We finally got our own purchasable properties. We will have to see what that entails when more info is released. I wasn’t expecting the UK but I am hyped after this trailer!!!
From the website:
· Collect Over 450 Cars and Customize Your Horizon Life – With over 450 cars from more than 100 licensed manufacturers, Forza Horizon 4 features the largest and most diverse Horizon car roster yet with all the customization options Forza players love, like new Drift Suspension upgrades and driver personalization with character clothing, accessories and emotes. And for the first time in the Horizon series, players can own property that unlocks new items and gameplay perks.
How do you not know of the plans and decisions your own company makes? Honestly, is there that much of a disconnect between the guys at the top and bottom? A minor thing under discussion here in the grand scheme of the game, but still.
I don’t think they would be, as I believe they’re just used for collection as opposed to a GTA-style choosing houses and apartments (it’ll be basically like TDU2, everyone can buy the exact same houses), evidenced by the fact that there’s a progress bar for “Houses Owned”. You can use the AH for cars that you missed from events, can snag or deal on, or are painted and/or tuned by top painters and/or tuners, but the houses would be the exact same. They’ll just be used as a credit dump.*
*Obviously I have no more experience with this than anyone else here, but it’s a logical inference.
It’s a non-committal answer. That way he doesn’t say “yes” and risk backlash if it doesn’t work out, but he also doesn’t say “no” and lose credibility if it is added later.
This is a feature I’d like to know more about, specifically what the perks would actually be? Is it similar to the perks in FH3, just tied to a specific property? Or is it more thematic, like owning a garage gives you permanent price reductions on upgrade parts?
Them progress bars are a bit whack. Were they filling in gradually in the video? Good spotting either way! But it does make it seem like just another bar to fill, rather than personalisation. After a while we will all just own every house. I guess we are still not quite playing an MMO where our characters specialise. That said, tank, dps, and healer cars taking on huge bosses suddenly sounds quite interesting!
Re auction house, I wonder if that is one that we can buy lol.
A part of me really wants the auction house to be an actual auction house, as in you drive to a building where the auctions take place and the cars roll up and there’s some user interface with the highest bidder and some NPC talking about the car and our personal characters ‘bidding’ etc. However the other part does think this is something a bit tedious
