The Playground Games team has released a special video as part of Forza Monthly to give players a little insight into what’s coming over not just the next month but the next two.
There’s set to be a whole host of goodies coming along in Series 2 and Series 3, with a lot of it themed around the festive period and New Year, but also 24 new cars coming along too – eight via car pass.
Series 2 will get underway this coming Thursday, December 9, and we’ve already had a little bit of a sneak preview courtesy of the most recent large game update. That fixed a chunk of the issues players have been seeing with the game, although there’s still several bugs left to squash — and the patch looks to have introduced an annoying additional infinite save loop issue to Xbox Series X players which PG is hurrying to amend.
However it also expanded the Car Collection and Accolades areas with a few additional entries, and the Let’s Go Season 2 stream confirmed them.
There’ll be eight vehicles coming to Series 2, available through challenges on the Festival Playlist. That starts with the Maserati 8C TF, returning from Forza Horizon 4, and available in S2 Summer as the higher-tier 45pt season car.
In Autumn, you’ll be able to race for the roofless Lamborghini Aventador J in one of the Playlist championships, called Getting Hyped, and the Ferrari 599 GTO follows along in Winter as the 25pt season car.
The final season of S2, Spring, has plenty of new cars to get hold of. Both the season reward cars are new, with the Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder Performante in at 25pt and the Peel Trident for 45pt. The New Beginning seasonal championship features the Ferrari 575M as a prize.
Finally there’s the Lamborghini Aventador SVJ, which you can win with 200 points across the entire of Series 2.
Of course that’s only seven cars, and the eighth has a little air of mystery about it. PG won’t say how you can win the Peel P50, but it’s definitely in there somewhere…
As well as the vehicles, there’s a new set of Accolades only available in this Series under the Evolving World category. This looks set to contain Accolades unique to each Series, and should update with a new set every four weeks. Of course that means some will become impossible unless PG ever revisits a playlist as is currently the case with FH4.
To mark the festive season, there’ll be a new set of themed car horns and outfits, including Elf and Santa, and appropriate decor around the map, from candy canes to Christmas trees and all points between.
One fascinating new mechanism in the game is “Secret Santa”. Players will be able to Gift cars, including at the Horizon Wonderland in Mulege, to other players at random, but with a twist. If you select the “Secret Santa” option it will count towards a community gifting goal.
There’s a Gingerbread Man outfit for 50% of the target, and a mystery car for 100%… which we think you can probably guess will be that Peel P50. Of course if the FH5 community doesn’t reach the goal, nobody gets the car. Humbug.
Series 3’s first new car will be the Toyota Celica SS-I, which has been a Forza Motorsport staple but has never appeared in Horizon before now. It’ll be the upper-tier, 45pt car for the Summer playlist completion.
In Autumn, both of the playlist reward cars are new to the game. 25pt will get you the Donkervoort D8 GTO, with 45pt required for the Toyota Land Cruiser Arctic Trucks AT37.
That car’s stablemate, the Hilux Arctic Trucks AT38, comes along in the Winter playlist as reward car for 25pt. The final two cars — the Jaguar XKR-S GT and the Vauxhall Lotus Carlton — are Spring playlist rewards for 25pt and 45pt respectively.
Players who’ve picked up the Car Pass will be in for a treat over the next eight weeks too, as the cars arrive each Thursday. Each of the eight cars will be entirely new, not just to Horizon 5 but the entire Forza series.
The drops start off with two highly limited run Ferraris, with the J50 and Monza SP2 entering the Festival on December 9 and 16 respectively. Both are creations of Ferrari’s in-house special projects team, with the J50 based on a 488, and the Monza SP2 one of two “Icona” designs based on the 812 Superfast.
Two brand-new Lamborghinis will follow either side of Christmas, with the Espada 400GT and Huracan Evo making their debuts on December 23 and 30.
It’s Jaguar’s turn in January, with two of its fastest models in their respective eras. Firstly there’s the never-raced XJ13 Le Mans car, and then the road homologation model of the XJ220 race car, the XJ220S TWR.
One of the fastest standard cars ever to hit the Horizon Festival arrives on January 20, with the Ferrari FXX-K Evo entering the fray. As standard this will be an S2 Class car at a PI of 998, so it should be a match for anything outside highly tuned X Class models.
Finally, Car Pass players will get their hand on the 2018-model Audi TT RS on January 27.
We’ll of course bring you all the information on each season’s Playlist update as the virtual months tick by, so stay tuned to GTPlanet to make sure you don’t miss out on anything!
