HORIZON HOLIDAYS (Series 15)
The Horizon Holidays are coming to Mexico as Forza Horizon 5 celebrates the festive season with the new Festival Playlist series beginning on Thursday, December 8.
SEASONS
Seasons change each Thursday at 6:30am Pacific (UTC-7)
| Season | Dates |
|---|---|
| Summer | December 8 - 15 |
| Autumn | December 15 - 22 |
| Winter | December 22 - 29 |
| Spring | December 29 - January 5 |
VIDEO & BLOG ANNOUNCEMENTS
Our December Forza Monthly and Let’s GO! livestreams showed off the seasonal Festival Playlist and car content - watch the replays available at www.Forza.net/Videos
Read our News blog for details on the new cars and content:
NEW CARS
| Model | Availability |
|---|---|
| 2022 CUPRA UrbanRebel Racing Concept | Autoshow; Gifted to everyone who plays FH5 during the Series, redeem by Jan. 5 |
| 1971 AMC Javelin AMX | Summer Festival Playlist reward |
| 1958 Plymouth Fury | Autumn Festival Playlist reward |
| 2013 Cadillac XTS Limousine | Winter Festival Playlist reward |
| 1970 AMC Rebel ‘The Machine’ | Spring Festival Playlist reward |
| 2020 Lamborghini Sián Roadster | mystery unlock! |
NEW CONTENT & FEATURES
HORIZON WONDERLAND & FESTIVAL PLAYLIST
Visit the Horizon Wonderland in Mulegé, a holiday-themed marketplace where you can access the Forzathon Shop and enjoy the festive makeover. Be sure to look out for a large gift box by the church, as that means you have a present to collect.
You’ll also find holiday decorations across Mexico including Christmas trees, lights and candy canes, as well as Snowman collectibles, which are now more plentiful compared to last year. We’ve even hidden some at Player Houses. Find them to complete the weekly Photo Challenges.
Don’t forget to visit the Ice Rink Stadium! The Horizon Stadium is fully transformed for the holidays with an icy playground to slide around with your friends and festive decorations.
SECRET SANTA
Secret Santa returns to Forza Horizon 5! We’ve tweaked and adjusted how it works based on your feedback from last year, so you’ll find it easier to unlock that snazzy top-tier car and who knows, if you give enough gifts then the holiday season may well start before you expect it!
Available until January 5, 2023, Secret Santa is a special Horizon Holidays event that challenges the entire community to cooperate and share the festive joy by sending gifts to each other. Gifts can be sent through the Forzathon Shop and using the Gift Drop feature. While only one car from the Forzathon Shop can be gifted per week, you can gift as many cars as desired through Gift Drops.
Every gift sent contributes to the progression bar which includes two unmissable rewards, so don’t miss out! Once the community reaches the points threshold, the reward will be immediately sent out and can be redeemed through the in-game Message Center.
FORZATHON SHOP SALES
- Christmas Day Sale: Dec. 24 - Dec. 26
- New Years’s Sale: Dec. 31 - Jan. 2
CLOTHING
For those who missed them last year, we’re bringing back these festive themed items throughout the Horizon Holidays:
- Snowman Outfit
- Sad Snowperson Head
- Happy Snowperson Head
- Gingerbread Outfit
- Santa Outfit
- Elf Outfit
- Elf Hat
- Holiday Sweater
- Santa Hat
- Red Nose
- Reindeer Antlers
CAR HORNS
- Jingle Bells
- Sleigh Bells
- Merry Christmas
- HoHoHo
- Deck the Halls
MUSIC
You’ll also find another opportunity to unlock the song “Language” by Porter Robinson for your Horizon Mixtape radio dial. There will be opportunities to unlock the other previously released 10-Year Anniversary songs in the future, stay tuned.
SERIES 16 INCLUDED IN THE UPDATE
The Horizon Holidays will seamlessly lead into the next series, #FORDzathon with no new update to download. This means that you will see unreleased content from the next series before it’s officially available to unlock in-game. This can happen from time to time when we combine update files to allow us to stay ahead of schedule with bringing you future series updates.
We’ll share more details about these cars, including the unlock criteria, in our #FORDzathon blog on January 5, 2023.
- 2020 MG #20 MG6 XPower
- 2021 MG MG6 XPower
- 2010 Renault Clio R.S.
- 2016 Renault Clio R.S. 16 Concept
- 2010 Renault Megane RS 250
RELEASE NOTES AND FEATURE CHANGES
The content update is available to install as of 10am PT on December 6. Here are some of the most notable changes:
- We have introduced support for Japanese and Traditional Chinese VO. You can switch to any of the available VO pre-sets under “Language Select” in the Settings menu.
- An EventLab build point has been added to the Horizon Stadium.
- Accolades tasking players to use Vinyls would previously not be unlocked as usage would not increment your progress. This has now been fixed.
- The Tuning Setup and Livery applied to a car before the creation of a Super7 event will now be reflected in the published Challenge Card as intended.
- Any tuning adjustments made to your selected car in Donut Media Chapter 2 now persists onto later chapters.
- Previously the stat tracking for areas discovered would increase beyond the total number of findable areas in the game. This has been fixed.
- We’ve fixed the issue which caused liveries to be misaligned when a widebody kit is applied to the 1992 Honda NSX-R.
- Players can now paint the roof of the 2010 Forsberg Racing Toyota Gumout 2JZ Camry Stock Car.
See the bug fix list in the FH5 Troubleshooting section of the forums and at Forza Support.
