I’ll be building precisely nothing. Too busy racing, exploring and generally mucking around.
Might visit what others build though.
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Or, just download your favorite estate and use it:
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Based on what i’ve seen, the estate is pretty much a flat surface. Hate to brake it to you, but elevation changes aren’t really possible in EventLab. Simply because you’re not able to generate landmass. You can make a pretend hill but it will never look right or fit correctly around the roads. And speaking of roads..
You could do twisty roads but without the landmass, it just feels like it’s floating up in the air. The only way i see this sort of work, is if you build it around existing landmass where it already has all the elevation. And so, you’re sort of able to mix and match to make it look like the roads actually belong to that area.
Just so everyone is on point that EventLab can be kind of a gimmicky feature and it definitely has some hard limits on how well you’re able to re-create certain things.
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Yeah it was and will be most useful as a way to use underutilized roads and routes.
That usefulness will go up with the ability to put a start point anywhere.
It’s a very cool tool to have, but I also hope it’s not as needed in 6. One of the many issues 5 had was how wildly underutilized the map was. There should have been at least twice the number of races there were, I don’t care how clustered that would have made the map look (as if that could be a bad thing).
I very much want these tools, as I’ve argued in other posts, and the estate specifically is neat, but in isolation, it has very little depth potential. I like the idea, I like that it’s in the game, but there is a danger if PGG has leaned too far into UGC where this game might come off as “build your own game” requiring weeks of work from the player in order to experience the potential of the game.
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This. There should’ve easily had been a hill climb route for the dirt side of the mountain as well as a descent down the asphalt side. The off-road stadium was criminally underutilized as well, and for a country known for the Baja 1000, there was frighteningly very little off-road racing through Baja California. Also, I wish races would include some of the dotted dirt paths. Those are much tighter than the standard dirt paths and would’ve added nice variety to the courses.
While I do like that EventLab allows players to create courses not confined to the base maps, I was also disappointed to see that not many players created courses utilizing the existing roads like in Horizon 4. There are easily several roads on Horizon 5’s map that never got attention by either the developers or the community that I wish had been included in a race.
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Well that brings to light another issue with eventlabs, finding and curating other’s creations. I understand that finding UGC… well there is no real way to make that palatable and flexible for the end user, at least not any way I can think of. But the curation proccess in 5 was just dumping into your list in a random order, with no filter or organizational tools whatsoever. So once you got past 20 eventlab creations saved, trying to interact with your curated list became a nightmare.
So there might have been creations that utilized those roads you wanted, but finding, curating, and replaying them was so nightmarish it wasn’t worth the effort.
A simple filing tree would have worked wonders in making eventlabs more usable for the players.
I also hope that if Custom Championships come back, eventlab creations (both your own and those created by others) can be woven into said championships. Which would make utilizing eventlab way more attractive and (feeding back into the thread’s topic) the estate as well.
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You could create a race-track with a bunch of elevation, but it’s gonna have to be it’s own thing, separate from the open world, otherwise it’ll be a bunch of road pieces floating around in the air. Not pretty.
They may have added more road pieces to the builder which you can instantly connect to one another, like in the Hot Wheels expansion. But if they haven’t, then you’re basically left with having to use the asphalt platforms. Which you have to learn to arrange very slowly and very carefully. And that’s honestly a skill of it’s own that not many people even posses. So prepare with patience. You could probably find tutorials on youtube.
You can also imagine having to glue a bunch of platforms together, doesn’t necessarily make for a very smooth track. Keep in mind. And then the result, well.. Only you can decide if it’s worth the hassle, as opposed to just downloading someone else’s Estate or alternatively building your track flat.
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Top gear race track might be a good idea to have, since it’s all flat. Or maybe you could create your own festival site? But then you wouldn’t have crowds..
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I am hopeful for the estate because if they do this right, it has the potential (for those who like it) to provide continuous customization and freedom. i.e.: building your own test track and a display garage for 20+ cars? would be very cool and meaningful for long term players i would think? My opinions obviously. I am excited for it, just hope they don’t restrict it or ruin the potential it could have.
As a side note i would assume they would also be thinking about content creators (youtube, tiktok etc) i have seen endless - garage, house tour videos on youtube and socials from the likes of GTA5, The crew 2 etc - it will definitely work in their advantage for exposure…
honestly first come first serve ideas or the warehouse from Tokyo drift with hopefully the ford excursion and a lot of wagons and following the vibe of japan and FH6
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I can’t speak to the estate, will have to see what functions/possibilities exist before making any plans there.
But the houses - definitely themed garages. 60’s American, Vintage racers, Offroad, Italian/German, etc.
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Yeah was thinking the same thing, just hoping its not limited to like 3 cars per garage…. should be more like a minimum of 6 working up to 20 if you buy a mansion?
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yeah or you could pay for more parking spaces or extend your lot by paying millions
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