I decided over the weekend the best way to enjoy Horizon games is to shut off all the damage and treat it like a pure arcade racer … offline. Treat the other cars like free brakes and guardrails. Just stop worrying and love the cheese.
They're not photoshops or otherwise fake, but they're also not upcoming official content. People have been kitbashing Forza models for years in some communities, and this is nothing new. As someone correctly pointed out they're all only using parts that are already in game, usually as stock on other cars, for example the drag chute on the COPO Camaro.
That makes sense, but then I ask where the flat drag spoiler and NOS bottles came from. I don't know of any cars with those parts.
The 992 with the different body parts: https://www.nexusmods.com/forzahorizon5/mods/33 "Porsche 992 revitalized" mod. That image was actually taken by the uploader themselves and included in the mod page.
basically the original Super7 don't exist more and players have created more Super7s, so everyone is buying rare cars, and now the only 20,000,000 CR cars on auction are F1 GT
I agree the game does suffer from a lack of progression, everything is given out too quickly. However, I must disagree that it's a grind to earn money. You can have plenty of fun creating and racing your own blueprints, other players blueprints, Super 7 cards (there are some great cards out there) and there's the weekly events to earn cash.
I'm kind of split on whether the "throw cars at you" approach to game progression is a detriment to enjoying FH5 as a goal-oriented game, or whether it actually just promotes a "play however you want" approach demanded by a vocal portion of the playerbase. (Freedom: How's that workin' for ya?) The ironic thing is that while I understand people feeling this way about FH5, there actually is a segment of the racing-game world where give me every car immediately and let me drive anything I want without having to unlock stuff is actually the default approach -- and it's hardcore racing sims. FH5 might not have a good sense of slow-burning, gradual rise-to-the-top accomplishment, but it still has some semblance of structure to it that just isn't there in titles like Assetto Corsa Competizione or Automobilista 2. So I'm wondering if this isn't actually an across-the-board thing with racing games now, whether they're hardcore sims or casual titles. (The only racing game of note I've played in the last couple years that absolutely nailed the "drive fast, earn better cars, now drive faster" feeling I love is Art of Rally.)
That's the problem. FH5 is trying to have both some sort of progression system (with accolades and money) but also tries to be a sandbox game (by giving the player lots of money and cars), but it just makes the game very boring to me. There's no sense of accomplishment or progression, since everything is just given to you, so you're not really motivated to play. But at the same time, you still have to buy things so you have to grind to some capacity, which is boring. If they want to make the game a sandbox, then they should reduce the need to grind even more.
I agree with this sentiment. What I've been doing is during the festival AI race championships, I purposefully choose cars that fit the requirements, but I haven't used yet. This isn't a problem, since the AI's cars scale to whatever you have, so the race will always be easy, no matter what you're driving
The game is accessible to everyone at all skill levels regardless. Accessibility is not about handing the player everything. Instead, it's about ensuring that as many people as possible are able to play. The game has plenty of settings in place to achieve this (though of course more are welcome), adding decent progression is not an issue of accessibility. It's an issue of game design. The game was designed to allow everyone to drive whatever they want, whenever they want, with the exception of the most expensive cars and playlist exclusives.
