Winter Season Festival Playlist (FH5 High Performance redux - Series 44)
Here are the details on this week’s events and rewards. Share tips along with your tuning setup codes.
WINTER | DRY SEASON
The season starts at 7:30am Pacific on March 13 and ends Thursday, March 20, 2025 2:30 PM
This is the third season of the returning High Performance series.
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 Seasonal 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, or you can use a Backstage Pass to select from the available options.
Two cars are added with the change of each season and voting for the next week beings. See details on Horizon Backstage voting, car selection, and passes here.
FORZATHON SHOP
600 FP Car
2017 Koenigsegg Agera RS
200 FP Car
2017 Aston Martin DB11
75 FP Clothing
Black Speed Trap Tee
75 FP Car Horn
Mexican Traffic Light
1000 FP Backstage Pass
1 Pass
60 FP / 150 FP
Wheelspin & Super Wheelspin
FORZATHON EVENTS
Completing these events earn seasonal points plus Forzathon Points (FP) which can be used in the Forzathon Shop.
Forzathon Weekly Challenge
(5 pts) These four challenges must be completed in sequence.
Situated Beyond
Chapter 1: Ultimate Ultima
Own and drive the 2015 Ultima Evolution Coupe 1020
Chapter 2: DIY
Spend 25.000 credits on upgrades on the Ultima
Chapter 3: Supersonic
Win the Festival Drag Strip in the Ultima
Chapter 4: In the fast lane
Maintain a speed of 180 mph (289 km/h) for 10 seconds in the Ultima
Forzathon Daily Challenges
(1 pt each) Each new challenge starts daily at 7:30am PT and is open for 7 days.
Radial Race
Earn 10 Speed Skills at the Stadium
Air Buggy
Earn 5 Stars from Danger Signs in any Unlimited Buggy
Retro Rapids
Maintain a speed of 80mph (128km/h) in any Retro Supercar for 10 seconds
Spike Central
Smash 10 Cacti in any Rally Monster vehicle
Challenge Accepted
Complete a Challenge Card in Freeroam
A Little Present
Send a Gift Drop to another player
Back In Style
Earn 50,000 Skill Score in any vehicle from the 1980’s
SEASON EVENT DETAILS
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. You must have unlocked the Hall of Fame with Accolade points to enter the Trial. Access to Rally Adventure events require defeating the three team champions. Access to Hot Wheels 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.
Pts
Event
Name
Requirement
Route
10
The Trial
What Goes Around…
(A800) Track Toys
Road Racing (Los Jardines Circuit)
3
EventLab
Blue Lagoon
(S1 900) Track Toys
El Lago Blanco
3
Playground Games
Fleeting Flag Rush
(A800) Super Saloons
Estadio Horizon - Team Flag Rush
2
Danger Sign
Basejump
(S2 998) Anything Goes - 1739 feet (530 m)
2
Speed Trap
Tulum
(S2 998) Anything Goes - 190 mph
2
Drift Zone
Camino de Montana
(S2 998) Anything Goes - 130,000 points
5
Championship
Racing in Style
(B700) Vintage Racers
Road Racing (Chihuahua Circuit)
5
Championship
Fresh off the Grill
(B700) Super Hot Hatches
Street Racing (Tunnel Run)
8
Horizon Tour
Co-Op Championships
2
Treasure Hunt
Road Ready
Toys never deal well with asphalt, but perhaps a toy meant for the track does better?
2
Photo Challenge
FastFromThePast
Photograph any Retro Supercar at the Temple of Quechula.
2
Horizon Open
Licence to Race
Complete a Horizon Open event
2
RA Drift Zone
Devil’s Pass
(S2 998) Anything Goes - 115,000 points
5
RA Championship
Tour Galore
(B700) Modern Rally
Cráteres Secos
2
HW Speed Zone
Frozen Rush
(S2 998) Anything Goes - 160 mph
5
HW Championship
American Dream
(A800) USA
Waterslide Speed Circuit
MONTHLY RIVALS
The total point value of Monthly events is divided by four when applied to individual seasons; completing these events will apply up to 2 points applied to each season in this series. Post a clean lap to complete Rivals events. Cars are stock and provided as free rentals for the event.
Any chance you could include all the details like we used to have from the Forza Wiki page back in the day when it posted all four seasons for the series just before it released and with full descriptions of Cars, Restrictions, Rewards and a full description of the events - especially in eventlabs and Weeklies rather than a summary of stuff. It had the full text of all the events from the playlist.
I really miss Forza Wiki and no idea why it was pulled.
It let me set up my spreadsheet for the month ahead well in advance without spending hours sorting it out before I could start even playing each season one at a time.
You can still get it for each season but not till a couple of days after which by then I’ve already finished it anyway.
I’ll target Friday this week for Spring, and for Series 45 I’ll try to get all four weeks up in Summer season.
I guess a followup to that would be: does everyone prefer to continue individual topics for each week, or would you want a mega topic that is updated monthly and has a calendar index in the first post (similar to the Horizon Backstage topic)?
So basically only the T35 C and Blower are worth using with Lookout being the 2nd course, the rest will have no choice but to be on bad tire compounds for those two courses, best of luck to all you stock users out there with that SC, I’ll give them all a quick test now though.
Also seeing as I mentioned testing if anyone sees this thread first and wants an idea of most of the Trial cars’ capabilities…
Thanks. I would appreciate that.
Personally I would prefer the full series events ( with Full descriptions like they have in Forza Wiki )
Yes, you could say geek but I like to have my spreadsheet fully ready to go when the season launches instead of spending hours updating it before I can start playing the game.
It’s what I always did before Forza Wiki was cut short of releasing the details.
Also gave me the chance to see the upcoming weekly cars, what I might need to tune or even sell to drop the garage down before all the new duplicates started to get chucked in there with no say about accepting or refusing.
If you could get the team to just save them ( and wheelspins ) till later after the event was finished it would help a lot with garage space limits.
Even in the middle of an event it takes a couple of secs to choose or deny so wouldn’t stop the run of the event especially when there’s usually a bit of a wait between loading the next one anyway.
Basically, I have no time to prep for the season so that’s why I just have to pick something that I think might work. I spend ages on each event evaluating cars to see what might be the best choice but just have to plump for what I think I have that could get the job done.
Hence the snap decisions.
I know you’re a seasoned gamer and have a lot of mental space to remember tracks, tunes, etc, but I don’t have that ability these days.
Sorry if I confused you with this.
There is no logic because I have to just review car stats before the event and pick something.
As mentioned in other posts / threads I work long hours during the week - usually at least 12 to 14 hours during the week - and don’t get a lot of time during the week to prep and a small window of actual gameplay, so having all the info for the season ahead would just help to at least work some stuff out in the weekend after the series starts or preferably the weekend before.
I can’t say that I agree with having a single series thread. It sounds difficult/annoying to find something for a current season without having to look through previous seasons. May as well use discord then. Tbh I’d be surprised if Max didn’t have the ability to set each season thread up ahead of time and schedule each to post on the appropriate day/time.
The threads for the previous seasons are still accessible. I use this search to find them for season 20. Changing the “S20” to whatever other series seems reliable with the exception of the first few series. It appears that requirements are changing only for the event labs. The confirmation in the new thread each time is nice though.
Bentley Blower (YaeMarucat, race) - 59.343
Bugatti T35 C (Saeenu, rallies) - 59.710
Auto Union (TGM, stock) - 1:01.979
Napier Railton (TGM, Vintage race) - 1:02.145 (contender for worst brakes in the game)
Maserati 8CTF (zombiejesus52, RWD, Vintage white wall) - 1:02.779
Merc W154 (Fenrir3268, RWD, Vintage white wall) - 1:03.280
Yeah…bad, bottom two can’t do AWD swap and stay in B class on any tires, was rough just getting those poor times out of them.
Have Vintage Racers ever had a decent event? They were the restriction for the HW SC a while back and now in this + retrospectively Series 20 their first 2 races are on ridiculous courses for all but 2 of the cars.
Also would have been nice if the Alfa P3 from FH4 had made a return at some point, that used to be the Vintage Racers car I used in that game, and the restriction has only ever had 1 new addition, the Maserati which I think I’m right in saying was just the 2nd ever exclusive car added.
Whichever is easiest for you, whole thing put up under one topic would be great, re Aaorta’s request, I’ve been trawling through LostPhoenix’s y/tube past vids to get all the details for each event
I will keep posting the screenshots for the events for as long as I have them and they are needed but I do not have the full event screenshots in my more recent videos so it would be nice to have the information officially too
I doubt it will be any harder to navigate than previous. The seasons will still get posted as separate groups. Maybe in one thread or maybe split into four separate ones ( personally I’d just go for one thread per series with each of the 4 seasons listed in order, then you’d only have to look at one thread per series instead of multiple threads filling the forum ) but they all get posted on the same day - just before the series starts - just like Forza Wiki used to do.
Alternatively, they could just let Forza Wiki start doing it again the way they used to and just give a link.
