Real quick before we get to the list, I’ve been thinking of ideas for improvements for the past week and here’s what I’ve came up with, a long list yes but no game is perfect. Also some of these suggestions are in Horizon 2 so you’d expect them to be in Motorsport 6 but just to be safe, I’ve included them, and lastly I will be re-posting this list every couple weeks or so to make sure that the developers see it plus I’ll be keeping it updated with new suggestions that I come up with or hear from others and I’ll take away any suggestions that get confirmed.
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- Please improve the tire smoke, when drifting or applying the brakes it looks like the smoke’s 10 feet behind the car.
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- Implement both dynamic time and weather systems.
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- Improve tire wear to be more realistic and where you can actually blow a tire.
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- Increase the maximum number of laps that can be set in a circuit race.
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- Add the option to paint engine bays and change the color of the interior.
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- Add more customization, nothing crazy seeing as how this is mostly a sim, just some more body mods would be appreciated.
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- More tuning options such as being able to change the pressure on each individual tire and etc.
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- Bring back fun game modes like soccer and even add new ones like capture the flag or something for online and private matches.
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- Please only send me a tuning reward message for when I’m actually receiving something and not when someone’s used my tune in the past 24 hours, or perhaps pay me ever race my tune gets used in.
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- Release a Forza Rewards App for the XB1.
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- Release a companion app for IOS and other devices, they’d be plenty of features that would be possible such as being able to view the vehicles you have, tuning them, even being able to turn ur device into a GPS or a speedometer, or being able to see telemetry settings on ur device while running a lap for tuning.
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- Possibly increase the maximum number of drivers instead of it being 16, the more the better in my opinion!
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- State which tracks are fantasy tracks, like Prague or the Alps, and which are realistic, perhaps have them in 2 separate categories?
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- Remove Micro-Transactions, personally I have no problem with them however I do dislike how one of the challenges on the reward page is too purchase tokens, and I feel as if it hurts the game negatively more then it helps it positively.
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- Add Support for VR headsets as they come out, for instance The Totem is an upcoming VR Headset that would be eligible. Also would be nice to add support for new devices as they come along, such as the Control VR (which is a system that monitors hand movements, this would be useful when shifting and steering and would just make the experience that much more immersive), or devices that are already out like the ButtKicker from Simxperience, or just improving the functionality and the accuracy of devices that already work by designing there SDKs specifically for the game such as the KOR-FS Gaming Vest, which is something that’s coming out soon and they will be releasing the SDK for developers.
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- Do not do any form of auto recording using the GameDVR.
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- Others may feel different but I would rather not have any Kinect Support and use the extra 10% of GPU power towards the game, however if the Kinect could be implemented in a cool way then do it, the head tracking feature is not useful in my opinion but unique to say the least.
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- Give us a Notification whenever one of our friends beats our record time on the leaderboard and list the track, course, and class he did it in via the message section on Forza’s main menu.
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- Make the on screen wheel match the rotation of the wheel we’re using, instead of just being 90 degrees as it is now, for those who use a gamepad allow them to be able to change the rotation of the on screen wheel if they wish.
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- Add support for a triple monitor setup, like the one at E3, for those that are willing to do so.
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- Add more viewing angles that can be used while driving such as a helmet cam, for example the one in Project Cars which is like the regular cockpit view but with part of the helmet and visor visible, sounds more muffled, and defocus effect and rain drops on the visor when driving open wheelers would be nice detailed additions for the helmet cam and I think the cam would be useful especially for VR users. Also would be nice to have another cockpit view that doesn’t show the wheel or the hands, perhaps a little in front of the wheel so you can still see the dash, something like in Drive Club, would be very useful for those who already use a wheel and don’t want a wheel on screen or perhaps give us the option to just remove the wheel/hands, I’ve seen that option in some games as well.
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- Be able to sort cars better, perhaps adding categories that we can name and create and then store cars in those such as a drifting category and etc, also add “cars not owned” as a filter option for the buy cars section.
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- Upgrade the theater mode by letting us take a full game replay and cut it down to one or multiple small clips, and allowing a free camera mode where we can record any angle we want, and the ability to remove the theater HUD.
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- Add in the option to sell cars and maybe even to gift them to friends, as well as being able to gift credits.
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- Add a “contact us” section to the main website supplying those in need with an email address that they can send an email too to resolve any issues, and it wouldn’t hurt to update the “most popular questions” under the support section for they all deal with Forza 4 or Forza Horizon 1, I had to contact the FB page just too receive an appropriate email address for help.
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- Make it to where you can see DLC cars when you’re playing online, currently they appear as a black, unrendered car. If you’re going to show the cars in a trailer and let us see them in the store and see drivatars driving them, why not let us see them online? It just takes away from the immersive driving experience when you see a floating, black, car with no detail that’s supposed to be a van.
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- Add a “total cars” count somewhere, in the shop perhaps, for those of us who are just interested in seeing how many cars are in the game.
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- Add the telemetry view in replays, would make tuning slightly easier.
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- Make tunes carry over from special edition versions of a car to the original, for instance I have the MTN Dew limited edition '12 Camaro ZL1 and today I bought a new '12 Camaro ZL1 cause I got tired of the MTN Dew one but the 4 Tunes I had for the MTN Dew one does not carry over to the original so now I have to go through and copy all my tunes over by hand, very time consuming.
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- Would love to be able to upload my own music into the game and play it while driving or even on the main menu, perhaps through Xbox Music or USB? I’ve also heard that The Crew will allow players to listen to real radio stations live while driving, not sure how, but that would be also very impressive if it’s true and if Forza could implement the system as well.
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- Be able to upgrade the rim size of default rims
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- Upgrade the damage modeling to involve more realistic damage.
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- Be able to search for designs across all cars, for instance I can search “Jeff Gordon” and all Jeff Gordon related designs would show up then I can buy the car that has the best looking design.
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- Add wind as a factor, perhaps even take records from that track on multiple different occasions and find the average wind speed and directions and implement them and then set them to change during the race.
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- Add the ability to open the hood and view the engines of all the cars and open the trunks as well.
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- Add windshield whippers, which if you add weather then I’d assume you’d add these, would also be cool to have turn signals and emergency blinkers that we could turn on/off and maybe a horn, might wouldn’t be a big deal for the motorsport series but would be cool to have these functions in the next Horizon and if implemented in the motorsport series as well then I’d appreciate it, all the more detail to make the experience that much more immersive, and if you do horns please take the time to record just a few audio samples of the horn from each car.
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- Make simulation damage turned off during live tuning. Also maybe add the ability to host private and public live tuning lobbies where you can live tune vehicles with your friends.
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- Add a way to report crashers and look into these reports and punish those that are found guilty of unsporting conduct, maybe banning them for a certain amount of time from multiplayer depending on how many times they get caught or make them only get matched up with other crashers for a certain period of time.
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- Add a Platinum medal for First place, I love the medal system because currently it keeps you fighting for positions, no matter what position you’re in there is a chance you could one up the medal you currently have except for when you’re in 3rd or 2nd, then you’re just fighting to keep your position, there’s no motivation for 1st place.
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- Possibly add a mode where you can reenact special moments in motorsport history, seeing a lot of games do this now and could even add moments like breaking world records, like for instance getting to drive the Hennessey Venom GT to become the fastest production car.
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- Make other bumpers and spoilers have adjustable aerodynamics, on some vehicles I’d rather not use the Forza branded parts just to have the adjustability.
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- Add in the option for a random track to be selected by the game in a private lobby, find it annoying to have to decide on a track myself sometimes or ask everybody in my lobby which track they want.
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- Be able to use the controller to look around while using a wheel, noticed it when I was trying to show off a new car to my friend, would also be cool if they could make it where we can go from using the wheel and pedals to just using a controller to race without having to unplug the wheel or having to restart the game.
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- When applying a part that negativly effects your car, make the red numbers a bit easier to red, don’t know if it’s just me or what but they’re hard to read.
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- Add a way to bring up the grid to see who’s in what positons, would be very useful for online to see where your friends are at, perhaps make the back button (or technically now the “view” button) and when clicked it pops up a slightly transparent grid or something of that nature and then click the button again and it disappears.
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- Make the numbers a bit easier to read when using the telemetry, find it hard when tuning springs to read the numbers when there’s a very bright
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- Make the numbers a bit easier to read when using the telemetry, find it hard when tuning springs to read the numbers when there’s a very bright
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- Native 3D support for both 3D active and 3D passive TVs.
On a side note I’d love for them to add a Forza Motorsport app to the XB1, and maybe 360 if possible, where we can keep up to date on all the news from motorsport events and watch races live and on demand. Also would love to see more Forza merchandise, would love to own a pair of those Forza driving gloves the driver uses in Forza 5 or maybe some Forza decals to add to my rig, also wouldn’t hurt to release a couple Forza wallpapers and such for people to use for their computers or phones, and would help give the series a bit more promotion. Obviously I expect them to make adjustments as adding more cars and more tracks and improving the physics ever so slightly, would personally love more focus on some other types of racing like go-karts, dragsters, and even stock cars so we can do our own Nascar designs and more Nascar tracks as well. I’d like to personally thank Turn 10 for caring more bout quality then anything else, they took a lot of hate from only having 200 cars and 14 tracks at launch but some people just don’t understand that when you completely redo the physics and graphics engine from the ground up for the new hardware that you have to redo all your materials and models as well so you guys did a fantastic job with both the game and follow up DLC and updates. Lastly if you guys have any other suggestions or just wanna say what’s on your mind then feel free and if you guys wanna race together sometime on XBL then add me!