The monthly updates for Forza Horizon 4 and Forza Motorsport 7 are here, and both of them add a trio of drift-ready Ford Mustangs to their respective games. The new vehicles let players pretend to be Formula Drift drivers Chelsea DeNofa and Vaughn Gittin Jr. as they slide around a faux English countryside or tracks around the world.

Gallery: Forza Motorsport 7 and Forza Horizon 4 March 2019 update

The #25 2018 Ford Mustang RTR with Monster Energy sponsorship is Vaughn Gitten Jr's current weapon of choice in the Formula Drift series. It packs a naturally aspirated Roush-Yates-built V8 that redlines at a heady 9,000 rpm. It should be plenty of fun to slide.

Alternatively, there's Chelsea Denofa's #88 2018 Ford Mustang RTR with BC Racing sponsorship. It has BC Racing coilovers, a custom independent rear suspension setup, and a four-speed dog box transmission.

Finally, there's the road-legal 2018 Ford Mustang RTR Spec 5. It wears a widebody kit that allows for wider wheels underneath the car. The powertrain remains stock, including a 460-bhp 5.0-litre V8 and 10-speed automatic gearbox.

Despite going on sale in October 2017, Turn 10 Studios continues to improve Forza Motorsport 7. The March update has a new Drift Cockpit Camera that should fit well with the month's additional cars. It puts the view inside the cabin but pans the camera depending on the level of steering lock. Players can increase or decrease the sensitivity depending on their preference.

Folks who play Forza Motorsport 7 with a wheel should download the March update immediately because it has some major improvements for the peripheral. Players can now tune the settings, including force feedback, on a per vehicle bases. In addition, the force feedback damper and load sensitivity are now changeable. For monitoring things, there's a new wheel telemetry panel in the options that for monitoring the force feedback torque, damper, and spring to the wheel, which should help better visualise what the new tweaks actually do.

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Forza Horizon 4 | Series 7 Update

The Series 7 update for Forza Horizon 4 arrives today! This series includes some big updates for Horizon 4, including new achievements, new vehicles to explore, Showcase Remixes, and the new Festival Playlist feature.

Here’s an overview of what to expect:

Festival Playlist
Beginning with the summer season change – which will occur this Thursday, March 14 -- The Series 7 update adds a new feature called Festival Playlist. Each season, the Festival Playlist gives you a clear view of everything that’s going on in Forza Horizon 4 season and keeps track of everything you’ve done. From #Forzathon challenges to new items in the shop to Rivals events and more, the Festival Playlist is your all-in-one spot for everything happening in the game each week. Plus, complete all the weekly events to earn some of Horizon’s most desirable rewards.

 
RTR Cars in Forza Horizon 4
Among the vehicles coming to Forza Horizon 4 with Series 7 are three drift-ready RTR cars. In addition to piloting around the competitive Formula Drift cars driven by the likes of Chelsea DeNofa and Vaughn Gittin Jr., there’s also the road-going 2018 Ford Mustang RTR Spec 5. Keep an eye on the Festival Playlist each week to find out how you can add these amazing rides to your garage!

 

2018 Ford #25 Mustang RTR

One of the American drifting greats and 2010 Formula Drift champion Vaughn Gitten Jr. is known for his aggressive style and billowing smoky driving. He’s so aggressive that you will often see his Monster Energy liveried Mustang on three or even two wheels on entry. You have to credit the driver for this no-holds-barred, go for it action, but the car deserves some credit as well. After all, when you put massive horsepower from a naturally-aspirated Roush-Yates V8 with a 9,000 RPM redline in this stripped down, full-on, drift car, any Forza lover can give it their all. This is the car that made history drifting the entire Nordschleife leaving a mark that can never be forgotten. It’s one greatness enabling machine you need to experience.

 

2018 Ford #88 Mustang RTR

Chelsea Denofa has been making a name for himself in many forms of racing. He got his start in the world of drifting before he even had a driver’s license. Since then he has raced as an SCCA pro where he gained car control and incredible driving skills before diving head first into the world of drifting. Now considered among the top drivers in Formula Drift, he joined the RTR Drift Team in 2017. In his BC Racing livery Mustang that shares the same specs with Vaughn Gitten Jr’s RTR Mustang, Denofa has been blowing minds with his precise and exciting drifts. With 1,000 horsepower, BC Racing coilovers, a custom IRS, and 4-speed dog box transmission, it’s now your chance to melt tires and make a name for your own drifting aspirations.

 

2018 Ford Mustang RTR Spec 5

The Ford Mustang has always been a legend, but when the team at RTR got their hands on this one they created something special and awesome. This pony car has got the look and the guts to go racing, drifting or just cruise. Take a good look at the custom wide body kit with side skirts, chin spoiler, rear diffuser, with RTR hood vents and you can see this thing means business. Looks aside, the real treat is under the hood where you will find a 460 horsepower Coyote V8 putting power through a 10-speed paddle-shifted transmission. It’s the perfect balance of performance and looks and will serve you well wherever you see fit to put it to good use.

 

Finally, don’t miss the RTR T-shirts available in the #Forzathon Shop each week during Series 7!

 

New Achievements
The Series 7 update adds 18 new Achievements to Forza Horizon 4, worth a total of 500 Xbox Gamerscore. These achievements support the features added since launch, including the new Horizon Stories events (British Racing Green, Isha’s Taxis, and Skill Streak), Free-for-All Adventure and Route Blueprint, plus achievements for participating in #Forzathon events and completing seasonal content.

 

Showcase Remixes
We’ve added a twist to two of our most popular Showcase Events! For a limited time only during Series 7, you’ll be able to race against the Flying Scotsman in summer while driving a Ford Anglia in our “Ninte & Three Quarters” Showcase Remix. Veterans of UNSC Fleetcom’s Halo Experience can find a new challenge as the training exercise is re-run in winter, called the “Assault on the Control Room” Showcase Remix. You’ll need to complete the regular Showcases first to unlock the remixed versions.

 

For a look at all the features that make up Series 7, don’t miss the replay of the Series 7 Update stream, broadcast from Playground Games’ HQ last week:

For details on the Series 7 fixes and improvements, check out the Series 7 Release Notes on the Forza Support site.

 

Forza Motorsport 7 March 2019 Update

The March 2019 update for Forza Motorsport 7 arrives on Tuesday, March 12! Drifters and wheel users rejoice, because March is bringing some great features your way. Not only do we have three drift-ready RTR cars serving as this month’s Spotlight Cars, we also have a new cockpit camera option made specifically with drifters in mind. We’ve also made some improvements to collisions in the game based off community feedback and have added new quality of life improvements for wheel players.

 

The long-awaited Forza Race Regulations (FRR) feature makes its limited-release debut in Forza Motorsport 7 this month. See below for details on how the closed beta will work and when the general player base will get their first taste of FRR (hint: it’s in April). Finally, the official Forza Discord server is now open for business and we’re inviting the entire Forza community to join and let their feedback be heard. See below for more on how you can get involved with this new platform.

 

As always you can see the longer list of fixed and improvements in our March 2019 Release Notes on the Forza Support site.

 

Here are the highlights of the March update, starting with that trio of drift-ready, RTR-powered beasts.

 
March Spotlight Cars: Welcome RTR!
This month we have three Spotlight cars that are known for getting sideways in some of the most thrilling drift competitions in the world. Driven by Formula Drift heroes Vaughn Gittin Jr. and Chelsea DeNofa, these RTR monsters are surely “Ready to Rock”! Each of these cars is available to all Forza 7 players for free this month. Here’s a closer look.

 

2018 Ford Mustang RTR Spec 5
The Ford Mustang has always been a legend but, when the team at RTR got their hands on this one, they created something truly awesome. This pony car has got the look and the guts to go racing, drifting, or just cruise. Take a good look at the custom wide body kit with side skirts, chin spoiler, rear diffuser, those RTR hood vents, and you can see this vehicle means business. The real treat is under the hood where you will find a 460 horsepower Coyote V8 putting power through a 10-speed paddle-shifted transmission. It’s the perfect balance of performance and looks and will serve you well wherever you see fit. 

 

2018 Ford #25 Mustang RTR
One of the American drifting greats and 2010 Formula Drift champion Vaughn Gittin Jr. is known for his aggressive style and billowing smoky driving. He’s so aggressive that you will often see his Monster Energy liveried Mustang on three or even two wheels on entry. You have to credit the driver for this no-holds-barred, go-for-it action, but the car deserves some credit as well. After all, when you put massive horsepower from a naturally-aspirated Roush-Yates V8 with a 9,000 RPM redline in this stripped down, full-on drift car, any Forza lover can give it their all. This is the car that made history drifting the entire Nürburgring Nordschleife. It’s one greatness-enabling machine you need to experience. 

 

2018 Ford #88 Mustang RTR
Chelsea DeNofa has been making a name for himself in many forms of racing. He got his start in the world of drifting before he even had a driver’s license. Since then he has raced as an SCCA pro where he honed his incredible driving skills before diving head first into the world of drifting. Now considered among the top drivers in Formula Drift, he joined the RTR Drift Team in 2017. In his BC Racing livery Mustang that shares the same specs with Vaughn Gittin Jr.’s RTR Mustang, Denofa has been blowing minds with his precise and exciting drifts. With 1,000 horsepower, BC Racing coilovers, a custom IRS, and 4-speed dog box transmission, it’s now your chance to melt tires and make a name for your own drifting aspirations. 

Forza Race Regulations March Beta
The rollout of Forza Race Regulations (FRR) begins this month. Starting in March, we are beginning to introduce FRR to Forza Motorsport 7 and this rollout will take place over several months as we continue to introduce new functionality and features to the system, and to listen to feedback from the Forza community.

 

Beginning on March 13, we will be launching a closed FRR beta hopper that will be accessible to a small number of players, including Turn 10 developers and invited Forza Motorsport 7 players. During this closed beta, Turn 10 will be experimenting with the first version of FRR in a retail environment, and gathering feedback from invited players. The scope of the FRR feature set in the March closed beta will be limited to track cutting only and will feature UI elements and implementation aspects that are not yet final. For example, while players will incur time penalties for cutting the track in this FRR hopper, those penalties will not affect players’ final placement after a race has completed. Incurred track-cutting time penalties will begin to count towards event results after the April update.

 

Also in April, we expect to open a public FRR beta hopper that will be accessible to all Forza Motorsport 7 players. Look for a more detailed explanation of how FRR features will work with the April update – as well as more detail on how FRR will evolve in the months ahead – coming next month.

 

Collision Improvements
We’ve made some changes to collision features with the March 2019 update, based on community feedback on new collision updates that were introduced to Forza Motorsport 7 last year. Specifically:

 

Collision Assist – In an effort to prevent players from using Collision Assist to push other cars around the track, the Collision Assist effect now bleeds off over time during contact.

 

General Collision Improvements – We’re introducing some important changes to the collision model. Previously, the friction between two cars used a fixed coefficient. Introducing the new “soft” collisions in Forza Motorsport 7 meant that friction sustained over a longer period. With the March 2019 update, we’ve lowered the peak friction and added a scale to the friction coefficient based on the interpenetration of the soft collisions. This means that light bumps will have less friction and large-magnitude collisions, where cars “squish” into one another, have higher friction. We have also adjusted the amount of time that cars can be “squished” together.

 

Wheel Updates
Wheel users will see some improvements in Forza Motorsport 7 this month. We’ve introduced four important updates:

 

1) Per-Car Wheel Tuning – Each car in a player’s garage now has a tunable setting for steering wheel rotation scale and force feedback. Players can now set their steering lock with soft locking and steering force, and those settings will save to the garage car. Note that this feature is not usable on rental cars and does not save to the tune itself. This tuning menu is accessible from the Tuning & Upgrades menu.

 

2) Dynamic Damper Behavior – The recently updated force feedback (FFB) introduced a dynamic damper to FFB. Some players prefer a linear damper; as a result, we’ve introduced a new dynamic damper effect slide which allows players to scale between the current dynamic damper and a fixed linear damper. The existing damper scale still scales the damper as it did before.

 

3) Load Sensitivity Tuning – The current FFB system in Forza Motorsport 7 is based on actual wheel loads. Some of these loads occur at a higher frequency. The game filters the very high frequency loads and bucket them as “Road Feed.” Some medium frequency loads are bucketed as “Align Torque.” The new Tire Load tuning setting allows players to filter out the medium frequency load to create a smoother FFB experience.

 

4) Wheel Telemetry – We’ve added a new panel to Telemetry to show players their current steering wheel torque in graph form. Because the game sends FFB torque, damper, and spring to the wheel separately, the game cannot display the actual level of torque saturation for the wheel. Torque is displayed as it is sent to the wheel, a normalized scaled between 0 and 1, with 1 being the maximum. Spring and Damper are normalized to the default setting.

Track Limit Menu Change
With the March update players can now find the Track Limit Lines settings option under Assists. Track Limits settings can also still be accessed via the HUD options menu.

 

Drift Cockpit Camera
Together with the introduction of new RTR cars in Forza Motorsport 7, we’ve got a new drift-focused cockpit camera option that is designed to improve drifters’ in-car views. Accessible from the HUD menu, the Drift Camera is a toggle-able option that, when engaged, allows the cockpit camera to automatically look in the direction of the car when drifting.

 

The new camera option is available in both cockpit camera view and wheel-less cockpit view and features three different settings that players can tune to their liking. Sensitivity controls the ratio of car angle to camera angle. Players can increase or decrease this setting to affect how sensitive the camera is to car angle. Look Speed controls speed at which the camera moves from its original position towards the direction of travel. Reducing this setting will smooth out the camera’s movement due to changes in direction. Camera Range controls the width of movement for the camera. Reduce this setting to limit the camera’s movement when the car is at peak angle.

 

Forza Discord – Now Open!
Got something to say about Forza? Want to share some feedback about the new Drift Camera setup, or Wheel Telemetry? Can’t wait to share your thoughts on Forza Race Regulations? Check out our newly opened Forza Discord server. Here you can interact with Forza fans from all over the world and share your thoughts on all things Forza. Join the fun now and let your voice be heard!