Festival Playlist events and rewards Oct. 6 - 13 (Spring S12)

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

SPRING | HOT SEASON

The season starts at 7:30am Pacific on October 6th and closes Thursday, October 13, 2022 2:30 PM
This is the fourth and closing season of Horizon Road Trip (Series 12).

PLAYLIST POINTS

SERIES 12: HORIZON ROAD TRIP

Series total: 260 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 Reward: 2021 Audi RS e-tron GT (new seasonal Exclusive car) (80 points)
Series Reward: 2021 McLaren 765LT (seasonal Exclusive) (160 points)

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The 2021 Audi RS e-tron GT is the new exclusive reward car for the series.


Season Total: 65 points
Accumulate points with any combination of completed events this season to earn the first reward car, and continue earning points from remaining events to earn the second reward car.

Season Reward: 2018 Nissan Sentra NISMO (new Seasonal Exclusive car) (20 points)
Season Reward: 1992 Ferrari 512 TR (Seasonal Exclusive car) (40 points)

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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: On the Run (5 pts)
These four challenges must be completed in sequence for completion.

  • Chapter 1: Baby Godzilla | Own and drive the 1990 Nissan Pulsar GTi-R
  • Chapter 2: Mini Skyline | Win a Street Race in the Pulsar
  • Chapter 3: Attesa | Win a Dirt Race in the Pulsar
  • Chapter 4: Hottest Hatch | Achieve a speed of 200mph (322kph) in the Pulsar

#Forzathon Daily Challenges (1 point each)
Each day a new challenge opens at 7:30am PT and is open for 7 days.
The Road Less Travelled Visit the Horizon Wilds Festival Outpost
Foot to the Floor Earn 9 stars in total from Speed Zones while driving any Rally Monster
New Car Who Dis Buy a car from the Autoshow
Show 'Em Who’s Boss Win a Dirt Race in a 1969 Ford Mustang Boss 302
Unstoppable Earn a Wrecking Ball Skill combo in any Vans & Utility vehicle
Eat My Dust Win the Baja California Trail in a Classic Rally car
You Are My Sunshine Drive 10 miles (16.1km) in a 1963 Volkswagen Type 2 De Luxe

Forzathon Shop
600 FP Car 2011 Lamborghini Sesto Elemento (Autoshow value 2,500,000 CR)
400 FP Car 1991 Hoonigan Gymkhana 10 ford Escort Cosworth Group A (Autoshow value 500,000 CR)
75 FP Clothing Star 27 Ankle Socks (seasonal Exclusive)
75 FP Car Horn Gong (seasonal Exclusive)
60 FP Wheelspins 150 FP Super Wheelspins

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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) | Off the Beaten Path | (100-700) Offroad
Note: You must have unlocked the Hall of Fame with Accolade points to enter the Trial.
Reward: 1989 Porsche #65 Rothsport Racing 911 ‘Desert Flyer’ (Autoshow value 500,000 CR)

EventLab (3 pts) | TWISTED KNOT PRESENTS “Rally Trail” | (A800) Rally Monsters
Reward: Black Modern Puebla Dress (Seasonal Exclusive clothing)

Playground Games (3 pts) | Team Flag Rush | Ek’ Balam | (100-700) Hot Hatch
Reward: 1999 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VI GSR (Autoshow value 28,000 CR)

Danger Sign (2 pts) | Stadium Jump | (S2 998) Anything Goes | 1,397.6 feet
Reward: Super Wheelspin

Speed Zone (2 pts) | Ranchito | (S2 998) Anything Goes | 100.00 mph
Reward: Super Wheelspin

Drift Zone (2 pts) | Rancheria | (S2 998) Anything Goes | 98,500 points
Reward: Super Wheelspin

Championship (5 pts) | The Gauntlet | Dirt Race | (100-900) Rally Monsters
Reward: 1977 Ford Escort RS1800 (Autoshow value 88,000 CR)

Championship (5 pts) | Dirt Endurance | Dirt Race | (B700) Modern Rally
Reward: 2005 Subaru Impreza WRX STi (Autoshow value 51,000 CR)

Championship (5 pts) | Blaze a Trail | Dirt Race | (D500) Classic Rally
Reward: 1990 Nissan Pulsar GTi-R (Autoshow value 20,000 CR)

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CHALLENGES

Treasure Hunt (3 pts) | Rally on the Wild Side | Victory awaits whoever can brave the Dirt with a rallying cry of nostalgia
Reward: 100 Forzathon Points

Photo Challenge (2 pts) | #RUNNINGWILD | Photograph the 1999 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VI GSR at the Horizon Wilds Outpost
Reward: Police Siren (Seasonal Exclusive car horn)

The Eliminator (2 pts) | Battle Royale | Finish 30th or better
Reward: This isn’t even my final form (Seasonal Exclusive ForzaLINK phrase)

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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) | Forest Escape | (S2 998) Anything Goes
Reward: Super Wheelspin

Championship (5 pts) | Hit the Orange Trail | (A800) Rally Monsters
Reward: 2011 Subaru WRX STi (Autoshow value 33,000 CR)

MONTHLY EVENTS

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

Monthly Rivals (4 pts) | Bola Ocho Circuit | Post a clean lap to complete. | Experience the Audi RS 7 '21 before you can put it in your garage!
Note: starting with Series 7, completing the Monthly Rivals event adds 1 point to each season’s progress for a total of 4 points applied to series progress.

Forza EV (4 pts) | Emerald Circuit | Post a clean lap to complete. | Experience the Audi RS e-tron GT before you can put it in your garage!
Note: starting with Series 9, every month you’ll drive a different EV in this event complimenting the existing Monthly Rivals event.

SUPER7

Complete the Horizon Super7 in the creative Hub menu
Reward: 2018 Audi RS 4 Avant (Seasonal Exclusive car)

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Curses. I failed to get in on the last one, which I was at least mildly interested in. Pathfinder WotR absorbed my time too effectively.

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Won’t be able to get on until Sunday but I’m struggling with this Trial, the PI restriction spanning multiple classes might have been useful when Trials had some actual difficulty and you could force 1 AI into a slower car as a tactic but not anymore, the only reason I could think of now is purely to give yourself a bigger challenge.

I’d love to be wrong here and see scaling is back but I’m guessing whichever car someone chooses their equivalent AI will just use a stock vehicle within that car’s class.

With the ease of Trial AI now I don’t think it will be completely impossible to get 600pts in the races using a D class vehicle this week.

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I can sort of see why they’ve done it on Gauntlet. Some people may prefer not to do dirt races in S1 but it does allow those of us who are comfortable doing so to use S1 class Rally Monsters. Obviously it won’t be any sort of actual race but at least we will get done more quickly.

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@ziperrPL this feels like a challenge for you…

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What is the point in this? FH4 managed throughout the playlist to have decent prizes for championships, either returning exclusives or relatively high value cars. A 20,000 car prize, which can’t even be converted to cash, is a complete waste of a prize slot. There’s plenty of former exclusives now - please can the devs be told to start using them.

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I presume the reason is because this car is needed for the Weekly Event, although I agree it feels a waste, and not really a lot of incentive to run the championship if you have already grabbed the prize cars this week. They should at least have the option to swop it for a super wheelspin.

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I’d understand if it was an Autoshow only Alpine, but then again there’s an achievement for buying 400 cars and these poor prizes kind of undermine it.

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Sure, and as a one-off that might be fine (if unnecessary as no one is going to have a problem getting a 20,000 credit Autoshow car) but it’s a consistent theme. They might as well give no prizes for the championships at all and that would be leas irritating than having to go and delete the pointless Autoshow cars which we’ve “won”.

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Can I at least make it in D500?

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What if prizes weren’t tied to the weekly chorelist. What if instead a new set of rewards were added to a shop which could be purchased via points. Giving you the player the choice on what you wanted to purchase.

What if these points were obtainable by playing all facets of the game, not just the weekly chorelist. Again giving you the player the choice of how you wanted to accumulate points.

What if the weekly shop wasn’t weekly but rather monthly where you the player had ample time to unlock those rewards you care about.

Big brain theory.

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We can all revamp the system completely to be better. PGG seem to insist on making an already flawed system worse. Just think of the easy things that are worse in the playlist compared to FH4:

  • Consistent use of cheap Autoshow cars as prizes;

  • No backstage passes;

  • No ability for players to choose the difficulty level for championships.

That’s without even going into the banal waste of time which they’ve made the trial by dumbing down the AI to an extent it’s near impossible to lose.

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I don’t know much about the history of Forza but I did watch this 30 min video on the history of Forza . I can’t comment on how accurate it is but it does make sense and gives a good summary of the ups and downs and the overall direction both Motorsport and Horizon has taken over the years. It also reminds me of stuff that @TheGillesMuller has mentioned in the past.

On reflection it doesn’t really go into much detail about Horizon. It’s more focused on Motorsport. But there are similarities. Specifically when the focus is on graphics then gameplay suffers. That seems like FH5s issue. They have focused on autoscaling in the cloud, graphics etc, which is cool and all but this has resulted in sacrifices to the core gameplay and the map itself.

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Another easy trial this week, only 1 of the AI was anywhere near unbeatable, the rest just fell straight to the back and we did it in easily in 2 races. Enjoyed the EventLab though.

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Super7 is another wasted prize place. I think this week is the first time in almost 12 months where the car is an exclusive playlist car rather than a Wheelspin or an autoshow car.

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Trial was fun! Aside from the silly teammates it was easy, I used the WP Bronco

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I don’t think I’ve run the Gauntlet since the first couple of months after launch, forgot just how long it is. Especially not knowing the route, it’s going to be over 20 min.

The event lab brought my poor One S with SSD to a crawl a couple of times.

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I’m confused. Trial and Gauntlet championship are supposed to be multiclass?
In Trial I can only pick B class. And for Gauntlet car category is Rally Monsters and all of them start as S1 cars. Am I missing soemthing?

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And on top of that, next Tuesday’s daily is winning the Baja California Trail in a Classic Rally car, which is one of the routes in the championship. So a little synergy forethought would have moved that daily earlier in the playlist, or used a different route / type to avoid a redundant race. Or make people wait most of the week before doing the weekly challenge.