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Forza Horizon 2 |OT| Rock You Like a Huracan
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SoldierIce64
Member
I bought this game today and downloading it now. I didn't enjoy Forza 5 much but I played the Horizon 2 demo and loved it. I'm not too big into racing games but I would love to drive with some fellow gaffers. Gamertag is SoldierIce64.
Thanks.
Thanks.
scytherage
Member
Online multiplayer has a cheat that I hope Playground Games will fix.
Basically if you hit an xp board during a "drive to event" section, the xp you get adds to your multiplayer xp total in that match. So if you hit a 15000 xp board, you can jump straight to first without even going to the destination. Basically you can ignore everybody and just go after xp boards to win a multiplayer game.
Please fix this Turn 10/ Playground Games!
Basically if you hit an xp board during a "drive to event" section, the xp you get adds to your multiplayer xp total in that match. So if you hit a 15000 xp board, you can jump straight to first without even going to the destination. Basically you can ignore everybody and just go after xp boards to win a multiplayer game.
Please fix this Turn 10/ Playground Games!
Nice, I have absolutely no clue what I'm doing with tuning and would greatly appreciate some well tuned cars. Thanks.
they are up. try them and tell me what you think
If you've already hit all the boards, you can't take advantage of this, right? They're gone after you hit them once, online or off...
Segaswirl
Member
Trying out your Veyron and it feels so much better than the stock setup I was using.
sure, just tell me which model and what target category.
then, also tell me if you prefer to retain stock feeling (but more powerful) or go for a racing machine.
better than stock is a given. I hope it proves competitive and usable for your online battles.
all three cars are aimed for that. (well, not for dragster)
edit: about veyron specifically, I put her on diet, but she is still a heavy girl. if you treat her gently before turns and enter at trajectory, she can out-torque and out accelerate everything coming out of them turns..
everybody who hasn't got access to the game's ladder, say hello to segaswirl, one of the most competitive players in the forza gang.
sporting over 3 million points, only for this week.
man = machine
everybody who hasn't got access to the game's ladder, say hello to segaswirl, one of the most competitive players in the forza gang.
sporting over 3 million points, only for this week.
man = machine
Haha, and I was almost proud that I reached Tier 3'this week... Well every contribution helps at least
Good job Segaswirl!
Was going to vote FH2 but saw that Xbox Fitness was an option so... Maybe next year
Segaswirl
Member
everybody who hasn't got access to the game's ladder, say hello to segaswirl, one of the most competitive players in the forza gang.
sporting over 3 million points, only for this week.
man = machine
lol thanks, it's been fun racing with you. I'll be sure to try out your setups.
I have no idea what i'm doing when it comes to tuning.
Does it ever unlock simply picking races, or are you always road trip-drive to events- return to base- rinse/repeat?
Now and then when I just want to churn through some races it can be annoying to have to do road trips - sometimes long ones deoending where I want to go - with no fast travel
Now and then when I just want to churn through some races it can be annoying to have to do road trips - sometimes long ones deoending where I want to go - with no fast travel
SkinnerSw33t
Member
The road trip format is used throughout the singleplayer and multiplayer game.
I think Rivals is the only aspect of the game where you can just pick courses.
I think Rivals is the only aspect of the game where you can just pick courses.
Bah. I'm going to have to memorise the town locations or draw a little map so I can keep the distances as short as possible.
Problem is you shouldn´t drive the presented route and also turn left while you are still on the "stone plates", then just find the fastest way through the forest (with rewinds if you hit a tree) and then follow the road.
Finished it with 2-3 Seconds to go.
sure it does!
hit menu, goto rivals section, and then you have basically 4 categories:
1- Festival Routes
here you pick the city then you have the list of all the events for that city. choose, click, bam!
example: Nice // Nice Massena // Parc Cirquit.
2- Showcase Events
trains, planes and batmobiles, its all there.
3- Your Personal Rivals
did your friend just beat you on that laptime? or that nobody who is just climbing up the ladders? show them both!
(btw DarinSRT just beat my D class alpina with a fuckin' ....60's vw portable home? gonna be bloody
)4- Monthly Rivals
specific rivarly courses, set by pg. self explanatory
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
Boy this game is really incredible.
Those city parts (Nice) are just pure PGR.
I am actually surprisingly a little disappointed that Hospital Radio is a little heavy in their more "muscular" tracks, and not enough of that dreamy Etherwood style stuff.
But if you'd told me with Hospital and Ninja Tune, my favorite song would be off Horizon Bass, I'd have been like STFU but Kidnap Kid's "Survive" is the JAM OF THE FESTIVAL.
I don't know how much it's actually bigger than 1 but God it FEELS so much bigger. It was when I first hit the highway I was like damn it feels like this is a really big game.
Those city parts (Nice) are just pure PGR.
I am actually surprisingly a little disappointed that Hospital Radio is a little heavy in their more "muscular" tracks, and not enough of that dreamy Etherwood style stuff.
But if you'd told me with Hospital and Ninja Tune, my favorite song would be off Horizon Bass, I'd have been like STFU but Kidnap Kid's "Survive" is the JAM OF THE FESTIVAL.
I don't know how much it's actually bigger than 1 but God it FEELS so much bigger. It was when I first hit the highway I was like damn it feels like this is a really big game.
SkinnerSw33t
Member
Festival Routes only gives you access to time trials not actual races, I thought?
soundscream
Member
Leader board for the first speed camera is over 500,000.
Can I ask a stupid question (?) i'm going to anyway.
Do my single player exp go towards the GAF/Club overall exp? How can I get more for GAF exp? Purely online racing?
Apart from that this might be my favourite racer ever. Including RSC2. It's bloody addictive and so full. Everything is full, realised and beautiful. I can't recommend this game enough for those on the fence. Pure fun, on and offline.
Since the October update my controller has kept cutting out though... Brilliant otherwise.
Do my single player exp go towards the GAF/Club overall exp? How can I get more for GAF exp? Purely online racing?
Apart from that this might be my favourite racer ever. Including RSC2. It's bloody addictive and so full. Everything is full, realised and beautiful. I can't recommend this game enough for those on the fence. Pure fun, on and offline.
Since the October update my controller has kept cutting out though... Brilliant otherwise.
SkinnerSw33t
Member
Yes. All XP from any source goes to the club.
I personally feel like online racing is the fastest XP, but others think it's rivals.
I personally feel like online racing is the fastest XP, but others think it's rivals.
Steve McQueen
Member
I'm on a holiday now...should not read this thread. Really miss playing this awesome game:/ Can't wait to get home lol
I find the road trip aspect of multiplayer to be fascinating. I didn't play a lot of racing games last gen so don't know if there were games with a similar seamless multiplayer experience. I can play it for hours because the pace doesn't slow down with lobbies and such. Really gener defining for a racing game.
Outtrigger888
Member
Is there a gaf club I can join? Opened this game last night and played for 7 hours
Was going to vote FH2 but saw that Xbox Fitness was an option so... Maybe next year
That's just Insanity!!
SkinnerSw33t
Member
Is there a gaf club I can join? Opened this game last night and played for 7 hours
Yes. Here's the signup thread: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=879722
Did not know about this. Very cool.
everybody who hasn't got access to the game's ladder, say hello to segaswirl, one of the most competitive players in the forza gang.
sporting over 3 million points, only for this week.
man = machine
Seriously, Segaswirl doesn't know when to quit. I thought I could catch him, but he's in orbit with that score of his. Maybe next week.
P3tran, for the tune B or A class Mercedes 190E. Racing all the way. I've been using it online now, but haven't been too competitive with it. Work your magic please.
I do my own tunes there isnt really to much to it for the majority of cars.
Front camber -2.5 to -3
Rear Camber -1.5 to -2
For FWD or 4WD cars set the rear sway bar to be a good whack firmer than the front one, this reduces understeer. For oversteery RWD cars I set both swaybars about the same. If I am tweaking an overpowered RWD car I often drop the rear tyre pressure a couple of notches to help it hook up.
As above for front and rear shock stiffness.
Finally if you find the you aren't spending much time in your top gear, ramp up the final drive ratio of the gearbox, this is pretty much the key to massively improving the acceleration for class C and B cars and it works well for much of class A too. This can really help in online races to step out to the front of the pack from the get go and avoid the destruction derby behind you.
That will give you a pretty good baseline tune most of the time, it will always be better than the stock tune. The racing gearbox and adjusting your ratios will give you a lot more speed without bumping your cars rating very much, its a must have.
Front camber -2.5 to -3
Rear Camber -1.5 to -2
For FWD or 4WD cars set the rear sway bar to be a good whack firmer than the front one, this reduces understeer. For oversteery RWD cars I set both swaybars about the same. If I am tweaking an overpowered RWD car I often drop the rear tyre pressure a couple of notches to help it hook up.
As above for front and rear shock stiffness.
Finally if you find the you aren't spending much time in your top gear, ramp up the final drive ratio of the gearbox, this is pretty much the key to massively improving the acceleration for class C and B cars and it works well for much of class A too. This can really help in online races to step out to the front of the pack from the get go and avoid the destruction derby behind you.
That will give you a pretty good baseline tune most of the time, it will always be better than the stock tune. The racing gearbox and adjusting your ratios will give you a lot more speed without bumping your cars rating very much, its a must have.
Awesome, thanks! Sounds like i'll be sticking with road trip.
Also Brad, you're my rival after almost every single race I play haha. Your drivatar is pretty good.
User 479360
Banned
So, I decided to risk it and downloaded the game over the last day. It finished tonight.
You were right about it just being about 36.5gb, because that's all it says it was. However, what I never thought about was that it would download the October update at the same time. When I saw that the dash had changed, I was worried I'd gone over and would have to pay overage fees. However, I checked my bandwidth usage, and I barely made it. I used 139.2gb out of 140 available gigabytes on my cap. My usual is about 52.
I'd downloaded and beat the game for review, but had to send my system in so I lost the download/install.
You were right about it just being about 36.5gb, because that's all it says it was. However, what I never thought about was that it would download the October update at the same time. When I saw that the dash had changed, I was worried I'd gone over and would have to pay overage fees. However, I checked my bandwidth usage, and I barely made it. I used 139.2gb out of 140 available gigabytes on my cap. My usual is about 52.
I'd downloaded and beat the game for review, but had to send my system in so I lost the download/install.
H3rTz DoNuT
Member
Anyone having problem joining online road trips? I've been trying for hour and can't join a single one.
Played this game over the weekend for the first time and boy did I spend a lot of time on it!
It's so generous and the world is a masterpiece of design (barelling down the river bed, or insane air at the aerodrome) and the way it all links together into one coherent whole certainly makes it one of thew best open-world games of all time for me.
Haven't reached the point yet where clubs are opened up, but if anyone would like to add me:
GT: axlewade
Console: X0
Nice.
It's so generous and the world is a masterpiece of design (barelling down the river bed, or insane air at the aerodrome) and the way it all links together into one coherent whole certainly makes it one of thew best open-world games of all time for me.
Haven't reached the point yet where clubs are opened up, but if anyone would like to add me:
GT: axlewade
Console: X0
Nice.
StylesClash
Member
Finally started tonight. I had done a few races before but decided to start fresh. I'm not very good at racing games but I wanted to stay on default difficulty and I did ok. On the bucket list when you drive the Mclaren. Holy shit that car is fast. Lol I am really glad I picked this up. I love exclusives.
So, one minor nitpick, but this goes for almost all racing games out there.
This is the Driver's Championship results for the 2013 WTCC season:
First, you have to ignore Muller, because he is some sort of supernatural being, and took 1st seven times, but he also came in 4th, 5th, 7th, and retired.
More importantly, looking at Tarquini, he only stood on the podium a third of all his races, retired three times, didn't even race once, and still came in second. Nash was only there in a fifth of his races.
This is how a championship standing is supposed to look. Yes, you have gods like Muller, but even gods end up coming in 5th place a few times. Instead, Forza Horizon 2 (and, really, every racing game out there) has it where AI1 comes in 1st in every race, AI2 comes in second, and so on. This means that if you place second in every race of a championship, what should be an amazing feat, you're still going to lose on points to the one guy who always comes in first.
Also, I hate that the AI doesn't need to hit the checkpoints. Just frustrating to see that you're bound by different rules than every other car on the track.
This is the Driver's Championship results for the 2013 WTCC season:
First, you have to ignore Muller, because he is some sort of supernatural being, and took 1st seven times, but he also came in 4th, 5th, 7th, and retired.
More importantly, looking at Tarquini, he only stood on the podium a third of all his races, retired three times, didn't even race once, and still came in second. Nash was only there in a fifth of his races.
This is how a championship standing is supposed to look. Yes, you have gods like Muller, but even gods end up coming in 5th place a few times. Instead, Forza Horizon 2 (and, really, every racing game out there) has it where AI1 comes in 1st in every race, AI2 comes in second, and so on. This means that if you place second in every race of a championship, what should be an amazing feat, you're still going to lose on points to the one guy who always comes in first.
Also, I hate that the AI doesn't need to hit the checkpoints. Just frustrating to see that you're bound by different rules than every other car on the track.
HighResTomato
Member
So, one minor nitpick, but this goes for almost all racing games out there.
This is the Driver's Championship results for the 2013 WTCC season:
First, you have to ignore Muller, because he is some sort of supernatural being, and took 1st seven times, but he also came in 4th, 5th, 7th, and retired.
More importantly, looking at Tarquini, he only stood on the podium a third of all his races, retired three times, didn't even race once, and still came in second. Nash was only there in a fifth of his races.
This is how a championship standing is supposed to look. Yes, you have gods like Muller, but even gods end up coming in 5th place a few times. Instead, Forza Horizon 2 (and, really, every racing game out there) has it where AI1 comes in 1st in every race, AI2 comes in second, and so on. This means that if you place second in every race of a championship, what should be an amazing feat, you're still going to lose on points to the one guy who always comes in first.
Also, I hate that the AI doesn't need to hit the checkpoints. Just frustrating to see that you're bound by different rules than every other car on the track.
I haven't experienced this in FH2
GHG
Member
Me neither. At least not on the top 2 difficulty levels. I've even won championships without actually winning a race.
So, one minor nitpick, but this goes for almost all racing games out there.
This is the Driver's Championship results for the 2013 WTCC season:
First, you have to ignore Muller, because he is some sort of supernatural being, and took 1st seven times, but he also came in 4th, 5th, 7th, and retired.
More importantly, looking at Tarquini, he only stood on the podium a third of all his races, retired three times, didn't even race once, and still came in second. Nash was only there in a fifth of his races.
This is how a championship standing is supposed to look. Yes, you have gods like Muller, but even gods end up coming in 5th place a few times. Instead, Forza Horizon 2 (and, really, every racing game out there) has it where AI1 comes in 1st in every race, AI2 comes in second, and so on. This means that if you place second in every race of a championship, what should be an amazing feat, you're still going to lose on points to the one guy who always comes in first.
Also, I hate that the AI doesn't need to hit the checkpoints. Just frustrating to see that you're bound by different rules than every other car on the track.
I'd say Horizon is pretty good in this regard. The top 3-4 are usually the same people but they swap positions around a lot. There's also been a few times where the person who got first in the least 2 races ends up 5th or something.
So, one minor nitpick, but this goes for almost all racing games out there.
This is the Driver's Championship results for the 2013 WTCC season:
First, you have to ignore Muller, because he is some sort of supernatural being, and took 1st seven times, but he also came in 4th, 5th, 7th, and retired.
More importantly, looking at Tarquini, he only stood on the podium a third of all his races, retired three times, didn't even race once, and still came in second. Nash was only there in a fifth of his races.
This is how a championship standing is supposed to look. Yes, you have gods like Muller, but even gods end up coming in 5th place a few times. Instead, Forza Horizon 2 (and, really, every racing game out there) has it where AI1 comes in 1st in every race, AI2 comes in second, and so on. This means that if you place second in every race of a championship, what should be an amazing feat, you're still going to lose on points to the one guy who always comes in first.
Also, I hate that the AI doesn't need to hit the checkpoints. Just frustrating to see that you're bound by different rules than every other car on the track.
Not really feeling this. AI seems to be quite varied in finishing positions (same can't be said for start positions), but the races feel natural and flow well between the racers, with lots of errors made (as you would expect with drivatar).
Loving this game too much.