Tried all "online" modes and they all suck

[Wybrem]

Eliminator, how original, pure and utter trash.
Fast Seven or whatever it is called. BORING.
Weekly chores; EXTREMELY boring.
Normal pvp, boring, broken, laggy mess.

Why waste development on this pure and utter trash good god. FH5 gets delayed for this, good god.

[TheHuskyGT]

The Weekly events can sometimes be interesting enough, plus they give you a goal to reach. Oh, and online is good to avoid those annoying driveatars.

Other than that, the rest is pointless trash, I agree.

[Wybrem]

I think it's all trash, wasted developer time on FH5. The battle royale takes the crown, so unoriginal and just as bad as regular BR games. Full of toxic kids as well. I'ma give up on getting all achievements, i can't force myself through this, I will go mental. The base game and expansions are so good, and then there is the live service trash, all utter trash.

[n3mes1s]

You dont like them? welcome to the majority of the population of Forza Horizon 4.

[BCFreeman]

Try the Online Adventure mode.

[Bongwater]

I agree that online with random people gets stale rather quickly. But that's true for every racing game I've ever played. These types of games work best when you have groups of people to play with at your level.

As for live service trash, are you talking about the free cars they've been adding every month since launch?

[Wybrem]

Originally posted by Bongwater:

I agree that online with random people gets stale rather quickly. But that's true for every racing game I've ever played. These types of games work best when you have groups of people to play with at your level.

As for live service trash, are you talking about the free cars they've been adding every month since launch?

Free cars is nice but id rather have them work on a dlc or fh5

[Aaron]

As most game studios do - I'm sure they have minimal staff still working on FH4 while the rest of the crew works on FH5.

Either way The Eliminator was/is a waste of time. I don't know who thought a BR styled mode was a good idea in a racing game but they were wrong.
I don't have anything against the Super 7 stuff. It's fun to take time to make tracks and challenges with some obscure vehicles.

The weekly races I'm appreciative of because it does keep things kind of fresh with new cars or cars I didn't get from previous seasons. Honestly though. Sometimes the restrictions just suck. And I realllllllly dislike the forced integration of playground games.

Originally posted by Bongwater:

These types of games work best when you have groups of people to play with at your level.

This is also a key part. There's only so much you can explore the world or do races over and over without becoming incredibly stale. Just messing around or even competing with friends dramatically extends the games lifeline.

[Wybrem]

Honestly if they would remove the achievements and exclusive cars, i might've enjoyed it more.

[Wybrem]

Just trying normal pvp makes me cry, it is so bad. I was top 1% in The Crew and here it's so badly designed,. you can chose like 2 cars and need to remember not to overtune them, so lame, just let me chose whatever car i want. Also seems to be a meta for 1 or 2 cars, can;t believe the crew 2's pvp is better lol.

And so much LAG. I SEE myself finish 5th easily, then i'm 7th... Forza is a great racing game but a really really poor online racing game. Who comes up with these bad rules. Why can you even tune beyond A700, why a799, just makes it more tedious for new players. A700 = a700 not a799.

[Mno]

It's not just Forza, if you compare Minecraft Bedrock with the Java edition it's massively dumbed down as well. Microsoft is pushing for more child and disabled friendly games, which to them apparently means bad writing and zero difficulty.

[Wybrem]

I can't even chose what type of race I want, I don't give a damn about offroad or that green type racing. I want hypercar on road, NEVER, always ♥♥♥♥ tier cars and ♥♥♥♥ tier tracks, no way to vote whatsoever. I never tried pvp in this game and it's really sad that my fav racing game has worse pvp then The Crew.

[Wybrem]

Also is there a way to disable the mics, who comes up with these terrible menu's. Can't find it and no I don't wanna hear kids breathe.

[Wybrem]

ye i'm done, just gonna afk in the races to get achievs, so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ awful i can't be bothered.

[1000 Newton Spinning Toilet]

KEKW

[Bongwater]

Originally posted by Wybrem:

Originally posted by Bongwater:

I agree that online with random people gets stale rather quickly. But that's true for every racing game I've ever played. These types of games work best when you have groups of people to play with at your level.

As for live service trash, are you talking about the free cars they've been adding every month since launch?

Free cars is nice but id rather have them work on a dlc or fh5

Well consider that you're rather late to the game. It's about 2.5 years old, and there have been 2 large map DLCs. The only two which were promised by the developer, and the only ones which you pay for. Free content added top the game during that same time includes over 100 cars, ranked online racing, multiple physics adjustments and penalty systems based on community feedback, Super 7, Backstage Passes, The Eliminator, new Horizon Stories, and plenty of other things that I'm not remembering off the top of my head.

The game has no shortage of flaws, and I respect that many parts of it are not everyone's cup of tea. Hell, I've been playing since launch and avoid Playground stuff and Drag Racing like the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ plague. If you're expecting competitiveness the likes of iRacing, then a game which lets you drop 1600hp to the pizza cutter back wheels of a Japanese sports car isn't that. At least not without friends. But to claim that the developer hasn't shown an exceptional level of dedication towards trying to please its fanbase and earn the price of admission is flat out disingenuous.

As for FH5, development has been underway. However, it's not gonna show up for at least another 2 years. Complaints about the game's sequels being too similar has resulted in a change in the development cycle between Horizon and Motorsports games. Primarily that there would now be at least 2 years between them. Motorsport 8 might drop this year, so expect FH5 around 2023-2024. Adding the skeleton crew that makes a couple car models (which will be ported to the new game regardless), isn't gonna make it come any sooner. However, using the necessary resources to make proper, full-scale DLCs certainly would take some meaningful labor away from the Horizon 5 team.