Forza Horizon 5: General Discussion

[ShawnPhillips]

Stream is live. This standby music is not from any previous Forza games, A taste of the new OST for FH5 maybe?

 

[-Fred-]

Well there's the A90.

 

[Populuxe]

New Supra confirmed Day 1.

 

[TokoTurismo]

OMG I freakin' love Playground Games and Mike's personality! Cheers guys!!!

 

[YoungRhombus]

Some music playing in the background in ForzaVista, maybe it can be identified?

 

[GBalao888]

The GR Supra is a 2020 year model, but has the engine specs of the 2019 model.

Another is that it will even be one of the first cars you'll encounter in the game at launch.

 

[-Fred-]

The menus are reminescent of FH2

 

[YoungRhombus]

Engine sound is pretty decent to my ears. I especially notice how more prominent the engine sound was at idle.

 

[-Fred-]

Okay, that's a pretty big map.

 

[Nacho Libre]

The great Teotihuacan ruins confirmed in the map!!!

 

[ShawnPhillips]

High res map reveal

 

[TokoTurismo]

The map is one BIG fan service! Damn PG, you guys freakin rock!!!

High res map reveal

I can't breath!! Whoa!!!!

 

[AudiMan2011]

Interesting to see them go for a coast to coast map.

 

[turk1993]

High res map reveal

 

[Populuxe]

I am hoping against hope that the X in the middle of this oval means Figure 8 racing has finally come to Horizon.

 

[Eunos_Cosmo]

The desert/dunes area is considerably smaller than I was expecting, at least as a proportion of the overall map.

 

[Silver Arrows]

Hopefully its good to drive on the main roads, but I'm impressed so far with the size.

 

[Vic Reign93]

My biggest takeaway aside from the amazing map and the Supra fans getting spoilt in the best way?

We now have the 3 big manufacturers who’ve had absences from prior Horizon games, all in the same game from Day One.

VW wasn’t in FH3, back in FH4.
Mitsubishi and Toyota were in FH3, not in FH4 at launch.

FH5? All in from the start

 

[Stupornaut]

Assuming that race they showed is any indication, the post-race Empty White Void is gone! The Evo crossed the line and we got a cool in-environment slow-motion shot. Also noticed that the screen goes "cinematic" letterbox when you get close enough to the finish line on the last lap.

 

[juanffy18]

I want to see that Jaguar XJR15

 

[willbsn13]

Spotted 5 new rims in the Let's Go stream 5.

moving so fast we didn't actually see the Work T5R's

 

[breyzipp]

Some of the menus got revealed as well (not the main menu but the one while being at a player house, and then one going deeper into upgrades). FH4 pics for comparison.

FH4:

FH5:

my thoughts:
1) it looks MUCH cleaner in FH5 than in FH4, I like that a lot!
2) autoshow and auction house combined into 1 buy&sell menu. Then a new festival menu added (we get 6 festival locations now, probably comparable with FH3).
3) customise character removed from here and probably directly accessible from the main menu (thank god!)


FH4:

FH5:

my thoughts:
1) again much cleaner look, they really listened to the bad feedback on the FH4 UI.
2) seems like individual car mastery is back. So that means FH4 stile, not global mastery like in FH3. I guess that’s okay

 

[Sage Ages]

Disappointed in the map tbh. Not a huge amount of coherent dirt trails.

 

[TokoTurismo]

The fact that the 2020 Toyota GR Supra has the Toyota heritage kit, I wonder how great Forza's relationship with Toyota has become after it returned to the franchise back in 2019? The fact we've even have the GR Super AND that kit, is super duper COOL! T

 

[Eunos_Cosmo]

Some of the menus got revealed as well (not the main menu but the one while being at a player house, and then one going deeper into upgrades). FH4 pics for comparison.

FH4:
View attachment 1073292
FH5:
View attachment 1073290

my thoughts:
1) it looks MUCH cleaner in FH5 than in FH4, I like that a lot!
2) autoshow and auction house combined into 1 buy&sell menu. Then a new festival menu added (we get 6 festival locations now, probably comparable with FH3).
3) customise character removed from here and probably directly accessible from the main menu (thank god!)


FH4:
View attachment 1073300
FH5:
View attachment 1073298

my thoughts:
1) again much cleaner look, they really listened to the bad feedback on the FH4 UI.
2) seems like individual car mastery is back. So that means FH4 stile, not global mastery like in FH3. I guess that’s okay

That's a big improvement - reducing visual noise. Thank you, thank you. I don't mind the individual car mastery is back, though I wish it was a more/better fleshed out mechanic. I would really love it if you unlocked special upgrades once reaching a certain level of car mastery. Perhaps engine swaps could be tiered this way. So, using a first Gen RX-7 as an example - an initial phase of mastery unlocks the third gen RX-7 engine swap and then the final level of mastery unlocks the 787B engine...that way it actually feels special.

 

[willbsn13]

https://www.motortrend.com/news/new-lamborghini-countach-preview/

Cover Car potential with this yet to be revealed new Lambo Countach reboot?

 

[breyzipp]

I found all the freeroam and race circuits from Let’s Go! Episodes 4 and 5, and marked them on the map for scale and orientation. 😎 Enjoy!

 

[WanganDream]

Now, perhaps it is more likely that it is an option available only on some cars such as the Supra, but the race rear bumper is back from FM2.

...The design has evolved a lot in 15 years.

 

[ShawnPhillips]

perhaps it is more likely that it is an option available only on some cars such as the Supra, but the race rear bumper is back from FM2.

It is a part of the Heritage Kit made by Toyota for the Supra first shown at last year's Sema show. Comes with the MK4 style circular taillights.

 

[Dan Hill]

Not personally a Supra fan, however good for those who are and the older models too. I would like to see the Yaris GR though, especially with the new customisation options.

The map looks amazing though and it'll be interesting to see the other seasonal changes to it as well.