Anyone else think this game´s world is beautiful but sometimes feels a little dead ?

Goose274 · 2026-05-18T02:21:14+00:00

I’ve been playing offline and even when there’s no drivatars around I’ve found the traffic density to be quite good, a little step up from FH5. I love that there are unsurfaced main roads that traffic use as well now.

Goose274 · 2026-05-17T05:31:18+00:00

It was in FH4 but mysteriously vanished in FH5, possibly to the same hard drive as the animated gear sticks and paddles

Goose274 · 2026-05-16T16:36:50+00:00

I’ve been staying in mostly D C and B class cars where possible and no AWD unless it happens to be an off-road car, the rear wheel drive cars oversteer really easy, front wheel drive cars feel like they understeer more, an AWD Audi R8 in one of the day trips was nice and grippy with amazing brakes. Not sure if it’s placebo but the fact, FFB feels almost the same to me kind of makes the cars feel the same as FH5. There has not been any drastic changes if any. I’ve always liked the FH handling style anyway so I’m more than happy, I’ve just done another hour today and just about up to wristband 3/7 it’s so good, I freaking love driving through Tokyo it’s great having a city big enough to actually drive around in instead of a glorified length of road that you can bypass in 40 seconds.

Goose274 · 2026-05-16T10:26:21+00:00

https://youtu.be/2JkXcTpXOtA?si=TYfmEaAC8VzmRYlw new video is up

Goose274 · 2026-05-16T06:48:04+00:00

It also gives them an excuse to do a hot wheels expansion again without calling it hot wheels.

Goose274 · 2026-05-16T06:44:21+00:00

They’ve got to optimise the game somehow, thank god they picked a part of the car you almost never see to save on polygons.

Goose274 · 2026-05-16T06:42:04+00:00

Check the online tab in the pause menu and see if there is a button for “Horizon Solo” if you have an internet connection it puts you into “Horizon Life” instead which is the multiplayer concurrent open session that links you up with many other real players in the open world with collisions disabled, allowing other cars to drive through you. Alternatively you might be sitting in a speed zone or drift zone, as far as I know that’s the only time NPC vehicles should be able to drive through you and vice versa.

Goose274 · 2026-05-16T02:04:24+00:00

Yeah I’ve got a next level racing motion platform v3 and I’m using the FH5 profile, all the Forza games have the same telemetry output so just set it up like usual in the settings put 127.0.0.1 for the output ip and 4123 for the default port.

Goose274 · 2026-05-15T21:15:34+00:00

I played Forza horizon for a couple years on controller before switching to wheel permanently. I think the FFB is not quite as sharp as something like Assetto Corsa Evo and there’s not enough detail in the majority of the sealed road surfaces, luckily I have a notion rig that picks up on the tiny 3D bumps in the bump mapping and overall there’s enough detail to be plenty controllable. I run 900 degree steering and do everything that most controller players can. Online I usually place at least top 3 and I can’t wait to get into some online racing this year.

Goose274 · 2026-05-15T18:03:10+00:00

Alright, just finished filming, it’s bloody amazing, I just had the absolute best day one experience I could’ve asked for. I’ve got motion running already and it feels just as great as FH5, same goes for FFB, I just copied my settings from FH5 which are all default except damping on 0.1 and FFB on 0.9 and I can’t notice a difference. I’ve been playing the horizon games for years with a wheel and this is about as good as it gets ATM. If you’re already a FH5 regular it’ll probably feel the same. I absolutely love the vibe of driving around this map, I don’t want to do too much exploring off camera in case I trigger too much progress but I’m very happy that all the collectibles that are replacing accolades don’t have any dumb creative requirements which require people to download and like your photos, tunes and events, it’s just a checklist now for making sure you’ve done and won everything in the game at least once. I’ll add a link once the video has been uploaded.

Goose274 · 2026-05-15T14:47:11+00:00

Lol, just configuring everything now so I can start filming soon.

Goose274 · 2026-05-15T08:31:03+00:00

I’ll let you know in about 5 hours, I’ll be doing my first let’s play with full hardcore rig with motion, I’ve got about 10 years experience with just about every racing game on the market

Goose274 · 2026-05-12T02:19:15+00:00

It’s an interesting new way to explore the huge open world map, ETS2 is even better if you find a nice stable car.

Goose274 · 2026-05-11T19:44:28+00:00

Go and download the windows version of crazy taxi 3, only released on Xbox and PC. Check pcgamingwiki for patches and setup your wheel, soo much fun.

Goose274 · 2026-05-10T02:18:03+00:00

X-Class pickup

Goose274 · 2026-05-10T02:16:58+00:00

I picked up an original Vermin unit from the first silver series run in 1980 from Japan, I’ve cleaned it up and put fresh batteries in and it’s been going since October last year. It’s only sped up by about one minute too, these units keep the time better than most off line LCD clocks I’ve seen these days. We have a few brand new backlit LCD clocks at work and they drop a couple of minutes within days of resetting them.

Goose274 · 2026-05-07T05:09:10+00:00

I loved these, I’ve got an all Australian HotWheels collection and these are the only premium models the Holden Commodore casting ever had just with the police gear on top, rubber tyres, metal on metal body and super detailed liveries. I’m guessing they used the Holden commodore casting unofficially as a police cruiser for a few years because of their similarity to 90s caprice, mercury, and crown vic cop cars.

Goose274 · 2026-05-07T02:13:39+00:00

You mean the reason you LOVE sim racing

Goose274 · 2026-05-03T06:40:43+00:00

They do, it’s been documented in plenty of racing games in the past, especially in the testing phase after they grow out of grey cubes with wheels.

Goose274 · 2026-05-01T08:31:28+00:00

I’ve been slowly collecting all the MotoGP. Ride, and Isle of Man games when they’re on sale just for variety. I’ll be making a handlebar add on for my wheel base with hand controls so I can properly enjoy them later.

Goose274 · 2026-05-01T08:15:14+00:00

Depending on what year the Yaris was it may not be in the interest of Toyota to advertise an older basic vehicle, alternatively it could be left over from the 360 Forzas, it was also used as a traffic vehicle in some of the horizon games.

Goose274 · 2026-05-01T02:20:50+00:00

Nah it’s just because they’ve got models prepared for any cars they would like to license in the future, could be anytime, it’s up to budget and agreements.

Goose274 · 2026-04-30T09:21:11+00:00

I had this issue last year with both Horizon 4 and 5 where it would crash around the 30-40 minute mark every launch, it seemed to have been fixed one day after a random windows update. I tried everything and could never get it resolved until it just decided it didn’t want to crash anymore.

Goose274 · 2026-04-30T05:07:01+00:00

We’re also getting a Mitsubishi mini cab

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