- The Honda Odyssey: added as DLC on April 19, banned on April 26.

Banned Cars In Forza 7: Reasons For It & Problems With It

My first post to Drive Tribe. Still not sure how this site works, and my writing probably sucks, but hear me out.

3y ago
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Recently Turn 10 made the decision to ban a host of cars from Forza Motorsport 7 public multiplayer sessions. This won't have come as much of a surprise to most people who played Forza 6 and saw the same thing happen, but it highlights some glaring issues with the game and creates more problems.

The first question we need to answer is why this was done in the first place. Turn 10 has noticed that multiplayer sessions are more a demolition derby than a place for quality racing and as such, they took action to ban almost all of the cars that rammers salivate over. Good news, right? Wrong.

Not only have they banned these cars, but they have banned almost all open wheel RACE cars too. From a game with "Motorsport" in the title. I know, its mystifying to me too. Let's ignore the cars that have been banned for a second, and look at this from a logical point of view: rammers don't ram because of the cars, they ram because the game allows it. They will simply change their weapons of choice and continue. Banning cars doesn't change the mindset of these people.

This brings me handily onto my next point: this only serves to show that Turn 10 has made zero effort over the years to prevent ramming happening. Yes, we have the Race Marshal program, which I am grateful for, and happy to be a part of, but its a reactive system, its not preventative. Where almost every other track based racing game has some form of penalty system, or licensing system, Forza has none. To be completely honest with you, I wouldn't hold my breath for a company that, after 3 years has still not managed to properly define track limits, to properly implement as functioning penalty system. Especially when these systems are not perfect in more serious sim racing games.

So what can Turn 10 do? I believe that the plague of rammers can be dealt with by a simple ghosting system. Is a car a lap down in a 3-5 lap race? Ghost it, because no one is that bad at Forza, they're ramming. Is the closing difference between 2 cars far too high to be considered a racing scenario? Ghost the car behind, they're ramming. Again, I don't see much hope of this actually happening, not because its too difficult, but because simply ghosting lapped cars has not happened despite years of it being called for.

Finally, I want to talk about the DLC that was banned. The car pass included 6 car packs, and 7 cars per pack. Of those 42 cars, 15 are now unusable in public multiplayer. That's nearly 36% of cars YOU paid for now unavailable to you. Turn 10's insistence of adding 1 or more SUVs to every car pack has now become even more apparent than it already was to a seriously irritated community.

So, Turn 10, in the off chance you see this, or watch the video I made on the issue, you have to start doing something more than putting a band aid on an arterial wound. You have to start adding real measures into the game, and start listening to the faithful race fans who have been here since the Xbox 360 or even earlier. We remember a series that was constantly improving, not a mess that has become a laughing stock. Its time to stop focusing on graphics and car count, and focus on racing.

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Comments (13)

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      3 years ago
  • Great post, keep it up!

      3 years ago
  • I've been playing online since Forza 2. The main issue is we have all the young morons from NFS, Horizen, and other Arcade Racers. They brought their feckless driving skills with them. So of course they'll ram. Granted the only reason they cam over to Forza was because those of us in the Forza community told them "ehhh I'd beat you in Forza / GT".....

    All in all unless Forza adopts systems like in iracing and or Assetto Corsa then online racing in Forza will continue to be pointless.

      3 years ago
  • Been playing Forza since Forza 4. This is just part of the game. You either get hit and quite, or you have the pride to just keep chugging along.

    I hate the banning of cars all together. Just make it the wild wild west. We have a ban function for a reason.

      3 years ago
    • No this is not the case. I've been playing since Forza 2. It was a little problem in 4. However with the release of the Horizen series all the NFS, and super Arcade morons moved over and brought their shitty antics with them.

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        3 years ago
  • Rammers are on all videogames, even gran turismo 6,i had so many 10 year olds ramming me in their MR supercars from behind and beeping me to get out of the way while i was bothering to make a good racing line and corner entry in order to assure a fast corner exit,but do you know why i prefer raming to ocur? it is satisfying when they slow down in their 1000hp supercars and then you slightly bump them from behind in your 550hp 4wd impreza and they rage at how they easily spun out,generally the Forza series has been totally unrealistic on the aspect of ramming,cornering...even a 4wd in forza easily spins out as a Rwd car would do if bumped from behind, or the annoying aspect of lighter cars being able to push heavier cars out of the way,

    but they got at least one thing right about a car`s dinamics as the drifting mechanics unlike Gran turismo.

    the problem with this? the players need to know how to counter Rammers,either by ghosting hitting the pause menu or dodging on the last second and make them ragequit the race...other way to counter them is to let the whole group get in front of you and let the multiple Shingo-fest happen and all you have to do is to calmly pass without worrying about getting plowed out of the way ,for me it was more easy than just raging about them,hoewer if you still want to make turn 10 to implement changes you got to choke their funding and force them to listen to the players.

      3 years ago
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