Week in Review 3/14/14

Livestreaming is here, a look at two Sebring endurance hoppers going up this weekend only, and more in this week’s edition of the Forza Motorsport Week in Review.

Who’s going to be giving the Sebring lobbies a go this weekend? Feel free to arrange playtimes with friends in this thread. I’ll likely be trying out the 1.2-hour hopper on Saturday. Anyone with me?

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Great WIR article this week! I’m not too big on live streaming, however I may try to post up some FM5 vids on my YouTube page (If I can). As for the next bounty hunter event, I couldn’t be more excited for it; XB1 console was finally delivered to my door yesterday, and been on FM5 ever since, so I’m looking forward to beating your time! The Sebring race should be good to watch ,though I’ll probably be at a local car show when they start; there are lots of events happening on that day where I am. I also did that Buzzfeed poll, and I got the 2014 Silverado which is not bad, considering it would be useful now in transporting my Camaro to my Florida home so that I can work on the engine (the engine’s pretty messed up due to the 10,000+ mile oil changes performed by the previous owner).

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Buzzfeed gave me the 2014 Silverado also,smh.

Loved the article on the sound of Forza,interesting reading! there are a few nitpicky type motorhead issues

  1. mic the turbo sounds closer, there is more to a turbo engine than rev…rev…swish…really
  2. there is a differentiation in the octaves as the engine revs, some sound like the scales on a baritone in junior high. if the already excellent sound could be a lil more polished the game would be another step closer to perfection.
    3.mic up a Rotchester Quadrajet on the 70s GM cars…to get a taste of aural bliss, go find a GM car, flip the air cleaner lid, remove the carbon filter, button down the wingnut, and go find a backroad to open it up with… mash the gas till it kicks down a gear… yeah, trust me, its better than a bannana split!
    thats my dos centavos, this is the BEST GAME EVER.
    Thanks for another great week in review
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Buzz feed give me a 1968 Chevy Camaro.

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Great stuff in the WIR. Glad to hear that you are the next CBH Brian since I can beat pretty much all your times. Unfortunately, I’ll be gone this weekend, so I won’t be able to do any of the Sebring lobbies, but for those that are, have fun! As for the poll, they gave me the 2014 Silverado.

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Buzzfeed gave me an Aston Martin One-77…

Great WiR
Im looking forward to FM5 and the xboxone

GT: Gjuergen
Unicorn: FM4: 1993 MINE?S R32 Skyline GT-R

Yeah, hearing of a new Bounty Hunter is really great news. Looking forward to it, think I will test the twitch broadcasting with that. Most likely it would be late night sessions for you in the US.

Just watched the F1 qualification, and it was intense. Went very bad for the Lotus Team, and a bit bad for Vettel, but astonishing performance of Ricciardo at wet track.
Guess at the moment the Mercedes guys are up for fighting for the Title, when they don’t steal to much points from each other. I am hoping for Rosberg, off course.

The poll say I should drive the DeLorean?!? Though I didn’t want to escape the cops through time and space :smiley:

Oh, and I would love to make a Sebring 12h, but don’t have the time, maybe I will try a 1.2 hour race

Really enjoyed that video showing off all the new F1 regs. for the 2014 season. I follow the sport pretty closely, and that was a nice package to summarize what amounts to the biggest changes to come to the sport in the past decade. Personally, I’m not a fan of the new engines - they just don’t SOUND like a formula one car should. Nothing will ever come close to the wail of the v10 engines like the teams used in the early 2000s. That was the best sound in motorsport - hearing that engine screaming through the gears at up to 18000 rpm.

As for my picks for this year’s Drivers’ Championship: I’d love to see a McLaren boy win it, but I know realistically that probably won’t be the case. It would still be nice to see Button have a solid year, maybe in the top 4 in points. Likewise, if the rookie Magnussen can score up in the top 5 in points I think that would make for a spectacular debut. Hopefully the team can start a new consecutive grands prix point-scoring streak after having theirs broken last season. But as of right now, you have to say the odds on favorite for the Drivers’ Championship is Hamilton. The AMG Mercedes just looks unbeatable. They are also the heavy favorites for the Constructors’ Championship too, but I would bet that Ferrari and McLaren will give them a good run of it at the start. The darkhorse pick: Williams. They have a solid lineup with Massa and Bottas showed some promise last season. Their trump card - that Martini racing livery! It looks fantastic haha.

GT: Buschyfor3
Unicorn: Ferrari Challenge Stradale (FM 4)

Yet again another good Week in review.
F1 qualy. was superb can’t wait till tomorrow for the race.

GT miniw76
FH Ford fiesta S

Great Article, pretty cool to see my photo on there! Got an Aston-Martin One-77, no complaints from me.

Gt: hockey41if3
Unicorn: FM4 F430 S

I’m new here. Umm, this “WiR” doesn’t really pertain to me, as I do not own an Xbox One. I’ve never really watched F1 before, but I’m gonna start watching it this year. I don’t know enough about it to even comment on the subject. GT: BttleFed
FM4 unicorns: '07 Ford Shelby GT500
'07 Lamborghini Murcielago LP640
'04 Honda Mugen Civic Type-R
'02 Honda Mugen Integra Type-R

Buzzfeed put me in a Porsche 991 convertible. And I am good with that.

the new F1 season will be chaotic. More torque, less grip.

I have always loved the sounds in game. I recently started listening to the game through headphones with the trailing camera angle so I can listen to the exhaust. And just because I am curious about the details, I am going to mess around tomorrow with upgrades and see what kind of difference it makes, if any, on the sound of the cars. I am particularly interested in seeing if the upgraded exhausts alter the sound, if the vw vr6 with upgraded intake gives off that chortling throaty intake gargle under WOT. If upgraded cams give a rough idle, etc.

GT: fergusontw
uni: FM4, BMW M3 GTR

great read!

So you are the next bounty, you join our lobby the other nite and was doing good. then the game crashed on road atlanta and i was racing you in your skyline and i was in the ratty beetle just got past you on the last lap and then it crashed :frowning:

Looking forward to racing you in the bounty!!

awesome WiR! I took the quiz and the results said I should be driving a Lamborghini Aventador, which is awesome because I would like to own one sometime (who wouldn’t?). I drive the Aventador around in Forza Horizon all the time!

GT: oX SNYPER Xo
FH Unicorn: 2009 Ford Fiesta Zetec S

Interesting WiR I like the F1 info the first race of the season was ok, hope the reliability gets better!
GT:GT DRIVER JS
FM4 Unicorn Mines R34 Skyline GT-R

Very nice WiR!
I like reports about strong race cars!

GT: Zangya87
FM4
Unicorn: HKS Time Attack