Forza Horizon 5: General Discussion

  • Thread starter Thread starter Northstar
  • 21,161 comments
  • 2,706,304 views
This is such a bittersweet celebration for me. I'm being hit with all of the factors that made FH1, IMHO, one of the finest racing games of all time, while knowing we won't get those elements again. Memorable opponents / villains (just generic Drivatars now), starting in a crappy Corrado (gotta get COOL cars flung at you immediately)... It feels like a band that's fallen off doing a throwback tour of their breakout hits.
 
zotobom
This is such a bittersweet celebration for me. I'm being hit with all of the factors that made FH1, IMHO, one of the finest racing games of all time, while knowing we won't get those elements again. Memorable opponents / villains (just generic Drivatars now), starting in a crappy Corrado (gotta get COOL cars flung at you immediately)... It feels like a band that's fallen off doing a throwback tour of their breakout hits.
Click to expand...
I dunno... I'm playing through it right now and you ditch the Corrado pretty quickly early on. Once you discover street races money ceases to be much of an issue and they even fling a cool car at you after each set of races. I wouldn't even say the characters have Grid Legends or even TDU2 levels of characterisation outside of brief cut scenes. What I do like is that the scriptwriters have done a lot of work to flesh them out behind the scenes via DJ patter and radio interviews.
 
Last edited:
d8690eed-fbc0-4364-931b-95ed4eadd3e7.png


Wha-hey my 'Eat More Chips' car is on the recommended designs page. Not bad for someone whose designs are basic by nature. Dead chuffed.
 
I reinstalled this on pc yesterday, ran badly, poor fps and stuttering when moving across the map, last time I played it months ago it ran great.
 
You need to make sure to enable cache mounting and be aware of that this cache gets created while you drive around for the first time in areas so it will stutter here and there but then when the map data is cached its fine. And i get great fps on my older system so idk about your poor fps.
 
Last edited:
Completing today’s Daily Forzathon Challenge “Horizon Legacy” was way too much work for one lousy point. The challenge is “Complete a Horizon Open Race in the 2013 Dodge Viper GTS.” The problem is that the Custom Racing lobby doesn’t count. But you don’t learn that until you’ve run a race there, which explains why everyone in S1 Road Racing is in a 2013 Dodge Viper. You have to use the Open Racing lobby, and just wait for an S1 Road Racing lobby to come up. After 20 tries and getting only S2, A, and B lobbies, I finally got desperate and took the first S1 class lobby that popped up: Off-Road. I slipped and slid around for three races before I quit out and got the completion notice.
 
Last edited:
Populuxe
The problem is that the Custom Racing lobby doesn’t count. But you don’t learn that until you’ve run a race there, which explains why everyone in S1 Road Racing is in a 2013 Dodge Viper.
Click to expand...
It is bizarre that they apparently class them as separate. I got lucky with the open lobby after my third try and got S1 Road Racing (and won it overall, a rarity for me), but I can imagine the 'RNG' will just get people to not even bother after a few goes.

As an aside, does anyone know if the Anniversary Edition counted for completion of the challenge or was it only doable in a vanilla Viper? I used the regular one since I know they're very specific with their wording on this sort of thing, but about half of the field I was against were using the AE. I can't help thinking that was more to do with trying to do the challenge rather than just using it because it happens to be a good car.
 
Populuxe
completing today’s Daily Forzathon Challenge “Horizon Legacy” was way too much work for one lousy point. The challenge is “Complete a Horizon Open Race in the 2013 Dodge Viper GTS.” The problem is that the Custom Racing lobby doesn’t count. But you don’t learn that until you’ve run a race there, which explains why everyone in S1 Road Racing is in a 2013 Dodge Viper. You have to use the Open Racing lobby, and just wait for an S1 Road Racing lobby to come up. After 20 tries and getting only S2, A, and B lobbies, I finally got desperate and took the first S1 class lobby that popped up: Off-Road. I slipped and slid around for three races before I quit out and got the completion notice.
Click to expand...
Not to twist the knife, but you only need to do any one race.

Also I had the same problem. After about 45 minutes I detuned the Viper to A and an S1 road race immediately popped up, which made me swear, but the next was an A class cross county event which I bizarrely won among all the other A class Vipers...
 
The remade intro of FH2 is indeed beautifully made.

Now why can't we even drive the Vanquish clearly displayed on our faces? They have the AML license.... so I guess it was deleted for no reason whatsoever.
 
There's a bunch of cars shown in trailers that we don't have access to. In the Update 4 one, you can see the Porsche Boxter in the background. There's also the Huayra and Vanquish of course.
 
eda4b980-8d68-44f3-a84e-76c8c881eccd.png


This makes my avatar look even more like Timmy Mallet, he's only got Mallets Mallet in his hands lol.

For my non UK based friends Timmy Mallet was a 1980's early morning kids TV presenter. Google him, it'll be an experience for you 😂😂😂.
 
GTvsForza
There's a bunch of cars shown in trailers that we don't have access to. In the Update 4 one, you can see the Porsche Boxter in the background. There's also the Huayra and Vanquish of course.
Click to expand...
I hope they bring back the Huayra soon. I would assume they have the license since they can literally show it in the game's intro. Just a matter of time now.

I love that car.
 

Similar threads

PJTierney
Forza Horizon 6 - General Discussion
110 111 112
Replies
3K
Views
321K
Michael S YT
Michael S YT
Famine
Forza Horizon 5 Series 41: Narnia Business
Replies
3
Views
4K
NotThePrez
NotThePrez
Terronium-12
Here's All 53 Achievements You'll Race For in Forza Horizon 5
Replies
8
Views
7K
Rob192005
Rob192005
Famine
Forza Horizon 6 Release Date Might Have Just Been Leaked… by Forza Horizon 5
Replies
11
Views
3K
BuddersTheOne
BuddersTheOne
Famine
Forza Horizon 5 Series 43 Preview: Two Minutes to Midnight
Replies
8
Views
5K
RodSk8Dude
RodSk8Dude

Latest Posts

Back