One of my biggest frustrations with the Horizon series, is the lack of ability to find/host a race with very specific car classes/types. The open world design meant that if someone started hosting a race, you got very little information about the type of race and class of cars, before getting sucked in. End result was that the race was not competitive as some players are completely outmatched due to picking the wrong car, usually only the host has picked the most ideal car.
Please don’t suggest pay Forza 7 for competitive matches. There’s no reason a street racing game can’t have competitive match ups.
The offline and casual multiplayer is good in Horizon, but the competitive multiplayer is lacking due to a lack of lobbies.
They used to have a great custom public lobby system in Forza horizon 1 then they took it out … This has been one of the most requested features in Forza (custom public lobbys) …so in fh4 they give us men in dresses and changing weather lol
FH2 at least forced you to try different car classes online and cars for all the championships,
the only lasting memory of FH3 is how every race just had the same cars over and over again.
But I pity the fool who tried to find someone in the game to do COOP bucketlists in FH2 freeroam.
What use is online if you can’t actually interact with people and find someone with similar interests.
I wish they’d bring back the lobby system from FH1, complete with specific car & class restrictions, ability to specify stock / no upgrades, etc.
So much better when you just want to do some actual racing instead of the current freeroam only setup where people would rather vote for the playground modes, drag strip, or do only the Goliath for xp and credits over and over. It was such a frustrating waste of time trying to get some actual races going in FH3. Especially in the lower classes. On the rare chance you would actually succeed in getting a race going, you were lucky if 1-3 people actually joined.
Let the people who want to race together, race together. The open world / freeroam aspect of random multiplayer connections is fine, but the lobby system is vastly superior for racing and getting into exactly the type of event you want without all the unnecessary fluff, waiting, and disappointment. Biggest mistake of the series was ditching that in FH2 & FH3. Give us the best of both worlds and the choice to lobby or freeroam mp.
Its something a lot of people have requested and personally think its an oversight that it hasn’t been included. Don’t quote me but I’m sure they hinted that they are aware of the demand for this and are looking for a solution.