Uneventful season this week. Nothing of note in my experience, trial was fine, first and fourth with a tune I didn’t quite gel with, just wanted to understeer.
Stunts and championships and labs were no big deal
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the misspelling of K1Z Bard as K1Z “Brad” in the tune-of-the-week message is embarrassing, and a great example of the level of care devs put into player relations
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missing Mustangs
Ford Dark Horse
Ford Mustang '24
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This has already been corrected, so someone must be paying attention.
stock options, series 45 “Horizon Wilds Takeover”, week 4 spring/hot season
[loose basis for approach; cheapest car that’ll do the stunts, least-driven car for races]
weekly “Hoonitruck” – Hoonigan F-150
trial “’Uno! Dos! Tres! Quattro!” – Audi quattro (beat 4 robots twice)
eventlab “Crop Circle Stadium Rally” – Hoonigan Focus (fine)
eventlab “Creek Crossing Circuit” – P. 911 Rallye (fine)
danger sign “Mountain Top” – Taycan S WP (fairly easy; 550.52 m)
speed trap “San de las Minas” – Taycan S WP (easy; 203.14 mph)
drift zone “Otro Mundo” – Toyota Sera ‘91 (fairly easy; 115,415)
championship “Monster Dash” – Honda Civic (easy win)
championship “Foto Opportunity” – Ford Ranger T6 (easy wins)
treasure “Lancer-lot” – Lancer GSR ‘08 (Lancer, dirt race, win)
RA speed trap “La Cantera” – Ford Mustang ‘18 (fairly easy; 110.19 mph)
RA championship “Mustang Rally” – Ford Mustang S5 (ugh; tricky/quite tricky/fairly easy wins)
HW speed zone “Forest Flume” – Ultima 1020 (fairly easy; 197.10 mph)
HW championship “Up the Tempo” – Lotus Evija '20 (easy or very easy wins)
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full guide - Lancer, dirt race, win
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Thank you. Adding reasons why you chose certain options is so much better than just listing the upgrades (as is the case with the new weekly community tunes). I had already tested my own tune, so raced with that (3rd & 1st - team win - better than normal result). I intend however, to try out your version later, as I don’t think that any further Truck testing is worth it for next week.
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Same as last time we ran that pr stunt and championship. You’d think they’d have fixed it but apparently not
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yes; they do occasionally sort out little things like that but there is neither rhyme nor reason to any of it, not that I can see, and of course there are the issues they ignore for years and years, oh well, the way of the world
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Have to say after 3 years, pretty ridiculous that part of the weekly “routine” is Max still being forced to merge videos into the correct thread. Nothing wrong with sharing content, if that’s what one chooses to do, even if it’s overkill, but to just continue to openly ignore the guidelines for posting…
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Perhaps this is a benefit of being President of Horizon?
Lol
I either raced with one of the best players out there just now in the hot wheels championship or it was one of the other sort. Two laps on Twin Loop Speed Circuit in 3 mins flat is far quicker than I could manage either way.
Wanted to try the Goliath championship in a stock car,picked the #9 Focus. Only 1 team mate,in s900 #2 audi. Started well enough through the 1st dirt part,in 2nd well behind team mate - then we got to the tarmac and found out the Focus has a top speed of 140ish mph 
. 3 s900 drivatars pull clean away to start of Volcan,but i got back to 2 of them by top of mountain,and passed all 3 again on the way back down .Still had 1 on my tail when we got to the last tarmac stretch and knew he would muller me,so had to spend most of that section bashing him into submission. Most fun i’ve had in the game for some time tbh 
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As I intended in a previous reply, I have upgraded based on your suggestions and raced another trial. Won both races (times 2.22 and 2.33, so off your pace but this was after just 1 practice run). NB tune shared (as abell370 tune), but happy to unshare if you prefer.
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Sharing it is fine with me. As much as anything, Id like to see people show up in something close to ideal in co op races, and this week wasnt a good week for that. I did the trial 20+ times and every race was over before the first turn no matter how high the prestige of teammates, just because of the build. There just arent a lot of street race tunes out there for the Quattro in B class. And in general, if I share an open tune, its to help out wherever and however. If its to drive, to give a perspective on tuning or building, to share to get accolades … its all good. I myself am about 700 likes short of finishing all the tuning accolades. I started late and never gamed the algorithm and I know they can be hard to reach. Any open tunes from me are meant to be truly open for whatever.
I did notice that driving in the rainy trial felt different to me than driving solo in a rainy blueprint … the back end wanted to come out more and I felt some vibration in turns that I wasnt feeling in testing … so my tune could have used some ARB and differential tweaking. Still had best finishing times of 2:13s and 2:19s so I didnt mess with it, but it could have been a little better for the trial … if not in finishing times, at least in feel.
I do a lot more testing now than I did in the first couple of years and I usually get at least really close to ideal builds. Im going to try to start from day one in FH6. But Ill probably still stay away from the meta cars more than a lot of people. I think these specific non top leaderboard cars like the B class street race Quattro dont get the same attention as other stuff. Its good to be able to build and tune your own because sometimes you just cant find ideal stuff for specific things already shared.
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Could you please share some insight on your method for tuning differential? I usually make the accel higher when I feel like the car needs to feel a bit tighter, but rarely go over 30 for the front, and rarely over 70 for the back. I usually keep the decel significantly lower, except on cars that I need to turn in more, then I’ll sometimes have the rear decel higher than the rear accel. I’m still trying to understand differential tuning, it’s a bit esoteric…
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sigh … differential tuning is tricky, especially in AWD cars. Its the one thing I havent got completely down yet.
Edit: way too much text. The video linked at the bottom says most of this. And your settings sound ok to me. Yadda yadda yadda … heres why I didnt follow all that for this Quattro…
Now … with this B class street racing Audi Quattro, I did something completely different. And thats because of my offroad excursions at Hilltop Descent.
When extreme offroading, theres a good chance a a tire will be completely in the air. If the differential is open, you get all kinds of opportunities to lose control when power gets transferred to the tire on the ground in a corner where that wouldnt happen if it was flat. A lot to maximum wheel lock is much better in extreme offroading than having power go to whatever wheel is still on the ground. Loss of control is promoted when the diff is open while offroading.
So the thinking in setting this street racing Quattro at 100% and 100% was completely about the going through the grass/mounds/bumps for the hard left hander by the chainlink fence. I tuned for that, and worried about oversteer/understeer with the ARBs. If I wasnt going to take the offroad route, my differential settings would have been completely different … probably would have started 40/60 for the front/rear acceleration settings. Going offroad was wayyyy quicker though. But turning in at the end of that offroad braking zone was super hard … especially since I was using the sport suspension. The sport suspension magnifies the drama of offroading compared to the rally suspension, but overall at Hilltop … and everywhere at Las Laderas, the sport suspension was faster.
Looking back at my tune settings, increasing my diff deceleration settings would have probably been wiser. Even though I tried to decelerate in that offroad section in a straight line, keeping the wheels locked together more would have probably helped. It was a chore to do it without ABS. I ended up doing all the trials without ABS, and it actually was a lot easier controlling braking in the wet conditions of the trial than it was in the dry rivals conditions.
Once more, I dont know how much of any of this is right, or sort of right. I did see a pretty good YouTube video of someone trying to break differentials down just now. It might help more than all this typing …
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Another thing I do that is probably wrong … when tuning AWD, I set the differential accelerating settings to 100%, then tune the suspension, then back down the diff settings until the traction feels right. Then if necessary, go back to the suspension and ARBs to fit reasonable diff settings. So the diff is just ever so fine tuning what I do.
And I only drive in first person, cant drive in chase cam, so I never see what the car is doing. Can only go by feel.