Festival Playlist events and rewards Jan. 5-12 (Summer S16)

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Summer Season Festival Playlist (Series 16 - FORDzathon)

Here are the details on this week’s events and rewards. Share tips along with your tuning setup codes!

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The 2010 Renault Megane RS 250 is this week’s newly added seasonal Exclusive reward car.

SUMMER | WET SEASON

The season starts at 6:30am Pacific on January 5th and ends Thursday, January 12, 2023 2:30 PM
This is the first season of FORDzathon (Series 16).

PLAYLIST POINTS

Points are accumulated across all four seasons. Each event in the Festival Playlist has a number of points to earn noted in the bottom left corner of the event tile. Accumulate points with any combination of completed events to earn the first reward car, and continue earning points from remaining events to earn the second reward car. Cars noted as Exclusive are not available in the Autoshow, so grab them while you can! But don’t worry if you miss them, these cars may come back again for future Festival Playlists.

Series total: 240 Points

  • Season Reward: 2021 MG MG6 XPower (newly added Seasonal Exclusive car) (80 points)
  • Season Reward: 1965 Hoonigan GYMKHANA 10 Ford Hoonicorn Mustang (Seasonal Exclusive car) (160 points)

Season Total: 60 points

  • Season Reward: 2010 Renault Megane RS 250 (newly added Seasonal Exclusive car) (20 points)
  • Season Reward: 1949 Hot Wheels Ford F-5 Dually Custom Hot Rod (Seasonal Exclusive car) (40 points)

FORZATHON EVENTS

Not only do completing these events earn seasonal points, they also earn Forzathon Points which can be used in the Forzathon Shop.

#Forzathon Weekly Challenge: Mud Stud (5 pts)
These four challenges must be completed in sequence for completion.

  • Chapter 1: Cover Car | Own and drive the 2021 Ford Bronco
  • Chapter 2: Built Wild | Win the Baja California Trail in the 2021 Ford Bronco
  • Chapter 3: G.O.A.T | Win any Cross Country event in the 2021 Ford Bronco
  • Chapter 4: Conqueror | Earn 3 stars on any Trailblazer in the 2021 Ford Bronco

#Forzathon Daily Challenges (1 point each)
Each day a new challenge opens at 6:30am PT and is open for 7 days.
Go Fordward Drive 5 miles (8 km) in any Ford
Ford the Memories Earn 50,000 Skill Score in any Ford
Rock Out Take a picture at Valle De Las Ranas
Slide Street Earn 4 Stars at Drift Zones in the 2018 Ford Mustang RTR Spec 5
Fully Charged Earn a Hard Charger Skill in Playa Azul
Show 'Em Who’s Boss Win a Dirt Race in a 1969 Ford Mustang Boss 302
Taco This Smash a Taco Cart

FORZATHON SHOP
400 FP Car 1986 Hoonigan Ford RS200 Evolution (Autoshow value 5,000,000 CR)
300 FP Car 1969 Ford Mustang Boss 302 (Autoshow value 230,000 CR)
75 FP Clothing USA Race Gloves (Seasonal exclusive)
75 FP Car Horn Goalll
60 FP Wheelspins 150 FP Super Wheelspins

SEASON EVENTS

Toggle the menu to show the rewards and restrictions for each event - if you complete the event in a car outside the restrictions or fail to meet the target, you won’t get the reward and points from completion.

The Trial (10 pts) | Blast from the Past | Road Racing | (C600) Ford Retro Muscle Cars
Note: You must have unlocked the Hall of Fame with Accolade points to enter the Trial.
Reward: 2018 Ford Mustang RTR Spec 5 (Autoshow value 105,000 CR)

EventLab (3 pts) | JAMES MIATA PRESENTS Alpine Heights Race Day | (A800) Ford
Reward: Green Pinata Outfit

Speed Trap (2 pts) | Avenida | (B700) Ford 1970 or earlier | 130.0 mph
Reward: Super Wheelspin

Speed Zone (2 pts) | Riviera Maya | (B700) Ford 1970 or earlier | 100.0 mph
Reward: Super Wheelspin

Championship (5 pts) | Midnight Muscle | Street Racing | (A800) Ford Modern Muscle Cars
Reward: 2015 Ford Falcon GT F 351 (Autoshow value 35,000 CR)

Championship (5 pts) | Scrambling for Time | Dirt Racing | (A800) Ford AWD
Reward: 1977 Ford #5 Escort RS1800 MkII (Autoshow value 300,000 CR)

Championship (5 pts) | Fording a Path | Dirt Racing | (B700) Ford Classic Rally
Reward: 1973 Ford Capri RS3100 (Autoshow value 55,000 CR)

CHALLENGES

Photo Challenge (2 pts) | #FORDZATHON | Photograph the 1965 Ford Transit at De Otro Mundo
Reward: Ice Cream Van (Car Horn)

Horizon Open (2 pts) | Fordward Thinking | Complete a Horizon Open Custom Race in any Ford
Reward: Green XS Race Suit (Clothing)

Collectibles (2 pts) | Reach New Lights | Smash 50 Floating Lanterns in the Dunas Blancas
Reward: Keeno - Nocturne (Mixtape Song)

MONTHLY EVENTS

The total points from Monthly events are divided by four when applied to individual seasons. Completing the two events will apply 1 point for EV + 1 point for Monthly Rivals = 2 points applied to each season.

Monthly Rivals (4 pts) | Horizon Baja Scramble | 2017 Ford Fiesta GRC | Post a clean lap to complete.

Forza EV (4 pts) | Emerald Circuit | Ford Mach-E | Post a clean lap to complete.


HOT WHEELS EVENTS

Access to these events requires the Hot Wheels Expansion DLC. Users without the DLC will still be able to gold the season and unlock the “Min, Meet Max” Achievement without these event points.

Danger Sign (2 pts) | Treetops | (B700) Ford 1970 or earlier
Reward: Super Wheelspin

Championship (5 pts) | Speed Boost | (S1 998) Ford
Reward: 2000 Ford SVT Cobra R (Autoshow value 65,000 CR)

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Couldn’t find anything standout tune-wise for the Trial so just went with a Saeenu tune on the '93 Mustang, managed a sub 1:20 lap with it on HMC which is a pretty decent time for a C class car on there.

Guy on my team who finished 2nd in both races was atrocious, only in FH could you be rewarded for flying into every corner too fast, every single wall on HMC must have taken a pummelling from their car at some point in the race, hopeless.

I’m sure they corner bombed another teammate at the end of AOM too, when I finished they were in 3rd well behind the other teammate with only the last 2/3 corners left.

And PG enable + encourage it with no penalties for such stupidity outside of Open.

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Advice for players struggling with speed zones:
The two corners do not fail if you cut the off-road on the inside.
Start on the west side of the map, cut the first corner and cut the second corner to pass between the two trees.
This way you will probably be able to achieve an average speed that is 10-20 km/h higher.

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I’m not surprised by the fact that the devs still didn’t manage to fix that massive menu lag they graciously patched in more than two months ago…

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The Ford Mustang SVO isn’t selectable in the Trial even though the AI are using it. Am i missing something?

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Double check the pi class. That’s what I used

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So Festival Playlist in Series 16 will see us using only like 10% of all cars in the game for four weeks? That’s even worse idea than German Automotive Excellence with similarly limited choice (though not that strict) IMHO :wink:

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As we all know, the guys and gals at PGG are all serious car enthusiasts and also have their finger on the pulse of the industry so the selected point car rewards for the FORDzathon series leave no doubt that FORD is about to buy Renault!

And the SAIC owned MG cars being rewarded may indicate that the Chinese are about to buy FORD!

Adjust your 401ks accordingly!

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Maybe Ford is trying to aquire China?

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If they had the Renault license they should’ve kept those 3 models at launch. There was absolutely NO reason for those models to be exclusionary.

I am not thrilled with this series.

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I used the Crown Vic with Don’t Give A Duece’s tune. Did 6 Trials and comfortably came first in the first 5 Trials. Had a jerk racer from the Tb#% club who decided that their best way to play was to smash off me every corner and slow me down, hence a 3rd (side smashed last turn) and a 2nd (again side smashing but they overdid it and missed a checkpoint). Due to their antics the player in the 93’ Mustang got too much of a lead and won both races. I really am starting to hate certain players from that club, can’t drive, just smash. Overall though i was very pleased with the Crown Vic. Going to give the Mustang SVO a shot later and see how it pans out.

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Smashing the floating lanterns sucked.
FIFTY of the things, spread out, or you are going for the grouped ones (requiring a blind jump): Too far left, too far right, too fast, too slow… argh.

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Tbh the German Automotive Excellence series was at least better since it featured quite a good crop of new cars. The car pass certainly helped too, with all new-to-Forza ones. Too bad there were only three playlist cars and one of them was a straight-up rip from FH4.

This update is light-years worse than even Extreme E and Donut Media combined. Appalling.

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I’ve been waiting for 7 months for this moment. Now, how do I complete the Happy New Year! accolade?

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Knowing PG, they’re just going to give us 1 new-to-Forza car and 4 recycled cars. Maybe if we’re lucky we can get the LC 500 that was in the files.
I know one of them is going to be the SW20 MR2, and the model is horrendous.

EDIT: There’s no article up on the main page for this series for some reason. What’s going on??

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Maybe it was part of the anniversary update, a callback to FH4’s random moments of the game just sitting there with nothing happening?

It is starting to get worse, changing cars + setting up events are where it’s been most frequent for me.

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Let’s see what missing FH4 cars from Japan we have to choose from:

  • 1970 Honda S800
  • 2015 Honda Ridgeline Baja Trophy Truck
  • 2014 Infiniti Q50 Eau Rouge (?)
  • 2009 Lexus IS F
  • 1972 Mazda Cosmo 110S Series II
  • 1973 Mazda RX-3
  • 1985 Mazda RX-7 GSL-SE
  • 1992 Mitsubishi Galant VR-4
  • 2016 Subaru #199 WRX STI VT15R Rally Car
  • 1974 Toyota Corolla SR5
  • 1995 Toyota MR2 GT

Well, choice is quite large (too large). Toyota MR2 seems to be the most popular option among fans (followed by Mazda RX-7 and RX-3), according to number of votes in Suggestions Hub.

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Galant has no excuse for not being in the game from launch as it’s a traffic car.

S800, Cosmo, Subaru and the Trophy Truck would be what I’d most like to see out of those.

Who knows though, if this series is anything to go by the new additions for one named after Japan will probably end up being American, German or British cars.

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Horizon 5 dont have the same new year as the rest of the world :blush: