1429: Forza Horizon 4 PC \\ bugs & crashes, BAC Mono vs snowmen, 30+ gift cars, Stunt Driver grind
2Forza Horizon 4 for PC / Steam: menu crashes, Stunt Driver mission grind, and trying to optimize the video settings. And the BAC Mono is a hoot!
My other driving games playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZO3OPzPjIzMKUQXtzG_zcLuddLPmkzuO
0:00 - Gables busted cam 'p'
0:45 - car browsing
38:07 - car pack hang #1
41:27 - gift cars = ooo
44:05 - wheel spin cars = oooo
51:44 - BAC Mono & winter
55:39 - gold waistcoat
59:10 - snowman hunt
1:02:46 - car pack hang #2
1:12:46 - Ch.2 Stunt Driver
1:19:35 - Ch.3 Stunt Driver
1:31:02 - Ch.4 Stunt Driver
1:58:07 - Ch.5 Stunt Driver
2:04:05 - busted snow cam
2:06:14 - Ch.6 Stunt Driver
2:17:38 - Ch.7 Stunt Driver
2:23:11 - wedged ; D
2:25:44 - Ch.8 Stunt Driver
2:33:37 - Ch.9 Stunt Driver
2:41:34 - Ch.10 Stunt Driver
2:49:43 - Mono upgrade
2:55:16 - driving line
2:59:35 - video tweaking
3:21:31 - The Eliminator
3:32:30 - snowmen & signs
3:42:13 - Lamborghini Centenario LP 770-4
3:52:05 - Nissan GT-R Preorder Car
3:54:01 - paint car
4:13:59 - Koenigsegg Regera
4:25:00 - BAC in Edinburgh
4:34:14 - Spring
4:40:00 - Edinburgh donuts
You can tune the Mono to have 10s in all stats except speed! And it'll still get over 200 mph so we're not talking slow here. Super nimble and may be the perfect car for zipping along all the little country lanes in the game, plus the open cockpit gives much better visibility than most, which you definitely need when it's like snowing or something. :P
There's a Mono in GT7 and now I'm gonna get it to see how they compare. Don't have small country roads quite so much in GT7, unfortunately. (Sneak peak: in GT7 it's fast but doesn't handle as well as its small size might suggest it would; maybe just too light--I suppose I could have tried adding weight or downforce; it's like a ninja in FH4! Oh and anyway I can't drive it in cockpit view in GT7 because it puts a strobing red RPM meter right in your face, yikes. So, the Mono is pretty much a loss for me in GT7--in stark contrast to its fun in FH4!)
The interface just gets worse and worse, now actually hanging/crashing on me. : P And there are preset camera shots in missions and stuff that just clip right through the world! It's like they didn't even look at the game they made.
The game showered me in like 35 free cars! = ooo Too bad you can't sell them aside from trying the player auction house thing. : P
Winter was kinda bleak, hunting snowmen was fun though. ; )
The Stunt Driver mission series was super lame. : P So far the strength of the single-player has been actual races because of the variety of tracks and the AI being surprisingly fun to race against. Did not find the "stunt" stuff compelling, and having to drive for miles to get each actual event is ughghagh. And as in the UI in general, the game excels at being unable to explain anything in any understandable way so it's all really confusing. (Finally had to turn on driving line just to be able to navigate, sheesh.)
Kinda left me down on the game; gotta get back to some actual races or something!
The game tried hooking me into MP with the uh mode where you're trapped in a shrinking circular race area and of course left me with no idea of what to do so har. Didn't find it all that compelling once I'd lost and did kind of understand.
There was aliasing visible along seams on the cars but wasn't so easy to improve it; after fighting with settings I found I could max MSAA (don't put FXAA on at the same time though--actual degrades the quality, sheez), shadow, and geometry detail; did drop below 60 fps in the benchmark test with the various reflection settings turned all the way up though so I left those on High or whatever it had put them on. You have to quit and restart the game to do benchmark tests and yeah it's all just more fighting the controls.
The messiness of this session led me to reinstalling GT7, I suddenly had a new appreciation for its smooth minimalism; I needed sharp driving and a regular track to race around.
Also going for some additional back and forth with TrackMania Nations Forever and GT7, I think I've well hopefully I've settled on a control scheme so I can just try to get this one down instead of having competing control sets warring in my head as I'm driving all the time: on the DS4 it'll be basically TMNF default setup with [] as gas and X as brake, and then for shifting in FH4 and GT7 R2 for up shift and L2 for down shift. Hopefully my dumb brain will be able to get that down okay. ^ _^
6/3/23
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