Anyone have favorite areas of the map to use to build up skill points? I have only been able to play for about five hours so far, so not much exploring. I have used the quarry for a few minutes, but figure there are better locations.
Bouncing around the sand dunes at Bamburgh.
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Good one! I forgot that I did drive through there, but was not in a vehicle that handled them well and was headed somewhere. Seemed like not crashing there needs something with a wide wheelbase and low center of gravity. They seem more extreme than the FH3 dunes.
There’s a tree plantation that’s pretty good and I’m pretty sure I found a solar farm but cant remember where!!! also hteree one house you can buy that causes DJ’s to play skill songs so that helps as well…
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About where on the map is that plantation? Thanks
Doing donuts in the train yard, plenty of things to wreck and jump over as well.
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There was a farming area between the festival and the highway. Lots of opportunities for drifts and for sideswiping fences.
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Land Rover FE, either at the beach or causing havoc on the highway with destruction skills.
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I got that one on a wheel spin and love it! Might have to give that a try.
The airfield runway is an easy place to rack up a ton of points.
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Generally look for areas where Playground games take place - tight contained areas often with lots of destructible objects to hit to build up your skill chain
Quarry - lots of drops, ramps and barriers. Make use of drifting sideways as you go over drops to combine sideswipe, air, drift and you will trigger many more +1000 point bonuses.
Beach - near Bamburgh castle on the East coast - lots of jumps, bumps, tight corners on sand to go sliding around - just be careful not to wreck out on landing
Airport / runway - North East quarter of the map, South West of Edinburgh. Wide open space with loads of barriers around it and obstacles to knock on and around the runway.
Railway sidings - North / middle
Roman ruins - North West corner
Construction site - don’t have the game in front of me for location, but middle-ish near windfarms - lots of interweaving dirt tracks, jumps, banked corners and obstacles to hit.
Don’t overlook wide open fields as a source of skill points - learn to control drifts, sideswipe through objects, collect air, combine it with drift for Ebisu style bonuses (Great Air + Great Drift combined), wrecking bonuses for lots of objects hit in quick succession, wrecking ball bonus for alternating hitting objects with the right and left sides of your car. Even evasive actions like 180 turns and J turns can be used to avoid hitting objects but continuing the skill chain.
Some cars will have extra benefits such as boosting the rewards from drifting, sideswipes, destruction - some through Forza Edition specials, others through their car masteries.
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That was my favorite method in FH3. I set up a blueprint bucket list at the far end of the highway and just went back and forth on the rolling hills by the salt lakes. The southern point is the house where I would pick up a couple landscaping and then back north until I reached the patch of trees. I would pretty much just follow the transmission line, but about 50-75 west of it. Doing that for about 30 minutes would give me the same XP and CR as the bucket list driving fast against traffic on the highway, and with less accidents. I would love to find a similar patch, but not enough time to explore yet! Felt like crap after work yesterday and slept. Maybe tonight if wife doesn’t mind!
Get a car from the drift pack. I use the #777 Nissan 240sx. There is a small circle near the Horizon Festival. Drift round that to your hearts content and watch the point rack up. I’m not a drifter but still find it easy get Car Mastery skill points.
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I like the sand dunes by the beach. Luckily I snagged a Horizon Edition skill boost car and leveled it all the way up. The skill points in that car on that beach just piled up. You are no longer limited to 3 skill points per chain so you can just keep the chain going without stopping just because you know you have maxed that chain.
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Don Joewon Song has a good video on this topic on YouTube if you are curious. To summarize it: Airport with high powered drift cars (Hoonicorn, Drift Bonus FE cars, etc.)
I also like taking a Speed Skill Bonus FE Car on the highway and bank them up that way. Nice and simple.
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I don’t have a drift FE yet, but did his method for a few minutes last night with a destruction FE and with a skills FE. I was not racking up as quick as him, but not too bad. I also need to unlock that race he uses to quickly bank them. I wonder if doing that also resets the area? After a few passes, there was not much left for me to hit.
Moorhead Wind Farm is great, so much space, if you drive fast enough you permanently jump, do it in a car with air and drift bonus + extra skill FE bonus (Renault 5 Turbo FE) it also has 7x Multi, it’s the perfect skill point farm car.
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I picked up that one on a wheelspin last night. I am having a difficult time keeping it under control offroad though. I did every upgrade that seemed like it would help, but it even spins out of control going straight when offroad. Any tips or tune ideas?
I also found that the Standing Stones area going into Astmoor was decent for this kind of skill point building.
Using the race to bank the skill points doesn’t reset the area. That being said, there is quite a lot of stuff to hit in the area. Even a single cone is enough to get Sideswipe. You’ll want to take advantage of “Sideswipe” (Drift + Wreckage), “Landscaping” (destroying scenery), and “Road Open” (destroying the red temporary fences) to quickly get points.
As far as unlocking it goes, just advance a few Rounds in Drag Races and you’ll unlock it.
If you don’t have a Drift FE car (the BMW M6 FE is amazing), use something like the Hoonicorn then. Something that can get x7 Skill Multipliers. I highly recommend grabbing a Drift Tune from someone else, too, if you’re not comfortable or successful doing it yourself.
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It was probably down and back three times and I was noticing that there was less stuff around. I doubt it matters, but there were about six other people ghosted doing the same as me. I would think their scenery is set to them though. I at least didn’t notice something disappear due to another car. I was only stopping in as a test though as I still needed to finish the Summer Forzathon. I wonder if changing vehicles resets everything? Sort of a slow way if it does, but a thought.
I do have the Hoonicorn. I didn’t bother changing vehicles just to sort of proof of concept it. I later picked up the Skills Renault on a spin and stopped back by for a pass. It seems difficult to control so I might try out some tunes or dig into tuning it myself. It did a spin out a couple of times by just hitting a bump and zero steering from my part.