Series 9 Update from Playground Games:
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Welcome to the Forza Week in Review, where we’re getting ready for the next updates in both Forza Horizon 4 and Forza Motorsport 7, as well as prepping for the next edition of “Forza Monthly.” All of these various efforts arrive on Tuesday, May 7, which obviously makes that a busy day in the world of Forza. Tuesday will be here before you know it, so let’s recap this week and focus on what we’re excited about next week.
The Series 9 update for Forza Horizon 4 comes next week and Playground Games will be celebrating the launch with a live broadcast from PG HQ, starting at 10 a.m. Pacific. Make sure you tune in for the show on the Forza Mixer and Twitch channels and get ready for jam-packed hour of news and fun with the PG crew.
Airing directly after the Series 9 Stream from Playground Games, we’ll be diving deep into topics from all over the Forza universe. We’ll be joined by members of the Turn 10 publishing team to talk about the Series 9 update for Forza Horizon 4, followed by a look at what’s happening in Forza Motorsport 7 with members of the Forza Race Regulations dev team. In addition, we’ll be diving into “process of concept” at Turn 10 with design director Chris Esaki and art director Scott Lee, giving viewers insight into how the Motorsport team approaches the all-important “concept” phase of development.
https://support.forzamotorsport.net/hc/en-us/articles/360022749713-FH4-Release-Notes-May-7th-2019
FH4 Release Notes: May 7th, 2019
We’re constantly working to improve the experience in Forza Horizon 4. Below you will find a summary of items fixed or improved upon in this content update.
Version Number
New Features
New Story – THE CAR FILES
New Online Mode – CUSTOM ADVENTURE
New Showcase Remix – NIGHT FLIGHT
Cross Platform Fixes
Fixed an issue which prevented Hats from appearing on the player character in open top vehicles
Fixed an issue where entering replays twice, would result in the player receiving no Credits or Influence
Added in a prompt when starting seasonal championships to ensure the correct difficulty is set to earn the top reward
Fixed an issue with the Koenigsegg Agera RS Audio becoming distorted after driving for an extended period of time
Fixed an issue where players were not able to see cars they had been awarded in their garage, only on event sign up
Fixed an issue where map slams for new activities would reset a player’s map filter settings
Fixed an issue where the Broadway Danger Sign PR Stunt wasn’t always activating or calculating distance properly
Fixed an issue where selecting a rivals event through My Rivals for an event on a different island would result in an infinite load
Fixed an issue in festival playlist where achieving exactly 80% wouldn’t show the Seasonal reward as achieved
Added more details to Map Pins for seasonal events, which will now show vehicle restrictions
Fixed an issue where players were unable to begin a Private Adventure in a convoy
Fixed an issue with the F150 Hoonitruck engine audio being incorrect
Various Stability improvements
Xbox-Specific Fixes
Fixed an issue that prevented the Treasure Hunt Location from spawning if the player had system notifications turned off.
Hopefully they continue the trend of porting great cars from FM7 to FH4 and show off expansion 2.
Series 9 car additions:
New to Forza: Apollo IE, Morris Traveller, Mini JCW Convertible, Mini Countryman’19, Mini JCW Buggy
Returning to Forza: Buick GSX, Maserati MC12 Corsa
Custom Adventure options:
Racing Series
Car Class (not all classes available due to matchmaking pool sizes)
Free Roam Rush (On/Off)
Collisions (On/Off)
Wallriding Fix:
Online only, and not applied to trees etc.
The amount of slowdown you get is related to the speed difference and advantage gained.
Contact before impact is detected with ghosting to avoid griefing.
Horizon Story: The Car Files:
This Story is included as a portion of the Monthly section of the Festival Playlist (proportional percentage)
This is a Business, so it earns ongoing CR income.
The theme of the story is insurance investigations.
“Getting 3 stars from each of these chapters will require you to think out of the box.”
Audio capture obstacles:
Logistics - need to organize getting the car to a locally rented airstrip during work hours.
At most they can capture 10 cars per day
Recording can really only be done in warm weather six months out of the year
Rain/spray interferes with audio capture
Mics cover exhaust, engine, internals, passenger side
WAV to granular synthesis uses frequencies
Agera volume fixed
Other:
Work continues on bodykits
Selling cars from Wheelspins being reviewed
PG is aware of the interest in Class-based Rivals
RetroKrystal’s summary:
Festival Playlist (VOD point: XX:XX:XX)
Showcase Remix – Night Flight
Cars
Overall 50% - Quartz Regalia
Overall 80% - Hotwheels BoneShaker
Summer 50% - Morris Traveller
Summer 80% - VW Type2 FE
Autumn 50% - MC12 Cosra ‘08
Autumn 80% - Peugeot 205 FE
Winter 50% - Mini Countryman
Winter 80% - LR Series III FE
Spring 50% - Buick GSX
Spring 80% - BMW M5 ’88 FE
Custom Adventure *Wallriding * (VOD point: XX:XX:XX) Horizon Story – Car Files * (VOD point: XX:XX:XX) Audio * (VOD point: XX:XX:XX) Finding cars
Recording the sound of cars
Video showing IRL recording the sounds & how they compare to in game
How we get cars into the game
Granular Synthesis process
Mix process for the cars
Length of time to record, edit & mix a single car
Updates & Fixes * (VOD point: XX:XX:XX) Added in a prompt when starting seasonal championships to ensure the correct difficulty is set to earn the top reward
Fixed an issue with the Koenigsegg Agera RS Audio becoming distorted after driving for an extended period of time
Fixed an issue with the F150 Hoonitruck engine audio being incorrect
Fixed an issue where players were not able to see cars they had been awarded in their garage, only on event sign up
Fixed an issue where map slams for new activities would reset a player’s map filter settings
Fixed an issue in festival playlist where achieving exactly 80% wouldn’t show the Seasonal reward as achieved
Added more details to Map Pins for seasonal events, which will now show vehicle restrictions
Fixed an issue where players were unable to begin a Private Adventure in a convoy
Fixed an issue that prevented the Treasure Hunt Location from spawning if the player had system notifications turned off.
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ManteoMax:
(snipped)New cars:
Morris Traveller
Mini JCW Convertible
Mini Countryman
'19, Mini JCW Buggy
Buick GSX
Apollo I.E.
Think you forgot one:
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Jonk you were 100% right when you said the dirty players will be in for a surprise. Hopefully i’ll see in some lobbies after this goes live
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A lot of good stuff for Series 9 and proof that they do listen to the community (thank you PG):
ManteoMax:
Other:
Work continues on bodykits
Selling cars from Wheelspins being reviewed
PG is aware of the interest in Class-based Rivals
They just showed the wall riding fix, and the video clips they used to demonstrate it didn’t show a single instance of wall riding. They really don’t even know what wall riding is. Unbelievable.
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Lots of complaints addressed. New round of them inbound
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Something tells me rammers, particularly those who missed the stream, are in for a surprise.
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Might be a nice surprise. If the ghosting is only triggered before heavy impacts you can stay right behind another car and hump it until it affects the driver enough for him to make a mistake so that you can overtake, and then he can’t pay you back slamming you into a wall. Also this may be a blockers paradise too, if they are able to block you by gently initiating contact, and then you can’t ram them in the next race to return the favor.
New Mini: good!
With Series 8 getting the car relatively easy, I thought that they “improve” the infamous Festival Playlist based on feedback from the community.
I’m a big fan of the Forza series and I love FH4, but I’m tired with the Festival Playlist. Clearly I hate this system.
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The wallride fix looks good to me! I wont know for sure until I try it but at least now I can stop skipping road lobbies. I’ll play in them all. No wallriding and smart ghosting when it comes to passing will be superb. I hadnt been playing much the last couple weeks but this might get me back consistently for a while
Smart ghosting system looks pretty good, but will see how wallriding will work because that they didint really show on stream, you get slow down when hitting wall but will that work when you actually try to wallride.
V12_SprungBoss:
Smart ghosting system looks pretty good, but will see how wallriding will work because that they didint really show on stream, you get slow down when hitting wall but will that work when you actually try to wallride.
I thought I saw a small clip where those trying to block you when you’re the quicker car, you will ghost through them as a way to keep them from blocking or slowing down your pace. That will be a HUGE help to those of us who try to be clean. The other thing that will be a massive help is you’ll ghost through collisions that dont directly involve you. How cool is that?? happy dance
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Ghosting will be extremely helpful in online races, like S2 trials cough Koeniggsegg cough , when people can’t handle the cars and end up ramming, intentional or otherwise, people off the track.
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I wanted that Apollo car, but I don’t use Gold.
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hst12
May 7, 2019, 7:14pm
17
Yep. That’s a shame, I’m on PC but couldn’t be bothered with multiplayer stuff most of the time.
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Lowe0
May 7, 2019, 7:31pm
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Yeah, I was interested in the Apollo, but multiplayer? Hard pass.
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No info on the next expansion.
And like someone said why arent all these cars available for purchase. Some one can win a z8, but it up for auction for in game currency. But y’all don’t want to sell it for $3. I Bought the car pass and wound up downloading around 2 of the cars a month. Now that the car pass is over they make the bmw z8, mb eclass, mb 180… all prize cars. What about ultimate edition owners. I play horizon maybe 3 hours a week now a days so I miss all of these…
the game is amazing with a g920 regardless. Thx
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YoungBumpy:
No info on the next expansion.
And like someone said why arent all these cars available for purchase. Some one can win a z8, but it up for auction for in game currency. But y’all don’t want to sell it for $3. I Bought the car pass and wound up downloading around 2 of the cars a month. Now that the car pass is over they make the bmw z8, mb eclass, mb 180… all prize cars. What about ultimate edition owners. I play horizon maybe 3 hours a week now a days so I miss all of these…
the game is amazing with a g920 regardless. Thx
They stated last week that there would be no information on the expansion.
BMW Z4, X-class, etc are all free content. Ultimate Edition owners, with the exception of the upcoming expansion, have gotten everything they paid for and as advertised, all other content from this point on is either going to be free or paid DLC.
3 hours a week is more than enough time to earn most of the prize cars. I reached 50% on the playlist in less than 2.
Either way someone will complain. They offer the cars for free people complain they have to work for it and can’t just get them in their garage. They make people pay for them and people will complain that they have to pay for them even though they have the Car Pass.
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