As much as I want to play Forza 7 I simply CANNOT. Turn 10 needs to play their own game and listen to their community, simple as that! The multiplayer is very laggy and has many issues. Below I will list things that absolutely need to be fixed ASAP.
Being put into game chat when entering multiplayer menu/hoppers
Players that do not race need to be ghosted immediately
Players who are more than a lap down also need to be ghosted to eliminate trolls/wreckers
Online stability is horrendous
Game crashes randomly, when in a race or while loading into lobbies
Multipler menus/and car selection is ridiculously slow to the point where you can’t even select a car before the intermission is up [Mod Edit - Abbreviated profanity, profanity and profanity that is disguised but still alludes to the words are not permitted - D]
Track selection window needs to be extended and have easier access
Vote to kick players needs to be implemented like Forza 4
Inconisent audio hitches/bugs
Track rotation needs to incorporate more full length circuits
Lobby size needs to be taken down to a maximum of 16 players
Forza Motorsport is the best Forza ever but there are many issues that need to be addressed ASAP, otherwise we as racers are unable to enjoy the Mutliplayer portion of the game. Turn 10 please listen and fix these issues!
The game chat issues are awful… I constantly have no idea if I am even chatting with my party anymore… and if FM7 crashes (as it does) I seem to lose all audio to the party permanently until a new party beings.
Go to your party settings and where it says “switch to game chat” hit the A Burton twice. This will put you back in party chat. You need to do this whenever starting multiplayer or joining a lobby for sure.
^ This.
If these bs stability issues aren’t rectified by the time the first Car Pack drops I’ll be requesting a refund. Something I thought would never happen in regards to Forza. Sure it’s a good game, but to release something that kicks you back to dashboard every three or so races (plus multiple other triggers) is just pathetic.
^ This happens every time I race in Multiplayer. Last night I did 3 races, first race got smashed to bits even though I started last and waited for the traditional first corner wreck fest and went past the ghosted cars facing the wrong way then …BAM!!! your in the wall. Second race no sound from my car at all, so that was a mess, so I quit back to the lobby and waited for the next race and changed cars. The next race starts and I have no lights in a night race … Great !!!.. I carry on and finish the race in a reasonable position, god knows how, then the game throws me back to the dashboard so I give up, and go and try to wake the wife.
Also the lag is off putting I am hard wired with average about 100mb download. This is not good.
I woke the wife and she wasn’t happy either, she told me to do a hard restart and play something else… good advice.
I’ve been lucky with the crashing issue but one of the guys I race with had it happen to home 4 times in a row without getting a race in.
The party chat issue confounds me. That should be an easy fix.
The black screen of death and super zoomed in issue is annoying but seems a little better now since launch. Hopefully this stuff gets corrected soon.
And the wreckers suck. There are two kind of wreckers. Those that just seem to enjoy making everyone else miserable and those who are fast racers but bump you to get by. I actually hate the bumpers more because they have the skill to be clean and are just lazy.
To be fair, sometimes the netcode in forza games likes to act up and “phantom hit” players. You see someone bump you off the track, but on their screen they weren’t even near your car when it happened.
Happens every now and then when I’m battling people online, but when I see the guy I’m racing against get phantom punted, I’ll pull over off the track and wait for him. I’ve seen this issue since FM5, and I doubt the netcode will ever improve. Just one of those things that you have to realize can be a possibility, and that driver won’t even know it happened.
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Also, sometimes in forza 6 there was an issue where if you were following behind someone and they lag backwards into you, it doesn’t happen on their screen.
I don’t mind the 24 player count, but with that count, I usually don’t drop to the back like I used to do in FM4. Much harder to get to the front with that many. I would not lament going back to 16 though.
I don’t want to see the return of the FM4 vote system. I saw many a clean racer get booted because of a group lynching mentality. I’m not sure how the new system works, but the old one was abused too much in my opinion.
I have the same issues and agree with everything the op stated except for taking down the lobby size to 16 and ghosting cars that are down a lap.
The constant crashing, being booted out of the game completely is a bug that the other Forza games had as well at launch and was eventually fixed.
I’ve been playing Forza for a long time and this has to be the worse of them all at launch. It’s like someone turned on the game and walked away to concentrate on something else. Way too many bugs, glitches and slow moving menus.
Multiplayer has been down graded big time. Forza 6 Multiplayer should of just been copied and pasted into Forza 7 and improve from there. Instead it has taken numerous amount of steps backwards.
24 racers are way to much to have on the track especially when only 5% of the lobby actually knows how to race. Having racers ghosted after being a lap down will help eliminate trolls/wreckers.