Forza Horizon 5: General Discussion

[Nacho Libre]

I think that cultural representation is also a major factor in deciding where to locate the games, and Colorado (USA), France/Italy, Australia, UK, and Mexico were represented as very laid-back and fun locations (lawless but also harmless). Sorry, but for the tone of the game, China, Korea and Japan have no chill.

 

[Digolgrin]

I think that cultural representation is also a major factor in deciding where to locate the games, and Colorado (USA), France/Italy, Australia, UK, and Mexico were represented as very laid-back and fun locations (lawless but also harmless). Sorry, but for the tone of the game, China, Korea and Japan have no chill.

Germany also falls under that "laid-back and fun" umbrella, I figure--after all, you'd be able to scream down the Autobahn at over 300 MPH in a hypercar, or hoon across the Swiss Alps or the Hurtgen Forest in a Group B monster, either of your own creation or from the annals of history. Maybe not as much as Mexico was (which is something I kind of hold against FH5's depiction of Mexico--I remember the country being typecast as the land of fiesta and tacos when I was a kid, and Ramiro always embodied that side of the country to me), but maybe getting closer to the relatively chill vibes I get from FH4's Britain.

 

[Nacho Libre]

Germany also falls under that "laid-back and fun" umbrella, I figure--after all, you'd be able to scream down the Autobahn at over 300 MPH in a hypercar, or hoon across the Swiss Alps or the Hurtgen Forest in a Group B monster, either of your own creation or from the annals of history. Maybe not as much as Mexico was (which is something I kind of hold against FH5's depiction of Mexico--I remember the country being typecast as the land of fiesta and tacos when I was a kid, and Ramiro always embodied that side of the country to me), but maybe getting closer to the relatively chill vibes I get from FH4's Britain.

Well as a Mexican I'm grateful for Playground Games by depicting a much cleaner and safer version of my home country that gets the geography and urban/rural/weather/road features right (minus the pollution and poor road maintenance we currently have), so I really don't mind if Ramiro sounds like a U.S. born 2nd or 3rd generation dude. And we are a land of fiesta/taco (and much more), just not at all times!

 

[Digolgrin]

Hah, fair enough! Either way I'd welcome Germany as a setting, it seems like it'd fit in just fine with the rest of Horizon--if not moreso than anything else I'd have imagined, Nordic countries aside.

Speaking of, though, a friend of mine has informed me that it's considerably more likely that the German license plates ended up in that archive (and thus, apparently, Mexico becoming the setting of FH5) because of difficulties securing the license to the specific font those plates use, FE-Schrift, which is very tightly protected and only licensed out to German authorities and contractors that serve the German government, and because PGG was apparently unable to really replicate it accurately. If true, we may have been bamboozled.

 

[TGR55]

I've been trying to get the Millionaire Accolade in which you need to bank a million skill points, how did you guys get it?

I'm using a Hoonigan Cossie with a maxed out skill tree and going around the dunes area just smashing through everything whilst drifting.

My strategies are :
1. Use any drift/stunt cars, i think i used Hoonicorn for that challenge
2. Go to skill tree and make sure the car have these specific skills available: x7 score multiplier, The skill that allowed you to crash twice before losing points and the one that increase the skill chain ending timer by 1 or 2 seconds
3. Go to runway on the southwest of the map
4. Tune in the classical radio. A skill song increase your multiplier by 2x and the classical radio have a longer skill song
5. Drift and smash objects near the runway till you get enough points

 

[Digolgrin]

I've been trying to get the Millionaire Accolade in which you need to bank a million skill points, how did you guys get it?

I'm using a Hoonigan Cossie with a maxed out skill tree and going around the dunes area just smashing through everything whilst drifting.

The Hoonigan RS200 is also great for this--since it's smaller and lighter it can get air much more easily, and its acceleration is unreal. I remember I actually got mine with the Bugatti Veyron, since hypercars can achieve Ultimate Speed and Ultimate Near Miss skills much easier than any other car class in the game. You'll still have to hope for a Skill Song, but the double skill chain multiplier that comes with those persists even after the song is over, so you only need one.

 

[UKMikey]

I've been trying to get the Millionaire Accolade in which you need to bank a million skill points, how did you guys get it?

I'm using a Hoonigan Cossie with a maxed out skill tree and going around the dunes area just smashing through everything whilst drifting.

If I need a bunch of points I normally start off at the solar panel farm southeast of the festival site, then cross the highway and smash as many trees as I can during a classical skill song.

 

[pez2k]

...I still suspect that the Slayer was left out of DeBerti's representation in FH5 because of a stubborn prior owner--though this suspicion largely depends on its model ID in the files, so it may be invalid.

The C10 is very, very new, it's nowhere near any of the other Deberti-tuned cars so it was probably a fairly recent plan to add it (perhaps within the last 12 months at most).

Speaking of, though, a friend of mine has informed me that it's considerably more likely that the German license plates ended up in that archive (and thus, apparently, Mexico becoming the setting of FH5) because of difficulties securing the license to the specific font those plates use, FE-Schrift, which is very tightly protected and only licensed out to German authorities and contractors that serve the German government, and because PGG was apparently unable to really replicate it accurately.

I don't think this theory makes much sense simply because the Horizon games have never really made any effort to have real numberplate fonts. FH5 doesn't even try to make them look like Mexican plates, they're just a generic black on yellow EU-sized plate carried over from FH4 and a generic black on white US-sized plate depending on the car.

It's also worth pointing out that the zip in question isn't where the license plate materials are (it's not even for vehicle textures), so whatever it is it's not set up for use as a plate.