Question For Turn 10 About Public Lobbies

Forza Motorsport Legacy Motorsport FM5 Discussion
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I know a lot of people have shown an interest in public lobbies being added to F5 and that there’s a thread for requesting features, but I have a specific question about public lobbies so I didn’t group this there.
I’m hoping someone from Turn 10 that would actually be privy to the correct information could tell us:
A: Why the decision was made not to include such a popular feature in F5?
B: Is the inclusion of public lobbies a feature that’s forthcoming for F5, is that still to be determined, or has the return of public lobbies been tottally ruled out at this point?

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“Finally, in addition to racing in a variety of preset lobbies, players can still create custom lobbies to race in with their friends.”

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Yeah, that mentions the custom lobbies you can create and invite your friends too. Public lobbies, like I’m asking about, are searchable, viewable, and anyone can enter them once a player sets one up.

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I agree,FM2 had it sussed regarding.

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@ oOomotorheadoOo, perhaps a review of the thread is in order. Please read the following:

This particular feature has not been available since FM2. Your “custom” lobbies in FM4 were not searchable/selectable and could only be joined on a random basis without an invite.

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I think you’ll find that custom lobbies were searchable in Forza 4. I know , I had the game!

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Correct DYN4M0 X, i used to have alot of fun with my custom/searchable public lobbies

@Oitzubob If T10 introduce custom public lobbies, u r more than welcome to join mine.

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My apologies, you are correct. it took me some time to figure out how it worked but yes it is there. Here’s a question for you - was it there at release or was it added as a patch? I ask because I had given up online racing about the time FM4 came out. Tardive dyskinesia causes my hands to move unpredictably on their own, not a very popular occurrence in online races with people who don’t know I have the problem.

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If I remember correctly they were always there in F4. If you have or may get F5 feel free to add me. As long as your intent is to race clean then your Tardrive dyskinesia wouldn’t make any difference to me. I don’t know anything about it but I’d be willing to bet no matter how bad it is you wouldn’t cause half the wrecks that the jerks who play just to cause trouble do.

BTW it’s pretty disappointing to see that T10 won’t even give us a quick yes or no response. It’s obviously an issue on a lot of their customers’ minds. How hard can it be?

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Me too bro. Unfortunately Turn 10 or Microsoft couldn’t care less. My guess is that the public custom lobbies won’t ever be available Fm5. History suggests we might get them back in Forza 6.

Forza 5 has great graphics, sound effects and physics. The autovista feature is epic. Chrome paint is a welcome addition too. Everything else sucks I’m afraid. The games a complete mess. Menus are poor, music is a disgrace, too many bugs to list, drag doesn’t work, no public lobbies, stick patches are laughable, day one cars received 2 months after game launch etc etc etc list goes on forever.

I had it with this game. No way I’m buying this crap ever again.

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I know what public lobbies are. Greenawalt knows what they are too, and knows that everyone’s been asking, even if it wasn’t set out as part 2b(i) of that interview question. That’s something to consider when reading how he responded.

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I’d really like to see an actual answer to this as well. Unfortunately from looking at other topics, I don’t think T10 will ever respond.

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Agreed, getting a clear cut,straight answer is not on their remit, mores the pity…

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Let’s see:

FM2 - searchable public lobbies

FM3 - gone

FM4 - gone

FM5 - gone

I don’t know how much more “clear cut, straight…” their response can be.

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Forza 4 had both hoppers and custom public lobbies. The reaction to their absence in FM3 was pretty bad so we all figured they realized their mistake when they brought them back in FM4, but apparently not…

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I didn’t know that. I owned Forza 4 and thought is was great. The fact that Turn 10 have done this in the past says to me they don’t care. At all!

Well guess it’s goodbye Microsoft and turn 10 for me.

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I really think it would make the game better there’s so many guys who just crash people online we could have clean races and drag racing would be better again many people did not buy fm5 for this not being in game please turn 10 give us our public lobbys