In previous Horizon games, both credit and XP rewards are shown after you cross the finish line as opposed to being shown as small pop ups in freeroam. Horizon 5 would only show you the results screen when you receive a wheelspin from levelling up or complete a seasonal event but only displays reward XP.
Unfortunately it looks like the reward pop ups have returned once again in FH6.
I dislike these tiny pop-ups so much, I wish there was a specific setting to just turn those off, but no other pop-ups. Or if they at least wouldn’t delay the event entry pop-ups, but instead work parallel.
You’re 100% right about the FH3 vibes. There was something so rewarding about physically ‘Expanding’ your festival sites and seeing the stages and lights actually move in.
I feel like FH4 took that ‘Festival’ energy and perfected the presentation with that massive curved LED screen at the main stage. In your photo [referencing the FH4 screen], you can see how it framed the car perfectly—it made you feel like a superstar on a televised stage.
It’s the one thing I really miss in FH5. Mexico is beautiful, but the rewards just feel like a menu overlay now. It’s too ‘clean’ and loses that hype of driving into a stadium-sized celebration.
Now that I’m on the new hardware for Horizon Japan, I’m really hoping they combine both: the physical festival growth of FH3 with the high-production ‘Big Screen’ spectacle of FH4. Imagine that curved screen setup but integrated into a neon Shibuya car meet background . That would be the dream."
This did so much to enhance the atmosphere in previous game. It’s a shame they removed this in FH5 and didn’t bring it back for FH6.
