Forza Motorsport pledges AI, progression, and race regulation improvements in "coming months"
eurogamer.netWith the launch of last year's Forza Motorsport — and an initial flurry of patches and fixes — behind it, developer Turn 10 Studios has confirmed its next steps for the racer will be to address three key community concerns over the «coming months».
«While we have been heads down adding cars, tracks, patches, and other improvements,» the studio wrote in the first of a series of planned quarterly development updates on its website, «we want to acknowledge the top three areas of feedback we haven't addressed directly».
Those areas, specifically, are driver AI, car progression, and race regulations, and it sounds like fixing AI issues — which, as per Turn 10's update, include «abruptly braking and slowing down; not accelerating out of exits, braking too hard on mild corners, and following racing lines too strictly» — is first on its to-do list.
«We understand how important it is to have fair and competitive AI in Motorsport and are our top priorities in early 2024 are addressing overly aggressive AI,» it explains, «while also getting a cleaner race start into turn 1 where many of the issues above most severely manifest and impact players.»
As for car progression changes, these are described as another «top priority for the team going into 2024». While Turn 10 insists it's «clear from looking at feedback that… many of our players are enjoying the system as is», it acknowledges, «for many others it isn't delivering the upgrade experience that they expect from Forza Motorsport. To address this, we are exploring changes to the system.»
While the studio offers no examples of the kind of things it might be looking to address, it says its «goal with these changes is to retain what is working for those that enjoy it, while
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