The Festival Playlist Event “Spoilt for Choice” has led me to attempt many, many, many times, (more than I can count) Horizon Open B and A class racing events over the last couple of days.
I would like to know if I should just give up, stop wasting a lot of time, and accept the fact that I will not get the 2 points.
I’m using an Xbox Series X with standard controller, have researched online and applied many tunes on supposedly good cars.
If I don’t miss a checkpoint, or get slowed down by wall contact (which unfortunately both happen quite often), I usually can finish around 5th. The odd time, it’s been 3rd and I got 2nd one time.
The winner has always been a very high XP individual, and there are usually more than one in each race.
I have absolutely no chance at coming close to their event times.
Here’s my questions as applied generally to the high XP winners;
Are they tuning wizards?
Are they extremely good at using the e-brake to make ridiculously fast turns?
Are they using wheels and pedals?
Other questions;
Is difficulty pre-set to non-abs braking?
Are there any days of the week or times where there’s a chance that average players like me won’t continuously encounter the high XP types?
I love the game, and am willing to just give up on Open Racing and these particular 2 points.
I can accept the fact that I’m just not good enough or can’t afford to spend the time.
I play with keyboard and automatic… and i always end up 1st or 2nd at most. You are definitely doing something really wrong.
The controller does not really give you a definitive advantaje. Its your driving skills and having luck to get a decent team (no cheaters and clean racers) what matters. And of course, the tune. If you are not a pro tuner, and you “tune” your cars yourself, maybe thats where the problem is.
But keep in mind, there are a lot of cheaters. If you see a guy boosting up without even a chance to catch him, probably he is cheating. Those are probably the only times i finished 2nd or 3rd.
You don’t need to complete all seasonal challenges to unlock all cars so my advice is skip it.
The problem with online racing is that there is no match making. All players of various skill level are thrown together in the same race. Couple that with the fact they removed ranked racing which means more experienced players are forced to race against newbies. It’s a terrible terrible design but long story short no one cares.
If you really want to win though…
Drive meta cars, I e. Boneshaker in a-class road
Find the meta tune. There are tune lists online.
Learn how to drive with traction/stability control off. You will drive faster around corners.
Learn the tracks until they all become second nature to you.
This is all good advice and I’m willing to follow it even though my 53 year old fibres don’t twitch as fast as they used to,
what makes it unplayable for me though is that no matter what, every time I’m leading someone rams me full speed into a wall or out of a checkpoint.
Furthermore I’ve tried to persevere and do several races in a row, every time after the fifth race it goes to night and I have no lights, thus making it impossible to anticipate corners and be competitive,
so back to square one, I can’t really see how any one can find this game mode enjoyable in it’s current state.
This is indeed a bad experience. While you cannot completely avoid it, you can do a couple of things to minimize the impact. If there are lots of cars around you (first couple of corners), go on the inside of the corner, a little wider on entry, very tight on exit. Wider on entry reduces the chance to get rammed out of the checkpoint, tight on exit increases room between you and the outside wall. The wall you don’t want to get pinned on by another car.
Overall, you cannot control the behavior of the other players, only your own. It’s OK to feel bad about it, but this will not make it more enjoyable for you. I find it fun to race clean, at least against other human players. I don’t have to win, although I like it a lot if that happens. And since I started to concentrate more on my driving line than on my anger about the behavior of others, the problems nearly went away completely.
I’ve recorded eight consecutive trail runs of Eye-of-the-Tiger on YouTube. The 911 FE was used for this in almost stock condition (well, pre-tuned by PPG), I’ve only changed the rims (looks) and lowered the tire pressure a notch. Even traction control was switched on, and the automatic gearbox was used. Driving fast is mostly about control and the driving line.
The most fun race was this one: https://youtu.be/xxVSVG93ATE. Even though I came in 2nd, the duel with 1st place was clean and enjoyable.
I know, this is not an instant recipe for success. Like everything, you have to practice a lot before being good. There are no shortcuts.
I’m an average driver (60 years old) and usually come near the end of most open races especially in S1 and S2 class. I spent about an hour on this one and won a street race in a A800 class Bone Shaker. I was lucky and started first on the grid. Managed to hold everyone off but it was a very close thing. You sort of need to be patient and go through the rounds as sometimes there can only be a couple of people in the first race.
You should be able to do it by doing a Horizon open teams playground games event. Might take a few goes to do it though.
I’m actually a much better drifter and most of my open wins have come from this. Again, just being patient and going through a few rounds you can often end up with only a couple of people. Then much easier to win. I recall doing 3 rounds last week with just 2 of us. The other person was new so it was 3 easy wins.
This seems like the absolute most unfair challenge theyv’e ever put out (excluding the bugged ones). I’ve completed the game, got most accolades, completed every other challenge in the first 3 seasons of FH5, but this… nah… not giong to happen because you’re pitting the average joe like me against some random hardcore player… there’s absolutely no way I’m going to win. As far as I’m concerned, this is a truly impossible challenge card. This isn’t “fun”, this is a completely foul move to play at the end of a season, once again showing how little PGG care about anyone trying to play a game for actual fun.
Unless I’m misreading this thread, the OP wants help to get the 2 points on this weeks Open Challenge “Spoilt for Choice”… The best bet to get this knocked out and earn those 2 points… avoid the stupid, buggy, near-impossible Open racing, and simply work on winning one of the rounds in team king, flag, or infected.
It doesn’t matter if your team sucks - in fact, thats even better cause you dont need to win the event as a team, you just need to do the best at one of those events as part of that team.
Basically I personally feel ‘Team King’ is easiest… grab the ‘Brocky’ offroader, tune to anything A800 to meet the event requirement, (I used a random tune with rally tires) then just try to grab the crown and drive around avoiding people, if you get hit, grab the crown again, just try to be the one of your team holding the crown longest…
Again, doesn’t matter if you team is made up of smurfs - you just need to win 1 round yourself…
It’s true, all I really care about is the 2 points. I’m perfect so far this series, and this 2 points is going to screw that up.
I’ll try all of your suggestions. Never thought to try S1 or S2 races because I just thought they would be even harder.
As far as playground games go, I really don’t like them. They take way too long to complete, and way to long to set up,… and of course, I suck at them, LOL.
And the open racing takes too long to set up as well.
All in all, it’s a real hassle for an average player just looking for a “points getting” dopamine fix to lose out on a perfect series score because of how big a PITA this Playlist Event is.
They are harder. Way harder. The guy who said the opposite has no clue. Unless you are pretty good driver you should avoid S2, and maybe S1 to an extend. Many S1 races are “easy”, but not a single S2.
For the horizon tour, you only need to worry about other teammates, and driving in an s2 car trying to actually be first and worrying about your teammates can be a pure pain.
I think S1 Dirt and Cross Country are your best shot.
I personally love those but I read a lot of comments here from people that don’t. I also see a lot more people drop after race 1 than other race options.
It’s also a bit random, the best players can still be beaten as some random bit of debris will slow them.
This is what happens when a studio locks points/rewards behind every possible avenue of the game and forces the player to take part in things they don’t want to partake in.
But OP, you need to be on manual clutch otherwise you have no chance. You also need to become familiar with the build process of a car to make it more effective than most of the lobby and that doesn’t mean going straight to leaderboard meta. Those cars are PI exploited and often heavily power based and/or pertain to a certain track which 80% of the time you won’t be running on.
But mostly you need to put the time into facing actual players instead of playing solo and grinding a never ending playlist.
Unless you land in a race with a top top player no you don’t, me and anonymous are proving automatic can still keep up with all but the very best drivers in Rivals and neither of us have used power build cars once up to now.
I’ve done 2 S1 dirt lobbies in Open using the TVR Speed 12 and won every single race in both of them, won a B class CC comfortably in a Scout and 1 road + 1 street win both in A class using the F355.
I had a B dirt a couple of weeks ago where someone already at 3 prestige stars and level 100+ destroyed the entire field in a Ford F100, I haven’t been in another lobby aside from that where an opponent has been clearly faster than everyone else.
Manual is not a necessity for just 1 race win, know + get the best cars for each class + race type and then just plug away, anyone who’s a decent driver will eventually land in a race where either the opposition is poor, there aren’t many players or they start 1st/2nd and are able to make their starting advantage count, made even bigger if the best player starts 11th/12th and isn’t able to navigate through the field before the ghosting ends.
And then the game does you dirty anyway and gives your hard-fought win to the guy you beat because of packet loss or whatever horse-puckey Internet nonsense they say to hide the fact that their servers are hot garbage. As just happened to me.
lol, such nonsense. I use keyboard + automatic and i dont have any problems beating the vast majority of other players. Stop saying idiocities like “if you want to beat other players, you need to use a wheel, manual shifting,etc”. Its getting hilarious at this point. People who says nonsense like this are precisely the ones who are clueless and probably wont wint more than one or two races a day lol.
This is one of the weak points of FH series - since FH3 people can play on PC, where most players use keyboard. How are we supposed to win with players using controllers/wheels and clutch?? In FH5 You can turn on clutch even playing on keyboard, but it only messes up and not helps… The playing field should be equal, and the game is strongly biased toward console players with controllers. (Yes, I know i can use controller on PC, I bought one, two weeks later I still couldn’t win AI Highly skilled races, while on keyboard I can win Pro level with good tune…).
If you are good enough, then you can be equal to, or even better, than controller players despite using K+M. GrandmaDriving is a good example of this as they are seriously quick despite using K+M…I also used to regularly race with someone who used K+M and they were just as fast as me