Here’s a thread to track incoming seasonal changes, events, exclusives, and new features.
THREAD UPDATE: Series 29
See the updated chronology in post #2.
For content update release notes, see the Support page.
FIRST TIME PLAYERS
For players starting the game for the first time, the first 4 to 5 hours is a prologue before you’re synchronized with the current world season:
Seasons will transition for everyone each week on Thursdays at 7:30am Pacific / 10:30am Eastern / 3:30pm British time. After a countdown and cutscene transition, the Horizon map will be updated with the new seasonal weather effects, new seasonal events (including seasonal Barn Finds), new weekly #Forzathon challenges and rewards, and new #Forzathon Shop cars/clothes/horns etc.
2018 LAUNCH SCHEDULE
Once you’re synchronized with the world, you’ll be in the current season:
Summer: September 27 - October 4
Autumn: October 4 - 11
Winter: October 11 - 18
Spring October 18 - 25
Daily #Forzathon challenges are in addition to the hourly #ForzathonLive online events; dailies can be done offline. The new Exclusive car for each season is offered to all players for free in the Forzathon Shop using the points earned from daily, weekly, and hourly Forzathon challenges. You can bank your Forzathon Points over weeks.
SUMMER (September 27 - October 4)
Events: 5 Summer season events | 1 new Trial event | 1 new Speed Trap challenge
#Forzathon: 7 new daily challenges | 1 new weekly challenge
Calculated schedule for 2018-2020 seasons and DLC: [Future dates are speculative; Playground Games has not confirmed an exact schedule beyond the current Series]
Free car additions (Forzathon Shop or event reward) are in italics followed by DLC cars (Car Pass etc).
Spring December 12: Lamborghini Diablo GTR / Reindeer Nose, Elf Hat, Santa Outfit (Forzathon Shop, annual exclusives)
SERIES 17 cu - December 17: The Eliminator
Eliminator Rewards: Toyota Supra (also Autoshow) / Renault Megane R26.R / Mercury Cougar Eliminator
Summer December 19: “Happy Holidays” Quickchat
Autumn December 26 Renault Clio V6 / Alpine A110 / “Happy New Year!”
Winter January 2: Renault Megane R.S. '18 / Renault Clio R.S. 16 Concept
Per Ralph Fulton in today’s livestream from Goodwood, the developers will use the timing on each four seasons as an in game “year” at which point additional content will come into the game. On October 25 we’ll see:
NEW FEATURE: ROUTE CREATOR
“For the first time in a Forza game create and share your own race routes. Plot a course anywhere around beautiful, historic Britain and race against other players and Drivatars.”
NEW STORY: BRITISH RACING GREEN
“Get behind the wheel of some of Britain’s greatest cars, to produce 10 episodes of the Horizon Festival’s motoring TV Series. From Aston Martin & McLaren to the Talbot Sunbeam & Mini, British Racing Green will take you through a century of British automotive excellence.”
NEW CLOTHING/HORNS: HALLOWEEN PARTY
“New Outfits, Clothing and props give you the perfect look for the Horizon Halloween Party! Announce your arrival at the party with 5 New Halloween themed car horns!”
NEW EVENTS/CONTENT SCHEDULE FOR THE NEXT FOUR HORIZON SEASONS
20 new seasonal events
4 new Trial events
4 new PR Stunt challenges
New #Forzathon challenges
3 new #Forzathon Exclusive cars
new #Forzathon shop items
8 new cars for Car Pass owners (4 weeks x 2 per week)
My Inner-Child was wondering and hoping that it would be winter from the 20th December through to the 27th I am bit blah but suppose its not a huge, huge deal, I would Preferred it tho lol.
On a side note to that, I am pleased to see the Ferrari 812 Superfast come very early on in FH4’s life and pleased it is too.
Thanks for posting, very cool info! I watched a bit of the Goodwood stream on YT last nite, good stuff.
Regarding Trial Events, I don’t recall reading anything about those. There was a brief mention of them in the Goodwood interview with Ralph, but I can’t find it. Can anybody explain a bit more about what Trials are? Thnx
I’m going to play the game a lot, but I don’t want to be concerned if I take a break from playing that I’m going to miss out on something that’s coming along. I have the ultimate edition so I’ll be playing a lot on Friday also I will have access to everything. Watching YouTubers play early it seems like the seasons come and go pretty fast. I do like that you can modify the seasons when setting up a race because I’m looking forward to racing in the winter and doing dirt races when it’s raining. I’m not to excited about getting clothes, emotes, horns, and dances in wheelspins though. I’d much prefer cash and cars. Any feedback would be great.
It would be nice if the weekly race updates stayed over into the next time it was that season.
Like say they add 3 new races in winter. At the moment those races will disappear & not return the next time winter hits. It would be nice if they were permanent. So say, they added 3 new one that winter, you’d then have 6 new winter races to do etc.
I don’t particularly like the idea of missing out on things, mainly races & events if i don’t/can’t play a certain week. It’d just be nice to know i can go back & still have all those events to complete.
I won 3 Street Scene races in a Retro Hot Hatch (Escort RS), & they didn’t add to the count as I won them. After winning 3 races, it didn’t count it at all. Is there an issue, or is there a hidden requirement? Anyone else had this issue?
Guess they changed their minds on the Ferrari 812 superfast hopefully it will come back eventually, but a Forza Edition car is a more than ample substitute.
