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!
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.My strategies are :
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.
Like TRG55, I´ve been using a maxed out Hoonicorn drifting up and down the abandoned air strip during a skill song on radio eterna
I would love to have Germany as the next setting for FH6. Being the birthplace of the car and having so many car manufacturers it would be a good choice car culture wise. We would have a proper winter season with snow and maybe they could put a real race track in the map🤔 Hockenheim, Sachsenring or Nürburgring 🤩 Maybe as a DLC. One can dream 😏Hah, fair enough!
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.
Considering this would likely be the first Horizon to use ForzaTech, and presumably an upgraded off-road driving model, having a proper winter season would be a real boon if they can pull it off. As for actual racetracks... It's a real possibility; I could see the main Festival Site centering around one like Mexico's did, but even that Festival Site was built on a small airstrip in order to further the whole idea of it being more of a jumping off point for the 'Horizon adventure' aspect, just like the outposts are. It'll be interesting to see what happens there, for sure.
Hah, honestly Reddit is quite the sourpuss of a community. But, seeing this post did remind me, I need to get my Mid-Series Prediction together!
My only question is whether they put one of the Hot Wheels Legends Tour award winners in this update. I could easily see the P1800 Gasser in this update, even though a Volvo isn't a prototypical "muscle car," per se.
I actually think this might have made for a neat addition for this update--if its "headlights" weren't clearly painted on. It's been a while since I've played, let alone used the Gumout stock car, so I don't know if they've ever handled that on any car, but other than that I don't know how they can resist a Latin American award winner that you don't have to necessarily license to include.
That would be cool but it just doesn't seem likely to happen at this point unfortunately, as they have already had some opportunities to do this.
Another random thought: the Gasser could also be why we haven't seen the normal Volvo 1800E in FH5 or FM23. But yeah I know the decals can be taken off of the stock car. I added a 90s style Mark Martin Valvoline livery before Ford did the headlight decals to the front of their cars around the 1998 season. But it's inconsistent with some of the cars in FM that are decaled up in the front fascia in whether they can be taken out or not.
Yeah, honestly I'm surprised I didn't even consider any Hot Wheels cars for Midnight Muscle. I don't think it's necessarily likely, I'm of the mind that it's either going to be a full-on Modern Muscle update or a Back to the '90s style batch of returning or New-to-Horizon muscle cars. But Hot Wheels cars would certainly fit this mold.
Oh, I was actually referring to how FH5 handles cars with no headlights to speak of, which I'm sure the Gumout doesn't have. I think they just cast a ray of light out in front of the car to give you headlights no matter what, actually, but again it's been a long time since I've used a car like that in any Horizon.
