GalaxyDive

Member
Oct 25, 2017
4,904
Yeah the four new road race sprints are great (and just what the doctor ordered, feel like that was a weaker category as far as FH5's events go).

I wish the Eventlab potential for their starting grids were a bit more useful (one is great, one is basically pointless, and the other two are kinda meh), but not going to complain when the horizon routes themselves are really fun and use a lot of road not touched by other official races.
 

Ramathevoice

Member
Oct 26, 2017
3,146
Paris, France
Dunno if anyone else is playing on Windows with an Xbox Series controller, but it seems like impulse triggers aren't as intense since the latest update? I'm barely getting any trigger rumble when I'm putting down too much power or when I start to drift.
Solved this by disabling vibration in the options, *returning to the game*, then going back into the options menu to reactivate it.
 

bobnowhere

Member
Oct 26, 2017
2,560
Elsewhere for 8 minutes
Coming this Thursday:
GMA T.50 (Fan car) - From community gift thing
Another unknown new car from the gifting

From weeklies:
Lotus 2-Eleven
Morgan Aero GT
Subaru GRZ '22
Lotus 340R

Fast and Furious Paid Pack

4 more from unknown means, all old school racers (Might just be autoshow):
1958 Aston Martin DBR1
1970 Ferrari 512 S
1966 Porsche 906 Carrera 6
1953 Jag C-Type

Next season announced as well

Weekly cars:

McLaren 12C
Aston Martin DBS
Koenigsegg CCX
Lykan Hypersport
Pagani Huayra
Merc 280SL
GTA Spano
Fiat Dino
 

DasRavenEra

Member
Oct 27, 2017
312
RDU
Coming this Thursday:
GMA T.50 (Fan car) - From community gift thing
Another unknown new car from the gifting

From weeklies:
Lotus 2-Eleven
Morgan Aero GT
Subaru GRZ '22
Lotus 340R

Fast and Furious Paid Pack

4 more from unknown means, all old school racers (Might just be autoshow):
1958 Aston Martin DBR1
1970 Ferrari 512 S
1966 Porsche 906 Carrera 6
1953 Jag C-Type

Second gifting car is the Aston Valkyrie.
Old school racers are autoshow for this series and Forzathon shop next series.
 

GalaxyDive

Member
Oct 25, 2017
4,904
The month of "winter" was a really misguided choice if the only way they could make it happen is a loading screen every damn time you launch the game, which is then followed by the slow drop of events on the map. I wouldn't complain if there was actual benefit to the mood (i.e. if we were talking about 4's map), but it's so not worth it for just the bit of snow atop of the volcano to be there in freeroam.

Aside from that, the new decorations are cool and Winter Wonderland's a fun little circuit.
 

bobnowhere

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Oct 26, 2017
2,560
Elsewhere for 8 minutes
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Shame the Supervan is paid DLC
 

Stackboy

Member
Oct 25, 2017
274
Thrillsville, Brisvegas
Anyone else hopeful for a FH6 announcement at the Xbox Showcase this year? I know Fable will probably be out end of this year and it's the same dev, so maybe it's unlikely, but I would be so keen on a new FH. I still come back to FH5 weekly.
 

OmegaDL50

One Winged Slayer
Member
Oct 25, 2017
10,035
Philadelphia, PA
Anyone else hopeful for a FH6 announcement at the Xbox Showcase this year? I know Fable will probably be out end of this year and it's the same dev, so maybe it's unlikely, but I would be so keen on a new FH. I still come back to FH5 weekly.

Playground Games has two teams. One for Forza related things and the other working on Fable, so there shouldn't really be an overlap or delay in terms of production.
 

chrominance

Sky Van Gogh
Member
Oct 25, 2017
14,751
Anyone else hopeful for a FH6 announcement at the Xbox Showcase this year? I know Fable will probably be out end of this year and it's the same dev, so maybe it's unlikely, but I would be so keen on a new FH. I still come back to FH5 weekly.

I'm kind of hoping 6 will be the new 4 and that there will be a bigger overhaul of the game formula this time around. No idea what that means for production timelines but I'm willing to wait longer if we get something fresh rather than just FH4/5 in a new locale.

Though on the other hand, with Motorsport shitting the bed, I wouldn't mind a new Horizon sooner if Playground decided to stick with what works. FH5-2 would still be a damned sight better than what happened with Motorsport.
 

Rumenapp

Forza Photographer
Member
Nov 9, 2017
14,301
I've not logged in the FH5 for a while but I'd really love them to do some more DLCs/locales.

Yeah you and me but their budget probably was only for two expansions and they're not planning a third even with all the new cars and content they've been adding to the game.

I always play at least once a week for the new cars on the playlist.
 

chrominance

Sky Van Gogh
Member
Oct 25, 2017
14,751


HOLY SHIT. ROAD ASSETS. And they're snappable! I forgot that got added in a past update.

I wonder how difficult it would be to make your own city somewhere in the Mexican desert, lol. This definitely brings us one step closer. Can't remember if you still need to start an event at one of the predefined race start points though (I know Event Island exists, of course, but it'd be nice to have an in-between option so you didn't have to craft all of your landscape from scratch too).
 

Gr8one

Member
Oct 25, 2017
4,347
I love the work they are doing on event lab. finally some banked turns and elevations and grippy pavement!

I hope more pieces continue to come out.

I'm going to out myself as a boomer but we are getting closer to my modern Stunts track design dream. Boy, if we could share tracks offline in the future I think FH5 could live on forever like Stunts (albeit with a much larger fan base lol)!
 

KRaZyAmmo

Member
Oct 25, 2017
1,301
I wonder how difficult it would be to make your own city somewhere in the Mexican desert, lol. This definitely brings us one step closer. Can't remember if you still need to start an event at one of the predefined race start points though (I know Event Island exists, of course, but it'd be nice to have an in-between option so you didn't have to craft all of your landscape from scratch too).
You still do need predefined race point. There's also the prefab parts to make the process go easier
 

bobnowhere

Member
Oct 26, 2017
2,560
Elsewhere for 8 minutes
My game is broken again. Can't access the FH5 server so no tunes, paints, mail, auction house, event labs etc... Multiplayer still works as does solo.

Tried every google suggestion, reset the app, reset the game, firewalls, reset router/pc, repaired everything, logged in and out, started logged out etc... Nothing.

Not just me at least:

 
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Rumenapp

Forza Photographer
Member
Nov 9, 2017
14,301
No issues here.

I was enjoying this week's playlist so much that i did the 80 points needed for the drag car without even noticing.
 

Gr8one

Member
Oct 25, 2017
4,347
The new series intro is already epic. Loving this synthwave. I am getting flashbacks to my GTA5 pc playthrough now with all my bandcamp purchases to make the ultimate synthwave playlist. I'm pretty sure I just grabbed everything from the synthwave thread from the old place when I was a lurker. Such good times!
 

Rumenapp

Forza Photographer
Member
Nov 9, 2017
14,301
Some nice cars coming in the next update and a dlc pack with three versions of the delorean from the movies, Jurassic Park Jeep and Kitt from Knight Rider.

GR Yaris and Mustang Dark Horse are the stars of the next update imo.

Not sure if they'll manage to keep the community engaged with the game for another year until FH6 without another expansion but we'll see.
 

KRaZyAmmo

Member
Oct 25, 2017
1,301
I've been getting infinite loading screen animation loop ONLY for CC races. Every other race types are fine, but everytime I try to start up a CC, it goes into an infinite loop at loading
 

KRaZyAmmo

Member
Oct 25, 2017
1,301
FH been acting so weird for me lately. First I could never load into an CC race. Today I couldn't do mainland eventlab today. Now I can't even load into the start menu.

Edit: Now I'm reinstalling the game to see if it makes any difference
 
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chrominance

Sky Van Gogh
Member
Oct 25, 2017
14,751
Goddamn, this week's trial can honestly go fuck itself. I haven't seen it this bad in YEARS. Nobody fucking knows how to drive and it's like playing terrible pinball.
 

leng jai

Member
Nov 2, 2017
15,284
Have to say it was getting a bit stale after so long but the Retro/Synthwave update has really given the game a second wind for me.
 

chrominance

Sky Van Gogh
Member
Oct 25, 2017
14,751
My attention has been focused on my Steam install of Horizon 4 lately (gonna see if I can earn the three seasonal achievements that are disappearing after the final series coming up next week), so I totally missed the new JDM Jewels pack. I'm sort of resigned to Playground charging us for these even if you have the Ultimate Edition--I don't like it, but hey, if this is beyond the original support plan for the game then fine I guess, I'd just like them to be more upfront about what we're getting in the Ultimate Edition next time. But holy crap, the CARS:

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The Nissan Stagea (aka station wagon Skyline), Mazda AZ-1, and the Pajero Evolution. And not shown here but also included, the Toyota Sera. The Stagea apparently even has the infamous bodykit that slaps an R34 nose onto the front as an option. I want all of these.
 

KRaZyAmmo

Member
Oct 25, 2017
1,301
My attention has been focused on my Steam install of Horizon 4 lately (gonna see if I can earn the three seasonal achievements that are disappearing after the final series coming up next week), so I totally missed the new JDM Jewels pack. I'm sort of resigned to Playground charging us for these even if you have the Ultimate Edition--I don't like it, but hey, if this is beyond the original support plan for the game then fine I guess, I'd just like them to be more upfront about what we're getting in the Ultimate Edition next time. But holy crap, the CARS:

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The Nissan Stagea (aka station wagon Skyline), Mazda AZ-1, and the Pajero Evolution. And not shown here but also included, the Toyota Sera. The Stagea apparently even has the infamous bodykit that slaps an R34 nose onto the front as an option. I want all of these.
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people have also gif'd between the R34 conversion and in-game R34. The front end conversion is a remodeled front end of the R34.