible to put vinyls on the side mirrors on the Super Trofeo?

The mapping was wonky in several sections, like how the sides impact the top fin (and the wings). I was able to pretty much work around it, but I tried every angle I could think of (top, sides, front, back) and nothing was affecting the side mirrors. It appears to stay with what the base paint color it.

Edited:
My bad. Apparently that’s not so unusual. I just ran into the same thing with the Maserati… minus the wonky fin and spoiler getting set by the side locations.

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@CashlessPlains8 added the Cashless vinyl to the livery.

Cashless

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Super :sunglasses:! Thank you!! :blush: Awesome livery! :+1: Will be getting mine here in a bit. :grin:

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Love the livery!

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All the Martini vinyls are available for download. Just search with my gamer tag and key word martini.

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The trick is to override the saveslot instead of deleting it :wink:

Small edit: Of course a fix would be better than that workaround. :sweat_smile:

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If u make a smal change in the newest copy and then save, then delete the newest one you’ll keep the old one and it is still shared. Worked for me many times…

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As we’re with Martini liveries. I’ve made these two for the Delta.


SC: Design 768 207 802 - Tune 296 533 926 (A 800)


SC: Design 118 632 674 - Tune 136 514 702 (S1 890)

It’s quite nice at A 800 but unfortunately underperforms in S1 as you can only reach a max PI of 890 and that’s only achievable with the 1.6T Rally engine. This engine is also producing a strange bug in combination with the 6-Speed racing transmission. The calculation in the tuning menu will fail and show a very low top speed. Here it shows 59,8 km/h while the topspeed is actually slightly over 290 km/h.

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Yep. I was happy when I saw "Improvements made to some unusual long loading times particularly on Windows Store PC clients before the start of the game window (Bug ID 3840750) ".

But after the company logos screen, I didn’t have any loading time before the update. In fact, the problem has just been moved further… ^^’