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I said come in!: Jun 22, 2004

Finished all of the European races on the Event List today.

Now to do the Japanese side, which I have about 60% complete.

For vinyl editor updates in Forza 5, I would like to be able to put text and decals on windows, like in Shift 2. Another car customization feature that I would love to have is the ability to take out a stock cars interior and replace it with a racing one. Also like in Shift 2, but to be fair, Slightly Mad only had to model this for 120 unique cars.

# ¿ Nov 19, 2011 19:36

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# ¿ May 19, 2013 05:41

I said come in!: Jun 22, 2004

This is where my bad driving would have come in handy; i'm always in the back and would have easily won it seems.

# ¿ Nov 20, 2011 15:12

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I don't suppose we'll start hearing about the December DLC Pack next week? I'm getting excited at what might be in it. :O The only thing i've heard so far is the rumor of a new Hyundai, that a lot of people seem convinced will be in.

# ¿ Nov 23, 2011 18:13

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I still have fingers crossed for a race track DLC pack after the 6 planned car packs come out. I've read rumors that Turn-10 was scanning tracks still, just before Forza 4 came out.

# ¿ Nov 23, 2011 18:55

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I would at least buy Bathurst without question.

# ¿ Nov 23, 2011 22:12

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djfooboo posted:

I will punch someone if it is a Veloster

That is exactly what it is rumored to be. I think you should be prepared to punch someone. As long as it's not me.

# ¿ Nov 23, 2011 22:54

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I've been playing Forza 4 more and more now without any driving aids, and have gotten really good with R1 cars. Setting faster lap times then I did with ABS and TC enabled. This is with a gamepad, so I won't ever be able to compete with the fastest players, but I can do well and not make mistakes. With no driving aids enabled, the driving model feels really good. In Gran Turismo 5, your car would just decide for no reason at all to spin you, it was completely terrible and unrealistic to play that without aids.

# ¿ Nov 25, 2011 10:05

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A lot of it comes down to Turn-10 being able to get permission to barrow someones car and scan it. They probably have to take whatever they can get.

# ¿ Nov 26, 2011 01:48

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I've seen a few people complain about wanting endurance races to come back in the event list, I think they are crazy though. I wouldn't do them either.

# ¿ Nov 26, 2011 12:59

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I've done over 60% of the Events List and am pretty much finished with it now. Now I just do multiplayer with other players, or setup my own races against the A.I., and pick the tracks I want and set the laps for about 7 laps on hard A.I. with no assists. Everyonce in a while i'll do more laps. The multiplayer is a dream come true for me, it offers everything i've wanted for customization.

# ¿ Nov 26, 2011 16:41

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VikingSkull posted:

I'm a veteran of the recent Goon Mans and you don't know what you are missing. Aero damage at the half hour mark is really fun.

No. Honest. It is.

I meant for the single player portion. I'm all for endurance races in multiplayer with pit stops and all that, those are a lot more fun.

# ¿ Nov 27, 2011 00:13

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Yes, the Gran Turismo games have those settings, and I wish they were in Forza. With ABS and TC both set between 1 - 3 in GT5, the driving felt pretty good in any car.

# ¿ Nov 27, 2011 01:52

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The Forza 4 December Pack was just announced for next week. But no car list yet.

# ¿ Nov 29, 2011 14:41

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I just have to hope they asked IGN's resident car guy, and he isn't horrible. But, any cars given to Turn-10 still ultimately come down to what Turn-10 is actually able to get permission to scan into the game.

# ¿ Nov 29, 2011 15:13

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The December DLC pack is badass! There are some really great cars in here;

http://www.ign.com/videos/2011/11/2...gn-pack-trailer

2011 Monster Sport Suzuki SX4
2011 Mazda RX-8 R3
2011 Ford F-150 SVT Raptor
1967 Chevrolet Chevelle SS-396
1977 Ford Escort RS1800
1981 Volkswagen Scirocco S
1986 Alfa Romeo Spider Quadrifoglio Verde
1988 Pontiac Fiero GT
2010 Maserati GranTurismo MC GT4
1957 Maserati 300 S

# ¿ Nov 29, 2011 19:30

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Jarf posted:

Every car! Not a single clunker in the entire pack.

Good lord I'm impressed, I don't know what's going on at Turn 10 but they're doing things right with the DLC this time around.

Yeah, I was a little underwhelmed with last months packs, but this more then makes up for it. Every car in is awesome, and I can't wait to drive all of them. Now to figure out how much each car costs, i'm gonna need to save up credits this week to afford all of them.

# ¿ Nov 29, 2011 19:41

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RON PAUL ALL YEARS posted:

I can't connect to the servers. Are they down for anybody else or is my internet just acting funky?

It's down for me too.

# ¿ Nov 29, 2011 20:40

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Falken posted:

The only car in that pack I'm "eh" on is the RX8, but I've never liked that car anyway.

The trackday GranTurismo looks pretty boss.

I like the RX7 a lot, but the RX8 is ugly to me.

# ¿ Nov 30, 2011 01:57

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Falken posted:

And how about Pikes Peak too? I don't mind if it's the updated tarmac one, Turn 10!

Seriously! They can't put this car into the game and not include Pikes Peak as DLC eventually.

# ¿ Nov 30, 2011 14:34

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xzzy posted:

I do think Turn 10 would do well to find the guys who did Rallisport Challenge 2, and use them to adapt the Forza engine to a rally game. And while they're working on that, hire a third crew to create a motorcycle sim as well.

They've got a pretty incredible engine in their hands, it really seems like they're selling themselves short by only releasing one title.

DICE did RalliSport Challenge 2, so not much chance of that ever happening.

I really want a sequel. I have RSC2, but I don't have an Xbox anymore and it doesn't work on the Xbox 360.

# ¿ Nov 30, 2011 15:33

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GentlemanofLeisure posted:

Aww man the cars from the December DLC pack showed up in my "Buy Cars" screen and I was like whoa, this is early! Alas, they are not yet available for purchase...

They'll probably do what they did last month, have a contest on their Facebook. Sucks that Season Pass users can't get the DLC early, yet people can get it early for free.

# ¿ Dec 1, 2011 05:15

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Humerus posted:

Also I think there's a Prowler in GT5, but you know...standard model and good luck getting it to show up in the Used Car lot.

If there's ever a GT6, I hope they copy a lot of Forzas accessibility. That's one of my favorite things about FM4, is being able to drive any car at any time and once I can actually afford to have it in my garage, not having to wait to purchase it. The standard cars really ruined GT5, since they made up so much of the car list.

# ¿ Dec 1, 2011 13:43

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Irish Legend posted:

By the time there is a GT6, we are going to be on Forza 6 squared. There are definitely things about both games that would make the opposite better, but I got tired of playing the same game(GT) over and over again. The Multiplayer and customization parts of Forza make it the game for me, and I do not see anything changing that in the near or even far future.

That's true. After playing Forza 4, I don't see myself even caring about GT6 if it ever comes out.

# ¿ Dec 1, 2011 14:50

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xzzy posted:

We'll all be in retirement homes before GT6 is available, so I think a better way to phrase it is "maybe they'll patch this stuff into a GT5 re-release".

It's funny you say this because this is actually happening for real. Next year there will be a re-release of the game with all of the updates and DLC up to this point.

# ¿ Dec 1, 2011 15:34

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TannhauserGate posted:

GT5 with spec 2.0 update, and weather.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoGpkZpry_w

In case you need a refresher, here's a TVR in Forza4 from a Let's Play:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKw7lPGxhPo&t=2m0s

Forza hit the nail on the head with the Top Gear partnership and the Endangered Species trailer. That's what I want from my racing game. GT's MSPaint weather? Not as much.

I've played GT5 pretty extensively, put hundreds of hours into it in fact. But most of that time spent was doing the same few races over and over again, either because I had to, or they were the only viable options for making money. Imagine Forza 4's leveling and experience system, but you get absolutely no rewards for doing it, it takes hundreds of hours more to reach the cap, and leveling up is required to access cars and content, that is GT5 in a nutshell.

# ¿ Dec 1, 2011 15:58

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xzzy posted:

I applaud them for getting weather into the game (though, frankly, I have no idea why anyone would choose to race on a wet track), but it pretty much looks like rear end. What the hell is going on with the side windows.. giant drops of water constantly flickering past?

The rain on the windshield looks kind of cool, though it doesn't behave like water should (not that I'm suggesting the PS3 should be running a fluid simulation for each drop).

All of the weather and dynamic weather too came at a really steep cost to the games performance. It screen tears like mad, and the frame rate drops quite a bit. I would rather have FM4s always 60fps gameplay, over weather and dynamic day/night cycles.

# ¿ Dec 1, 2011 16:00

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FreelanceSocialist posted:

So how do you go about getting videos onto Youtube?

You can upload one replay at a time (30 seconds max) to your Forzamotorsport.net account, download it from there, and then upload to Youtube.

# ¿ Dec 1, 2011 20:58

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Got the prices for the DLC cars;

Alfa Romeo Spider - F 145 and 5,000 CR.
Chevrolet Chevelle - D 329 and 60,000 CR.
Ford Escort - E 201 and 35,000 CR.
Ford Raptor - D 280 and 42,000 CR.
Maserati 300 S - C 420 and 1,000,000 CR.
Maserati GT4 - S 674 and 220,000 CR.
Mazda RX-8 - C 411 and 27,000 CR.
Pontiac Fiero - E 233 and 5,000 CR.
Suzuki Monster - R1 878 and 1,000,000 CR.
VW Scirocco - F 102 and 5,000 CR.

I was worried the Suzuki Monster and Maserati 300 S would be ridiculous to afford. Turns out I have just enough credits right now to buy all of these for my garage.

# ¿ Dec 2, 2011 16:07

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I would like to be in GTCC myself. My GT is omgitsbees

I haven't been playing nearly as much because i've just been busy with other things plus Skyrim, like a lot of other people.

# ¿ Dec 3, 2011 13:58

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ColdPie posted:

Sounds good. Are any of the maintainers around? Do they actually kick out inactive (low level) members? Do they care about having players who suck (I suck) in their club?

You can suck as much sucking as you want, you just need to be active, is the only requirement I know of. If we kicked out everyone that sucked, there would be no one in the club.

# ¿ Dec 3, 2011 14:50

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ANAmal.net posted:

Not to be all serious business about internet racecars, but GTCC isn't supposed to be the generic goon group, and it's not the overflow for people who missed getting into LLJK. It's a club for bros to crash into Phancypants every Wednesday and make dick joke. Dudes have been racing together for years, and while new members are certainly encouraged, we'd rather have a smaller club whose members are more active, than a full one where 90% of them are playing Skyrim all the time. If folk want to join for our weekly homoerotic book club, that's cool, but don't just pile in because the other clubs are dead, that's not how GTCC works.

For what it's worth, you aren't likely to get booted for being a slowpoke, but you might get kicked if our racist administrator takes a disliking to you.

I can never join PhancyPants stupid lobby anyways because he lives in Canada, in the part where its snows all the time and there's polar bears. I always ran him off the track in GT5 though, that was good times.

# ¿ Dec 3, 2011 17:11

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ColdPie posted:

I dunno, all I want is a club where there's ad-hoc races going on a few evenings per week, just by virtue of having enough people online that it's worth throwing a lobby together. Also, the less gimmicky poo poo races the better.

The best way to do this is to just add regular Forza 4 goons to your friends list, you really don't have to be a club to make this work. I'm not in one of the goon clubs and I still get invites to their races. Start up a private lobby and start inviting everyone who is playing Forza 4 at the time.

Another option is to make a post in this thread, with a set time that you'll be getting races together. Hangout in the IRC channel too. Don't wait for someone else to get something together.

# ¿ Dec 3, 2011 17:31

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Turn-10 is giving away December DLC codes throughout this weekend, so people should be posting impressions of the new cars soon.

It kinda sucks though that the cars are now up on Xbox Live, but Season Pass owners can't download them, yet others have a chance of getting the cars for free. Of course there is nothing stopping Season Pass owners from winning a DLC code either, but it would be cool if getting the packs a few days early was a perk of being a Season Pass owner.

# ¿ Dec 4, 2011 00:53

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Those codes were posted on Facebook, about two hours ago, they've all been claimed.

# ¿ Dec 4, 2011 01:39

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burtonos posted:

Huh, I figured they'd use a code anyone could use rather than a oneshot. My mistake

No worries.

Turn-10 is doing these give aways all weekend, but there are a few thousand FM4 fans hovering over the official forums and Facebook, like vultures, trying to grab these up as fast as possible.

# ¿ Dec 4, 2011 01:42

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jadebullet posted:

Edit: BTW, I hope to God that Turn 10 has enough DLC content sense to add the new DTM cars that are going to be used in the 2012 season. That BMW M3 looks awesome.

It's not always that easy. They need permission to scan the cars they want to use, and then they need the time to create the cars. I think i've seen quotes of about 6 months per car. You can imagine how big their team is in order to achieve this.

# ¿ Dec 6, 2011 01:51

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JingleBells posted:

I think I need a bigger monitor to get the SVT Raptor on screen, also for some reason Turn 10 have gifted me an Cobra 427S/C

You got the Cobra if you were a VIP owner.

# ¿ Dec 6, 2011 14:00

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I'm disappointed that I can't upgrade the Suzuki Monster to 998 or close. That doesn't seem to make it very competitive with the other R1's.

# ¿ Dec 6, 2011 15:07

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Don't forget, you don't have to buy the whole pack, you can buy each car individually if only a handful are interesting to you.

# ¿ Dec 7, 2011 20:12

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# ¿ May 19, 2013 05:41

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The End posted:

Made the horrible mistake of wandering into the official forums and learned two things:

1. If you have the Fanatec wheel, setting your linearity to 50 is the golden number to achieve proper linearity in sim steering.

2. People are actually bitching about the December car pack, claiming, horrifyingly, that the Raptor is the only interesting car in the pack. Philistines.

The official forums are terrible and filled with people who don't know what they are talking about. And it's not even that really, it's that people on there for whatever reason go out of their way to make poo poo up and lie. It's the weirdest thing, but everyone from new members, to the mods even, make poo poo up.

I've seen the mods claim that turn-10 has given them all of this insider information, or they would claim that turn-10 was going to tell us something on a certain date, on the forums, and then it never happens. I'm completely baffled by the way that forum works.

# ¿ Dec 8, 2011 14:53

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