I’m just over 50% complete on FM2 but this isn’t the UK special edition one, so nope, wont be able to get full completion on that, although I’m already aware of this so I’m not too worried, thanks for the heads up though.
FM4, own it, just checked and it’s the Essentials Edition, haven’t played it yet, waiting until I’ve completed FM3 SG first before moving on to that 
Getting close to completion now … I have 21 events to go. I checked my achievements on my profile, first played FM3 on 27/12/09, almost 6 years later I’m getting the SG achievement, that’s gotta be some kinda record eh?
embarks (slowly while also playing FM2, 5 ,6 ,FH1, FH2 and soon FM4) on this quest
Gotta get the days played up another 25 more, so doing an event here and there will help pass those days!
Just doing an event a day will get you that achievement … I thought I was never going to get that but happy to say, that rolled in a few weeks ago.
I’ve got 4 and a bit races to go till completion, 4 full events, 1 event with 2 races to complete gold. I’ve now got 4 days off so should be finished in a few days along as xmas shopping doesn’t get in the way
Well I finally only went and finished it … yesterday evening, after 2,182 days since I picked up my first drive achievement in FM3, I completed Solid Gold
I’ve managed to complete the purchase of 301 cars as I saw somewhere on a post that for one of the FM6 awards is to have 300 cars from FM3. I’ve still got a fairly healthy 5m in the bank.
I have a couple of achievements remaining, 100k drift lap and some online purchasing from the store and auction house but will need a live account for those.
Anyone got tips on what to do before moving on to FM4 or what to do on first play of FM4?
CONGRATS!!!
100k drift lap, isn’t really that hard. I’ve done it a few times due to having more then 1 account.
Easiest for me was the hks mitsubishi time attack, all driving aids to off, shift manual, keep it in 3rd gear so you can feather the power and have enough left to keep drifitng through corners.
I used the full Fujumi kaydo track. I read nurburghring is also an option, havent tried that. Keep an eye out for the height difference on Fujimi track, it can catch you out. Especially when the road drops from under you, drift can easily overturn and lose points. Try to connect the corners as much as possible, also rewind like crazy to get good drifts.
To my recollection, I saved and uploaded my 100k drift run to the servers, so if it’s still there it should be viewable.
I would not advice to go with a rwd car (rx7 for example), they require a good ammount of time to get under control. 4wd is easier.
Auction house:
Keep a look out for 1 car, DMC delorean. This one counts for F4 when you start. I had trouble obtaining those due to not having the community choice car pack.
There are a few players on the auction house who can put them up, i can refer you to one if them if needed just sent me a private message. Although this only works if you have the free preview file local on your xbox for the community choice car package (downloaded it in 2012). You will be able to see the cars in the auction house, win them, but you cant use them because they will be locked.
test : if you can see the chevrolet el camino in the auction house (always in the top section), then you should be able to get a delorean. If not, then forget this because you wont be able to buy it.
Other cars you want to get in your garage before starting F4:
Hot Holidays Car Pack
1.2010 Ferrari 458 Italia
Stig Garage Pack
1.2010 Lexus LF-A
Forza 3 VIP Car Pack
1.2009 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1
2.2007 Ferrari 430 Scuderia
3.2007 Lamborghini Gallardo Superleggera
Forza Motorsport 3 Unicorn Cars that will be transferred to Forza Motorsport 4 are:
1.2006 Subaru Impreza S204
2.2002 Mazda RX-7 Spirit R Type-A
3.1969 Chevy Camaro SS Coupe
If your not VIP or have F3 unicron cars, just forget that section. They wont be obtainable
See also Import F3 to F4 Guide
Purchases from store:
Just buy racing gloves or whatever, cheapest as possible to get these reward points.
Live account:
You might want to considder getting that, it comes in handy with F4 as well. You can atleast look arround for a promo code to get a limited time online to check off those tasks.
Cars in garage:
Correct, the Forza 6 check will get you 5million credits per game if you have more then 300 cars in garage. Dont use the ingame count for this!!! verry important.
Log in to the rewards section on this website, choose friends compare, now reduce the size of the website to a single bar, now you are able to choose F4 and F3 as well. You can toggle the sections to see the cars in garage option. Only what the servers think you have will count for the F6 maximum credits option.
In normal size those 2 wont show, has to do something with the mobile version showing those and normal site don’t showing. It’s a resizing issue. Took me quite a while to figure that one out.
I still need to find out how I can trigger my garage count in horizon, ingame is >300, servers showing 240. It can take a while for the servers to recognize or reindex your score.
What to do on first play in F4:
Just finish the initial race, follow the story, and select your first car. Really nothing other to choose. You should get a few cars and credits due to being forza loyal.
Enjoy and good luck with F4. F4 is really a blast to play!
The same “most efficient leveling/play strategies” we talked a little about for FM3 also work well for FM4, but with one difference I must point out immediately. While it was necessary to own multiple cars from a single manufacturer to get the maximum possible parts cost discount in FM3, that is no longer the case in FM4. In FM4, only a single car per manufacturer is needed. Rather than FM3’s “car level” tracking experience gained in individual cars, FM4 tracks a similar stat across all cars from a manufacturer as “manufacturer affinity”, and instead of needing to get five cars to level five in FM3, now you only have to get manufacturer affinity to level four, and one car can take “manufacturer affinity” all the way, instead of being limited to being worth only up to five levels, if I remember correctly. No need to own five AMC Javelins, this time…though I do still have two. Also, the discount you earn in FM4 is massively overpowered; rather than only going up to 50% parts cost reduction as it was in FM3, in FM4 the discount goes all the way to 100%! Free tires, free brakes, free suspension and engine components—the works! Nearly, anyway. Bodykits still cost the same, with no discounts at all for them, and I’m not sure about engine/drivetrain/aspiration swaps. It seems to me like a price is still shown for aspiration swaps (NA to turbo, supercharger, etc), but no money actually seems to be spent when purchasing them… I haven’t bothered much with engine and drivetrain swaps, so the story may be the same or different there, or it may depend on updates or whether you’re connected to online or not…
Aside from those possible points of interest, and the specific car pack related perks the clairvoyant one mentioned, I really can’t think of too much more to shine a spotlight on… One more thing, though; if you can get it, the DeLorean is, at least against the AI, a pretty good F-class car, even factory stock with no tuning done to it. Pitting an RWD machine against the super-compact city cars makes for a pretty easy race, or at least it did in my experience…
Excellent info gents, much appreciated, Clairvoyant, I’ll be coming back to FM3 to get that drift lap sorted at some point, may well try that time attack car out as I think I purchased that near the end
I didn’t want to get the DLC packs so moved straight onto FM4, done the import and got 6 or 8 cars come across as you explained, pretty neat move there
Roger, I see exactly what you mean about the levelling up with the cars, already have 6 or more manufacturers where I don’t need to pay for upgrades which I think is a bit silly.
Good point about the DeLorean, will have to check that out, was hoping to get it as a gift car but so far nope … saying that, I’m now at driver level 47 (yes already) and the cars aren’t going to be dropping down to an F level as a gift so will go purchase soon.
I’m already onto my last season, just completed season 9 tonight and have not event completed one single event so looks like another long challenge doing the Solid Gold/Bucket List challenge
Happy New Year to you all as well!!
And a happy new year to you, as well!
Turns out Clairvoyant and I left something out. We forgot to mention how the season/event lists work differently in FM4 compared to FM3…
In FM3, the season play goes to the same tracks in each event as the event list does…but, in FM4, you might see different tracks within the same event when switching between the season play mode and the event list view. That being the case, you basically have two options, I think. One, pay close attention to which tracks the event list has listed under each event, for each one, and do the correct event when each track comes around in season play…but be aware that that might not work anyway. Two, the most likely and only sure-fire way to clear out the event list…by going through it manually, rather than trying to clear it during season play. FM4 goes through the same seasons over and over, I think, and goes to the same tracks in the same order as well… You can manipulate to some extent the events that show up during the course of season play, by swapping which car you’re in, what setup you have on it, etc, but that still probably won’t tick every box.
I’ve been working through just the season (world tour) mode first, just got driver level 50, not bad as only took me two weeks and thats with the party season going
I’m on 11 of 27 races of the last season, have been checking back to the event list every now and then and can see that races have been done in each event but looks like I’ve not fully completed a whole event yet … was going to ask, once the last season is completed, the bucket list can be completed just by going through the events one by one … this is exactly the same question I raised in this thread
Happy new year to you all, as well!!!
Roger is correct, completely slipped my mind that F4 grinds a bit in carreer with the same tracks.
@Jive, thats really good progress in that short period of time! good job! After you have reached the end of the final season you can choose to go ahead and do another one or just go to the eventlist and finish up whatever there’s left. It works the same way in regards to F3. I chose to drop the grinding of seasons after that point and started working on affenity levels of manufacturers, completing achievements etc. I chose not to complete the bucketlist so I always can go back to F4 and have something to do.
Bare in mind, with the season play you probably will not get that world tourer/traveler achievement by default. If not just get a piece of paper and pen, check of every track variant in the leaderboards on each car class. Eventually you then have a list of the tracks you need to run to get it. Not sure if there was an issue with the test track (oval) if it was bundled with your game, could have been F3.
If you need help with the expensive cars achievements, i can help you with that if needed. I can sent some over, but I want them back when you got the achievement.
If you need help with the selling paintjob/tuning etc, just sent me a message with the details and I will buy it from you.
I may need help with a few Ferraris and the two cheevs you mention above if you’re willing to help out
Cheers!
continues racing
Fantastic additional info too Clairvoyant, much appreciated. I did notice that there were a lot of badges and achievements for affinity etc so yeah will also be working towards those. Hopefully today I can get the 10th season completed and then make a start on the remainder.
Thanks for the offer on the cars, may well take you up on that offer too … get to that later on though, see how I’m doing with the purchase of all the cars, paintjobs etc
Cheers again.
Speaking of the World Tourer achievement, the tracks that seem to come up missing for most people—and the tracks I, myself, missed—were the drag strips. You have to make one pass on each length of each strip, too. At least one of the strips has more than two length versions available to run, I believe. The different ovals you should get done during the course of the different speedway events, but the drag strips don’t get any attention at all in the career or event lists, and will have to be done online, in arcade mode/single race, or in split-screen.
Furthermore, one of those stupid speedway events might prove especially annoying; the Japanese Tuner event. In that event, you’ll be pitted against most of the “Unicorns”, including a few that are true powerhouses. The 0-300 Top Secret Toyota Supra, I think? Plus Mine’s Skylines and some others. The only cars you have access to that can do that event legitimately are vastly inferior, and I’m not sure how doable it actually is after all the time I’ve spent NOT replaying that particular event. Your best bet for that event is to either turn off the restrictions and take some overpowered car of your own, and/or turn the AI’s capability way down. If you pay close attention to the Hyundai you might be facing in that event, you can even catch a glimpse of how the game isn’t held to the same limits that you are; the Hyundai in that event is rated higher than you can legitimately tune yours, if I’m not mistaken.
For those “1000 miles in X car(s)” title/badges for Chevy/Corvette, Ford/Mustang, BMW, MINI, etc, I found it most enjoyable to drive them in such a way that I wasn’t in the same exact car for too long, just to keep things extra-interesting. Not only would I swap from running a Corvette to running a Mustang, but I found a few examples of each that I liked/wanted multiples of in different paintjobs, and even ran them with different setups. Red and black '65 Mustang for a while, then blue and silver C2 Corvette for a while…then yellow and black '65 'Stang…then red and white C2 'Vette…then green and cream/off-white '65 'Stang…then fully-tuned, mean-as-hell black-as-moonless-night C2 'Vette…etc, etc. Also, about the Mustang-specific 1000 rewards, it can be ANY Mustang, from ANY dealer; Shelby, Saleen, Ford—doesn’t matter, so long as the model family is noted as “Mustang.” And for the Corvettes, the racing models work just as well as the production/street models, and the longer/higher-paying/higher-experience races you can do in them will also help raise money and level the manufacturer, so you might get close to manufacturer affinity level 50 while doing Chevy/Corvette titles/badges. I had at least five different MINIs, too, all with different setups and paintjobs, maybe even bodykits and rims. Full assortment of Pontiac Firebirds and GTOs…aside from the newer ones that I don’t care so much for.
When you get around to doing the drifting stuff, be sure to take a good look around for tuning ideas here on the forums. A lot of folks have posted quick and easy setup formulas you can use to make just about anything capable of getting the big scoring drift laps… Plenty have posted drift-specific tuning setups on their storefronts, too, but I don’t think I’d suggest getting one; you’re better off tuning the car yourself, that way you don’t have to worry about the setup being locked, or bothering some to get it unlocked, so you can change and adjust the setup or parts on the car freely yourself. I did the big drift lap things with that tricked-out HKS Mitsubishi Lancer, myself. Took it carefully around Fujimi Kaido a time or two. Once you get used to the track and the car, and drill it into yourself to leap at every chance to drift it and try to link some together, it should come pretty easily… When I got right down to it, it actually only took me about two or three laps to make it happen. Be sure you’ve got ABS, TCS, and STM all off before you go for it. Making it easy to light up the back tires also makes it easy to get the back end kicked out, or so it seemed to me. Mind your throttle, brake, and steering, and you should be fine, with a little practice. You can also use that Lancer for the other drift-related titles/badges/achievements, but I think I took a kitted-out Toyota Trueno and tried to actually “learn” how to drift on one of the little parking-lot test track layouts to get those.
I guess it’s actually pointless to bring it up at this point, but due to the different rewards you get for doing the different events, there are actually some events you really want to do before others. Looking back on the game, it seems like it would be most efficient to do the events that give driver level rewards first, then random-reward events, then follow up with the affinity and credit reward events. That said, given how different events pay out different amounts of experience naturally anyway, a low-level event that has even a +100% driver level bonus may not be so important in respect to driver level boost compared to a late-game R1 event that has some other reward bonus… Oh well! Who really cares that much about efficiency, anyway?! We came here to drive fast and turn in different directions at different times, sometimes leaving black marks!
My Gold subscription ran out about a week ago, so I may or may not be of any help when it comes to helping with some other achievements… I may take a look later on tonight and see if I can still access the storefronts and auction house; I forget whether or not Gold was only needed to race online or if it was necessary for the other functions as well.
DONE!!
Completed the final race last night and the Solid Gold Achievement is finally mine!!!
Confirming the OP & discussion, yes you can complete all races & achievement by picking races from the Event List.
I already had the 300 cars before FM6 came out but I’m going on a spending spree to buy cars I don’t have and auction a few multiples I don’t need.
Congrats HSV4ME, it takes a while to complete but great sense of achievement when you finally complete it
I’m slowly working my way through FM4 bucket list, currently 37% complete, slightly faster than FM3