Horizon Edition Cars
If you’re very lucky, you might manage to find yourself with a Horizon Edition Car! These cars always come with a unique designs and special bonuses. The bonuses could a multiplier for certain skills, Credits or XP!
As for how to acquire them, you’ll have to figure that out on your own!
Online Adventure
In Online Adventure you will compete against other players in a series of races. Earn XP by racing fast, clean and with style. After all the races are completed, the player with the highest XP total wins. You can matchmake into Racing only (Collisions On or Off) or Games only through the Custom Adventure option, or choose Online Adventure, which is Racing and Games combined!
Online Freeroam
In Online Freeroam you can drive around Australia with your friends or anyone else online! You can complete Playground Games, Races, Bucket Lists and PR Stunts. Anyone can set up events they want and any players in the world are free to take part if they wish.
Co-op
Co-op allows up to four players to play through the campaign together. The leader selects the events, and the other players join them. All races become Team Races by default, the players versus the Drivatars. All events that are available in Horizon Solo are available in Co-op.
Private Sessions
All Online Game modes can be played in a Private Session. Simply select Private Session from the Social tab, and then game mode you wish to play. In these sessions you can choose who to play with by inviting your friends.
Car Meets
Car Meets take place at the Airstrip where you can check out other players’ cars. You can see their designs and tunes, and you can download them if you like them. You can also take part in a showdown, a drag race to the end of the airstrip. You can enter in any car you like, and the lower the PI of your car, the more of a head start you’ll receive!
Flag Rush
At the start of a Flag Rush game, flags will spawn around the map. Race over to one to pick it up. Drop it off at the designated capture zone to score points! Be careful though, if any other player crashes into you while you’re carrying a flag, they’ll steal it off of you!
Fans
Take part in Exhibitions, Championships and PR Stunts to earn Fans. The more popular your Festival is, the more locations you can build and expand. Having loads of Fans also unlocks Showcase events
Build
You can construct up to four Festival sites throughout Forza Horizon 3. You can build one site at the beginning of the game, and three more as you earn Fans
Championships
Once you’ve expanded your Festival sites sufficiently, Championships will start to become available. Every race event has a Championship at that location, if you’ve unlocked enough other races. These are a collection races you will participate in one at a time. You’ll score points for your position at the end of each. Have the most points at the end of the championship to win! You can also Blueprint championships just like Exhibitions, and customize the event to your heart’s desire. You need to have unlocked every route that is part of a championship to race in it, so don’t worry if you don’t have many championships to play yet, just keep expanding your Festival sites and soon you’ll have unlocked Championships galore.
Horizon Promo
Once you have unlocked it from the Skill Shop, you will be able to benefit from Horizon Promo! Every time you take a picture of a car you haven’t photographed before you’ll receive a Credit prize. See how many cars you can catch on camera!
Skill Song
Pay attention to the radio DJ, occasionally they will announce the beginning of a Skill Song. During the next song, you’ll earn double Skill Score for all your skills!
Skills and Perks
Drive with style and build up a Skill chain. The more Skills you perform in a row, the bigger your chain. Don’t crash or you’ll lose all your score! Avoid a collision to bank your score, once you have enough you will earn a Skill Point to spend in the Skill Shop. You can unlock loads of great perks, including instant cash prizes, drift score multipliers, or even the ability to fast travel anywhere!
Showcases
Showcases are special races which pit you in a one on one versus a whole different vehicle! They are huge spectacles and will draw huge crowds. Expect to draw in tons of Fans from these events.
Can i be so untrusting as to ask for a source?
But if this is legit, there are some real gems of info in here!
building and expansion of festival sites is a more logical way of progress through the map.
drag racing with a head start, this might be almost Bracket racing!
HE edition cars, skill songs not so much tho’
Does this mean we don’t HAVE to do roadtrips if we want to race online? Or does it mean you still gotta do roadtrips but you can chose if you want to do racing only or PG events only?
Provide a Source good sir.
Here’s the source from xbox live
Please be true! Flag rush sounds fun! You can “Build sites”?? skill songs, a perk store, horizon cars, official drag races?? wow lots of new stuff there. Kinda think the online roadtrips are gone bummer, loved those (single player ones can be gone forever!) lol if true anyway. looks good
This looks like the Help docs that come with each game. How did you stumble across such a complicated URL?
Somewhere on the Forza Horizon 3 page on the Xbox Store had been a link, I clicked it without the attention to and it looked interesting enough to get my attention:)
Thanks for sharing ! ^^
Thank god they made a race-only multiplayer mode. Online freeroams were great and all but they were always won by someone in an old muscle car drifting around every corner in last place every event. It was also extremely annoying being forced to play tag and king when all you wanted to do was race. This just made me a lot more excited for this game.
It still says the winner is the one with the highest XP and this sounds very much like the “drift winning” in FH2…hopefully it’s not.
Agreed. That’s partly why I didn’t buy FH2. If you’re racing to win, XP is irrelevant.
But maybe the custom adventure - race only option is the actual online racing on?
The write-up isn’t clear. I can see being interpreted both ways.
There is also the possibility, that they might have increased/adjusted the XP won through a race victory. This way in an Event (if we take Fh2 with its 4 races as an example) someone who has won all 4 races would get enough XP for a garanteed overall victory, which is not the case in FH2.
Wishes and hopes…
Aha, so that’s the “Publisher Info: Publisher Support” link. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/p/forza-horizon-3/bxvf69gtprmd
Thank you for compiling a list, was about to do that myself.
Now this sounds awesome: Game Help
Also from the live stream a couple of days ago, while he was going to select the 240sx the LB M4 had horizon edition in the name and in the bottom right corner you can see it says x2 skill points.
Yay street racing and underground.
the street/ underground has a very horizon 1 sounding feel to it, love it. Also, it seems like you unlock a lot more things than before. you do this to get that instead of everything being there besides radio stations and such. Need to earn more
“Online Adventure
In Online Adventure you will compete against other players in a series of races. Earn XP by racing fast, clean and with style. After all the races are completed, the player with the highest XP total wins. You can matchmake into Racing only (Collisions On or Off) or Games only through the Custom Adventure option, or choose Online Adventure, which is Racing and Games combined”
This sounds very similar to H2 except we can avoid the stupid games if we choose. My burning question is can we choose the class we join and race in? This choice for me is necessary. If it is another S2 or S1 or don’t bother I have no interest. If I am forced to race S2 cars against people who have no clue how to drive S2 cars I won’t enjoy this at all.