Looking forward to trying out some Ranked Free-For-All Adventure later when I have time. I will likely focus exclusively on racing in there outside of my Club events.
In the meantime here’s my personal checklist of things from the previous thread that my club and I are having trouble with regarding Multiplayer; I’ll update it as I go along.
Status updates are based off of information that has been published in official livestreams and updates.
[ Resolved ] Lack of non-Team Adventures
[ Resolved ] Hard to get people to join a Horizon Life PVP or Co-Op event within 45 seconds.
[ In Development ] Track design and game physics encourage and reward “wallriding” in Ranked Adventures.
[_] Players aggressively crash into each other in order to overtake/defend without notable consequences.
Stop smashing into people then. Clubs rolling in packs are the most notorious for this.
[_] Teammates deliberately crashing into one another without notable consequences.
Re-read my earlier comment
[_] No Team Adventure modes on Fortune Island.
[_] Private Adventures limited to Teams only.
[_] Freeroam Rush’s presence “forcing” players to choose cars suited to Cross-Country in Road Racing and Street Racing Adventures
Nobody forces you to choose an offroad car. My Bugatti Chiron has little problems with freeroam other than bumps. Tire choice is also key. I use rally tires almost exclusively due to rain, snow, dirt and freeroam rush.
It’s like offroad races with street racing cars on racing slicks.
[_] Long waiting times when matchmaking in Ranked Team Adventure.
[_] Convoys getting split up after connecting to a Team Adventure, some getting left behind etc.
[_] Unclear player rating system in Ranked Team Adventure, players losing points for “winning”.
[_] PI system restricts competitively-viable cars to a few narrow build types.
[_] Lack of Class-Based Rivals for every Route.
[_] A number of Routes classified as “Dirt Racing” consist mainly of tarmac roads.
Because people rarely use rally tires, need 3/4 of the race on tarmac so they can compete.
[_] Lack of “Ghost only” Online Adventures.
[_] Lack of an ability to choose a preferred Class when queuing up for Team Adventure.
[_] Lack of an ability to vote on the theme/Class of a new Unranked/Private Adventure after completing the current one.
[_] No Team Adventures for D, C and B-Class cars.
[_] No way to save Replays of races.
I can do this on the Xbox. Not sure about the computer rhough.
[_] No way to “Vote to Kick” troublesome players.
That’s agoid thing, with all the rage quitters leaving because they can’t win, that would instantly be abused to punish good drivers.
[_] No in-game way to blacklist certain players, to prevent getting matchmaked with them.
You would only be racing your fellow clubsters if ya did that, anyone better would be blocked instantly.
[_] No way to whitelist certain players in order to encourage the game to matchmake you with them more often.
Picking and choosing your competition is not racing.
[_] Lap-based races are too short (3 minutes on average compared to 7 in Forza Motorpsort 7), encouraging players to rush and barge their way towards the front.
Make it 10,000 laps, won’t change a thong.
[_] No way to force all players to use Simulation Damage in private/public races.
Shouldn’t be forcing anyone to do anything.
[_] No way to force all players to use certain Difficulty settings in Private Team Adventures.
Rinse and repeat forced compliance with you.
[_] No way to force collisions off in Private Team Adventures.
[_] No way to kick a user out of a Convoy.
[_] No way to change cars/setups in-between Private Team Adventures. All players are sent to a “limbo lobby” where they cannot access menus.
Should we just pull over and let you win?
[_] No way to save Private Team Adventure playlists for future use.
[_] No way to choose Street Racing or Drag Racing events in Private Team Adventure.
[_] Grids for races are set to Random, no way to encourage players to put in good performances to qualify in higher positions for future races.
[_] No way to disable Quick Chat or prevent users from spamming comments.
Can dusable quick chat, it’s in the settings menu.
[_] Hard to spot when another Horizon Life user has queued up a PVP or Co-Op event (green UI icon doesn’t stand out on-screen, lack of pop-up at top of screen like in Forza Horizon 3).