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Forza Motorsport 7. A look at some tracks, Forza Horizon 3 skies, Dynamic weather
- Thread starter Theorry
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There will be much better quality coming later I'm sure.
RedlineRonin
Member
Hopefully the driver will be better too, haha. Granted, dude is talking and "driving".
We need some info to eat up.....things are way too dry on the info front!!!
Woop-woop
Be still, my beating heart.I miss that track as well as Fujimi Kaido
The best track in Forza history, TBH.
AND turn that shitass racing line bollocks off.
AND disable the music.
AND get somebody with working hands and eyes to do the driving.
paragonpro
Banned
One of the main reasons for grabbing an xbox one x, its going to look glorius
Diablohead
Member
When I look back at the series, forza 3 was one of the better games even if 4 bought a lot of new content.
3 has some amazing fantasy tracks, it was also the first time we had tire deformation and being able to roll the car on a slope of grass by handbraking into it, like a real car would do.
Since then it's like that stuff is forgotten and we have gone along the road of drivatar dummies, more cars on screen, less smart AI and stuff like giant grass hills and patches you can crash and roll on replaced with real life locations and walled streets, it's not the same.
PC version also here.
http://gamersyde.com/hqstream_forza_motorsport_7_gc_pc_version-40599_en.html
From Miguel
Now that looks great. Really nailing so many subtle lightning effects.
Jaguar Victory
Member
Helios, when can we get a Maple Valley run through? Also will there be any DLC fantasy tracks?
GHG
Member
That can mean anything.
We haven't seen how you select the TOD/weather from the menus yet. That will be the big tell. Can you start the race at any TOD/Weather? Do you have control of things like time progression? Can you select the sequence of weather scenarios you want to experience? Etc etc.
Or is it pre-baked & pre-defined weather/Tod scenarios?
Unless Helios wants to confirm?
MilkyJoe
Member
Two things of note there
As you are coming around the bend face on into the sunlight, the hills in the background look superb, and secondly the lighting is fantastic. The sun is so bright, and the sunlight on the dashboard looks amazing. Shame there's not a direct capture here.
gaming_noob
Member
9 seconds from car menu to stage menu. Is the loading time significantly faster in F7? That's what I hated most about this series in the past. ~45 seconds or more for each map to load. This is crazy good if so.
Bobnob
Member
And to add, you're probably going to start on a dry track with a wet tire compound. It brings zero stratagy to the race. Hope i'm wrong!
I think your right. Although since it might not even potentially rain in some instances (as they allude to in that article) then what happens? Do you just start on wets and stay that way even though it doesn't rain?
So many questions, very few answers. I assume this sort of stuff won't get answered till reviewers & community people get their copies and can stream early and can answer questions.
All sim racing credibility is instantly lost when that dudebro driver starts swaggering around, clapping his hands and whooping it up. Hopefully that's just in this demo because it looks bloody ridiculous to me.
I really hope gamersyde, or someone, has direct feed footage soon. While this looks great, a lot is lost/altered in off screen
Diablohead
Member
The driver animations look so wooden and low key frame too.
Looks like they added camera tilting to the chase cam also, not sure how I feel about that.
Stevey
Member
So it's not a sim because of that?
Strange argument.
Forza was never a proper sim anyways.
GHG
Member
Lmao I didn't even notice that until you mentioned it. Now I'll never be able to unsee it.
Dee Dah Dave
Member
It's amazing that Turn10's marketing department don't think to put out some high quality video, instead preferring to show their game off in the worst light possible. At a time when it's their only big game and are trying to sell expensive Scorpio's too. Nobody does anything right these days 
Diablohead
Member
It's amazing that Turn10's marketing department don't think to put out some high quality video, instead preferring to show their game off in the worst light possible. At a time when it's their only big game and are trying to sell expensive Scorpio's too. Nobody does anything right these days
Been the same shit since Forza 2 and I agree, today they could have given us a direct feed hotlap but nope, we have to watch off screen crushed black lighting videos and go by that.
Diablohead
Member
Remember when Forza 1 allowed you to pick your pitstop lengh, wait longer for more repairs? they have never done anything with pitstops since forza 2 gimped it all back and for such a sim like racing game it's upsetting.
If 7 is going to have dymanic weather it really needs tire swapping in the pits, but watch as they leave it to an automatic system instead of giving us one simple option.
Of course we are talking about a series that has only just swapped to championship points per race instead of podium wins, a lot of forza design is 10+ years old now.
It looks like they lifted the halo 5 beta's victory animations, lol
(Forza's is far less goofy imo)
I know it's a floor-show and all that, but I'd love more direct-feed footage.
Are you seeing something other than the driver momentarily clapping then stretching his shoulders?
Are you seeing something other than the driver momentarily clapping then stretching his shoulders?
That's not what I said.
It would be, were it one I made.
On this we can agree. But there's no reason why it couldn't be a better motorsport sim with just a few key options.
Come on..! You know he's about to bust some karate moves and start breakdancing.
Here's the mocap for that shoulder-stretch you mentioned:
Fox Mulder
Member
It's amazing that Turn10's marketing department don't think to put out some high quality video, instead preferring to show their game off in the worst light possible. At a time when it's their only big game and are trying to sell expensive Scorpio's too. Nobody does anything right these days
This has been the worst hyped Forza for me in the entire series. Pcars 2 and GT Sport have been shown off far better with tons of streams. Pcars 2 devs have even hopped in youtube streams to answer questions and hosted their own. We've just got a bunch of weekly car and track lists with little new content and vague language for features for FM7. Didn't even make a new trailer for gamescom.
Feels like T10 is coasting because this is the first real PC Forza game and people will also blindly buy it as the only major title for the Xbox X.
I know it's a floor-show and all that, but I'd love more direct-feed footage.
Are you seeing something other than the driver momentarily clapping then stretching his shoulders?
Remarkable love how the lighting bouncing off the cliff hits the dashboard giving it a orange hue like the rocks
It looks like they lifted the halo 5 beta's victory animations, lol
(Forza's is far less goofy imo)
I miss this so much, the final game victory animation is so bland. No fun allowed
LostDonkey
Member
That was a subtle effect on the exteriors of cars in Horizon 3, red rock would reflect on white cars especially. Seems like an altogether better effect this time round.
The whole game looks Incredible.
I assume it's global with different tick rates by object (and some objects probably flagged as "zero" for performance balance), but I haven't seen any specific explanations stating that. The effect works, whatever it is.
nekkid
It doesn't matter who we are, what matters is our plan.
Yeah, they shouldn't have caved to that ridiculous feedback. It's dumb and fun.
Luckydog
Member
Does all F1 racing credibility go out the window when the winner of a race sways back and forth, claps his hands, and sprays champagne? Jesus....of all the things to complain about.....
http://www.nbcsports.com/video/sebastian-vettel-celebrates-f1-hungarian-gp-win-champagne-spraying
xrnzaaas
Member
It feels to me like they still have at least a decent budget to promote the game (like for example they have invited celebrities to previous events), but they don't have the right people in the marketing department.
I plan to play Forza 7 on the standard XONE and so far they didn't blow me away with anything... no new exciting cars, Maple Valley as the only "new" circuit I'm really looking forward to, no info on the exact shape of the career mode. In fact I'm starting to think it'll be best if I focus on Project CARS 2 and buy Forza 7 somewhere around Christmas when it'll be on sale and when I'll have more time.