The MP is a BIG disappointment at this point.I did not expect nor did i even wanted more than we had in FH4.Just more of the same on new tracks.Whats so difficult about it?Now they took everything out and just left“quick race“…Single player with its dumb rubberband AI is not really fun to me,it was always just there to warm up and test cars for mp…
PLEASE bring custom races (and team adventure!) back!
Will they implement custom adventure online racing back into the game soon? That was what made fh4 so fun. I bought the premium pack anticipating more racing with the friends I have made on fh4. I am so disappointed as of now. Sure fh5 was fun the first week but now its becoming redundant. I want to compete with the fast racers in S2! Why remove the option to choose road racing online? It doesn’t make sense! That is the bread and butter for tons of players. Right now I’m sitting here just staring at the game already bored of it. Such a shame! Please put custom adventure back into it or sadly I think I’m already over fh5! As a matter of fact I’m going to fire up fh4 and see if by some miracle people are online racing. SMH!!!
All I want to know is, will custom adventure online racing be put back in the game?? The thrill of competing in s2 road with the super fast racers is gone. It became my favorite thing to do! The choice to race collision on and off was awesome as well! Racing and competing in fh4 in the lobbies of your choice was what made the game for me. If its not going to be a part of the game Id like to know so I can move on. Thank you
Bump
As stated in the original post, this mechanic is beyond irritating. Even when you get a race on your desired surface or car class you’ll never join in the first race, so you get a few races and then the event cycles over to mixed surface or cross country. You then have to exit out and find another race. And with the wait times loading and between races, it’s painful. It’s agonizing to tune a car and want to race it online (because racing bots isn’t even close to the same as far as tuning a car for online) and only getting a couple of races in to test it. You then have to exit out and restart the whole process and hopefully, maybe, get a few more races in to judge how that tune works. It’s mindblowingly not multiplayer friendly.
And frankly these Horizon Open races online aren’t even close to competitive after the first 4 finishes or so. Half the players are waiting for the event to cycle and are all over the track.
In Horizon Open online after selecting a race type, you’re given one choice. One!! It likely isn’t the car class or surface type you want. In other online racing games they give you a list of races to join. A list! Every other racing game does this. Amazingly they also allow you to choose the car you want to race. And the surface. All these surface types and race types nobody used in FH3 and even declining in FH4 shouldn’t make you rethink you’re whole model and try and force players to race stuff they have no desire to race. But just try it you’ll like it…NO.
I’m not a big brain try hard obviously, but these are obvious things in a multiplayer racing game that need fixing.
EXACTLY! I just went to fh4 to see if anyone was racing. Got in a couple with a few players online…have to say that it was more enjoyable racing 3 other racers than Ive had so far on fh5. The competitiveness is just gone from fh5.
What’s sad is I’ve also considered reinstalling FH4 and playing multiplayer, that’s how annoying it is, and I’m sure we’re not the only ones.
I’m hoping that once the online race community is bored of fh5…they will migrate back to fh4 to get the competition fix so to speak. Most of my fast buddies from fh4 are showing they are online playing something else lol. That says alot when we were racing every night almost on fh4.
I’ve loved the online modes of FH3 
Especially the ghosted lobbies were quite fun and addicting. personally I didn’t found any reason to change the whole gameplay in FH4. I’m very unsatisfied about the current state of FH5.
Most of the solo player stuff fan be achieved in less than a month, what’s coming then? Same stupid decisions were made and many of annoying bugs carried over from FH4.
Why custom adventure and ranked got removed in FH5? I understand ranked to some degree but i personally cannot think why they would remove custom adventure. When it was announced back in FH4 as an update it made me play online more. Because I could choose what type of race and class i wanted to play without matchmaking randomly and quitting if what i got doesnt suits what i want to play.
Exactly this. I had stopped playing FH4 until they released that update, and it made me jump back into the game. Literally the dumbest decision they could have made about FH5. It will kill the game’s multiplayer early if they don’t add it back in.
the biggest mistake they could have made as a dev is not adding costum advantage races tho, People were more playing that, Than actaully ranked race, Just to see if they coulda compete with there ride and tune…
this is why forza horizon 5 is collecting dust atm.
Im lost here. Didnt we have online adventure in FH4? true i only played it once or twice in my life, but i think you forgot.
Anyways, better to remove something they dont plan to improve or fix in any way, than having it occupying space and resources.
If they do not raise the level to at least FH4 in the shortest possible time, no one will play it in the long term
I don’t think they care any more
So dumb. I want to play some road racing, but I have to constantly back out of boring cross country championships over and over and over.
Yep…a problem plaguing a large group of players
I hope PG will return this mode after they fix online features
Yeah i totaly agree, This is a huge setback, As a tuner in every forza horizon series, It was an awesome feature to actaully compete against other players with cars you spend hours to tune and setup for youre class you like to compete in, I realy hope forza comes with an update to get costum adventure races back, If so i’m even willing to buy all the DLC coming in the future, but now i’m already annoyed and close to the edge of returning to forza horizon 4, Also could forza dev also make atleast an option for players to change there backfire settings, Cause if you drive a fresh new car, The backfires are awesome, but if your car is “Driven in” the backfire is kinda a bummer, But please add costum adventures!!
OPEN RACING
I think it’s obvious that devs shouldn’t remove Custom Online Adventures from this game. Why did they remove it? For redeveloping, kinda? I think not. Maybe because they want to make Horizon Open “full of live players” on release? Who knows…
From that now we have a problem when different type of players are complaining about online type of races. Someone want to drive only road B-700. Someone loves long races and 5 tracks in one playlist. But all of them have to reconnect many times to get what they want. How can devs try to please everyone?
MAKE CUSTOM ONLINE, you know?
Just give an option to select preferred type of races and classes. But not like in FH4, where you can select only “Road A-800”. Would be great to have a checkboxes for selection.
Kinda like that:
Preferred race types
But what can we now do with amount of races in playlist? That’s a complicated question. Maybe we can keep both “types” of playlists - 3 races and 5 races and randomise them. What about the longest races - the Goliath, the Marathon, the Titan and the Gauntlet? Maybe we could put them into a separate playlist? Offer your options.
Now i think that “Custom Online” should’t be like a separate mode of Horizon Open. Maybe devs could put that filter into current “Open Racing” mode.
RANKED RACING
Why is that been removed? Because some players got a negative experience? What do you want from the most competitive mode where you must be the best of the best? Maybe I don’t know and nowadays racing games with online modes are not competitive games?
TEAM RACING
HORIZON TOUR
Very short. I like the whole idea. It’s like seasonal trials but changes more often. I even like to drive random stock cars in that mode.
BUT. DIFFICULTY.
HORIZON ARCADE
Let’s talk about what devs can do with Horizon Online to make it better. Type your thoughts about or maybe you can offer some ideas. Let’s keep it all in one topic so people and maybe even devs could find our feedback easily.