Turn 10 Admits "Night Racing and Weather is Not a Minor Thing to Add"

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Chris Hu said:

ethomaz said:
People are missing something really important...

There features in Horizon didn't affect the driving physics... in the main Forza franchise they need... it is not just add like in Horizon... they needs to remade the driving physics to support it.

Horizon also has a DLC rally mode with does affect driving physics.  I'm pretty sure that Playground Games has more then enough people that could help Turn 10 with rain driving physics and inplement a day and night cycle and weather effects but first they need to anounce and finish Horizon 2 of course.

Well, a day/night cycle is only really feasible in a game with real time lighting (for it to look anywhere close to natural), which Forza 5 afaik doesn't have. Some lighting effects might be real-time, but most of the ambient lighting has always been described as fixed/baked, which means that for a night time version they might need to replace the majority of the textures of the track and add in additional real-time lighting effects for headlights and such.