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Forza Motorsport 3 |OT|
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SuperEnemyCrab said:
If public custom lobbies were patched in, that would solve the problem. The thing is, Turn 10 has said that public custom lobbies -wont- be patched in. Which is odd considering the public lobbies were the cornerstone of Forza2's online gameplay. More playlists dont address the problem. Last night, I wanted to race 5 lap race, Sim damage, on Road Atlanta with the C Class Focus I've been painting. In Forza 2, i would've just popped on , done a search, and started racing. In Forza 3 its simply not possible.
As it stands now, you can't play publicly online with anything lower than B class (which is a good chunk of the car list) and you can't play online with anything other than arcade level settings. And theres no way to change the setting. It takes away a large portion of the game when you go online and the races are 3-4 laps, assists on, no damage, and no tuning between races. The only option is to start a private match which is limited to just people on your friends list.
It'll be tough for Forza 3 to sustain the same lasting online community that Forza 2 had if the players arent allowed to at least search for the types of races they want to do.
SuperÑ said:You know you can buy one at any electrical shop. The generic one i used with my Genesis works like a charm
I ordered one online on eBay - dunno about you, but I found it very hard to get my UK voltage, and now I think my order from abroad has got lost in the post :-(
Diablohead
Member
Dear Turn10, I would just like to say that I am in love with all the menu music, it is amazing and fits the game so well.
Brakara said:
for the specific car setup, use 'search for tunes' function, select mazda, R2, and enter manual keyword "ZOOM".
that will bring you the car setup, and from there you can jump into my tunes front.
I will think of something to do so eveybody can reach my storefront with ease...
p.s.
one other thing that might need fixing, is that somehow, when I see my storefront and flick through the setups I have online,
after a couple of seconds the cursor jumps back to the top-left setup!
this has caused me to delete/modify tunes that I didnt want to touch at the first place, since no matter where I navigate to, my cursor gets kicked back to the last upoaded tune..
Fantastic...thanksBADNED said:
Edit: My fav track...lovely ambient music right here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zE94Ux2crl8
Here is interesting info from Insidesimracing forum about using the Fanatec wheel.
Edit: I'm not sure what this means.
I have changed from 270 to 900 degrees on the wheel after Forza had started and
Forza recognizes the extra rotation.
It probably depends on when the change is done.
Insidesimracing said:
Edit: I'm not sure what this means.
I have changed from 270 to 900 degrees on the wheel after Forza had started and
Forza recognizes the extra rotation.
It probably depends on when the change is done.
Diablohead
Member
That sucks, the game allows you to delete a gifted car before downloading it...duderon said:I accidentally deleted all the messages containing the gift cars, thinking they were just storefront messages. Woops
ExtraKr1spy
Banned
God damn season 6 is brutal.
The acceleration and speed of the diesel R10's and 908's are huge. Could barely hold them off for the first race(Sebring) with my Acura. I could make up time in sections where the Acura's good handling gains an advantage but damn there are a lot of tracks where their speed advantage is gonna be too much. Good thing I have a 908 and R10 but I would have liked to win in something other than those.
The acceleration and speed of the diesel R10's and 908's are huge. Could barely hold them off for the first race(Sebring) with my Acura. I could make up time in sections where the Acura's good handling gains an advantage but damn there are a lot of tracks where their speed advantage is gonna be too much. Good thing I have a 908 and R10 but I would have liked to win in something other than those.
ExtraKr1spy
Banned
blanky said:
The restrictor(removing) upgrade brings the Acura to X999 so I dont think it'll be usable in the R1 championship. The Acura has more mechanical grip than the R10 and 908 so I've trimmed lowered the downforce but the torque of the diesels allow them to get off the corner faster and pull away, It evens out a bit after a few seconds and I can close in during braking and through the corner but on exit they catch or just pull away. I dont mind a challenge but on some tracks(Le Mans, Silverstone, and others) I just wont stand a chance.
Darkflight
Member
Wow, this was quite the steal
My wife and son got me the MS wheel for my birthday this past week, and the game is completely different.
With the controller, it is very apparent that they interpret your gas and steering inputs much more "safely" than Forza 2. For instance, it is much harder to start the wheels spinning on a RWD car because they ease in the gas, even though you slam the trigger down.
When you are counter-steering, it almost feels like you move the stick all the way to the left or right and it actually picks the right angle for counter-steer. And I guess that makes sense with something that has such a small range of motion.
With the wheel, all of that is gone. You must modulate the gas and brake yourself. And you pick the wheel angle for counter-steer.
Once you start racing with the wheel as if it is a steering wheel instead of just a controller with more range of motion, it starts to feel so much more realistic and natural. Your right foot is almost always moving to keep traction. Same with the left for braking.
I'm still just racing the lower class cars, however. It will take some time before I get back to the higher class RWD cars. But it is SO much more rewarding this way!
With the controller, it is very apparent that they interpret your gas and steering inputs much more "safely" than Forza 2. For instance, it is much harder to start the wheels spinning on a RWD car because they ease in the gas, even though you slam the trigger down.
When you are counter-steering, it almost feels like you move the stick all the way to the left or right and it actually picks the right angle for counter-steer. And I guess that makes sense with something that has such a small range of motion.
With the wheel, all of that is gone. You must modulate the gas and brake yourself. And you pick the wheel angle for counter-steer.
Once you start racing with the wheel as if it is a steering wheel instead of just a controller with more range of motion, it starts to feel so much more realistic and natural. Your right foot is almost always moving to keep traction. Same with the left for braking.
I'm still just racing the lower class cars, however. It will take some time before I get back to the higher class RWD cars. But it is SO much more rewarding this way!
ShapeGSX said:
I gotta say this is completely not my experience with the controller with the higher classes of cars. There's no doubt that cars are harder to spin than they should be, but I've never had it ease on the gas when I slam the trigger down, and they'll easily start spinning out of control if I slam it at the wrong time during a corner. Were you playing with traction control off?
edit: and the same with the brake I might add. But I play with ABS off as well.
Spaceman Spiff
Member
I've been driving the R10 TDI you're awarded at level 49 in the R1 World Championship and, annoyingly, it seems to suffer damage to the suspension from even the slightest contact with the curbs or very hard cornering in general. After about five laps it gets to ~40% damage overall to the springs, and ends up costing a fair bit of credits to repair. I had to bump the difficulty down and pit on a 10-lap race at Suzuka to repair the damage. None of the other R1s seems to suffer from this problem. Anyone else experiencing this?
Also, has there been any word on why certain race cars have nonfunctional display screens while variants of them work just fine? The #9 Peugeot 908 has no display, but the #8 does; the #007 DBR9 has no display, but the #009 does. Weird. The E92 M3 GT2 has no display at all, and neither do the C6.R Corvettes and the #23 GT500 GT-R. Would it be at all possible to get this patched?
In other news, I received the Zune A4 DTM and two VIP cars last night and will check in a bit for the preorder cars. Thanks so much for gifting these out Che!
Also, has there been any word on why certain race cars have nonfunctional display screens while variants of them work just fine? The #9 Peugeot 908 has no display, but the #8 does; the #007 DBR9 has no display, but the #009 does. Weird. The E92 M3 GT2 has no display at all, and neither do the C6.R Corvettes and the #23 GT500 GT-R. Would it be at all possible to get this patched?
In other news, I received the Zune A4 DTM and two VIP cars last night and will check in a bit for the preorder cars. Thanks so much for gifting these out Che!
Diablohead
Member
I have always wondered why the car's never damage damage unless you hit a wall, car or forcefully over rev the engine, springs & brakes should always suffer damage slowly, but never do.Spaceman Spiff said:
40% sounds overkill though, and a problem with the car hitting the ground or something.
Spaceman Spiff
Member
Diablohead said:
Yeah, it would be one thing if the wear and damage were gradual, but it's quite excessive and only seems to be an issue with this particular R10. Running the same track with other R1s yields no suspension damage at all.
SealSqueal
Member
SealSqueal said:
I'd take a GTR/Zonda F/Zonda R/SLS/Any other car any day over another M3. Brand new cars > sport models of cars you already have when it comes to DLC.
But after looking at all the pics from SEMA this year, the Camaro is VERY disappointing when it comes to aftermarket body mods. Wish that after market parts manufacturers would have revealed many of these kits a year ago so they could be included in Forza 3.
For the guys who dont/cant tune ID spinny sent me a mazdaspeed 3 racing tune thats available on my storefront for free. Its a race tune made for B-class hoppers.
Also later in the day I will have a novice drift tune set up for the mazdaspeed 3 by ID Lizard. Theres also a free Pixar UP paint job made by pizza luigi and myself to go with it.
Also later in the day I will have a novice drift tune set up for the mazdaspeed 3 by ID Lizard. Theres also a free Pixar UP paint job made by pizza luigi and myself to go with it.
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
Do golds gotten in Event Select count towards the Solid Gold achievement?
Just a couple of notes as I'm starting to make my way through the R3 stuff in the seasonal play:
-The Lizard Porsche GT3 is so much better than the f430 racer. F430 is a chore to keep in line, it just wants to slide around all the fucking time. It's very controllable, but a little silly that it's like on ice in any kind of combination of turns. The Porsche acts the way I assumed R3 race cars would.
-The Viper ACR has all the potential in the world to be real monster. I've only upgraded to R3 so far, but damn is it quick and that chassis seems like it can handle another hike in hp easily.
-The Lizard Porsche GT3 is so much better than the f430 racer. F430 is a chore to keep in line, it just wants to slide around all the fucking time. It's very controllable, but a little silly that it's like on ice in any kind of combination of turns. The Porsche acts the way I assumed R3 race cars would.
-The Viper ACR has all the potential in the world to be real monster. I've only upgraded to R3 so far, but damn is it quick and that chassis seems like it can handle another hike in hp easily.
Dash Kappei said:I'm using the MS Wheel too.
Can you (or anybody, really) please teach me how to drift?
I'm a pretty good driver in real life and I've had a license for almost 20 years but on a track I've only raced with karts, so I've no experience at all with drifting.
When/how should I use brake/accelerator and I can avoid using the handbrake right?
I thought I just had to release completely my foot from throttle and hard brake and then accelrate all the way down again to start drifting in corners but it's not workin :/
Please guys, help a newbie for once
I'm not really the guy to ask because I'm the sort that thinks losing traction is a bad thing.
You don't necessarily need to brake to get your back end to give out...you can even just swing your car around.
Before going into a left turn steer right and then left and you might get the back end to go out. If your tires regain traction too quickly you can throttle up on a RWD car and slide the back out even more.
Keeping control is rather easy with the controller and even the MS wheel because the 180 degree steering allows for very quick countersteering.
With some tuning you can encourage cars to oversteer on any corner so if you are having problems going into a drift try looking for a drift tuned car on the storefront. These tunes will encourage the sort of weight transfer you want and give enough torque to sustain any slide. Try driving those as a start.
SealSqueal
Member
enzo_gt said:
Yeah I guess so, I haven't even scratched the mod part of Forza yet.
Is anyone up for organizing a tournament? I can put some forza ingame credits (1 million to start) behind it but dont have time to organize it because of the UFC league. We can do a set of drag racing tournaments with a limit on car class. Like A class RWD only. Or a set of P2P races
Scottlarock
Banned
very early in the game, so money is a issue, but I just bought a awesome tuned class A car for $1500.
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
BenjaminBirdie said:
To elucidate, if I don't get all gold in an event when I play it in Season Mode but then go to Event Select to race it again and get gold in the one race I missed it in and then I get the all gold bonus cash, will I still get the Solid Gold achievement even though that wasn't technically in "Season Mode"??
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