Forza Horizon 5: General Discussion

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What were the devs thinking when depriving players the ability to choose the performance classes and racing types in Horizon Open? Do they really think we're incompetent to choose what type of Online Adventure we would like to have? How many months do we have to wait until we're given that feature? 8 months?

Anyway, here's some quick night to day transition i've witnessed this morning.
 
Got my trial done last night, can be a struggle too find anyone too enter it with, anyways it's just me and 1 other dude, win the 1st race and lose the 2nd, and the other dudes still in race 3 and finish 2nd or 3rd and other guys nowhere, thinking that was that blown, ha the dude wasn't in the result so i got the round win :) think that's been the toughest one I've done seemed those ai cars are on rails, also do you only connect too others close by as Im in europe and struggle too find racers at 3am :)
 
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Tried out this early afternoon a dry conditions only build for the Firebird T/A GTA on Horizon Open's B-Class Street Scene. The session ended much sooner than we anticipated after crossing the finish line.
 
I had a pretty good trial event yesterday. We won the first, lost the second obviously, but the third was awesome. Using the Taycan I got past the AI and got to work keeping them back for the others. Another player passed me for the lead but actually had brain cells so they slowed down and helped me hold off the AI for our teammates lagging behind. It was a wonderful moment of teamwork with the two of us blocking the road and eventually everyone got ahead of the other team to score a much needed win. I had tears in my eyes, it was beautiful.
 
Yet another complete pisstake of a Trial. We won the first race because one of the three players with zero points dropped out, the second race got off to a great start with two other players and I in the top three in the first lap but we very quickly got completely overhauled and then the two players who finished with no points in the race before both fell from the middle of the pack to the back again, then in the last race the two fastest players were quarter of a lap behind the first two AI and I, in 5th, was trying to hold up all of the other AI cars at once to give the struggling last place player a chance... But he was just getting further and further behind. I quit when one AI car finally got around me and hit the rocket boost button.
 
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cosme
I published a number of tunes for the first time last night. To my surprise, I already got more than 100 downloads. But is there a way to know which tune/tunes exactly are generating the downloads?
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When you go to My Creative Hub you will find tunes sorted by Popularity.
 
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strela
When you go to My Creative Hub you will find tunes sorted by Popularity.
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Thanks! Just so to be clear, the ones on the left are the most popular ones, right?
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On a different note, first time I 100% a season in FH5. Not a number chaser, but when I'm in the mood it's nice to see everything completed. The last challenge was to deny flag 5 times. I already had 2 or 3 in the bag and was able to deny five more all in one game (they have an accolade for that) without camping. Got lucky a couple of times but still nice.
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The following daily (scheduled for next Tuesday) will be a real PITA if you don’t know what to do. This is yet another example of just aweful choices by PG for dailies or weekly events.

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Actually filtering down the possible options from @strela his post, below are the times you better be ready with the appropriately tuned class.
strela
Shout out to the guy who figured out how the races circle in Horizon Tour. For example if you want to race D class, there's an event when the system time shows 56 minutes.


00. B 700 [ROAD] REASONABLY PRICED CARS
02. S1 900 [DIRT] ANYTHING GOES
04. B 700 [OFFROAD] ANYTHING GOES
06. A 800 [DIRT] LAND ROVER
08. A 800 [OFFROAD] UNLIMITED OFFROAD
10. A 800 [ROAD] ANYTHING GOES
12. B 700 [DIRT] CLASSIC RALLY
14. C 600 [OFFROAD] PICKUPS & 4x4'S
16. S1 900 [ROAD] CLASSIC RACERS
18. S1 900 [DIRT] HOONIGAN
20. A 800 [OFFROAD] HEAVY HITTERS
22. S1 900 [ROAD] MODERN MUSCLE
24. A 800 [DIRT] RULE BRITANNIA
26. S1 900 [OFFROAD] ANYTHING GOES
28. S1 900 [ROAD] UPGRADE HEROES
30 S1 900 [DIRT] ANYTHING GOES
32. C 600 [OFFROAD] PICKUPS & 4x4'S
34. A 800 [ROAD] SUPER SALOONS
36. B 700 [DIRT] EVO VS. IMPREZA
38. A 800 [OFFROAD] SPORTS UTILITY HEROES
40. S1 900 [ROAD] CLASSIC RACERS
42. A 800 [DIRT] UNLIMITED OFFROAD
44. S1 900 [OFFROAD] ANYTHING GOES
46. A 800 [ROAD] BMW
48 C 600 [DIRT] RETRO RALLY
50. C 600 [OFFROAD] PICKUPS & 4x4'S
52. S1 900 [ROAD] ANYTHING GOES
54. S1 900 [DIRT] CHEVROLET VS. DODGE
56. D 500 [OFFROAD] BUGGIES
58. A 800 [ROAD] ANYTHING GOES
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The only options for this daily:

02. S1 900 [DIRT] ANYTHING GOES
04. B 700 [OFFROAD] ANYTHING GOES
10. A 800 [ROAD] ANYTHING GOES
26. S1 900 [OFFROAD] ANYTHING GOES
28. S1 900 [ROAD] UPGRADE HEROES
30 S1 900 [DIRT] ANYTHING GOES
44. S1 900 [OFFROAD] ANYTHING GOES
52. S1 900 [ROAD] ANYTHING GOES
58. A 800 [ROAD] ANYTHING GOES

I suggest tuning the Type 2 Deluxe to S1 class and join Horizon Tour around the 26-30 minutes in the hour. I also expect a lot of incoming flak for PG on social media on that day because 90% of their players probably don’t know how to do that daily. Good luck to PG to go explaining that on the 60 minutes of each hour, there are only 9 windows of opportunity each lasting 2 minutes long to do the daily, that is is you pre-tune your Type 2 Deluxe a forehand because if it’s sitting at stock D100 in your garage, you won’t be able to do it.

Seriuously…. 🙄🙄🙄
 
I really dig the Espada! And I think that’s my favourite new-to-franchise car up to this point. ☺️ The oddly shaped rear makes it a bit weird for chase cam view but for cruising around with dashboard camera... excellent stuff! 👌

It’s also a bit of a unique car in Horizon as this is the lowest PI retro supercar in the game now and the only one In C-class with its 597 PI. Closest contender is the BMW M1 at B 629. It is also the oldest retro supercar being from 1973 and the only one from the 1970s. Also here the closest contender is the BMW M1 again from 1981.

It’s a true oddball in this car division to be honest. But a fine choice for me. I guess other options could have been retro saloon maybe, or cult classics. IMO they should just get rid of cult classics all together as a main car division, that should be more a secondary division similar to heavy hitters, reasonably priced cars, etc.

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I can see why the Espada is notorious for overheating problems. There is literally zero room in this engine bay!

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The interior has the same "built in a shed" vibe as the Jalpa. I just keep looking at things and asking why did you put THAT over THERE:

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That said the V10 engine is actually really good at stock, oddly spaced 5th gear aside, and with just a tire upgrade it seems to hold the road pretty well for something as heavy as it is, so I could definitely see this being a go-to B class car with the right setup. It'll probably be pretty good in A class as well if you want to go crazy with rebuilding it.
 
Today i had a very short seasonal PG. The odds were stacked in my favour.


Cerebral303
The Toyota Trueno is the car to pick for this weeks trial, downloaded the EZ Seasonal tune and won first time.
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For this season's Trial, i picked the Porsche 968 with drag slicks and the S50 I6 engine from the BMW M3. Drag slicks are a blessing for B-Class dry racing. Won the 1st race without gatekeeping Drivatars, then on the 2nd race, i had to gatekeep the cheating Drivatars halfway through the race to allow my teammates to pass them. Finished in 3rd and we won the Trial.

 
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Populuxe
It's soooo seventies. I love it. Now just give us the Jarama from 4 and the Jalpa from 2 and 3, and I'll be a happy Lamborghini collector.
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Shure we don`t need the Marzal too?

For those who (sometimes) drive in 1st person; a discret B-class setup, soft and comfy: 142 067 414
 
Tried the trial about 8 times. Every time the top 3 unbeatable AI are exactly that.

And I've been 4th... If I'm the fastest human in the group, yeah we're beeped.

Haven't had such a challenge with trial before.

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SDSmurf
Tried the trial about 8 times. Every time the top 3 unbeatable AI are exactly that.

And I've been 4th... If I'm the fastest human in the group, yeah we're beeped.

Haven't had such a challenge with trial before.

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Aim for winning the first and third races. The second is kind of a no-hoper because that track is mostly straight lines and curves you don't have to brake much for, so it's nearly impossible to catch the AI before they fly off into the distance. The other two you can bully enough AI cars into the walls that everyone else should be able to scoot past them (assuming they actually know how to drive their cars) and get the points advantage. The third race is where this especially applies as it's very tight and has sharp corners, so any AI car that gets caught by the angry ferrets is going to be absolutely savaged.
 
For the Trial I used a Trueno with a popular tune on it but it was too twitchy for my liking and the team wasn't very close to winning. Then I just made an understeery drag tune for the Delorean and wall rode when possible. I wasn't able to keep all of the AI behind me on turns but I could easily pass and block AI on the straights. On my second overall attempt and first with the Delorean my team won with me finishing 3rd, 3rd, 4th and blocking. I doubt it's all that good of a tune but it works for blocking. It's called Accelerate Trial and my gamertag is BarrettMopar.
 
Seems like theres another glitch. I attempted the Forzathon Weekly yesterday and got as far as doing 1 of the 2 road circuit events with the Ferrari 458 as I didn'tget time to do the 2nd. I opened the game up today and its reset back to the start and won't register me driving the 458. I even bought a 2nd to see if I could get around it with that but seemingly not. Strange when it was working yesterday?
 
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I haven’t attempted the trial yet, but if it involves racing the AI again on off-road terrain with tarmac sports cars, I’ll pass like last week. The Championship race that I believe was for the Hoonigan Escort (that I already had) was enough “race the AI on dirt” for me this series. I absolutely detest racing the preset difficulty AI off road, esp. at the dirt track on the west side by the volcano.

Even using a tune from one of the popular guys on Reddit for an Escort, I had to bully a bit to win.
 
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wish you could do them trials alone lol, find it easier when only 1 or 2 others in server which is usually the case at the early hours of the morning
 
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Considering how bad Trials have been for most of us on here (GTPlanet) I got lucky. Last night the folks in the lobby actually played as a team. We won the first two races (I placed 3rd on both). We didn't completely obliterate the Drivatar team but we won each race by a pretty good margin.
 

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