This month’s Forza Motorsport update, which went live on March 11, has update the way car progression works. You now won’t need to spend hours on driving each car to unlock all of its tuning options anymore.
No more are car parts that are locked behind a specific, arbitrary car level. So you don’t need to spend a good hour of just driving a car before you can do a drivetrain swap.
Car Points, the currency used to install car parts, are still around and you still use that to install car parts. However, there’s now an option to spend Credits to acquire Car Points.
You can still collect Car Points by levelling up your car by driving them, should you wish to not spend Credits.
The initial pitch behind the car progression is that you have to prove that you have gotten to know the car stock before you can tune it. It plays well with the single-player structure where over the course of a championship, you slowly build your car up with more upgrades starting from stock.
This progression is rather limiting the fun of online multiplayer as players have to do preparations should they wish to try out fun builds online. You are required to grind to get access to the various car parts that are level-gated.
Forza Motorsport fans have been vocal about how this system is not vibing with them, and developers Turn 10 has listened. Good on them for turning this around.
Update 6 did not add any new track, but it fixes the pit lane exit for Daytona which was added in Update 4 in January. Update 5 last month added the Nordschleife layout for the Nurburgring.
Forza Motorsport (2023) is out now on Xbox Series X|S and PC (Steam, Microsoft Store).
Source: Forza