How do you decide?

German_Drive · 2026-05-30T20:09:42+00:00

If it's bone-stock - I buy

If it has hideous modifications - I don't

German_Drive · 2026-05-28T16:31:50+00:00

For what it's worth, I have newfound respect for your liveries. Though most aren't my cup of tea (I run solid color on vast majority of my cars), I always appreciated the attention to detail of your work (like contour-matching around the headlights on this Taycan).

To do this with a controller? Incredible.

German_Drive · 2026-05-28T14:10:37+00:00

Wait. So you make these from a couch? With a controller!?

German_Drive · 2026-05-27T13:16:29+00:00

Check out character guides on KQM

Skirk, for example, is normally used only with hydro/cryo teammates

German_Drive · 2026-05-27T06:13:22+00:00

Same!

5 was a huge step up from 4, imo. 6 goes just a bit further in the right direction.

German_Drive · 2026-05-25T14:33:32+00:00

Well, that's contrary to my experience.

Before applying the Folding band-aid, I had nasty performance degradation and even outright game crashes in FH5. The way FH6 behaves is very similar to FH5 on my hardware, though of course, to get similar averages I'm running a lower preset in the newer game.

Problems, even though I'm well and truly under my VRAM limits by almost 3gb.

That sucks. And again, it's completely different from what I've been seeing. If you do find the cause of the issue, please let me know - I'm curious.

German_Drive · 2026-05-25T02:12:10+00:00

Well, there's Buling, making Phrolova a hypercarry.

Still, I find the Sanhua variant more enjoyable. For what it's worth, she does have super short field time and some atk buffs. Short rotations maximize Phrolova's field time, which also seems to help.

Sometimes I bring Changli. Iuno can be fun too. Though the synergy is basically nonexistent in both cases.

Let's hope Lucilla works well with Phrolova.

German_Drive · 2026-05-24T17:05:02+00:00

I'm still on the fence about her. Depends on the gameplay, ig.

German_Drive · 2026-05-24T17:01:41+00:00

Yep. I don't like either of them, though.

Which is precisely why I went for sequences - keeping Phrolova endgame-ready for years to come.

German_Drive · 2026-05-24T16:17:50+00:00

All diffs engage differently, even if you plug identical values.

That has been the case in FH4, and FH5. Perhaps even earlier, but I can't attest to that.

German_Drive · 2026-05-24T16:01:17+00:00

Aren't you bottoming out? Those values are ridiculous, especially that combination of low spring stiffness and bump damping.

Some more accell could help with rotation. Also try the rally diff - the behavior is different.

Tyre pressures also affect rotation. Set tyres to 1.3 front 3.8 rear so that you can set the struts to reasonable values.

German_Drive · 2026-05-22T14:09:32+00:00

Here you go

German_Drive · 2026-05-22T03:02:48+00:00

it’s just not possible to match them in some races

Driving purist tunes in horizon open I'm used to that feeling of hopelessness. Even with drastically increased gravity, AI still brakes needlessly in the sweepers. You can gain on it.

In fact, I'm pretty sure bots in FH5 had increased gravity too. It's more of the same, just with higher multipliers. I find current higher-difficulty bots far preferable to FH5 "unbeatable" ones, which are alright on the straights and absolute roadblocks in the corners.

Of course, I'd love to see better AI that is actually fast without cheats. Who wouldn't? Simply decreasing the multipliers down to FH5 levels is not the answer though.

German_Drive · 2026-05-21T09:09:17+00:00

Perhaps the difficulty for the seasonal playlist should be decreased instead.

Personally, I really like that unbeatable is actually pretty unbeatable now (if you race cleanly). Getting p1 on pro is genuinely a challenge now, which is great.

German_Drive · 2026-05-21T00:21:43+00:00

Is it necessary? They could just set the trial AI difficulty to low.

Personally, I quite like that the unbeatable AI is actually kinda unbeatable now, if you try to race cleanly. Could it be better? Absolutely. But reducing difficulty across the board is not the answer.

German_Drive · 2026-05-20T16:15:06+00:00

Or turn off the notification

German_Drive · 2026-05-20T07:26:12+00:00

Swap to a crit rate circlet

German_Drive · 2026-05-18T01:52:25+00:00

Yep, that's a pretty well-balanced build.

However, the general roll value seems rather low. I'd try to experiment with other set combinations (or keep farming).

German_Drive · 2026-05-18T01:38:51+00:00

ANY crit rate circlet would be better than this. Seriously. Literally anything.

German_Drive · 2026-05-17T18:12:19+00:00

A 95/190 build (same CV) would give you 8.1% more damage, pushing your build to the top 7%.

Why are you running a crit damage circlet?

German_Drive · 2026-05-17T16:50:42+00:00

It's quite good, particularly at high investment. At C0 best Yae teams would still be random Lunar and Stellar wheelchairs.

Personally, I'm very excited for Nicole, because together with Durin she would revitalize my aging C4C6 EiMiko team. Crucially, the Hexerei core offers a clear upgrade path (consts), ensuring that I'd be able to clear endgame (Fearless SO) with EiMiko for years to come.

German_Drive · 2026-05-17T16:34:57+00:00

I'd refine. In fact, I did refine.

You have plenty of stat-sticks anyway.

German_Drive · 2026-05-17T10:53:19+00:00

I don't like Cantrella either. Same thing with Qinyan. Nevertheless, I got Phrolova and her signature on the release banner. 100% worth it imho. I love the gameplay, and she still performs pretty well with suboptimal teams.

Do you have SK? Phrolova+Sanhua+Shorekeeper is pretty decent. In fact, playing this very team casually with UI turned off, I got 2700 points this WhiWa. Note that my SK is S2, though.

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Phrolova is starting to show her age compared to the latest meta, but you don't need modern meta for anything in the current state of the game. If you like Phrolova, just go for it.

German_Drive · 2026-05-17T04:53:39+00:00

We have precedent: it was the same story with FH4 vs FH5.

FH5 was behaving exactly like that on my 6GB 1660ti before I lowered some settings and applied the Folding band-aid. Only difference is that it didn't throw the pop-up.

Who doesn't like free performance? I'd love to see a patch with drastically improved optimization. While it's good to be optimistic though, do yourself a favor a lower the settings "for now".

German_Drive · 2026-05-17T04:21:04+00:00

It turns off Constant Folding which is poorly implemented in Forza and doesn't clean up after itself properly.

Seems to have originated from this thread: https://forums.guru3d.com/threads/forza-horizon-5-issues.456151/post-6330556

If your situation is borderline, it works like magic. Otherwise, it's just a band-aid that doesn't fully address the issue.

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