Forza Motorsport Needs a True Offline Mode
I expect the game to minimize online dependency and remain functional even if the connection drops.
- The fewer external requirements, the more stable and reliable the game becomes.
- Unnecessary online dependencies should not interfere with the gameplay experience.
- Core features should work independently without forcing constant connectivity.
Forza Motorsport should not rely on external servers in ways that disrupt the player experience. Stability should come first.
I wish you worked at Turn10.
Since the most important thing for employees is to achieve their goals in line with the company’s philosophy, someone like me, who frequently complains and disrupts relationships, would likely not be welcomed.
The problem with PSN shows how this state can paralyse all the game.
I hope the dev team will understand how the always-online state is not a sustainable situation.
This is the last always-online game I buy.
I suspect the dev team may realize this, but I also suspect the executives may or may not receive bonuses based on persistent online player count. Again, to the moderators possibly looking to delete this post, I’m not making an assertion. I’m just saying what may or may not be the case.
Another two weeks gone by… and just silence from the devs.
Has there been any indication whatsoever that some kind of offline mode might be added at some point?
A dozen of races added every month, and removed one month later 
Yeah, I’m not a fan of that either; what I’m asking, however, is whether has there been any discussion, at all, about being able to save singleplayer progress locally/offline?
From my understanding (I don’t yet own the game), if they turned off the servers tomorrow the only thing I’d be able to access is ‘Free Play’, presumably with a limited number of cars (none that require unlocking) and without the ability to load or save tunes, paint schemes etc, almost like a demo mode; I imagine all tacks would be available, but I’m not even 100% about that.
This seems incredibly limiting, and is by far the biggest reason I’ve not bought the game thus far.
Yep, free play with borrowed cars and that’s all. I believe you can’t even choose the car color or the driving suit.
It sucks for game preservation too. I thought XBox was implied in this but GAAS don’t seem concerned.
It’s ‘game preservation’ that worries me the most, if by that you mean being able to play it when, one day, they kill the servers?
As I mentioned elsewhere, I’m weighing up whether to pick it up as part of the FH5/FM Premium bundle at 60% off, or whether to just stick with FH5 at 50% off (the bundle effectively makes FM Premium £27.50 or ~70% off).
It depends on what you like. I played FH5 a little during a gamepass month but didn’t enjoy it more than the previous ones, so I didn’t buy it. I prefer races on circuits like in FM but it’s not a simulation neither.
I enjoy more ACC for the sim aspects, but FM is more accessible and “ready to play”: I play it when I just have time for short races, not the entire evening.
I’m def getting FH5, as I thoroughly enjoy FH4 (which I play exclusively from the cockpit at max difficulty with as little HUD as possible); sure, it’s not a sim, but to me it feels very good/semi-realistic with a controller (I use the Thrustmaster Racing Wheel Module, which is really fantastic – once you get used to it!).
I was intending to pick up FM too, last time both were on sale, even though I knew the singleplayer career was pretty limited (I have zero interest in multiplayer), but then discovered that all singleplayer progress (everything!) was also stored on their servers…
I might still grab it, at effectively 70% off, and just hope that at some point down the line the devs will add the option for a local save.
Out of interest, can you select every track and car in Free Play, including ones you normally need to unlock?
The egregious online-only mode and FOMO for “new content” when the game is already bland is killing it! There is nothing left to save this if you do not show the care, respect and attention to detail the game and its fans deserve.
Turn10 Studios, I request you to take a healthy look at your game, add proper offline support, remove the FOMO mechanics and let the game thrive with the content added permanently!
The fat that you cannot launch the game, your save file, view, modify and drive your own cars, do the career mode and play the single-player modes offline is frankly insulting and outrageous at this point! Respect the owners who bought the game. That’s a minimum request!
We all know they won’t change it, like, ever tho. This is their way to force the time-gating the cars by locking them up for those players who couldn’t get them in time, so they won’t be able to drive those cars anywhere even in quick race mode.
I really wish people could do smth akin to TC1’s revival, so players wouldn’t be at mercy of FM2023’s master server anymore, and would be able to access the content they paid for even in offline mode. Because unlocked through a time-gated event or not, locking the cars without any alternative way of getting them (or driving them at least in a quick race mode) in a game a customer had paid for - is a straight up robbery. But don’t worry, devs and MS would keep getting away with it, and nobody would change a single thing there.
From now on I straight up advise everyone (even the actual game owners, yes) - please play the game on pirated copies, and those who haven’t bought it yet please DO NOT buy the game, please pirate it instead. Leave their ‘servers’ stand idle with no job to cover the bill.
(Yeah, that last one was pure silliness, sorry. Still, please do not buy the game, and pirate it instead.)
P.S. To MS & T10: I don’t care if it violates your code of something something, or not. You do not deserve customers’ money anyway.
I agree. If I had to guess, there’s no proper offline mode (and not even the ability to store and access your save file locally) because the executives get bigger bonuses if more people play Forza Motorsport online. The irony is having no offline mode tells gamers they’ll inevitably lose access to their save in the future, and so they don’t even play it at all (me included).