Forza Motorsport General Discussion Thread

[Famine]

I'm admittedly not familiar with the Miata, but doesn't a green backlit gauge cluster indicative of the car being driven at night for easier visuals of said cluster?

For the sibling, European car, it just means at least the sidelights are on. Doesn't need to be headlights.

 

[slthree]

An opinion can't be wrong. Otherwise, it would be a fact.

That said, I respect those who are "underwhelmed".

I am thrilled with what I saw and heard. I didn't expect more than what they revealed.

Like a previous poster, I'd rather wait a little longer and get a sublime racing game (which is what I fully anticipate).

The wait has become even more difficult after today's small bit if info.

 

[ferhound]

I really like raytracing but my gpu is incapable of such feature.

 

[pclark06]

I’d be interested to see how many cars that won’t make it from previous games are from Stellantis and the trademarking situation there since they have so many marques

 

[Nathan88]

Impressions from the developers focusing on graphics & sounds, plus some wonky race footage, didn't inspire me to think FM is digging deeper into the sim side. I'm sure they'll have lots of motorsport features, race weekends, online etc. But the actual racing footage and class mixture looked no different to FM7. Single-player looks like it will be focused on car building, perhaps a story mode.

 

[Ak1504]

So what are the new cars we have seen in the video clips ? Has anyone found them all and has a list ?

 

[Famine]

So what are the new cars we have seen in the video clips ? Has anyone found them all and has a list ?

There's a list on Forza.net of all the cars from the clips. I've never played FM7, so I can't tell you which are new other than those dated after the last DLC/update.

 

[Ak1504]

I have seen the list but I'm not motivated enough to scollt through ~800 cars and look which ones are new lol

 

[Mathaios_C]

How many cars on the grid? 24?

 

[ravaline]

devs talking mainly about graphics is a red flag imo. Less tracks means probably less career content as well. It's a shame that gran turismo and forza are becoming like these graphics demo to showcase the power of new gen consoles. Few years ago there was some rumors that the new forza will have 50+ cars on tracks and advanced AI and pit stops animations to create these realistic endurance races with full practice and quali.... so far I haven't seen any of that . So disappointing ngl

 

[Bilu]

It looks interesting. Maybe I got it right how the campaign mode will be.

 

[L8 Apex]

Nothing I'm seeing or reading thus far has made me go "Wow," as in "That's neat," but there's quite a bit that makes me go "Wow," as in "Really? You've spent the last five-plus years and come up with this?"

 

[MikeTheHockeyFan]

This is how I feel about GT7, actually.

Nothing I'm seeing or reading thus far has made me go "Wow," as in "That's neat," but there's quite a bit that makes me go "Wow," as in "Really? You've spent the last five-plus years and come up with this?"

 

[ClydeYellow]

And just like that, the last bit of hype for Forza Motorsport I had is gone. If it will come out and will be a great game I'll spend countless hours on it; if it sucks or doesn't come out at all I won't lose much sleep over it.

 

[shoemaker]

peoples thoughts on them perhaps adding UDP and button box support ?

 

[Ak1504]

I prefer to concentrate on the things i like instead of complaing so as big fan of details i love the new dirt model that takes low pressure zones on the cars aero into account. Pretty cool.

 

[steeeve104]

On the one hand, it looks and sounds very good to me. Looking forward to the time of day and weather options. Dirt build up looks very nice.

On the other hand, I'm kind of disappointed by the the car and location count. For cars, they said 500 cars with 100 new to Forza. Whilst 100 new cars is good, it means "only" 400 returning. FM7 contained over 850 cars including DLC, so we're losing more than half of those. Hopefully (again, personal preference) we'll see a lot of those return as they get rescanned and rebuilt. Similarly, the location count of returning circuits from FM7 is also halved - from a personal point of view, I hope the majority of those are the real-life locations.

Also disappointed that there's still no release date, although note the Geoff Keighley tweet saying before the end of June, which I guess would still kinda count as Spring. I guess I'd got it in my head it might be March or April!

 

[Chikane_GTR]

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First look at UI? or is it Dev mode?

😍 Looks like there be another X series in my future. 😍

Love the why they display the c8r almost like throwing shades at pd "" hahah we have the c8r and you don't.

 

[Linus27]

My guess on tracks will be,

1. Kyalami
2. Sukuza
3. Mid Ohio
4. Spa
5. Nurburgring
6. Monza
7. Silverstone
8. Bathurst
9. Hakone
10. Le Mans
11. Laguna Seca
12. Circuit of the Americas
13. Interlagos
14. Mosport
15. Zandvoort
16. Abu Dhabi
17. Maple Valley
18. Sebring - Maybe
19. Imola - Maybe
20. Bahrain - Maybe

 

[Kelpy D]

I've rewatched the developer_direct and found these hidden cars (Will send screengrabs later):

• 2013 Audi R8 V10 plus 5.2 FSI Quattro Coupe
• #15 BMW V12 LMR
• 2014 AmD Tuning Ford Focus ST BTCC
• #3 Toyota Motorsports GT-ONE TS020
  

Plus, are they still gonna try to compensate the XBOX One players (ie, XBOX One Release)? I don't see any news of FM in XBOX One other than Cloud Gaming.

 

[regnar]

Sounds like a end of 2023 year release, hoping the physics really has been overhauled.

 

[AlexOnTheFly]

Nice 360 era headlights on the BMW M3 and the Mercedes 190e...

GT7: Hold my beer...

 

[Apple Slipper]

2021 Porsche Mission R Concept

LOVELY! 😍

 

[Joey D]

This is going to look really, really nice and likely play really well while being incredibly stale.

I do hope I'm wrong though and the car list wows me.

 

[Artremis]

Nice 360 era headlights on the BMW M3 and the Mercedes 190e...
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Could you find a more compressed screenshot? I can almost make out it's from a racing game still

 

[rhalgr]

Nice 360 era headlights on the BMW M3 and the Mercedes 190e...
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GT7: Hold my beer...
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The compression in your first picture looks like Xbox 360 image quality and the BMW in GT is captured in scape mode.

GT7 scape vs FM

 

[Populuxe]

I'm pleased by what I saw. Horizon is still my favorite racing game, but the draw of Motorsport for me has always been the dedicated racing cars and unique venues, and it sounds like there will plenty of both. So I'll be picking this up at launch.

 

[PJTierney]

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It looks interesting. Maybe I got it right how the campaign mode will be.

If I understood it correctly, it’s localised roadside announcers playing through the speakers on each track.

DiRT 5 has something like this, F1 games too to a lesser degree (mostly audible pre-race).

 

[turk1993]

Nice 360 era headlights on the BMW M3 and the Mercedes 190e...
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GT7: Hold my beer...
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If only those models where used in real time and not in a 2d photospace (scape). Atleast with Forza we got to drive those cars at that quality in game, which is not the case for GT7.

 

[Mister_XFR]

Hopefully they finally redo some of the wonky car models that have been carried all the way from FM1…