What is your favorite part of the map in FH5? Where do you like to hang out or race around?
I always hang around the Horizon Festival because of the drag strip and race track. The highway is close by too and you get a daily Wheelspin when you visit the Horizon Festival garage.
I like the abandoned airfield too but don’t go there much. I like the big jump there though.
Like you, I keep my home base at the Festival because of the highway proximity and the easy access to a gimme danger sign and speed trap for daily tasks. Honestly I think one of my favorite parts of the map is the Baja area on the west coast. The road circuit there is one of my favorites because it’s a high-speed flowing course that you can absolutely tear up in a powerful car, and there’s also the great Baja trail.
Stylistically, Copper Canyon.
I think the Hotwheels map, as a freeroam environment, is excellent. It’s a master class in putting a varying, undulating landscape into a small space and making it seem big. The view from above Mexico is well authored.
It’s the best freeroam environment in my view. It’s just a shame there’s nothing else to be done in that DLC bar have a big rummage around through the undergrowth. Even if they just repositioned and respawned some of the breakable elements/items/whatevers as a fresh new puzzle - that’d be something.
For me it is Mulegé.
I use Casa Bella as my house and kind of “reversed” Mulegé circuit as my testing course.
Probably would use Horizon Mexico Festival /circuit, but loud playing music is keeping me away usually.
I do miss some good speed zone, so I could “measure” my tune without going to any track. In FH4 I was using Bamburgh castle as my house and nearby speed zone for testing.
worth noting: rally DLC have really nice road layout with “canyon” part probably being my favorite.
I really like the historical areas of the FH5 map. These are done really nicely. I also really like the Rally DLC map with all its level changes, really well done. Hot wheels I’d probably like more if it wasn’t Hot Wheels. The map is nice and lots going on in the areas that aren’t Hot Wheels tracks, but I guess I just prefer more realistic elements in the game. Having said that I really loved the Lego Expansion in FH4, but that was more due to the oval and internal tracks. That was probably what I loved most in all of FH4, just wish they had something similar for FH5.
I tend to hover around the festival as well, because it’s my main base for upgrading and painting, and there’s easy access to a drag strip, drift zone, and purpose built race circuit to test my cars.
However, when I’m not there, you’ll find me in the Copper Canyon. They did a great job on this part of the map. The scenery is really beautiful and the road is just fantastic. Probably my favorite driving road in the game. The train running around is an added bonus. It’s also fun to shortcut through that little tunnel in a rally car.
The Playa Azul beach town and the roads around tiera prospera are nice and twisty. And there is a roundabout there where i sometimes drift around it. They’re mostly my go to. Also the big stretch of road outside the castle.
I rarely settle to one garage. Sometimes i make the castle home, sometimes its the playa azul house. But then when its night time i want visibilty so i jump to the main festival. Which is probably the place i least like on the entire map but its just convinient to use. Especially since i can test a car around the track or even if don’t enter inside the event i can just follow the route in freeroam and just circle around the festival.
On the Hot Wheels DLC its the jungle enviroment.
Hard to say. A lot of my favourite areas have been squeezed in order to make room for the far too big farmland and desert areas. I think only the Caldera gets it’s full due.
After thinking about it, I’m going to say the bottom right of the map, consisting of the rainforest, rivers, and swampland. It’s big enough to be considered a full biome, it’s got a good variety of street, dirt, and CC races (only one good road race though) and has plenty of untapped potential that can be utilized for EventLab creations.
It’s either that or the canyon run on the western edge of the RA map.
The two Caldera switchbacks are also fantastic, but woefully underutilized, especially the tarmac switchback.
I like the coastal sands and sunsets for the most part lol
My home base is Lugar Tranquilo. It’s convenient to the Playa Azul circuit, which is the highest payoff road circuit, and my home track for road racer tuning along with the Tierra Prospera circuit.
Over on the west side, that fish-hook shaped dirt speed zone Costa Rocosa marks the northeast corner of the desert area where I do my skill point grinding when my account gets low.
Event lab Island. Nuf said from me.
My favorite is the main festival. It is almost located perfectly in the middle. Everything is connected here. All roads lead to home, right?
Never mind.
I also sometimes spend time at the Baja festival. I love the sand dunes and especially the dirt race track.
I do a lot of tune testing on the Vulcan Sprint side of the Caldera, but my favorite road to drive is the Southern Ring. Start at Apex Festival Site, and head west along the south side of the map, can either cut down the HWY to split the map ring, or if I’m feeling saucy I’ll drive the whole ring around the outside of the map (including Copper Canyon). IIRC from the Bentley 100mi quest, it’s around 53 miles for the whole ring.
That southern jungle road from Tulum all the way to the airfield is really nice. Great corners, lots of fun to drive on.
+1
Yeah nice roads there. Some of the best Horizon has to offer. Not the S2-998 stuff…
On left side the Devils Pass but would be more fun at night streetrace…
Way too small the map without the DevilsPass there is only 4 or 5 asphalt tracks left