Forza Horizon 5 Season Change: Eastern Promise

[Famine]

This is the discussion thread for an article on GTPlanet:

Forza Horizon 5 Season Change: Eastern Promise​

The new Series of Forza Horizon 5 is here, celebrating all things Japanese automotive across the next four weeks...

 

[Famine]

It was all a bit of a mess this week with the Forzathon Shop broken and the Series tile wrong for at least an hour:

I initially thought that the Treasure Hunt required five Near Miss Skills, but reflecting on it I also got a Daredevil Skill just as it said I'd completed the Clue - I did the Daredevil just before it completed, but it showed it just after. Thinking about it, a Daredevil requires enough speed for a Speed Skill plus the three Near Miss Skills, which fits the Clue better: "speed past the traffic".

Checking on some YTers they all got Daredevil Skills too, although most were getting five+ Near Misses too. One only got four and got the completion, and one got five without the Daredevil and didn't, so that seems to confirm a Daredevil Skill. But you'll probably score both at the same time anyway.

Edit: Just seen another who literally gets it after his third Near Miss and the Daredevil, but says it's for five Near Misses...

Treasure location:

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Stone lantern location:

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[Edax 76]

It was all a bit of a mess this week with the Forzathon Shop broken and the Series tile wrong for at least an hour:

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I initially thought that the Treasure Hunt required five Near Miss Skills, but reflecting on it I also got a Daredevil Skill just as it said I'd completed the Clue - I did the Daredevil just before it completed, but it showed it just after. Thinking about it, a Daredevil requires enough speed for a Speed Skill plus the three Near Miss Skills, which fits the Clue better: "speed past the traffic".

Checking on some YTers they all got Daredevil Skills too, although most were getting five+ Near Misses too. One only got four and got the completion, and one got five without the Daredevil and didn't, so that seems to confirm a Daredevil Skill. But you'll probably score both at the same time anyway.

Treasure location:

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Stone lantern location:

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It popped for me from 5 near misses.

 

[Famine]

It popped for me from 5 near misses.

I've just caught another YTer who says it's five Near Misses, but it literally pings for him after only his third - which triggers a Daredevil and the completion.

 

[Edax 76]

I've just caught another YTer who says it's five Near Misses, but it literally pings for him after only his third - which triggers a Daredevil and the completion.

Mine were 5 straight near misses. The cars were too far apart on the motorway for me to get the daredevil skill. Good to know it pops either way though.

 

[Famine]

Mine were 5 straight near misses. The cars were too far apart on the motorway for me to get the daredevil skill. Good to know it pops either way though.

Weird.

 

[Famine]

Another fun one: as I'd got an S2 Class Speed Zone-built R34 for the Weekly Challenge, I thought I'd use it for the "Speedy Speed Boy" Daily Challenge.

Wouldn't trigger it at all, even after a total reboot. Switched to a native-S2 car - the Zonda 🤢 FE - and it triggered no bother.

It doesn't say so in the description but it may require a native S2 car, not one tuned to S2.

 

[SoapBoxRacer]

Another fun one: as I'd got an S2 Class Speed Zone-built R34 for the Weekly Challenge, I thought I'd use it for the "Speedy Speed Boy" Daily Challenge.

Wouldn't trigger it at all, even after a total reboot. Switched to a native-S2 car - the Zonda 🤢 FE - and it triggered no bother.

It doesn't say so in the description but it may require a native S2 car, not one tuned to S2.

Did you do speed zones or speed traps as the daily challenge is for the latter? I used Jaguar XJR-15 tuned from S1 class to S2 class to achieve the "Speedy Speed Boy" daily challenge with no issues.

 

[Famine]

Did you do speed zones or speed traps as the daily challenge is for the latter? I used Jaguar XJR-15 tuned from S1 class to S2 class to achieve the "Speedy Speed Boy" daily challenge with no issues.

Traps for the Daily; Zones are for the weekly.

Buzzed through the Gran Puente trap half a dozen times at two-star speeds each time. After the reboot I did the Horizon Festival trap, again half a dozen times but at three-star speeds, still no dice. Switched to the Zonda and ran two passes of Horizon Festival and it pinged on the second one.