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SPEEDCORE · Mar 16, 2012

4REphotographer said: ↑

I'm really looking forward to the Porsche pack, but I have one request. Can we PLEASE get a normal plain old Carrera? Is it too much to ask to get a new 911 without Turbo, GT2, GT3, RS etc etc etc attached?
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Yeah they like the special editions over regular editions :\

Also was gifted 2 cars from Turn 10 today. Another 69 Camaro with custom paint and the Audi Leman car.

TheDuke · Mar 16, 2012

SPEEDCORE said: ↑

I just did that 16.3 like 1min before you sent that friend request! I didn't save the setup and lost all my gear ratios I just followed the guide above Scott85 posted. Changed my front rims to stock and changed the 1st gear to 1.80~ and adjusted the other 2 gears. so I hit the line in 3rd gear
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Thats ok. I got a 16:4 so I'm content with that.

SPEEDCORE said: ↑

Yeah they like the special editions over regular editions :\
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I like the special editions too but I would also like a standard 911.

DiabloTerr · Mar 16, 2012

Can you send me a Club Invite? Mine is WedgedRope8.

SPEEDCORE · Mar 16, 2012

TheDuke said: ↑

Thats ok. I got a 16:4 so I'm content with that.

I like the special editions too but I would also like a standard 911.
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I doubled checked I only got a 16.4.

Yeah I do like the special editions too don't get me wrong. Zonda Cinque but like my RL car they have the special edition models but not the regular model that made the car popular

GrayTA · Mar 17, 2012

For those who dont know the FChat club is:

FerrariChat Racers

We are denoted by a [FCHT] as our club identifier. I welcome all invitations there.

I have added EVERY Ferrari in the game into the club shared garage and there are LOTS of other cars that people have added. You do NOT have to add anything and what you add does NOT have to a Ferrari or even Italian.

When I formed the club my intent was to provide a common garage among those of us who have a common interest in Ferraris through FerrariChat. If you want to have weekly or even monthly competitions that would be fine with me. I havent had a lot of time to devote to the club.

Anyone wanting to join can simply PM me to make sure I get the message and I will get back on and accept as quickly as I can.

I will go and look for WedgedRope8 now. Or you can add me in game - PDGray as well if I am not successful in finding you.

PDG

Scott85 · Mar 19, 2012

GrayTA said: ↑

For those who dont know the FChat club is:

FerrariChat Racers

We are denoted by a [FCHT] as our club identifier. I welcome all invitations there.

I have added EVERY Ferrari in the game into the club shared garage and there are LOTS of other cars that people have added. You do NOT have to add anything and what you add does NOT have to a Ferrari or even Italian.

When I formed the club my intent was to provide a common garage among those of us who have a common interest in Ferraris through FerrariChat. If you want to have weekly or even monthly competitions that would be fine with me. I havent had a lot of time to devote to the club.

Anyone wanting to join can simply PM me to make sure I get the message and I will get back on and accept as quickly as I can.

I will go and look for WedgedRope8 now. Or you can add me in game - PDGray as well if I am not successful in finding you.

PDG
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Thanks for the add, too bad my Xbox stopped reading discs and has to go in for service now, barely lasted past 6 months

SPEEDCORE · Mar 19, 2012

Scott85 said: ↑

Thanks for the add, too bad my Xbox stopped reading discs and has to go in for service now, barely lasted past 6 months
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Do you have the Xbox360 standing up on it's side? I heard that causes a lot of problems.

Scott85 · Mar 19, 2012

SPEEDCORE said: ↑

Do you have the Xbox360 standing up on it's side? I heard that causes a lot of problems.
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Nope, its been sitting flat. Theres nothing around it either, so it should've had enough airflow for the fan to keep it cool.

SPEEDCORE · Mar 19, 2012

Scott85 said: ↑

Nope, its been sitting flat. Theres nothing around it either, so it should've had enough airflow for the fan to keep it cool.
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Ohh

I'm on 3years this month no issues *touches wood, metal, diamonds, gold etc*

Scott85 · Mar 19, 2012

Lol .

I was a little hesitant on getting the Xbox, I've heard the stories and I'd say that 50% of the people I know that have had/has them, had some kind of issue (RROD, etc) . The games & online experience is just so much better then on the PS3 though (My first PS3 lasted 5 years and I just sold my 2nd one because I didn't play it anymore after getting the Xbox).

Scuderia_Ferrari · Mar 19, 2012

4REphotographer said: ↑

I'm really looking forward to the Porsche pack, but I have one request. Can we PLEASE get a normal plain old Carrera? Is it too much to ask to get a new 911 without Turbo, GT2, GT3, RS etc etc etc attached?
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I can almost gurentee there will be a 991 Carrera S in the Porsche pack.

DiabloTerr · Mar 20, 2012

GrayTA said: ↑

For those who dont know the FChat club is:

FerrariChat Racers

We are denoted by a [FCHT] as our club identifier. I welcome all invitations there.

I have added EVERY Ferrari in the game into the club shared garage and there are LOTS of other cars that people have added. You do NOT have to add anything and what you add does NOT have to a Ferrari or even Italian.

When I formed the club my intent was to provide a common garage among those of us who have a common interest in Ferraris through FerrariChat. If you want to have weekly or even monthly competitions that would be fine with me. I havent had a lot of time to devote to the club.

Anyone wanting to join can simply PM me to make sure I get the message and I will get back on and accept as quickly as I can.

I will go and look for WedgedRope8 now. Or you can add me in game - PDGray as well if I am not successful in finding you.

PDG
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Thanks for the invite, the club garage is insane! I threw my Black Stradale and a few others like the my Pagani Huayra in their aswell.

SPEEDCORE · Mar 21, 2012

My gift 599XX arrived
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ricksb · Mar 21, 2012

SPEEDCORE said: ↑

My gift 599XX arrived
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The car flies. I may even keep the livery...it's not too bad this time (like the Challenge Stradale's was)

GrayTA · Mar 22, 2012

Scott85 said: ↑

Thanks for the add, too bad my Xbox stopped reading discs and has to go in for service now, barely lasted past 6 months
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Glad to have you, now go to a friends house and take your Forza disks!!!

Seriously, I hope you get it working again and can enjoy all the cars.

PDG

GrayTA · Mar 22, 2012

DiabloTerr said: ↑

Thanks for the invite, the club garage is insane! I threw my Black Stradale and a few others like the my Pagani Huayra in their aswell.
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Excellent!! Glad to have you onboard!!

If I had more time I would love to organize our own weekly challenges for different things just for the fun of it. I just dont have much time to get on and play between work and a 16 month old son my time disappears quickly.

Anyone else need an invite?? If so, send me a PM or just ask. I am trying to get on Xbox at least once a week to check on things, but that doesnt always work.

PDG

SPEEDCORE · Mar 25, 2012

There was a patch released this week.

http://forzamotorsport.net/en-us/underthehood6/?fwlhd=1

Welcome to the latest installment of our series, Forza Motorsport 4: Under the Hood. In this edition, Forza 4 creative director Dan Greenawalt discusses the most recent title update for Forza 4, which went live today. This title update has been in the works for several months now, and includes a number of key improvements to the Forza Motorsport 4 experience. So, without further ado, let's dive in!

One of the foremost issues in the communitys minds of late has been the multiplayer lobby issues in Forza 4. What happened and how does the new title update improve the game?
With every title update weve released for Forza Motorsport 4, our goal has been the same: to create the best experience for the people who are playing the game. This can be anything from updates that add functionality to the game (such as raising the level cap in this title update more on that in a bit) to correcting post-release gameplay issues that crop up. In the case of multiplayer lobby crashing, the work in this title update to address the issue was the result of several months of painstaking research and investigation.

Essentially what was happening was a slow memory leak when using liveried cars and jumping between lobbies. The leak was only happening when players driving liveried cars would join or leave lobbies at precisely the right moment during the loading of a race (interestingly, this is called a "race condition" in software testing). The leak occurred on all boxes even if the player didnt have a custom livery, but it was exceedingly small. As the leak got worse over the course of a players session, it would cause the box to crash. This resulted in longer load times for everyone else in the lobby with that player as his crashed box timed-out. Unfortunately, the problem was made worse when players would go from one lobby to the next after becoming impatient with loading times, thus essentially "spreading" the memory leak from one lobby to the next.

Because of the extended steps needed to find a reliable reproduction of the problem in our testing lab, our development team put weeks of research and testing into this fix. The result was a problem that was more difficult to diagnose than it actually was to repair. In addition to all our developers hard work, I want to recognize and thank our dedicated community members who answered the call put out by our QA team on the FM.net forums, which provided valuable insight into this issue from the player perspective. The data we received was crucial in helping us completely isolate the problem and eventually engineer our solution.

As a result of all this work, we expect lobby crashes to dramatically reduce, resulting in the kind of online experience Forza Motorsport fans have come to expect from the game.

You mentioned a level cap increase. How will that work?
This is one of my favorite parts of this title update. In short, were bumping up the level cap in Forza Motorsport 4 from 150 to 999. Our level 150 cap was based on data we gathered from Forza Motorsport 3, and we believed it was high enough that our most hardcore players wouldnt hit it for nearly a year. As it turns out, our fans are playing a lot more Forza than they did in the past. Our most diligent players hit the 150 level cap in a quarter of the time we expected. Is this because of Rivals Mode, Public Lobbies, World Tour? We dont know. As a result, weve raised the cap significantly to give our most dedicated players something new and exciting to brag about on their player cards and within the Forza community.

In terms of numbers, level 150 in Forza Motorsport 4 represents 6.5 million experience points. By comparison, it will take you 875 million XP to reach level 999 (or roughly 134 times the amount of experience needed to hit the previous level cap). Once you pass the level 150 mark, leveling will progress at a relatively steady rate. Around level 400 or so, however, the XP needed to level will dramatically jump, which should provide a real test for our most loyal players.

Last time, we promised some Performance Index changes after banning a handful of so-called leaderboard cars. Can you explain the new changes and the reasoning behind them?
In our last title update, we temporarily removed the ability for eight cars to post leaderboard times, while the development team investigated some changes to our Performance Index system. In addition to the temporary removal of the cars, we performed a leaderboard wipe of all times posted by those cars.

For this title update, our goal was to have more competition at the top of the leaderboards among different cars. We took a look not just at the eight cars affected by the previous title update, but also any cars that we felt had exploitable PI values.

Our PI calculation attempts to quantify a cars performance by running each car on a simulated track, one that is designed to represent the "average" track in Forza Motorsport 4. Unfortunately, approximately 5 to 8 percent of the cars have powerful engines but produce exceedingly low top speeds due to stock gearing (or the stock gearing that comes as a result of a powertrain swap). As a result, these cars received an unnaturally low PI score, because they spent so much time around the simulated lap pegged at a gear-limited top speed. The fix in this title update catches any car that is gear-limited below this extremely low top speed and allows the cars PI to increase if its top speed was less aberrant.

For this title update, 38 cars have had their PI scores adjusted, including the aforementioned eight cars. The full list:

1980 Abarth 131 Abarth
1965 Alfa Romeo Giulia Sprint GTA Stradale
1971 AMC Javelin-AMX
1969 Chevrolet Camaro SS
1969 Chevrolet Camaro Z28
1970 Chevrolet Camaro Z28
1979 Chevrolet Camaro Z28
1970 Chevrolet Chevelle SS-454
1960 Chevrolet Corvette
1970 Chevrolet Corvette ZR-1
1966 Chevrolet Nova SS
1970 Dodge Challenger R/T
1969 Dodge Charger R/T
1967 Dodge Coronet W023
1968 Dodge Dart HEMI Super Stock
1970 Dodge Coronet Super Bee
1964 Ford Fairlane Thunderbolt
1970 Ford Mustang Boss 429
1978 Ford Mustang King Cobra
1971 Ford Mustang Mach 1
1973 Ford Pinto
1992 Lancia Delta Integrale EVO
1971 Lotus Elan Sprint
1999 Lotus 1999 Lotus Elise Sport
1990 Mercedes-Benz 190E 2.5-16 Evolution II
1954 Mercedes-Benz 300SL Gullwing Coupe
1970 Mercury Cougar Eliminator
1970 Nissan Datsun 510
1968 Pontiac Firebird
1969 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am
1977 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am
1965 Pontiac GTO
1969 Pontiac GTO Judge
1980 Renault 5 Turbo
2009 Renault Twingo Renault Sport Cup
1968 Shelby GT-500KR
1985 Toyota Sprinter Trueno GT Apex
1984 Volkswagen Rabbit GTI

This PI fix will affect any and all of the above cars in your personal Forza 4 garage. In addition, any affected cars that are currently shared in your Car Club Garage will be automatically unshared and will need to be re-uploaded. Affected cars in the Auction House will not be cleared and, while PI may be temporarily incorrect when you bring an affected car into your garage (or cancel an auction), the PI will eventually be updated.

In addition, tuning setup classes will be invalidated from the storefront. If you have posted a tuning setup, it will still be on the Storefront, but any claim in the description or name regarding car class may be invalid depending on the car and its adjusted PI. We suggest you re-upload your tunes with correct class descriptions.

Finally, while all cars will be able to post to the leaderboard, we will be performing a leaderboard wipe in the coming days for all 38 of the above cars. This will allow the leaderboards to accurately reflect the post-title update PI changes.

What other improvements does this title update include?
This title update fixes an interaction between our save game volume and the Xbox file system which was causing slow navigation problems when navigating car menus in Forza 4. As a result, players will see noticeably quicker UI navigation when in their Forza Motorsport 4 garages or in other car select menus. While this fix will not shrink your save game size, it will slow or halt the growth of your save game.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Because we are doing some behind-the-scenes work on your online profile (including PI re-assignment and removing orphaned thumbnails for car select menu navigation), your initial sign-in for Forza 4 upon the application of our latest title update might take longer than usual, upwards of a full minute if your Forza 4 garage is full of cars affected by the PI changes. This should only happen the one time.
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Stefan_009 · Mar 27, 2012

New AlpineStars DLC for next month -

2011 Mercedes-Benz #35 Black Falcon SLS AMG GT3
2011 Aston Martin #009 Aston Martin Racing AMR One
2012 Jaguar XKR-S
1995 BMW M5
2011 Maserati Quattroporte Sport GT S
1985 Mazda RX-7 GSL-SE
1972 Mercedes-Benz 300 SEL 6.3
1959 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz Convertible
1997 Volvo 850 R
2012 Scion tC

Don't care for the bottom 5 cars but very happy to see QP finally added to the game.

SPEEDCORE · Mar 28, 2012

I been hearing this is mostly likely the last DLC for the season pass then it's the Porsche DLC release in May and that's it for no4.

Was really hoping they would push out a track pack

TheDuke · Mar 29, 2012

SPEEDCORE said: ↑

I been hearing this is mostly likely the last DLC for the season pass then it's the Porsche DLC release in May and that's it for no4.

Was really hoping they would push out a track pack
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I was hoping for more Ferraris. 328, 308, 348, 430C, 360C, more 60s race cars or road cars (206sp, 275GTB etc) and hopefully one day Mr. Glickenhaus will let forza feature P4/5 and P4/5c.

SPEEDCORE · Mar 29, 2012

TheDuke said: ↑

I was hoping for more Ferraris. 328, 308, 348, 430C, 360C, more 60s race cars or road cars (206sp, 275GTB etc) and hopefully one day Mr. Glickenhaus will let forza feature P4/5 and P4/5c.
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Ohh that's in FM5

TheDuke · Mar 29, 2012

SPEEDCORE said: ↑

Ohh that's in FM5
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I hope so. Although A couple of those aren't fast, they'd still be fun.

4re Nut · Mar 29, 2012

4REphotographer said: ↑

787B makes the whole thing worth whatever the cost is.
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[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXNtTvM-_lE[/ame]

Last month, we were honored to have our legendary #55 Mazda 787B (the 1991 24 Hours of Le Mans winner) immortalized into Forza Motorsport 4's downloadable "February ALMS" DLC Pack.
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My apologies if a repost.

4REphotographer · Mar 30, 2012

4re Nut said: ↑

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXNtTvM-_lE

My apologies if a repost.
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I just saw that this morning, awesome stuff. You have to love a car that overpowers expensive microphones with engine noise.

Stefan_009 · Mar 30, 2012

New pack is pretty good
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