Forza Horizon 5: General Discussion

[UKMikey]

Rattled through the Icons of Speed story this morning. I couldn't quite make the Railton challenge time with no assists so gave in after five attempts and switched on traction control. You could say it was my antidote to being bored as the background song put it.

Looks like the route you take is important and you have to go to the left of the wooden structures at the end.

The other chapters were easy to beat though.

 

[-Fred-]

I'm so in love with this car. Pure beauty! ❤️

I just wish it had like, 400-ish horsepower less.

 

[Edax 76]

I managed the Railton challenge with traction control off and shifting with automatic. I needed a second try, but I got it.

That's how I got it with these settings. I needed more than 2 goes though.😂😂

 

[Populuxe]

I didn't do a lot of preparation for the Weekly Trial today. I saw it was A800 and I figured "I'm sure I've got a good A800 build." So I grabbed my Lexus SC. I very rarely drive it, but it has AWD and was A800 so I figured it should be fine. What I didn't realize is that it is one of my very rare all-horsepower-no-handling builds. I had to change my driving style fast. I was only able to get a sixth and a fourth out of it, but thankfully I had a good team and we only needed the two races to win the Firebird. Note to self: do more preparation next time.

 

[CarbonDaimon]

 

[Nacho Libre]

I just realized that at some point last week FH5 crossed the mark of 32 million accounts signed!

 

[Stupornaut]

I'm so in love with this car. Pure beauty! ❤️

I don't care that the lyrics cite a model year that preceded the actual performance package by a couple years, this is one of the best my car is fast and cool and you cannot stop it songs ever made.

 

[PJTierney]

I saw somebody on ResetEra mention this. They were a new Game Pass player, fired up Forza for a few hours, then came back and had no progress.

 

[Morbid65]

The new Firebird is cool, but I really wish we could take power out of it. Would love to be able to tune it for A class or something. As it is at the top of S1 I'm not really sure it will be of much use for anything.

 

[WanganDream]

Semi slick tires can be installed to keep the S1 while keeping it AWD.
However, there are two problems with this choice: first, grip is reduced. The second (and biggest) problem is that we lose the cool Goodyear yellow lettering.
The white lettering on "Horizon" is not as cool or as beautiful as Goodyear.

 

[RYAN]

I do wish we could get lettering on tyres other than the Semi Slicks. Option to have the Goodyear and Michelin sidewalls as a customization option would be real nice too.

 

[pez2k]

I do wish we could get lettering on tyres other than the Semi Slicks. Option to have the Goodyear and Michelin sidewalls as a customization option would be real nice too.

I would assume that it's entirely a licensing thing. The Hot Wheels tyres for example show that it's possible for them to add alternative art for existing tyre upgrades, but all of the branded tyres are used solely on certain specific cars as the stock tyres.

Of course, what challenges that assumption is that they're used on a lot of fictional racecars, and I can't imagine Playground having to go to Goodyear and ask them for permission to put their slicks on a V8 Morris Minor. Could be the other way around though, for example if Pagani had a supplier contract with Pirelli they might not want to allow players to equip branded Michelins. The Ride series managed to have a range of branded tyres for most of its bikes though, so who knows. At the very least it's not a technical limitation I'd say.

 

[MUSC4EVER]

Went through my car collection earlier and I'm only missing a few cars, I need some help to get them but I think a couple of them I can get from mastery trees but I don't know from which cars.

1969 Dodge Charger Daytona Hemi
1946 Ford Super Deluxe Station Wagon
1991 Hoonigan Rauh-Welt Begriff Porsche 911 Turbo
1992 Mazda RX7 Twerkstallion
1999 Lamborghini Diablo GTR
1965 Peel Trident
1973 Pontiac Firebird Trans-Am SD-455
2016 Toyota Land Cruiser Arctic Trucks AT37

Any help would be welcome, thanks in advance.

 

[UKMikey]

Went through my car collection earlier and I'm only missing a few cars, I need some help to get them but I think a couple of them I can get from mastery trees but I don't know from which cars.

1969 Dodge Charger Daytona Hemi
1946 Ford Super Deluxe Station Wagon
1991 Hoonigan Rauh-Welt Begriff Porsche 911 Turbo
1992 Mazda RX7 Twerkstallion
1999 Lamborghini Diablo GTR
1965 Peel Trident
1973 Pontiac Firebird Trans-Am SD-455
2016 Toyota Land Cruiser Arctic Trucks AT37

Any help would be welcome, thanks in advance.

 

[RazorSharkz]

Went through my car collection earlier and I'm only missing a few cars, I need some help to get them but I think a couple of them I can get from mastery trees but I don't know from which cars.

1969 Dodge Charger Daytona Hemi
1946 Ford Super Deluxe Station Wagon
1991 Hoonigan Rauh-Welt Begriff Porsche 911 Turbo
1992 Mazda RX7 Twerkstallion
1999 Lamborghini Diablo GTR
1965 Peel Trident
1973 Pontiac Firebird Trans-Am SD-455
2016 Toyota Land Cruiser Arctic Trucks AT37

Any help would be welcome, thanks in advance.

The 73 Trans-Am is a seasonal reward this month. The rest are more easily explained in the video above me.

 

[Nacho Libre]

It seems I got gifted the 2009 Zonda Zinque Roadster 'Oreo Edition' (hmm Oreos, I'm working on a dark chocolate box right now), the 2017 GT 'Opi Edition', and the 1932 De Luxe Five-Window Forza Edition, and some props!

 

[RYAN]

I would assume that it's entirely a licensing thing. The Hot Wheels tyres for example show that it's possible for them to add alternative art for existing tyre upgrades, but all of the branded tyres are used solely on certain specific cars as the stock tyres.

Of course, what challenges that assumption is that they're used on a lot of fictional racecars, and I can't imagine Playground having to go to Goodyear and ask them for permission to put their slicks on a V8 Morris Minor. Could be the other way around though, for example if Pagani had a supplier contract with Pirelli they might not want to allow players to equip branded Michelins. The Ride series managed to have a range of branded tyres for most of its bikes though, so who knows. At the very least it's not a technical limitation I'd say.

It almost certainly is a Licensing thing, NFS has had multiple branded Tyre lettering for the last few games though. So it is possible.
They had Falken, Kumho, Toyo Proxes along with Idlers and Speedhunters options.

 

[Populuxe]

It seems I got gifted the 2009 Zonda Zinque Roadster 'Oreo Edition' (hmm Oreos, I'm working on a dark chocolate box right now), the 2017 GT 'Opi Edition', and the 1932 De Luxe Five-Window Forza Edition, and some props!

Nice. I only had to spend $5 for a code on ebay, $20 for cosmetics I'll never use, and $80 for an exclusive controller.

I'm not actually angry. In fact I'm glad other people can enjoy these cars. Take photos.

 

[strela]

1969 Dodge Charger Daytona Hemi
1991 Hoonigan Rauh-Welt Begriff Porsche 911 Turbo
1992 Mazda RX7 Twerkstallion
1999 Lamborghini Diablo GTR

• 1969 Dodge Charger Daytona Hemi: Unlocked from the 1969 Dodge Charger R/T Car Mastery Tree
• 1991 Hoonigan Porsche 911 Turbo RWB: Unlocked from the 1995 Porsche 911 GT2 Car Mastery Tree
• 1992 Hoonigan Mazda RX-7 Twerkstallion: Unlocked from the 1990 Mazda Savanna RX-7 Car Mastery Tree
• 1999 Lamborghini Diablo GTR: Unlocked from the 1997 Lamborghini Diablo SV Car Mastery Tree

 

[RYAN]

I do wish we could gift cars to friends. I have every car and duplicates of all the valuable rare ones and would love to help someone out with something they are missing rather than just sending it to some random guy who might already have it.

Even if it was just a few gifts a week or something.

 

[Edax 76]

I do wish we could gift cars to friends. I have every car and duplicates of all the valuable rare ones and would love to help someone out with something they are missing rather than just sending it to some random guy who might already have it.

Even if it was just a few gifts a week or something.

Totally agree with you bud. My grandson plays the game and I would love to gift my duplicates to him. The one time we were told we could gift to people we choose the poor soul never received one car I sent him if I remember correctly.

 

[PJTierney]

I do wish we could gift cars to friends. I have every car and duplicates of all the valuable rare ones and would love to help someone out with something they are missing rather than just sending it to some random guy who might already have it.

Even if it was just a few gifts a week or something.

Gifting was a thing in the Xbox 360 era, it was great, especially the sharing of open source tunes and liveries.

It also lead to a black market where people were exchanging real money for rare cars.

 

[The_Greaser]

People could also gift Unicorns back then. Which I distinctly believe they were banned. Not permanently though if I ever remember.

 

[Seb75]

I usually loath having to use the unlimited buggies for a race. But this weeks "Light up the night" Rally Adventure championship was so enjoyable that I did it twice with different cars 😅

 

[SU_Tempest]

Ugghhhh...

GT2 license test moment, but in a FH5 race... if you know, you know.

 

[sirjim73]

It seems I got gifted the 2009 Zonda Zinque Roadster 'Oreo Edition' (hmm Oreos, I'm working on a dark chocolate box right now), the 2017 GT 'Opi Edition', and the 1932 De Luxe Five-Window Forza Edition, and some props!

I had that happen to me a few weeks ago. It will reverse itself quite quickly.
I equipped the Doritos "suit", but as soon as i went to the "character" screen it reset me to my costume without the Doritos "suit". Weird thing is the cars are still in my garage, but if I go to select them it says I don't have the licence to drive them.

Nice. I only had to spend $5 for a code on ebay, $20 for cosmetics I'll never use, and $80 for an exclusive controller.

I'm not actually angry. In fact I'm glad other people can enjoy these cars. Take photos.

I never got the chance to drive or photo them when I had the "glitch"

 

[NotThePrez]

Man, I really, really want to love rather than just like the new Hot Wheels Trans Am, but I just can't. It looks amazing, and on paper it should have the potential to be a real weapon in races, but it's held back by some pretty significant understeer, despite running wide slick tires on all 4 corners. It also doesn't help that the Trans Am has very low downforce, even when that setting is maxed out.

I think the Trans-Am is still useable, especially once you stretch out the ratios on the stock 4-Speed to fully utilize its 1000 HP, but in terms of racing ability, the Hennessey Exorcist is much better overall, which doesn't seem right imo.

 

[RazorSharkz]

Idk. I think the Trans-Am is perfect for what it is. Hard to control but fast as hell. The kind of car a kid playing with their Hot Wheels would create.

 

[UKMikey]

Idk. I think the Trans-Am is perfect for what it is. Hard to control but fast as hell. The kind of car a kid playing with their Hot Wheels would create.

It'd be a shame if "what it is" isn't "a car which can be used in a variety of gameplay situations, thus helping to broaden and enrich the Horizon experience".

It's a lot easier to make a slower car capable of racing in higher classes than stock than to make a fast car usable in lower classes in a game which doesn't have ballast as a tuning/building option. If that fast car's intended to be used only in specialist scenarios, then it had damned well better be competitive in those scenarios if it's not going to spend most of its time unused in players' virtual garages.

I'm just speaking generally and not saying any of this necessarily applies to the Trans-Am as I haven't tried it yet.

 

[RazorSharkz]

It'd be a shame if "what it is" isn't "a car which can be used in a variety of gameplay situations, thus helping to broaden and enrich the Horizon experience".

It's a lot easier to make a slow car capable of racing in higher classes than stock than to make a fast car usable in lower classes in a game which doesn't have ballast as a tuning/building option. If that fast car's intended to be used only in specialist scenarios, then it had damned well better be competitive in those scenarios if it's not going to spend most of its time unused in players' virtual garages.

I'm just speaking generally and not saying any of this necessarily applies to the Trans-Am as I haven't tried it yet.

I completely understand this point of view. If I had to pick a good use for the Stock Hot Wheels Trans Am I'd say Drift zones. I personally had a lot of fun driving it and I bet some better tuners than myself could easily turn it into a real racing beast.