Some general Forza 7 questions to ask for someone who didn't spend much time with F5 or 6...

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First, I’ll just say I’m a casual gamer who knows that dialing up assists and playing with the controller using lots of throttle modulation and braking is one way to get around the track at ‘normal’ difficulty levels, but I enjoy throwing a wheel into the mix and making things complicated for myself, so this is a general question about F7…and primarily with a wheel (I have another post out there looking for good settings for a TMX wheel).

I’ve noticed in my limited playing of F7, with a wheel or otherwise, using Normal steering and ABS on, but TCS and STC off (which is how I have always tried to play the Forza games even though I didn’t put a ton of time into F5 or 6 really), that I’m useless in the RWD street cars. The ones with wings and high horsepower with wide tires tend to stick and seem a lot more controllable out of the box without touching tunes or having to install parts, of course in F7 I see when you acquire or purchase cars they already come with some modifications on them which can be removed in the setup manager screen (uh, I think, that’s correct yes?).

I can take a car around the track…and do well, then I can take another car, say an older one with smaller, narrower tires, and be utterly useless. Trying to get the vintage Abarth rally car whos name escapes me around Dubai is an exercise in constant rear-end slipperyness, same with a Jaguar F-Type (where I assume its just too much power and I don’t control it well enough). But then I hop into an Acura NSX and I have to work hard at ruining my race, the car is so forgiving. I’m assuming that is a nod to the physics engine and a nod to the game showing us that indeed, some cars are harder to handle than others and its NOT just about HP.

But am I correct in assuming that most of these cars (Such as the slippery-AF-for-me Nissan 350 an 370’s) are just inherently more tail-happy (throttle-off oversteer) really require you to have expert throttle management to keep them stable or run them with something like the TCS or Stability Management turned on?

I would think a modern day Nissan with 280hp would be easier to keep stable in the corners, or is this a result of having to keep the RPM’s high on those cars to keep in the powerband and that means inherently those wheels are going to break loose?

Is this game just really good at laying out the nuances of each model in a way I think I’m not expecting from a Forza title?

Finally, when I encounter a car I want to drive…but can’t…Jaguar F-Type…both the Nissan RWD’s I mention above…other than turning on the TCS or Stability, is the go-to solution to add a race differential and tone down accel/decel to tweak each car to at least get them more neutral and ‘cheat out’ some of that lift-off oversteer, which seems to be my biggest problem lately?

Thanks for the read.

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Tuning out a lot of the slipperiness can be tricky. I’ve learned quite a bit about tuning in the last year or two, but I still barely know what I’m doing. If you’re having trouble tuning the car yourself, maybe try a downloaded tune and see if it helps.

I have normal steering and most assists turned off for A class and below, but turn TCS on for R class and above. In S class, it’s usually off unless I’m having trouble.

I think a lot of players just end up finding their go-to cars for particular classes/divisions/events, tuning them the way they like them, and forgoing the rest.

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You’re correct, you use what works to grind through career or perfect technique in multi, then you learn (or try to) the harder classes. Just like real life, some cars are just easier to drive out of the box than others. Me, I’m slow…I can’t handle prototypes, Faster classes, etc…maybe someday, but for now I need to stick with what works to get through career to get to the end-game where you can then focus on improvement. Trying to do too much too quick is my problem, I of course blame Horizon where every car on default settings can be pretty manageable…

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“Is this game just really good at laying out the nuances of each model in a way I think I’m not expecting from a Forza title?”

No. Quite the opposite, wheel implementation and control is terrible.

With that said make sure you are properly calibrating your pedals prior to every start. To do this fully depress both throttle and break once the wheel has calibrated. Your first press on brake and throttle are your calibration so dont start it up and rest your foot against it or half press and let go as that will now make the half press what it recognizes as full throttle losing half of your clarity and fidelity.

Find other wheel users who are tuners such as epic evan, bluesky, iarlyn etc and use tunes made from people on a wheel. Contoller has built in assists that require tunes to be looser in to counteract the built in assists of the pad.

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