Poll of the Day > 5 days till Forza Horizon 5 - 5 days till Forza Horizon 5

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5 days till Forza Horizon 5!

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My computer is too weak to run that software.

will probably get the OG xbox x version

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I'm a Gran Turismo fan, but in my opinion, Forza is the better series of the two.

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It's SHOWTIME!

Does it have enough cars

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Mead posted...

Does it have enough cars

I mean, currently I only have 3 but considering I never used the majority of the cars I had in 4 whatever it has will probably be sufficient. I know they've been teasing the car list for a while but I've largely avoided reading or watching anything about the game ahead of time.

@FrozenBananas So you finally playing?

Already installed it last night but wont be able to play it till after work :/ but I will be tonight

how are you liking it?

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you get to choose between three cars at the beginning but then are given all of them. 20 seconds later you get another new car.

30 seconds later you get another new car.

you're also using these cars in their races, so the car you chose you don't even get to use for a while

it looks like real life but then you see a person


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Yeah with Forza horizon 4 it was the same way, I had over 100+ cars in my play though, constantly changing until I find a real good one

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FrozenBananas posted...

Already installed it last night but wont be able to play it till after work :/ but I will be tonight

how are you liking it?

Overall I'm enjoying it. There are some changes I'm not a huge fan of, but it is also early in the game so there is still time for them to refine things. I started playing FH4 late in its run, so it was already a pretty polished experience.

Day 1 had some terrible connection issues, but they seem to have gotten that mostly straightened out. Guess we'll see if that holds up under the sudden influx of players today.

day 1 the 5th, or day 1 the 9th

there's two day ones

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helIy posted...

day 1 the 5th, or day 1 the 9th

there's two day ones

Day 1 the 5th. I was constantly getting disconnected and there were times where the game thought I was online, but I couldn't see any other players or live events. That seems to have been mostly resolved.

Sulugnaz posted...

What version did you get?

this topic is tempting me something fierce

I have Xbox game pass so it wasn't available until today for me. A lot of people bought the premium edition they got to play it like 5 days earlier. I didnt know that till after I made this topic but whateverstill gonna play the shit out of it

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rjsilverthorn posted...

Day 1 the 5th. I was constantly getting disconnected and there were times where the game thought I was online, but I couldn't see any other players or live events. That seems to have been mostly resolved.

yeah thats probably why they did the early start in the first place, to work out some of the server problems


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I popped in over lunch and so far it seemed to be handling the influx of players so far.

Wow its so beautiful

you can even have give your character prosthetic arms and legs lol! So much customizing

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FrozenBananas posted...

Wow its so beautiful

you can even have give your character prosthetic arms and legs lol! So much customizing

I could use a different hair style, currently I think I have a mullet.

I like that most of the FH4 festival staff are back.

rjsilverthorn posted...

I like that most of the FH4 festival staff are back.

It really feels exactly like FH4, only better graphics and a new map. Its perfect! I was afraid there would be new staff and I wouldnt like them as much as the last game.

Also you can change your hair style at your house or at the Horizon festival spot

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FrozenBananas posted...

It really feels exactly like FH4, only better graphics and a new map. Its perfect! I was afraid there would be new staff and I wouldnt like them as much as the last game.

Also you can change your hair style at your house or at the Horizon festival spot

I'm not crazy about what they did with Forzathon Live (Now Horizon Arcade). They cut the amount of time down to ten minutes and a lot of the events are more time consuming. They also run like every ten minutes so I've yet to be in one with more than a handful of people and a lot of the time I've been by myself.

I havent seen the Live events yet.

I felt that same way even in FH4, the live events were always a coin toss between a bunch of people and just by yourself

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Definitely some balance issues with some of the story chapters. You'll go from something you can 3 star in your sleep to one that is basically unwinnable without lowering the difficulty.

I'm a Gran Turismo fan but Forza is the better of the two.

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Did my first live arcade and I was the only one there lol. Just like @rjsilverthorn

also now Im having server problems. It only seems to happen later at night, I guess cause more people are joining.

luckily the game works offline and o line seemlessly so its not that bad

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FrozenBananas posted...

Did my first live arcade and I was the only one there lol. Just like @rjsilverthorn

also now Im having server problems. It only seems to happen later at night, I guess cause more people are joining.

luckily the game works offline and o line seemlessly so its not that bad

I had one time when I was in the third round of Arcade and actually had other people...and then got disconnected and immediately failed. That is the closest I've been to actually completing all three rounds so far.

I just got stopped by a barn find in the middle of a Trailblaze event for an Arcade run

The loading screens are a bit rough (especially at the end of a race)

its just a black screen. Atleast in Forza horizon 4 they had your character dancing and listening to music while you loaded

maybe theyll fix it soon. I come into FH4 late in the game as well, so I dont know how that was at launch

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oh cool they just gave me three more cars, that are vastly superior to everything else the game has given me so far

this game has no idea what sense of progression means. maybe that's on purpose, but it just turns me off.

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Could use a Skip button on some of these screens.

Just did the Goliath which is basically a giant circle around the entire map. Took about 15 mins to circle the whole area from coast to coast.

The map is massive. it really helps me to start filtering the world map icons after a while, because so many new activities start cluttering up the map the more you play

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FrozenBananas posted...

Just did the Goliath which is basically a giant circle around the entire map. Took about 15 mins to circle the whole area from coast to coast.

The map is massive. it really helps me to start filtering the world map icons after a while, because so many new activities start cluttering up the map the more you play

I have it unlocked but I haven't done it yet. I was never a huge fan of the super long races. I don't know how people do some of those custom races with like 50 laps. I just get bored driving for that long.

Sulugnaz posted...

I saw a video where there's some sort of auto drive thing, and so they leave it on overnight to get a fuckload of points and other rewards.

Yeah, apparently FH5 has some sort of AFK farming but people would do that kind of stuff in FH4 too and I don't believe any of those were AFK. I haven't actually looked at how the AFK maps work, I figure that will get patched eventually.

I only just realized I had to go to the accolades section to unlock half the stuff Ive already won

I was sitting there looking for the stuff it says Id won and thought I was going crazy.

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FrozenBananas posted...

I only just realized I had to go to the accolades section to unlock half the stuff Ive already won

I was sitting there looking for the stuff it says Id won and thought I was going crazy.

Yeah, not sure why they went that way rather than just giving you the stuff right away. Its not like there is an inventory limit.

Still haven't made it through round 3 in Arcade yet.

I havent even bothered with it yet because Ive yet to see more than one person

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FrozenBananas posted...

I havent even bothered with it yet because Ive yet to see more than one person

Apparently there are times when you just can't see other players in Arcade. I was doing one earlier and I could see the score going up, but it was a Danger Sign event and I was right in front of the launch point and I couldn't see any other players. I've also been in events where I can see other players, so I'm guessing this is yet another bug rather than a feature but it makes it really hard to judge how many people are in a particular event.

Just did the Titan and Colossus as well, the Titan was my favorite, a big off-road trail right through the middle of the map lol

ive also found a Forza edition lambo with skill boost and its my new favorite, I havent used anything else in like a day

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FrozenBananas posted...

Just did the Titan and Colossus as well, the Titan was my favorite, a big off-road trail right through the middle of the map lol

ive also found a Forza edition lambo with skill boost and its my new favorite, I havent used anything else in like a day

The Sesto Elemento? I actually managed to get one of those during the early access and it has been my freeroam car since then.

I haven't done the Titan yet, I did the Colossus and Goliath and I have the Juggernaut unlocked.

Still haven't managed to get through round 3 in Arcade, best was about 3/4's of the way through round 3 on a Wreckage event. At least I've gotten enough points for both cars this season without it.

Yeah thats the one! 2011 Sesto Elemento, its so smooth

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Another bugged daily challenge, that is two so far this week.

can you drive a 2006 Honda CRV in any of these games

i wanna do donuts in my irl car

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Finished The Gauntlet and the Juggernaut...for some reason The Juggernaut is a Trailblazer even this time around.

I FINALLY managed to finish an Arcade event. A drift event of all things, that I entered by accident.

How many people were there? I never find anyone willing to help haha

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