Horizon Tour is one of the best modes in this game because it allows for a wide variety of the many cars to be used and excludes the same 10 OP cars everyone uses in open and rivals (Datsun 510, International scout… etc…) to win. That’s one of the main reasons open isn’t even fun. Its always the same cars over and over. I really feel like Horizon Tour could be vastly improved by adding a wider variety of events and car types as well as shuffling the track selection at random. There are so many lost opportunities with event scenarios and car types and even class usage.
First of all, let’s talk about the track selection. It seems that track selection is baked into the tour events themselves and is not randomly generated at all. For example, one of my favorite tracks is Gran Pantano Sprint and you literally never see this track in any Horizon Tour race. It’s just nonexistent. Why? It’s always the same tracks on the same events and I don’t understand why it’s not randomly generated and been made in this current way with such a large pool of maps. Why not even throw in some random event lab tracks that are well made/approved and stir things up a bit? There’s been some great ones in the festival challenge this year alone that would make for some great additions.
Let’s talk about the classes, too… I believe theres only 30 some odd events in Horizon Tour and most of those event choices are mostly dominated by S1 and A class Events in the Dirt or Cross Country? This seems to be 65-70% of the events that show up. And let’s be honest here, S1 and A class is just not that fun in the dirt/cc to warrant this many events popping up. What we need is more D, C and B class events because this is where the real fun and magic is at for most people in the game, including myself. B class probably being the highlight of the game overall. There are barely any D class events. I can think of 1. The D class buggy event and that’s it. Maybe there’s one more, but I can’t think of it at the moment. Yet we have a huge selection of D class cars to choose from that basically will never get gameplay besides some limited use on the Festival Playlist. The C class events suffer the same fate as D class, and I believe there’s only 1 or 2 races for this class and it’s locked to something like GMC brand only and retro rally cars basically excluding a huge list of cars for no real good reason. B class events gets the same treatment with 3 or 4 events total and this to me is total disservice to the game and community as a whole. There are so many cool cars in the B class range and yet most will never see any real game play outside of “The Trial” races because once again, no one will use them in open because the OP cars just blow everything away no matter how good your tune and driving is. So yeah, it seems everything is focused on S1/A class races in the dirt of all places and no love for anything else beyond that??
Now that you’ve added some new road races I’m really hoping Horizon Tour can be considered for a nice overhaul and really be made into something great and fun for the whole community. I hope this message lands well and in the eyes of the right people to make that happen because it would breathe new life into this game for me personally and I assume a lot of other people as well.
Thanks for reading!