L_Harrison posted:

Take note that you can only get a maximum of 3 skill points per combo, so getting a million+ chain has no benefit over something around 300k. Better to stop and let it end and then start a new one.

robotsinmyhead posted:

The Goliath race is hella fun. The AI seems exaggeratedly retarded on it though, I ended up lapping them at the finish line (2 laps). I've got them on Above Average and some of the races are KINDA close, but this was a joke.

Cygni posted:

How the poo poo are you gettin' million point skillchains, is that from drifting or some other arcane thing i dont understand?

azflyboy posted:

What I suspect happens is that FH3 only fully models AI drivers within a certain distance of the player (and starts using a much simpler AI model past that point), so the drivatars become "stupid" (and far slower) once you get too far ahead, only to magically get much smarter when you come back to lap them and close the distance.

BCRock posted:

Well that's dumb. Big numbers are fun.

Oh, and I'm also really good at drifting IRL too, since apparently that helps

L_Harrison posted:

There's a bug in this game that was carried over from FH2, and I hate it. For the first 20 or so seconds of a race the drivatars are drat near unbeatable and defy physics, until suddenly and inexplicably they slow down to the speed that they're set at, as if a switch is flipped.

I AM THE TOILET posted:

I don't understand how to take part in the Forzathon challenges. I get into a D Class car, start online adventure, and then as soon as I join a game, it slaps me into an entirely different car class. How am I supposed to earn those stupid loving car horns?

Thief posted:

Atmus posted:

Haha Bullshit. It gave Howdy 2 spots in this championship, and one of them gets both Howdy's points.

CapnBry posted:

So this is how your Drivatar always leaps out of the woods into the street as I am trying to threat the needle between two other guys while doing 190 MPH, camouflage!

I love how once I got the Ferrari 166MM Barchetta, driving it between Byron and Surf City I passed like 18 of them on the road. Australia must have real bonzer number of barns, mate! I really enjoy this game and how it lets you sort of pick the class of car you want to play in, rather than forcing you through a progression from a 1960 Datsun to a rocket sled with blinkers. Maybe I will drive my 1974 Celica GT as a D class or maybe I will upgrade it to an A and run cirlces around 1990s BMWs, or maybe I want to race a Land Rover against a dune buggy, or maybe I just want to remember how lovely a 1980s Monte Carlo was stock.

There's no way to downgrade a car below its initial class is there?

Endbuster posted:

Howdy we need to co-op campaign sometime bro. I joined the crew.

GutBomb posted:

I'm inviting myself to this little shindig too. I miss you, man.

Atmus posted:

Haha Bullshit. It gave Howdy 2 spots in this championship, and one of them gets both Howdy's points.

CapnBry posted:

There's no way to downgrade a car below its initial class is there?

Sigourney Cheevos posted:

I'm not 100% on FH3, but on older Forza games if it was right on the edge, you can do some lovely upgrades like huge heavy wheels and slide in at the top of the previous class.

Thief posted:

Also this game is really fun under S class. I usually just take the stock engine and tune it rather than upgrade it beyond whatever it starts in because it makes races against he AI more fun. Once you start doing things like engine swaps and drivetrain conversions you'll generally blow everything away so long as you drive clean.

CapnBry posted:

Thanks, I see that I can drop this car from 803 to 802 by putting stupid heavy wheels on it. I guess that's the only detrimental mod, eh?

Sigourney Cheevos posted:

Anyone have problems joining online adventures? It comes up with "joining adventure" but never actually gets anywhere.

I AM THE TOILET posted:

Okay, I finally went through the grief of uploading my music to OneDrive and setting up a playlist through Groove so I could use my music in FH3, and I'm not loving impressed at all.

I noticed that playlists that I added through Groove's storefront - already loaded and titled and ready to go - had no problem loading in the game and was every bit as dynamic as the in-game radio stations, such as it echoing and becoming subdued as you pull into a festival. I never had any breaks or stutters while streaming from a Groove playlist.

But when I want to stream my music, it's a whole other thing. When I'm at in the festival menu checking out my cars and auctions, sometimes the music plays. Sometimes. And sometimes it has that cool echoing effect and sometimes it doesn't. That in itself is not a deal breaker.

But while driving around, my personal music will constantly jump back about five or eight seconds in the song. Enough to replay an entire chorus. And there's a sharp cut like a CD skipping (and yes wouldn't it be cool if the game were that authentic and true to real life). Sometimes when I tune back to the Groove station, I'll just get the loading icon, spinning indefinitely. When it starts a new track in the playlist, sometimes it'll start way into the song, like ten seconds. Sometimes, the songs end early, with no input from me!

This isn't great. I was initially impressed with how seamless Groove was, but when you inject your own content into it, it gets really pissy. Nevermind actually uploading my music and then generating the playlist in Groove was a pain in the rear end.

There are third party apps on the Bone that have no problem with my music. It's too bad that they use my content better than MS can. Simple Background Music Player handles all my music flawlessly. Maybe I've got some really hosed up, old, horribly encoded MP3s I'm working with here. Whatever. But I gave Groove a shot, and it doesn't play ball with my personal content.

CapnBry posted:

What sort of tunings do you do? I'll admit that most of the tabs are beyond my comprehension currently so mostly I adjust the gearing on all my cars to be more favorable to my driving.

Thief posted:

fwiw, most people i see at car meets irl generally just do a very simple setup:

1) install adjustable coilovers and lower it until you like how it looks
2) toe out the front wheels slightly
3) add negative cam to the wheels slightly (some people really go ridiculously overboard with this but )
4) use cheap tires

this is generally reflected in game well enough.

and that's about it with much of the focus being more on basic symmetry on the the left/right sides so that the car doesn't drive wonky. There are SO many mods people tend to be in the middle of doing before they actually have to do the kind of tuning you see in forza. A lot of these tabs are breaking it down to but a few degrees difference than stock setting - this level of tuning it for people that are preparing to go to an actual track or event and are really pushing their vehicle to the limit.

irl most grassroots drifting is just gonna be like a single turn or two and/or sliding around in a parking lot. You'll much sooner see someone just modifying the car to let the wheels turn as far as they can without falling off or adding a tall hydraulic handbrake before ever busting out a protractor to their alignment to make the wheels 1 degree different because the car didn't slide exactly how they wanted it. That energy is best reserved for changing tires and fixing poo poo that breaks because most drift cars are in a constant state of damage control from the abuse they take.

azflyboy posted:

I think something about the length of the Goliath race completely breaks the AI, since I always end up lapping AI cars by the second lap, but once I actually get close to them, they suddenly start driving a lot faster and are much harder to pass.

What I suspect happens is that FH3 only fully models AI drivers within a certain distance of the player (and starts using a much simpler AI model past that point), so the drivatars become "stupid" (and far slower) once you get too far ahead, only to magically get much smarter when you come back to lap them and close the distance.

Doorknob Slobber posted:

So once I'm in the car club how do I actually race with you guys? Is it somewhere in the social options?

Atmus posted:

Does no one really set up the Bucket List Blueprint things? I only received one so far.

Atmus posted:

Does no one really set up the Bucket List Blueprint things? I only received one so far.