Forza Horizon 5: General Discussion
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Oh, I got the Danger Sign with my Rimac Conceptwo; it actually took only a few tries for me, my reaction was just born of "oh crap these are high, I don't see casual players getting these." Honestly all the off-road PR Stunts just plain suck, damn you Team Offroad!
Drift Zones, all you really need is Formula Drift. Those'll do ya fine.
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I'm quite impressed with the Pagani Huayra R '22 being capable of reaching 9.1 Offroad and being smooth like butter on gravel, etc.!
I slapped on a weaker engine, all off-road and handling stuff except weight reductions, weighed it down, lowered the downforce, put on AWD and a Drift transmission (adds 0.2 to off-road), didn't add any power and I set the suspension components to be very soft.
It can even do a lesser levels of rock crawling and it can climb a snowy Caldera! ...and yes, I do super cute designs at 40'ish years old. Hopefully I'm not a weirdo!
I slapped on a weaker engine, all off-road and handling stuff except weight reductions, weighed it down, lowered the downforce, put on AWD and a Drift transmission (adds 0.2 to off-road), didn't add any power and I set the suspension components to be very soft.
It can even do a lesser levels of rock crawling and it can climb a snowy Caldera! ...and yes, I do super cute designs at 40'ish years old. Hopefully I'm not a weirdo!
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I've got a tuned Ford Escort Hoonigan 1992 I use for the drift zones bud. It works for me but the back end is very loose and it's not on drift suspension so I wouldn't recommend it to others.
It's available if you want to look it up in my tunes. It'll score enough in zones for 3 stars but you're never topping a leaderboard in it. I use it mainly for skill points farming.
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After some time to marinate in the teaser... I think I've finally settled on a formal prediction. I think it's gonna be that focus on marketing partner tuners I'd neglected to look into before; the more I think about it in combination with everything else I've seen and figured, the more sense it makes. I hate that I actually have to look into it now, but at least it'd be worthwhile, moreso than the modern off-road focus of Modern Horizons.
In short: I predict the theme of the car update will be "Icons of Car Culture." The entire update will be something of a celebration of modern 'dudebro' car culture in a way that just having another Donut Media update wouldn't fully permit. They won't have any one tuner as a focus, but instead they'll shine a spotlight on all of their major partners up to now--that would be Chris Forsberg, DeBerti, Hennessey, Saleen, and possibly Mercedes-AMG, should they also count, but I'm mostly leaning towards the first four. Donut Media will get the car pack, and I'll probably copy-paste that over to complete the prediction--in a way, this pretty much IS Donut Media Part 3, just not in the manner we expected.
Icons of Car Culture (or, A Meeting of the (Automotive) Mechanical Minds)
Series Reward: 2022 Hennessey Venom 1200 (80 points, New-to-Forza; unchanged from last prediction)
Summer: 1965 Deberti Design Chevrolet C10 Slayer (20 points, New-to-Forza; this is the last major DeBerti restomod not in Forza I think, so it makes sense for this to come in for this update)
Autumn: 2003 (?) Chris Forsberg Nissan 350Z Drift Car (20 points, New-to-Forza; Forsberg doesn't have that many cars it turns out, so this is a tossup between this and his 370Z with the SpeedHunters livery, but it's up there for me.)
Winter: 2022 Hoonigan Hoonipigasus (20 points, New-to-Forza; because Hoonigan does need some love and the Festival Playlist this week might have teased their involvement with the 'Woo-Hoon!' seasonal championship.) 2007 Saleen S5S (Returning, either 40 points or in an Exclusive Event)
Spring: Mercedes-AMG GT 63 S E Performance (20 points, New-to-Forza; side grade to existing car that PG frankly does love to do)
Last, but absolutely not least, the car pack; Donut Media's got this, I can't imagine anything else right now.
Donut Media Car Pack ($9.99)
1998 BMW 328i "Money Pit"
1994 Mazda Miata "Money Pit"
2002 Toyota Tacoma Pre-Runner "HiTruck"
2002 Toyota Tacoma Pre-Runner "LoTruck"
2005 Subaru Impreza WRX "HiCar"
2005 Subaru Impreza WRX "LoCar"
In short: I predict the theme of the car update will be "Icons of Car Culture." The entire update will be something of a celebration of modern 'dudebro' car culture in a way that just having another Donut Media update wouldn't fully permit. They won't have any one tuner as a focus, but instead they'll shine a spotlight on all of their major partners up to now--that would be Chris Forsberg, DeBerti, Hennessey, Saleen, and possibly Mercedes-AMG, should they also count, but I'm mostly leaning towards the first four. Donut Media will get the car pack, and I'll probably copy-paste that over to complete the prediction--in a way, this pretty much IS Donut Media Part 3, just not in the manner we expected.
Icons of Car Culture (or, A Meeting of the (Automotive) Mechanical Minds)
Series Reward: 2022 Hennessey Venom 1200 (80 points, New-to-Forza; unchanged from last prediction)
Summer: 1965 Deberti Design Chevrolet C10 Slayer (20 points, New-to-Forza; this is the last major DeBerti restomod not in Forza I think, so it makes sense for this to come in for this update)
Autumn: 2003 (?) Chris Forsberg Nissan 350Z Drift Car (20 points, New-to-Forza; Forsberg doesn't have that many cars it turns out, so this is a tossup between this and his 370Z with the SpeedHunters livery, but it's up there for me.)
Winter: 2022 Hoonigan Hoonipigasus (20 points, New-to-Forza; because Hoonigan does need some love and the Festival Playlist this week might have teased their involvement with the 'Woo-Hoon!' seasonal championship.) 2007 Saleen S5S (Returning, either 40 points or in an Exclusive Event)
Spring: Mercedes-AMG GT 63 S E Performance (20 points, New-to-Forza; side grade to existing car that PG frankly does love to do)
Last, but absolutely not least, the car pack; Donut Media's got this, I can't imagine anything else right now.
Donut Media Car Pack ($9.99)
1998 BMW 328i "Money Pit"
1994 Mazda Miata "Money Pit"
2002 Toyota Tacoma Pre-Runner "HiTruck"
2002 Toyota Tacoma Pre-Runner "LoTruck"
2005 Subaru Impreza WRX "HiCar"
2005 Subaru Impreza WRX "LoCar"
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Good points on both. It was honestly between the Tesla and the Saleen 302, and the need for an EV kinda won out--plus I don't think we need another 2020s Mustang so soon after the first. Really the only predictions up there I'd consider 'locked in' for me now are the Venom 1200, the C10 Slayer and the Donut Media Car Pack, the rest I still need to look into.
Plus, uh, I misread the GT Coupe 4, forgot we already had one. It'd have to be a new AMG, though, or at least a new Black Series if one exists.
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There is this one. The GT 63 S E Performance. Not too different visually but it adds a 200bhp electric motor to the standard engine to make over 800bhp in total
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That's the one, thank you. I'll lock that one in as my AMG prediction.
Might also replace the Saleen Tesla with a Hoonigan; I know the Hoonipigasus was under some kind of exclusivity deal with Asphalt but if that's expired now it'd fit with the theme just as well, especially since it's a Porsche.
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So I just realized, there's never really been an Evolving World update outside of the map-wide takeovers that hasn't been added without some sort of wider purpose for the community. Sure that Coffee Shop might be a Photo Mode studio now, which obviously appeals to way fewer players than usual, but there's gotta be something they're hiding. I don't know if that's a 'surprise Horizon Story' (we've never had a car culture-focused update without one), some sort of Quality of Life improvement to matchmaking and convoy searching like what @skazz suggested, or a returning Evolving World feature we haven't been told about yet, but there's gotta be something more to this update than what we think.
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Yeah, that's why I figured it'd be a grab bag at first, Cars and Coffee in real life is basically that anyway. But it's an aspect of modern car culture and you could easily take a high-level approach to it by making it a meeting of the big aftermarket tuners, so that's what I went with in the end.
The FL5 would definitely fit as a headline car, for sure. But we also haven't seen that many Hondas in post-launch content at all, the most we've gotten was the Ridgeline Baja Trophy Truck and that was it. I'd expect the Sterrato or the Urus Performante before I'd expect the FL5.
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Wait... how about a collaboration with Comedians in Cars getting Coffee 
I've always dreamed of getting commentary from some knowledgeable stars in any Forza game, like in the heyday of FM4!
I've always dreamed of getting commentary from some knowledgeable stars in any Forza game, like in the heyday of FM4!
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I think that's what Famine was worried about, yes.Wait... how about a collaboration with Comedians in Cars getting Coffee
Honestly though, if they were going to do that they'd have telegraphed it well in advance like they did with Donut Media both times, so I doubt there'll be any sort of collaborative crossover aspect.
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Yeah, it will probably be something like "Ramiro in a car getting crappy convenience store coffee".I think that's what Famine was worried about, yes.
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Yeah, it will probably be something like "Ramiro in a car getting crappy convenience store coffee".
The OXXO car pack with legends like the not-Oldsmobile Chevrolet Cutlass
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