Hopefully its just a design choice and not limitation of the graphics engine but can we remove light fixtures around tracks that are not supposed to have it, racing in pitch black on spa, le mans and others at night is part of the fun and realism. Future tracks like Bathurst and Nordschleife need to be set up to race in darkness and NOT have lights lighting up the whole track.
I was thinking the same thing it felt really off. That and the cars reaction to the light makes the car look really bad imo. Like a plastic toy that glows for some reason. I also think that the light intensity in general is too high aswell.
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I agree, being a Wisconsin resident who attends Road America several times a year it was sad to see those giant lighting fixtures placed around the track. Occasional lighting from nearby stands or concessions would be okay but those tall lights really change how the environment looks in real life.
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They should give the ability to turn off the flood lights at night time in the Nordschleife, just to add another challenge and it’s more realistic anyways, just a toggle to do both so everyone’s happy 
Lets keep track lighting realistic. Dont be adding lights to tracks that dont officially have it. I dont want to see a track like mount panorama, monza and others with a bunch of lights at night. Its part of the experience driving in pitch black.
As well lets keep pit stop exits right, the official way.
Daytona, laguna seca exits has me ???
It’s missing details like this where you make it hard for people to take your game seriously.
Idk how it is in pc but on xbx the cars headlights would need a buff. As it is now they only illuminate like 100’
After that point the illumination drops off instantly, which is unrealistic and I’m guessing is mostly to save fps.
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You can see here that gt7 headlights illuminate hundreds of feet down the track, but FM8 cant even illuminate 2 brake markers at once. Driving in pitch black would be almost impossible with current iteration of headlighrs.
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It is design choise, most people complained in FM6 and FM7 that the tracks were too dark and hard to see around
The issue is you can race every car at night, that is, including all those that don’t have headlights.
So they put artificial lighting at every apex so you can still race those cars. Actual headlights are there for an effects perspective only, not as a necessity to race with.
It’s awful and I hate it. Wish tracks used realistic lighting and cars could have proper high beams on.
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Please remove the unnecessary track lights and banners from all the circuits. Why is Nurburgring so well lit up at night? I don’t mind the raves going on the side of the track. Get rid of the massive track lights which don’t exist in real life.
Are we going for realism or this faux-arcade look? Not everything needs to resemble Forza Horizon. Keep the ideas from the two games separate.
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So we are still catering to the casuals while pretending this game is a reboot for the people who prefer realism?
Eventually we will get to Nurburgring endurance races and the night time laps look nothing like the real life races. There is no sense of what these race car drivers go through on these circuits. We aren’t honoring any motorsports. We are cheapening the appeal of a circuit like Nurburgring. Forget Green Hell, it’s a lit up like a 80s nightclub hell.
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They need to fix headlights to actually work before removing all the track lighting. As someone who races in cockpit, the headlights do almost nothing to illuminate the track. Veritable parts of the Nordschleiffe where it’s not lit are nearly impossible to see on a clear night, much less cloudy or raining.
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Think it needs to at least have an option to switch them on or off on each track
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this why i think they havent did it yet
Too many trackside lights on some tracks that we don’t find in their irl version, instead cars headlights illuminating at a distance of 150 to 200% further would be welcome
No. It’s the arcade / Forza Horizon look they are going for. I highly doubt it’s a technical limitation.
no, its beacuse back in FM6/FM7, it was a fdeature but players HATED beacuse it was too much diffiicult to see around the track, thus making some races almost impossible to race at