the eliminator game mode is garbage

[Plutoski]

horrible balance & very unfair. i don't wanna call it a "game of luck", a proper name to it is hot garbage & here's why.

if we think about a shooter battle royale games like fortnite for example, what matters is skill. you can give a noob a legendary rifle, give an experienced player a common SMG with horrible stats, the experinced player wins, theres no surprise here, latter has skill & didn't miss shots while the new player barely got any hits.

In this game however, it's not about skill. less than 15 seconds into the game mode you'll see players grabbing level 7, 8, 9 & of course level 10 LEGENDARY cars with the best acceleration & top speed stats. at this point "game balance" no longer exists, it's a jungle. An Instant power trip, instant privilege to BULLY everyone who has still driving the beetle. what makes this worse is that the car drop locations are static. everyone spawns near the highway intersection, or stadium. what's the point of doing head to head races & upgrading your car step by step, whats the point of driving around & hiding from everyone trying to find that car that is just 1 level above yours but you fail because the drops suck. there's always gonna be those few players who just were "lucky" enough & got a car that ♥♥♥♥♥ on everyone else. im saying all of this because it takes no skill to face the finish line & accelerate. higher tier cars guarantee that a player will win. the only risk factor is hitting trees or buildings. No matter how good of a driver you are, you're ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ doomed in the beetle when someone got a level 4 or above car racing you.

the game mode is extremely unbalanced & i can't blame the "lucky players" but rather the design of this. car drops are ♥♥♥♥ 99% of the time, doing head to head races / eliminating players is a waste of time, upgrading cars via elimination wins gotta be the stupidest thing one can do. that process is pain once you realize someone had started the game & instantly found a level 10 car drop.

Most unfair game mode i've played in any online game, & definitely the worst implementation of a battle royale.

[TyresTyco]

You are pretty much spot on. Easy fix would be to just delete higher lvl car drops at the beginning but the design philosophy behind the current way is aimed at children.

PGG wants everyone to win at some point. Thats an easy and lazy way to do it. Even the worst driver in the world could win a match if they get one of the better lvl10 cars and knowing how to perfect start the last race.

We all know why that game mode is in forza horizon and why it is how it is.. certainly not because of artistic vision of the dev. It's just to shoehorn in and bait the fortnite crowd. Thats pretty much the theme of the horizon series nowadays.

Funny thing is that they even failed at that, creating FOMO mechanics, dances, skins, battle royal, seasonal garbage etc. This series died because the devs focused on the fortnite crowd instead of making a great horizon game.

[TheSmilingDoom]

Totally agree with both of you.

[ph!l]

yup

[Swarmfly]

I cheese that game mode so hard by just avoiding other players until the final race is triggered. In short, I win, or at least get close to winning by refusing to play the game until it actually matters that I do.

That being said, I wish the car drops would be removed almost entirely to encourage players to actually take the massive risks they should in order to increase their chances of winning.

[TyresTyco]

Originally posted by Dexaldem:

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Mate, it's impossible to disagree with any point you made. Was a very good read.

It's just so sad what happenend to one of my favourite franchises. We can only hope that the next FM will be good since it's all on turn10.

Hopefully we get solar crown as a good horizon replacement once it finally releases.

[UMM1]

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