Forza Horizon 5: General Discussion

[Digolgrin]

Not shocked with no FH6 at the XGS, all signs pointed to it.

Very interested to see what the rest of the year has in terms of support for FH5 now we know FH6 isn't coming this year.

All we know is;

• Modern Horizons coming in 2 ish weeks, features a highly requested car
• Series 36 features some sort of Coffee Shop Horizon Story or Collectible (or something else entirely)

The rest is up to guess work.

I'm hoping FH5 gets another update like Event Lab Island/Event Lab 2.0. Something where a bigger feature comes along with a feature overhaul. I know that's probably unlikely at this point but here's hoping.

This is about as much as we've ever really known about FH5 at any given moment, lol. Hell, I just looked into this myself, having not played FH4 at all--that game's live service ended with Series 37. We're already closing in on FH5's Series 36 next month. So either we're at the end of the road and we'll find out in a manner that doesn't give us much fanfare (like, at the Cafe Horizon Let's Go stream they announce the end of updates to FH5) or they'll send everything off with a bang, or the game goes on for another year and we get some kind of dopey Fable-themed expansion.

 

[Nacho Libre]

Would Turn 10 working out all the kinks out of the new Forza engine factor in how and when the next FH game will be developed? I think so.

 

[Edax 76]

This is about as much as we've ever really known about FH5 at any given moment, lol. Hell, I just looked into this myself, having not played FH4 at all--that game's live service ended with Series 37. We're already closing in on FH5's Series 36 next month. So either we're at the end of the road and we'll find out in a manner that doesn't give us much fanfare (like, at the Cafe Horizon Let's Go stream they announce the end of updates to FH5) or they'll send everything off with a bang, or the game goes on for another year and we get some kind of dopey Fable-themed expansion.

I think we're quite safe for while bud. We've got at least another 12 months of hooning around sunny Mexico yet I reckon.

FH5 is a Game Pass seller for MS still, it won't disappear until FH6 is out.

 

[Digolgrin]

Holy crap the new Countach breaks this Showcase in half. I just beat the dang thing by six seconds, exposed the scripting for what it really was.

 

[Vic Reign93]

Holy crap the new Countach breaks this Showcase in half. I just beat the dang thing by six seconds, exposed the scripting for what it really was.

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What difficulty were you on?

I ask because I was on Unbeatable AI and the scripting didn’t change all that much, it was still a close finish for me and I wasn’t exactly hanging about in terms of pace.

Turns out neither was the train as it shot past the big jump like it was cosplaying as a bullet train.

 

[The_Greaser]

The answer is 0. Now we have it.

Told you so... the market for most racing games has been shrinking for years now.

Would Turn 10 working out all the kinks out of the new Forza engine factor in how and when the next FH game will be developed? I think so.

I've got some notion that this is the most likely result. FH6 won't be around until 2027 or 2028 at most.

 

[ProjectWHaT]

Almost got triple gold

 

[Digolgrin]

So Update 9 for FM2023 was announced recently and it doesn't include the MC20; instead it's focused on LMPs. Assuming we're still getting the MC20 with Modern Horizons, either it's going to be a case of Horizon getting it first or it's a different car entirely.

 

[willbsn13]

I know this is a little off-topic, but seeing The Crew Motorfest get a Map Expansion and it actually be connected to the main map is very cool. Even if it isn't realistic, so to speak, it's still so cool that there is a brand new area you can drive to and explore all contained in one map, no fast travel needed.

I really hope for future Horizon games we see map expansions built into the main map - it would help alleviate the problems of the map becoming so stale after playing it for 2-3 years. Whilst also improving the experience in a number of other ways.

Please be taking notes, Playground!

 

[Edax 76]

I know this is a little off-topic, but seeing The Crew Motorfest get a Map Expansion and it actually be connected to the main map is very cool. Even if it isn't realistic, so to speak, it's still so cool that there is a brand new area you can drive to and explore all contained in one map, no fast travel needed.

I really hope for future Horizon games we see map expansions built into the main map - it would help alleviate the problems of the map becoming so stale after playing it for 2-3 years. Whilst also improving the experience in a number of other ways.

Please be taking notes, Playground!

I read about this earlier today as well and thought the same thing. I'm not so sure we'll get it though unfortunately.

If we did get lucky and got a free little expansion or just another paid for one I'd like it to the north of the map. That could give us some southern USA border towns or just a Mexico City style expansion. Give us some proper city/large town roads to mess about on.

 

[Nacho Libre]

I read about this earlier today as well and thought the same thing. I'm not so sure we'll get it though unfortunately.

If we did get lucky and got a free little expansion or just another paid for one I'd like it to the north of the map. That could give us some southern USA border towns or just a Mexico City style expansion. Give us some proper city/large town roads to mess about on.

Or just remake the first FH (Colorado, USA) and add it as an expansion. Just mind though, you have to outrun the "Migra" (U.S. Border Patrol) by using a secret tunnel just north of the railway!

 

[Edax 76]

Or just remake the first FH (Colorado, USA) and add it as an expansion. Just mind though, you have to outrun the "Migra" (U.S. Border Patrol) by using a secret tunnel just north of the railway!

I would welcome that with open arms and a huge smile.

 

[inCloud]

I really hope for future Horizon games we see map expansions built into the main map

I still hope that with next Horizon they rerelease previous maps with seasons. Paywalled maps are cancer.

 

[Digolgrin]

I read about this earlier today as well and thought the same thing. I'm not so sure we'll get it though unfortunately.

If we did get lucky and got a free little expansion or just another paid for one I'd like it to the north of the map. That could give us some southern USA border towns or just a Mexico City style expansion. Give us some proper city/large town roads to mess about on.

I think, in FH's case, it's because they know the expansions always offer unique biomes that otherwise just don't fit on the base game map. Motorfest, like Burnout Paradise and Most Wanted 2012, for instance, knows what it wants to be and just adds a part of the map that still meshes with the base map while simultaneously being its own experience. FH has never really done this outside of maybe Fortune Island; the Rally Adventure expansion just adds badlands that don't really exist anywhere that makes sense, the crossover expansions are so unique they may as well be entirely separate games, and Blizzard Mountain, hoo boy would you not be able to sneak that into Australia. Hot take, they should've set that game in New Zealand instead.

This is probably why we'll never get an Expansion 3, even an urban setting, 'cause... what else could you really do with Mexico as a place?

 

[ALLSETFORMOVE]

I know this is a little off-topic, but seeing The Crew Motorfest get a Map Expansion and it actually be connected to the main map is very cool. Even if it isn't realistic, so to speak, it's still so cool that there is a brand new area you can drive to and explore all contained in one map, no fast travel needed.

I really hope for future Horizon games we see map expansions built into the main map - it would help alleviate the problems of the map becoming so stale after playing it for 2-3 years. Whilst also improving the experience in a number of other ways.

Please be taking notes, Playground!

Yeah I am actually having mixed messages here - 'free for all players' and 'up to 5 hours for free'. So one still needs to pay for it right?

 

[TGR55]

Yeah I am actually having mixed messages here - 'free for all players' and 'up to 5 hours for free'. So one still needs to pay for it right?

You're talking about Motorfest trial right? It meant you can play the full game for free up to 5 hours. Then you have to pay the full price for the game. So yeah it is "free" 5 hours trial for all players.

 

[Nacho Libre]

You're talking about Motorfest trial right? It meant you can play the full game for free up to 5 hours. Then you have to pay the full price for the game. So yeah it is "free" 5 hours trial for all players.

Or free if you are a Ubisoft+ Premium subscriber... But I think there is a dedicated forum thread for The Crew: Motorfest (Which I've played).

 

[Kelpy D]

Should there be a new car pack for Modern Horizons, I'll speculate it to be a mostly modern lineup, with an equal balance of sports cars and ordinary cars.

Here's my guesses:

• 2020 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon
• 2021 McMurtry Spierling
• 2025 Volkswagen ID Buzz
• 2016 Felino CB7
• 2019 Ginetta Akula

 

[pez2k]

Yeah I am actually having mixed messages here - 'free for all players' and 'up to 5 hours for free'. So one still needs to pay for it right?

The map expansion is free for all players. The game itself can be played for 5 hours as a free trial / demo before purchasing the game.

The latter gets mentioned a lot in all of their promotional materials, presumably it's working well as a way to attract new players hence pushing it so hard.

 

[UKMikey]

I like this bottom gif, wonder where he got it...

 

[VXR]

Should there be a new car pack for Modern Horizons, I'll speculate it to be a mostly modern lineup, with an equal balance of sports cars and ordinary cars.

Here's my guesses:

• 2020 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon
• 2021 McMurtry Spierling
• 2025 Volkswagen ID Buzz
• 2016 Felino CB7
• 2019 Ginetta Akula

I'd love the ID Buzz to be added, especially in a car pack so I could have multiple copies easily.

 

[Johnny Caisse]

Okay, I'm not sure who that person who sent me this Ford RS200 was but their name was: "Seigneur Des Tenebres".

Is it an auto-translated name? I mean, I know it's not real but that is one heck of a username.

 

[UKMikey]

Okay, I'm not sure who that person who sent me this Ford RS200 was but their name was: "Seigneur Des Tenebres".

Is it an auto-translated name? I mean, I know it's not real but that is one heck of a username.

It's French for "Lord of Darkness".

Seigneur des Ténèbres — Wikipédia

fr.wikipedia.org

 

[Edax 76]

Okay, I'm not sure who that person who sent me this Ford RS200 was but their name was: "Seigneur Des Tenebres".

Is it an auto-translated name? I mean, I know it's not real but that is one heck of a username.

I've just googled the name. It means 'Dark Lord'. So a Satanist or 13 year old boy just sent you a car bud lol.

 

[Johnny Caisse]

I've just googled the name. It means 'Dark Lord'. So a Satanist or 13 year old boy just sent you a car bud lol.

Okay. 'cause I was gonna send the guy on my account picture investigate. (Just a bad joke.)

 

[skazz]

I've just googled the name. It means 'Dark Lord'. So a Satanist or 13 year old boy just sent you a car bud lol.

I think one of those two has better things to do than play FH5, though....

 

[Digolgrin]

Should there be a new car pack for Modern Horizons, I'll speculate it to be a mostly modern lineup, with an equal balance of sports cars and ordinary cars.

Here's my guesses:

• 2020 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon
• 2021 McMurtry Spierling
• 2025 Volkswagen ID Buzz
• 2016 Felino CB7
• 2019 Ginetta Akula

Sound prediction! The ID Buzz would probably be my pick for 'Obligatory EV in the Playlist' if the update turns out to be a Volkswagen Group marketing partner update, if only for the sheer 'here's another SUV to make a cuh-razy Cross Country build out of!' audacity, but it'd definitely fit as the only 'new-to-Forza' addition in a pack of FM2023 port-backs like I'm starting to suspect we're getting in the DLC. Not convinced about the Rubicon, though, I think we're past adding Jeeps.

 

[Edax 76]

This is the EV I want most in game. The Honda Urban EV. Although I think it's discontinued (at least here in the UK) so not sure if we ever will.

 

[GBalao888]

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This is the EV I want most in game. The Honda e. Although I think it's discontinued (at least here in the UK) so not sure if we ever will.

Fixed that for you.

 

[Edax 76]

Fixed that for you.

We're both right bud.😉