I want to love everything about this game, I really do, but there are SO many flaws that make me angry and frustrated that I believe I need to say it because NOBODY mentions them. If you’re enjoying it and not having this experience, then good for you, but as for me I have MAJOR gripes with Horizon Life, forzathon live, and the seasonal championships.
Gripe #1: Horizon life: max up to 72 players, however you never even see HALF of them. What’s the point in having such an interesting online multiplayer when you barely even see ANY of them? I doubt more than half are just sitting in their garages. and even if they were, I still stumbled upon a few 'players that I went to who were completely invisible/not there but the dot was. What’s the point in this?
Gripe #2: Horizon life’s ‘communication’. Mics have been completely gutted. You never hear anyone because for some reason there is no voice communication unless via convoy/party. Is this intentional? I highly doubt a full online server can have 0 mic users.
Gripe #3: forzathon live. I have SO many problems with this. One being when heading there I see about 10-15 or so cars in the forzathon live event area, but when it started I get put in the live ALONE. What happened to everyone else? why am I playing this alone? Alone is impossible because I barely got past round 1 with 2 other guys who randomly showed up, got past to round 2 with barely a minute to spare. What is this unintentionaly split playerbase? It’s hard to have fun and enjoy the forzathon live ‘experience’ when stunts like this are being pulled. Another issue I have with forzathon live is the fact when you accidentally let out your drone, your scorebox on the botton of the screen vanishes and you have NO idea what your score is or how much time you have left. It’s beyond annoying because I accidentally click it a lot when trying to switch to a better car. It’s a minor bug, but nonetheless an extremely annoying one.
Gripe #4: Forzathon ‘shop’. It’s a nice thing to add, but what’s with the wheelspins suddently being expensive? 40 is a bit much. It’s also not really fun to look at when you see the same cars you already own. There isn’t a lot to it so most of it isn’t really worth looking at.
Gripe #5: ‘seasonal championships’. It’s a neat idea that I like and always like to finish, BUT there’s so little that you finish it in the next few minutes. It’s too limited on what you do; 2 championships and a seasonal PR stunt and a ‘co-op’ championship that has been broken since day 1.
Gripe #6: The auction house and ‘car mastery’. The problem I have with this is people will sell a car with all the perks used up. There’s no way to know if you touched it so you’d be going in blind and praying for the best. Why is there no option to see if the perks were used?
The last gripe is more of a personal issue, but nonetheless it’s something I find annoying. Everything else about this game is really fun and I look forward to the fortune valley expansion, but I wish the playerbase wasn’t so split.