Forza Horizon 4: General Pre-Release News & Discussion

[Northstar]

Was pretty sure that it wouldn't come over considering how unpopular it was, and how poorly it was implimented in FM7.

Not to mention it would pretty much be incompatible with blueprint.

 

[VXR]

Well that's great news right there. Being able to choose your favourite car and the AI scale accordingly was so appreciated in H2 and 3.

 

[Nielsen]

Someone from PG confirmed there will be no homologation feature.

Source?

 

[-Fred-]

Source?

https://forums.forzamotorsport.net/turn10_postsm931005_-ANSWERED--Homologation.aspx#post_931005

 

[Minty]

Well that's great news right there. Being able to choose your favourite car and the AI scale accordingly was so appreciated in H2 and 3.

Yeah, it seemed like a step backwards, forcing the player to scale to the AI instead of the other way around. It's the main reason I got bored with FM7 as quickly as I did and was my main concern with H4, so that's excellent news.

 

[Northstar]

Well that's great news right there. Being able to choose your favourite car and the AI scale accordingly was so appreciated in H2 and 3.

On that note I do hope there is an option to allow AI cars that have a higher PI than you. One of my bigger gripes about Blueprint was that you had to have the highest PI car or else the selection of AI cars was limited beyond what you selected.

 

[TheOE]

Here is a list of all the british cars we once had in the Forza franchise that might come back for this game:

(Cars that are on the left are confirmed)

Spoiler: List

2010 Bentley Continental Supersports
2004 Bentley Continental GT​

2012 Eagle (U.K.) Speedster

2010 Jaguar XFR
2009 Jaguar XKR-S
2007 Jaguar XK Coupe
2014 Land Rover Range Rover Supercharged
2008 Land Rover Range Rover Supercharged
2009 Lotus Evora
2006 Lotus Exige Cup 240
2005 Lotus Exige
2005 Lotus Elise
2005 Lotus Exige Espionage
2003 Lotus Elise 135R
1980 Lotus Esprit Turbo
2013 McLaren Team Forza P1​

1966 MG MGB GT

2010 MINI Coupe Concept​

2014 Morgan 3 Wheeler
2010 Morgan Aero SuperSports

1972 Reliant Supervan III
1967 Sunbeam Tiger
1979 Talbot Sunbeam Lotus
1962 Triumph TR3B
2001 TVR Tuscan R
2001 TVR Tuscan S​

1998 TVR Cerbera Speed 12

2012 Ultima GTR 720
2012 Ultima GTR
2013 Vauxhall Astra 1.6 Tech Line Top Gear Edition
2011 Vauxhall Agila
2010 Vauxhall Insignia VXR
2005 Vauxhall Monaro VXR
2004 Vauxhall VX220 Turbo​

 

[Techlet]

T10/PG's confirmed that traffic cars will be ghosted inside speed and drift zones: https://forums.forzamotorsport.net/turn10_postsm930964_As-a-Drifter--I-m-hesistant.aspx#post_930964

That's a hell of a concession.

 

[Populuxe]

T10/PG's confirmed that traffic cars will be ghosted inside speed and drift zones: https://forums.forzamotorsport.net/turn10_postsm930964_As-a-Drifter--I-m-hesistant.aspx#post_930964

That's a hell of a concession.

They really went over the top with traffic cars in drift and speed zones, so this will be good.

 

[Crazy Taylor]

T10/PG's confirmed that traffic cars will be ghosted inside speed and drift zones: https://forums.forzamotorsport.net/turn10_postsm930964_As-a-Drifter--I-m-hesistant.aspx#post_930964

That's a hell of a concession.

You would do one drift zone and 20 cars would appear on the road. Good news.

 

[BlazeTheCat05]

That's a good start. But what about other players/drivatars not taking part?

 

[Northstar]

That's a good start. But what about other players/drivatars not taking part?

IIRC non-friends will be ghosted everywhere (online at least, not sure about offline drivatars). So if you're still getting wrecked in drift/speed zones, your friends are dicks.

 

[BlazeTheCat05]

IIRC non-friends will be ghosted everywhere (online at least, not sure about offline drivatars). So if you're still getting wrecked in drift/speed zones, your friends are dicks.

I think I may need to reconsider a few of my friends.

 

[Nielsen]

Traffic cars should just disappear from the game altogether.

 

[FT-1]

Traffic cars should just disappear from the game altogether.

If anything, switching traffic off in general could be an option. Personally, I'd rather have traffic cars and drivatars roaming around to prevent the environment feeling empty and deserted.

 

[Crazy Taylor]

Where yould you see a Mazda3 or a fiesta or a transit on the road if we didn't have traffic.

 

[Nielsen]

If anything, switching traffic off in general could be an option. Personally, I'd rather have traffic cars and drivatars roaming around to prevent the environment feeling empty and deserted.

Drivatars are part of the festival and add life to the game, so I'm fine with these. However, traffic cars are lifeless, lack variety and an unrealistic presence among Drivatars not needing to worry about traffic laws. An option to switch off traffic would do.

 

[Ak1504]

I don´t have a problem with traffic... The blind drivatars are the problem... And i bet they are still blind in H4...

 

[LumpiestFish]

Bit more gameplay, shows snippets of the drag strip at the festival, and a few more bits here and there.

 

[ShawnPhillips]

Splitting the map into sectors of 12 players instead of just having 72 player free for all in one map is a good way of doing things. Otherwise you would find 64 of the 72 players cluttering up either at the drag strip or whatever becomes a popular drift spot. Limiting it to 12 players per sector will make it much better for finding players in other parts of the map.

 

[PzR Slim]

Bit more gameplay, shows snippets of the drag strip at the festival, and a few more bits here and there.

Plenty of new footage in that for me. It looks so pretty.

 

[TokoTurismo]

I need to stop watching new videos of FH4. Because the more I do (as well as learning more about it), the more hyped up I get! It's such a dream come true!

 

[Matthew00717]

Found This in one of my discord Groups doesnt look like its been posted on here yet so I thought i would share it

Gives you a brief overview of the map and other bits

 

[Matthew00717]

looks like someone took a sneaky shot in that press conference that they weren't allowed to show judging by that hand

 

[Matthew00717]

More ScreenShots i got from here:

 

[Northstar]

There must be something wrong with my eyes as the Senna doesn’t look that bad in that color.

 

[-Fred-]

That shot in the town looks promising.

 

[turk1993]

The foliage is really impresive, a great improvement over FH3. Also nice that the mud is deformable like the snow.

 

[FT-1]

Found This in one of my discord Groups doesnt look like its been posted on here yet so I thought i would share it

Gives you a brief overview of the map and other bits

Are we just going to ignore the fact the R34 has now become classified a retro sports car? It's getting old now!

 

[UKMikey]

I like how they give you a bullet list of currently running online activities to completely ignore join up with.

LOL @ Don Joewon Song's video just being a reskin of the IGN First one