Will there be public multiplayer lobbies or whatever horizon wants to call them for racing where the person who crosses the finish line first is the winner?
Pretty simple but the FAQs suggest racing “lobby” winners will be based on XP.
I’m ok with XP races if you’re just driving around in a casual manner. I know these races favor those who drift and whatnot.
It’s just not clear to me if the simplest form of racing exists in public multiplayer. Any help on this topic would be nice.
I’ve found other threads that discussed other issues like drifting favoritism in XP races and difficulty in finding public races for classes you like most. This topic is not about those issues.
I will be buying FH3 since I’m making a ton of money right now and this simple feature will determine if I buy the special editions or base copy. Thanks for help.
The person who crosses the finish line first is always the winner in Horizon MP races. There is also a separate XP championship running alongside races where those who don’t cross the line in the top can still accomplish something.
Race for glory? When the other guys XP Points for drifting puts them at the top of autotour event? Sry, as long as I don’t see my name at the top for winning the races I won’t get any satisfaction from it.
XP won by clean racing is pathetically low (which they stated in this thread is increased for FH3) and made those events really unbalanced.
As I stated before, I haven’t got that much experience in Autotours. The bad experience I had at the beginning made me race only in free roam searching for racers ( quite painful to find someone who is capable of going round a bend) or the Nice Showroom showdown races.
That’s not the case anymore. Very rarely in championships I play now does the person who wins or places well in every race not finish first in the championship. If you drift and get skills you won’t finish the race and you won’t be winning any championships.
Really? Isn’t it more like the case that hardcore FH2 racers are left in FH2 who don’t care for FM and Those race among themselves in the Autotour events. If now someone joins them, he’ll be probably less skilled and left behind.
I believe if someone who is skilled to drift in mind reaching the finish. He will win the overall autotour.
That said, I haven’t really played the autotour since I have bad experience with it. I did try it out once 4 weeks ago and what I described at the top was the case. It’s not a week long experience though
The “Clean Racing” XP bonus you get for driving clean between checkpoints during a race in Multiplayer (avoiding hard collisions with cars or the world) is basically double that of FH2, so if you’re into clean racing, you get rewarded for it even more than before.
As far as I know, it is similar to FH2 in the respect that the person with the most XP will win the championship. However, the balancing may be different and will hopefully cater slightly better to out and out racers who don’t want to slide around during a ‘race’.
Drifting or scoring XP points during the race had little to do with it. It was the race between the races and getting from one location to the other where people racked up points yet couldn’t do well in actual races. This is when I would go to the bathroom or grab something to drink and lose lots of points. Points I didn’t care about! I just played to win races and didn’t care about arbitrary XP points. My winning percentage and average finishing position shows in my stats but winning “arbitrary” xp points doesn’t. Plus you usually joined a road trip in progress which meant road trip champion was probably undoable. Plus if you got in a road trip that had a few guys from the same club the club bonus would bury you. So road trip champion was totally meaningless but winning races is always fun.
All I care about is being able to choose which class I play in online and won’t buy H3 if it is like H2 where you are forced to play a class you don’t want to play. There has been no clarification on this? So far it sounds like H2 which is horrible and something I refuse to pay for. If I want to go online and race in B class I don’t want to be jammed into an S2 group who have no idea how to control an S2 car.
I’ve only been playing FH3 for a couple week, and I’ve managed to get my level up to 220 or so in that time, so I’ve been playing a lot. The problem that I have is with the Championship races. I guess I’m just missing something. How are racers that win zero events, winning the championship? Today for example, I joined an online championship, and we chose a Asphalt Only Race. I won all 4 of the events, and not by a little, by a lot. After each event, I found myself in 4th or 5th position in the championship, with guys in front of me that didn’t even come close to winning the race. After the last race, the game must have felt guilty, and bumped me up to the second position in the championship, this after winning all 4 of the events. The guy in 1st place won none of the events, and wasn’t in contention from what I could tell.
Now, I know about HE cars (There were none in this championship, btw) , and clean racing bonuses, ect. I’m in a club, so I get points for that, but my question is…
What Am I Missing? How are guys winning championships with 10k-15k in points over a racer who won all 4 events. Is there a race voodoo doll that I must rub, to get these magical points? Someone please enlighten me…
If you spend the race drifting and stunting instead of coming first you can easily beat the racers. Pretty stupid idea for a racing game if you ask me but there we go. lol
Well that probably explains it…I was wondering why some of the so called “racers” were spending most of the race drifting instead of racing. That does seem a little dumb for a racing event…
