Juicy Forza 7 update lands days in advance of scheduled release

Forza 7 got a cool new E-sports themed update along with a new car pack headlined by the insane-looking Bugatti Chiron. The new update refines the game engine in some ways and adds E-sports "Spectate" and "Seed the Grid" features.

Looks like this game is going to soon become the GOAT of Arcade-sim racers, if it isn't already. Details below

https://www.forzamotorsport.net/en-us/news/fm7_february_update

We’re only a couple of months into 2018 and Forza Motorsport 7 is in full gear. Last week we announced our plans for the Forza Racing Championship 2018 Season, which will kick off with our ForzaRC Pre-Season Invitational on March 24.

Today we’re launching the next major update for Forza Motorsport 7. We’re excited to announce that today’s update introduces highly requested features to the game, including our new Spectate and Seed the Grid features. This update also includes a host of improvements across all aspects of the game – from performance improvements in multiplayer to UI enhancements in the Forza Driver’s Cup feature, and many more. For the full list of improvements that are included with this update, check out the full release notes on the Forza Forums.

Finally, we have the Dell Gaming Car Pack – available today as part of the Forza Motorsport 7 Car Pass – which brings seven new vehicles to Forza Motorsport 7’s 700+ vehicle lineup, including the most highly anticipated car in recent Forza memory, the 2018 Bugatti Chiron.

Let’s start off with a look at two blockbuster features arriving in the game today.

Spectate, Seed the Grid & More

We’re happy to introduce both Spectate and Seed the Grid features today, two features that have proven to be among the most heavily requested features from Forza fans. Both features have been re-imagined, rebuilt, and optimized for esports viewing in Forza Motorsport 7.

With Spectate, players can hop into public and private lobbies and view the races as they happen. For Forza Motorsport 7, we’ve put a big emphasis on performance with Spectate. Viewers will notice dramatically improved car movement when spectating races; no stuttering or jittering cars. Live spectating now features the same quality of motion as found when viewing Saved Replays. We’ve also dramatically improved the car positioning. We’ve done away with our old predictive position system which was error-prone. Now, car position in Spectate mode is completely accurate. This increased fidelity eliminates car jittering and phantom collisions, resulting in a dramatically improved viewing experience.

With Forza Motorsport 7’s new Seed the Grid feature, lobby hosts now have the option to set the race grid as they see fit. Before the race, hosts can choose “Grid Order” from the menu to manually reorder the race grid. Hosts can move any player anywhere on the grid and new UI elements highlight additional information on player positioning. Spectating players will automatically be pushed to the back of the grid, regardless of where they are placed in the grid.

In addition to Spectate and Seed the Grid features, we’ve worked hard to improve multiplayer loading and performance in Forza 7. New behind-the-scenes improvements mean that the game loads cars as soon as the player gets onto the track. The result is quicker loading into the track and onto the race.

Spectate and Seed the Grid are fantastic additions to Forza Motorsport 7 and we look forward to seeing what the Forza community does with these new tools. These features are just the start of our commitment both to Forza Motorsport 7 and esports – look to see additional new features arriving in the months ahead. In the meantime, you can get a look at Spectate and Seed the Grid in action with the 2018 Forza Racing Championship Pre-Season Invitational, which will be broadcast live on Mixer on March 24.

Dell Gaming Car Pack

The Dell Gaming Car Pack bring seven new cars to Forza Motorsport 7’s ever-growing garage of 700+ vehicles. All are available to collect, customize and race at 60 fps on Xbox One and Windows 10 and in native 4K on Xbox One X.

Leading off the pack is the already legendary 2018 Bugatti Chiron, one of the most requested cars from Forza fans worldwide. For good reason, too. This is a $3 million technological and engineering marvel that is the successor to Bugatti’s legendary Veyron. Then consider the 2018 Kia Stinger, a game-changing RWD, five-door hatch from Korea that’s making waves as a performance-minded competitor to the big European brands.

Want to expand your race car garage? The 2016 Audi #17 Rotek Racing TTRS is a Pikes Peak Hillclimb record holder and the 2017 Aston Martin Racing V12 Vantage GT3 #7 has contributed to Aston Martin’s legendary race history. Or go back in Aussie muscle car history and experience the Bathurst-winning 1968 Holden HK Monaro GTS 327. Mopar fans will also find two new heavyweights to wield in the 2017 Ram Power Wagon and 2018 Dodge Durango SRT.

Hoping they announce some new expansions for FM7 soon, like they did with 6 (which had NASCAR & Porsche expansions).

@hrt_rulz01: Agreed

Woop woop this is great news! Will log in and download when home :D

Yeah you can be sure now the MS has the Porsche license for the next 5yrs there will be some Porsche DLC, hopefully they change it up and not do Nascar DLC this time.