Horizon 5 First Impressions
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- Mexico
Some of my impressions:
-Definitively it's not FH4 in another setting! I feel they took the best parts of the past three games (and maybe some of Colorado, but I never played FH1, regrettably), and have added (and will add) more content. Just two days into the game and it's already filled with more events that FH4 in that timeframe.
-Excellent dirt and road track layouts.
-Huge and beautiful landscapes, and incredible attention to detail in road signage/architecture (I can attest to that).
-Great sound mix for headphones and much better music content. The main theme is to die for!
-Improved handling, specially on the road. Now you can feel the grip and downforce of the top cars.
-Definitively it's not FH4 in another setting! I feel they took the best parts of the past three games (and maybe some of Colorado, but I never played FH1, regrettably), and have added (and will add) more content. Just two days into the game and it's already filled with more events that FH4 in that timeframe.
-Excellent dirt and road track layouts.
-Huge and beautiful landscapes, and incredible attention to detail in road signage/architecture (I can attest to that).
-Great sound mix for headphones and much better music content. The main theme is to die for!
-Improved handling, specially on the road. Now you can feel the grip and downforce of the top cars.
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- AbsoluteBarstool
- AbsolutBarstool
Got it on the PC. Ups and downs, but mostly positive:
+Not that I need them, but the accessibility options are top-notch
+Handling feels much more natural on the controller using simulation steering and minimal assists
+Mexico's huge
+Very good graphics
+Massive car variety from the outset
-The cars you start with are a little bit out of the league of 'starter' cars, negating the sense of early progress slightly - but I can understand why they've done it
-I installed it on my HDD, so streaming bandwidth has turned out to be a bit of an issue. Edit: moved it over to my NVMe drive and it became a much more seamless experience.
-Don't know what I've done with the graphics settings, but the wrong configuration can produce artefacts in the form of bars that span the screen at regular intervals
-Again, relating to the wrong graphics config - it's a beautiful game, but there moments where it can look incomprehensibly hideous
-The city is quite fun to race around, but it could have done with either being a bit bigger, or being accompanied by another one nearby
+Not that I need them, but the accessibility options are top-notch
+Handling feels much more natural on the controller using simulation steering and minimal assists
+Mexico's huge
+Very good graphics
+Massive car variety from the outset
-The cars you start with are a little bit out of the league of 'starter' cars, negating the sense of early progress slightly - but I can understand why they've done it
-I installed it on my HDD, so streaming bandwidth has turned out to be a bit of an issue. Edit: moved it over to my NVMe drive and it became a much more seamless experience.
-Don't know what I've done with the graphics settings, but the wrong configuration can produce artefacts in the form of bars that span the screen at regular intervals
-Again, relating to the wrong graphics config - it's a beautiful game, but there moments where it can look incomprehensibly hideous
-The city is quite fun to race around, but it could have done with either being a bit bigger, or being accompanied by another one nearby
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- Norway
- fairlane305
Mexico looks good, they`ve done a good job with the scenery. Free-roam works a lot better than in H4 (so far) bcs roads are driveable
and not blocked by evil AI-drivers. Buying cars & making up tunes & having fun, on my own premises.
Street- & roadraces are ok but offroading are way out in space overhyped up. Me I will not participate in any offroad-circus. Or playground or..
Oh and I forgot; music is a lot better!
and not blocked by evil AI-drivers. Buying cars & making up tunes & having fun, on my own premises.
Street- & roadraces are ok but offroading are way out in space overhyped up. Me I will not participate in any offroad-circus. Or playground or..
Oh and I forgot; music is a lot better!
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- United States
- Turboteg90
The way the cars idle now is heaven.
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- United States
The aero model feels really good. With the AM Valhalla, I really feel like it’s handling better as speeds increase… to the point where I feel the need to go faster to make a turn… it’s a weird feeling.
The world is finally big enough that the boundary between any 2 regions isn’t all that blatant. (With the exception of the jump from the airfield, as there is SO much air and jumps over the river that marks a boundary of its own). The geological features don’t feel scaled down in the way that FH4 did. It’s a loooong way up the mountain and even still a looong way down, which is a feel that the FH4 DLC couldn’t quite pull off.
The weird thing is that, while I go through all sorts of different environments in the various events, I tend to end up at the desert beach whenever I roam around. My random wandering has never actually gotten me into the city and has only gotten me into the canyon and land bridge a couple of times.
Critiques:
The game really isn’t as <A-class friendly as FH4. Most of the world just doesn’t feel fun to putter around in your C-class classic.
The roads and environment tend to push you into the southern or western parts of the map.
The seasons are far more subtle and only really noticeable in a couple of places… and while that makes sense for a tropical area, I am one of those few that miss the winter.
I was expecting a lot more small roads and dirt roads. Though that isn’t too bad, it does make low tier rally feel lacking.
The world is finally big enough that the boundary between any 2 regions isn’t all that blatant. (With the exception of the jump from the airfield, as there is SO much air and jumps over the river that marks a boundary of its own). The geological features don’t feel scaled down in the way that FH4 did. It’s a loooong way up the mountain and even still a looong way down, which is a feel that the FH4 DLC couldn’t quite pull off.
The weird thing is that, while I go through all sorts of different environments in the various events, I tend to end up at the desert beach whenever I roam around. My random wandering has never actually gotten me into the city and has only gotten me into the canyon and land bridge a couple of times.
Critiques:
The game really isn’t as <A-class friendly as FH4. Most of the world just doesn’t feel fun to putter around in your C-class classic.
The roads and environment tend to push you into the southern or western parts of the map.
The seasons are far more subtle and only really noticeable in a couple of places… and while that makes sense for a tropical area, I am one of those few that miss the winter.
I was expecting a lot more small roads and dirt roads. Though that isn’t too bad, it does make low tier rally feel lacking.
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- A house
- AbsoluteBarstool
- AbsolutBarstool
That's exactly what I was thinking the other night. Played with Valhalla on the Colossus and it's amazing how much better it feels than even Motorsport 7. There's a real sense of weight that presses down on the car as you gather speed - then there's a nervous, floaty feeling that takes a hold as you negotiate slower corners. I genuinely didn't expect it to come along with additional understeer in slipstream and unexpected losses of grip over irregularities in the road surface. It's a nice contrast over Motorsport's approach that was seemingly as simple as adding grip at higher speeds.
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