Forza Horizon 5 (Xbox/PC/Cloud/Game Pass) Let’s ¡Go! Over 37m players.

That’s kind of crazy. It felt like FH3 broke through to a more mainstream crowd so I thought by the time FH4 launched it already had a lot of eyes on it. Wonder why such a massive jump for this. Do we roughly know how many subscribers Game Pass had then and how many it has now?

GrinWithoutaKat wrote:That’s kind of crazy. It felt like FH3 broke through to a more mainstream crowd so I thought by the time FH4 launched it already had a lot of eyes on it. Wonder why such a massive jump for this. Do we roughly know how many subscribers Game Pass had then and how many it has now?

FH4 was the one that broke through really. Plus 5 launched on everything simultaneously such as Steam, iOS and Android that FH4 didn't have the benefit of.

rinks wrote:A good time to stop for today, because nothing will top the excitement of this.

I've had one super wheelspin so far, and having read about how valuable they were, I was pretty underwhelmed to just unlock a victory emote, some yellow hi tops for the character customiser, and 100,000 credits.

10 million mark:

FH5: 1 week
FH4 : 8 to 9 months (January 2019 - 7 million, June 2019 - 10 million, August 2019 - 12 million, November 2020 - 24 million)
FH3: 2 years

I got the Sesto Elemento FE in a wheelspin... and wow. I don't usually play with S2 class cars unless the game makes me, but this thing feels like it's glued to the road.

It's got the Skills Boost too, so a great car to use if doing one of those highway race grinds as it's just constant speed/clean racing skill and throws car mastery points at you.

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GrinWithoutaKat wrote:I got the Sesto Elemento FE in a wheelspin... and wow. I don't usually play with S2 class cars unless the game makes me, but this thing feels like it's glued to the road.

It's got the Skills Boost too, so a great car to use if doing one of those highway race grinds as it's just constant speed/clean racing skill and throws car mastery points at you.

Gutted. I haven’t had it drop yet.

The session after this I was gifted 2 free super wheel spins in the message centre. The Lamborghini senso elementa FE dropped. I think they know people are cheesing it and so giving the wider community a chance to pick up the best stuff.

I found that with the AMG One - it takes curves at crazy speeds and never lets go. But it does start to feel a bit silly after a while.

I got to try out an insane Koenigsegg in one of the Super 7 events last night. Can't remember the model, but it went over 300mph.

rinks wrote:I found that with the AMG One - it takes curves at crazy speeds and never lets go. But it does start to feel a bit silly after a while.

I got to try out an insane Koenigsegg in one of the Super 7 events last night. Can't remember the model, but it went over 300mph.

I bought that car as I needed something fast for some of the events. Agera RS.

Does the game prompt you to sell a car which you already own if you win one in a spin? Or do we have to wait for them to patch that in again? I've noticed that I'm starting to get a few doubles now.

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BID0 wrote:Does the game prompt you to sell a car which you already own if you win one in a spin? Or do we have to wait for them to patch that in again? I've noticed that I'm starting to get a few doubles now.

Nope. I didn’t think… but appears I am wrong. Just not seen it.

BID0 wrote:Does the game prompt you to sell a car which you already own if you win one in a spin? Or do we have to wait for them to patch that in again? I've noticed that I'm starting to get a few doubles now.

It does! But not if you get a duplicate from accolades or other things. Just wheelspins.

Thanks! I know one of the doubles I have is from the 20th anniversary gift

I managed to get the arcade event done for this week after lots of failed attempts. Drift event with about 4 other players finished with about 2min to go.

mcjihge2 wrote:I managed to get the arcade event done for this week after lots of failed attempts. Drift event with about 4 other players finished with about 2min to go.

I nearly won an arcade set with a team of four last night - a wrecking event - but the second and third arenas were about 5km away, and I was the only one with open fast travel (or the others didn't want to pay).

I do think the drift ones are the "easiest". Its the only type ive managed so far. Getting air skills consumes too much time, the long jumps and trailblazers really need fast travel, the chaos mini missions come too slow, the bullseye jumps are glitchy, the "stay above 100mph in the ring" is too slow to build score, and the break the pinatas just doesnt have enough pinatas. Get at least three other players in drift cars and youve got a great chance of beating the drift event.

I love the general 'skill score' ones too. I was using the Hoonicorn ( :roll:

), with all the perks spent on the stuff that makes scores build faster/higher and you can get to 100k in no time at all. Still not quite as good as that Forza Edition Renault 5 from FH4 that boosted ALL skills. Hopefully something like that comes along later.

Yeah, I’ve given up now. I have only done round 1, once as we had a team. Most of the time it’s just me and you may as well give up. We had a team of 2 doing the air skills and we did It. Got the bullseye one and after about 10 targets they just stop appearing.

Ah that sucks. I did it lunch time the day of the server update and we had 10+ people doing it, so I figured it was all sorted now. Not tried it since the events refreshed.

I've got almost 300 cars now, so started to look into how much it would cost to buy up all the high end stuff from the autoshow when it comes time to go for that full collection. I already have 2 cars from the 5m+ bracket, but the rest would cost 140m. I don't think FH4 had anything over 10m, but this has 30m, 22m, 18m, 16m, a bunch at 15m. I guess the auction house will have them all for much less soon as I don't think they're cars the vast majority of people would even want to use (I do want that GT40 Mk II though!). I only had 80m at the end of FH4 and that was with not buying anything for the best part of a year as it was just non auto show cars I needed by then.

I was going for the 12 clean skills daily and decided to enter the co-op tour. Some sweaty strawberry floater in a hoonigan escort kept bashing me and trying to edge me out of check points on the last race. But it being rainy season there was a puddle just after the finish line - he hit it on the third lap, span out and missed a check point. Ive really going to increase the video record time because it was pretty funny.

Started to fall into the same hole in this as I did in 4, where everything you do has started to feel kind of meaningless. Sure, the moment to moment gameplay is good fun, but I'm not really sure what I'm doing any of it for. There's a constant stream of cars being unlocked, but so many are class B/C/D retro or vintage ones in car types I already have a better class of car unlocked, so I never actually use them. The races have very quickly started to feel similar from event to event, not helped by so many of them seeming to reuse the same stretches of road as each other. The showcases have some fun set pieces in them, but they're so scripted it doesn't feel like much more than an interactive cutscene, so they feel pretty pointless as well.

I just find myself sitting there looking at the map screen full of events, and the seasonal challenges, and wondering why I would actually want to do any of them.

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