Forza Horizon 5 Series 9 Preview: Hot Wheels

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Forza Horizon 5 Series 9 Preview: Hot Wheels​

The latest Forza Monthly livestream has given us our first look at the Series 9 content update for Forza Horizon 5 ahead of its release next week, Thursday June 23...

 

[alex511]

Horizon 5 gets trash. At beginning, I was fascinated of the map.
But instead of filling it up and bringing it to more life, you know what I want to say…

 

[ELmarcotuff]

So excited for another hotwheels map, horizon 3 was sweet.

 

[NotThePrez]

Fastback 'Cuda? Dodge Coronet Super Bee?

The Hot Wheels cars are also very cool, but I do like that the upcoming non-fictional cars give strong Hot Wheels vibes of their own.

 

[Ande3200]

Why can’t they just do something else, are playground games running out of ideas,
Why not add a city expansion or drag expansion, we have the pontential for good hp numbers, but the drag racing is not as good as in forza motorsport games, and get rid of that so the race dosen’t start directly when you start an event, bring a coubtdown timer as their is in motorsport games,

 

[nukleabomb]

Why can’t they just do something else, are playground games running out of ideas,
Why not add a city expansion or drag expansion, we have the pontential for good hp numbers, but the drag racing is not as good as in forza motorsport games, and get rid of that so the race dosen’t start directly when you start an event, bring a coubtdown timer as their is in motorsport games,

not sure whether this was fully confirmed, but a city runs poorly on the box one hardware. Hell Guanajuato cause all systems to drop frames. FH5 has very aggressive pop in already along with the map chunks disappearing on any moderate danger sign jump (it's worse on event lab maps). That's why they have been avoiding urban jungles since 3. Even surfer's paradise was pretty small. All signs point toward it running poorly.
I would love to be proven wrong. And considering that the internal codenames for the remaining 2 expansions are 'Ventura' and 'Nightfall' (formerly 'Nightlights), both of which feel like a city from the name, we could end up with a city expansion.
An expansion focused purely on drag would turn away a lot of people. They should just bring back the drag tree from fh4 on the festival site, and it would solve most of the issues. I fully expect them to make any major changes to the physics or game mechanics though.

 

[BigDaddy1978]

Another expansion for toddlers,hard pass.

 

[FoxMulder]

The FH3 hot wheels expansion was like 5 years ago and delisted now. The concept is fun and this will be bigger, maybe even letting us play with the hot wheels monster truck we only got a taste of in a showcase event

 

[ykiki]

Another expansion for toddlers,hard pass.

Yay!!! I stopped being a toddler over a half-century ago. Thank you for pointing me to the Fountain of Youth. I can escape the daily grind of adult life and have fun like a kid again.

Thank you for showing me the way!