Though it’s still not nearly perfect, Turn 10’s Forza Motorsport has slowly but certainly shaped up into a genuinely compelling simcade racing game over the past year-or-so, as promised. The game is now getting its Update 11, featuring the legendary Road Atlanta track and a host of other goodies.
Forza Motorsport‘s eleventh major content update is titled: “Road to Race,” due to it featuring paired-up racing duos of road vehicles squaring up with their more competitive counterparts. It’s about as interesting of a seasonal theme as it gets, to be honest, and though it’s still FOMO at its worst, at least Turn 10 is trying to keep things spicy. The crux of Update 11’s seasonal theme will be applied on Road Atlanta, the new featured track, and I’m happy to report we’re getting a bevy of solid fixes and improvements, to boot.
Update 11’s Road Atlanta is a lovely highlight of the quality-of-life focused patch
The campaign highlight of Update 11 is the new Road to Race event, featuring the latest Chevrolet Corvette, Ferrari 458 Italia, Lamborghini Huracan, and Porsche 911 GT3 and their respective race car variants. Players will need to eke out wins with each of these vehicles to unlock the Aston Martin AMR Vantage GTE #97 (2018) in the end, which is a lovely prize to be sure.
For vintage car fans, though, the Aston can’t hold a candle to the final reward of the Featured Open Class Tour: the Nissan Pennzoil NISMO Skyline GT-R – R33 (1998). This coveted car has been a highlight in many a different Gran Turismo titles, and it’s just wonderful that we get to drive it in the new Forza Motorsport as well.
Setting the new cars aside for a little bit, those of us who have been sticking with Forza Motorsport from day one onwards can look forward to an impressive list of improvements to the core gameplay loop, various fixes, and quality-of-life boons:
- Official support for Logitech Trueforce devices
- Livery fixes (following the matte-glossiness slider bugs introduced in recent updates)
- Shader precompilation improvements on PCs with Nvidia GPUs
- Dynamic position changes, race data, lap counter, and driver info panel availability in Replay Mode
- Resolved various crashes in multiplayer
- Introduced multi-class racing modes via the Featured Multiplayer Mode
All in all, it’s a decently sized update that, while it won’t shock players with how good and content-heavy it is, does improve upon Update 10’s fairly unexciting offerings. A good showing, then, but as we near the first anniversary of Forza Motorsport‘s release, I can’t help but hope that Turn 10’s got something special cooking for it. Time will tell, as per usual!
Published: Aug 13, 2024 08:29 am