Forza 5 has mandatory free day-one DLC. Won't work w/o it.

[parokyano]

For me di naman nakakainis yun. Ang nakakainis kapag minadali tapos puno ng bugs. And sabi din ng PD nhihirapan sila sa pag code sa ps3 kaya when I read about it naintindihan ko na why it's being delayed.

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This article's actually a couple of days old. Wonder why it's news didnt make it to this thread any sooner...
Hmmm...

http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/07/18/ ... -clarified

"In the beginning of the game, the player will be racing against Drivatars that are contained on the disc and were trained by the [Turn 10 development] team," Greenawalt said. "While playing, the player will be asked to connect to Live in order to download a completely fresh set of player-created Drivatar opponents – it’s not a lot of data, but the download contains enough Drivatars to cover all difficulty settings. Connecting will also download new content – but the vast majority of the launch content is contained on the disc.

"This download is simply additional cars and tracks. The gameplay is not blocked while downloading the additional content; it’s done in the background just like disc install."

None of these offline installation scenarios apply to digitally purchased versions of the game, obviously.

Here's where the eventually part comes in. "The player won't be blocked from playing the game" if they've never connected it to Xbox Live, Greenawalt said. "But deeper areas in the career mode were designed to utilize these additional cars and tracks." (So does this mean that it's not really a show stopper if you dont connect online? You'd just be missing out on a great content designed to make the game played better... similar to other titles and their respective DLCs) He clarified even further.

"This is similar to what we did on Forza Motorsports in the last generation as well – shipping both free and premium content at launch. In some ways it’s similar to the Disc 2 content in FM4 as well. However, this time (unlike DLC tracks in previous Forza’s) deeper progression in the career mode was designed to fully integrate this launch downloadable content."

Should you lose your connection while you're playing, Greenawalt said, "You’ll be able to play Forza Motorsport 5 in Career mode, Free Play, and other offline modes. Like Xbox 360 cloud saves, the next time you connect, your save game progress will automatically synch with Xbox Live."

Greenawalt also shed extra light on how the Drivatar system works with and without an Internet connection. He told IGN, "While the Drivatar feature is designed to take advantage of Xbox Live and the processing power of the cloud, its revolutionary approach to opponent has been designed to work offline as well. Racing against the Drivatars of others does not require a connection. Drivatar learning and training does require a connection to the cloud as it’s a real-time training system. Any time that you connect Forza Motorsport 5 to the Live servers, you will automatically download a refreshed set of Drivatar opponent data."

He added that downloading fresh Drivatar data is "not a lot of data."

What about your Xbox Live friends? Will you still see your friends' Drivatars when playing offline?

"Not necessarily. When you first connect Forza Motorsport 5 to the Live servers, you will download a set of Drivatar opponents (it’s not a lot of data, but it contains enough Drivatars to cover all difficulty settings) for use in offline mode. This set of Drivatars will not necessarily contain your friends. From race to race as you stay connected, your friend’s Drivatars, cars, and paint schemes will be pulled into your races – as will updated Drivatar strangers and rivals based on your difficulty settings."

Forza Motorsport 5 is due to launch on the same day the Xbox One console does this November.

[parokyano]

It's from IGN. Maybe kagaya ko yung iba dito na bihira na pumunta ng IGN. Gematsu and Siliconera ako madalas mapadaan. I don't think sinadya ng wag na ipost dito yan para wala makaalam ng "good" news na yan

[TurnBased]

Iyun naman pala eh. Kung may offline play siya and you're not just getting a piece of plastic that needs online verification, fine by me.

You can partly blame the gaming blogs who carefully word their article so as to give the idea that the Forza 5 update would be mandatory and get gamers riled up so as to increase the amount of traffic in their blogs.