Forza Horizon 5

[Jason]

The newest season came with a patch that had some interesting changes but for the most part, not really. I just do the first level of the weekly reward as that's always the new car and then leave it at that. Waiting for the expansion p much.

[smokeless6]

Me too usually. Hit 20 points a week, 80 for the whole thing. A couple times I've gone to tier 2, but there needs to be a number of seasonal championships for me to hit that. They stopped including these recently for whatever reason.

[Jason]

I think they're trying to do themed seasons so trying and changing things to see what works, which I appreciate tbh. Problem is people want PR challenges because they're quick and easy and allow us to finish the weekly stuff quicker.

 

Honestly I think they should just throw the lot in while keeping the same point rewards now tbh, have PR challenges, seasonal, EventLab, photo challenges, treasure hunt, etc. Let us hit max points for the season how we went, vs having a limited section and having to do complete them all for the max points every week.

[Plage]

I totally agree with you when it comes to leaving it to us how we want to aquire the needed points. Forcing us to do some of the unimmersive and often outright crap they and some creators come up with is really getting frustrating.

 

With the last update they've fixed the issue with the Raesr Tachyon and the Jaguar I-Pace in Horizon Open A class racing. Of course not by fixing the actual problem but simply removing the cars from the competition. Which actually isn't really a loss. I just wish they'd do the same permanently with the Boneshaker. I simply hate that thing.

 

 

[Quinn_flower]

Is it me or fh5 is just log in change your tunes to the challenges get to level 20 unlock car and log out.

 

it’s repetitive like gta online now.

 

 

[Dock]

I mean, that was what FH4 was too tbh lol and theybe been bringing back the exclusive cars a lot sooner in this game compared to FH4, so theres even less reason to have FOMO if you dont play a particular series Id say

 

All the online stuff is what the game is about, but the appeal to play them is kinda meh I suppose without a friend or a group

 

Also with online racing sadly a few meta cars renders public matchmaking p boring apart from lower car classes still, Ive managed to get to the cat badge atleast lmao

 

 

Next month's update is bringing a ton of new Horizon Tour championships iirc, so thatll be a nice and relaxing P(vP)vE experience atleast and should get some better use out of all the cars we've been collecting, plus new accolades if you care about em

Edited April 20 by Dock

[Mexicola9302]

Forza Motorsport will probably be released in September or October, im much more interested in the motorsport series than horizon. Hopefully it really gets released this year and not in 2023.

 

Lately i only sometimes unlock the 20 points car, and then wait for the next week. But often i don't even bother playing for weeks, it really is very repetetive. I just miss real life racetracks, i know that is even more repetetive, but at least it's real life not fantasy racetracks.

 

I think more adults play motorsport than horizon, it's annoying to do the weekly trial with probably mostly 10 year olds. You gotta be lucky so there is at least one other good driver, to win this thing. If the rest of the players stays in the middle of the field that is okay, as long as they are not all on the last few places.

[smokeless6]

This is why I gravitated to the rivals mode. There's a sense of multiplayer whilst having none of the drawbacks. It's just racing ghosts, but I find it fun (unless I'm trying to beat Dock). The other MP stuff isn't so appealing to me, so many races are wreckfests, pushing me in to a wall, and god forbid I overtake someone, and that will not do, punt. And of course there's the cockpit view versus chase view issue where perhaps the field isn't level. That's my choice yeah, and maybe I'd do more of it if there were server-side view restrictions, putting all opponents in the pit, where they belong!

 

My new racing seat arrives today. Bought and installed ACC last night, reinstalled AC and have a few other sims. Getting the band back together from my GPL league racing days for online league racing. I still plan to run FH5 from time to time, but with Ferraris available in those sims too I'm not sure how much Forza I'll be driving in the near future. It's always fun for a bash and of course I'm eager to try it with the new setup.

[Jason]

Yeeeeaaaaa they really need a proper bug fixing patch, there's really one too many issues with the game these days.

 

Crashes still, broken challenges, the mansion wheelspins not always being given and now the eventlab challenges not working unless you delete some temp files in file explorer - not something console players can do.

 

Edit: finally got the eventlab challenges to work and f*ck me they need to test these eventlab races. It was a really nicely done track but it was so laggy I was getting dizzy driving around it.

[Plage]

I've also done more Horizon Open racing in the last time. Especially individual street races in the S1 and A class. It can be fun even against meta cars if the people actually behave and drive correctly but quite often it's just a destruction derby. I found the Horizon Tour races much more relaxed in that direction. Racing as a team against the AI seems to result in a better, more cooperative driving behaviour and the often limited selection of cars (classes and types) makes it a little more even on this level than the Open races.

 

On 4/21/2022 at 10:51 PM, Jason said:

Edit: finally got the eventlab challenges to work and f*ck me they need to test these eventlab races. It was a really nicely done track but it was so laggy I was getting dizzy driving around it.

 

It seems the testing is at best rudimentary. Most of the chosen challenges are still crap in my opinion but there were a couple of better ones in the last time like the one that was replicating a race on these narrow Japanese mountain roads. It was done quite well and really transported the flair of such roads. I fortunately didn't experienced any lag so far even with the challenges that are using and are plastered with a lot of objects.

[smokeless6]

Got my new 'pit' all set up and it's pretty awesome. Having so much fun in the two Assetto Corsa sims that I haven't fired up FH5 yet but I want to. Maybe tonight. When does the new series start? Is it third season out of four right now or where are we?

 

I bought the Open Wheeler Gen 3 racing seat. It's fully adjustable for seat position, wheel stand for height and it slides farther and closer and an inclined pedal platform. So nice to have the pedals bolted down! Very pleased with how it all turned out.

[Dock]

Next series should be this thursday I think

 

Also theyre finally bringing back the 512TR (alongside adding the SF90, F8, and California T)

 

https://support.forzamotorsport.net/hc/en-us/articles/5667845737235-FH5-Release-Notes-April-26th-2022

 

^ patch notes

Edited April 25 by Dock

[Commander S]

22 minutes ago, Dock said:

Next series should be this thursday I think

 

Also theyre finally bringing back the 512TR (alongside adding the SF90, F8, and California T)

 

https://support.forzamotorsport.net/hc/en-us/articles/5667845737235-FH5-Release-Notes-April-26th-2022

 

^ patch notes

 

 

Yup - Cali T gets the convertible animation, and there's the 250 GT Lusso back, too. Meanwhile, the Car Pass cars include the Ford SVT Lightning (!!), and the Dodge Magnum SRT8 - plus presumably the Toyota Tacoma TRD Pro, since that's in some of the promo pics.

 

Also, the tree that was smack-bang in the middle of the driving line at Ek' Balam has been removed, lol.

[smokeless6]

Is the Tacoma just a truck, and not a drift truck or any other specialized config?

 

That's what I drive every day and I wanted a normal one in Forza. The ones we already had didn't quite cover it.

[Dock]

12 minutes ago, smokeless6 said:

Is the Tacoma just a truck, and not a drift truck or any other specialized config?

 

That's what I drive every day and I wanted a normal one in Forza. The ones we already had didn't quite cover it.

 

It is "just" a truck dont worry lol

 

Also 992 GT3 at last gonna have wait till series 8 to get it tho; gonna guess that the 718 GT4RS will be included as part of the car pass if the GT3 was made part of the forzathon

[smokeless6]

OK cool, one of the ones we have has a nasty body kit on it that can't be removed. Need a simple Tacoma

[Commander S]

17 minutes ago, smokeless6 said:

Is the Tacoma just a truck, and not a drift truck or any other specialized config?

 

That's what I drive every day and I wanted a normal one in Forza. The ones we already had didn't quite cover it.

 

 

It's the TRD performance model, but still a stock truck, unlike the DeBerti custom one:

 

 

 

3 minutes ago, Dock said:

 

It is "just" a truck dont worry lol

 

Also 992 GT3 at last gonna have wait till series 8 to get it tho; gonna guess that the 718 GT4RS will be included as part of the car pass if the GT3 was made part of the forzathon

 

 

'18 RS4 Avant, too - and that probably means the RS5 (no idea which version) will also be coming, since they were both found in the files at the same time. There's also been placeholder stuff for the 2020 RS3 Sedan, and the 2020 BMW M8 (again, no clue as to which M8 variant), so those might well be in there, too.

 

I'm guessing that the GT3 will be the 'flagship' car of the update, similar to the SF90 this month and the Mach E for Series 6. RS4 will likely be a reward car, which makes me think that either the RS3 or RS5 (or both!) will be in the Car Pass. And I'm going to have a quick comb through the FH4 car roster, because there'll no doubt be a bunch of German cars from there that'll be coming back, like the already-shown AMG GT S.

[smokeless6]

Yeah, that's the thing

 

I drive it every day why do I want to drive one in Forza? Maybe to go airborne.

[Commander S]

1 minute ago, smokeless6 said:

Yeah, that's the thing

 

I drive it every day why do I want to drive one in Forza? Maybe to go airborne.

 

 

Could always soup it up, use it for stuff like The Trial or Horizon Tour, and then you can roll up and show off in your real-life daily driver.

 

...and I knew there were some obvious omissions from Porsche that they could probably add next month: already called it when the car list got revealed, but I'd be really surprised if the Singer DLS didn't make a comeback (if not in Series 8, then eventually), because it was a relatively late addition to FH4, but also came out ahead of the real-life car, so it'd be weird to leave it stuck back in FH4.

 

Wouldn't mind the 356 Speedster or the '15 Macan, either, but I'm not going to dwell too much on what they could add, because I'll just get let down when they don't, lol.

[Plage]

3 hours ago, smokeless6 said:

Is it third season out of four right now or where are we?

 

It's the fourth (last) season actually. You can get a McLaren 650 Coupe which is new and a Lambo Aventador SVJ in this one. I've just finished it and also got the last series reward car (Ford GT40 MkII).

 

/edit: Just tested the new 911 Speedster. You can remove the top but unfortunately it's not animated and you just get a transition between with/without. Quite nice if you just want to cruise around.

 

 

 

 

Edited April 25 by Plage

[Flachbau]

So thrilled to hear that we’re getting the F150 Lightning in Car Pass soon! It’s my number one dream ride. 

[Commander S]

23 hours ago, Commander S said:

 

'18 RS4 Avant, too - and that probably means the RS5 (no idea which version) will also be coming, since they were both found in the files at the same time. There's also been placeholder stuff for the 2020 RS3 Sedan, and the 2020 BMW M8 (again, no clue as to which M8 variant), so those might well be in there, too.

 

I'm guessing that the GT3 will be the 'flagship' car of the update, similar to the SF90 this month and the Mach E for Series 6. RS4 will likely be a reward car, which makes me think that either the RS3 or RS5 (or both!) will be in the Car Pass. And I'm going to have a quick comb through the FH4 car roster, because there'll no doubt be a bunch of German cars from there that'll be coming back, like the already-shown AMG GT S.

 

 

...and there you have it!

 

 

 

Figured they'd go for the M8 Competition rather than the Gran Coupé, but I'm quite glad they went with the coupé for the RS5, too (and not just because I'll cling on to anything that still offers a 2-door over something more obviously family-orientated - RIP 3-door Fiesta... ). Match that with the other new Audis added to FH5, and you've got a small sports car (TT RS) and a small sedan (RS3) with a 5-banger, and then a larger executive coupé (RS5) and an estate (RS4) with the V6. Covers all the bases, there - now, where's that e-Tron GT, Playground?

 

Also, VW Caddy - nice to have another smaller pickup after the SVT! Now to figure out the likeliest returning car to round out the four free reward cars for the season (I'm still putting my money on the Singer DLS, there...).

[Dock]

From TheAdmiester (who is also on GTAForums )

 

 

RB swap for an SVT Lightning lmao looking forward to racing that in A class

[Exsanguination]

How do you get the first house? The game is telling me to purchase my first house …. I drove to the casa Bella and there is no icon, nothing 

[Ivan1997GTA]

1 hour ago, Exsanguination said:

How do you get the first house? The game is telling me to purchase my first house …. I drove to the casa Bella and there is no icon, nothing 

Have you tried restarting the game?

[Exsanguination]

Yes restarting fixed it …shoulda tried that first.

[Dock]

The SF90 handles p well + we got playa azul as the track = great series rivals challenge

 

Also glad to see racing challenges finally return to the fold

 

This weeks trial uses trucks (Unimog, Tankpool racer) but is easy to beat since the AI truck's PIs dont scale well enough

Edited April 28 by Dock

[Jason]

20 minutes ago, Dock said:

The SF90 handles p well + we got playa azul as the track = great series rivals challenge

 

I thought it handled like absolute garbage lol. I couldn't get a clean lap going hard and basically just cruised around after a few tries cause I could not be f*cked with it.

 

Nice and easy trial for the week though yea, made getting the 20 points a breeze this week.

[Dock]

6 hours ago, Jason said:

 

I thought it handled like absolute garbage lol. I couldn't get a clean lap going hard and basically just cruised around after a few tries cause I could not be f*cked with it.

 

 

Well it is an AWD car so understeer will be a bit of a problem. Do you use assists like TC or SC? They tend to slow down cars way too much under hard cornering, might cause you to go off the ideal line (especially on Playa Azul where its easy to bash into the barriers if you lose the line at speed). Top times are around 56-57 secs in the SF90 I think.

[Jason]

5 hours ago, Dock said:

Well it is an AWD car so understeer will be a bit of a problem. Do you use assists like TC or SC? They tend to slow down cars way too much under hard cornering, might cause you to go off the ideal line (especially on Playa Azul where its easy to bash into the barriers if you lose the line at speed). Top times are around 56-57 secs in the SF90 I think.

 

Only assist is anti-lock brakes, driving manual.

 

Dunno what it was tbh, felt like the brakes weren't great and it couldn't hold a line, usually I pick up how a car handles quickly but with this it didn't feel like it handled consistently to me.