Forza Motorsport: Release Date & Steam Version Announced


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Speculation has surrounded the release date of the eighth instalment of Forza Motorsport: After having initially been announced to launch in spring 2023, the release of the title has been pushed back indefinitely - until now: At the Xbox Games Showcase, October 10th has been announced for Forza Motorsport's launch, which features a first for the series.

Microsoft's answer to the Gran Turismo franchise used to be an Xbox exclusive until the release of Forza Horizon 3. The Motorsport part of the series has been available on PC since Forza Motorsport 7, but only via the Xbox store. A Steam version was never available - the upcoming game is going to change this by following in the footsteps of Forza Horizon 4 and 5, which have been among the most played games on Steam in April and May 2023, by being available in the Steam Store as well in addition to the Xbox Series X|S version.

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New Career Mode & Multiplayer Elements​

Also shared was a first look at some of the game's features and content. Forza Motorsport will introduce a new career mode called "Builders Cup", which focuses on the idea of building and upgrading cars to gain an advantage over the competition. A deep dive including gameplay and full walkthrough of the mode will be showcased on June 13th, 6pm UTC - keep an eye on Twitch, YouTube and Steam for this.

Meanwhile, multiplayer events are set to see a change in structure. Featured Multiplayer events takes inspiration from race weekends while also allowing custom-built event structures. To try and create a more competitive and clean online environment, driver and safety ratings are introduced as well.

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And once again from the gameplay snippets we saw in the trailer i really think it just looks...not good. The cars in the replays look floaty and stiff, its honestly 1:1 exactly how they behave in FM7, 6, 5...
The Corvette model in that showroom looked also underwhelming, something with the lighting or shaders was off or something and that starting scene from the cockpit view, the cars looked overly bright and in general the lighting just looks off from what i see :(
I can't say that i see anything in what they've shown so far that justifies an almost 6 years break for the series.
My last hope is that deep dive tomorrow in the Forza Direct because honestly for now i think this is just a FM 7.5 - heck i even stopped the 4k footage they provided and checked out textures on cars and track, its really underwhelming.
 
tacticalgrace_
F2020 said:
haha and there we have it.
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How is anyone seriously talking about how this as yet unreleased, untested game, actually runs? Or stating that it is just FM7 but shinier? Utterly ridiculous nonsense. Just wait for it to come out, and THEN we can see what we've got. Declaring it a lost cause based on a trailer is just childish.
 
F2020
tacticalgrace_ said:
How is anyone seriously talking about how this as yet unreleased, untested game, actually runs? Or stating that it is just FM7 but shinier? Utterly ridiculous nonsense. Just wait for it to come out, and THEN we can see what we've got. Declaring it a lost cause based on a trailer is just childish.
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I stand to be happily proven wrong.
 
RayTruant
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Same old same old. Nice graphics, great car models, but still mixed racing that makes no sense.
Still likely an arcade game.
 
Catiorro F1
TeddyBearx said:
it's your opinion, it drivers far better than AMS2, logic it's a success.
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The game ain't out yet but its worth mentioning that FM7 have some of the worst driving feel in any game I ever tried with a wheel, truly awful ffb and considering this very likely will still a simcade it's extremly unlikely it will even remotely feel as good as AMS 2 or rF2, AC, ACC, etc
 
Shannon Flynn
I'm on a major budget these days so this'll probably be the only game I pick up for the rest of the year.
I picked up FM7 last winter. I got everything dialed in and it handles great and the FFB is actually much better than a few of the current hardcore sims on the market. IMO.
I honestly didn't expect that. I just bought it because my IRL car is in the game :p
 
James Cook
RayTruant said:
Same old same old. Nice graphics, great car models, but still mixed racing that makes no sense.
Still likely an arcade game.
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I mean, yeah, it's not a deadly serious simulator. Forza never has been and likely never will be. That's why the series has sold millions of copies while our favourite PC sims struggle for player numbers.

I'm looking forward to it. A nice, light-hearted alternative to the dry world of PC racing simulators.
 
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I thought they were "rebooting" the series (taking the number out the name, to "restart") because they were going to ditch the simcade and go full sim. Microsoft has the resources to make a better sim than anything we have now, if they wanted to. But sadly after seeing that trailer, I doubt it'll be anywhere near a sim. And even if they do make it a sim, it's absolutely cheesy having a woman telling me what to do/giving me status updates while sounding like she's trying to seduce my driver. Why do they always add this cheesy crap? The LAST type of game where people are asking for these strange additions that reek of a company trying to be "hip" is racing games, from sim to simcade. A game like Horizon is different, don't bring that stuff into a game that's literally called "Motorsport" and is intended to be the more "serious" entry. Even if it's still simcade at best, which we don't know yet. I am hoping they go in a more sim direction. Yes, we are severely lacking arcade racing games now, but we are also severely lacking simulators that aren't janky and/or prohibitively expensive.

Graphically, it seriously only looks marginally better than Forza 7, I don't care for graphics much but this seems to be one of those "what was all that time used for" types of games. The upgrade system appears to be the exact same lego block parts system that we've had forever now.
 
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th3orist said:
And once again from the gameplay snippets we saw in the trailer i really think it just looks...not good. The cars in the replays look floaty and stiff, its honestly 1:1 exactly how they behave in FM7, 6, 5...
The Corvette model in that showroom looked also underwhelming, something with the lighting or shaders was off or something and that starting scene from the cockpit view, the cars looked overly bright and in general the lighting just looks off from what i see :(
I can't say that i see anything in what they've shown so far that justifies an almost 6 years break for the series.
My last hope is that deep dive tomorrow in the Forza Direct because honestly for now i think this is just a FM 7.5 - heck i even stopped the 4k footage they provided and checked out textures on cars and track, its really underwhelming.
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How to be disappointed with a car game whose graphics are not ugly, should not exaggerate! Because as long as we haven't tried it, we absolutely don't know how to criticize what is by far the most important, the pleasure we can have from it! For true car simulation enthusiasts, what matters most is that the driving is realistic! Realistic! And that this realistic physics is accompanied by a driving pleasure that gives the impression of driving like the real thing.
Graphics are important, but I prefer Assetto Corsa released in 2014 than Grand Turismo 2022.
For Forza we can fear that it will be as usual, but we don't know, we will see and test.
 
Sonic6L
Cameron213 said:
I thought they were "rebooting" the series (taking the number out the name, to "restart") because they were going to ditch the simcade and go full sim. Microsoft has the resources to make a better sim than anything we have now, if they wanted to. But sadly after seeing that trailer, I doubt it'll be anywhere near a sim. And even if they do make it a sim, it's absolutely cheesy having a woman telling me what to do/giving me status updates while sounding like she's trying to seduce my driver. Why do they always add this cheesy crap? The LAST type of game where people are asking for these strange additions that reek of a company trying to be "hip" is racing games, from sim to simcade. A game like Horizon is different, don't bring that stuff into a game that's literally called "Motorsport" and is intended to be the more "serious" entry. Even if it's still simcade at best, which we don't know yet. I am hoping they go in a more sim direction. Yes, we are severely lacking arcade racing games now, but we are also severely lacking simulators that aren't janky and/or prohibitively expensive.

Graphically, it seriously only looks marginally better than Forza 7, I don't care for graphics much but this seems to be one of those "what was all that time used for" types of games. The upgrade system appears to be the exact same lego block parts system that we've had forever now.
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Let's be honest here buddy, It was never going to be a full on sim akin to AC/ACC/iRacing/RF2, etc.

It never has and never will be.
 
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We have to wait for some gameplay footage before we judge the sim/simcade/arcade scale.

My bet would be on a good simcade, better then gran turismo/f1 games but worse then the full sims. I could be very wrong.
 

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