Forza Horizon 5: General Discussion

[Nacho Libre]

After the update (excuse me, hot fix), arcade is still dead to me, but connection in general has been quite stable.

 

[Populuxe]

In the Wash For 20 Seconds Daily Challange, post a clean lap in any Rivals event. I think it doesn't count it if you choose "keep lapping". I always chose that, mainly because the first rival I get posted a dirty lap, so when it stops, I choose keep lapping to get improve and get my best time. Then when I quit, and it tallys up my points, it says New Rival, but it's the very same Rival I just bested.

Also I see the Forzathon Shop is open, Argh, 533 points, I need 600 for the Apollo!

The Wash for 20 Seconds challenge doesn't work if you chose to end it after the first lap, too. If you do that, you have to post a bad lap afterwards and then it will finally register. I'm going to have to miss out on the Apollo, too. I got the 458 and the sombrero, though. Now that Forza Arcade appears to be working, I should be able to bank some more FP.

I have a whole bunch of Accolades in the Stories that just aren't working.

The shortcut in the Monster Ghost won't trigger, despite the commentator calling out my use of the shortcut. Still, that's an easy one to just go and retry any time.

The worse ones are in El Camino. With a single exception - which is the one with two spelling errors in it ("Discovery the satue") - none of the Accolades for actually photographing the statues will ping. It doesn't seem to matter if it's quickshot, or a properly framed, saved, shared photo of the statue (or statues!), nothing happens on the Accolade front.

I discovered these same accolades were broken last night when I tried to do the final chapters of a few stories. Hopefully these are on the list for the next hotfix.

 

[WanganDream]

In the Wash For 20 Seconds Daily Challange, post a clean lap in any Rivals event. I think it doesn't count it if you choose "keep lapping". I always chose that, mainly because the first rival I get posted a dirty lap, so when it stops, I choose keep lapping to get improve and get my best time. Then when I quit, and it tallys up my points, it says New Rival, but it's the very same Rival I just bested.

Also I see the Forzathon Shop is open, Argh, 533 points, I need 600 for the Apollo!

Use a car mastery.
For example, E30 M3 gives you 5 FP for 2 skill points.
And for other cars, there are masteries that give more FP, such as 10 FP.
Combined with a car like the Hoonigan RS200, you will be able to get the FP you need in a short time.
There is no need to waste time on Horizon Arcade, which is still broken after the "hot fix".

 

[breyzipp]

IMO don’t waste 600 FP on the Apollo, just buy it from the Autoshow for 1.5 mill credits. Best to save up your FP for future cars which aren’t available from the Autoshow. The Ferrari 458 Speciale however is a good option, that one is only available from wheelspins or seasonal events.

If you’re the completionist that I am, then buy the Ferrari 458, the Festival Sombrero and the Ice Cream Van car horn if you haven’t gotten those yet. I only had to buy the Sombrero, already had the rest. 😀

Also don’t buy wheelspins with FP yet unless you have over a few thousand FP (and keep that few thousand FP threshold).

• Fixed players not receiving the loyalty reward for playing Forza Motorsport 5

Has anyone received their McLaren P1 yet after the update? I haven’t.

 

[strela]

So todays gifted wheelspin from the castle gave me the Ranger Raptor. Was a big surprise since it will be available soon.. wasn't sure it's a wheelspin prize too. But I knew people have been buying them like crazy. So decided to try the AH. The car sold in 1 second!!
Why are they buying a free car available in few hours for a million I can't understand...

Also the hot fix didn't fixed over 30 Accolades that won't trigger for some reason. You guys are not the only ones.

 

[nickf1gr]

After 5.6 gb hotfix still my controller is an unknown device for the game. In FH4 it works perfect... And the other issue with AMD drivers (for my laptop) that crash when download the latest Directx drivers... 60 euro in the bucket... I will continue with FH4...

(UPDATE) with update in AMD drivers at last working and with DS4 windows program for PS4 controller for Windows 11 its time to play the FH5!!!👍👍
P.S. FH4 will continue to play of course in beautifull Scotland!! I love it!!!!

 

[Rob192005]

So I just picked up some nice machinery at the very disproportionate auction house,got in while the going is good as they say. but 2,147m for a car worth 30m feels kinda wrong even if I'm not complaining.

 

[Milouse]

After the update (excuse me, hot fix), arcade is still dead to me, but connection in general has been quite stable.

Indeed.

Edit:
That was just bad luck

 

[Milouse]

So, the 2018 Apollo being in the Forzashop means that info given by the Car Collection UI is not reliable. Great...

 

[breyzipp]

So, the 2018 Apollo being in the Forzashop means that info given by the Car Collection UI is not reliable. Great...
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Judging from several years of post launch support in FH4, I’m pretty sure in the long run about any car can show up in the Festival playlist or the Forzathon shop. All those cars currently indicated as Festival/Season/Forzathon is just for this first series 1 update.

 

[Cerebral303]

THANKS! It worked like a charm. 4th in the first race, 1st and 1st. That first race though.

Fantastic! Glad to help. That was my result too. I don't even know if the first race is winnable!

 

[EngieDiesel]

If I had known the Tankpool FE was going for so cheap on the auction house, I would've grabbed one a lot earlier. There's piles of them sitting with 100K buyouts.

So todays gifted wheelspin from the castle gave me the Ranger Raptor. Was a big surprise since it will be available soon.. wasn't sure it's a wheelspin prize too. But I knew people have been buying them like crazy. So decided to try the AH. The car sold in 1 second!!
Why are they buying a free car available in few hours for a million I can't understand...

Some people don't want to do their chores to get their toys. That's about the extent of it.

 

[unfairlane]

There's EventLab challenges that make the Unbeatable Accolades easier to earn. Can't remember them on the top of my head, but there's some on the Forza Discord.

I`ve won every street- & roadrace including Goliath, Hercules, Marathon & Gauntlet against the
unbeatables by using these two setups. The key is to do a perfect start, if not, restart

65 Mini, less underseer, better balance: 851 297 335 - this one eats unbeatables
2008 Renault Megane R26.R, ca the same: 142 207 455

 

[UKMikey]

Dear Playground Games,

I beat your drivatars like the accolade asked. Where's my Rally Fighter?

Sincerely,
-- Mikey

[EDIT] Not sure why I'm getting so many 🤔 responses to this post. I'm telling the truth about this accolade being broken.

 

[Rob192005]

I did what it asked and still no Escort barnfind...actually it crashed right after the baja event. :/

 

[UKMikey]

One reason I enjoy the Eliminator is that it's a different race each time. You can start anywhere on the map, you have no idea where the final arena is going to be, you don't know who you're racing against, and you don't know where the final checkpoint is going to be. It's endlessly entertaining.

Horizon Arcade was kinda borked so I tried one of these to make up the points I needed. Despite having no idea what I was doing I survived until the final race, then ended up seventh out of seven because I didn't have the right car.

Some kind of on-screen run down of the rules would be useful in the game for first time players like me.

 

[Famine]

Dear Playground Games,

I beat your drivatars like the accolade asked. Where's my Rally Fighter?

Sincerely,
-- Mikey

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I have the opposite problem with PG's mathematical skills:

 

[Stang616]

Has anyone received their McLaren P1 yet after the update? I haven’t.

Mine is still MIA as well.

 

[GBalao888]

Mine is still MIA as well.

Same here. Tried restarting, and still don't have my McLaren P1.

 

[Milouse]

New Forza Shop:

 

[ImaRobot]

Same for me.

 

[DG_Silva]

Horizon Arcade was kinda borked so I tried one of these to make up the points I needed. Despite having no idea what I was doing I survived until the final race, then ended up seventh out of seven because I didn't have the right car.

Some kind of on-screen run down of the rules would be useful in the game for first time players like me.

Totally agree, I couldn't care less if I heard the instructions 25 times before, but to hear it once and never again makes no sense - it takes me forever to find a faster car because I skipped past the part that tells me where they're normally found and I have no chuffin' idea what I'm doing now after that - usually takes me 2-3 minutes to find a faster car....

 

[breyzipp]

New Forza Shop:
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Same tip here as with the Apollo IE last week: best to not buy the Agera RS for 600 FP, just get it from the Autoshow for 2 mill CR.

The Civic is a great purchase however. It’s currently ONLY available this way! Not even with wheelspins.

If you don’t have the horn or clothing items yet, IMO just buy those as well if you’re a completionist.

 

[Cerebral303]

I discovered the Doom horn. My life will not be complete until I have it. Future special gift perhaps?

 

[Ali]

I discovered the Doom horn. My life will not be complete until I have it. Future special gift perhaps?

Looks like I have Doom E1M1 High. Must have been a wheelspin reward?

 

[prousonhairy]

I discovered the Doom horn. My life will not be complete until I have it. Future special gift perhaps?

I would give you mine if I could. In my opinion there will never be any horn better than In the Hall of the Mountain King.

 

[EngieDiesel]

Looks like I have Doom E1M1 High. Must have been a wheelspin reward?

That's where I got it from. I think I've seen the Low version in super wheelspins, as well.

 

[WanganDream]

Well, it looks like Blueprints no longer work in Weekly Events.
Thanks for the great work, PG, you put more passion and effort into not allowing players to save 10 minutes of their time each week than into the "trivial" task of fixing a bug.

 

[ImaRobot]

Yeah, that just might be a little bit of an overreaction.

 

[AlienDeathRay]

So todays gifted wheelspin from the castle gave me the Ranger Raptor. Was a big surprise since it will be available soon.. wasn't sure it's a wheelspin prize too. But I knew people have been buying them like crazy. So decided to try the AH. The car sold in 1 second!!
Why are they buying a free car available in few hours for a million I can't understand...

Also the hot fix didn't fixed over 30 Accolades that won't trigger for some reason. You guys are not the only ones.

That's weird, I got the Radical on my first wheel spin this morning, only to find that it's this weeks 2nd prize car. Hmmm, that means I get to go "Mad Scientist" on the 2nd one! Mwah ha ha ha hah!