Thoughts?
tbh, I have been enjoying this hopper as a Forza GT replacement. plenty of crashers around atm but they will sort themselves out eventually like Forza GT.
I’m really enjoying it too, only had 1 race out of 100 or so that I didn’t get top 3. And most of the crashers I’ve seen in the past month are new xbox owners that think they can just hop right into MP at level 1-100 and don’t even have a car that’s maxed out in the S class. I really think you should have to play single player for a while before you can join public hoppers.
I was disappointed to see the GT go, but I’m actually really enjoying the S Class Endurance more than I did the GT, at least by the end of the GT Lobby’s lifespan. I’ve only encountered one true troll so far in the S endurance lobby, and he was quickly blocked and reported. Other than that I’ve had a few exciting first turns, mostly caused by excited noobs, but even they have been apologetic and inquisitive about how to get better. Had some of the best online racing I’ve had in FM5 to date last night in one of these lobbys.
My only complaint is that I wish there were more people participating, hard to find one that’s full, and I’ve been dashboarded twice after waiting 10+ minutes for a race to finish. That’s bad enough when you’re waiting for a normal length lobby to start a new race, but when you join a lobby on lap 1 of a 10+ minute race, then get dashboarded after waiting that long, it’s really infuriating!
Peter
Yea that lobby is def one of the best lobbies to play in. Shoot me a friend request man, i’ll be on later today if u wanna get a few races in. Love maxing out the cars then tuning them to the best potential u can handle. Hit me up man GT “Jippdaboss”
For an “Endurance” lobby the races are too short in my opinion. Usually I’m someone that likes to drive races from 1 up to 4 hours with realistic damage (I know that damage is a bit problematic with all those rammers in the public lobbies), but I guess this is a first step on the way to real endurance races.
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Yea I highly agree with you on that. Why make a “Sim” racer if ur never gonna put Sim aspects to the game? Can we get some real tire damage, body damage, running out of fuel, things like that would really feel like ur playing in a endurance race. I really hope Forza 6 does these kinda options for public servers. Don’t wanna have to enter a race & get rammed by everyone & feel like they’re good cause they beat u from cheating. Really hope Turn 10 reads the things we write in these forums cause they have a lot of work to do on this game other than just adding cars that most people don’t worth buying the Season pass for.
Just wanted to make sure you know … but all of those things are already in the game … depending on the setup of the race you’re running.
Yeah I’ve run out of fuel before, in fact there is an achievement for it. In private lobbies you can set fuel/tire/damage to simulation and it all comes into play. Your tires will wear out, you can run out of fuel, when you get hit or hit something your car gets damaged such as suspension or brakes, you can cause engine damage by how you drive, etc. It helps to know what you’re talking about before complaining about the game 
I have to say i am enjoying the ‘Endurance’ races. My problem is everyone else in the lobby. I keep getting into games where the other people are in LB cars, such as the Viper, F50/40, Enzo Ect.
Whilst i agree that everyone should use whatever car they want, seeing the same car over and over, makes it stale and boring, and makes it into a ‘If i want to compete, I also have to have that car’ situation. AT least with the GT hoppers, the cars were relatively well balanced
i haven’t seen anyone but myself use an enzo yet, raceboy77’s s800 grip setup is great for it though.
It’s been pretty good so far. In general most drivers have been reasonably clean. I used to use the Enzo all the time, but I was going for the “500 miles in a Lambo” achievement so I was driving the Veneno or the Aventador. I was surprised how good the Aventador was given I hadn’t driven it for a while. I’d say it’s on par with the Enzo.
I prefer my LFA XD
I’ve finaly had a chance to race in here a couple nights. I love it! I’ve mostly been running skywarp’s Arial tune and haven’t had any issues beating the LB cars with it.
The only thing I would suggust to improve the hopper is to locate it somewhere else. Where it is right now makes it very attractive to newbs. Once the race starts it’s a lot less attractive to them when they’re getting yelled at for wrecking the field in turn one.
It would be awesome to see this for “R” or “A” class next month.
Just found this as I’ve not played forza in a while. I think it’s great. Had some fairly good races and finding I’m using how shall we put it less competitive cars due to the extra laps which makes a nice change. Also see a lot of cars that don’t get used a lot which is also nice to race against something different.