
Forza Motorsport has been out in early access for a couple of weeks now; giving players plenty of time to get stuck into everything Turn 10's new Xbox racer has to offer. Despite the title containing a bunch of single and multiplayer modes at launch, most folks are sticking to single-player for now - at least it seems that way.
According to data gathered by TrueAchievements, just 10% of Xbox players have earned the most basic multiplayer achievement in Forza Motorsport - that being to complete an introductory online race. The numbers over on Steam are slightly higher, but even then, the majority of players seem to be avoiding FM multiplayer at the time of writing.
Of course, it goes without saying that most users probably want to blast through the career mode before tackling much of anything else, so this number could definitely climb as the weeks and months go by. Turn 10 has put lots of effort into overhauling multiplayer this time around though, and we're sure the team is keen to see its online player count rise.
Naturally, we didn't get much opportunity to try out multiplayer during our pre-release playtime, but what we did get to play was very enjoyable. In fact, we noted in our full written review that multiplayer could become something special over time - if the developer and its online community take to the mode as the game grows.
Anyway, if you want to read up on our full Forza Motorsport thoughts, check out the Pure Xbox review down below. In the meantime, we might have to get stuck into some more Forza multiplayer soon to see how things are shaping up now that the game is fully available on Xbox Game Pass!
Are you one of the 10% that's tried out Forza Motorsport multiplayer? Tell us your experience so far down below.
[source trueachievements.com]
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I've not played multiplayer this year so really can't say. But from all the other years, I'm just tired of being rammed off the track at turn one EVERY game. Really just tired of all the garbage racers, period. Online in general has become a cesspool and Microsoft wants to do NOTHING about it.
They need to make it in Forza where people can make clubs, then clubs can make custom seasons and Forza makes and calculates points for finishes, etc. Much like online leagues in other sports games do. Fantastic example is NFL (want to say 2k5?) you logged into the website could look at standings, schedule, stats, make trades, etc. It was AWESOME! If Forza would do something much like that be excellent way a group of people can play each other with races that actually have some meaning and fun. Wanted and said this for YEARS now. It would be fun as clubs will filter out the garbage racers sooooo easy.
Until Forza incorporates all the above it will just be a single player experience to me. Always.
Ohhh, also make lobbies where cockpit camera view is LOCKED. No other camera allowed (AGAIN...having clubs with custom leagues WOULD solve this). That is amazing thing to attract the Sim racers like myself. Other camera views allow the game to be just cheese.
I want a Sim experience. Really all I want to play with Forza.
But that's me.
Fortunately all the other races feel like multiplayer anway as the ai spends the first lap doing its best to ram you off the track. Shame, as the actual driving is pretty spot on...
@GuyinPA75 I hate playing online on any game for reasons you pretty much stated - people suck!
If people can find a way to screw you over online, they would do so. Racing games are probably doubly worse as most people want to play it like Mario Kart.
I have never played Motorsport online - never wanted to play Motorsport as a Multi-player so I wouldn't start now with the '8th'. As I have gotten older (now over 50), I have even less interest in playing 'Online'.
Even when I bought the OG Xbox, I didn't buy Halo or Forza for 'online' gaming and to me, their 'online' was more a token/bonus feature for 'Gold' Subscribers - something to do after finishing the campaign, or a 'party' mode like Goldeneye/Mario Kart used to be when you had friends/family over - instead of playing Monopoly or Trivial Pursuits.
Just like I don't play Halo online regardless of what gets added etc, I won't play Forza Online either, and only played 'Horde' modes in Gears (not Competitive MP) but only after I have finished Single Player content.
If I have finished SP content, chances are I am not returning to these IP's until more Single Player content arrives - either DLC or new games...
I can remember years ago, a 'friend' of mine showed me online gaming for the first time. He basically spent all that time being a d**k and ramming peoples cars in the first corner on purpose or turning around and racing the wrong way. He put me off online gaming forever.
No couch co-op, no multiplayer for me for this one.
Never have played Forza online (outside a single race with my son (which I lost horrendously)), and never will! I know my limitations. I also know my talents, and they do not extend to multiplayer (in pretty much any game really)... 🤪
@GuyinPA75 I've been very blessed to have a somewhat clean racing experience, at least before they broke parties with the most recent update.
If you didn't know you can force a camera view in private mp lobbies. It sadly doesn't have any bots however.
Anyway, yh game's a proper ***** show.
I'm only playing it to beat my friend's rival times at this point 😂
Never been a big fan of racing games online usually because I suck at them and prefer playing through a career mode where I feel like I have achieved something rather than constant loss.
Well im shocked lol
The game seems to be designed with online as the focus and single player being a place to grind out car levels so the majority of players will only ever get to experience sub-optimal vehicles. How did they miss the mark so badly?
I really hope we are nearing the end of companies chasing GaaS money.
@Cherip-the-Ripper Yep. Back in forza 4 or 5 I did that. People quit pretty much immediately since realized not be able cheese their way thru the race.
That was like 10 years ago? People got MUCH MUCH worse online since. In nhl if you score one goal, just ONE, in first minute, of first period. They pause and IMMEDIATELY quit. You know, since it's just impossible to comeback down 0-1 in first period of hockey game like it's soccer.
People can NOT, will NOT, deal with, or attempt to overcome adversity in ANY form today. Especially in video games. Developers and Microsoft need find a way that once quit a game, you can not join another game until that game is over.
@GamingFan4Lyf Yep. Agree 100%. See my response little further down here. Really summarizes online gaming today.
***above I mean.
@Zenszulu Perhaps it’s just something weird with my brain, but I struggle to feel like I’ve accomplished anything playing career modes, because I don’t have the skill to play on higher difficulties, and I end up judging myself harshly because I forget that I can just enjoy it how I want. I still find the games fun, but every once in a while I have one of these moments and I almost end up quitting.
I want to finish a few Builder's Cup series first and get accustomed to the game and selected car. Don't want to drive like a jerk out there. I just haven't had the time. At the moment, I'm on the last race of the second series.
Way back, I would intentionally jump into MP as soon as I bought a game. I had a tendency to focus on the campaign with a plan to start MP afterwards. What I found is many times I never got around to the MP. When I did try MP first, there was a lot of fun to be had.
That's always been the case for Forza Motorsport.
That's why we were so up in arms about and always online, live service game.
Why always online for what is effectively singe player?
Only way I would have really played multiplayer was if it had splitscreen. And we all know what happened to that, and why.
@AccessibleDaydream I get how you can feel that way that is why I usually try and get the difficulty set to where I can still feel like I am having to pay attention and my opponents aren't dumber than a bag of potatoes. It's the same with any sports games I play if you play them on the lowest difficulty I would feel like I am cheating myself by simply knowing I would win but by finding a level I feel even my average skills can compete with I at least feel I achieved a victory.
Like many others it seems, I’ve never been a fan of online MP in racing games. Split screen is the way to go. I’m playing Party Animals and Halo (played both online today already for about an hr each) just don’t feel that need to go online with Forza. I’ll play Forza later but that’ll just be sinking through the single player cups
I don't play online much, historically it has been co-op campaigns and stuff like horde on Gears games... but I like racing games, and was enjoying the builders cup so gave the online races a go...
15 minutes of practicing the track, then hooking up 3 qualifying laps. I enjoy the way they have it all set up. Then the race, a decent grid placing, then after all that work, smashed and spun off by somebody ramming me from behind. And I was given an avoidable collision time penalty.
So I fought back, and the exact same thing happened again. Was driving on the racing line and was smashed into from behind, spun off track into last, and AGAIN I was penalised with an 'avoidable' collision penalty. Again I fought back...
Moving to overtake on a long straight, and the driver in front smashed into me on purpose and off the track. And guess who got the penalty.
The game is broken, and the online racing is full of pond life. Not wasting my time with it again.
On top of this, multiple times I've finished career races and the game has crashed or not registered progress, so I have had to re-run races I have already run. Or I have won races, but it only shows a medal not a trophy. Why wasn't any of this in the review???
Also unrelated to forza but related to online - can’t believe they didn’t add online to Goldeneye (never going to let that drop lol)
@LordFunkalot What's better is the Switch version has online. 😂
I've had some great races online to be fair, but also had some equally unfair races too. There are a lot of selfish racers out there who just can't bare losing. Bring Driveclub to XBOX, that's all I ask, that had a superb community in my opinion.
@InterceptorAlpha lol I know, Microsoft who practically drew up the blueprints for online console gaming and it’s online on the bloody switch and not the Xbox lol!! You couldn’t make it up. Seriously tho they should have had cross platform multiplayer - what were they thinking
@LordFunkalot To be fair though, little to no real development went into either version; the Switch version just inherited online multiplayer just by being added to the N64 Switch Online app.
I only play the single player campaigns in every game I buy, never really been into multiplayer other than some co-op TMNT and Streets of Rage back in the 16-bit era.
@Ecto-1 True it was just a quick and dirty dump it onto the store. Such a shame its legacy wasn’t respected more and it’s re-release handled better
@LordFunkalot I think that was a contractual thing, not that MS/Xbox didn't want to do it. Look how long it took to get the game on Xbox at all.
I dont play much online anything, but I'd think racing games would be one of the most difficult too control bad actors.
It's good to know single player gaming is alive and well in 2023.
Long may it continue.
@theduckofdeath True, at least it made it I guess. And it’s decent for what it is. Would have been really cool if they did retail releases for Xbox and switch with making of documentaries, averts and promotional bits on the disk. They could have had the unreleased HD remake all features complete on Nintendo and Xbox. Maybe thrown perfect dark on there as a sweetener for Nintendo. I really think Microsoft could do more with rare and Nintendo partnerships
Forza motorsport multiplayer is split screen. Dumb dumbs cut it for series S parity. No chance I'm ever joining an online lobby.
I absolutely love the online for this game. It's some of the best MP gaming I've had in years.
Multiplayer? Nah. Too many people there. With all due respect, I'm gaming to escape y'all.
Early access? What? Have I accidentally been playing an unfinished game?
@GuyinPA75 Do you mean people actually playing together or do you mean just playing the leaderboards? That doesn't sound fun.
@species8472 Uh...single player games never ever went anywhere.
@Xeraphis Asking about the club idea? My wish is allow gamers to make clubs with members of minimum say two,all way up to think max on track now is 23?
Then the club can create their own season. Say only want have 5 races? Go for it. Want 10 races? All yours. Pick your tracks, etc? Absolutely.
Everyone gets together, maybe have dedicated race night say every Sunday evening. Spend 20, 30 mins or however long players agree on for laps. Race the race. Whoever finishes gets points assigned in standings. Every thing for club is accessible to look at online since Forza would track it all in its own.
Should not be hard to do and no excuse why not already available for the Forza gamers since the career mode offline is exactly what I've asked for. Years and years I've asked for it.
Curious to hear everyone's thoughts on this suggestion?
Depends what those multiplayer achievements are to reach them. Moderation, paid online while free Halo I Infinite, other racing games and their results of multiplayer people will play console or PC, other factors.
The want of a club system and others had been mentioned and as someone unfamiliar with Forza Motorsport multiplayer I'd heard about it in a Forza Motorsport 4 retrospective video and I was slime huh ok that's kind of cool. But Turn 10 do what they do for the causal audience andade FM5-7 what they are and if FM8 is like 7 in areas not surprised compared to 1-4 multiplayer structures or campaigns people prefer and what ideas move on, they left behind for whatever to compete on the space/ideas the team go with.
Also I assume lobbies, the type of people in them, how the multiplayer settings are scaled for races.
That or maybe the Forza Motorsport audience prefers singleplayer like GT players as well look at the singleplayer content.
Or getting cars/progression is suitable to singleplayer most times which makes a lot of sense then a multiplayer career or multiplayer car/livery and other things unlocked depending how each mode is scaled.
It's a number of possibilities and I haven't even played the game.
Amybe connection problems. Yes I know singleplayer is online tied but if matches in multiplayer requires more and singleplayer is just save file tied or whatever it's less effort isn't it.
I’m behind on this as had issues with my S.
In single player is there a way to get time gaps to the cars in front? Coz be f**ked if I can see it anywhere
Pretty big news considering how they compromised the entire game design around being always-online.
I’m not much of a multiplayer gamer. I bought GT7 at launch and enjoy single player, but never played a single online multiplayer race. Probably the same for Forza.
Don't really do racing games....but I tried the online tonight(to get an achievement for rewards) and I finished first In qualifying and second in the actual race ...so seemed okay to me....I did hear someone crying on mic about other people though lol...guessing he got rammed off the road....tbf third place rammed me off the road...not sure if it was intentional as as both went off..they got a penalty though
Shame they made the single player rely on a constant online connection then!!
Might give it a go once I get a car I really like and can do it up the way I like not gonna jump on multiplayer in any car I have at the moment
I'm happy to play Forza single player but honestly I'm nowhere good enough at racing games for multiplayer. Id be one of those guys who ends up wrecking someone on accident and getting cussed out for going against racing etiquette. Which they be right to do so.lol
Its dead Jim.
This game has flopped, and the I'm not surprised because it was a massive disappointment.
I thought it was always online career mode
I would have have given this ago if it was offline single player like horizon
There’s more people that would play single player than online multiplayer for racing games, or perhaps most games anyways isn’t there?
@GuyinPA75 I don’t like cockpit camera
@MrMagic It definitely feels like a flop, and it's probably made worse by the aggressive shilling done on sites like metacritic and aggressive removal of discontent on the Xbox store reviews. Now they're in a situation where a lot of people are quietly quitting the game and they'll be scratching their heads wondering why.
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