I can only assume that with the seasons, tunes may be modified depending on the season in play. I’ll be honest, I am not a good tuner, nor do I want to be, I love the game, but I’m a casual player - the thing I loved most about Horizon 3 - I got to know some great tuners on this board, followed them, and just downloaded their tunes. I like the general all around tune, that works for any track in any condition.
I really hope these great tuners still provide an all season tune going into Forza Horizon 4. I’m hoping I’m not the only one that loves this game to bits, minus the tuning expertise required.
I’m not gonna put myself up with the tuning greats of the Forzaverse, but I can hold my own for the most part. I know I will be sharing anything I feel either is worth driving or at least has some personality to it. Ya know, fun to drive.
I’m sure that all those greats from previous Forzas will be sharing everything they work up as well.
I’m still trying to figure out if it should be Winter VS the other three, or performance between Spring, Summer and Autumn is different enought that a tune per season is warranted.
If the season thing is enforced and unchangabke, I would hope that tunes will be season dependent. That would at least make the whole change of seasons make sense. If the tunes don’t need to change per season, then chalk up another baaaaad choice by playground/Microsoft. In my opinion.
I do know that some of the PTG tuners are talking about building season-specific tunes as it’s really going to be pretty necessary with performance characteristics for each car changing from season to season based on temps and weather.
I hope that we are then able to have more tunes kept in the game as 4 tunes per car will be a lot of tunes to keep in the game. At 450 cars at launch and a tune for all 4 seasons is 1800 tunes! I realize that will most likely not be possible but always nice to see space for more tunes than the present.
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Yeah, that’s my biggest fear, the need to manage 4 tunes per car. Now, like you said, I don’t tune, I download my tunes from the pros, so HOPEFULLY, if the game really requires tunes per season to play well - the ability to switch them isn’t difficult or hard to manage. Maybe it will be as easy as changing tires.
I’m just hoping they didn’t make it so complex it’s become Forza instead of Forza Horizon, the reason I enjoy Horizon so much is the fun factor vs the simulation factor.
Just use a rally tune. They tend to be good in any condition tbh. And if you get good parts or a good car it will be amazing in any condition.
Living in the UK I can tell you now, there are only 2 seasons here.
Winter and nearly Winter.
No seriously I wouldn’t see the need for tunes for different seasons.
Dry tune, wet tune and drift tune would suffice.
I’ve driven all manner of vehicles here from small cars, old cars to hot hatch and high performance cars.
Also done a few track days.
I think having so many more variants of tunes for little difference in climate would over complicate things.
Unless of course the programmers have gone unrealistic with the actual dynamics.
I read in a review they were taking into account different ambient temperatures… so theoretically you’ll want at minimum different tyre pressures between say summer and autumn…also winter seems to use studded tyres. so you’d need another set up for that.
However I’ve never thought tuning to that level of detail was ever necessary in horizon. The most important things seem to be predictable and faithful handling rather than full race car given the amount of unplanned excursions and surface changes you deal with. You can spend time fully dialling a car down but then it seems to only work on one surface, and the racing is far more unpredictable than that unless you are running a track over and over to beat a time.
As a previous poster has said…Rally cars cover most the bases. What you lose in absolute speed you gain in not crashing repeatedly everytime something out of the ordinary happens