This would be the single best thing that could happen to FH freeroaming. Between FH3 and FH4 some changes were made which effectively killed what made FH3 awesome to many of us: online freeroaming. The biggest change was server mashing, this is the technology which allows multiple sessions to be merges depending on several factors. This also means the map became useless. No longer could we simply look at the map, see where people were hanging out and simply join them. No events, no premade race, no match making. Just natural feeling “emerging” gameplay, people were meeting at the parking lot? Let’s show of our latest build. 3 people are cruising around and enjoying? Let’s go cruise. Lots of people at the runway? Sure let’s get our drag build and go play a bit. It felt natural, was fun and every day i would meet new people and add them to the friends list. This resulted in me playing over 1500 hours, in that time i didn’t do a single race or preset event, those were never interesting to many of us.
Another change was ghost mode. Yes i understand why this was done but it’s way too agressive. People just ignore eachother, some wouldn’t even dodge when coming from the opposite side in the wrong lane. It would be much better if we could simply delete other players a bit like it happens in BeamMP, such a strong anti griefing measure and doesn’t impact gameplay otherwise.
Last but not least: why do people directly join an online session when launching forza? This leads to a lot of players who are simply minding their own business wasting slots on the server. So while in fh3 everyone on the map was someone looking to engage with others in 4 and 5 most people were just doing their thing and ignoring everyone which made the sessions feel dead.
With the awesome map we are getting in FH6 it would be nice to know that i will be able to enjoy what to me and many of the people who i met is the core gameplay loop of FH.