Forza Motorsport 5 is yet another solid entry and is one of the strongest launch titles on Microsoft’s next generation console, the Xbox One. Running at a native 1080p resolution and a slick sixty frames per second, Forza Motorsport 5 is a true show case of the potential of the Xbox One.

How to mod a car:

The video guide below will help you understand the basics behind modifying performance and styling a car in Forza Motorsport 5.

How To Paint Your Engine Bay

Interested in painting your engine bay? The video guide below will show you the way.

Why you should not use auto upgrade:

If you are interested in upgrading your cars in Forza Motorsport 5 then stay away from auto upgrading them. It does an awful job by applying totally random parts.

Customization: All Cars, Upgrades, Wheels/Rims and Paint Options

The video below shows the various upgrades, cars and paint options that the player can come across while playing through Forza Motorsport 5.

Engine Upgrades:

Forza Motorsport 5 features an extensive engine upgrade system where the player can tune up more than 10 different parameters.

• Fuel System: This is once again related to the horsepower for your car. Basically your car will efficiently utilize fuel to give best performance.
• Air Filters: Upgrading this will improve the car’s horsepower and for some reason your car will sound better.
• Intake Manifold: As the name indicates this is what connects the fuel with the engine. A better intake manifold will improve engine performance.
• Throttle Body: It controls the air flow within the engine.
• Camshaft: This is highly dependent on the player’s style of driving. Players who rev their engines more need a bigger camshaft which will directly increase torque. On the other hand, players who don’t rev their engines too much will do with a smaller camshaft.
• Valves: They control gas intake and release. Better valves will obviously improve car’s performance.
• Displacement: This will reduce friction within engine improving horsepower.
• Ignition: Gives a good start and car will efficiently utilize fuel to give best performance.
• Exhaust: Waste gases or air expelled more efficiently from the engine.
• Pistons: This is more of trade off parameter. Higher compression pistons will increase horsepower but will reduce efficiency. Again this will depend on your driving style.
• Oil and Cooling: It’s obvious that with a better cooling and oiling system your car will give you more performance on the track.
• Flywheel: Opt for lighter ones since those won’t slow your speed down.

Aerodynamics Upgrade:

The amount of air flowing through the car can be controller through a front and a rear wing. This will control the car’s speed and is one of the major factors why the car does not take off like a airplane and stays on the ground. In Forza Motorsport 5 you can adjust the front bumper/wing’s height so as to control the amount of air that will flow beneath the car. This will determine the amount of down-force required to keep the car on the ground. The rear wing on the other hand balances the downforce but be aware that it may also create drag due to the air’s resistance and reduce the speed.

Drivetrain:

Drivetrain connects the transmission to the drive axles. If you go ahead with this upgrade, please be aware that you will lose all of your upgrades. This will improve your vehicle’s handling. This is further divided into for the following parts:

• Transmission
• Driveline
• Clutch
• Differential

Aspiration Swap:

Aspiration Swap will improve the car’s horsepower.

Handling Upgrades:

These are fairly obvious type of upgrades and has the following parts available for upgrades:

• Anti-Roll Bars: These provide stability.
• Weight Reduction: As the name indicates, this upgrade reduces the overall weight of the car by replacing some of the parts with lighter version.
• Brakes: Upgraded brakes means you can brake late in the corner giving you much better grip.
• Chassis Reinforcement and Roll Cage: This improves the integrity and the rigidity of the vehicle.
• Springs and Dampers: Springs will improve the suspension system and Dampers will make sure that the horsepower is efficient.

Fastest and the most expensive car in the game:

The 2013 Lotus E21 Formula One car is the fastest and the most expensive car in Forza Motorsport 5. It will take the player literally hours to get one. You can get one via  ‘car tokens’ but it may set you back by a minimum of £32.50.

Note: This guide will updated once we have more information about the game.

• 1. Development
• 2. Tracks
• 3. Gameplay
• 3. Car List

Development

The developers have explained a bit about cloud technology in the game and how it’s processing ability can help players create agents, which will represent the player and will drive as well. Turn 10 studios’ Dan Greenawalt explained in an interview “Forza is always known for pushing AI and in the past we called it the Drivatar so in Forza Motorsport 1 and all the way through 2, 3 and 4, we used Drivatar technology and that’s a learning neural network. With Forza Motorsport 5 we are doing something all new.

We’ve moved the Drivatar system in the Cloud so that it can process incredibly heavily,it means basically super computer level of processing and that means you now have an Agent, something which drives for you.” He further elaborated: ‘Now while you are racing, while I am racing I  get to race against you, my friends, my family. I get to race against a version of them that can recreate their tendencies, their style, their way of driving, their speed and then when I log in, you have been playing against me, I get paid out the in game credits because of the work my Drivatar did. This fundamentally changes how you do single player” [reference]

The developers are also working on the Xbox one version of the game and explained that the game will be in 1080p resolution running at 60 frames per second. Director of Turn 10 Studios John Wendel stated in an interview “I believe we’re uniquely positioned to deliver on that challenge. We’re a huge epic game that’s going to be running at 1080p, 60fps on the next-gen console, so it’s an incredible opportunity on one hand, but you have to be incredibly flexible and agile and self-aware on the other hand.” [reference]

Tracks

The game features a number of racing tracks in which the player can compete against AI or other players. The tracks that are confirmed so far are:

• Prague
• Laguna Seca
• Indianapolis
• Spa Francorchamps

Gameplay

The game features 15 confirmed cars in the game and 4 tracks as one can see in the gameplay trailer featured many car models. A teaser video at E3 was released which featured in game footage featuring races with cars such as the Pagani Huayra and Ferrari F12 Berlinetta. The game will not feature day-night racing nor it will include a weather system.

In order to play the game, players will need to connect the Xbox One (with the game inside) to the internet and authenticate it. This will be a one time process, as Turn 10 Studios head Dan Greenawalt explained in an interview. “So when you first boot up the game, we’re going to ask you to log in. And when you log in you’re going to get the Drivatars and you’re also going to get a whole bunch of content: tracks and cars.

Our production schedule is such that we are putting them in as late as possible and that means making them free as downloadable content on Day One that is required content to play the game. We basically have designed the game to work with all that content no matter how late is coming in, in order to make the biggest game possible. The experience has been likened to a fridge, which “You have to fill it up with food the first time” but “from then on, you connect whenever you want when you want to update your food. The Drivatars are as fresh as they are. It’s not like they’re going to degrade, but when you’re looking for new stuff – fresh stuff…it’s going to keep evolving.

That’s the nature of this Drivatar system. You do have to connect the game in order to get the latest Drivatars, because we need as many people training them as possible. And so rather than having just a launch-day set that was created by us, every day that people race is going to make the Drivatar set that much more accurate, that much more diverse, that much more interesting. All of the cloud and online features make the game far, far better. In fact I’d even say revolutionary. The things we’re doing with opponents and Drivatar are not something that anyone can envision unless you’ve played it. But we’re trying to get as much of that into the unconnected, offline mode as well.” [reference]

The game will also feature the use pair controller’s triggers that will provide additional rumble. This specific feature will simulate the collision and vibration on the car’s chassis, and communicate and send information from the wheels.

Forza 5 will also have Kinect specific features like robust head tracking in the cockpit and voice recognition.

Car List

Below you will find the list of cars that have been confirmed for Forza Motorsport 5:

Aston Martin:

• 2008 DBS Link
• 2013 Vanquish Link

Audi:

• 2010 R8 V10 Link

BMW:

• 2013 M5 F10 Link

Chevrolet:

• 2013 #1 Andretti Autosport Dallara DW12 Link

Ferrari:

• 1976 312-2 Link
• 2013 F12 Berlinetta Link

Koenigsegg:

• 2011 Agera Link

Lamborghini:

• 2012 Aventador Link

McLaren:

• 1976 M23 Link
• 1993 McLaren F1 Link
• 2010 MP4-12c Link
• 2013 McLaren P1 Link

Pagani:

• 2012 Zonda Cinque Link
• 2012 Huayra Link

This wiki was last updated on 5th, January 2015.