Autumn #Forzathon Shop, Festival Playlist events and rewards through September 10

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AUTUMN | SERIES 26

Starts September 3 at 7:30am Pacific
Ends September 10 at 7:30am Pacific

This is the second season of Series 26.

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The Jaguar I-PACE is the new exclusive reward this season.

BARN FIND RUMOR:

Forzathon SHOP

  • 650 FP Car: 2011 McLaren 12C Coupe (previously available Exclusive model)
  • 450 FP Car: 1965 Shelby Cobra 427 S/C
  • Clothing: Blue Top Hat
  • Emote: Shamone
  • Wheelspins cost this series: 40 FP & 150 FP

FESTIVAL PLAYLIST

  • 50% Autumn Completion: 2018 Jaguar I-PACE (newly released Exclusive model)
  • 80% Autumn Completion: 1992 Toyota Supra 2.0 GT Twin Turbo (previously available Exclusive model)
  • 50% Series Completion: 2018 Ford #88 Mustang RTR (previously available Exclusive model)
  • 80% Series Completion: 1974 Toyota Celica GT (previously available Exclusive model)

PHOTO CHALLENGE

#FLIGHTOFFANCY
Take a photo of your car at the Greendale Airstrip. Share your photo with the hashtag on Twitter for a chance to be featured in a future stream.

  • Reward: Super Wheelspin

Forzathon

Earn 100 FP from the weekly challenge plus 10 per Daily, plus Bonus for all, double for owning the Lake Lodge

Weekly Challenge:
[Must be done in sequence to count.

  • Own and drive the 2013 Caterham Superlight R500
  • Earn 5 Threading the Needle Skills in your Caterham R500
  • Earn a total of 9 stars from Danger Signs in your Caterham R500
  • Win 4 Road Circuit events in your Caterham R500

Daily Challenges:
Each challenge is open for 72 hours from 7:30am Pacific of the start day.

  • Earn 2 Clean Racing Skills
  • Earn 1 Awesome Drafting Skill
  • Earn 2 Clean Start Skills
  • Closely overtake while racing to earn 3 Great Pass Skills
  • Earn 1 Ultimate Skill Chain
  • Earn 2 Lumberjack Skills
  • Earn 3 Great Skill Chains

SEASONAL EVENTS

The unique reward listed for seasonal championship events requires you to place 1st against at or above the Highly Skilled Drivatar difficulty setting; the Trial requires Unbeatable difficulty. As of Series 24 Playground Games rewards the car for all participants, win or lose.

The Trial Co-Op Championship: “99 LuftSaloons” | Dirt Racing | (A800) Super Saloons

  • Reward: 2019 BMW Z4 (previously available Exclusive model)

Showcase Remix: “Pillar of Autumn” | Halo Experience

  • Reward: Super Wheelspin

Seasonal Playground Games | Mudkickers’ 4x4 | (C600) Country: Japan

  • Reward: 2005 Honda NSX-R (previously available Exclusive model)
  • As of Series 24 you don’t have to win the event to earn the reward.

PR Stunt: Northbound Danger Sign | 725.1

  • Reward: Super Wheelspin

PR Stunt: Oakwood Crest Speed Trap | 205.0 mph

  • Reward: Super Wheelspin

PR Stunt: Johnston Terrace Speed Zone | 145.0 mph

  • Reward: Super Wheelspin

Championship: “Utilitarian” | Street Scene | (A800) Sports Utility Heroes

  • Reward: 2018 Porsche Cayenne (previously available Exclusive model)

Championship: “An Old Hand” | Street Scene | (B700) Vintage Racers

  • Reward: 1933 Napier Railton (previously available Exclusive model)

Championship: “Track Day” | Road Racing | (S2 998) Extreme Track Toys

  • Reward: 2017 Aston Martin Vulcan AMR Pro (previously available Exclusive model)

MONTHLY EVENTS

  • Monthly Rivals: Astmoor Heritage Circuit
  • Online Adventure - (requires 1 Qualifying race to get ranked)
    Completing the monthly events applies their completion percentage to all four seasons in the Festival Playlist.

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Hi,

“99 LuftSaloons” = Super Saloons.

Super Saloons = Limousine, dirt racing limousines.

If this sounds like something fun to try, I prepared a tune in advance, if anyone feels the need to try, although, it is quite late where I am, so I will be trying later today:

**Trial: “99 LuftSaloons” | Dirt Racing | (A800) Super Saloons
**Car used: 2013 Cadillac XTS Limousine (HTF)
**Tune: A800 Rally / 100 104 748

While not yet tested in the trial (online), it has been tested offline/solo on tracks with the same details as the races, vs. unbeatable. Only one track, Ambleside, is problematic (maybe my skill), on this track I can not win vs. unbeatable, (2nd), but do win vs. pro.

Anyway here for those that wish to surprise others by using a car that would seem unsuitable. It maybe hard against other players, cornering is slightly different than a shorter car, I will see later today!

*inspired by someone on the forum who in recent weeks who took the Limo to the Games.

Enjoy

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Again why do I have to load the same 1 lap race 4 times!!! What is the point other than to waste time??? How about just make it do 4 laps all at once? I do not know about other 100% people but I just want to get it done as fast as possible because I am soooo sick of doing this every week for 2 years.

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I agree with you Lee, it’s very boring to do this kind of challenges.
See you soon in FM7 League :slight_smile:

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OMG this is one trial I’ll try to forget in a hurry, been very long time singe I encountered so many bad players.
Dive bombing in every corner until I could managed to run away and generally being bad.
Anyway, putting aside those issues, nothing came close to me and I got 6x 1st (yes first team was so bad and tbh also didn’t deserve a win), second team was a bit better but not much, still they at leas know how to drive, so 3:0 for us.
A 800 super saloons trial BMW 1 Series M coupe, tune - 103 264 539
alternative was a bit less stabile BMW M2 coupe, tune - 120 127 283
I did prepare few more, but they are slower (Alfa Romeo Giulia, Jaguar XE-S and Volvo V60), tunes are shared tho.

So now to solo championships and lets start with one, where somebody had a weird sense of humor putting extreme track toys onto short, twisted road circuits
S2 998 extreme track toys TVR Cerbera Speed 12, tune - 578 262 162
alternative Aston Martin Vulcan, tune - 537 098 135

To continue with a bit twisted sense of humor, lets put sport utility heroes on a street scene tracks, so both running on race suspension, but left rally tires
A 800 sport utility heroes Jaguar F-Pace S, tune 162 310 420
alternative BMW X6 M, tune - 158 088 056

So to last championship and vintage races on fast street scene tracks, where both cars will struggle on straights coz of running rally tires and being set for grip
B 700 vintage racers Bugatty Type 35 C, tune - 461 825 307
alternative Bentley 4 1/2 liter supercharged, tune - 880 758 322

PR stunts as always … Agera RS, tune - 167 849 655 used for danger sign and speed trap and McLaren Senna, tune - 176 256 116 used for speed zone.

Forzathon car this week is Caterham Superlight R500, tuned to S1 - 749 148 393, went into solo free roam, to collect threading the needle skills on freeway, then jumped 3 times over Ambleside Edge danger sign (can easily score 3 stras) and finally used my custom blueprint at Broadway Village Circuit, code - 158 878 251, where you just follow track until second checkpoint, where you can turn left and head to finish line.

Finishing pic was a fail, coz I pushed wrong button

As always, I hope this can be of any help to somebody, take care everyone and have fun, bb

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Not tried the M1 yet but the M2 was competitive and a barrel load of fun!! :slight_smile: Cheers

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Great to see B class Vintage Racers again, most fun championships in the game for me driving them stock.

Were there ghosting in Trials that’s 1 combo I’d love to see, since it’s not there though it would probably be 1 of the biggest messes you’d ever participate in on a Forza game.

Edit : 1st try of the trial and I quit after 1 and a bit laps of Ambleside, why I even bothered going that far I don’t know.

You should know you’re wasting your time when 4 of the other 5 are in stock cars + 2 of them are RWD, a C63 + M4.

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Threading the Needle sucks in FH4.

However, this is still a better challenge than the previous one, because you can just take your time and do the races “properly”, that is without magical grinding blueprints.

For the car? Not worth it. The I-Pace is a good drive but won’t capture the hearts of anyone. I guess it’s a 50% prize so the people who go for it compensate the lack of playtime of those that don’t.

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Go the wrong way up the motorway for Threading The Needle.

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I like to use the Edinburgh Bridge, but you need to go to Horizon Solo. The motorway didn’t have enough traffic density for me.

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I found it more difficult than usual with that long hood on the Caterham. AI kept getting in the way. Aims for you.

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**Championship: “An Old Hand” | Street Scene | (B700) Vintage Racers
**Reward: 1933 Napier Railton (previously available Exclusive model)

My pick was the 1931 Bentley 4,5 supercharger, one of the cheapest vintage racers btw.

Bulletproof easy win: (4WD++) 137 443 505

A bit moore fair, hotted up stock but 5sp: 758 242 481 (updated)

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Do I have to ‘git gud’ or the game doesn’t register ‘threading the needle’ skills as it should?
I know you should get it when you squeeze at high speed through two cars going into opposite directions without hitting any of them

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Hi, the cars don’t need to be going in different directions, go into Solo Mode and run down the main highway a couple of times should do it :slight_smile:

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The I-Pace is really nice to drive, but the electric engine gimps it.

The reusable perk is Cross Country, which is useless, since in CC you need power and top end, and this car doesn’t have any of them. Try racing a Titan event in this and you’ll finish 2 minutes behind the second last racer.

However, this car has an interesting option in the form of Race transmission. It’s mandatory to hit 800. The ability to tweak the transmission to boost acceleration could give it some very situational uses.

When it comes to the visuals, no obvious bugs, but, as usual for these “exclusive” SUVs, there’s no lift kit available for it (only laziness justifies). The rear wing is a very tiny one, which is a bonus, but you sure don’t need anything else to slow you down.

Overtaking a Hellcat in this thing is still priceless, though.

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The traffic seems to very inconveniently die down every time there is a need to score a traffic skill in a particular car. I drove a lap and half around the map using main roads and run the highway back and forth against the traffic twice before registering the required five Threading The Needle skills.

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Go into Solo Mode, much more traffic :slight_smile:

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With fully electric cars still being rare additions to the game I thought I give the I-Pace a closer look for A800 road racing.

Given the low number of upgrade choices there are mostly two builds:

  • stock engine, adjustable gearbox, Sports tires, rear-aero.
  • fully upgraded engine, stock gearbox, Sports tires, full-aero.

Stock gearbox saves tons of PI enabling the fully upgraded engine and full-aero build at the cost of a top speed of only 211 km/h (131 mph).
With a combustion engine this would normally lead to an insane acceleration build and it should beat the stock engine build around lower speed tracks.
But it doesn’t.
57.4 with the stock engine vs 57.5 with the fully upgraded engine at Bamburgh Coast Circuit.

The reason for this lies within the awful power graph of the engine. It loses tremendous amounts of power at high rpm.
I adjusted the gearbox of the stock engine build to provide maximum power (294kw) at a speed of 100km/h (60 mph) because this is roughly the lowest speed the car faces with Sports tires on A800 around a track (90° turns at Edinburgh, some hairpins).

I’ve written down the power decrease of both builds at various speeds:

stock engine, fully upgraded engine
100 km/h (60 mph): 294 kW (400 PS), 377 kW (512 PS)
160 km/h (100mph): 287 kW (390 PS), 318 kW (432 PS)
200 km/h (124 mph): 271 kW (368 PS), 239 kW (325 PS)
211 km/h (131 mph) = stock top speed: 265 kW (360 PS), 215 kW (292 PS)

As can be seen besides the huge power advantage on paper the fully upgraded build quickly produces less power than the stock engine build.

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Not sure which I hate more, S2 in Winter or S2 on Ambleside​:nauseated_face::unamused::cry:

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