Forza Horizon 4

Trying to do the princess street speed trap for the summer forzathon . But need a car that will do 230mph which given i have 5 of the 8 cars none will do . Checked online and most people use the ferrari 812 which i didnt uy from the forzathon store on week 2 as i didnt have enough points . So not sure how im gonna do it . Already spent over 2 million buying and tuning cars but best i managed was 214 .

Anyone managed it so far ?
 
This is my first Forza Horizon game and first real driving game for years. I nearly didn’t buy it put off by YouTube videos by some hardcore players complaining about stuff.

Wow this is the the definition of AAA game such a polished experience. I can understand if you had come from the previous games you could now have some fatigue but coming in cold it’s incredible. I live about 40 minutes from Bamburgh castle and visit Edinburgh regularly so the scenery could not be better for me.
 
So a day or so in and i see what everyone is on about with the constant rewards.

Do you think there will ever be something competitive or a driving mode where you get rewarded for good driving. I was overwhelmed with how good and fun this was but now the dust has settled what is the actual challenge?
 
So a day or so in and i see what everyone is on about with the constant rewards.

Do you think there will ever be something competitive or a driving mode where you get rewarded for good driving. I was overwhelmed with how good and fun this was but now the dust has settled what is the actual challenge?

PvP racing is where it's at challenge wise for me. The AI is pants and rubber bands like crazy, Team Adventure sucks major nuts due to it's insistence on adding free roam rush or whatever it's called.

The only challenge I get from the game is racing other people in an individual basis where it's basically just me that determines the outcome of a race. I've won a few Team Adventure's and it's always a loss because the other guys in my team can't drive.

I find it quite chilled just racing around the countryside in new cars. At the moment I'm absolutely loving the 599xx
 
Yeah, the game's entire premise is weird. That's the only thing I don't like about it. I'm having a blast just driving around and racing as I still have loads to complete but it's all ultimately pointless. Doesn't matter if I finish last, there are no proper championships, the avatars/emotes are just embarrassingly stupid and reek of Fortnite crowd... Also, the wheelspins, I'd rather have some serious money than a pair of pink trousers, I really need it.

I'm still drawn to the seasonal stuff as it gives me an incentive to drive more in different cars, tweak them and complete challenges to win a stupid hat or something etc. or just accumulate points for the hell of it.

I hope they'll implement some changes to online, improve Rivals and add new stuff or championships or whatever it takes to keep the game alive.
 
anyone else lost sound of the tires on the road? every other sound is fine but that has just happened when i've went on today. restarted game 3 times same result every time.
 
ok this looks like it might be a windows 10 issue somewhere. i cant hear the crowd on fifa but can hear everything else. i reinstalled audio driver, tried my spare speakers and a different 3.5 cable which was new out the box also tried disabling enhancements and troubleshoot to no avail even happens on my arctis 5 headset :( bummer :(

quick vid of what's happening

 
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So a day or so in and i see what everyone is on about with the constant rewards.

Do you think there will ever be something competitive or a driving mode where you get rewarded for good driving. I was overwhelmed with how good and fun this was but now the dust has settled what is the actual challenge?
I don't know if these things will ever be added, this is why I went and bought FM7. Proper championships and online match-making.
 
It feels to me that there was a decision made somewhere in the development to switch off the need to qualify in the races. In between races in the story mode you get comments like "Wow amazing racing, Your making a real name for yourself" even if you come last! It's like the script was recorded before they decided none of it mattered.

I'm gutted that I don't have to come top 3 to progress. It seems like someone decided to just open everything up so people could easily get credits. But there should have been a choice you made at the start something like: "Relaxed mode" or "Challenge mode".

I hope the devs put something in to fix this, I would love to start the game again and have to come top3 in everything. Seriously it would be the best game I had played in years if there was an actual challenge.

At the moment the game feels more like a car sticker book, which is ok but not what I thought it was.
 
Does anyone play with the "realistic" (cough) damage on?

People complain about others ramming, would this not be a solution? Is there no way to play with realistic damage in multiplayer?
 
ok this looks like it might be a windows 10 issue somewhere. i cant hear the crowd on fifa but can hear everything else. i reinstalled audio driver, tried my spare speakers and a different 3.5 cable which was new out the box also tried disabling enhancements and troubleshoot to no avail even happens on my arctis 5 headset :( bummer :(

quick vid of what's happening

Could it be 5.1 or 7.1 output and you are only hearing certain channels instead of stereo mix.
 
It feels to me that there was a decision made somewhere in the development to switch off the need to qualify in the races. In between races in the story mode you get comments like "Wow amazing racing, Your making a real name for yourself" even if you come last! It's like the script was recorded before they decided none of it mattered.

I'm gutted that I don't have to come top 3 to progress. It seems like someone decided to just open everything up so people could easily get credits. But there should have been a choice you made at the start something like: "Relaxed mode" or "Challenge mode".

I hope the devs put something in to fix this, I would love to start the game again and have to come top3 in everything. Seriously it would be the best game I had played in years if there was an actual challenge.

At the moment the game feels more like a car sticker book, which is ok but not what I thought it was.
I upgraded my PC to play this and now I'm not bothered with it because of the ridiculous decision to make the game reward mediocrity.

Playing something with an actual challenge and sense of progression like GT Sport.
 
Can someone tell me does this game run with an unkounlo frame rate? Or is it running (if you have gsync) with a frame rate which is a multiple of your max for?

I have a mate with a 144hz gsync panel who is telling me that his fps is locked to 72.

He says he sees the same behaviour in Wolfenstein 2.

I've told him these games should run with an unlocked fps. (Definitely Wolfenstein 2)
 
I have a couple of mates fancying buying this, if I setup a club can we compare stats and try and beat eachothers times on the same runs even when not playing together? Are leaderboards saved in a central database?

I could see some longevity in this if so.
 
Something else which I will have to investigate later but it certainly appears to be happening

It appears as though the "levels" for road / dirt racing / etc etc are set per car or something, but I definitely saw last night that I was within a couple of % of getting to lvl 21 on road racing , yet chosing another car to use for a new Seasonal championship and Ive lost nearly 50% of that level and its only at about 20.25 instead of 20.59 (thinking of the pie as a clock face)

The other thing I noticed yesterday - I have just completed all the speed traps and speed zones all with 3 stars yet the levels on each are only around 14 or 15 - its one thing re-racing Goliath or another road / dirt race to build up your skills in this area, but to redo speed zones / traps that are already at 3 stars is really meh (Im not even sure if anything other than road race unlocks anything after level 20)

Is there a game level as well as different track type/ other achievements - I think I saw something like level 100 reached during a race, but cant see that anywhere in the hub , and does it really count for anything?
 
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