Summer Party (Series 23) | content update July 18

Series 23: Summer Party

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

News Blog: Drive Icons of Speed in Forza Horizon 5’s Summer Party
Release Notes: July 18, 2023
Forza Monthly video: Twitch | YouTube

  • 0:00 Starting Soon
    7:47 Welcome & Show Schedule Forza Motorsport
    8:57 Development focus for launch
    15:43 AI and Drivatars
    31:20 Tire Physics
    45:17 Wheel Gameplay Forza Horizon 5
    53:50 ‘Summer Party’ series update
    56:25 Festival Playlist
    1:03:35 2022 Toyota GR86
    1:07:08 Evolving world content changes
    1:16:25 EventLab of the Month
    1:19:42 ‘Icons of Speed’ Horizon Story
    1:23:00 2019 Hennessey Camaro Exorcist
    1:35:28 Bug fixes and updates
    1:31:35 ‘Italian Automotive’ teaser Forza Community
    1:32:32 Community Spotlight: ItsKodyB
    1:39:28 Official livery contest winners
    1:41:07 Community events
    1:50:15 Official photo contest winners

SEASONS

Seasons change each Thursday at 7:30am Pacific.

Season Dates
Summer July 20 - 27
Autumn July 27 - Aug 3
Winter Aug 3 - 10
Spring Aug 10 - 17

NEW CARS & FEATURES

The Summer Party adds 6 cars to the roster - five seasonal exclusives and one Story Accolade reward. The Hot Wheels Firebird, Toyota GR86, DeBerti Mustang, and Hennessey Camaro Exorcist are #NewToForza.

1973 Ford XB Falcon GT Summer Festival Playlist
1970 Hot Wheels Pontiac Firebird Trans Am Custom Autumn Festival Playlist
2022 Toyota GR86 Winter Festival Playlist
1973 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am SD-455 Spring Festival Playlist
2018 DeBerti Ford Mustang GT Series reward - 80 points
2019 Hennessey Camaro Exorcist Horizon Story reward: Icons of Speed

RELEASE NOTES & BUG FIXES

The content update was released at 10am PT on July 18th.
Version: *.600.803.0

If you experience any bugs related to this update, post in the FH5 Report New Issues section of the Troubleshooting Hub so we can track the votes (remember to vote on your own topic); crashing should be reported directly to Forza Support via ticket. To avoid crashing issues we always suggest closing the game and restarting your device. PC players should also read this article:

Notable fixes and changes:

  • 2021 Mercedes-AMG GT Black Series V12 engine swap price has been reduced to 75,000 CR.
  • Improvements for 2022 Pagani Huarya R – flaps now function as an air brake, paintable panels, fixed displacement stat displaying 0 when switching between stock and race engine block.
  • Removed invisible thumbnail for Alejandra’s Truck from appearing in Horizon Promo.
  • CUPRA Formentor year changed from 2021 to 2022

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So no clue to what’s coming for the Summer Party series update?

The “Coming Soon” tab on the Festival Playlist offers a few hints, indicating a new Horizon Story, Summer Party Makeover and new Collectible in addition to new cars. The details will be revealed on Monday!

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Preview? Is this like the Forza Monthly we got for the Donut update where they showed 3 cars and the rest of the content later, or are they revealing all of it on monday?

I dont understand whats the point of a new collectible when there are no accolates attatched to it. Its in the name but in practise its just something you smash to get points for the festival playlist and forget about it.

Like if i were to go to the accolates screen and then click on festival playlist there’s just no acknowledgement of any sorts that ive collected anything. Not even on the evolving world tab. So whats the point of this collectible if im not really collecting anything?

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Its the equivalent of an MMO saying “We put a few new lightposts around the city you can smash”

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I don’t get the point of accolades. You can’t do anything with them and they don’t do anything for you. Only thing they do is let you say “wow, I have more than you”. Poowho!

Checkboxes to check for checkbox checkers. Except for the ones that are basically impossible to do.
Examples:
Completionist and the vinyl group ones (prior to the fix last December)
The New Years Lantern one if you weren’t playing the first time they came around (despite people saying “lol it’s the Chinese New Year and then they still didn’t show up this year).

It’s fine. This is fine.

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Lipstick on a warthog is still just a warthog with lipstick. We’ll see what happens.

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I just hope to see the SLR Mclaren be added in this update. Will fit the vibe summer party quite well.

What other cars you think might be added…?

I don’t think the SLR will ever be added anymore, because for one you’d have to license both Mercedes and McLaren. Which is very expensive.

As for this theme, I suspect we could get new convertibles. I mean it can’t be summer without them, right?

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With a sound effect you can’t turn off, like the chopper in the Rally expansion? :laughing:

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Only 3 hours left before we find out.
If it is convertibles with working roofs (eg s2000 etc…)
I might actually jump back on the game as I’ve took a leave of absence since Christmas only trying the rally expansion for half hour due to being childish as the absence of any decent (and sometimes worrying and disappointing) updates caused me to spend time on this forum and not on the game :rofl:

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I hope they add the 2018 Honda Odyssey from FM7. It’s the perfect car to take your family on a summer holiday roadtrip

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on the last update it was written about convertibles… maybe AMG SL? and other functioning roofs. Still its strage that not even a single clue was posted. If alfa-fiat-lancia for some reason is announced now would be perfect. FOS just went and a lot of leaks time ago about beast of turin… if not i’ll just be happy with at least 4 new convertibles

Well things are not looking good for convertibles. We got a 1973 Firebird returning from FH4.

That’s not a good sign

Forza Monthly is live now, starting with Forza Motorsport news before the FH5 segment:

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Holy borefest, Batman!