Forza 2 getting an update on Monday (7/23)

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So speaking of patches, the Forza 2 auto-update I discussed in last week's WPR has finally passed Xbox certification and will hit the wire sometime Monday (7/23). If you want to play Forza 2 on Xbox Live, you're gonna have to take this patch. Those of you who missed what we covered last week in regards to the auto-update, below is a detailed walkthrough of the changes. Keep in mind that this is the first of two updates we'll be rolling out to deal with a variety of exploits in the game that cheaters unfairly take advantage of and otherwise ruin a decent eco-system. To summarize, the patch going out on Monday takes us halfway there. Then after patch number two gets tested and put through cert, we remedy the more grevious glitches like car and money duping or auto-locking liveries when they go on the Auction House to stop the viral spread of inappropriate paintjobs.


Fixes going into Monday's auto-update are as follows:

* Deny gifting and reselling of cars with locked paintjobs. Why? Because this will help alleviate the problem where an artist's precious limited edition car gets duplicated and sold on the Auction House. The only way you can sell or gift a car with a locked livery is by being the original owner/artist of the car.

* A temporary ban on the Lotus Elan use on scoreboards and in multiplayer. Why? There is an error with the Lotus Elan's performance index calculation that puts the car at a lower class despite its capabilities, resulting in the Elan mass dominating the scoreboards in D and C class. This temporary ban will not allow you to upload lap times to the scoreboards when you use the car in career mode, and prohibits you from using the car at all in online races. When we roll out our permanent PI fix for the Elan in a future patch, we're going to lift the ban. Sorry for the draconian measure -- we really didn't like imposing this sort of restriction on the community but this is necessary.

* Allow cars to be fully rotated while being viewed in the Auction House. Why? Because so many of you asked for the camera to be unlocked in Auction House so you can look at the paintjob on the roof of the car we thought we should do good by the community.

* A number of scoreboard problems have been fixed. These range from the glitch where if the AI did not relinquish control of your car after the rolling start, you would inadvertently post a corrupt superhuman lap time in the micro-seconds, to several "extreme" physics bugs folks have been exploiting to get crazy fast lap times (lag crash boosting and the shifting glitch).

* Removed host's ability to boot players during a race. Why? Because this feature, although handy at times, was getting abused by hosts who kicked folks who were in the lead of a race where the stakes were high (i.e., credits were on the table). Don't worry, you can still kick people to your heart's content in the lobby.

* Miscellaneous fixes aplenty. Like what? Various discovered Auction House bugs that could potentially cause players to lose credits or cars. At least one triple-screen bug fix for sync'ing issues, as well as an undiscovered quickmatch bug that always connected you to the same game upon attempt.

Then there's the controversy from last week's hint that we may need to do a reset of all scoreboards because the various Elan/corrupt/exploit times posted were deep and widespread. Well, regardless of which side of the fence you stood in last week's debate, you may (or may not) be happy to hear that we've decided not to do a scoreboard wipe. Instead, we're working on a way to surgically remove invalid scoreboard times, which means that if you've posted times with an Elan, we're going to have to remove your entry all the same, but you won't have all of your times wiped -- just those you posted with the Elan.

Same with those who have posted corrupted micro-second laps, and even amnesty for those who cheated their way to the top of the boards via physics glitches. The question right now is "when" and to be honest we don't know yet. What we do know is that the tool won't be ready when the auto-update rolls out Monday. I'll have more detail about scoreboard deletions when we have a better understanding of the schedule. Also, another big decision we've arrived at thus far is that we're not going to introduce a money cap to your purse in auto-update #2, but will instead work on fixing the root of the problem (which is money duping).

I haven't been playing Forza 2 online yet (still working through the single-player oh so slowly) so I haven't bumped in to any of this. Don't know how serious it all is or not.

 

[Randum]

anyone get the update yet?

 

[foghorn67]

I think I did this morning. Is there a way to check?
The only reason I am not sure is because I bought it yesterday. There was 1 update for all the playtime yesterday.
This morning, I woke up early on accident and decided to play a few hours before work and got another update when playing it.

This post is useless anyway, I couldn't tell you about the differences since I is a newb.

 

[yowolabi]

I don't have the game, though I do plan to get one driving game and this looks like the best one. I'm glad they're committed to fixing people's issues... it makes it even more likely that i'll get this.

It sickens me that all of those issues had to be fixed because people with no . Booting people because they're in the lead and will beat you? In addition to that, there were people racing with a car that was a class above all the others and using glitches to make cars go faster than intended. I don't care if you do that stuff on singleplayer, even though it's a lame way to play. But why would you upload your scores, and do that kind of stuff in multiplayer?

 

[Randum]

Originally posted by: yowolabi
I don't have the game, though I do plan to get one driving game and this looks like the best one. I'm glad they're committed to fixing people's issues... it makes it even more likely that i'll get this.

It sickens me that all of those issues had to be fixed because people with no . Booting people because they're in the lead and will beat you? In addition to that, there were people racing with a car that was a class above all the others and using glitches to make cars go faster than intended. I don't care if you do that stuff on singleplayer, even though it's a lame way to play. But why would you upload your scores, and do that kind of stuff in multiplayer?

When i found out there was an end all car for the D class, it really pissed me off. The lack of variety in cars sounded pretty stupid. Generally that car was not allowed on most D class races, and made for better races.
The fixes are great I think! and will try it out tonight