I drive a Mazda 3. and have never slided like I do in forza games going about the same speeds. I understand possibly going over 60 kms and doing a sharp turn possibly sliding. but going 30km/h shouldn’t make you slide much. still very fun game. But it’s soppost to be a sim.
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Let’s not take ‘sim’ too literally, here. It’s still just a videogame that costs as much as a decent steak dinner. With that said, what are your current assist and controller settings? Do you have a custom tune applied? We need more information to pinpoint what may be causing your experience.
maybe you loaded a drifting or drag tune. the drifters are suposed to slide and the drags are tuned for straight line only.
just started the game defalts. I played every other forza game. Same thing. Maybe these peaple live up north with icy roads.
First of all,this game is NOT a SIM! It’s a pretty and clean game though. Concerning driving on ice feeling, are you sure you’re playing FORZA5?
Why don’t you go over to http://www.insidesimracing.tv/ and watch their review of Forza 5 and tell me then it’s not a SIM (all they review are racing sims and racing sim equipment). Forza 5 is the best Sim on console and has come as close to the PC sims as there has ever been. Do you play with a wheel or controller? No game, PC or otherwise, played with a Gamepad can be considered a sim. You must play with a steering wheel to be able to feel the sim characteristics to there fullest. It is still great with the gamepad but you can’t simulate true driving with it. Inside Sim Racing gave Forza 5 9/10 and they raved about how far console sim racing has come with this title. To compare they gave GT6 a 7/10 and felt it was just more of the same. Remember those guys are reviewing the game in how it feels and plays. They weren’t biased by missing cars and tracks or things like purchasing tokens and leveling bonuses. Just on how the game plays. And they ONLY play there racing sims with a Sim Rig setup (steering wheel, pedals and shifter) the way any sim should be reviewed. Turn all the assissts off and use a wheel and then try to tell me Forza 5 isn’t a sim. If you still do you will have lost all credibility. Forza 5 is i SIM people. And just to add… I race on PC and all of the GranTurismo titles that have ever launched. All with a racing wheel.
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I have a G25, a G27 A Fanatec Porsche wheel with Porsche pedals.I even have a set of pedals that costed me 5 years ago 500€. Have also a Chronus Max device for wheels.
As for some games, well, I have all (and I mean ALL) RACE07 series and all the expansion packs, GTR, GTR2, GTL, RFACTOR, FERRARI CHALLENGE, POWER AND GLORY,
GPL, not to mention F1 2002 until 2013. All NASCAR games too, and a few NEED for SPEED and GRID 1 and 2. By the way, all GRAN TURISMO from 1 to 6, with all the expansion
and Tokyos and Prologues aswell!
Let me tell you, I do know what a SIM is! I’m 47 y.o. and I have made lots of online championships in several communitys (NO-GRIP, RACEDEPARTMENT, GTLDK, UKGTR, ALTBIERBUDE, PIELSBIRBUDE, and a few more) since my middle 30’s.
I am no fan boy of anything and I tell you, I don’t care what the people of the magazines or any kind of forums say. FORZA 5 it is not a SIM. Period.
Like I said, it’s a nice visual and clean game, I even play it more than GT6 , speaking in a console world. It as some features I really like.I love to paint
and make some car design, although my lack of time to do some top work, work takes me almost all the time, married with a daughter with 22 y.o. and 3 lovely, astonishing, cute, fantastic and awesome cats.
Sorry dude, I like play FM5. Not a SIM though.
Have you driven on the tracks in the game with your Mazda 3 in real life? Taking an arc on a freeway at 100mph is very different than trying to take the carousel at Road America at 100mph. The turns on these tracks generally aren’t banked like a freeway or highway turn, and they are much much tighter than they appear in the game. You also aren’t feeling any G forces and the sensation of speed on a TV cannot match reality so you’re in actuality likely going faster than you think.
Turn 1 at Laguna Sega
Freeway in my city.
This off ramp is the same diameter roughly as the first turn at Laguna Seca. It’s marked 30kph and it has a pretty good banking on it. I will take my car, a Genesis Coupe with much better, wider performance tires than it came with, up to 70kph towards the bottom and I speed up to merge into 100kph traffic. I wouldn’t push it much past 80kph because I start to hear my tires at that point and I don’t really feel like taking a ride off the edge of the ramp. In Forza 5 I can take the first turn at Laguna, which isn’t banked, at 80kph in a bone stock Genesis Coupe. The Gen Coupe in the game is much heavier than mine, and has the approximation of the factory tires. Same deal, any faster and the tires start squealing before finally breaking loose. I’d say the game is pretty spot on, if anything, the cars in the game are a bit better than they should be.