SimRacing General: successor to Forza/Gran Turismo/Racing thread
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how long does it take to receive forza hub credits/rewards? i redeemed mine for like 740,000 credits on thursday and i haven't received anything yet
[QUOTE=ProfHappycat7;51279014]how long does it take to receive forza hub credits/rewards? i redeemed mine for like 740,000 credits on thursday and i haven't received anything yet[/QUOTE]
You get sent a message in-game- you have to grab it from those.
new Forzathon events revealed & some other stuff announced, including a new barn find
[url]http://www.forzamotorsport.net/en-us/news/wir_10_28_16[/url]
[t]http://compass.xboxlive.com/assets/59/37/5937a807-45b8-4d13-8ea0-373733923f81.jpg?n=November_Forzathon_highres.jpg[/t]
[quote]
FULL METAL HORIZON – 11/04/16 - 11/07/16
“Get full contact with this Horizon Event”
FLAG BEARER – Play 4 Flag Rush matches to earn 12,000 XP
FIELD GOAL – Finish in the top 3 of 3 Flag Rush games in an ExtremeOffroad] to win 100,000 CR
HEAVY WEIGHT CHAMPION – Come in 1st place in 1 game of Flag Rush in an ExtremeOffroad to unlock the Roar Horn
NOT A SCRATCH – Survive 1 game of Infected in a ExtremeOffroad to win the Ford Shelby Raptor 13
AERIAL ACROBATICS - 11/11/16 – 11/14/16
“Show off your aerial expertise”
DO A BARREL ROLL! – Perform 3 Barrel Roll skills to earn 20,000 XP
FLYING HIGH – Earn 3 Stars on 3 Danger Signs to receive 100,000 CR
EYES TURNED SKYWARD – Rack up 50,000 Ultimate Air skill points to win 3 wheelspins
DEADSTICK SPECIAL - 30% off AUDI #45 Flying Lizard, FORD Falcon XR8 and NISSAN Skyline GT-R V-Spec II
HORIZON HARVEST HANGOUT - 11/18/16 – 11/25/16
“Gather together your Horizon friends and family”
A BOUNTIFUL HARVEST – Rack up 100,000 Landscaping Skill points while in a convoy to earn 10,000 XP
GATHER FOR THE FEAST - - Join and complete an online adventure in a [Holden Sandman] to earn 20,000 XP
GOBBLE, GOBBLE! – Join online freeroam to unlock Turkey horn
“FOOD FIGHT!” - Play in 20 Playground Games to win a BRAT GL Horizon Edition
BLACK FRIDAY BLOWOUT - 11/25/16 – 11/28/16
“Don’t miss out on these amazing deals!”
WHILE THEY LAST – Complete any event to receive 80,000 CR
SPEND MONEY, MAKE MONEY – Spend over 200,000 CR to win 3 wheelspins
INSTANT REBATE – Win 1 Auction to receive 50,000 CR
DOORBUSTERS! - 30% off Everything in the Autoshow!
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i just wish that most of the car rewards weren't linked to multiplayer :(
[editline]29th October 2016[/editline]
[QUOTE=ChickenMan99;51279025]You get sent a message in-game- you have to grab it from those.[/QUOTE]yeah i read about that, still nothing
Isn't the Flying Lizard Audi a DLC car? Does that mean it won't be during the Aerial Acrobatics sale?
Apparently the new barn find is the previously mentioned "thing they'd never done before". I was hoping it would be more than just a single car.
[QUOTE=jazxsora;51274146][t]https://i.imgbox.com/h5d1A2Wu.png[/t]
Had a hankering for some Need for Speed since I can't afford FH3 yet. Still bums me out how this game could have been so much more.[/QUOTE]
I don't know how the handling model in NFS managed to get past play testing. It's absolutely terrible. The map was also too large for too little content, and all of the narrative, characters and Monster product placement were awfully cringeworthy. If they combined decent gameplay with those graphics, it could have been incredible.
[editline]30th October 2016[/editline]
So apparently clues for upcoming DLC cars:
[quote]Car 1 Clue 1: Halloween is such a kooky time of year! I love the festive nature of this holiday.
Car 2 Clue 1: It may be crazy to hear this but, what comes around goes around.
Car 3 Clue 1: You never know until you try! The result might make for generations of cherished rivalries and competition.
Car 4 Clue 1: If lives were gears this cat would be hitting 60 in less time than it takes to read this clue aloud.
Car 5 Clue 1: It takes class to inspire this kind of driving. Well, that and one helluva big wing!
Car 6 Clue 1: Street legal yes, daily driver, probably not.
Car 7 Clue 1: Sometimes winning makes for strange bedfellows. [/quote]
For car 4, well if it's a 'cat' it's probably going to be a Jaguar, as the game already has both the Charger and Challenger Hellcats.
As for car 3, I really hope that it's a 1967 Ford XR Falcon GT. It was both the first V8-powered Australian-made car and Australian muscle car, and its success inspired Australia's second muscle car, the Holden HK Monaro GTS 327, that was released the very next year. That V8 rivalry has continued (mostly) uninterrupted until today.
I was thinking clue 4 could be the XE-S since that was already leaked in a video, but that only has 8 gears so the cat lives thing wouldn't make sense.
Clue 5 I hope would be something like the Escudo Pikes Peak to go against the Quattro S1 Pikes Peak in the game.
Also, the barn find, it makes sense in context with being a classic and unique + something "Horizon has never done before" that it could be the Morgan 3 wheeler.
Car 6 sounds like the Caparo T1 or something similar. Car 2 could be the Fisker Karma because of the name. Car 1 could be the Ford Festiva maybe.
Maybe clue 2 could be some kind of oval racer, like a NASCAR sprint cup car.
[QUOTE=TheAdmiester;51280962]I was thinking clue 4 could be the XE-S since that was already leaked in a video, but that only has 8 gears so the cat lives thing wouldn't make sense.
Clue 5 I hope would be something like the Escudo Pikes Peak to go against the Quattro S1 Pikes Peak in the game.
Also, the barn find, it makes sense in context with being a classic and unique + something "Horizon has never done before" that it could be the Morgan 3 wheeler.[/QUOTE]
Apparently there's a Jeep being made with a Hellcat engine, does anyone know if that has a nine-speed gearbox?
I thought a Morgan 3 Wheeler would qualify as something that they 'haven't done before' too, but then I remembered that they've already done a 3 wheeler with the Reliant. Also it wouldn't really make sense to have a Morgan 3 Wheeler as a barn find, as they still make the almost-exact same car today.
Monster trucks are quite popular here (my dad used to take me to monster truck shows when I was a kid), could the barn find be a monster truck? It's something they haven't done before, and I think it would work well on the off-road sections.
[editline]30th October 2016[/editline]
[QUOTE=laserpanda;51280982]Car 6 sounds like the Caparo T1 or something similar. Car 2 could be the Fisker Karma because of the name.[/QUOTE]
I like your thinking on car 2.
[editline]30th October 2016[/editline]
I hope car 6 is the new Alfa Romeo Giulia QV. Although the clue implies a track toy, I really hope it's not. The Giulia QV looks incredible, has a damn Ferrari-tuned V6 engine, and has yet to be featured in a video game.
Car 5 could be the Bentley Continental GT3. Based on a "classy" car and is got a huge wing.
[QUOTE=laserpanda;51281053]Car 5 could be the Bentley Continental GT3. Based on a "classy" car and is got a huge wing.[/QUOTE]
Very likely, given that it's already in Forza 6. But I hope they try something different and put their Morgan license to good use with the Morgan GT3
[t]http://www.ultimatecarpage.com/images/large/4359/Morgan-Aero-SuperSports-GT3_14.jpg[/t]
Nothing says class more than a British car that looks straight out of the 30's (except GT3 bodykit) and built with a partially wooden frame, haha.
Doesn't the '16 NSX have 9 gears? Just saying..
[t]https://vgy.me/CWpx3i.jpg[/t]
My POTW entry
So I notice all the POTW's look better than they did about, a week or two weeks ago. As I'm still on the fence with this game, is that cause the ports been getting better?
[QUOTE=Zotobom;51284031]Doesn't the '16 NSX have 9 gears? Just saying..[/QUOTE]
Possibly, but it's not really a 'cat' though. A Jeep with a hellcat engine - as Jeeps already have 9 speed gearboxes, or a Jag just seem more likely.
On clue 7, I've just realised that Strange Bedfellows is a 2004 Australian movie, so chances are that the car is probably Australian too. I thought that the car might be a Holden VK Commodore Group A, on the basis that Holden racing legend Peter Brock and Ford racing legend Allan Moffat (THE two biggest names in Australian motorsport) made hell freeze over by getting together in a VK and raced here and internationally. And well, sometimes they did win.
But I hope that it's not the VK because we already have the VL, which is the best of the Group A Commodores imo.
[editline]31st October 2016[/editline]
[QUOTE=HumanAbyss;51284706]So I notice all the POTW's look better than they did about, a week or two weeks ago. As I'm still on the fence with this game, is that cause the ports been getting better?[/QUOTE]
It's probably that people have been learning how to use photo mode properly. And I'm not sure about the others, but I have been making photos like these on the XB1:
[t]http://forzamotorsport.net/Handlers/GetPhoto.ashx?game=fh3&id=8045891&full=true[/t]
[t]http://forzamotorsport.net/Handlers/GetPhoto.ashx?game=fh3&id=7710804&full=true[/t]
[t]http://forzamotorsport.net/Handlers/GetPhoto.ashx?game=fh3&id=836822&full=true[/t]
[t]http://forzamotorsport.net/Handlers/GetPhoto.ashx?game=fh3&id=7269196&full=true[/t]
[QUOTE=HumanAbyss;51284706]So I notice all the POTW's look better than they did about, a week or two weeks ago. As I'm still on the fence with this game, is that cause the ports been getting better?[/QUOTE]
eh kinda, the main thing that will be making screenshots look better is the fact that they made the photo mode render at the correct resolution now
ForzaLogic
I tuned my 350z's gearbox (GTR engine swap) and i managed to reach 430KM/H with final drive decreased. But on the Viper GTS-R every time i decreased the final drive it also decreased my top speed.
[QUOTE=EddieLTU;51285672]ForzaLogic
I tuned my 350z's gearbox (GTR engine swap) and i managed to reach 430KM/H with final drive decreased. But on the Viper GTS-R every time i decreased the final drive it also decreased my top speed.[/QUOTE]
Your 350Z's engine probably produces enough torque at high RPM to reach the redline in last gear, even with a long final drive. Compared to your Viper GTS-R, which might not produce as much torque in the high RPM range (plus has a lot of wings, which create lots of drag at high speeds) and therefore hits practical top speed before it hits the redline in the last gear, with a long final drive.
Doesn't help that the Nissan engine is high-revving, while the Viper engine is relatively low-revving, so the Viper needs longer gearing (therefore less torque multiplication) compared to the Nissan, for any given speed.
It's car tuning logic. Try adjusting the Viper's aerodynamics, and purchasing engine upgrades that focus on high RPM power (like camshaft upgrades). But don't expect the Viper to be a top speed machine anyways.
welp guess i'm buying the warthog since I completely missed out on the events.
[QUOTE=nomad1;51285711]welp guess i'm buying the warthog since I completely missed out on the events.[/QUOTE]
The new racing league thing has the Warthog planned as a participation prize iirc
So back on to the guessing for which cars will be in the FH3 November DLC, same clues as before but just re-posting:
[quote]Car 1 Clue 1: Halloween is such a kooky time of year! I love the festive nature of this holiday.
Car 2 Clue 1: It may be crazy to hear this but, what comes around goes around.
Car 3 Clue 1: You never know until you try! The result might make for generations of cherished rivalries and competition.
Car 4 Clue 1: If lives were gears this cat would be hitting 60 in less time than it takes to read this clue aloud.
Car 5 Clue 1: It takes class to inspire this kind of driving. Well, that and one helluva big wing!
Car 6 Clue 1: Street legal yes, daily driver, probably not.
Car 7 Clue 1: Sometimes winning makes for strange bedfellows.[/quote]
I think Car 2 will definitely be a Fisker. Literally just today, Fisker announced the Fisker EMotion ([url]http://www.motoring.com.au/fisker-reveals-pure-electric-emotion-sedan-104436/[/url]). It succeeds the Fisker Karma, and of course the clue can be summarised as 'karma', while the EMotion being the successor to the Karma makes this car fit the clue even better (what comes around, goes around).
[editline]1st November 2016[/editline]
[QUOTE=nomad1;51285711]welp guess i'm buying the warthog since I completely missed out on the events.[/QUOTE]
There's plenty for sale at the auctions. I sold both of mine rather easily.
But no one will buy my damn Ferrari 166MM and Dino 246. I've sold Silvia Club K's', Fiat X1-9s, LM002s... But I still can't sell those two.
Alpine stars carpackcoming soon
[video]https://youtu.be/5ERvlDaIoHc[/video]
Also winter apparently (and yes, it does actually snow in Australia)
[t]http://compass.xboxlive.com/assets/33/20/3320cf09-5c21-495d-b014-7b477c1b4be4.gif?n=BlizzardExpansion_tease_story.g if[/t]
I'm very happy that they have the XR Falcon GT, so yay my guess was right, but I'm still very disappointed that only one of the cars is Australian. They keep on adding these generic sportscars and supercars (let's face it - the BMW M4 is incredibly boring, and putting a wing and GTS badge on it doesn't make it any more interesting), but there's so much untapped content made here in Australia. Funny, considering the game is supposedly set in Australia...
[editline]2nd November 2016[/editline]
Like considering they added the XR Falcon GT, they should have at least added the HK Monaro GTS 327 alongside of it. It only makes sense that if they added Ford Australia's very first muscle car, that they should have added Holden's which was released only a year later. The two of them go together like peanut butter and [i]jam[/i] (not jelly, lol).
winter WHAAAAT
o shit i'm so hyped
S14 Kouki babyyy. Wasn't that hype when they gave out the zenki since imo it's pretty ugly but I love the Kouki. Also the rocket bunny boss kit looks awesome in game too. Also awesome to see the FC getting added. Really hoping they add the Kenmeri skyline from F6 sometime soon.
For those who don't mind the spoiler (tagged anyway), the barn find is:
[sp]the 1973 Kenmeri Skyline GT-R[/sp]
EDIT: Can anyone who already has the patch try out the R34 Skyline? I really want it to sound like an RB26 again.
Omg FC yes please
[editline]1st November 2016[/editline]
[QUOTE=TheAdmiester;51292337]For those who don't mind the spoiler (tagged anyway), the barn find is:
[sp]the 1973 Kenmeri Skyline GT-R[/sp][/QUOTE]
omfg yes
[editline]1st November 2016[/editline]
just all of this yes
^ I believe the barn find is free DLC too, although it won't matter if you own the season pass.
Update is finally live for me, UK PC.
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