Now the server connectivity issue has been fixed, i thought i would see at least 6-7 people in an arcade session… however, it seems that people aren’t that interested in doing arcade. I see plenty of players around, but only 1-3 players are actually coming inside the arcade area…
If i remember correctly, this has been addressed by the devs in one of those devstreams, seeing how low FH4 forzathon participation rate and now arcade are more frequent and spread. You are supposed to be matchmaked with other people in other free roam session who are also doing the arcade event so that you are almost guaranteed to see 11 other players in any arcade event. Whatever the implementation right now, ot seems that it is not working as intended.
Same. I’ve had quite a few goes and yet to complete one and get full points. I’d almost suggest that they should go back to previous on the hour format. That way there’s more chance of finding other people interested.
I got REAL close to completing one where it gave random goals (like honk horn 3 times) during the timer… but it seemed like I was the only person scoring points amongst 2 players, the worst part was it would sometimes wait 15-30 seconds before giving me another command.
I would have completed it (it’s a weekly goal BTW) if it wasn’t for the slow request time. Probably wasted 2 minutes of the challenge. It’s just a junk mode, should have never made it to final release.
Lol yeah that game mode is designed to be played with more than 5 players at least. Sucks that the completion of an content is gated with pure luck (whether many people participating / none)
Near impossible… Yesterday it was possible; I woke up today to an in-game mail about how connection issues have been addressed with Horizon Online. The moment the arcade timer reaches 0, me and all my friends are now disconnected. I don’t think it’s fixed completely.
I saw the majority of people in reddit and steam having the same issue… I think PG need to address this… 800k early access players but never more than 2-3 players on the arcade.
Meanwhile, should anyone looking for a convoy to do these arcades, is there a discord/LFG sites that we can use?
I think it has more to do with the fact that Forzathon Shop isn’t online yet and FP is not important yet. I did one for the challenge and one for the sake of it but nothing to do with FP yet.
Agree on this. There isn’t really an incentive to play Arcade at the moment aside from completing the Playlist task or to see what it is.
When some of the HTF cars appear in the shop then I would expect to see more people playing.
100 per cent agree on scalability. This always annoyed me from FH4 for example on drift challenges. It really should be clever enough to adapt to the number of participants.
I got luck yesterday and managed to get into an event with another 8 or so players. We had a drift event, drift in a highlighted area, drift to the next area, do a drift zone. Turned out to be fairly easy to complete.
My issue with the events is that we don’t have enough warning they are happening, there is no scale based on participants (I had one where I was alone and had to get a 2m drift score!!) and also, the time limit has been reduced from 15 mins to 10 but it’s still 3 events?
Almost finished one and then my game crashed. Sticking to offline mode as I’ve yet to crash in offline. That is, I’ve yet to crash in offline after I managed to fix the constant crashes. Waiting for a patch before attempting again.
I’ve managed to do each one except the chaos one which seemingly has problems. Every mini mission gets completed, and it just hangs there a while even though everyone has completed the task. But I agree overall, requirements are a bit much due to the nature of how random people play.
I have participated in a couple of these events. The first one there was about 10 players inside the circle just before it started yet during the event there was only 3 of us. Fortunately we managed to complete it but only got 20pts each, The other event we didn’t manage to get past the 2nd round. I have noticed also that it’s now 10m not 15m to complete the events. There’s two events start at the same time, a drift event and a normal event which is strange
Also there’s no warning of either event starting which is odd as there was warnings in FH4.
The point requirements are insane! I did one today where you had to maintain 100MPH to score points. Unfortunately 1) I was below the bridge where there weren’t many straightaways, 2) I was the only person in the arcade, 3) I needed 350K to 400K points to get any FP. I got to 41K points with under 5 minutes left.
Also, what’s up with the Jump and Targets arcade? I drove in circles forever without seeing anything that resembled a jump or a target, even though I saw a few other players jumping off ramps?
This is an absolute pain because there is a seasonal playlist challenge what needs you to fully complete a horizon arcade event and it will be frustrating if I can’t complete it as I like to 100% things.
I tried FH5 for a little bit, and im sorry but im not even going to bother with it. I will keep playing FH4 until it dies for good.
Maybe many more people are also dissapointed. In fact, FH4 is still very much alive and i dont see too many people migrating to FH5, in fact, the opposite.