I just improved a bit on that rivals course to 1:04.3, I see the top BS time is 1:01.3 though.
Well, if you come across a top 10 driver in a BS, Daytona or Sunny and you are not, you won’t have a chance ;}
The same would be true if I would encounter you online in one of my favourite cars.
Against the average - good player that is the common competition in Unranked above mentionend cars can hold their crown to some extent.
Meaning I haven’t seen a sub 1:05 in Unranked yet.
So Dodge Dart looks to be the only car that can beat the Boneshaker there (having waded through all the dodgy times).
Just tried the 360CS for the first time in FH5 and did a top 100 time on Ruta Norte (well 102nd but I’m not sure the top few are legit), with Rayne’s tune. Haven’t tried the BS on there yet but I’d be surprised if I can beat it.
That build could be certainly optimized by now. Found some better ARB and diff settings for AWD-swapped cars.
Hmm I was wrong, just tried and beat it by 2.5 seconds despite not reaching the same top speed on the final high speed section!
edit - and another 6 tenths for 36th.
Not only is it to OP for A class, now they are starting to take over S1 class too. Can’t join either of these classes now without seeing 3+ Bone Shakers. This thing needs to be addressed or both those classes will just be Bone Shaker Class 1 and Bone Shaker Class 2. You don’t even have to be a competent driver to win with Bone Shaker as it’s PI is way outta whack. In A Class it goes like a low S1 car and in S1 class it goes like a low S2 car. Devs, please address this before both classes are ruined more then they are now.
Boneshaker is good in a class but it’s not the best car. I dominate boneshakers in my Corvette 67.
Boneshaker is strong in s1 cc and rally. I’ve used a cc build in s1 rally and the power is insane but the trade off is I need to break insanely early and the corning is bad. I could see a good player in a different car beating me but hard to tell as 99% of players I race against seem like casuals or newbies.
It would be easy to fix, they LITERALLY just need to raise the stock PI, or raise the cost of all mods for it to 1.2x the PI, or a mixture of both. They literally don’t have to actually CHANGE anything about the cars performance, just a number displayed.
I also don’t have an issue with players actually using it, but an issue with it being so meta, and others using it to compete, and the game turning into “Bone Shaker online”. I have played with many people using that car, and I wouldn’t say my performance is much difference than when they aren’t using it, because a lot depends on the skill of the driver, however, it’s just silly seeing races full of bone shakers all the time.
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Bumping up the PI so it’s not longer able to be in A class would solve the problem as it is definitely underrated PI wise. This thing should be a 810 at least at stock PI.
No joke, I honestly thought I was in the Horizon 4 forums instead of FH5’s by accident when I read the title of this post…lol.
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seen someone using one in adventure the otherday. the dude was giving my mclaren f1 a run for my money and i was just ripping.
this has to be a troll car lol
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Rebalancing the PI of the car seems to me to be the better solution than banning the car. Or look at address the issue that causes the car to break the physics of the game and perform better than it should based on assessed handling value.
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Seriously, this thing is ruining A class, or should I say Bone Shaker class. I think it’s gone on long enough for devs too see it wins the majority of races it’s entered in and makes up the largest portion of top leaderboard times no matter if it’s road, street, dirt, or offroad. It’s PI is underrated and should not be in A class at all. Going up against one while driving anything else leaves you in a severe disadvantage.
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Haven’t seen a single one on my playtime surprisingly.
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One potential way to balance boneshakers is to bring them to a complete stop if the rear wheels touch walls or obstacles. There’s one vehicle in the game that I know of but can’t think of the name which behaves like this.
The Bone Shaker is perfectly suited to Forza Horizon. It’s the car that best exploits the physics Playground designed for the game: it’s light, has a powerful engine, and the rear tires are extremely wide compared to the fronts.
IMO it’s better to just penalize it with, say, 40 extra PI. But what’s the point if there’s no ranked?
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I agree I’d rather see the PI adjusted then see it banned. No need to take away options for people. Just because there is no ranked it doesn’t mean it’s ok to have an OP meme car.
Honestly never been beaten by a bone shaker. It’s nowhere near as strong as it was in H4 and think some of you are suffering from PTSD.
Beaten them in an RX7, M5, F355 and even a manx. As others have also pointed out, it’s unranked. Taking that off the table, it gives you freedom to explore all the cars you have rather the same 3 meta cars you had in H4.
There are many Bone Shakers out there with terrible drivers so they are not as big of an issue. The problem is, if the driver is halfway competent at driving, the rest of the field is at a severe disadvantage. Just because it’s not ranked doesn’t mean one car should have a significant advantage over others. It’s still racing which is a competition to see who can come out on top. If one vehicle has an advantage, it’s not much of a fair race.
Also, I’ve never played FH4 so not sure what the meta cars were.
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