Will i be able to import my liveries i created in the Windows store version of Forza horizon 4, into a steam version of Forza Horizon 5 ??
ill gladly stay away from MS store TBH; since i have not been able to play my game for almost 2 years because it would not authenticate my game… But at the same time, i dont want to give up on my liveries and stickers …
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Hi KaOzed - see the official FH4 Steam FAQ on the Forza Support site:
“Your save file which includes progress and in game items on Steam is completely unique and separate from any pre-existing save file that’s associated with your Xbox Live gamertag, due to technical limitations. This includes user generated content like liveries, layer groups, blue prints, etc…”
https://support.forzamotorsport.net/hc/en-us/articles/1500003572322-Forza-Horizon-4-on-Steam-FAQ
Answer unrelated.
The question is about importing to Forza Horizon 5 and not about importing to Forza Horizon 4.
Can somone answer the original question?
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The answer is the same - Forza Horizon 5 on Steam does not support cross-save between Xbox and Steam.
Sadly the answer on FAQ is:
Which never came until this topic was created
Also, it’s sad to hear an answer like that, if not supported I was hoping for more serious reason.
An option to allow specific player tag to import liveries as their own is not what I consider cross-save and it wouldn’t even require cross-save. In the simplest way, it would be a simple feature which allowed creators to share their “source code” of liveries to trusted players. It’s sad that someone made a decision not to do it, I guess it was made that way so people do not migrate to Steam, it doesn’t require cross-save at all. The amount of problems of Microsoft Store I had both with FH3 and FH4 was so immense that I prefer anyway to write all my liveries to spreadsheets and recreate by hand.
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The entire importing mechanism for your own created content was developed and put in place years and years ago … before Steam was ever even a thing with regard to Forza games and indeed before Forza games were available on PC. And the way that it works has not changed since 2013 and the XBox One generation of Forza games began. The process and the decision to set it up that way has nothing at all to do with the Forza games’ recent addition to Steam as it was all already in place as it is now years earlier.
I’m glad I saw this thread then. I was seriously considering getting the game on Steam this time, but I have a lot of liveries and vinyls which I would have wanted to import.
I’m surprised it works that way, I would have thought once they were shared, they would be converted into whatever format the game uses and stored on Microsoft’s servers for ALL other players to use, regardless of what platform they are using? I mean I assume Steam players currently can use my liveries and ones created on an Xbox console right? Or not?
Yeah, me too, I might have bought steam as well.
My guess is that Max is mistaken and that he is mixing up cross-save with importing liveries from a previous title, which are different things. Perhaps he could investigate and confirm with the developers?
This could trip a lot of people up otherwise.
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What do you mean by authentication issues? Are you talking about the save sync that sometimes seems to not work when you load up the game? I had issues with this at one point. The solution was to load up the game, walk away for 15 to 30 minutes, and it would eventually work itself out.
Edit: I don’t get why people want to buy the stream version. It’s still an XML file downloaded from Microsoft servers either way. Steam just adds another DRM hoop to jump through. If this is about having all your games in one launcher, I HIGHLY recommend GoG Galaxy. It’s been so liberating to not be married to one store, and ever since switching I’ve come to realize that Steam is kind of terrible. The only reason I can think of to get the Steam version is if all of your friends are getting the Steam version, but even then I’d recommend your first option be to convince your friends to not get the Steam version.
For one thing, it’s cheaper on Steam. Another for me is that I have enough credit in my Steam wallet to buy it.
Steam’s install and update system works better than the Microsoft Store as well. Also the Steam version doesn’t use the snail-slow Xbox cloud system.
It sounds as if the Steam version has a major drawback with the liveries which hasn’t been explicitly spelled out officially (sadly this is what we’ve come to expect, they are very opaque and hard to extract info from). The reply here from a rep hasn’t been very clear, nor followed-up. Maybe it will be. But hardly anyone visits this forum, it should be on the Steam store page clearly.
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