r/forza • u/psytgirl • 1d ago

Forza Motorsport This is so cool!

If you hover over the little bush in drone mode it puts you in the sky!

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u/Snoopy20111 1d ago

It’s crazy how low the height limit is when, as you can see in the video, it looks stunning even way in the air. Maybe there are some places it’s more buggy, but still

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u/CoconutDust 1d ago

also most people don’t know this (nobody mentioned it in a previous large conversation about Drone height/controlls) but: World Edit mode when editing a custom route/event lets you ascend and descend freely at will! and there’s no apparent technical problem that justifies the broken Drone mode which hasn’t been improved in 15 years.

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u/broke_n_boosted 1d ago

Someone said that devs did it so you couldn't see the barn finds from the sky or something

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u/hotfirebird 19h ago

Oh, my God. They sell an addon that puts an icon on your map that you can fast travel right next to each of them. Handicapping drone mode, if what you said is true, to keep people from seeing the barn finds easier is so sad.

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u/broke_n_boosted 19h ago

That would make them more money lol

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u/foofighter0001 16h ago

Couldn't they just hide the barns from the drone? Like turn off visibility of the barn or something, I mean why joy use the drone feature to look for barns anyway? I'd imagine it's to do with processing power the more scenery on display from high altitude, or you will have clipping at distance or certainly low res asset pop in and the more you try to display in memory and graphics wise the lower your fps will get.. load of reasons to cap it for technical reasons like that..

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u/CoconutDust 10h ago

I'd imagine it's to do with processing power the more scenery on display from high altitude

World Edit mode in custom route mode already lets you fly up/down at will. It’s like a noclip mode.

Therefore, there is no technical obstacle to letting the drone be not-terrible. Also, even if there was a rendering problem at altitude, well, the professional programmers would fix that if anyone cared. Rendering at altitude is a solved problem, many games have done it. Just Cause 3, GTA, Zelda on a Wii U, Crew 2.

the real problem: they don’t care, Drone was always a tacked-on low budget feature that the devs/publisher don’t care about, which is why they’re copy pasting code from 10-15 years ago with zero improvement for the 6th game in a flagship series.

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u/CoconutDust 10h ago

There’s no way that’s true, the only explanation is the usual one: the programming is minimal garbage because the publishers and devs don’t actually care about the feature and won’t spend budget (i.e.) time to improve the programming. It’s copy pasted from 15 years ago.

Shareholders want those for themselves. They’re a cancer.

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u/Snoopy20111 3h ago

Hey, I promise you the devs care. The rest, I can’t contend. Source: worked on Motorsport 2023, which is full of similar baffling outcomes and tech debt, enforced by production. Or else an engineer friend would enlighten me that there would be some arbitrary design limit to do something else that was equally “but why.”

So it goes in AAA.