I may have written this already, I know I did before 3 came out. There alot of things I'd love to see with this next iteration of Horizon, here a few.
Location
Why does it have to be somewhere specific? It's never a very accurate depiction of whatever location is chosen, just a fantasy interpretation or theme of a stated locale. Why not just make a large openly fantasy map that includes all the things folks want their specific place for? Mountains, canyons, cities, open highways, deserts, forests. Snowy spots, etc...
Racing
Whether online or single player, there should be race tracks that you DRIVE to and race. Plenty of small towns and big cities have at least a small, hometown race track. Having a drive to location to meet up with friends or just drive to and run the track would be a much more immersive experience. This should include Drag Strips as well as track for drifting!



A few examples of small, simple tracks that would fit very nicely into pretty much any map. more usefully than a wharehouse area that is mostly pointless. at least pointless without some sort of drift track or autocross.
Home garages



I would love to see some of the random houses and barns that have populated the Horizon games be usable, drive to home spaces and garages. There are many places in 3 that I would love to have as my garage.
As a drive to location, have a progression that give upgrades to your location. For example, start out with just a regular garage at a house and work your way up to having a full on speed shop/race garage. This all being something friends can find and drive to. Have this be the "storefront" for this next game. Have the ability to park some of your favorites outside for display. Again, much more immersive than fast traveling to a festival.
Bringing up the festivals, these are fine. Just very impersonal and at this point sorta stale.
DRAG RACING
It's time drag racing made a PROPER entrance into Forza!! If it has to be Horizon, then so be it. Something much better than the 1 mile runway drag meet that becomes nothing but AWD boring cheat fests.
Like speed zones and drift zones, there should be some 1/4 mile and 1/8 mile drag zones in various spots along the map. In single player, have a head to head drivatar race and a heads up in multiplayer.
As I had said before, there should be drive to drag strips. These could include everything needed for good, proper drag racing. A burn out box, staging with a working tree. Time slips with at least the 1/8th and 1/4 mile times.
This really should make it into the game at some point. It's been over 10 years of Forza games between Motorsport and Horizon. It's about time for some progression in development!!
Upgrades
There should be an upgrade path choice when building a car. Circuit, rally, drift and drag, even a "show or custom car" path. Each having a specific set of upgrades for each specific type of car.
Everything is already there for circuit and for the most part rally as well. For drift, I fully admit I don't know much about drifting, but I imagine there are plenty of missing drift specific upgrades that would really make a difference.
For drag, here's what I see.
Proper wheel and tire sets. Everything from the little 4" wide, pro street front tire along with the massive 36", big tire drag slick in back. Drag Radials. Rims that are actual drag rims.
Chassis upgrades that start with simple traction bars and go all the way to back half-ing a car with narrowed rearends and 4 link suspensions with wheelie bars. (These do MUCH more than stop wheelies!)
Proper engine options. Huge HP V8 engines. Everything from 454 LSX to a 572 to 632 big blocks. Big, tunable turbos and Procharger setups. Realistic, NOS kits. Programmable EFI systems.
Transmission upgrades with drag ratios, trans brakes, two step launching.
Having specific upgrade paths for each type of car would ensure that a 2000 hp drag engine wouldn't be used in a circuit car leading to problems with either folks not being able to handle that kinda power and wrecking everybody online or folks taking advantage of all those horses on longer straight tracks.
Over the weekend I will try to get some pics on this post to show as much as I can to help others picture what I'm talking about. Mostly I just want something NEW, different than a copy and paste game. Something MUCH better than what Forza 7 gave after a 2 year wait!! It's time these developers started pushing the envelope again and not just recycle what has already been done or throw in some new, nothing to do with racing aspect that doesn't make things more fun or engaging.
Edited by user Sunday, February 4, 2018 7:49:49 AM(UTC)
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