Forza Horizon 3

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neilus

901 posts

282 months

Monday 24th July 2017
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DSGbangs said:
Anyone know when I can get my hands on some more free Porsches from a forzathon?
There's a 959 available next weekend... https://ar12gaming.com/articles/fh3-forzathon-july

ajprice

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27,494 posts

196 months

Friday 28th July 2017
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The 959 forzathon is live, and there's a free car coming. If you've got Horizon 3 or Final Fantasy XV, codes will be sent out by Xbox message for the Regalia, a made up car from FFXV https://youtu.be/HFiFQk04hAE

Lance Catamaran

24,983 posts

227 months

Friday 28th July 2017
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Just this second completed the 959 challenge, but it isn't as easy as the name suggests. Took me about 20 tries as the car kept twisting in the air, or getting the required distance but hitting something which fails the challenge.

neilus

901 posts

282 months

Friday 11th August 2017
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For those that have pre-ordered Forza 7...

https://news.xbox.com/2017/08/10/forza-hoonigan-pa...

Lance Catamaran

24,983 posts

227 months

Monday 21st August 2017
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Anyone tried the Hoonigan pack? Uses all the existing routes and PR stunts but does have some new achievements.

On the subject of PR stunts, I finally 3-starred them all today. Some of them are properly teeth-gnashing, especially the longer jumps where it's almost random how you'll land. Left the Timber Mill one until last as it's the most frustrating of the lot, but cleared it in the end by about .0.7m using the Nomad. Then a moment later what did I see but one of the roads near it have a grey section - I've been stuck on 477/478 roads discovered since about March, and it was right in front of me the entire time. rolleyes

tigger1

8,402 posts

221 months

Tuesday 22nd August 2017
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Lance Catamaran said:
Anyone tried the Hoonigan pack? Uses all the existing routes and PR stunts but does have some new achievements.

On the subject of PR stunts, I finally 3-starred them all today. Some of them are properly teeth-gnashing, especially the longer jumps where it's almost random how you'll land. Left the Timber Mill one until last as it's the most frustrating of the lot, but cleared it in the end by about .0.7m using the Nomad. Then a moment later what did I see but one of the roads near it have a grey section - I've been stuck on 477/478 roads discovered since about March, and it was right in front of me the entire time. rolleyes
I found with some of the harder jumps (including that timber mill one) that you don't need as much speed as you might think, just a good clean launch off the ramp. Porsche 918 has been the weapon of choice for a lot of them for me. Having no control over the landings (although GTA-style "flying" might not be a good thing!) is frustrating though

Robster

1,402 posts

177 months

Monday 15th January 2018
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Xbox one X enhanced update now out , looks nice

Russian Troll Bot

24,983 posts

227 months

Tuesday 16th January 2018
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Horizon 4 was accidentally confirmed by the Brazilian ratings board as well. Rumours are that it will be set in Japan, which would be awesome.

Venturist

3,472 posts

195 months

Tuesday 16th January 2018
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Russian Troll Bot said:
Horizon 4 was accidentally confirmed by the Brazilian ratings board as well. Rumours are that it will be set in Japan, which would be awesome.
That could well be excellent. I never felt any love for the Australia map, not really. Meanwhile I had a brilliant time on the snow mountain expansion map.

SimianWonder

1,144 posts

152 months

Tuesday 23rd January 2018
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Revisiting the game following the One X patch and it looks abso-bloody-lutely glorious at 4K.

Hilts

4,391 posts

282 months

Thursday 1st March 2018
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Anyone have any problems starting this in W10? It loads the FH3 splash screen then nothing. The only way I can get it to run is by first installing an app from the Microsoft store. Tried wsreset and that doesn't work.

Forza 6 Apex runs OK.

TommoAE86

2,668 posts

127 months

Thursday 1st March 2018
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How are you starting it at the moment? Mine always had to be started through the windows xbox app thing (the one that gives you the store/friendslist etc)

The issues I had were around initial launch with certain anti-virus software causing a problem. Sorry if there is another patch that's done something recently I uninstalled it along time ago because it was such a poor port and would always crash.



Hilts

4,391 posts

282 months

Thursday 1st March 2018
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Either the desktop shortcut or through the Microsoft app. From a search it seems a common problem. At least it's stopped crashing now.

If I get a fix that works I'll post it up.

Tuvra

7,921 posts

225 months

Friday 2nd March 2018
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My Disc seems to be damaged and I cannot install the game on my Xbox One, any work around?!?

It was previously installed on my One S frown

tigger1

8,402 posts

221 months

Friday 2nd March 2018
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Tuvra said:
My Disc seems to be damaged and I cannot install the game on my Xbox One, any work around?!?

It was previously installed on my One S frown
Have you tried cleaning the disc?

Do other discs still work (is it definitely the disc and not the drive)?

Tuvra

7,921 posts

225 months

Tuesday 6th March 2018
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tigger1 said:
Have you tried cleaning the disc?

Do other discs still work (is it definitely the disc and not the drive)?
Tried cleaning the disc and no luck.

I have since inspected the disc thoroughly and found that although the surface is perfect there is a slight defect on the rim. Assume the disc has been dropped or "jammed". In today's day and age it's a bit crap that there's not a work around frown

sparks_E39

12,738 posts

213 months

Tuesday 6th March 2018
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Tuvra said:
Tried cleaning the disc and no luck.

I have since inspected the disc thoroughly and found that although the surface is perfect there is a slight defect on the rim. Assume the disc has been dropped or "jammed". In today's day and age it's a bit crap that there's not a work around frown
It sucks, but the game is now very cheap! Buy another one.

TameRacingDriver

18,091 posts

272 months

Tuesday 3rd April 2018
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So, this is now available for under 15 quid. Worth it? I fancy a new car game. I've been playing Project Cars which is alright, but getting a bit bored now, and DIRT Rally, which is excellent, but probably a bit "serious" for my liking.

Leicester Loyal

4,550 posts

122 months

Tuesday 3rd April 2018
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TameRacingDriver said:
So, this is now available for under 15 quid. Worth it? I fancy a new car game. I've been playing Project Cars which is alright, but getting a bit bored now, and DIRT Rally, which is excellent, but probably a bit "serious" for my liking.
If you want a more track based sim racer, get Forza 7. If you want a more arcadey game that you can chill out on and mess about, then get Horizon 3.

Russian Troll Bot

24,983 posts

227 months

Tuesday 3rd April 2018
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TameRacingDriver said:
So, this is now available for under 15 quid. Worth it? I fancy a new car game. I've been playing Project Cars which is alright, but getting a bit bored now, and DIRT Rally, which is excellent, but probably a bit "serious" for my liking.
Definitely worth it. FM7 feels far more restrictive, not just because you stay on track, but that you can't create custom championships, half the vehicles are useless (but awesome in FH3 where you can go off road) and upgrades are almost worthless now