Forza Horizon 5

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NoBrakesWC

391 posts

49 months

Tuesday 15th June 2021
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EK9_CTR said:
Think a lot of folk wanted it to be Japan...
I sure did

Church of Noise

1,457 posts

237 months

Tuesday 15th June 2021
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NoBrakesWC said:
I would get it as I'm thinking of collecting all the Forza games from the beginning.
Doing the same thing - FH3 and 2 arrived so far and look very good! FH1 is on the way smile

ajprice

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27,453 posts

196 months

Tuesday 15th June 2021
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There's an off-road 911 is in the trailer. Is that a real off-road safari type car, or a standard 911 with mods in the game? It doesn't look like a Singer (classic or the modern off-road car they made)

Speed1283

1,164 posts

95 months

Wednesday 16th June 2021
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ajprice said:
There's an off-road 911 is in the trailer. Is that a real off-road safari type car, or a standard 911 with mods in the game? It doesn't look like a Singer (classic or the modern off-road car they made)
I'm not entirely sure but assumed it was a classic 911 rally from circa late 70s. See link: http://rennfilms.com/jim-goodlett-and-his-1978-por...

Obviously different paintjobs exist, no idea if the one in the trailer is based on a real livery.


Mafffew

2,149 posts

111 months

Wednesday 16th June 2021
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Pulled from the Forza subreddit, all of this was announced on the stream (no new gameplay videos)

https://old.reddit.com/r/forza/comments/nzs8s8/mor...

Forza subreddit said:
Working Convertibles - Toggable with Stick

Guanajuato is like 2 Cities in One- Aquaducts with Twisty Roads for Drifting

Mexican Car Culture - will be closed off until launch for more information

Car List Not Finalized Yet

Several Drag Strips- One Through the Main Festival

More than One Festival

Horizon Stage Mexico - Next to RaceTrack and Airfield

Weather Changes - Storm Changes

Tropical / Sand Storms in Play

You Can Run Down Cactus

Animals in the Game (Flamingos, Parrots, Wild Dogs, Donkeys, Goats ) and smarter AI Behavior

Big Highway Runs from Corner to Corner - Longest in a Horizon Game

New Car Customization - 100 New Rims, 100 New Bodykits, New Performance Parts,

Paintable Brake Calipers (Most Requested Feature)

Character Customization - Choose Voice, Pronouns, Skin Tone, Clothes, Prosthetic Limbs, etc

EK9_CTR

464 posts

134 months

Wednesday 16th June 2021
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123DWA said:
Definitely. If you look on r/forza there are hundreds of outraged posts about it not being in Japan. Most of them read like they've been written by a 15yr old who hasn't yet realised that everything in life wont go their way. Seems there was very heavy focus on off-road in the trailer which isn't my cup of tea but I know there was lots of complaints about 4 not having enough good dirt tracks so maybe they're making up for that
FH4's off road element was hit and miss IMO. The cross country stuff was garbage but some of the longer point-to-point rally events in the snow / ice were decent.

NoBrakesWC said:
EK9_CTR said:
Think a lot of folk wanted it to be Japan...
I sure did
Likewise. FH5 looks great visually and I'm sure it will be worth playing but did wish it was Japan as it has arguably the most diverse car culture in the world. A lot would've liked to see winding roads / touge (remember Fujimi Kaido?) along with the bright lights of Shinjuku.




Captain Answer

1,352 posts

187 months

Wednesday 16th June 2021
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Looks decent, will look forward to it dropping on Gamepass later this year, already playing FH4 on Xbox One S which I enjoy as does my 10 year old

ten200

214 posts

92 months

Wednesday 16th June 2021
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The Xbox store gives you the option of preinstalling FH 5 now. Don't get excited - the 280Mb download displays one static image and then closes.

J4CKO

41,499 posts

200 months

Thursday 17th June 2021
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Wonder if I will be able to get a Series X before this comes out ?

Asked in a game shop in the Trafford Centre, looked at me like I had asked for "Fly Fishing by JR Hartley".

ajprice

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27,453 posts

196 months

Thursday 17th June 2021
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Digital Foundry video on the game

ajprice

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27,453 posts

196 months

Monday 12th July 2021
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Video about the sounds in the game


Mafffew

2,149 posts

111 months

Tuesday 13th July 2021
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ajprice said:
Video about the sounds in the game

I'm glad they've put in the effort to work on the sounds, so far so good smile

A Winner Is You

24,965 posts

227 months

Tuesday 13th July 2021
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I just want some adjustable rear spoiler options that aren't taken from the original Fast & The Furious.

BritishBlitz87

656 posts

48 months

Tuesday 13th July 2021
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I just want to choose the colour of my interior.

And lots of 60's and 70's land yachts.

ajprice

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27,453 posts

196 months

Monday 26th July 2021
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New video about the game. Drinking game for the amount of times they say 'Biomes' hehe



Stuff from the video...
The season changes will be weekly as on FH4.
The volcano is in the middle of the map, from the top you can see the whole map area in the game, and from just about everywhere on the map you can see the volcano.
The map will be shown on the next video in 2 weeks, unless they change their mind and say so on twitter hehe .

Chebble

1,906 posts

152 months

Monday 26th July 2021
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ajprice said:
New video about the game. Drinking game for the amount of times they say 'Biomes' hehe



Stuff from the video...
The season changes will be weekly as on FH4.
The volcano is in the middle of the map, from the top you can see the whole map area in the game, and from just about everywhere on the map you can see the volcano.
The map will be shown on the next video in 2 weeks, unless they change their mind and say so on twitter hehe .
It looks great as ever, and it’s clear there’s a hell of a lot of work gone into it.

However, I found the season changes to be tedious. Well, winter anyway.. Sometimes I wanted to just pick the game up after a brief hiatus and just cruise round on normal roads, messing around with set ups on tarmac. A few times I’d switch on and find it was winter, so I’d just turn it back off again and wait until the end of the week. I found it really annoying that I can’t play the game exactly how I want to - don’t see how it would be too difficult to just have an offline mode!

I expect I’m in the minority, but we all have our preferences haha.


ajprice

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27,453 posts

196 months

Friday 30th July 2021
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1000ft danger sign jump off the top of the volcano? Oh go on then. https://twitter.com/ForzaHorizon/status/1421196488...

HARTLEYHARE1

588 posts

129 months

Monday 2nd August 2021
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This will be special indeed

Enjoyed all the others

witten

225 posts

48 months

Tuesday 3rd August 2021
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This looks so interesting and fun as a game that it may make me come across from PS4 world.

I always found the sound in Forza brilliant compared to Gran Turismo. I remember doing an endurance race on my XB360 in Le Mans Prototypes and it actually sounded alive and right. Tried it in GT and it was just thin and simulated sounding.

FIREBIRDC9

736 posts

137 months

Thursday 5th August 2021
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I too was looking forward to Japan , Not really interested in the off roading.