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Peanut President posted:So I may or may not be getting FM4 soon. I had really bad issues playing online on FM3, and I'm worried it'll be the same thing with 4. If anyone else had problems like mine did they fix it in 4? Racing online is pretty sucky for me. I'm rarely able to connect to games. My roommate and I cannot play in the same race online, although this works fine in every other XBL game. When I finally get lucky enough to connect, load failures are frequent and entirely break the lobby, forcing you to try to reconnect. Load times themselves are abominable, though that's not just an online failure ("loading menus"?? gently caress you). The Forza servers are also down more frequently than they ought to be, but that'll probably get fixed when winter breakers go back to school. If the only thing you're buying it for is playing online in real time, I'd consider renting first to see how it behaves on your network. But even with my broken connection, Forza 4 is pretty much the only game I've played since it came out. I've been having so much fun just in Rivals mode.
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Finished off my pair of Super Trofeo liveries, #7 and #24.      
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Jan 2, 2012 17:03
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Sunday Punch posted:Finished off my pair of Super Trofeo liveries, #7 and #24.  Those are some seriously slick liveries.
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Jan 2, 2012 17:54
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Seconded. drat, Sunday, good work!
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Jan 2, 2012 18:15
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Holy poo poo those are impressive.
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Jan 2, 2012 18:25
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Ringo Star Get posted:All this hardware and this guy uses all assists as far as I know and I'm sure the electric company sends him a card every Christmas: I guess it is one of those things where I can say he is probably having fun. I would have spent the money in a much different way even if i was intending on spending it all on Forza. But to each his own, and maybe someday he will turn off an assist or two.
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Jan 2, 2012 19:02
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is anyone else having issues with the latest update? i rented forza 4 a few months ago and finally bought it today. when i put the game in, it loaded as if it was the first time playing even though all my saved games/data are there on my hard drive. i lost all my cars and designed and progress after the update i checked the forza forums and couldnt find anything there
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Jan 2, 2012 19:46
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Jan 2, 2012 19:55
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Foehammer007 posted:So, what exactly are "unicorn" cars? They are cars that can only be obtained by racing against Turn-10 employees, or some other special event, or bought on the Auction House by using credit exploits which then get your Xbox Live account banned. There are 11 of these in FM4.
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Jan 2, 2012 19:56
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I said come in! posted:They are cars that can only be obtained by racing against Turn-10 employees, or some other special event, or bought on the Auction House by using credit exploits which then get your Xbox Live account banned. There are 11 of these in FM4. In fact, there are 17  Best bet is definitely Game with Dev events. I've gotten in to all but one of those so far. There are also contests (easiest being photo contests I guess), but those are a lot harder, as they pick only 3 winners out of thousands of submissions.
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Jan 2, 2012 20:08
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Are there any straight up time trials for Fujimi Kaido in the rivals section? I love racing against people with traffic, but I would rather have a straight up time trial without the traffic.
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Jan 2, 2012 20:18
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I've played 3 so much my trigger finger hurts. 4 is only 40 bucks on Amazon.com, so I'm spending that money. This game is addictive as hell. Is the AI in 4 better than in 3? I'm playing on normal and i tend to destroy them out of the gate and then my next few laps are just me vs the track.
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Splits posted:I've played 3 so much my trigger finger hurts. 4 is only 40 bucks on Amazon.com, so I'm spending that money. This game is addictive as hell. Play FM4 on hard or professional. The great thing about FM4's A.I. is that they rarely do something like ram into you or try to drive you off the track. I don't even have rewind turned on anymore (you can turn it off in FM4 for a credit bonus increase) because there is just no need to use it. In other racing sims, the A.I. is always unaware of your presence and never makes any attempts to avoid you. That is not the case in FM4.
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Jan 2, 2012 20:53
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Yeah the AI isn't perfect, but it's pretty good, the only problems I have with it are a couple of specific turns the AI loves to PIT me on. First hairpin at the Nurburgring GP circuit comes to mind, no matter how good my line is, if there's an AI driver within a few car lengths of me going into the turn I'm going to get shunted or sideswiped.
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Jan 2, 2012 21:02
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I just wish I could follow an AI closely through a corner without worrying about getting brake checked. I feel like in the higher PI races they do it purely to be dicks.
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I said come in! posted:Play FM4 on hard or professional. The great thing about FM4's A.I. is that they rarely do something like ram into you or try to drive you off the track. I don't even have rewind turned on anymore (you can turn it off in FM4 for a credit bonus increase) because there is just no need to use it. In other racing sims, the A.I. is always unaware of your presence and never makes any attempts to avoid you. That is not the case in FM4. Turning rewind off makes the AI races way more intense, in my opinion, since the stakes for each turn become so much higher. Well worth it once you get the hang of the game.
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Jan 2, 2012 21:56
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I wish Turn 10 would take a page out of the freemium game model book. Charge five bucks for each unicorn or something. I'd pay five dollars for an M3 GTR.
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Jan 2, 2012 22:15
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Cojawfee posted:I wish Turn 10 would take a page out of the freemium game model book. Charge five bucks for each unicorn or something. I'd pay five dollars for an M3 GTR. Isn't this what the car packs and the ability to buy separate cars is already? I wish the packs were more attractive looking, they don't appear to add anything completely different than the cars already included on the disc. edit: They may be cars new to the game, but they don't seem unique enough from the drivers' seat to warrant buying them unless I already had an interest in a particular model. I suppose what I meant to say is that I wish there were more gimmicky vehicles, as silly as that sounds. satanic splash-back fucked around with this message at 23:05 on Jan 2, 2012 |
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Jan 2, 2012 22:17
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All of the DLC cars are unique and brand new to Forza. They are targeted towards car enthusiasts, and people who really appreciate all different types of cars. If you just want a racing game, I can understand skipping the DLC, unless new tracks were added. As far as I know, Turn-10 has no plans to add more tracks. As for the unicorn cars, there is no way to buy them with actual money. I said come in! fucked around with this message at 22:24 on Jan 2, 2012 |
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Jan 2, 2012 22:21
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Well that's the only way to get those cars. Though I guess car tokens for really expensive cars is how they have adapted a freemium model. I just really want that M3 GTR. I'm always busy whenever they do game with devs events.
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Jan 2, 2012 22:22
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I do believe I'm just about ready for Wednesday's AI race.  I know it's a bit plain, but it's actually a replica of Chris Griswold's (multiple) championship AIX car. Also, I've got my weight right at the minimum. Boo-yah. Fake edit: Sunday Punch's liveries make me look like a bitch.
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Jan 2, 2012 22:49
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Just put down an OK time in the Rivals section on the Nordschleife and beat the current AUGR rival, only to have the next one come up almost 20 seconds faster. Goddamn I'm gonna have to work to gain all those fuckers back. 7:34:275 to beat in a Radical SR8.
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Jan 2, 2012 23:21
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I haven't even bothered looking at any of the other rivals right, only the reasonable priced car one. 
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If I pick up the season pass now, will it let me download the older content? I assume yes but I want to be sure.
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Jan 3, 2012 01:43
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Less Fat Luke posted:If I pick up the season pass now, will it let me download the older content? I assume yes but I want to be sure. It will. Just make sure you download it through the game and not through the Xbox Live Marketplace. I just did a few days ago and had no problems.
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:It will. Just make sure you download it through the game and not through the Xbox Live Marketplace. I just did a few days ago and had no problems.
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Jan 3, 2012 01:57
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Just made the goonbus from stills from Youtube videos. Now I gotta get my HUMMER affinity up so I can upgrade the H1 to A-class and take it into Tag.
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:It will. Just make sure you download it through the game and not through the Xbox Live Marketplace. I just did a few days ago and had no problems. Just download the free car from every pack in the marketplace. Since you own the season pass, it lets you use the cars. I don't know if you can just download them from in game or not, I've never been able to. Mostly because when the new pack comes out, its never in game, you always have to go to the market place and buy it from there. So just keep in mind, when the new packs come out, chances are you have to go to the marketplace and download the free car to get your pack.
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Jan 3, 2012 03:03
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I have grown to love Tag mode.
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JaysonAych posted:I never had problems with Forza 3 on Live, but I could not get FM4 to connect at all until I set up the NAT and DMZ settings for my router. Okay, not to sound completely ignorant, but what does this mean and how can I do it to my router so I can get back into racing? I've missed like the last four or five GTCC races because I can't connect for crap. edit: content: I'm loving the ABC's when I can connect to a race. It's almost better with stupid pubbies as it presents that extra challenge. Though I could do without the ones who try to ram anyone passing them when driving in the lower classes.
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Not sure who runs GISH, but I sent a request in to join  Live name is similar to this one.
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YF19pilot posted:Okay, not to sound completely ignorant, but what does this mean and how can I do it to my router so I can get back into racing? I've missed like the last four or five GTCC races because I can't connect for crap. What kind of router do you have? Usually the settings for DMZ are around port forwarding somewhere. Give your 360 a static IP and you type that IP into the box for setting something in the DMZ. NAT you might not be able to do anything about, it all depends on how lovely your ISP is. If your ISP doesn't have enough IPs for their users, then you will be stuck behind a NAT (maybe several).
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Deputy Dangerous posted:I have grown to love Tag mode. This was glorious. I want a Goonbus!
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Pinky the Cube posted:This was glorious. I want a Goonbus! Tomorrow I'll try to upload it to marketplace.
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Jan 3, 2012 06:23
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1980 Oldsmobile Omega. K Kar action. Manual.
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1974 Plymouth Road Runner with a boombox in the rear seat because mine didn't come with one.
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One cool thing about Fanatec being in Germany is that they are in a time zone ahead of the US. So I send an email to support about my wheel at about 10PM not expecting to hear back for a while. Since they are in Germany, I get an email at about 130 telling me to flash a new firmware to my wheel (which I didn't know existed since they don't list any firmware on their website). I thought my wheel was broken, and all I needed was a new firmware. And regarding forza, anyone else notice that cars bought with tokens show up as gifts? Cars I get for free from Turn10 show up as cars I got normally, but cars I buy with tokens show up as gifts with one owner (me). This is a bit annoying.
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Dr. Faustus posted:1980 Oldsmobile Omega. K Kar action. Manual. 1979 Chevy Malibu  Or at least a late 80's Thunderbird. I said come in! posted:All of the DLC cars are unique and brand new to Forza. They are targeted towards car enthusiasts, and people who really appreciate all different types of cars. If you just want a racing game, I can understand skipping the DLC, unless new tracks were added. As far as I know, Turn-10 has no plans to add more tracks. This is why I love Forza. It's one thing to have a ton of cars and great racing and all of that, but Forza offers so much stuff to the true gearhead. Cars like the Fiero aren't there for the casual gamer, they are there for car junkies to be nerds over, and I love Forza because of it. You can only race so many Vettes and Ferraris, ya know? Seizure Meat fucked around with this message at 13:11 on Jan 3, 2012 |
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Wow the Pinto is the lowest PI rated car in the game. It's so low, you can add all kinds of poo poo to it before it even lifts off the rock bottom rating of 100. Oh but the things you can add to it: giant fiberglass hood scoop? yes please. 305mm wide rear tires, why of course. Supercharged Shelby V8? yes this will fit nicely.
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