I tried the Juggernaut last night. That is an insane trailblazer event. I missed 3 stars by quite a few seconds in my RS200.
Edit: Oh yes, and I finished the last of the story missions (V10) and got my Koenniseg Jasko (sp?). Now I can drive it in free roam! I wonder if I can fit it with off-road tires. Or if that’s even a good idea.
Having a blast in a BMW M3 from '03. I had to use a retro Saloon for the Seasonal championship, and it was too slow as the Stock config, so I downloaded this person’s tune up that really increases its launch and acceleration rating but makes it hilariously hard to turn. Winning in this giant tank of a car is surprisingly fun.
Yeah I did the same thing with that BMW and loved it too.
I’m stuck on the Truck seasonal/timed whatever, I can’t seem to get it tweaked right for the race that’s a go up the mountain. Just need some more practice ;-)
One thing I was wondering about. It seems like when you start one of those multi race competitions that you can’t start any other events. Is that how it works?
Yeah you can only have one open at any time.
In past Forza Horizon games the cross country races tend to be my least favorite activities just because I had a tough time understanding how much I’m supposed to brake and turn when I’m hurtling across grass fields and flowers and rocky hills and such. But man, some of the ones in this game are just sooooo much fun. Like I just finished one that starts off near the top of the volcano, and goes down the side of the mountain, and through the Baja Horizon festival track, and then across the white sands to the finish line near the West coast beach. That was such a blast in a Subaru WRX.
On the other hand, I used the rewind ability a LOT to not mess up the jumps along the side of the mountain and on the sand dunes. I can imagine this race being incredible frustrating if I had the time rewind ability turned off. It took me a few iterations of Horizon to really embrace the rewind superpower.
Prince of Persia: Wait wait wait, that’s not what really happened. I didn’t flip my Subaru over 3 times as I came over that hill.
Have any of you guys had the bug since the last patch where after exiting your house or the horizon festival, you go into the open world, and the game doesn’t respond to your controller at all? None of the buttons do anything?
I’ve had it happen to me twice now, once at my new west coast house yesterday, and today at the Baja Horizon festival where I unlocked a Barn Find (my last one).
Yeah, they just patched it a couple hours ago:
The Colusses was a lot of fun. At first I was questioning my choice of taking it in my Lotus Exige, but it turned out to be the perfect car for this race. The Lotus, of course, is all about hugging the light turns without having to brake, and there’s soooooo many of those turns in this race that it didn’t matter that I always lost ground on the straights to the other cars. The whole course takes no highways, it’s all back streets (even though it’s all paved roads) from east coast to west coast.
Great race design.
I also finished the Juggernaut with 3 stars, by getting there with literally less than a second to spare for the 3 star cutoff. Phew!
It’s incredible how much bad luck I’m having with the rolls. I think I only got 3 valuable, rare cars after 145 rolls, not even counting the triple ones.
I bought the Premium Add-Ons Bundle, which included both the coming expansions, the Car Pass, and the VIP membership. So I fired up the game again to see the new cars I got. Obviously the Hot Wheels expansion is what I really want to play, but that will have to wait for release this fall, I think.
Ok, so first, there was disappointment. Apparently the Car Pass in this game is not like regular Forza games. Instead of getting a metric ton of extra cars like in the regular Forza games, I think I got 3 for the Welcome pack, and 6 more maybe. So apparently the Car Pass and VIP and all that aren’t all that much in this Horizon game, apparently.
But anyway, forget all that. Because then I started playing, and oh my god, it feels soooooo good to drive around Mexico at a smooth 60fps and see such gorgeous vistas.
Weird, I just fired up the game after a long hiatus too! I am sooo bad at racing in this game but the world is fantastic and just fun to explore so it doesn’t matter to me.
It’s not weird! We were all just shown Horizon 5’s new coming expansion pack, so it’s not weird that we would want to go back to it! :)
Hmmmm, I suppose that may have played a part in my subconsious.
Have they said how many pieces of DLC there will be? I was thinking about picking up the all inclusive pack thing but wasn’t sure what was planned other than the Hot Wheels DLC.
Well, going by previous games in the series, the two DLCs are always quite substantial.
Horizon 2 had Storm Island and Porsche Unleashed
Horizon 3 had Blizzard Mountain and Hot Wheels
Horizon 4 had Fortune Island and Lego Speed Champions.
All were quite big in terms of the amount of content they added. In Horizon 4, I thought Fortune Island sounded kind of boring and Lego Champions sounded awesome. It turns out, I thought Lego was ok, but Fortune Island is the most fun I had in all of Horizon 4. I just loved it. A focused highland/Scottish type island that was really well designed and fun to drive on and to complete objectives and to search for treasure chests on.
Isn’t the Hot Wheels expansion announced for July? Not Fall.
Nice! Although it still feels far off because I want to play it right now.
Today is the day!
I wonder how big a download the expansion will be.
Looks like around 12-13GB?
I finally got home pretty late last night but had to fire this up.
First impression: I like it, but not as much as the Hot Wheels in FH3. There’s just something so scary to me about being on ramps over large bodies of water. It makes my stomach muscles tighten. But in this one we’re over jungles and snow and a volcano, which is cool, but isn’t as scary as being over water.