"Forza Motorsport 3"

they were handing out cars (Zune HD being one) for doing pre-release official forum activity. Maybe its that?

It's just because I'm a VIP member - I should have checked the Forza forums

http://forums.forzamotorsport.net/forums/thread/3223033.a...

As an aside, I've been reading other threads on there... Lots of whiny people on those forums. Apparently cars are missing dashboards and IT MUST BE FIXED THIS IS DISGRACEFUL! RAAAAAR! Never noticed any missing dashboards in any of the cars I've driven...

Aye I got those cars as well. The R8 isn't as good as the one you get for hitting whichever driver level.

Yeah, VIP members get those special cars gifted every so often. You should also get the ODST and Crackdown 2 one.

There was also a Zune HD car for sending them your top 10 favourite driving songs and a custom R8 for proving you pre-ordered the game - which is actually a very cool design, much better than the electric one you got from pre-ordering normally.

Just stepped up from an A class car to my first R3 race, and wheelspun right off the track on the first corner. I miiiiight have to buy myself a wheel under the guise of improving my skills.

I'm developing an unhealthy addiction to the auction house :-(

I like playing chicken, bidding against people on stock cars to see how high they'll go...
An unmodified, unpainted Toyota '84 celica went for 54,000 last night XD

YoshiMcTaggis wrote:
Just stepped up from an A class car to my first R3 race, and wheelspun right off the track on the first corner. I miiiiight have to buy myself a wheel under the guise of improving my skills.

Just don't give it full power straight away :-)

I can't help it! If I don't use full power they all get away, if I do, I spin. There seems to be a real fine line on the R trigger between "no power" and "full power".

Off to try again now!

Good christ there's a lot of whining on the Forza forums.

Anybody else have problems with Multiplayer?

When i try to find a game, it just puts me in a lobby by myself :(

yoshMcTagis.
look under your profile and contoller and go to ADVANCED.there are dead zone sliders for all controlls , set the values throttle dead zone to zero and the throttle outer to maximum. do same for the brake . it should give you more feel to both controlls.
Get the wheel if u can afford the conkers as it makes it a different game.I hated it until I got the wheel ,and now I'm the fastest racing driver in the universe .( I made that bit up,I don't know why )

meggsy wrote:
I like playing chicken, bidding against people on stock cars to see how high they'll go...
An unmodified, unpainted Toyota '84 celica went for 54,000 last night XD

/o\

I got a nicely painted, modified Exige for about 15k :-)

sorry i posted this elsewhere but wondered if anyone new.....

Bah,

thought I'd fixed my problem by setting the xbox to 720p again. Sunset Peninsular specifically crashes my 360 on Forza. Instead of crashing on the first corner, I know can complete the race only for the machine to then crash when asked to "continue".

what are the chances of getting an exchange? I made the mistake of buying it from curry's... forza that is. I just want to swap it for MW2 now as forza is obviously pretty unstable judging by the forza net forums.

dirk_aircool wrote:
yoshMcTagis.
look under your profile and contoller and go to ADVANCED.there are dead zone sliders for all controlls , set the values throttle dead zone to zero and the throttle outer to maximum. do same for the brake . it should give you more feel to both controlls.
Get the wheel if u can afford the conkers as it makes it a different game.I hated it until I got the wheel ,and now I'm the fastest racing driver in the universe .( I made that bit up,I don't know why )

Cool, I'll give this a go. Although I changed cars from one of the racing spec things to a road car (Reventon) and it's much easier. I think trying out a mental RWD racing monster was a bit of a big step!

rich have you checked for scracthes or tried installing it to your hardrive

YoshiMcTaggis wrote:

dirk_aircool wrote:
yoshMcTagis.
look under your profile and contoller and go to ADVANCED.there are dead zone sliders for all controlls , set the values throttle dead zone to zero and the throttle outer to maximum. do same for the brake . it should give you more feel to both controlls.
Get the wheel if u can afford the conkers as it makes it a different game.I hated it until I got the wheel ,and now I'm the fastest racing driver in the universe .( I made that bit up,I don't know why )

Cool, I'll give this a go. Although I changed cars from one of the racing spec things to a road car (Reventon) and it's much easier. I think trying out a mental RWD racing monster was a bit of a big step!

The Reventon is AWD which is probably why you find it easy. I can throw that beast around corners without a care in the world. I need to raise the suspension though - I've bottomed out a few times now!

Yeah racing the Reventon round those twisty stages is quite a laugh, hearing it smack into the ground!

liamthemaster wrote:
rich have you checked for scracthes or tried installing it to your hardrive

disc is perfect and hardrive instal has the same issues. It may be an old machine but no other game does this.

I am just having a moan & rant. So I hope this is OK, not sure if it has already been discussed in this massive thread.
I thought Forza 2 was a great game and so user friendly. You could easily set up a race championship to use specific cars around a range of different tracks and have great fun with gamers after the same racing experience.
But imo Turn 10 have completely ruined Forza 3 multiplayer as you cannot put together a series race at all, just a single track can be used, how useless is that. You can't even see what track people are racing, the number of laps, the experience or the type of cars before you join a game. It is all just pot luck when you enter a lobby. Which means that gamers are forever quitting the lobby's and hardly anyone is playing in the numbers expected.
I am sad to say will be selling my copy soon if it is not fixed. Unless any one has any good solutions to this issue.
TOCA Race Driver on the old Xbox had the best multiplayer system ever, come on Turn 10/Microsoft and get it sorted or the franchise will die.

It's about a strealined interface, that improves the experience for the player. Probably

Edited by FooAtari at 12:45:35 09-11-2009

I prefer the multiplayer in this over the one in 2. Much easier to mess around in private matches.

I am sure it would not be hard for Turn 10 to update F3 so that you could say choose to host a game where you race just Audi S4's around 4 different tracks in one sesion. Is that not what racing is all about!

Not tried MP myself to be sure, but can't you do that in private matches?

Yep private matches are fine, you can configure until the cows come home, but the public lobbies are entirely pot luck. It's disappointing, it would be nice to have a bit of choice.

Psychotext wrote:

brokenkey wrote:
New Forza DLC from 17th November:

http://forzamotorsport.net/en-us/_templates/NewsDetail.as...

Missing the very important word there...

FREE

It's hardly proper DLC though is it. It entirely consists of modded versions of a car that already exists in the game, and on top on that likely using mods that you could add yourself right now.

It's hardly the GT-R, Megane RS, or Spa, the two cars and track which are conspicious by their absence (imo).

It's basically just a Hyundai advert, much like the Nissan DLC for FM2. I should bloody well expect it was free.

edit: Had to laugh at this though:

Developed by Turn 10 Studios, “Forza Motorsport 3” unites the racing game genre where players will live out their dreams behind the wheel of more than 400 of the most-beloved cars, including a roster of Hyundai favorites.

Um, the 2 of them there is. And one of those hasn't even been released in the real-world yet...

Edited by SomaticSense at 15:26:25 09-11-2009

and Hyundai... not exactly motors that get ya swooning.

I finally made a decent Subaru rally car at the weekend, it's simply ace. I was mucking around on the airfield with it and it handles pretty much like Ken Block's version of it judging by the videos I've seen. Just needs a livery now and it'll be complete :D

It also does most of Fujimi sideways, without ever feeling out of control, which is nice.

Has anyone managed to get the 100,000 drift lap cheevo yet?

Highest I can get (on Fujimi, which is the obvious choice really) is 81,000 with a B class Monaro. And that was pushing it.

Edited by SomaticSense at 15:39:04 09-11-2009

what track is the airfield on ?