Well, if no one else is going to:
Official announcement details from forzamotorsport.net
EDIT: Launch trailer.
It's light on the details for now (presumably we'll get more throughout the week), but the basic highlights:
- 700+ cars -- including Porche from launch for the first time in a very long time
- 30 track environments with 200+ ribbons -- including the return (at the very least) of Maple Valley and Suzuka
- Some level of dynamic weather and lighting -- to what extent remains unclear though
- New character customization system
- As was the case with Forza Horizon 3, it's a "Play Anywhere" title
- 4k 60fps on the Xbox One X, 1080p 60fps on a standard Xbox One
I'm there with you zeroKFE.
Yeah, I'm in.
I hope they do more tutorial and campaign stuff this time around. The weather changes in 6 were nice, but I'd like a bit more structure in the game.
After playing FH3 with HDR enabled and watching the Forza 7 trailer in HD, I'm so freaking in.
Amazon has the digital version of the Ultimate Edition for $80 for preorder.
I really like the open world of Forza Horizon 3. I've dropped hundreds of hours into it. I don't know if I can go to a closed, track based version. You can't cage this bird.
I really like the open world of Forza Horizon 3. I've dropped hundreds of hours into it. I don't know if I can go to a closed, track based version. You can't cage this bird.
I like both. They each provide a unique experience. I even drive differently in them. I'm usually third person view in Forizon, but almost exclusively cockpit view in Forza.
honestly, other than a great, arcadey Rally game, I don't need anything else. Dirt 4 looks like a good option. Microsoft needs to resurrect Rallisport.
Do I really need to install something to tempt me to buy another game? I haven't sucked the marrow out of Forza Horizon 3 yet, and I'm playing Destiny 2 pretty much non stop.
Nah, I'll wait. FM7 seems like a whole lotta retread from what I've read (unless you want 4K and HDR).
Another thing that worries me is that I don't know if I can go back to track racing after the incredibly well-crafted open world of Forza Horizon 3. Weather is a nice feature, but I *hate* racing in the rain. Which is why I am super happy that there's a customization option that lets you set the weather conditions and set whether they are static or not.
I only ever played Forza 6 Apex, and it's a limited version. I think it at least has all the cars & tracks, but not all the customization options. And speaking of customization options, I really, really couldn't care less about customizing my driver. I mean really, how often are you looking at your driver? Seems like a really dumb feature jammed in there just to claim something new. And if you are spending more time looking at your driver in FM7, that makes me even less interested, because I want to look at sexy cars.
The main plus the Motorsport game has for me over the Horizon series is that it doesn't have the goofy racing culture festival party atmosphere that saturates Horizon. However, Horizon has a lot of offroad, stock, luxury, and novelty cars that I don't think really fit in Motorsport. Unless they're going to add some Rally events in DLC...
I'm waiting on this one until I get my shiny Scorpio. Gotta have something that makes it feel like I dropped all that cash for a "new" console and 4K TV for a reason!
Looks like the pre-load is live
I got Forza 5 free as part of the Xbox Live sub this month. As a general note on my experience with the series:
I arrive from a background in Arcade style racing (early need-for-speed) and this is totally different. The braking, handling, and throttle control are far more sensitive. I had to turn on baby mode where the game handles a lot of the features as I spun out constantly. I figure I can increase difficulty once I get a feel for it.
Although I don't think I am going to get that far. Sadly the game has induced my photo-sensitivity with the fast rushing detail blur and focus required. After 2 hours I had a migraine.
Kudos to you all that can handle the throttle, braking, and drift recovery in this title.
Even on the console there is confusion. MS said the game would be about 95GB, but it seems to be more like 67, but people have seen the size go up and down; download 67, then it seems to unpack or something and shows as 95, then back to 67 for no clear reason.
Yeah.
Technically it should be 67 on current models, and 95 on the X due to the extra assets to run in 4k, but the copy I have installed on my Xbox showed 95 the last time I looked.
About 95 Gb on my PC
Yeah.
Technically it should be 67 on current models, and 95 on the X due to the extra assets to run in 4k, but the copy I have installed on my Xbox showed 95 the last time I looked.
Except that they had a press release that clearly said the 95 was before the HD patch. To be clear I'm not saying you are wrong, just that the messaging is muddled. Neither 67 nor 95 at launch would surprise me much.
Downloading this involved a two hour argument with Windows Store where it wouldn't see my F: at all and complained I didn't have enough space on the G: for the 22gb download... I had 485GB free. The game was apparently desperate to install to my C: for some reason.
After a reboot the Store still wouldn't see the F: but it did at last concede that 22<485 and installed to the G: drive.
Then it turned out the download experience might be better than the game itself.
Stutters were frequent, Force Feedback would randomly vanish, sometimes mid-corner, and then dump back all at once in the middle of the subsequent straight and the AI, while set to non-aggressive drove into me as if I wasn't there, including one time where a driver turned away from a corner to hit me.
I don't have a console so I don't have past experience with Forza outside of the Apex beta, but wow I did not expect it to be this bad.
Credit to the demo for saving me money at least.
I'm using a Fanatec wheel and pedals. It was... ok in the Apex Beta, but here it feels like the game is distracted and forgets ffb for a second, then gives it back along with all the ffb you missed in the deadzone.
Played for a few minutes this morning. I don't know if this had previous been revealed, but I think it is pretty cool that it is now cannon that the "M" in M. Rossi is Maria.
After reading this article, there is no way I'm buying Forza 7.
Now, instead of paying money for a chance at random loot, you can pay money for a chance at a random race mutator (which they are curiously calling "mods") that will reward more credits that you can spend on more random chances! They have also removed the option to earn a bigger payout by increasing race difficulty (turning off assists, and so on). You can still increase the difficulty, there is just no reward for it unless you are using one of those random "mods."
All hail our new loot box overlords.
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