haha, well I think the game music and sounds might have an impact on kinect's performance depending on the loudness and how close the device is placed near these sound sources.
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Forza Horizon 2 |OT| Rock You Like a Huracan
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haha, well I think the game music and sounds might have an impact on kinect's performance depending on the loudness and how close the device is placed near these sound sources.
Is there anything comparable to the Veneno once upgraded? I'm at the point where I just want to set best laps but I really hate the look of the Lambo and everyone seems to use it. I've tried a few of the other Hyper cars but the upgrade potential is hit/miss and I'm running out of cash.
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Also, everyone needs to try out the KTM X-Bow. I pushed it to the S2 cap, switched to AWD and tuned the sh*t out of it -- 0-100mph in 2 seconds, drives like it's on rails with no assists(!) and 330 DOR / 60 FFB feels like 1:1 steering. Amazing. Running that car in Nice is the most fun I've had gaming in a very long time.
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Also, everyone needs to try out the KTM X-Bow. I pushed it to the S2 cap, switched to AWD and tuned the sh*t out of it -- 0-100mph in 2 seconds, drives like it's on rails with no assists(!) and 330 DOR / 60 FFB feels like 1:1 steering. Amazing. Running that car in Nice is the most fun I've had gaming in a very long time.
I thought the Hennessey Vemon was pretty close to the Veneno.
As for the X-Bow, I much prefer the Lotus 2-Eleven.
Sadly, that was the first Hyper I bought. It's undriveable for me in RWD form no matter how I tune it. I find myself backing off the throttle so much that extra power is mostly rendered useless. It's pretty fun in AWD but there's so much drivetrain power loss that I might as well stick with an Exige.
I haven't tried the 2-Eleven yet and I can't remember why exactly; it must have been crazy expensive? I've tried almost all the "toys" and while some are faster, the X-Bow just feels the best to me. It's what I put friends and family in when they want to try out the wheel.
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Has anyone bought either of the Paganis? Do they have upgradeable engines and/or powertrain swaps? I'm stuck with the next Hyper car I buy so I need to make it count
Yep first time I came up against one I obeyed the rules of the road and got steamrolled.
second time I cut through the trees and beat the bastard,even wilder I had to hairpin through trees at night. Thrilling stuff.
I've found talking normally to ANNA works best. Also make sure if you've moved your Kinect to recalibrate.
antiquegamer
Member
Just keep the Kinect for Xbox Pause, Xbox Mute, Xbox Volume UP/DOWN and Xbox Play. Recognize my voice every times for all the simple commands (and I have accent since English is not my first language). To me that is probably the best feature of Kinect, other than that I agree that it's pretty much garbage, despite all the hype my Microsoft it's not better than the first Kinect.
edit: as someone mention, it work better after you calibrate it.
BruiserBear
Banned
At any point in the game, does the map open up all the events? Like after you've finished the "story"?
Haha, I've found the opposite to be true. I'lll be racing on tarmac thinking I'm way ahead of the drivatar, just to see him suddenly ahead of me.
evanswolves
Member
Once all the perks have been unlocked and purchased, what do the skill points you earn in races and such count towards? anything?
Summer Haze
Banned
Every now and again I'll come across a car that makes me fall in love with the game all over again. This is the latest car to do that:
Upgraded to the max, with the classic 2 Fast 2 Furious skin. That nostalgia!
And a video to show off the noise the twin-turbo makes. I can barely hear the engine!
http://xboxclips.com/video.php?uid=2533274842064293&gamertag=Lukas%20Japonicus&vid=7feb2c7d-8bdc-49cf-9db6-4f3251702a47
Upgraded to the max, with the classic 2 Fast 2 Furious skin. That nostalgia!
And a video to show off the noise the twin-turbo makes. I can barely hear the engine!
http://xboxclips.com/video.php?uid=2533274842064293&gamertag=Lukas%20Japonicus&vid=7feb2c7d-8bdc-49cf-9db6-4f3251702a47
Hmm. Perhaps it's tied to the drivatar skill level then.
I noticed that average skill drivatars stuck to tarmac with an almost unfathomable diligence. The pro driver that I raced was in a city/highway, so there was no chance to cut corners anyhow.
Dee Dah Dave
Member
I want to play
Sadly no. It makes sense considering they all take place in the same seven or eight spots and there would be about 24 icons stacked on top of each other but I wished you could just select a championship from the menu instead of having to do those annoying road trips. If you could at least stay at a location. But no,you have to at least alternate beween two towns. That's one point that really bugs me. Another one is that speed traps are disabled during road trips. Makes no sense.
Drove through the Festival again in different lighting conditions (but both raining) last night.
I love how this game can be anything from warm to cold and dreary. The fact that a storm can come up and it's not the same "look" every time is nice.
I still haven't seen a rainbow...although it's cool that things do seem to be randomly generated in the open roam. Saw my first REALLY foggy day this week.
I love how this game can be anything from warm to cold and dreary. The fact that a storm can come up and it's not the same "look" every time is nice.
I still haven't seen a rainbow
...although it's cool that things do seem to be randomly generated in the open roam. Saw my first REALLY foggy day this week.Agreed. I love that challenge. It also helps it's in an F40. My favorite Ferrari of all time.
I must have ran it four or five times last night. I love how it's up along the coast and you can really get up to speed on it.
However it sucks taking a blind turn and running head on into a car coming the other direction.
It's great. Even in solo mode you will get a rival after every race and if you have any competitive bone in your body, will have a hard time not accepting the challenge.
I spend half my sessions playing the same races to beat my friends times. I need to stop and actually get back to playing the storyline.
scorcher59
Member
So is ninja radio hosted by THE ninja? (Die antwoord) if so this is My game of the forever!!!
backflip10019
Member
My game just froze and crashed
Happened to me last night for the first time, too. I drove through a quick travel board and it froze instantly then crashed.
Summer Haze
Banned
My game just froze and crashed
Same here. It was saving after I completed a race, then made a buzzing sound and crashed to dashboard. :/
It's the 3rd time it's happened.
Shortt Sirket
Member
You know what this game needs? An old school checkpoint style race. GT6 just got an awesome update with that very thing and it is amazing. Now imagine that same style on ALL the roads on Horizon, hell, you could make it damn near infinite. Just see how long you can go before time runs out. Make rewind disabled and use the entire map and I would play the SHIT out of that.
Would it be that hard to do? It seems like it wouldn't take too much to make something like that and it would be just so incredible.
Would it be that hard to do? It seems like it wouldn't take too much to make something like that and it would be just so incredible.
Opus Angelorum
Member
Going to get home tonight and Drive
Club.
#Kappa
with my
#Kappa
The one crash I had was weird. I had been retrying a race over and over, the result of my yanking off the rewind training wheels. In the middle of what wound up bring my best and final run, the radio turned into a static kind of noise. I was in something of a zone and just went "Xbox, mute." Beat the race and it locked on the loading screen.
Do you know if he went through the Kinect setup and actually followed the directions? That's a very important part of the process. My voice commands work 97.5% of the time.
Oh and buy that system ASAP from your buddy.
I was sitting there, looking at the achievements, wondering where the other Bucket List challenges were for SP / co-op. Was playing with Jube3, and he indicates to look under "Progress" in the pause menu. Top right corner of the Progress section is a big square for "Bucket Lists", and it's hidden away.
Had no idea you had to "enable" the second full list of bucket challenges, but now those are mostly complete.
Doing the Hennessey high-speed bucket list challenge is easily the greatest sense of speed I've gotten from this game to date. I hadn't driven that specific car up until then, but 270+ MPH in bumper view is just insane.
Finally, got around to completing the Horizon Festival Championship Race. Putting behind spoiler tags for those that haven't done it.
Had no idea you had to "enable" the second full list of bucket challenges, but now those are mostly complete.
Doing the Hennessey high-speed bucket list challenge is easily the greatest sense of speed I've gotten from this game to date. I hadn't driven that specific car up until then, but 270+ MPH in bumper view is just insane.
Finally, got around to completing the Horizon Festival Championship Race. Putting behind spoiler tags for those that haven't done it.
Holy crap I wish they had more races like this. I had no idea what to expect when it said "pick your favorite car", so I chose a Group B Rally, not knowing that I had a 15-20 minute epic race ahead of me. Still beat the AI at their max setting, but topping out at 155 MPH made it so much more fun and exciting, trying to hold off the AI and with rewinds turned off. I really hope they add in more LONG races like these, since it really amped up the tension.
Hawk269
Member
Every now and again I'll come across a car that makes me fall in love with the game all over again. This is the latest car to do that:
Upgraded to the max, with the classic 2 Fast 2 Furious skin. That nostalgia!
And a video to show off the noise the twin-turbo makes. I can barely hear the engine!
http://xboxclips.com/video.php?uid=2533274842064293&gamertag=Lukas%20Japonicus&vid=7feb2c7d-8bdc-49cf-9db6-4f3251702a47
My god the IQ in this game is just simply amazing! great photo's man!
http://metro.co.uk/2014/10/08/vandal-paints-penis-on-1-5-million-bugatti-veyron-4897317/
Would you ever do that to a Veyron, in real life or in-game?
Would you ever do that to a Veyron, in real life or in-game?
Miles Quaritch
Member
Drove through the Festival again in different lighting conditions (but both raining) last night.
I love how this game can be anything from warm to cold and dreary. The fact that a storm can come up and it's not the same "look" every time is nice.
I still haven't seen a rainbow
Man, I really need to start playing this again, but SoM is taking up so much of my gaming time...
Gah
arhra
Member
And now you've got me wondering how hard it would be to draw a dickbutt in the livery editor.
Summer Haze
Banned
My god the IQ in this game is just simply amazing! great photo's man!
No problem, glad you like them.
They are from the photo-mode, though, which does add extra AA. But they aren't far off from how it looks in-game at all.
The Jackdog
Member
Every now and again I'll come across a car that makes me fall in love with the game all over again. This is the latest car to do that:
Upgraded to the max, with the classic 2 Fast 2 Furious skin. That nostalgia!
And a video to show off the noise the twin-turbo makes. I can barely hear the engine!
http://xboxclips.com/video.php?uid=2533274842064293&gamertag=Lukas%20Japonicus&vid=7feb2c7d-8bdc-49cf-9db6-4f3251702a47
OH MAN 2 FAST 2 FURIOUS!?
GOTY
Summer Haze
Banned
Haha, I almost creamed my pants when the game recommended me it.
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I had to choose between the F50 and the F40, but I went with the F40 for childhood nostalgia reasons (I had a poster of the F40 on my wall as a kid) and DAMN is it fun to drive. It's like a go-kart on steroids.
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This whole race was amazing. So tense. (Showdown event spoiler)
http://xboxclips.com/video.php?uid=2533274842064293&gamertag=Lukas%20Japonicus&vid=c7675991-2a23-4a6a-ab9c-61951d7388d4
TheAdmiester
Member
"What the fuck am I doing in my life"
That face is perfect.
Did your game get the update from the other day?
Well, just experienced my first game crash during an online championship. I pulled out the mic from my controller, and the game made a loud brzzzzzzzzz sound, then locked up a few seconds later.
And of course, it just had to happen while I was in 1st place with 3/4 events done.
And of course, it just had to happen while I was in 1st place with 3/4 events done.
Oh shit, literally just as I opened this page your car rolled up to the start line for a race I'm about to do.
That was weird, haha.
Edit: I'm very sorry but I just rammed you off the road with my VW Campervan.
TheAdmiester
Member
That's not my car, lol. You can see it's a different Dude McBro driving it. The 240ZG drifting into a tunnel behind him is me.
SimpleCRIPPLE
Member
"Xbox Record That" will single handedly keep my Kinect plugged in this generation.
Oh right, haha.
Still weird that I saw the same the car at the exact time as the car rolls up
TheIdleMiner
Neo Member
Anyone know what kind of tuneups I need to keep my S2 class cars from spinning out well into 3rd and 4th gear?
TheAdmiester
Member
It sounds like your S2 class car is just "buy all engine upgrades". Your best bet isn't tuning, but reverting the car to stock, buying all of the tire, drivetrain, brake/weight reduction upgrades, then using engine upgrades to make up the rest of your class points. That way you'll have a nice handling car with respectable power.
TheIdleMiner
Neo Member
Okay. I will try this. Not too comfortable with upgrading so I was just auto upgrading.