Forza Motorsport is a love letter to the sim racer

Update 1.0 for Turn 10 Studios’ Forza Motorsport is now live on Xbox Series X/S and PC. It fixes several issues, including crashes and improves stability. If you’ve faced the former in Builders Cup after upgrading your car and entering Open Practice during the Fox Body Challenge on Watkins Clen, this should address that.

A few hours ago, Forza Motorsport developer Turn 10 released Update 1.0, which focuses on fixing various crash instances.

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Turn 10 Studios did something different with by making you level up your cars. In prior games, you could just spend credits to upgrade cars, which was a straightforward and meaningless method for growing your garage. However, you have to level your car by using it to unlock upgrades. Furthermore, upgrades have their own currency, separate from the credits you use to purchase new vehicles.

The new game brings the long-running sim racing franchise to the Xbox Series X/S for the first time, but a lack of split-screen multiplayer support marks a break with series tradition. Although the companion series has never featured split-screen renditions of its open-world environments, consoles have always been able to handle local multiplayer in 's more focused racetracks. The technological leap with the Xbox Series X/S might seem even more capable of taking on such a challenge, making the lack of the staple feature more surprising and disappointing.

The faster you earn money in , the sooner you'll be able to dominate the competition in your dream car. However, with cars ranging from 50,000 to 450,000 credits, getting your hands on «the one» may take longer than you think. Unless, of course, you take advantage of the fastest ways to earn money in Forza Motorsport. In that case, acquiring the car of your dreams, or anyone of the game's 500-plus cars, will be a streamlined process.

starts by letting players choose from one of three free starting cars. The options are a 2018 Ford Mustang GT, a 2019 Honda Civic Type R, and a 2019 Subaru STI S209. Theimmersive gameplay of the series has always been about collecting vehicles, assembling a diverse garage of dream cars, tuning them up, and testing them out on the track. Of course, is no exception, so players shouldn't expect to be stuck with their starter cars for long. Still, everyone has to start somewhere, and the first car they choose can affect their performance in early races.

Car Points (CP) are used to purchase upgrades for your car in . Whether you're buying new parts for style or performance, CP allows you to make your favorite car that much better, so players are bent on making as much CP as possible in the shortest time. It's the tried-and-true get-rich-quick scheme in gaming everyone always looks to exploit. And ironically enough, there is a broken method for farming CP in .

As one of the more hotly anticipated games of 2023, a lot has been riding on the new Forza Motorsport. A soft reboot for the long-lasting franchise, it has taken a whopping six years for the developer Turn 10 to push out a new entry. While this would usually be cause for celebration, things aren’t looking great as it currently stands, with an impressive list of known issues in Forza Motorsport for Turn 10 to acknowledge and resolve.

Though Forza Motorsport’s global launch is still about a day away, the racing sim title has been available in early access for a few days now, and as you’d expect from any game (especially this early in its life), in spite of being a technically impressive product, it’s not totally devoid of glitches.

Another somewhat worryingly warm week is coming to a close, so it’s time to check in on the video games that we’ve been playing. First and foremost in my own gaming time has been Forza Motorsport, which toes the line between reinvention and continuation for Turn 10’s Xbox counterpart to Gran Turismo. It’s a game that I’m looking forward to seeing grow over time, that’s for sure.

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