Rimac was available as a 50% spring reward the first time it was offered. That should not have been hard. If you want/need to have every car in a Forza game you need to buy it day one and pay attention. It’s always kind of been like that. At least they offer them repeatedly usually within only a few months.
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Here is how I fix it. Instead of starting
1st-6 AI
7-12 players
Start 1st AI, 2nd player, 3rd AI etc. It is a much more balanced race then.
I really enjoyed the Trial this time, but the rubber-banding in the third race was crazy.
At one point I was way ahead of the drivatars (although in third overall, with two human players a good chunk ahead of me) to the point where they weren’t even in sight when I looked behind me. Then about five seconds later, two of them came screaming up and past me at a ridiculous speed; presumably rubber-banding to my teammates ahead of me. I was literally going top speed at that point (with a decent tune - the one from V12 SprungBoss on here) and they just both hurtled into the distance to catch up with 1st and 2nd place.
Thought I was in line for my first ever Trials podium finish, too! Alas.
(Still, we won 3-0, so good times!)
I actually completed “The Trial” first thing on Thursday, but figured I’d give another go with my revised “Ford GT4O”.
Anyhow, lost the first race while trying to help team mates overtake (blocking and ramming the AI) and went on to come 1st in the second race. During the final race, I was well in the lead with a couple of team mates well back, but in 2nd and 4th.
Then “You Have Been Disconnected” message pops up and I’m dumped back into freeroam.
When I tried to launch another trial, the countdown wouldn’t appear.
Any ongoing issues?
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Working fine for me, on the 5th consecutive of the night
Sometimes for me happend that also that countdown dont start but usually searching team second time fix the issue.
Network problem.
Precisely, it’s “ping kick” (kick if high ping with the server).
This can be extremely infuriating. (as the threshold for triggering is extremely sensitive, and it can even happen at really malapropos times… like right after winning an event and waiting to be rewarded)
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Well here we go again!!! Ferrari 488 Pista!!! A car that’s been highly requested for a long time your probably Hyped up to get your hands on that prancing horse… but…here comes the part no one likes and it’s 5 words. yep!!! You guessed it the trial a world of grieving, rage and drivers who need to get their #### together. Even tho I have no problems most of the time, I still hate the way some teammates don’t work together to get the main prize I either get rammed in a tree or someone just punts me in the back at high speed while I’m breaking to f### my race up!! I can already tell the Ferrari pista trial is one nobody is going to miss just remember to work together and succeed trust me it’s not going to be easy with all those little rammers out there other than that good luck and be a good sport 
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Why have Playground Games locked the 488 Pista behind the stupid Trial event? This is the THIRD UPDATE in a row in which a new exclusive car has been locked behind an online seasonal, as if they hadn’t already locked enough exclusive cars behind online events!
Yes, I am fully aware that the Pista will be offered again in a future update, but surely it would have been better to reward the Pista for completing 50% of the Summer season instead of useless driver gear being the reward for 50% summer? Why didn’t they do that instead?
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Another thread moaning about the trial?
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I don’t mind about the cars being earned through Trial - even as someone who isn’t great in that mode.
I’m just a bit bored of the supercars by this point.
I’d have loved a Rally Classics Through The Ages sort of Trial:
Subaru Impreza
Toyota Celica
Lancer Evo
Audi Quattro
Ford Escort RS (or maybe a Cosworth?)
With a cool classic Rally-spec Celica (ready for some enterprising sort to have the classic Castrol livery ready to go on the creative hub, of course!) as the prize.
I want to see a bit more uniqueness in the car offerings for the Trial, rather than “Supercar #3934” - I know you get others sprinkled through the other seasonals, but I feel like the Trials have a leaning towards the fancy-pants ones. 
Edit: Just to say, I appreciate the most recent Trial was exactly the sort of thing I was asking for. I just want more of that - more unique/interesting/quirky feeling stuff with genuine themes beyond “look at the shiny shiny!”
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I’ve run the trials many times, often 10-20 and I don’t see ramming to the extent repeatedly claimed.
Sure the start can be scrappy if you just pin the throttle and pray while trying to overtake everyone on the first corner but with a bit of thought, throttle control and car positioning you can squeeze though. You can’t win the race on the first corner but you can lose it.
What I do see is players being very optimistic when braking and when overtaking near checkpoints or tight sections of track.
What you see the other players doing on screen is disconnected from what’s actually happening by 100-200ms due to lag so you have to drive defensively and give yourself space.
I only discovered horizon about 18 months ago, played through horizon 1, some hot wheels in H3 and the 5 months of H4 at launch.
Coming back to it after 6 months absence through summer and I have little issue beating the trial AI in a base tuned AWD car. It might take a few goes to learn the circuit but then it’s fine. I’ve had some great door handle to door handle races with other players.
You can’t change how others drive but you can change how you drive. All we need is for more players to score a few points and the success rate would be much higher.
As for locking cars, there are plenty of cars to drive, I really don’t get the ‘must have every car now’ attitude of entitlement. Horizon gives you choices on how you play and offers rewards based mostly on participation with a few for skill where those who have or do make more effort can get something earlier.
You can hit 50% pretty quickly especially if you use a rally supercar like the mosler tune to X class in the events so that’s barely a challenge.
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Protip: Paint your car blue. It helps your teammates know which side you’re on.
Honestly I wouldn’t mind the trials if the Forza playerbase wasn’t lousy with egotistical idiots. There are so many people who would rather the entire team loses then to have you pass them, no matter how terrible of a driver they are. And then you have the people who show up in stock cars all the time. Really? You’re just expecting me to carry you?
I once had a teammate attempt to corner bomb me, miss, then rage quit even though we were guaranteed at that point to get the end prize. The average Forza player is bafflingly, mind-bogglingly stupid and angry.
When you get a team that actually tries to win, it can be a pretty fun event, even if some of them are bad drivers.
I guess the game provides them with an outlet for their frustrations. Probably the same people in real life who drive inches from your bumper.
Surely you’re not speaking ill of People’s Glorious Social Experiences, comrade?
I’m just clarifying a point in all honestly I love trials because they are easy plus I know mostly every track in H4 my favorite one was the Ford vs Ferrari trial just recently!! The only thing I’m saying is to work together as a team, not bad to squeeze in a reminder but overall trials are very fun plus I like it on how the cars are exclusive I just don’t like dirty players that’s all because I know when a player does things on accident.
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I agree with most of what you have said. I’m very new to Forza - only been playin a few months. But I have been deliberately rammed in some trials., pushed so hard you miss the check points etc. Especially if I’m first in front of other “blue” members. it seems they all want to win and don’t understand it is a team effort. But then on Sunday I had an excellent experience and blue team finished 1st - 6th in the first 2 races. I had a 4th and 5th and didn’t see any point in over taking the ones in front of me and the those behind me didn’t do that either. we simply kept our places and won. The last race was tougher but it didn’t matter by then.
I have no issues with trials unless it’s worth the faster vehicles. I’m looking at you, S2. Trials can be fun with S1, A, and B classes. I tend to not rage at my teammates when the slower vehicles are used because it seems like a lower chance of getting rammed and missing checkpoints.
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Remember blocking the opposition drivatars is just as important as someone from your team winning the race there’s no need to challenge your own team members that are in front of you…
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