I have seen a few Horizon players (and even some Motorsport players) complaining about the lack of endurance racing in Horizon Festival, let along long-hauling races that can be completed in more than tens of minutes. I get that not everyone like short races, and while there are in-game tools (such as Blueprints) that allows you to do those, they can be buggy in recent releases, and not many people are happy with these kinds of bugs.
As of such, I would like to suggest a new series idea of Horizon Festival, involving entirely around endurance racing on open roads. I like the endurance racing, just very dissatisfied with how they were implemented in recent Motorsport installments.
While Forza Motorsport has endurance racing in single-player career modes, why not Forza Horizon?
It should happen in the future DLCs of FH5, or even the base game of next Horizon, to give the Motorsport endurance players less of a bore in case Turn10 kills off Forza Motorsport series and leaving only the Forza Horizon series.
What is Horizon Endurance Festival?
A series of long-hauling, multiple-lap endurance racing series similar to the endurance races in Forza Motorsport series, only on open roads akin to real-life endurance road racing such as Mille Miglia, Targa Florio, Carrera Panamericana, and even Isle of Man TT.
How can Playground perfect the Horizon Endurance Festival, and the endurance racing formula for Forza Horizon series?
While endurance racing can have more than 10+ laps, itâs far from easy. Having gas stations as substitutes for pit stops donât actually solve the problem the Horizon Endurance players face.
Horizon Festival needs to build some actual pit stops depending on geography. A gas station can be used as a pit stop, but itâs far from enough capacity to deal with more than certain numbers of cars. Also, a good, long circuit is need for a Horizon Endurance Festival, each per season.
Cars in Horizon Endurance should be divided into different numbers of buckets (categories), much like real-life endurance racing did. They can be randomly arranged, but each car will only compete against others in the same bucket.
In general sense, many endurance racing are tarmac-only, so PG will follow the tarmac-only road-racing formula of them. No dirt and gravel rallying.
The AI opponents should be tweaked to certain levels that would compete with the players at equal levels. Right now, the current AI situation will make Horizon Endurance Festival a broken grind among the many Horizon Festival events.
Be themed. Certain Horizon Endurance event shall restrict to certain vehicle types, and there shall be numbers of total race distance depending on track lengths and such.
How many Horizon Endurance Festivals do we need?
For the Horizon Festival career mode, two or three endurance races per season or play. DLCs shall add more eventually in total. Some endurance races may not held in same time as other, and will disappear after certain rotations.
And as for themes:
- Mille Miglia-style lapped races, with total races of 1000Âąmiles spanning more than 20+ laps with less category restrictions.
- Super Endurance, restrict to supercars, GTs and track toys. 300 miles per race, and spans into tens of laps.
- Long-Haul Trucks, restrict to SUVs, pickup trucks. More than 250 miles, so tens of laps.
- Major Micros xxx-Miles: Restrict to small cars such as Peel P50, Subaru 360 and old Mini. Special edition cars like Hot-Wheels Beetle are allowed. If 100-mile races, then 10 laps of 10-mile track, or similar.
- Vintage Racing Endurance, restrict to classic cars dated 1980 or older. 40 laps of 25-mile tracks, or equivalent of it.
And for these Horizon Endurance Festival races, players can set the race length from Normal, Long to Super Long, with the latter two multiply the number of laps respectively. Nothing shorter than that.
Players can toggle the fuel, tire wear and damage on and off, like in most usual races.
Thatâs it. As of this writing, I have done getting most of these ideas so far. If you have any suggestions, post it below.
so true!