Forza Motorsport General Discussion Thread

[meganinja]

Motorsport games is collapsing. Since Nascar is looking to jump the ship.

This could also mean Indy, Lemans and Btcc jumping off.

Motorsport Games' projects such as their Le Mans game, and any of their future projects, will either be failures or will never see the light of day.

Nope, in fact, the entire group that owns Motorsport Games was brough up few months ago to a new owner that wants keep the group afloat

GMF Capital acquires Motorsport Network Media LLC

www.motorsport.com

The same source that talked about the NASCAR quitting said that the WEC/Le Mans and IndyCar games are on track to be launched on next months and NASCAR will be the only one that will escape from the excluvity hell (probally beacuse NASCAR seeked a agreement and probally the new ownership gave to them)

not just that but most that are testing the indycar game that talked with the leaker said that the game looks FAR better than NASCAR 21, constantly updating and bug fixing, he said that the studio that once did KartCraft will be doing the indyCar game

He also said that the old ownership issues with workers are resolved now with the new ownership and that everyone seems satisfied and wants to continue working as usual

here is the full video (he talks only about the indycar launch here but since indycar will come out after the WEC game, is safe to assume that it will launch as well)

Wrc licence is better off being done by different developers

WRC agreement with EA has not even started yet lmao, its more than likely at this point that the first game will come out only next year

 

[Beezer215]

It would make sense for them not to include LMGT3 as that will only make its debut in next year's season. This year's GTE full season field includes 14 cars from Ferrari, Porsche, Aston Martin and Corvette. The composition of next year's LMGT3 is still unclear at the moment. But they have indicated that the game would receive updates in the future.

Right. And it was at Le Mans with the track and a couple cars I guess in a family area with sim rigs. I never followed up on looking for any info on that though. Really is a good idea to immortalize the GTE field though, it's sad to see them go. The Le Mans track and the GTE field in rF2 is wonderful so this has some promise. rF2's Oreca 07 is a bit slippery for my taste but you can dial some of that out in setup.

 

[AMR Matthijs]

Right. And it was at Le Mans with the track and a couple cars I guess in a family area with sim rigs. I never followed up on looking for any info on that though. Really is a good idea to immortalize the GTE field though, it's sad to see them go. The Le Mans track and the GTE field in rF2 is wonderful so this has some promise. rF2's Oreca 07 is a bit slippery for my taste but you can dial some of that out in setup.

Indeed sad to see GTE go. It's been my favourite class for quite some time and it gave GT racing in WEC something special, unlike GT3 which is raced everywhere (even in DTM now). My favourite car remains the old Vantage GTE, the sound of that car was so amazingly good and definitely looked the part

And these entries were mostly full factory efforts with exclusively professional drivers in GTE Pro. Now the Hypercar class (a lot less expensive than LMP1) has taken over this role, often with the same drivers (5 out of Ferrari's 6 499P drivers raced in the 488 GTE). Ams wanting to drive in the WEC next season can't even drive LMP2 anymore, GT3 is their only option.

 

[UKMikey]

That [FM 2023 track lineup] is a disappointing list, on the face of it.

The only two tracks I am excited for are Hakone and Grand Oak, as they are actual race tracks, rather than city/visual showpieces

Sorry, I mean, usually a new Forza title brings with it a forgettable City Circuit.

Dubai track from Forza 7, Prague from 5, and Brazil from 6. Rather a nice, proper fictional race track

So are you excited for actual race tracks while finding the entire list disappointing for not having any forgettable city circuits (?), or disappointed because more of the tracks were real race tracks instead of nice, proper, fictional race tracks?

Personally, I'm sorry there isn't a wider track selection, but I knew that from the outset so can't really claim to be disappointed as such. Especially with the promise of more tracks to fill out the roster via (probably) free DLC over the lifetime of the game.

 

[PJTierney]

Codemasters has gone lazy.

🤔

 

[MagpieRacer]

Motorsport games is collapsing. Since Nascar is looking to jump the ship.

This could also mean Indy, Lemans and Btcc jumping off.

Exclusivity is garbage. In the past we had so many f1 games from different developers.

Codemasters has gone lazy. Wrc licence is better off being done by different developers.

Porsche has learnt its lesson with the exclusivity bs with EA now Porsches are in every racing game.

Curious as to how you've figured Codemasters have gone lazy? They earliest they could physically be allowed to release a WRC game would be 2023, the previous WRC games all launched between September and November. Plenty of time yet.

Not to mention Grid, F1 etc.

 

[UKMikey]

I have to admit there are a couple of QoL features on present day Kylotonn WRC games that I'd miss were the next game a carbon copy of DiRT Rally 2.0 except for the cars, tracks and perhaps graphics.

Examples are the distance to finish line stat displayed in the HUD and the track map in the pause screen, as well as the per stage update of where you are in the rally. In DR2.0 I have to memorise how many stages I have to go until the next service interval.

I'd call these minor quibbles rather than "OMG Codies r lazy devs!!!", though.

 

[skazz]

I'm fairly sure that's the area Codemasters will be working on, along with following the official calendar of events and having enough track length to satisfy the WRC people.

I hope they took this opportunity to heavily rework their rally game engine to allow longer event length.

 

[UKMikey]

I hope they took this opportunity to heavily rework their rally game engine to allow longer event length.

I'm all for longer stages but wouldn't mind an option to adjust the difficulty in career despite what I said earlier about hoping the game punishes us for mistakes.

In actual fact I wouldn't mind more of a career but I won't miss the in depth approach to team management in KT games though so long as there's a tamagotchi-free Season Race option. Failing this the ability to earn credits via custom freeplay would be a welcome addition.

 

[meganinja]

FM Twitter account just RTed this post by Xbox´s Sarah Bond

I guess is just a random promo tweet but GamesCon is coming and is rumorized to we have something new there

 

[AttackDickie]

I'm all for longer stages but wouldn't mind an option to adjust the difficulty in career despite what I said earlier about hoping the game punishes us for mistakes.

In actual fact I wouldn't mind more of a career but I won't miss the in depth approach to team management in KT games though so long as there's a tamagotchi-free Season Race option. Failing this the ability to earn credits via custom freeplay would be a welcome addition.

I wouldn't mind a more basic career mode (compared to KTs game) IF it meant I could do it with some of the historic cars and not just the current cars. Plus we all know CM are lazy anyway...

 

[AMR Matthijs]

They are back to reveals with a great trailer of Suzuka with the 2020 Hyundai #98 Bryan Herta Autosport Veloster N. Suzuka looks really good at night



Edit: now also on Youtube

 

[BOK]

Seems like a weird corner to highlight but anyway

 

[AMR Matthijs]

Seems like a weird corner to highlight but anyway

Not if Alain Prost is the target audience 😉

 

[Beebo]

They are back to reveals with a great trailer of Suzuka with the 2020 Hyundai #98 Bryan Herta Autosport Veloster N. Suzuka looks really good at night



Edit: now also on Youtube

That night sky looks great, reminds me of older games in a good way!

 

[whannel]

FM Twitter account just RTed this post by Xbox´s Sarah Bond

I guess is just a random promo tweet but GamesCon is coming and is rumorized to we have something new there

She's since tweeted this stating it's a gameplay screenshot. Looks good, strange resolution though, at 996x559 pixels?

 

[ctdc67]

That night sky looks great, reminds me of older games in a good way!

. Hoping for a nice star filled and big moon night sky….

 

[GBalao888]

Haven't had any new car reveals since I think... when Maple Valley was showcased. Maybe they're holding some back in time for Gamescom.

But based on what we have now, we're at a healthy 276 cars, maybe double that and we're at the promised figure of over 500 cars.

 

[MS8]

I think they are holding back the Nürburgring + Nordschleife for Gamescom because it's all in Germany. And car reveal would be great the BMW M4 GT3 as german manufactor. Let's hope...

 

[turk1993]

 

[Famine]

I'VE JUST UPDATED THE GUIDE STOP ADDING CARS YOU BASTARDS!

 

[UKMikey]

Does anyone know roughly how many cars have been announced from the 500+ total? It's just that one of the comments on that IG post complained about "every game with the likes of Forza has to be nuked with GT and sportscars" and I'm sure there are plenty of cars still left to reveal.

 

[nukleabomb]

Does anyone know roughly how many cars have been announced from the 500+ total? It's just that one of the comments on that IG post complained about "every game with the likes of Forza has to be nuked with GT and sportscars" and I'm sure there are plenty of cars still left to reveal.

over 250, under 300 is my guess

 

[UKMikey]

over 250, under 300 is my guess

Pretty much what I figured. It's crazy to criticise the roster balance with around half the car list to go.

 

[MS8]

Haven't had any new car reveals since I think... when Maple Valley was showcased. Maybe they're holding some back in time for Gamescom.

But based on what we have now, we're at a healthy 276 cars, maybe double that and we're at the promised figure of over 500 cars.

+ 26 today = 302

 

[GBalao888]

+ 26 today = 302

289.

281 cars confirmed at launch, plus eight that were previously cut.

EDIT: I just noticed an Aston Martin Vulcan AMR Pro, and potentially some LMP that I don't know of right here in this old photo from this month's Forza monthly.

The Vulcan AMR Pro is hidden behind the "O" of Monthly and there is some LMP on the upper right corner that I cannot seem to recognize very well.

 

[mynameis66]

Hoping we get the R32,33,and 34,i know there from F7 but thats just a personal hope.

 

[UKMikey]

289.

281 cars confirmed at launch, plus eight that were previously cut.

EDIT: I just noticed an Aston Martin Vulcan AMR Pro, and potentially some LMP that I don't know of right here in this old photo from this month's Forza monthly.

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The Vulcan AMR Pro is hidden behind the "O" of Monthly and there is some LMP on the upper right corner that I cannot seem to recognize very well.

Don't forget the trucks behind the spectators.

Seriously though, you definitely have way more of an eye for detail than I do.

 

[TheOE]

The MG (6?) Touring Car added in FH5 is missing

 

[skazz]

Indeed, and the TCR class would only have 5 cars in it like this. Maybe they will come back to it later?