Forza Horizon 5: General Discussion

[WanganDream]

Is there a reason the game defaults me to start in the hotwheels zone? It’s really annoying. Any way to make it stop?

Once back in Mexico, we will visit houses and other sites outside of the main festival site.
Then press Y to set that house as your home.
If you want to re-set the home at the festival site, go to the festival site, and press Y again to re-set the home.

Currently, the home setting function does not function properly at the festival site immediately after returning to Mexico from the HW map, so this procedure although tedious is necessary.

 

[IcySlivers]

@WanganDream
Thanks man, it’s better then nothing.

 

[zotobom]

This is such a bittersweet celebration for me. I'm being hit with all of the factors that made FH1, IMHO, one of the finest racing games of all time, while knowing we won't get those elements again. Memorable opponents / villains (just generic Drivatars now), starting in a crappy Corrado (gotta get COOL cars flung at you immediately)... It feels like a band that's fallen off doing a throwback tour of their breakout hits.

 

[UKMikey]

This is such a bittersweet celebration for me. I'm being hit with all of the factors that made FH1, IMHO, one of the finest racing games of all time, while knowing we won't get those elements again. Memorable opponents / villains (just generic Drivatars now), starting in a crappy Corrado (gotta get COOL cars flung at you immediately)... It feels like a band that's fallen off doing a throwback tour of their breakout hits.

I dunno... I'm playing through it right now and you ditch the Corrado pretty quickly early on. Once you discover street races money ceases to be much of an issue and they even fling a cool car at you after each set of races. I wouldn't even say the characters have Grid Legends or even TDU2 levels of characterisation outside of brief cut scenes. What I do like is that the scriptwriters have done a lot of work to flesh them out behind the scenes via DJ patter and radio interviews.

 

[Edax 76]

Wha-hey my 'Eat More Chips' car is on the recommended designs page. Not bad for someone whose designs are basic by nature. Dead chuffed.

 

[Ak1504]

Who else is letting the opening menu play through a couple times before finally hitting the start button? All those beautiful Colorado feels... No one? Just me?

This made me try the Xenia emulator again with the latest update and play some Horizon 1 in 4K60 on Pc. What an amazing intro this game has 👌

 

[DivitLad]

I reinstalled this on pc yesterday, ran badly, poor fps and stuttering when moving across the map, last time I played it months ago it ran great.

 

[Ak1504]

You need to make sure to enable cache mounting and be aware of that this cache gets created while you drive around for the first time in areas so it will stutter here and there but then when the map data is cached its fine. And i get great fps on my older system so idk about your poor fps.

 

[strela]

just generic Drivatars now),

It might be generic to you but my Drivatars are mostly folks from this very forum. The cars might be different but the Avatars are the same. So I know exactly what Popoluxe, Edax, Mikey and many others are wearing right now (in the game). 😅

 

[UKMikey]

The cars might be different but the Avatars are the same. So I know exactly what Popoluxe, Edax, Mikey and many others are wearing right now (in the game). 😅

hurriedly changes out of mariachi uniform

 

[Edax 76]

I'm proudly rocking the Doodle clothing from head to toe. I look like Timmy Mallet on his Mexican holiday.

 

[Gotbeefboy564]

Did a 50.000 on the Viper rivals.

 

[Populuxe]

Completing today’s Daily Forzathon Challenge “Horizon Legacy” was way too much work for one lousy point. The challenge is “Complete a Horizon Open Race in the 2013 Dodge Viper GTS.” The problem is that the Custom Racing lobby doesn’t count. But you don’t learn that until you’ve run a race there, which explains why everyone in S1 Road Racing is in a 2013 Dodge Viper. You have to use the Open Racing lobby, and just wait for an S1 Road Racing lobby to come up. After 20 tries and getting only S2, A, and B lobbies, I finally got desperate and took the first S1 class lobby that popped up: Off-Road. I slipped and slid around for three races before I quit out and got the completion notice.

 

[FoxMulder]

I just ignore anything to do with horizon open.

 

[INEEDNAWZZZ]

The problem is that the Custom Racing lobby doesn’t count. But you don’t learn that until you’ve run a race there, which explains why everyone in S1 Road Racing is in a 2013 Dodge Viper.

It is bizarre that they apparently class them as separate. I got lucky with the open lobby after my third try and got S1 Road Racing (and won it overall, a rarity for me), but I can imagine the 'RNG' will just get people to not even bother after a few goes.

As an aside, does anyone know if the Anniversary Edition counted for completion of the challenge or was it only doable in a vanilla Viper? I used the regular one since I know they're very specific with their wording on this sort of thing, but about half of the field I was against were using the AE. I can't help thinking that was more to do with trying to do the challenge rather than just using it because it happens to be a good car.

 

[Famine]

completing today’s Daily Forzathon Challenge “Horizon Legacy” was way too much work for one lousy point. The challenge is “Complete a Horizon Open Race in the 2013 Dodge Viper GTS.” The problem is that the Custom Racing lobby doesn’t count. But you don’t learn that until you’ve run a race there, which explains why everyone in S1 Road Racing is in a 2013 Dodge Viper. You have to use the Open Racing lobby, and just wait for an S1 Road Racing lobby to come up. After 20 tries and getting only S2, A, and B lobbies, I finally got desperate and took the first S1 class lobby that popped up: Off-Road. I slipped and slid around for three races before I quit out and got the completion notice.

Not to twist the knife, but you only need to do any one race.

Also I had the same problem. After about 45 minutes I detuned the Viper to A and an S1 road race immediately popped up, which made me swear, but the next was an A class cross county event which I bizarrely won among all the other A class Vipers...

 

[Edax 76]

Just got my 1 point in S1 cross country in a Viper!!!! Thank you @Populuxe and @Famine for the tips. I thought the game was buggy again until I read your posts.

 

[KnightOfRen]

I just ignore anything to do with horizon open.

 

[Populuxe]

As an aside, does anyone know if the Anniversary Edition counted for completion of the challenge or was it only doable in a vanilla Viper?

Only the regular Viper counts.

 

[INEEDNAWZZZ]

Figured, I'm sure some people would've been peeved after trying with the AE.

 

[SU_Tempest]

It might be generic to you but my Drivatars are mostly folks from this very forum. The cars might be different but the Avatars are the same. So I know exactly what Popoluxe, Edax, Mikey and many others are wearing right now (in the game). 😅

hurriedly changes out of mariachi uniform

I need to add all y'all!

 

[Edax 76]

I need to add all y'all!

Gamertag - Edax 76

Nice and easy. Feel free to add me as a friend as well bud.

 

[Justuxful]

Just watched the remade FH2 intro for the first time and I’m crying again, it’s beautiful and perfect just like the original one.

 

[KnightOfRen]

Just watched the remade FH2 intro for the first time and I’m crying again, it’s beautiful and perfect just like the original one.

One of the most beautiful intros in the series. Gorgeous recreation once again.

 

[Nacho Libre]

Mexico may be my home country, but at least for this week, I'm back at my Horizon home.

Open your eyes...

 

[IcySlivers]

My Xbox PC gamepass name is same as here, IcySlivers if anyone wants to add

 

[The_Greaser]

The remade intro of FH2 is indeed beautifully made.

Now why can't we even drive the Vanquish clearly displayed on our faces? They have the AML license.... so I guess it was deleted for no reason whatsoever.

 

[GTvsForza]

There's a bunch of cars shown in trailers that we don't have access to. In the Update 4 one, you can see the Porsche Boxter in the background. There's also the Huayra and Vanquish of course.

 

[Edax 76]

This makes my avatar look even more like Timmy Mallet, he's only got Mallets Mallet in his hands lol.

For my non UK based friends Timmy Mallet was a 1980's early morning kids TV presenter. Google him, it'll be an experience for you 😂😂😂.

 

[inCloud]

Porsche Boxter

Daaaamn. Miss this ugly duckling. Actually, all three would be great.