The most recent update to Forza Motorsport has introduced a harmless but interesting bug into the game’s Photomode which essentially allows for free-roaming of the home area.
It takes very little effort to activate the bug, as it simply emerges when you try to take a photograph of your current car in the home screen. All you need do is select View Car and Photomode from the game’s top menu, and you can now wander around the area freely.
You’re not even limited by walls, which you can pass straight through and explore the area outside the building — though there is a range limit, and there’s not much scope for changing elevation even outdoors — as well as the three-car garage area you can normally only look into.
There’s nothing majorly consequential here, but it is interesting to note how much of the local environment has been modeled, and to how far away — even things not directly in the line of sight of the normal operation of this mode.
You will quickly discover a dark moat of nothingness around the main building (which bears an otherwise imperceptible “Prorata” logo on it) which is hidden from normal view by the walls outside the facility, but beyond that there’s actually quite a lot of buildings, signs, and vehicles.
One fun note we discovered is an intersection outside the building which bears both an English “stop” sign and a French “cedez le passage” (or “give way”) sign on opposite sides. That suggests that, if inspired by a real place, the garage is in a Canadian territory where bilingual road signs exist or somewhere in New England — such as Vermont. Although the scenery certainly doesn’t tally with that!
Inside the garage is also pretty extensively modeled, with displays, posters, tool racks, sticky notes, some low-resolution Polaroid shots stuck to various surfaces and even a whiteboard.
Forza fans will be pretty familiar with Torben Ellert’s whiteboard from various teasers for Forza Horizon titles, but there doesn’t seem to be too much information on this item; it would have been a fun way to tease the next update!
Although it’s restricted to a fairly small area, and most of what’s behind your garage is empty space, we’re sure that there’s plenty more to discover. It’s also pretty likely that Turn 10 will fix the bug before much longer, but as it’s not especially problematic you might get until Update 15 to explore.
Thanks to Nacho Libre, who pointed this out on our forums!
