Forza Motorsport 5 review

[Synthesthesia]

Has anyone had a race online with more than one other person. Matchmaking never seems to work right :/

The only thing I've played online so far is Killer Instinct. Ryse wouldn't work for me last night, about to try now.

[MartyG]

Just been on the Forza forums: "Car packs install car model code but do not automatically provide them for use in single player mode - credits or tokens are required to add them to your FM5 garage. "

What's this? Is this normal for Forza DLC?

Yes and it's why I stopped buying the car packs after Forza 3, especially given the in-game cost of some of them.

[BIG EDD]

The only thing I've played online so far is Killer Instinct. Ryse wouldn't work for me last night, about to try now.

Why wouldn't your Ryse work?

[charlesr]

Yikes.... I'm totally buzzing now. I've been racing the V8 atom. How am I supposed to sleep now?

While in a career, if you don't restart, there's no way of going back to the event until you've done all the other events to complete the section you are in (e.g. 5 races). Bit of a pain since I was going for gold and then pressed continue by accident, just as I was getting in the zone. Also, what's with allowing you to go "back" to the title screen and then spending 20 seconds doing something while you return to somewhere useful.... I remember Forza2 did this as well. Shame on you developers.

[Neon Ignition]

Did a few more races, each of them had Charles drivatar trying to pin me to the back but victory was inevitable. The music is such a simple but important addition.

[Synthesthesia]

Why wouldn't your Ryse work?

It said the matchmaking stuff was offline/ unavailable. Worked fine tonight.

[charlesr]

Did a few more races, each of them had Charles drivatar trying to pin me to the back but victory was inevitable. The music is such a simple but important addition.

So was I driving properly? Did I do crazy things like brake massively before a 5? corner, or even brake on the way out of a corner?
My normal tactic is to drive around the outside of large corners and try and dive up the inside on hairpins. Just wondering how well it is trying to copy me.

It says something like "Drivatar sync 18%"

[EvilBoris]

Was playing this last night, I don't get how people are saying this is grindy, I must of earned 200k between the few races , levelling up and my Driveatar earning me cash.

[charlesr]

I think it's a normal amount of credit grind, but since you don't win cars at the end of seasons the money disappears quickly. You do get 30k or so for finishing a season, which helps.

I wonder if it employs the practice of only giving you certain credit (from your Drivatar) if you log on daily - in Clash of Clans, it caps the amount you can generate so you have to log on daily to empty the buckets so they can refill again. i.e. if you don't play for 2 days, will Forza5 give you double the amount of drivatar credit (and come back in 4 months and you can buy everything).

[charlesr]

I earned 6k from the drivatar last night.... That's 5mins racing on my own.

I got gifted a Fiesta ST this morning. No idea why. It just said "Franchise"

[Neon Ignition]

It was pretty casual but I think my Drivatar is the same. It said mine earnt 14k from 81 races. I earn that in 3 so I can't imagine anyones drivatars are driving like their owners.

[charlesr]

I tried the Atom with the TCS on - it was totally hobbled No fun at all, but necessary for the "through the cones event" which was a tough one with tight gaps. I hope people take the risk and try without TCS and SCS otherwise, you are missing out on a large chunk of the experience.

Sitting through 60 seconds worth of "look at the pretty rubber and dust on the front wing and then slowly adding up your XP credit" after each race is starting to get very boring. Where's the skip button? The least they could do would be to load up the next race while you are staring at that stuff. Yes, I know this is the same as in every other racing game ever, but if I was in charge, things would be different because the actual driving is amaaaazing, so that's the bit that I want to be spending my time with.

And why does it take so long to restart a race? Rather than just putting you back to the 3-2-1, it puts you back to the menu system and then you have to sit through the unskippable "look at your pretty car!" sequence that you've seen 5 times already. Did no-one at Turn10 play TrialsHD? I've found myself using the rewind feature a lot due to drivatar stupidity. I've even driven straight into the back of a car doing 20mph on the racing line on a straightaway while I've been doing 150mph. Without the rewind I think I would have thrown my toys by now.

Note: these things that annoy me are no worse than before, so if didn't annoy you before, you'll be ok here.

[rmoxon]

They probably don't want you constantly restarting the race, that's why they make doing so a pain in the arse. As far as I can remember its always been the same in Forza, at least in the core series, maybe it was different in horizon, but I got bored of that open world rubbish so quickly I don't think I ever even restarted a race before selling it.

[charlesr]

But why not restart? I can't think of a good reason to slow that process down. Later in the game, the length of the races will deter restarts on their own, but early on when learning the tracks on 2 lap races you spend as much time faffing around in between races as you do in a race.

Anyway, that's enough on that topic - I wrote a whole article lambasting the design of racing games already.

[EvilBoris]

I think it's a normal amount of credit grind, but since you don't win cars at the end of seasons the money disappears quickly. You do get 30k or so for finishing a season, which helps.

I wonder if it employs the practice of only giving you certain credit (from your Drivatar) if you log on daily - in Clash of Clans, it caps the amount you can generate so you have to log on daily to empty the buckets so they can refill again. i.e. if you don't play for 2 days, will Forza5 give you double the amount of drivatar credit (and come back in 4 months and you can buy everything).

SSX (Which was the first retail title with Microtransactions I can think of) didn't have any daily cap, I log in every so often and get greeted with several million credits.