Forza Motorsport 2024 Roadmap: Returning Content & Refined Features Announced

Forza Motorsport has seen a steady stream of updates, which is set to continue. A community message by the developers announced a roadmap of sorts for 2024.

Expectations were high when Forza Motorsport initially released in October 2023, and while they were not met in many cases, the game has since received a plethora of updates. In fact, the next update set to be deployed in mid-September is the 12th Forza is going to receive - hotfixes and smaller patches not included.

For the rest of 2024, Game Director Andy Beaudoin, Creative Director Chris Esaki and Executive Producer Trevor Laupmanis shared a roadmap of sorts via a message to the community. While there are no specific timings for everything in it, details about incoming features and content show that Forza is set to receive a bunch of interesting additions until the end of the year.

Content​

Forza updates are about content, too, of course. Veterans of the series can look forward to the return of an old favorite, namely Sunset Peninsula - a track that had not been in any game since Forza Motorsport 4 and is supposed to arrive in October.

In line with an Australia-themed Featured Tour, Mount Panorama Circuit - better known as Bathurst - is expected to rejoin Forza in December. The track featured in all Motorsport series entries since FM5, but was absent from the latest version at launch - much like the Nürburgring-Nordschleife, which was added in February 2024.

Meanwhile, players will be able to earn each update's reward cars by completing a Featured Tour or a certain number of Featured Multiplayer races. Additionally, Update 12 sees the arrival of a Challenge Hub where players can earn cars, credits, and other rewards.

New Forza Motorsport Features​

In addition to the new content, more features will also arrive until year's end. Already in September, a reworked Specate Mode debuts, making it easier to follow races you are not driving in, tidying up the HUD, adding new elements and features. The community message lists the following:

• Full-Field Dynamic Driver List and Lap Counter – Greatly increases race comprehension, making it easy to select a car to focus on from the driver list. Positions are updated based on scoring type.
• Ticker – A dynamic data loop in the Driver List. This can also be locked to show the leader's time, race intervals, position changes, penalty time, or pit stops.
• Track Map – Shows all the locations of all the cars on the track map with the ability to zoom and view exact positioning more closely.
• Driver Data – Choose to see a race summary of the driver on focus, including car telemetry, comparison to the leader, and damage.
• True Race Start / Race End from 3-2-1 to Podium. In Forza Motorsport 7, the live feed in Spectate didn’t begin until several seconds after the race had started, which meant viewers missed much of the Turn 1 excitement. It also ended abruptly when the leader crossed the finish line. In Forza Motorsport, a spectator can watch the entire race from the moment it starts right up until either the final driver crosses the finish line, or the race timer concludes.
• Default Spectate Camera – The first time you use Spectate mode, you can decide which camera to use by default at race start. This can be changed at any time in the settings menu under Gameplay & HUD.
• New Camera Options– In addition to all the prior cameras available in game, two new camera modes have been added to both Spectate Mode and Race Replays
  • Rail Cam – This gives race spectators controls that our cinematics team uses, like FPS camera controls that move with the focus car. The left stick moves the camera forward or backward, left or right around the focus car. Use the right stick to change the camera target left and right or move the camera up and down.
  • Point of Interest – Stationary cameras focusing on important track segments. Each track has at least 3 points of interest with more available on longer tracks.
• Improved Control Panel for much easier access to Spectate and Replay tools.
• Customizable HUD – The Spectate and Replay HUD elements are customizable to show as much or as little as you want. This gives you the freedom to prioritize between either a clean camera feed or a detailed, more informative interface.
• Minimized Switch Lag – Changing the camera view or car to focus on is much faster than it was in Forza Motorsport 7.
• Saving Replay after Spectate – You can save a replay from the Spectate post-race menu to view later. Please note that previous limitations for replay save length still apply and will vary based on factors such as the number of cars on track and the race duration.

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These new additions and refinements could also make life easier for those who broadcast races in Forza Motorsport.

Furthermore, Drift Mode (including several Formula Drift cars) is set to arrive "in the coming months", as is a Creative Hub similar to that of Forza Horizon 5. This will include Share Codes for all user-generated content.

Other additions set to arrive in 2024 include Free Play Weather Options (coming in September) allowing players to set weather progression throughout a race, a Community Choice slot in Featured Multiplayer (also in September), Audio Cues for the Car Proximity Radar, improved Forza Race Regulations, and Advanced Ghosting in Featured Multiplayer.

The latter is designed to predict "the most popular griefing incidents" and automatically ghost cars to prevent them.



You can find the full community message by the Forza Motorsport developers here.

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