Forza Motorsport General Discussion Thread

[Nacho Libre]

Where are the photos of the new NASCAR cars located? Are they visible with the normal showroom views? I can't believe that they would be up there and not visible without using this new "bug"?

Left inside corner of the wall opposite the car in your showroom.

 

[LumpiestFish]

Could anyone tell me why the update is 139 GB? Is that the size of it for everyone?

 

[Nacho Libre]

Could anyone tell me why the update is 139 GB? Is that the size of it for everyone?

No, that's the size of the full game and the high.textures package (useless?)

 

[Kelpy D]

I'm quite hyped for the Australia Month update following the amount of ATCC mods that I've been playing in Assetto Corsa, though, I think the main empahsis in the racing portion of it will be the more recent V8 Supercars (ZB Commodore, Mustang, Camaro V8 Supercars).

Here are my possible guesses for other cars that can be added in the Australia Month update:

• 1984 Nissan #16 Bluebird Group C
• 2011 Ford #5 Ford Performance Racing FG Falcon V8 Supercar
• 2011 HSV GTS
• 2008 HVS W427
• 1967 Ford Falcon XR GT
• 1971 Ford Falcon XY GTHO

 

[syphe]

I'm quite hyped for the Australia Month update following the amount of ATCC mods that I've been playing in Assetto Corsa, though, I think the main empahsis in the racing portion of it will be the more recent V8 Supercars (ZB Commodore, Mustang, Camaro V8 Supercars).

Here are my possible guesses for other cars that can be added in the Australia Month update:

• 1984 Nissan #16 Bluebird Group C
• 2011 Ford #5 Ford Performance Racing FG Falcon V8 Supercar
• 2011 HSV GTS
• 2008 HVS W427
• 1967 Ford Falcon XR GT
• 1971 Ford Falcon XY GTHO

Just give me the 2 gen3 cars and a bunch of group A cars into my veins and I'll be a happy man.

 

[LumpiestFish]

No, that's the size of the full game and the high.textures package (useless?)

Interesting, the game is still seemingly installed.

 

[RolexGTP]

I think the Australian automotive update should be packed with at least a dozen cars. The two newest gen v8 supercars from Ford and Chevy are obvious choices, bring back the Erabus E63 and Volvo v8 supercars from the 2015 gen, I would say four classic V8 supercar additions like the Nissan R32 or Nissan Bluebird etc. And then a few picked Holden and Ford sport and classic cars.

 

[meganinja]

hey guys

had been playing the game by myself in silence for a few months now


i am totally suprised that T10 maneged to get NASCAR licence, knowing that iRacing has exclusivity, it should had lot of negociations and lot of stuffs

i wish it means they can get more stuffs from iRacing like the 86 Cup, Clio Cups or even Brazilian Stock Cars or Formula 4s

 

[GBalao888]

hey guys

had been playing the game by myself in silence for a few months now


i am totally suprised that T10 maneged to get NASCAR licence, knowing that iRacing has exclusivity, it should had lot of negociations and lot of stuffs

i wish it means they can get more stuffs from iRacing like the 86 Cup, Clio Cups or even Brazilian Stock Cars or Formula 4s

This might be a theory why Turn Ten cannot add extra livery variants to the NASCAR vehicles, instead only remaining with three generic liveries.

 

[Morbid65]

Nice surprise, but the way this update rolled out was weird. Updates usually come around 10am for me, I checked at 10:30 and there was no update, and my download queue didn't say it had installed anything. I checked again at 3pm, no update listed as available, nothing in the "recently updated" section of the queue. Fired up the game at 4pm and it worked like normal, drove the NASCARs and TA Beretta a bit before my league race, but still nothing in the recently installed section. Checked again around 11pm and finally it showed it had recently installed something for Forza.

Especially weird since I've had to do the pause/resume trick to get the download to start for every patch since April...

The NASCAR stock cars drive surprisingly good, like I kinda don't believe they actually handle that well. I'm not saying I think they should handle bad or anything, but it was surprising how comfortable they were at some sketchy places like the Climbing Esses at VIR (comfy flat) and well, all of the Nordschleife.

Some interesting changes in this update.

Tuned car-to-car collision response for more physically accurate energy dissipation. This reduces the impact of small collisions and allows for more stability and control.

Didn't really notice any difference here, but it appears bump drafting still does not work which is pretty disappointing. You can occasionally get a bump when speeds and/or lag is just right, but not with any regularity... Which is weird, as it worked with slower cars like the Ginetta Junior back when we got it, then they broke it (for the June update I think?), then they fixed it (for July and August update), then they broke it again (September update), all unmentioned in patch notes so we have no idea if it was intentional or not.

Updated the multi-car aero model to reduce downforce impact on leading cars, widen the aero wake near the car, smooth transitions near wake edges and reduce drafting induced aero balance changes. (Update 13)

I know this was mentioned as an Update 13 change, but after doing a league race tonight in Ginetta Juniors at Hakone (draft sensitive car at a drafty track), it appears they have tweaked it some in this update as well and reduced the strength of the draft a little bit. Kinda mixed on this change, it was a little strong before but it was kinda fun like that. I wish they would just make it an option when setting up a lobby, like "Draft level: Weak/Normal/Strong" or something.

Returning to track: when a car goes off track, they will be ghosted to prevent collisions caused by unsafe re-entry until they have returned to track and reached a minimum speed threshold.

This is probably an overall positive when it comes to dealing with the brigands in public lobbies, but now players will never learn how to properly rejoin and will just drive out in the middle of the track because "oh well I'm ghosted." People are generally stupid and don't learn anyways I guess though so yeah I suppose it's positive. Will have to see how they un-ghost though before we know for sure I guess.

Autosaved tunes no longer apply to a player's tune save limit.

This is big. It's kinda dumb a game with 500+ cars launched with less than 500 spots for tunes when you can't avoid/control autosaves... but at least it's better now. There are a lot of people who had long been up against the 450 cap who will have some new freedom.

Fixed an issue on Mugello and other tracks where hitting curbs could cause sporadic, uncontrollable spins. This would occasionally occur when one or more tires rapidly accelerated or decelerated while unloaded during cornering.

Big win, if true. It was a bug that was actually present at a bunch of tracks, although it wasn't very common in some cars and quite common in others so we might not know if it's truly fixed until we spend more time with it.

By all accounts a bug, but one of the funniest ones I've seen, you can now step outside the showroom/garage and take pictures!

Wait, are those the cars of the update???

Harmless, so I imagine they will fix it quickly, sadly. For photographers, I'd suggest taking advantage of it while you can as you can now take pictures from angles you couldn't before, so you can better utilize the triple car bay:

 

[LumpiestFish]

How is it that you’re able to drive the NASCAR cars already? through a custom race loophole or something?

 

[AMR Matthijs]

What a great update! it honestly surprises me how they add all 3 Gen 7 NASCAR Cup cars in one update, and I really hope this is what they will do with other series, such as IndyCar and Formula E, too. Nice addition of the Mazda B09/86 as well!

One year in, it starts to feel like they have managed to turn this game in the right direction and next month is promising too