Long load times? Is there a single console game that has short load times anymore? Nothing I play has short load times.
I imagine the game was tested pretty extensively. Marketing teams and test teams are in no way related lol. But yeah, this has unfortunately become the new norm, which we all hate.
No, you don’t understand. FH4 introduced a major problem with very VERY long loading times when it came to Steam, this was almost unbelievably never fixed in FH4 and has been copy and pasted into FH5. I note it has not been mentioned in today’s message. It is not beyond the realms of possibility that they will never fix it. This bug affects all platforms, not just Steam users.
5-10 minute loading times between races where no actual loading takes place and people’s consoles and PCs are doing nothing other than waiting for some ‘signal’ to come from somewhere (who knows from where? Maybe Mars? The spirit world? Who can say why these incredible, outrageous loading times exist? Do the developers know, or care? We don’t know!)
With respect, if you are unaware of some of the major problems with the game, maybe you should listen a bit more to those who do, rather than presuming to pontificate on issues of which you are ignorant.
It’s an interesting read, I like some the wording around “fixes and improvements” which to me says there may be changes to the events, not just bug fixes. Fingers crossed really!
I imagine it wasn’t as extensive as you imagine it was. If an alleged top tier developer can’t even notice that a PC game in 2021 leaves the mouse pointer on the screen, requiring you to manually move it out of the way, then I tend to think that they didn’t try very hard at all.
Be blindly positive even though they’ve already taken people’s money on the premise of a new and improved experience…Yeah totally mate.
With a new game like this and so many bugs, I had zero interest in sending in tickets for existing problems that carried over from the last game. I’ll let this Series 2 update roll out and see what problems still exist before I send one in. For the most part, the blog post covered my gripes.
Repeatedly having my accolades reset is making me not wanna play the game at all though. That’s my biggest problem currently.
Never said to be blindly positive, but at least a tiny little bit positive… i mean in that way you can say the same about being “blindly negative”, generally speaking.
That part is interesting. I don’t understand what it means. They’ll allow them, but they won’t show in search results/categories unless you enter the direct share code?
I didn’t think much of it one way or the other when it popped up in the in-game news. Except that the 1000 FP didn’t seem like much of a bonus. The selection in the Forzathon shop is pretty slim. I might be tempted to buy spins if they were 1/10 the price.
I must admit, I was left a little underwhelmed by the offer of a 1000 FPs. I’m struggling to spend the 4000+ I have banked now, (the grind for Unlimited Prowess was painful) so another 1000 isn’t really much use.
I am interested to see if they follow through on their spiel with regards to Leaderboards - especially Rivals. If they clean that up, monitor and maintain it accordingly, I’ll be somewhat satisfied.
Having said that, I have a sneaking suspicion my satisfaction is far from guaranteed.
If this is a big issue for them then why don’t they simple reduce amount of credits/sp/xp that you can earn dramatically if you enable auto steering.
That way the feature can still be used for it’s intended purpose but can’t be used to afk farm anything.
Please fix the wheel issues… its driving me crazy having a racing rig at home and not being able to use it in FH5!
Looks like that won’t be happening for a while. I can play with my t300rs, but considering I upgraded to a DD1. Weeeelll there goes my progress for now. xD
It not an autosteering thing. Its the implementation from custom events. Disable Playlist-/game-progression in custom events and 40+% of the stuff is gone there.
But yeah instead of doing 5jumps (example) in free roam someone creates “Easy Forzathon Jumps” event for it, gets likes+money for it and it gets prominent listed so more people play it.
Needs some moderation there. They removed money from 50laps afk but now its flooded with “10sp in 30sec” or “easy unbeatable (abusing bug wich allows completion in 00:00.017)” and others.
Thats not new was same in FH4.
Dont remove money, autosteer and so on prevent player from doing multiple times in a row (remove the “fun” from doing same thing over and over). Or use the system from storys. It shows 0 after doing again. Suggest other events wich makes other peoples creations visible.
Same for this “We’re also aware of players using game speed modifiers to boost their scores for PR Stunts and are looking to prevent and remove these impossibly high scores.”
They know topspeed of car and lengths add some extra 10% margin of error and its “done”. But yeah maybe they add some new bad implemented autoban thingy wich bans innocent ppl later.
Its already simulated in tuningmenu store somewhere (or simulate again) and compare later (not with local vals). If simulated speed was 300kmh and car is doing > 300+MOE then flag user/remove from event. Same with lengths/time. Car doing 0-97kmh in 1 sec but simulation stored 2.3s or user travelled 1500m in 1s (in eliminator for ex) but max is 100+moe m/s then something is wrong.
If car needs XX secs for XX m on straight line then there is no legit way doing faster time on a XX m long track (with corners) in rivals.
Easy to ban ppl like this
simulated showed 163mp/h and car is doing 317 → autoban with simple if(curSpeed > maxSpeed) maxSpeed = 164 + 164 * .1 (or 20% in free roam)no need to find and fix every speedglitch
Update seems to be rolling out. Currently downloading a 14.16GB update.
Looking forward to seeing some of the improvements. 
Since the other thread got hijacked I’ll put it here. Everyone will love the updated arcade. I’ve completed 3 so far today by myself, speed, wreckage and air. So my last achievement is the seasonal smashes. I’m just gonna spend the day trying to check off all the arcade accolades.
They did adjust the series points. I was 253 of 247 last night, now it says I’m 253 of 263, I received all the rewards for the series but I was aiming for that 100%. I’ll probably fall short 2 or 3 points.
I love updates, but can someone explain me, why the second update in a row (PC) just brokes the game and it says that I need to redownload 102GB? It’s not that hard, but it’s kinda annoying to wait extra 3-4 hours before I can play :c
Convoys – There’s nothing more disappointing than going on a road-trip with your friends and seeing them all disappear. We’ve experienced it and it never gets any less of a letdown. With that said, we are actively working on improvements around players erratically disappearing or not being pulled into Horizon Life servers with their Convoy.
This is now worse, MUCH worse after the update that had been released was supposedly meant to improve it. Cheers guys for the “improvement”…
Convoys worked fine since release but yesterday I never saw my friends.
Forza Horizon 5 is an absolute joke of a game. As a long time fan of the series, I feel insulted by the enormous amount of bugs and issues this game has. I don’t even play multiplayer and it’s still pisses me off every time I play. The festival playlist events are impossible to complete against allegedly highly skilled AI drivertars. It’s like the developers are taking a piss out of everyone who just wants to play the game for fun.