The new Hot Wheels expansion has stirred up a lot of emotions from both the lovers and haters.
I personally hate it. I spent about an hour on Thrilltopia and realized this is not how I want to spend any of my time. And that is okay because I have plenty of other stuff in this game to keep me busy and happy. But it is always disappointing if an expansion falls flat for you. I do enjoy Blizzard Mountain although I haven’t spent much time there after completing all of the races/tasks.
Things I love
Online racing with class selection (initial inability to choose class was a game breaker!)
Blueprints for both championships and exhibitions
Building/testing new cars (although the PI system sorta ruins this experience)
Ripping up the countryside for huge skill chains
Things I hate (and just ignore and refuse to do)
Hot Wheels
Bucket lists
Playground Games
Anything having to do with S1/S2 as I prefer to stay in B class and below
Drift/speed zones
The PI system - This is my biggest gripe. It ruins one of the things I love most, building and testing new cars. Since handling is so expensive and power so cheap it ruins lower class cars especially. The cars all become cookie cutters of each other and become much less fun to build and drive. This is the one thing I hope they fix in future games. I found Horizon 2 to be perfect in this respect. If H2 had blueprints and class selection racing online it would be perfect for my tastes. This has also made all car packs useless to me. I have over 400 cars and drive about 20 of them and haven’t even touched many of them because the PI system makes it a lesson in futility.
All that said I have played this game almost every day since release. A lot of it missed for me but there is just barely enough there to keep me interested and occupied. If it weren’t for blueprints and online class selection I would have been gone months ago. For me to ever buy another Forza game though the PI would have to regress to the awesomeness of Horizon 2 where the cars were fun and diverse. I wanted every one of them to test and build. In H3 I just don’t because it is futile.
Hate - Playing online with randoms (this goes for any game)
Unicorn cars
Not having an edition at launch/pass that covers all DLC
Lack of communication from the developers/PR team.
I had 5 rx7’s, a lola, and the latest porsche forzathon cars and last weeks one and 2 of each of the new hot wheels cars that i had to claim but i was going to make a video on them but when i came on my pc this morning, none of the cars were in my garage or in my auction house and i had over 1.8 million to collect from the auction from my sold cars and this is the 2nd this has happened to me, i filmed a video of me buying the porsches yesterday and u were able to see some of the cars but ive lost them all now
Definately agree with the PI system.It is HORRENDOUS.Slap a set of tires under something and it improves 4 bloody classes.Hah ?
Hotwheels was fun, but I HATE S2 grime racing with a passion, since the cars are impossible to control.
So yeah, prefer B,A and S1 most as well.
Stand out so far fromt this game is the scenery, the graphics, the detail.
It’s simply stunning,.Same goes for the HW expansion.But I don’t think it’s all that much fun.
"d been cooler to see a racing track expansion of somesorts.
That being said, I play quite a lot, cause you can play around and mod your cars, go for a cruise and just see what is most comfy in your garage.
Oh another gripe, the MAXIMUM amount of liveries.Who came up with that idiotic idea that you can have 500 plus cars but only 400 liveries. ?
Make the drivatar lineup conform to the skill rating chosen by the gamer! It’s infuriating, especially on the Hot Wheels expansion to have my drivatar lineups complete impossibly flawless races in cars that are not that good. I race with the people the drivatars are based off of regularly and very frequently beat them and am NEVER noncompetitive. I don’t know what to do but it’s getting to the point where it’s unplayable. Thinking the next step is to just fire all the drivatars in the drivatar lineup.
I don’t understand why this is something that they have not fixed yet, the set skill rating makes zero difference in the ability of the drivatar lineup, if I want to race against new-driver level racers and beat them by 20 seconds a lap, why am I not allowed to do that? I don’t race in campaign for competitiveness against drivatars that cheat and take impossible lines, I race them for fun and to win XP/complete the game.
Worst thing imo are the freezes and crashes on my Xbox. After7 months and several updates it didn’t get any better. The non existent ‘support and communication’ is ridiculous.
All we get is new content and after six months we have to pay for that.
I ask myself if the devs ever made a statement anywhere regarding the freezes. That’s beyond annoying and disappointing.
The cloud save system wrecking peoples progress is a bad joke. As long as you aren’t a well known Youtuber that can reach a lot of gamers with bad publicity, you are lost.
The way the support works is a slap in the customers face.
Don’t agree there.
Horizon 2 and 3 crash quite often on Xbox One if you hit the festivals, just a massive freeze, has nothing to do with new hardware or not.
Love the customisation, car selection, free roam open world.
Hate the lack of technical driving roads, and the forcefeedback that still hasn’t evolved much from forza Motorsport 2. Granted they have made significant changes since the game launched but even with all the extra settings it’s still feels very sloppy.
Hate the way the traffic drives, lack of logic and poorly mapped paths. drivatars are annoying as heck, they drive like kamikaze’s
I enjoy the freedom of it. To drive all these amazing cars which I’ll never own without repercussions or limits. Even if I was fortunate enough to own a Lamborghini, Aston Martin, Pontiac, they cannot be put through the torture like they can in this digital environment.
As for things that irritate me? The random disconnections during an event get my back up. Yeah, it’s unavoidable given network issues out of anyone’s control.
Lastly, as more of a nitpick, I do notice that some of the car sounds are not as authentic. Although I imagine to completely perfect every little detail, the game would probably have to be north of 150gb in size.
-Love
Almost all of this game.
A particularly beautiful landscape awakens me as a photographer.
I believe that because I like FH3, FH4 will improve the following dissatisfaction points.
-Hate
A lot of unicorn and barn finds.
Storefront which cannot be compared with FM4.
AH is broken.
Rubber band AI.
Smallest storage. Garage, photo, design, vinyl, everything is small.
All speed zone.
Things I love:
The handling model compared to other games (although I wish they would make it exactly like the Motorsports series, give true range on simulation steering instead of the steering damping and then add more assists for people who need it dumbed down)
The car selection
The fact that I can mod all vehicles
The open world
The graphics
Blueprint
Bucket list
All the zones (not really a fan of the danger zones, but whatever others are)
Things I hate:
Online racing and playground games (I shouldn’t be forced to do them for forzathons they should also add more customized lobbies like “RWD only” “Stock engines only” to keep all the cookie cutter cars in the lobbies and add diversity)
The size of the map (seriously this is 2016-2017…the map should be way bigger. TDU did it on 360, we should have that size at least with the attention to detail of the current game…I’m pretty sure people wouldn’t mind some copy and pasted tree types in order to achieve a massively larger world)
The fact that then entire game is focused solely on straight line speed ( there aren’t too many technical paved roads. The only technical roads in sight are all offroad)
The fact that there is no true route editor (once again 2017…these features shouldn’t be omitted. The playability factor would be exponentially increased and the life of the the game would improve drastically)
Hot Wheels pack (That’s right…I said it. This expansion should’ve honestly been it’s own game. It’s properly executed as far as stunts and speed, but the fact that it is connected to a game that’s supposed to somewhat replicate the real world…it doesn’t fit the character. We now have boost pads, but we don’t even have any form of nitrous in the regular…come on. I feel like this expansion made it more on the lines of the burnout series as far as arcadeness goes, which I hated, and away from the Forza formula which a decent bit of the original fanbase expects.
Things that need improving:
The map size (this is 2017, in this case bigger is definitely better within reason. I want to get lost and legitimately have to use the gps to figure out where I need to go because the map is so extensive and big)
The PI system (the race cars, if they must be included, should be on their own PI scale. I honestly think that those cars skew a lot of the system because they handle so well yet top speeds are so slow)
The car selection (why omit some classics that were in the modern generation Forzas? No Nissan 300ZX, no 02 pontiac firebird, no MR2 of any generation, no first gen RX7, no Pontiac GTO…yet you include hardcore race cars in an open world game? That makes no sense whatsoever)
The Drivatars (have the drivatars actually drive like the real players that play…people who don’t own the game should not appear in the roster. Also the drivatars’ cars should perform like the game mods intended them too, I should not see stock compound and width tires out performing any car around corners or in all dead stop acceleration)
The road quality (there needs to be a bigger variety of road difficulty. Every paved road seems to be fast long sweepers with no technical slower switchbacks like on Fujimi Kaido, Camino Viejo, or Alfami Coast.)
Blueprints (have full out route customization…enough said. I want to be able to make my own version of Goliath using the inner city roads and completely eliminated the stupid offroad section on the beach)
Mods (there should be more visual mods in general for all cars even if they are “inspired” by name brand companies and passed off as a generic Forza company. Also the certain stock engines should have higher outputs after being modded, this in turn would eliminate certain motorswaps needed in order to compete online. Also add more engine options for motorswaps, it’s very cut and paste as far as the winning contenders are, allowing more options would somewhat eliminate this)
Online racing (you should be able to customize the lobby to drivetrain and engine type)
1 thing i hate is just hot wheels, other things isnt something i hate but i get a bit irritated about.
Too many straight roads
Too many dirt roads instead of tarmac
No hill climbing nor touge on a mountain
Mine sometimes crashes 10 mins after a hard reset. I can do a hard reset every day but that changes nothing.
Maybe it’s a hardware issue, but why does it only happen in FH3 while any other game runs fine?
I know a lot of people with the same problem. Fact is, that we didn’t get any statement regarding this problem. Not from MS nor the devs.
Loves :
The Game itself.
Outback.
Drift Zones.
C63 AMG.
Lexus RC F.
Hates :
Playground Games(Cuz they messed the engine sounds of many cars which is not fair & Cuz Drivatars in the same game has the engine sounds of FM6 [This is the only gripe i have with them on board]
No thunderstorm.
Being Boss.
PI System.
Traffic & Drivatars around events like Drift Zones & Speed Zones.
Drivatars alone(could have made a setting like disabling Drivatars & Traffic).
Surfers Paradise.(It was fixed in the latest update & i love it,the reason behind is the lag being gone. But still hate it cuz city is so small)
The clippy ANNA(Should be a way to turn it OFF).
Very limited amount of tires(Sure we could see Drag Tires,Rain Tires,Tire Softener).
No Boost PSI in tuning settings.
Some beauty spots that are not supposed to be beauty spots.
Car engine sounds not so realistic & Many cars share same sound(M4,Supra,GTR,Some Silvias),(SLS AMG,C63 AMG,Alfa 8C).
Car engine sound is very low on some cars like RR Wraith/Phantom,Lexus IS F/RC F.
Physics like wheels getting burried on Asphalt.
Physics like tree rolling on for some quite amount of time when hit.
[This is the only gripe i have with them on board]