Online racing - Gamercard avatar etc

[sneakiermoth]

Hi guys, new around here and to the F4 online racing community!

I have noticed when joining online races, most of the other drivers seem to have a personally-chosen avatar (i.e. a Skull or something) and one-line description on their gamer card, whereas mine defaults to 'Forza 4' avatar and no description. Which is plain boring!

I've tried to change it, but unless I'm missing something glaringly obvious, can't find anywhere I can amend the avatar or description.

If anyone can advise, it'd be most appreciated!

Thanks in advance.

 

[Lissa]

Also new, but can answer this one!

On the main Forza screen, go into Community, scroll down to My Profile, and Edit Playercard is the first option. You can change your badge and the title there.

 

[sneakiermoth]

Ah, cheers Lissa, will now change it so something a bit less 'meh!'

Happy Racing, see you out there

 

[Lissa]

Glad I could help. 👍

I've just changed my title to 'From Behind', as every AI driver seems to be on a mission to butt tattoo me at every opportunity!

 

[bnsfnut]

I have the same problem but with online racers... uggghhhh

 

[Lissa]

I haven't ventured into the scary online world yet. Don't want to inflict serious racers with my newbie driving!

 

[sneakiermoth]

Yeah, it's really dog eat dog, stick with the smaller engined cars to start with! I've done about 20 races, finished last in most of them, and despite driving really well (er mostly) , the other top 3 or 4 drivers always seem about 10-12 seconds a lap faster - what's that all about!?

 

[Im_Lukas]

I haven't ventured into the scary online world yet. Don't want to inflict serious racers with my newbie driving!

From what I've seen online there aren't too many serious drivers compared to the people purposely smashing you off. The ones that are serious racers (from my experience) don't get too upset if you make a mistake and hit them as long as you don't go racing off after.

Would I be in the wrong if I caught up with an aggressive driver (the kind that purposely crashes into you, usually with several other people in the lobby helping them) and used the brakes so rather than getting pushed off track they end up spinning and then I just drive off. Usually I can pass the dirty drivers cleanly but some of them seem to learn my strategy quite quickly so can easily counter it.

 

[Lissa]

From what I've seen online there aren't too many serious drivers compared to the people purposely smashing you off. The ones that are serious racers (from my experience) don't get too upset if you make a mistake and hit them as long as you don't go racing off after.

Would I be in the wrong if I caught up with an aggressive driver (the kind that purposely crashes into you, usually with several other people in the lobby helping them) and used the brakes so rather than getting pushed off track they end up spinning and then I just drive off. Usually I can pass the dirty drivers cleanly but some of them seem to learn my strategy quite quickly so can easily counter it.

I always try to drive as cleanly as possible. Sometimes my ambition outweighs my talent, but I have never deliberately nurfed someone (Well, except for Pete, but that's allowed, and only when we're trying to nurf each other!) I've never come across the deliberate rammers online on GT5. Maybe I was just lucky, or maybe finding a really good bunch of people to race with helped. How I would react if I was on the receiving end of an online jerk, I don't know. I hope I'd keep my cool and look for another lobby, but I may just go on a seek out and destroy mission!

I will venture online on some point.

 

[Im_Lukas]

I think I only came across 2 consistently dirty players online on GT5, and I must of had well over 500 hours spent online, luckily I like hot lapping more than racing and the free roam lobbies generally had less dirty players.

Now in Forza 4 I can't find a lobby without people purposely crashing, it does mix up the races a bit but it goes a bit too far when I manage to come 2nd in a 16 player lobby against 7 X class vehicles while using the stock R2 GT500 SC430, they were all taking eachother out and did nothing about me because they were much faster so there was no point for them taking the risk.