Series 14 info: Donut Media and Rocket Bunny

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SERIES 14: DONUT MEDIA

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This series is the start of content involving https://www.youtube.com/c/DonutMediaTV

SEASONS

Seasons change each Thursday at 6:30am Pacific (UTC-8)
Season Dates
Summer Nov 10 - 17
Autumn Nov 17 - 24
Winter Nov 24 - Dec 1
Spring Dec 1 - 7

VIDEOS & ANNOUNCEMENTS

The Forza Monthly livestream on November 3rd previewed the new Donut Media Story as well as Rocket Bunny bodykits:

Our blog covers the features coming this series:

NEW CARS

Series 14 adds four cars to the roster as exclusive seasonal rewards through the Festival Playlist, including the #NewToForza Lynk & Co. race car:
Festival Playlist
2020 Lynk & Co #62 Cyan Racing 03 Summer
1965 Morris Mini-Traveller Autumn
1946 Ford Super Deluxe Station Wagon Winter
1953 Morris Minor Series II Traveler Spring

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NEW CONTENT

NEW STORY: DONUT MEDIA @ HORIZON

James and Nolan take you on a series of challenges that test your car building and driving skills on the Donut Media Test Track, built exclusively for this Horizon Story. Here you can upgrade and test drive cars with the goal of transforming a Classic Muscle or Retro Sports Car into a Rally Machine! Complete the Story chapters to unlock Accolades and clothing rewards.

FESTIVAL PLAYLIST

Every week this series, Donut Media is serving up appropriately themed Seasonal Championships and Weekly Forzathon Challenges that are certain to be tasty. Look out for Pop Up Headlight races, Money Pip Miata races, HiLow Fairlady races, Up to Speed challenges and more! James and Nolan are also in the radio booth to update you on the latest Festival Playlist events as they become available, ensuring you don’t miss out on the fun. Look for smashable donuts as Collectibles and clothing and Forza LINK phrases as seasonal rewards.

NEW CLOTHING ITEMS

  • Donut Media Leaf Cap
  • Donut Media Grey Hoodie
  • Donut Media Black Jumper
  • Donut Media HRSPRS Relaxed Tee
  • Donut Media Black Cap
  • Donut Media Modern Race Helmet
  • Donut Media Black Bomber Jacket
  • Donut Media Yellow Relaxed Tee

NEW FORZA LINK PHRASES

  • “MO POWA BABY”
  • “POP UP, UP & DOWN, HEADLIGHTS”

ROCKET BUNNY WIDEBODY KITS

This update adds 21 Rocket Bunny kits to 20 cars in the game:

  • 1997 BMW M3
  • 2005 BMW M3
  • 1992 Honda NSX-R
  • 2003 Honda S2000
  • 2015 Lexus RC F
  • 1994 Mazda MX-5 Miata
  • 1997 Mazda RX-7 (features 2 Rocket Bunny widebody kits)
  • 1993 Nissan 240SX SE
  • 1969 Nissan Fairlady Z 432
  • 2003 Nissan Fairlady Z
  • 1992 Nissan Silvia CLUB K’s
  • 1994 Nissan Silvia K’s
  • 1998 Nissan Silvia K’s Aero
  • 2000 Nissan Silvia Spec-R
  • 1993 Nissan Skyline GT-R V-Spec
  • 2015 Porsche Cayman GTS
  • 2013 Subaru BRZ
  • 2013 Toyota 86
  • 1992 Volkswagen Golf GTI 16v Mk2
  • 2014 Volkswagen Golf R

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NEW FEATURES

Notable additions and changes with this update:

  • New resolution scaling options for NVIDIA DLSS Super Resolution, NVIDIA DLAA and AMD FSR 2.2, as well as enhanced DirectX Raytracing pre-sets for PC players have been added. We have more details on these features and how they work below.
  • Cars are now sorted Alphabetically in the “Car Type” section when players are browsing their Garage in the “My Cars” interface.

DLSS, FSR AND DXR FOR PC

Boost your Forza Horizon 5 framerates on PC whilst maximising image quality by enabling NVIDIA DLSS Super Resolution or AMD FSR 2.2. These resolution upscaling techniques can construct a 4K rendered image from a 1080p frame buffer, allowing higher performance at higher resolutions.NVIDIA DLSS Super Resolution is available on all NVIDIA RTX graphics cards, while AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 2.2 can be used on all PC graphics cards including AMD, NVIDIA and Intel. We’ve also incorporated NVIDIA DLAA, which uses AI-powered technology to anti-alias a native resolution image at high quality.

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RELEASE NOTES AND BUG FIXES

The content update for Series 14 is available starting 8am Pacific time November 8th. See Forza Support for a list of bug fixes and notes:

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They seem to be highlighting the Mitsubishi Starion in this month’s Forza Monthly teaser image for some reason.
However, this car is already in the game and appears to have nothing to do with Donut Media either.
Why on earth would the Starion be chosen?

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Could it be because it’s getting one of those Rocket Bunny kits?

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Perhaps it will not.
They have never made a body kit for Starion, including one-offs.
If a new wide body kit were to be added to this car, it would most likely be the body kit that John Lazorack’s Conquest has, but again, this car is in no way affiliated with Donut Media/Rocket Bunny.

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Could it be a Chrysler Conquest? :joy: (I think three different US auto makers sold it under the same name, just with different badges.)

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Well its not to far out of place. Donut media has a show called wheelhouse where its basically cars that are rebadged… so i dont disagree with you

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Tune in now:

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I’m five minutes into this, and already I feel like this could have been an e-mail.

EDIT: So, the Horizon story is a glorified Tuning tutorial. Awesome. >_>

Also, it says nothing good about your choice of partnerships when your partner says that he’s no longer allowed to drive because he totaled the last car he drove.

EDIT 2: …OK, I want to see the list of people who asked for not one, but TWO Morris Travelers. PGG absolutely has to be having a laugh at everyone’s expense now. This is just…shockingly bad.

EDIT 3: Here, let me save everyone the pain of having to watch this nonsense. The four new cars are:

Lynk and Co. 03 Touring Car
Ford Station Wagon with wood paneling
Two Morris Travelers

That’s your new series. Enjoy.

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Lynk & Co 03 TCR (?)
1965 Morris Mini-Traveller (from FH4)
1946 Ford Super Deluxe Station Wagon (from FH4)
1953 Morris Minor Series II Traveler (from FH4)

Whoa, that’s even more disappointing list of new cars than in the previous series… And no cool nostalgic events to make up for it this time…

I really hope we can expect car-heavy Series 15 update.

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Two series in a row with all recycled cars, no big wishlist cars, and the game has been out for a year with no word of the second expansion.

what is pgg doing?

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PG is the most ECO game maker, they give us only recycled trash content :smiling_face_with_tear:

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Yeah, I can’t believe this. They didn’t even bother adding the Donut Media cars. This is the worst Forza update I’ve ever seen. :man_facepalming:

The body kits will be nice (depending on which are added) but it’s pretty clear they’ve abandoned this game and this is just a PR stunt to keep whatever player base is left engaged.

If they’re only adding mostly recycled cars at this point, other priorities are clearly taking over (like Fable I would guess). Yes, I’m aware of different teams possibly working on different games but clearly their staff resources are limited for Horizon 5 (if not, they’ve certainly fooled me).

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This game is sooooo dead lol Worst Horizon game by far

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I’m ok with recycled cars if they were good and stuff that’s been asked for. I’m questioning more and more if my next system will be an Xbox because I’ve enjoyed all forza titles since Motorsport 2. I’m considering going back to PlayStation for granturismo

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Actually trash update. Three recycled cars, which are are all D100 and not the cars we want to be recycled. And I’m sorry, if you don’t think Chinese manufacturers paid to get into Horizon rather than Playground paying them due to high fan demand, you are sadly mistaken, and I am putting that VERY politely.

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Playground really do be treating the monthly like a back garden bbq gathering and pretending the state of the game is not shambolic. This update is embarrassingly dire. The Donut update could have been cool, but kinda patronises everyone on tuning tips. They are losing their fans who were there from the very beginning.

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Do they seriously think people want a morris traveler or 1946 ford wagon where there are so many other cars cut from FH4 or new ones to be added, I would love to see a poll “do you want the Morris Traveler added to FH5 over other cars” I can’t imagine this excites more than 1% of the player base and already looking at these comments and angered a lot more.

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I think this is my tap-out moment. I’ve pushed through every one of the previous series holding out hope that this game’s about to turn a corner, but that is clearly not going to be the case. I just can’t with this stupid exercise in marketing anymore.

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I am glad they are coming back.
However, 3/4 of the playlist prize being these cars is too lopsided and I wish they had been included from launch in the first place.
And what is most disgusting is that these cars have absolutely nothing to do with Donut Media.
I think Horizon Road Trip would have been a more appropriate thematic update for these cars.

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I feel pretty ripped off with those cars. Not exciting.

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