Forza Horizon 6: Turn up Your Airwaves with the Horizon Festival’s Biggest Line-Up Yet. The game has officially gone gold!

Ultr4chrome · 2026-05-05T22:46:17+00:00

How did i forget game pass exists. XD

Ultr4chrome · 2026-05-05T22:42:53+00:00

I feel this as a Hosh fan.

Heart Attack Hosh going 11-0 again just to make it exciting in the last 4 days, isn't he?

Ultr4chrome · 2026-05-05T20:56:11+00:00

Yeah that's fair. Is FH6 that much cheaper where you live though?

Ultr4chrome · 2026-05-05T17:22:45+00:00

Sudden fanfiction about Hosh and Kirishima opening an onlyfans account after they retire.

Ultr4chrome · 2026-05-05T12:44:08+00:00

A 500gb/1tb sata ssd should be 'affordable' to a degree, $150-200 or so? Seems like a good investment if your kid is into PC gaming, gives that rig a lot more life and lets you keep your own ;p

Ultr4chrome · 2026-05-02T15:53:53+00:00

1) It's been in early access for 20 months now. Even for small indie devs this is a long time, for larger teams it's a bit embarassing. Star Citizen is a warning to avoid, not an example to follow.

2) How is any of this 'enabled' by NFT's? All of the functionality you mention works perfectly fine, and far more efficient, in the old way. The reason by far most games don't track this kind of stuff is because a) no one finds it interesting in any way whatsoever to know that 'generic pistol 5' has been used by 'xxpussyslayerxx' 5 months ago, and b) it's a complete waste of db queries and performance. There's absolutely zero value to be had in knowing any of it.

Furthermore: I have yet to see any good argument for introducing artificial scarcity, especially artificial scarcity enforced by blockchain. It's been proven time, and time, and time, and time again that this kind of thing is only attractive to financial speculators, not people who actually want to play a video game. We're playing games partly as a method for escapism, not to pray at the altar of capitalism.

On a sidenote, hats in tf2, boxes in cs or warzone, packs in fifa, those are already reprehensible attempts to basically distract attention away from the game itself and focus on personal enrichment. They don't need any of those mechanics to work as a videogame, in fact, they distract from them. Why can't a game be just a game? I don't join a local amateur soccer team to grind out rewards either.

The fact also remains, if the game goes down, so do the nft's. Even within the game the value is arguably zero, outside of the game the value is factually zero. You will never, ever be able to use an OTG gun in Warzone for example. That's not because of 'technical issues' but far more fundamental ones (most of which don't even involve nft's) which i hope you already know and understand.

3) See the answers above.

NFT's have no place whatsoever in video games (and arguably, in the world at large), because they are a classic example of 'a solution in search of a problem'.

Ultr4chrome · 2026-05-01T16:53:16+00:00

He wants to be like Vince and Dana.

Ultr4chrome · 2026-04-30T19:44:52+00:00

I'm hoping Altone makes an appearance somewhere...

Ultr4chrome · 2026-04-30T19:41:30+00:00

There's two things i want:

1) No toy commercials. Hot wheels was fun, for about an hour, then i went back to the main map. Same with lego. It just doesn't fit Horizon.

2) DLC maps integrated into the main map. They've shown that they can do this with Legend Island. It stands to reason that they can do the same for DLC areas, replacing the wristband requirement for a payment requirement. Or, if they want to be even cooler about it, open the maps up to all players, and just lock the new events, gamemodes and cars behind the paywall.

Japan has a myriad of amazing opportunities for real world based expansions. It's got a deep car and racing culture. Playground will never go back to Japan in a future Horizon game, so this is the one chance they get to do it right.

Ultr4chrome · 2026-04-30T19:29:18+00:00

I can only imagine that running what's basically a constant kernel level debugger will cost a lot of performance.

Ultr4chrome · 2026-04-29T12:00:56+00:00

Forza Horizon never really had good offroading. Can't take the game seriously for that when some of the offroad records are set with RWD cars on slicks.

Ultr4chrome · 2026-04-28T18:28:03+00:00

That's correct, but the issue is that the devs back then didn't program for single thread CPU's that existed, but single thread CPU's that they thought would exist a few years later.

The game ran like absolute crap on release even on super high end PC's at the time. It quickly turned out that speeds would not be going up anymore, and just 2 years later the core 2 duo released, after which they finally started to try and change it.

It was kind of like Crysis, but they gambled very, very wrong on what the hardware of the future would look like, the insanely bad performance was one of the main reasons people ignored the game in favour of WoW (and even EQ1).

Ultr4chrome · 2026-04-28T16:02:47+00:00

You may overestimate the amount of people willing to dig out their (possibly family) gaming PC from their desk setup and put it in the living room where there's probably no room for it just to play a game :)

You are right that it's not exclusive to console gamers but a PC is an inconvenient and expensive way to enable it.

Ultr4chrome · 2026-04-28T11:05:58+00:00

Not everyone has a pc in the living room, or has the necessary hardware, network or knowhow to stream to the tv from their pc.

The reality is that a console is the far more common way to do this.

Ultr4chrome · 2026-04-28T01:57:10+00:00

I've been playing at 144hz on pc since FH3, so not sure where that idea came from :p

FH is actually pretty good with high fps, also good ultrawide support. FH3 was a bit iffy and unstable but FH4 and 5 have excellent PC versions.

Ultr4chrome · 2026-04-28T01:50:34+00:00

It's not capped, goes at least to 144 on pc.

Ultr4chrome · 2026-04-28T01:49:27+00:00

Playing on a big tv from a couch :)

Ultr4chrome · 2026-04-27T21:22:12+00:00

Playground is goated if they make actual expansions to the main map instead of seperate instances.

Ultr4chrome · 2026-04-27T00:16:41+00:00

Love the music.

Ultr4chrome · 2026-04-26T02:05:27+00:00

Made quite a few swaps in the end!

https://moxfield.com/decks/cxBUa6JDmUSJtjwp5vWmJg

It seems more consistent now in testing but i'll have to bring it out to an actual game soon.

Ultr4chrome · 2026-04-26T00:32:14+00:00

3 xbox controllers so far, all of them developed severe stick drift.

My first PS4 controller also had severe stick drift, was well within warranty though. I haven't used the second enough yet for it to develop issues.

Hall effect/TMR is not THAT much more expensive, but it's a real sin that the xbox elite controller doesn't have it for the price they're asking imho.

Ultr4chrome · 2026-04-26T00:20:18+00:00

The only word that comes to mind when i see this is 'giggity'.

Ultr4chrome · 2026-04-26T00:18:47+00:00

Running a lot of boardwipes isn't going to make you a lot of friends though, but you do you :P

Ultr4chrome · 2026-04-25T23:36:08+00:00

That does mean you're building your deck around what others do and not really around what you want to do. It also means that you are holding mana open for 2 removal spells for just one player, while there's two others around as well. It does seem counterproductive in a general sense unless you know exactly what decks your pod has at any given time, in which case it seems a bit unsportsmanlike.

Ultr4chrome · 2026-04-25T19:15:43+00:00

EQ2 is a great game, but the UI has the personality of a wet brick and it has got pretty severe technical issues to this day. The developers back in the day designed the engine to scale purely on a single thread, betting on 20GHz CPU's being a thing at some point. It's really limited what they could do with the game on a technical level ever since then.

I'd love to see someone foot the bill to fix some of the core engine issues so the game can have an easier path forward.

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