Reduce the events on Multiplayer because your game going DIE. The lobbie are empty and the game continues to start race for 7/8 players
ENDURANCE
TOURING
GT2/3/4 weekly
COMMUNITY CHOISE
OPEN MULTICLASS
5 events active at the same time, not 10/12. Fixed matchmaking to fill half-empty lobbies instead of creating a new one.
Whats odd is forza horizon 5 has all open lobbies playable and thats 9 classes. It also has 4 different race formats. Road , street, dirt, cross country, and drag racing. 36 without drag racing. There is also rally races with the dlc. Not to mention all the weekly playlist with new content. Now just check the steam charts alone and there are tens of thousands playing not including gamepass or other platforms. On day one and for about two or three months this game had maybe 10 to 15 thousand on all platforms from my pov. I think its down to 1500-2000 players. About 500 weekly and 750 is weekends on steams charts. So I double or triple that to get that base.
By lowering the play pool by lowering events you are lowering choices too. So in the end you are forcing players to play something they don’t want to.
One thing that frustrates me is the races always changing. Its like going to your favorite restaurant and knowing the menu and what your favorite meal is. But its only available when the chef feels like cooking it. If you want to eat here today it S class or B class. If you want C class I let you eat it two weekends from now after six at night.
Just do three amateur, pro amateur, and pro and add a few extra like you said. I though the mazda spec was amateur. The touring was pro amateur and GT pro.
Just look for another lobby when you see only a few. It works. They are there. If you come late yea you will get 5. Every Forza game has been like this. They don’t wait until one lobby is full to start another. Who knows why. What safety level are you? A/S I always find a decent size lobby by trying repeatedly. The lower your rating, the less there will be. Sure some stuff they put up like X or P may have fewer. Just not as popular.
Just force everyone to play open Multi-player. Deactivate everything single player. Private lobbies, rivals. So if you want to play the game its open Multi-player limited to 5 events. Beginners, novice, pro as dedicated, and 2 others that change it up. Now everyone is going to be in mp. Maybe make the new rivals based on in game Multi-player race lap times. Leave in practice or make it Multi-player only lobbies too. Multiclass practice lobby. Just nuke it from orbit!
I’m in A/S and this morning the lobbies didn’t have more than 10 players. I try to enter and succeed, but it is difficult to find full lobbies
The introduction of spectator mode with the last update is for private Multi-player lobbies only and that cannot help the current open Multi-player lobbies population ya think…
They NEED to make a set Lobby of GOOD tracks where TUNES MEAN NOTHING! Why has multiplayer become this place where tunes are everything? Everybody needs to be in a similar car, with the same tune, same everything so SKILL WINS. Plus we can tell when somebody is cheating this way, we got guys out here cheating & cheesing the game. Does anybody care? This games been dead since launch;
What? Lol. No one will be playing is what would happen. Just throw this game in the trash at that point.