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Core Experience

• [Suggestion] Proposed Solution on the Major Immersion Ruiners
  
• On the major immersion ruiners, and the "Quality or Quantity?"
  
• [Bug Report] [Suggestion] Issues on the Cockpit View Experience (camera position, dashboard accessibility, etc.)
  
• On the dashboard presentation
  
• Collection of wrong car details
  
• Core of the game?..
  
• Another possibility about "Drive Anytime"... (time travelling driving experience)

Input

• Old post though... Valid points still (input mapping mainly)
  
• Steering more than the turning wheel(s) can handle?..

UI

• [Bug Report] About the Telemetry... (more than the Telemetry... Input Translation related, also on the UI responsiveness)
  
• [Bug Report] [Suggestion] About the Performance graph (also on the Performance Summary)
  
• [Suggestion] About the New Subtitles

Audio

• Audio problems (bad mixing, glitch)
  
• Strange clicking noise
  
• [Suggestion] On the "Voice Over" remixing (Off-Topic on the graphics)
  
• What parts change the engine note?
  
• The immense difficulty on "fixing" the engine sounds

Misc

• Broken Drivatards (outright cheating)
  
• Enhanced event customization (car restriction, number of opponents)
  
• Suggestion on the roll-over assist (what happens when the car is upside down)
  
• [Bug Report] About the Rewind (also "Photo Mode" related)
  
• Impracticality of multiplayer car racing over the Internet
  
• The anointed 6-speed configuration (transmission upgrade)
  
• Minor annoyances (wheelspin rewarding, business notification; credit: BriskArtist7600)
  
• My engine swap whims
  
• Game crash / infinite loading
  
• The way it's meant to be played
  
• A Wild Idea on the Vehicle Licensing (true live project)

Non-Issue

• Getting hp, N·m, kg, psi, MPH as the Units
  
• "Color sheets" tricks
  
• "Driving into the ground" or "High speed invisible wall" phenomenon: Cause, Mitigation
  
• Save game explanation
  
• Resetting Game (resetting the game progress for a "fresh start")
  
• FH4 GraphicsCache Reset (to avoid potential glitches after altering the graphics settings)
  
• Clean up "My Designs" without removing the design on the cars
  
• Regenerate the opponent cars in the starting grid ("go to Difficulty and keep swapping between Unbeatable, Pro, Unbeatable and see if game generates new lineup", credit: ClawedScroll554)

Edited by user Sunday, May 10, 2020 5:26:03 AM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

Full post: A blend of sim and arcade... Sort of one-of-a-kind excellence

Edited by user Thursday, March 26, 2020 6:44:14 PM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

I'm not sure if I understand this right, but are you really just in search ... everything wrong with FH4 and why bother if you don't like it?

I find nothing I like elsewhere too... in this catalog.

The series has the best potential of becoming something I like, as of yet.

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Edited by user Tuesday, March 31, 2020 11:16:37 AM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

what is the point of this thread

Forza Horizon definitely has the potential for becoming the definitive arcade racing game... But, right now, it's not.

With The Crew 2 adding "air nitro", I'm not even motivated to play it anymore, as you have planes in that game, you shouldn't need any cars to fly, lol. Especially because you can change vehicles "on the fly" (literally!). If I wanted to play San Francisco Rush 2049 I'd just grab an N64 to play it rather than buying TC2.

IMO NFS is a closer competition to Forza despite being a different game with different physics and different fun. And in post-release support Forza hasn't paid much attention to its "car culture" aspect. We were promised new bodykits and paintable calipers and got Lego and Eliminator. Meanwhile NFS is a game brimming with car culture, but Ghost Games often fails to take advantage of it, for various reasons. The slump of NFS is more EA's fault than Ghost, because those guys do listen to their community, but EA has a reputation for "unreasonable demands"...

For FH4 to realize its potential, Playground needs to understand why FH3 was successful, but IMO they saw Hot Wheels being very well received and thought they could "bridge" the gap between silly and serious. It didn't help that the mods and liaisons on Discord would be playing Fortnite and Apex Legends most of the time (when they weren't playing FH4 of course), when those games aren't competition to Forza. Maybe even Microsoft pushed for it too after seeing FH4 had enough of a playerbase to justify investing in a battle royale mode instead of car culture updates. Who knows?

All I know is that the competition is underrated next to Forza Horizon... Yes, our game is really good. One of the best, in fact. But in the last few weeks I was playing NFS, with all its problems, and having fun with it. Because FH4 currently doesn't offer more than championships I played through hundreds of times and cars I'll drive for 30 minutes then drop. Game is old and going in a direction I don't like, sorry.

I don't see it as arcade, the thing I like about it is that the physics feel pretty good to me. It's no more arcade than GT Sport, indeed the handbrake, for example, is much more realistic in FH4 than GTS. The collision physics between cars in FH4 is also much more realistic than how cars bounce off each other like snooker balls in GTS. I also find the progressive understeer in FH4 more realistic than GTS's knife edge effect where turning the wheel a tiny bit past peak grip induces catastrophic understeer that ruins your lap.

I think Horizon has the potential to be right up there as a top racing game, and it doesn't need major changes to achieve that. But it explains a lot if the people who make it are all playing Fortnite etc in their spare time.

Bought the XBox One just for Forza 3, and 4, and Motorsport 6.

It has a lot of bugs, and the frustrating part is that most of them are easy to fix if you programmed the game how you are supposed to program games.

You're right in everything you say. Horizon might be a simplified game, but it's still a simplified version of a simulator game (Forza Motorsport), and Forza has its merits when it comes to physics. The GTS effect of elastic collision, whether car/car or car/wall, is something I see in lots of games, and it hurts the gameplay.

[Mod Edit - No duplicate topics please. You all know where the Engine Sounds thread is. - MM]

Edited by user Friday, March 27, 2020 10:58:45 AM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

[Mod Edit - No duplicate topics please. You all know where the Engine Sounds thread is. - MM]

Edited by user Friday, March 27, 2020 10:58:13 AM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

[Mod Edit - No duplicate topics please. You all know where the Engine Sounds thread is. - MM]

Edited by user Friday, March 27, 2020 10:58:04 AM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

I'm looking for the best of the best, and right now... it seems to be.



But I didn't find Forza Horizon 3 to be much different from the Horizon 4:

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Edited by user Sunday, March 29, 2020 6:23:53 PM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified