Longtime player wishes for The next motorsport

Forza Motorsport Forza Motorsport (2023) Discussion
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So i’ve enjoyed playing Motorsport series for a long time now, and i’m mostly commenting single player here, not multiplayer.

The problem i have with newest Forza Motorsport is that it feels “empty” and it doesn’t have a soul.

I would like to list few things i would love to see on next installment. I’m no gamemaker, but i try to stay realistic.

Core gameplay
The physics feels good and doesn’t need any major changes in my opinion.
The ai needs some work tho still, ai drivers can Be really messy and as The race goes on they still form these slower clumps behind.
The carsounds i would love to be bit more dramatic, they can be very underwhelming in bigger engine cars.

Story/singleplayer mode
It feels very empty and shallow, i think this needs major updates to make it feel like real events and it needs complexity. For example:
Maybe add some sponsors you get from good racing, add their stickers to your car to gain lower prices of stuff.
Some small cutscenes even would go a long way to bring some feel to the scene.

Customization/art
This is a big thing to many of us. I hated to see the shaking spoilers for example to be taken away.
I would love to see it again and add to it, shaking exhaust, maybe crashed bodywork could shake a bit and Even make a small scrathing noices. It makes The cars feel so much more realistic and not just a moving blocks.

Small details is everything, add on customization, Even small things like taping over headlights,different exhaust tips, small bodywork adds like adding colour for small parts.
Maybe add an option to close/open roof before race in convertibles If it’s possible. We love these small details in games like this, the freedom and variety is super important.

One bit crazier thought
Maybe add a optional hub kinda thing where you can cruise/drift/just mess around a bit in small part of a City/some industrial place where would be your garage, paintshop, bodyworkshop etc.
In your garage i would love to walk around with multiple of your cars on display, next to them could be The distance you have driven with them, some major events you have driven with them etc. To Make these cars have some feeling and story.

In a nutshell i hate to see this game going more shallow experience, we love The simulation aspect, but adding a lot of small details and personality would add so much.

You have almost a perfect base, now please make it to have a rich small detail layer on top of it and it will succeed like never before.

Thanks.

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Few extra bits.

-more realistic and informative radio chatter from your team.

-working blinkers, just to add a bit realism and freedom, for example to idicate overtaking in practise runs.

-more invidual wire tear, for example If the track is clockwise so other side tires wear More.

-if the hub area were possible, add a graveltrack just to play around, it would add the “bonding” with your vehicles a lot.

-we need those drift and drag racing events, even If they are simply made, i feel a bit cheated on already to not have those. Maybe add multi event series’s to singleplayer mode where these would be added.

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Those are all good ideas. There are also a lot of threads here from other players who has really nice ideas. All those things are, for a developer like turn 10, easy to create and add to the game. But there is one big problem here.
Turn 10 dont care about us players. They can just lie (Look like the Promo and the reality)… And they only see money. Money, money, money. Not more and not less.

They will start to think about it and maybe turn around if no one will buy their games anymore!

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Yeah agreed, i’m trying just to add one more voice here if the correct people would be listening.

We want to love these games and voice our concerns, and who knows, maybe making this game to stand up from competition would even make more profits too.

These days when a lot of “triple A games” lack of creativity, those that does it gets a lot of online praises and free visibility.

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I’ve sent my ideas to the at that time game director himself and it felt like a generic reply sounds good use the suggestions hub…

We post and post on multiple threads. Basically the same ideas, and wants and needs. Are they listening :person_shrugging: doubt it.

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Before this gets closed and the OP is advised to break down the post into dozens of individual ones in the Suggestions Hub, where they will get lost amongst all the others that are ignored and/or missed by players and Turn 10, there will not be another instalment of Forza Motorsport.

Turn 10 stated that this one would be continually updated with new tracks, cars and features. That would have been the case if it had been wildly successful but as it hasn’t, the long term prospects aren’t good. Track additions are drying up, recently promised features are being sidelined.

The way Microsoft is closing studios after a string of flops, I can’t see them funding a Motorsport 9 to course correct. They’ve just announced that Skype is joining Mixer, Groove, Nokia, Zune and Windows phone in the “spent billions before abruptly closing” department.

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I did some research too yesterday about turn10 and what’s going on around Forza series, i was bit out of the loop.

Yeah, things doesn’t look too good for this series, sadly.

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Simple. Bring back fun to the series. Ever since Horizon released each subsequent game takes it self too seriously.

Forza never was a serious SIM racer. That’s not what people wanted or loved about the games.

Well that’s me at least. I loved how it took the GT formula and added it’s own spin around customization.

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There isn’t going to be another one for another good 6 years . They are just going to keep building off of this and keep adding, but let’s say I was a player that haven’t played in 6mo and I come back to this game . It’s going to feel like nothing changed since everything is time limited, they are always taking and removing . Same with ft multiplayer, they always be removing modes. Just leave every class in , leave every type of division race and so on .

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As someone who quit playing 4 months ago in October and picked it back up a few days ago to see where things were at, you are 100% right. What has changed? The penalty system still feel incomplete/incorrect, AI still exhibits behaviors that were reported as resolved, the track rotation in multiplayer feels NO different… What is the daily draw to play here? Some time limited digital cars that they dangle in front of you. Take that away and there is practically nothing except what the player can make of it’s limited feature set.

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That’s exactly it. Cars that you can only obtain for a limited time either by playing 1P events that only exist for a limited time, or by grinding out specific MP events that only exist for a limited time. Next month, more FOMO, lather, rinse, repeat.

I suppose there is some fun to be had with monthly Rivals events or hotlapping competitions, if you’re into that sort of thing. If you can find a league, that can bring some fun and help you overlook some of the game’s shortcomings (for a while, anyway).

There are a few more tracks now than there were at launch, but the majority of the updates, to me anyway, have kinda just felt like shifting around deck chairs on the Titanic.

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Okay so we all do agree , I don’t see how the devs can’t see that domino effect… it’s a really terrible system. They need to stick with the fm7 mp lobby having all those modes to play . They still could keep featured multiplayer, but have another tab underneath for server browser that way you can just find online lobbies that you want to join giving people more freedom to play how they want to play .

What also made the FM franchise so fun was it’s freedom and having different kinds of fun modes , open track day / open drift day , open airfield , soccer , point to point racing, touge racing , bowling , a bunch of different type of tracks for instance fm8 has no mountain pass tracks, no city tracks , no highway tracks , it’s all the same arena tracks ,tracks with similar scenery and tracks that is in every single car game . Would love to even see old tracks we haven’t seen in over a decade

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:100:
Nearly a year-&-a-half post-launch (now nearly 7-&-a-half years since the prior installment’s release), this game still has not even caught up to its predecessors in features or content.
It still has not moved the series or genre forward.
This is not progress.

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My wish would be Codemasters dev team

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I hope they keep adding new things. I really like how the game is going it’s a step in the right direction. I know it takes time, programming is tough. It would be great to see tweaks to how the cars drive, so we can keep figuring out new tuning techniques.

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