Xbox racing followers had been left questioning myriad components of Forza Motorsport upon its launch in 2023 and, following a weblog publish from developer Flip 10 Studios designed to handle these complaints, have solely grown extra pissed off.
A “message to the Motorsport group” was posted on Forza’s website by recreation director Andy Beaudoin, inventive director Chris Esaki, and govt producer Trevor Laupmanis to “thanks in your help and suggestions since launch, mirror on a few of the issues now we have discovered, and share what you may count on from us in the coming months.”
In what it mentioned could be the first of quarterly updates on sizzling matters inside the group (to go alongside numerous different types of communication), the Forza group addressed the automobile development system, race rules, and AI racers.
Frustration comes at the lack of definitive statements, nevertheless. In addressing the automobile development system, for instance, Flip 10 mentioned it is “exploring modifications to the system” however it would “take a while to correctly consider choices, make the vital code modifications, and completely take a look at these code modifications.”
Related sentiments got here for the different two matters. “It’s essential that we seize all the knowledge that we are able to a few race when [race] rulings occur in error, so over the subsequent few months, we shall be working with some long-time aggressive Motorsport gamers to collect direct telemetry from them whereas they’re enjoying,” Flip 10 mentioned concerning race rules.
“We perceive how essential it’s to have honest and aggressive AI in Motorsport and our prime priorities in early 2024 are addressing overly aggressive AI, whereas additionally getting a cleaner race begin into flip one the place a lot of the points above most severely manifest and impression gamers,” it mentioned about AI drivers, which means Flip 10 did not have any precise options for gamers presently regardless of Forza Motorsport launching greater than three months prior in October 2023.
Players due to this fact took to the web to specific their frustration, saying Flip 10 primarily mentioned nothing about these points in the publish and complaining about different issues not talked about in any respect.
“No name to motion, no roadmap, no progress replace. It is a yap session,” mentioned crasy8s on Reddit. “AI fixes might are available in a month or in December however they’re dreaming in the event that they suppose gamers are gonna sit idly by ready for drip feed content material.”
“Three recreation administrators and principally nothing has been mentioned,” added Cantewakinyan. “Wonderful. Don’t reward them for this.” Bodily-Result7378 chimed in too: “All they are saying is, ‘We launched an untested, unfinished, and unpolished recreation a yr too early. Thanks in your cash. We are going to speak to some streamers in the event that they suppose we must always repair one thing’.”
An identical remark got here from cooReey: “This type of assertion could be okay if it got here a month after the launch, not in freaking January. That is only a PR transfer to purchase your self extra time.”
One other frequent sentiment got here concerning the lack of feedback on the single-player mode. “My largest drawback remains to be the terrible profession mode and there is not any point out of it,” mentioned Zafir on ResetEra. “The lackluster profession mode killed this recreation for me greater than another difficulty and this does not point out it in any respect,” Cheesetriangles added. “I’ve no real interest in racing on-line.”
Forza Motorsport arrived as a reboot of the long-running racing simulator franchise, primarily being Forza Motorsport 8 however dropping the numbered branding. Spin-off franchise Forza Horizon, which options arcade-style gameplay in an open world, has maybe overtaken Motorsport when it comes to vital reception, with IGN giving the newest a ten/10 in our evaluate.
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll speak about The Witcher all day.