Best & Worst You've Dealt With Online

[JR98]

Share your best, and worst experiences online with FM7.

Had an amazing battle with @ZDUPH during the final few laps of this Forza GT race


Which was of course balanced out by this race at Prague being ruined by a rammer in a GT-R

 

[RikkiGT-R]

That second video is all I have experienced online.
The last FM that I even tried online was 4, and I don't remember it being anywhere near as bad as it is now.

 

[Gotbeefboy564]

They should have a option to make online races ghosted so there is no collisions.

 

[RikkiGT-R]

Or just have damage locked to full simulation on all hoppers. Either get good or leave.

 

[UKMikey]

Or just have damage locked to full simulation on all hoppers. Either get good or leave.

That would leave everyone at the mercy of the rammers. They could still go in as teams and ruin multiple people's days. A ghosting option is better.

 

[JR98]

I feel like cars should always be ghosted if they're not racing, so if a car is ever going under 30 MPH or going the wrong way around the track they should always be ghosted. Also cars should be ghosted when they are off track and when rejoining the track.

I've actually had my race ruined once because someone got disconnected while a Mugello race was starting and I went right into the back of their stationary car (that was parked on the grid) which completely ruined my car (broke the engine, gearbox and steering completely) which ended up in me getting lapped before I even made it to the pits.

 

[AlienDeathRay]

In one Online race, at the start, the car in front of me, ( I started in the middle of the pack ), didn't move just stayed there. I rammed into him and suddenly all the cars from behind me rammed me and sent my car flying, (ridiculously I might add, what is with the physics on the collisions? because I feel the exaggerated physics make the collisions more appealing). My car was completely battered, wing gone, windows broken, and I'm sideways and all the cars are now impossibly far ahead and I haven even left the starting line!

 

[RikkiGT-R]

That would leave everyone at the mercy of the rammers. They could still go in as teams and ruin multiple people's days. A ghosting option is better.

Yeah that's probably a better idea. I do, however, feel we should be able to create our own lobbies for random players online, but create our own rules and restrictions. Unless we can already? All I see is the option to invite friends to private races. Be nice to kick rammers off as soon as they start.

what is with the physics on the collisions?

I've wondered this as well. Plenty of times I barely got off the line before I was absolutely SLAMMED from behind as if a car had come down the home straight and built up to full speed before hitting me.
I do love Forza but the online aspect, racing against other players, is piss-poor. And I'm being kind.

 

[diegorborges]

Forza will never be faced as a serious online racing game if they don't do something about the servers.

It needs custom public lobbies, with rules and penalties.

What happens online is absurd.

 

[notsofast]

The second vid in the OP is why I dont race online..

Some people do the right thing but there are too many people who don't drive properly and spoil it for others.

 

[Northstar]

I decided to try a few races just to see if it was safe yet and got mixed results.

The first race had an idiot take out half the field in the first corner, but he left right after and each race afterward was decent etiquette wise.

Where my real problem lies is the lack of any kind of match making. Lap times for each race were all over the board leading to a rather boring race.

I'll just stick to Rivals for my online fix for a little longer.

 

[RikkiGT-R]

The second vid in the OP is why I dont race online..

Some people do the right thing but there are too many people who don't drive properly and spoil it for others.

As I mentioned before, some seriously sad individuals out there. Paying a lot of money for a game to spend your time just being a spoil sport because you are utterly incompetent at said game. Idiots.

 

[Zero7159]

They need to follow GT Sport’s lead and penalize the Turn 1 ramming and reward good driving with some sort of safety rating. I hope the League racing is cleaner, the hoppers are a mess.

 

[CSLACR]

Last night, the commentary took the show.
First, I listened to a guy griping because he didn't understand the concept of "multi-division racing". Even while having it explained to him, he was still reluctant to accept this was really what was going on.
A bit later, (same guy) is driving a Nissan GT-R @ 775 S class, and he can't get away from my 475 C class 69 T/A. I actually rear-ended him going into corners by accident twice before the race was through. He talked casually the entire race, and never mentioned the fact he was holding up lower class cars at all.
A bit later (same guy) explains to his friend how he hit a pole in a parking lot doing donuts...."because he had slicks on it", that was the reason. "Because they're not made for the street."
He also said he crashed into a ditch after going 100mph. No word on if slicks caused that one too.

The racing wasn't super dirty, or super, just meh. FM7 could really use some extra ghosting, particularly when a car doesn't start the race, or after they've crashed. I lost count how many races ultimately were ruined by a car sideways on the track, or driving across it, back onto it right in front of other cars, etc.
Ghosting after impact and/or serious off-track excursions would have stopped 3/4 of the crashes.

 

[BlazeTheCat05]

I love when I'm in a lobby with leaderboard tryhards that fail to acknowledge that there are other drivers on the track. They'll swerve into you, ram into you, and rejoin in front of you as if they're hotlapping. I get seriously pissed off when that happens.

The other thing that aggravates me is when half of the lobby is running downloaded leaderboard tunes. Can you not tune the car yourself? Are you that bad or lazy that you have to resort to using someone else's hard work to achieve a cheap ill-gotten victory?

Please don't take my rant to heart. At the end of the day, it's just my opinion.

 

[RikkiGT-R]

The other thing that aggravates me is when half of the lobby is running downloaded leaderboard tunes. Can you not tune the car yourself? Are you that bad or lazy that you have to resort to using someone else's hard work to achieve a cheap ill-gotten victory?

I don't mind that so much since they still need to be able to drive the cars themselves.

 

[UKMikey]

The other thing that aggravates me is when half of the lobby is running downloaded leaderboard tunes. Can you not tune the car yourself? Are you that bad or lazy that you have to resort to using someone else's hard work to achieve a cheap ill-gotten victory?

I don't race online - too frightened of the rammers - but am sufficiently bad and/or lazy that I resort to using other people's leaderboard tunes to win races against the AI more easily. I thought that was the entire point of shared tunes. Doesn't the tuner get paid for their hard work anyway? Sorry but this sounds like a ridiculous objection.

 

[BlazeTheCat05]

I don't mind that so much since they still need to be able to drive the cars themselves.

True. I've still managed to beat drivers that were running tunes from the F4H and FRF crews, for example. It does seem a bit crazy when you're in a 24 person Modern GT Endurance lobby and 15 people are running leaderboard setups (usually with UGLY aftermarket wheels too!).

 

[RikkiGT-R]

The more I play against the AI, the more I understand why people drive like that online. Drivatars are absolute morons at all levels, constantly slam into me, cut me off, sideswipe me, slam on the brakes for no reason, drive into the back of me... if that's the example they set it's no wonder people go online and copy it.

 

[Lameonade]

I have a couple:

Spoiler: stupid

 

[JR98]

A very intense GT3 battle at Silverstone with me defending against a very aggressive M3 GT2 in my XK GT3


I also had this race where the game never turned my headlights on and was racing in complete darkness

 

[RikkiGT-R]

I have a couple:

Spoiler: stupid

That bottom video is my experience of FM7 online. I just don't understand the mentality of people who buy a game (or rather, have the game bought for them), simply to go online and be assholes at all times.
Can guarantee not one of those idiots would even dare drive without aids since they are clearly utterly incompetent. They are like poker players on tilt, playing completely recklessly in a rage, but they are on tilt from the very start since they know they wouldn't stand a chance in a fair race.

Total scumbags, that's all they are.

 

[Lameonade]

I also had this race where the game never turned my headlights on and was racing in complete darkness

Wow, those chicanes are completely invisible. Without that braking line it very well could have been a messy situation.