Make your boldest predictions for FM8's launch day content

Remember to keep it around over 500 cars and 20 tracks, as that’s how many cars and tracks the game will launch with. I posted something similar in GT Planet, so here’s my take on it:

Car List:

  • The car list will be somewhere in the high 500’s, like around 550 to 570 cars.
  • Motorsport disciplines will range from IMSA to FIA WEC, Blancpain, Can-Am, Formula Drift, historic Grand Prix, vintage prototypes and even TCR. There is also the possibility for Super GT/JGTC and DTM to return after a long absence since Motorsport 4.
  • There will still be some SUV’s and pick-up trucks, despite them not being shown in any game footage so far as of writing, but the more hardcore off-road production cars will not be present at launch. Kind of like Motorsport 3 where SUV’s and pick-up trucks made their debut, but they were actually the more sporty ones as opposed to off-roaders.
  • There will likely be no rally cars, trophy trucks, rally raid cars and buggies at launch, as it is likely that there won’t be any form of rally and/or off-road racing from the start of the game’s lifespan.
  • NASCAR and IndyCar won’t be featured at launch, likely because of their involvement with the Ponzi scheme that is Motorsport Games.
  • It is currently unknown if Hot Wheels concept vehicles will make it, but good candidates would be the Hot Wheels Ford Mustang, as it is a popular drift car, and the Bad to the Blade will make for an exciting one-make series as it is an open-wheeler with a lot of downforce.
  • It is also unknown whether or not V8 Supercars will return.
  • Formula E might still make it in the game, but they’ll likely skip the second-generation cars.
  • Certain Stellantis brands such as Alfa Romeo, Citroen, Fiat and Lancia may possibly return after having their licensing issues sorted out. It also seems likely that there will be no “missing manufacturer syndrome” this time around.
  • There won’t be any Forza Editions in the game.
  • It’s possible that most oddball cars from Motorsport 7 may not make it to the game at launch.
  • It is unknown, but highly unlikely that some Hoonigan vehicles may return at launch.
  • As with tradition in the Forza series since Motorsport 5, it is likely that the cover car will be a previously unseen vehicle that is yet to be unveiled, or has yet to reach production. - UPDATE: The Cadillac V-Series.R and Chevrolet Corvette E-Ray are the cover cars. Fun fact: this would be the first time a race car is actually a cover car in a Forza title.
  • The six cars that were previously shown, but held back for release (Audi R8 LMS, Cadillac DPi-V.R, Ginetta G60 LT-P1, Oreca 07, Porsche 935 and Porsche 956) will likely be part of a day one update or DLC.

Tracks:

  • The wording isn’t exactly clear whether it’s exactly 20 environments or more than 20 environments.
  • Despite some doubts, tracks like the Nürburgring (especially the Nordschleife) and Le Mans will actually be there at launch.
  • As for city tracks, I believe Turn Ten would like to revisit the series’ roots and add back the New York and Tokyo circuits from the original Motorsport, this time reimagined. It would make sense, given that Microsoft has an experience center in Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, NYC (believe me, I saw a McLaren Senna being used as a sim rig for Forza Horizon 5 while I was there), and that the Xbox brand has been picking up in popularity in Japan in recent years.
  • Given its popularity within the community, it is possible that Fujimi Kaido may actually return.
  • There won’t be any rally/rallycross tracks at launch. This may also explain why some off-roaders, rally cars, trophy trucks and buggies aren’t in the game from day one. It also wouldn’t make sense to have them just race on tarmac roads when there isn’t any off-road racing.
  • It is already confirmed that previously unseen historic track layouts will come to the game.
  • The Top Gear Test Track will not be included, as it is likely that Forza’s partnership with Top Gear has ended shortly after Horizon 4, not to mention, the state of modern Top Gear (post-The Grand Tour) hasn’t been any good so far.
  • All tracks will have 24-hour dynamic time of day and complete dynamic weather, as it was confirmed by Chris Esaki himself.

There’s a good chance that it will be in FM2023, even if it is just renamed as “Dunsfold Aerodrome” in case the TopGear partnership ceased, similar to the “Côte d’Azur” in Gran Turismo 4

Lets see here…

  1. None of the cars from the trailer because they removed they to reintroduce them as paid content on the game you’re paying for
  2. A bunch of 10 year old assets that have been upscaled and made ‘shinier’
  3. About 0.08% of new things that one nay consider as being “built from the ground up”
  4. 8,675,309 bugs, glitches, and more exponentially introduced as they patch the bugs already in the game but for every 1 they patch they introduce 3 more
  5. An unfortunate amount of sheep (or other livestock), myself included, of whom will still buy and play this game religiously even though what was once a 9 is now a 4… But anyone who’s gone to a highschool reunion know a nine often becomes a four after a decade or so
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Hopefully Forza will get many tracks back in the game soon and the car physics will be aimed for a hardcore simulation if you want.(which you should).

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2026 Ford Mustang

They will just show again the same CGI video at maple valley, saying is ingame, but it is CGI Because the game…DOESN’T EXIST!!!

Drag racing will be an utter disappointment at best. I don’t think it’ll get the love it needs. It never does, not even in dedicated drag racing games.

Best drag racing game was drag racer v3, a flash game on addictinggames.com

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Oddly enough I also think the best drag racing game was a flash game, Nitto 1320 Legends.

I have played drag racer v3, but Legends was better. I just don’t understand how with all the advancements in technology, there is not a single drag racing game worth playing today. All the base framework is there in several games, it just needs made into a drag racing mode. But nobody will do it.

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Don’t forget Dragster, for the 2600, a true classic for the ages, one man even went faster than possible on the game… twice

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Here are my predictions for oval racing cars in the Forza Motorsport reboot:

NASCAR:
(Gen 4) 2006 Chevrolet Monte Carlo SS Stock Car
(Gen 4) 2006 Ford Fusion Stock Car
(Gen 6) 2016 Chevrolet Super Sport Stock Car
(Gen 6) 2016 Ford Fusion Stock Car

Indycar:
(IR18) 2018 Chevrolet Dallara
(IR18) 2018 Honda Dallara

Predictions for NASCAR in FM2023:
Liveries set to stay primer (just like on Forza Motorsport 3)
Chevrolet & Ford stickers shown on the cars
No Goodyear logo on the tires
Division to be renamed from NASCAR to Stock Car Racing
Set to be at launch

Predictions for Indycar in FM2023:
Liveries set to stay primer
Chevrolet & Honda stickers shown on the cars
No Firestone logo on the tires
Division to be renamed from Indycar to Left Turn Open Wheel Racing
Set to be at launch

I’m predicting that we’ll probably see Primer Stock Cars and Primer Open Wheel Oval Cars, not actual NASCAR and Indycar liveries because they’re licensed with Motorsport Games like you/he said. The reason I replied to this is because I am a big NASCAR fan.

20 Tracks is meagerly low count for a AAA title. That’s a much as those Grid games quantity. 30+ Tracks I hope come out.

Well the only way to make up for the shortcomings of the 20 tracks is its variety. I’m going to predict the following for launch:

  1. Autodromo de Interlagos - NEW
  2. Autodromo Nazionale Monza
  3. Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya
  4. Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps
  5. Circuit Hakone - NEW
  6. Circuit Paul Ricard NEW
  7. Daytona International Speedway
  8. Fujimi Kaido
  9. Kyalami Grand Prix Circuit - NEW
  10. Le Mans Circuit de la Sarthe
  11. Maple Valley Raceway
  12. Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course - NEW
  13. New York Circuit
  14. Nürburgring
  15. Sebring International Raceway
  16. Silverstone Racing Circuit
  17. Suzuka Circuit
  18. Tokyo Circuit
  19. Virginia International Raceway
  20. WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca
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That never stopped the past 2 motorsport games from racing dune buggies on Mugello