Last night I picked up the Ferrari GTO and wanting to be somewhat competitive, downloaded a few well scoring tuning setups in different classes. I was able to play one online race which took place on a track called something “Extreme Circuit” which I had never seen. Using my new tune I was able to make 2nd place. Because I had never run the track before, I slid out in an “S” curve on the backstretch, which cost me most of my time lost, and I finished about 15 seconds behind the winner. Still I was the only other car to finish so I can’t feel TOO bad about it. The tune was an “S” class GTO tuning.
When loading a tune for a given car, is there any way to see what the class of the tune is or even the attributes of a given tune without manually selecting each one, and then going to the garage? For example, the GTO now has tunings in 3 or 4 different classes, some with differing characteristics, such as emphasis on top speed or grip…
Is there a way to rename tuning setups so that they are class identifiable?
For online racing, if a lobby specifies a certain class, is there a way to select a car outside that class and then tune it to the required class without leaving the lobby, going to career mode, swapping the tune, and then re-entering online play? If my GTO for example (it’s easy to stick with the same car) has an “S” class tune, but I want to run it in an “A” class race, could I swap the tune in lobby to an “A” or do I have to leave fully and come back?
As you’ve discovered, if you have a car built to say s700 class sitting in your garage you will not be able to find it from your on-line lobby if you’re racing in say a600 class without jumping out of the lobby and loading the appropriate class tune.
If you’ve a favorite car that you like to use in a couple of different classes on-line without getting out of the lobby you have to own multiple copies of that car or open up the lobby restrictions. A little annoying, yes. That hasn’t been an issue for me more than once or twice;
If you’re not changing classes you can usually change a tune on-line, within the lobbies restrictions of course, but also a bit of a pain and it can take a bit too long to do between races sometimes, depends on the lobby is what I’m trying to say.
You’ll have to come up with a naming system when you save your setups, whatever suits you best - so long as it less than 15 (maybe it’s 16?) characters and doesn’t include any “special” symbols .-@, etc. (anybody renumber DOS? LOL) Anyway, I try and keep it simple and just name 'm s700 for example. In your case it sounds like you want say “grip” or “speed” also be in the tune name - s700 grip, S700 speed . maybe s700 old lemans? hey, that’s 15 characters!
I’m pretty sure you can switch from an S class to an A class while in a lobby. Example: You are racing ABC’S. You get put in S class the first race, you have your S class Ferrari GTO, race ends, you get put in A class, you want to run your Ferrari GTO again as an A class, but it’s an S class, and you don’t want to leave the lobby to go switch tunes, and you only have 1 copy of the car…go to “load tune setup”, find and pick your Ferrari GTO, it will list all of the tunes you have for that car, find your A class Ferrari GTO tune and load it up. Do note, I have had a few problems as of late with cars I’ve loaded tunes to… Just last night a put an S class tune on my NSX-R GT just to see how it’d fair in ABC’S, got in an ABC’S lobby, got picked for S class, went to pick my S class NSX-R GT and it was nowhere to be found…odd…this happens quite a bit for me. Hope this novel I just typed helps…
[quote=BttleFed;139639…got in an ABC’S lobby, got picked for S class, went to pick my S class NSX-R GT and it was nowhere to be found…odd…this happens quite a bit for me.[/quote]
this. friends and I were changing things up in a user created lobby - lobby owner (director, whatever…) says B class vans - I go to my garage and there’s no van because my van was sitting there in S and therefore invisible(!) so I could not get to it in order to change the tune to B - I had to exit the lobby, go to the van in my garage, load the B class tune, re-enter the lobby and then select the van. took way too long, but my friends were gracious enough to allow ;^) happens very rarely, may never happen… work-around would be to have two (or more) of the same model sitting in your garage with two (or more) different class tunes pre-loaded. not such a big deal, but perhaps difficult to anticipate. A better way would’ve been if you could get in any car regardless or lobby restrictions but not be able to check ready until it met restrictions. but we can’t and that’s not going to change, FM4ever. (Would also have bee nice if you could loan or give anyone in a lobby a car and/or tune in lobby - as it is both must exit in order to give/receive.)
this. friends and I were changing things up in a user created lobby - lobby owner (director, whatever…) says B class vans - I go to my garage and there’s no van because my van was sitting there in S and therefore invisible(!) so I could not get to it in order to change the tune to B - I had to exit the lobby, go to the van in my garage, load the B class tune, re-enter the lobby and then select the van. took way too long, but my friends were gracious enough to allow ;^) happens very rarely, may never happen… work-around would be to have two (or more) of the same model sitting in your garage with two (or more) different class tunes pre-loaded. not such a big deal, but perhaps difficult to anticipate. A better way would’ve been if you could get in any car regardless or lobby restrictions but not be able to check ready until it met restrictions. but we can’t and that’s not going to change, FM4ever. (Would also have bee nice if you could loan or give anyone in a lobby a car and/or tune in lobby - as it is both must exit in order to give/receive.)
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^I think you are reffering to forza 5… in forza 4 you could select the “load tuning setup” option and all cars in all classes would appear and you would have to choose which car you would like to load a tuning setup for, the tuning setup you choose must however get you into the correct class or it wont load.
Also, could do it by using the paint or design feature… all cars for certain tracks/classes 6have a certain symbol on them etc.
I have not played 5 yet, so no. it was FM4 - my van was invisible to me browsing my garage from the lobby until I exited the lobby, changed the tune to a B, and re-entered the lobby.
could be I was doing it wrong, I obviously don’t know everything - what is this paint design feature? how does it work?
No problem. You are correct when you just go to select a car, only cars that are in that class are an option. You need to select the “load tuning setup” - All cars will then appear and allow you to put a tune on any car to get it to meet the specified criteria.
What i meant is in the livery editor, just pick one of the premade logo’s etc and slap that on the car on the side somewhere so that it can be seen when you go to select the car, and remember what you have the logo mean. For instance a Triangle could be a grip tune, square speed tune etc or there is option for the tracks logo, if it was made for a specific location. As long as you dont change the tune you will always know what the car is for.
I may be completely wrong about that as i dont do much in the designs area, but i was pretty sure that there were premade track logos in the livery editor. I would have to dust off and fire up the 360 to give you a real answer.
Thank you very much for the tip regarding loading tune setups. I will now acquire setups for multiple classes for each car. Originally I was thinking I’d have to have a decisive class for each one and setup a spreadsheet to keep track of the data.