So I jump into the latest season today and for some reason noticed that the Ginetta G10RM was listed at FREE in the auction house. I was there to buy something else and the word ‘Free’ caught my eye (as it would)
So I look under the CAR PACKS and I now have:
Acceleration Car Pack
European Automotive Car Pack
Chinese Luck Stars Car Pack
Fast X Car Pack
American Automotive Car Pack
Super Speed Car Pack
Italian Exotics Car Pack, and the
Horizon Racing Car Pack
And, as you may have guessed from my predisposition to the word ‘Free’, I did NOT buy these car packs!!!
I played the game via Gamepass Ultimate streaming once, and it let me drive even the DLC cars from the makeup and controller promos, and also gave me the emote (though not the shirt oddly). The cars are still sitting there in my garage, but I’m not able to drive them because I don’t “own” the DLC.
yes, think that’s how it ends up, cars don’t get removed for whatever reason - that’s how it looks on the odd occasion I encounter where the internet’s off and the game has a fit - they’re there but I can’t use them
I also have such a car in the first Horizon game; I was looking at the 360 shop and the Lambo Miura, I think, was listed as free for me so I downloaded it but it was a car pass car so it’s just there in the garage and I can’t use it
briefly encountered that in Motorsport 5, too, though I think I ended up being able to drive it for whatever other reason
Yeah. Well. I feel like I read the lottery numbers wrong!
False alarm everyone. Forza played me this time.
Game went haywire. Reset itself to a ‘default’ season?!?! Never seen that before, but all the prizes were CR and wheelspins. Every time I exited the player house, it reset the season.
I still have the cars, but now I can’t get in and drive them. So now my garage is loaded up with candy I can’t have! Such a cruel world (I’m joking here, it’s just a game!)
Happened to me once too, but with FH4. I have the Microsoft Store version of FH4 (because I bought it before it went on Steam), but the Steam version of FH5 and FH4 does have issues sometimes with connecting to Horizon Life (though the rest of the online stuff does work) and sometimes I have to restart the whole Laptop and not just the game.
With Win 10 you could restart the Xbox services and check if they were running in the Xbox menu, but Win 11 doesn’t have that anymore for some reason. Though I never had any issues with car packs.
the “default” season is the “fallback playlist” and for reasons I don’t clearly understand but are something to do with the Xbox disconnecting from the server/internet, once done, the game struggles to reconnect
the fallback series can be accessed deliberately by starting the game without the internet being connected, there is one series only, with the same four parts to it, then it goes back to the start of the series
the daily tasks are maybe slightly more involved than the normal playlist but otherwise it’s more or less the same, just fewer tasks, and the stunts and championships can only be done once, they auto-complete once done
the prizes are wheelspins (not super) and small amounts of credits