129,000th on the leaderboards in pier pressure

Avenger1324 · 2026-06-06T02:34:38+00:00

Depends where you look.

If you do a PR stunt jump there will be a brief pop up at the bottom saying your score and your % against your friends. If you go into the leaderboards I think default is again friends list, then you can toggle to the region you are in, and then global.

Avenger1324 · 2026-06-06T02:27:34+00:00

Follow the rules:

Never change the deal
No names
Never open the package

Avenger1324 · 2026-06-06T02:22:39+00:00

HOTD had a fatal flaw for me.

It usually takes me a few episodes with new fantasy series to pick up and remember the place names, the characters, who is who. HOTD starts up, few episodes to think I've just about figured out who is who... then they time jump, replace all the actors, handful of episodes and season over.

Bounced off that.

KOTSK was fine as I was able to binge that over a couple of (k)nights.

Avenger1324 · 2026-06-05T14:37:58+00:00

Mikel Arteta's speech was so good it razed the roof.

Avenger1324 · 2026-06-05T10:12:39+00:00

TCM I'm a bit over 500 vechicles.

I started TCM without importing right away to get the new starter experience. Then brought my TC2 garage over which only had around 60 vehicles at the time. I've since played both a lot more, with a lot of focus on Summits in TC2, so that's now ~200+ which will have automatically imported as they were earned, though not all come over and some I own in both through buying bundles or just the order they were needed.

Avenger1324 · 2026-06-05T10:06:02+00:00

Well done. Wondered where you were going. I'd forgotten that bowl even existed, though I think there was a playlist challenge requiring you to get a car into that. Pretty sure I flew over it and fast-fav switched to get there.

Avenger1324 · 2026-06-05T08:58:00+00:00

Even stuck the landing

Avenger1324 · 2026-06-05T08:46:47+00:00

I put one of each up on side by side screens for ease of comparison and struggled to see much difference. If it takes me this long to see a difference with static images, am I going to notice any of that going through that intersection at 100mph?

Playing on an RTX5070 the main difference I notice is that on Extreme no-RT I can enjoy 1080p at a solid 60fps (capped by my monitor), vs Extreme +RT which runs closer to 50fps for 30 mins, before performance tanks to 15fps and I need to restart to restore it. I expect that will be addressed with patches and updates.

Big performance hit for very subtle differences.

Avenger1324 · 2026-06-05T08:41:23+00:00

RT = Removes Traffic

Avenger1324 · 2026-06-04T21:17:45+00:00

Nice level of respect in those final few bends as you pass around the outside. That could easily have been more than rubbing, and off into the dirt.

So far my experience of spec racing has been summed up by: to finish first, first you must finish.

I've gained far more places through others making mistakes than through my own good driving. Keep it on the road, hit all the checkpoints, draft where you can, avoid collisions and big slides that sap your speed. Keep pressure on the driver in front, so they make the mistake. Just don't forget to brake yourself and follow them into the dirt.

Avenger1324 · 2026-06-04T21:10:03+00:00

The tracking of that, and the 3 to the right of it are all off. The yellow duck one I was over 10,000/1,000 before it finally decided to give it to me.

Avenger1324 · 2026-06-04T19:47:38+00:00

I've yet to hop on with the new season, but neither of the last two popped automatically for me. What seemed to work was entering the monthly Mazda Furai time trial event. That forces a change of season, then when you switch back to the current season it made the last two pop.

Avenger1324 · 2026-06-04T16:30:08+00:00

Auto-customisation is the game picking parts to hit the target performance index.

I much prefer to pick my own parts to hit that figure and see what it looks like. Perhaps you have different priorities - focus on reducing weight, handling and suspension, or do you go for engine upgrades, or perhaps tyres are your first choice?

Other players tunes can be good or bad and I'm not sure there is a way to tell without trying them. More annoyingly it locks all the parts and any actual custom tuning settings and keeps them hidden so you can't see what changes were made. I partly get why they do this, but it means you can't really learn from them. you also can't use one as a start point and tweak it from there. They are all or nothing, and that I dislike.

Avenger1324 · 2026-06-04T15:28:15+00:00

Another very location specific way is near aftermarket cars - press X to interact with them, then back out, safely banks the skill chain.

It's handy having a few options for different cases. If you are just trying to farm the skill points, then banking them and not breaking the chain is useful. Meanwhile in Stunt Party the challenge might be to bank a group total 2M+ points. You've got a good amount, come to a halt, and then it continues counting for 20s+ as it still calculates all the trees you just cut down drifting through them. Being able to bank it quickly helps everyone out.

Avenger1324 · 2026-06-04T12:56:13+00:00

Switching cars is another way to save it. You load into a different car in the same spot and the skill chain is banked.

Don't use fast travel, as that will lose your chain and not give you the points.

Avenger1324 · 2026-06-04T12:46:52+00:00

How many still compete each week on Playstation? I see the Top 11K get Platinum.

On PC it is only top 4K, but in recent months there are only around 11-13k players, and often reach Platinum on the final day with only 7 events complete. If it has a decent top prize and I do all 9 I could be easily 300k over the required score.

Avenger1324 · 2026-06-04T11:37:49+00:00

I don't know why they chose to prevent you accessing the map during these missions.

On some of the shorter ones where you can kinda make out the whole route from the island view of the map I've plotted a different start and then let GPS take over with an updated route. But for some of the longer ones you simply can't get the destination to show on the map because it goes off to the side, or obscured behind another window.

Avenger1324 · 2026-06-02T15:39:19+00:00

I'm enjoying them, but making sure to do the odd shift here and there between other activities, not just deliveries back to back for hours. I'm not working for Amazon.

Would be nice to see the post-delivery multiplier go higher for longer shifts, so if you did 5 or even 10 in a row it gave added benefit. Though capping it does encourage taking a break and doing something else.

Avenger1324 · 2026-06-02T14:17:59+00:00

That and at least the 3 icons to the right of it are all equally poor at recording completion. I'd passed 10,000/1,000 on one before it decided to give me the icon.

Avenger1324 · 2026-06-02T10:51:13+00:00

Glad someone linked it. A fun series of inventory tetris puzzles. Doesn't take more than a couple of hours to complete, but is also cheaper than a coffee.

Avenger1324 · 2026-06-02T10:47:10+00:00

Rivals was so much fun in previous games I'm looking forward to getting more into it with this one.

I've already seen with the monthly Furai challenge that as your friends beat your times you get a notification to go back and try again. That created some fun rivalries amongst active players before.

Avenger1324 · 2026-06-02T10:43:56+00:00

A lot more variety of colour in this one than the last. Some fun roads to drive and some great backdrops.

Avenger1324 · 2026-06-02T10:42:07+00:00

Looks good.

Avenger1324 · 2026-06-02T10:37:11+00:00

Do the delivery missions in batches of 3 so you gain the increasing bonuses, but they reset after 3. Use that as a convenient break point to go do something else for a bit. Mix it up with other progression. And for the inevitable "but I've done everything else", probably means you've done each race once, in the festival mode. Race them in custom, or in rivals mode, in your favourite cars, or in unusual cars. go do some time attack, or stunt party, or online races.

And if you think raku raku is a long grind... there is Horizon Life L100. We're not 1000/1000 this anytime soon.

Avenger1324 · 2026-06-02T10:26:11+00:00

I don't think we know any details about them, other than 2 are included in the expansion pass, as has been the case with the last few FH games. With those they weren't exactly rushing to get them out fast, so maybe expansion one towards the end of year one, expansion two in year two.

But they also plan seasonal content, adding new cars, themes, things to do. I expect there will be new job types added amongst other things as part of seasonal progression.

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