Winter #Forzathon Shop, Festival Playlist events and rewards through April 1

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WINTER | SERIES 33

Starts March 25 at 7:30am Pacific
Ends April 1 at 7:30am Pacific

This is the third season of Series 33.

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The RAESR Tachyon Speed is this week’s new exclusive reward car.

BARN FIND RUMOR: (Spoiler - repeat Winter find)

SUPER7 COMPLETION: 1974 Hoonigan Ford Bronco (previously available Exclusive model)

Forzathon SHOP

  • 600 FP Car: 1970 Honda S800 (previously available Exclusive model)
  • 350 FP Car: 1999 Lamborghini Diablo GTR (previously available Exclusive model)
  • Clothing: Chainmail Skirt
  • Clothing: Chainmail Tee
  • Wheelspins cost this series: 40 FP & 150 FP

FESTIVAL PLAYLIST

PHOTO CHALLENGE (3%)

#DIGGINGIT- Take a photo of any Rally Monster at the Quarry

  • Reward: Super Wheelspin
  • Share a scenic photo with the hashtag on social media for a chance for your photo to be featured by Forza.

Forzathon

Earn 100 FP from the weekly challenge plus 10 per Daily, plus Bonus for all, double for owning the Lake Lodge

Weekly Challenge: (15%)
Must be done in sequence to count.

  • Own and drive any Extreme Offroad vehicle
  • Complete 5 Cross Country Series Events in your Extreme Offroad vehicle
  • Earn a 2 star score or better in any Speed Zone in your Extreme Offroad vehicle
  • Earn 10 Ultimate Wreckage Skills in your Extreme Offroad vehicle

Daily Challenges: (1% each)
Each challenge is open for 72 hours from 7:30am Pacific of the start day.

  • Filter through traffic to earn 3 Threading the Needle Skills
  • Earn 4 stars in total from Drift Zones
  • Earn 3 Awesome Drafting Skills
  • Earn 1 Awesome Skill Chain
  • Earn 3 Ultimate Clean Racing Skills
  • Earn 2 Landscaping Skills
  • Earn 6 stars in total from PR Stunts

SEASONAL EVENTS

The unique reward listed for seasonal championship events requires you to place 1st against at or above the Highly Skilled Drivatar difficulty setting; the Trial requires Unbeatable difficulty. As of Series 24 Playground Games rewards the car for all participants, win or lose.

The Trial Co-Op Championship: “Ice Gauge” | Cross Country | (A800) Extreme Offroad

  • Reward: 1972 Ford Falcon XA GT-HO Forza Edition (previously available Exclusive model)

Showcase Remix | “Assault on the Control Room” | Halo Showcase

  • Reward: Super Wheelspin

Seasonal Playground Games | Mortimer Gardens | (C600) Classic Muscle

  • Reward: 1973 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am SD-455 (previously available Exclusive model)
  • As of Series 24 you don’t have to win the event to earn the reward.

PR Stunt: Rannoch Shelf Danger Sign

  • Reward: Super Wheelspin | 574.1 feet

PR Stunt: Copse Speed Trap | 182.0 mph

  • Reward: Super Wheelspin

PR Stunt: Carden Creag Speed Zone | 95.0 mph

  • Reward: Super Wheelspin

Championship: “Tip of the Iceberg” | Road Racing | (A800) Classic Racers

  • Reward: Maserati Tipo 61

Championship: “Getting Cold Street” | Street Scene | (A800) Modern Sports Cars

  • Reward: 2010 Audi TT RS Coupe (previously available Exclusive model)

Championship: “Cold Storage” | Dirt Racing | (D500) Vans and Utility

  • Reward: 2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT (previously available Exclusive model)

MONTHLY EVENTS

  • Monthly Rivals: RAESR Tachyon on Moorhead Wind Farm Circuit
  • Online Adventure: (requires 1 Qualifying race to get ranked)

Completing the monthly events applies their completion percentage to all four seasons in the Festival Playlist:
6% for Monthly Rivals
15% for Online Adventure Qualifying

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Any update notes?

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PG’s Extreme Offroad obsession back with a bang this week.

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Yep Offroad Overload. 2-0 up in the Trial and team winning the 3rd race and Disconnected :S

Silver lining, the two wins counted towards the weekly :smiley:

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Lightning strikes twice!!! Ah well 1 off the weekly now :slight_smile:

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Same here too, not made it to the 3rd race in both attempts.

Think I’ll do what I did last week, stick to 1 go a day and hope in one of them that I don’t get DC’ed, I enjoy the Trial but not enough to constantly have my time wasted through no fault of my own trying to play it.

The Rockstar F-150 was very good for the brief periods I got to use it though, even after getting caught up in carnage at the start of Arthur’s Seat I ended up winning by some distance.

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Just curious, what about it’s appearance this week for a Winter Trial makes it an obsession? It last appeared Spring, Series 32 for Playground Games at Mudkickers; just a few weeks difference, sure, but both uses strike me as more than appropriate. Beats the heck out of doing the same in say, S2 Hypercars, no?

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The Forzathon + Showcase ‘Remix’ are also Extreme Offroad, when there’s 33 car types in the game 3 of the weeklies sharing the same one is disappointing in my opinion.

Judging by Spring’s games reward being my choice for this week’s trial it’s there next week too, add to that it seemed like a while ago that we had several weeks in a row where at least 1 Extreme Offroad event was present.

Like I say there’s 33 car types and 8 events (7 if there’s no Showcase Remix) in a season where your car will be chosen to a degree by PG, in theory it would be possible for an entire series not to feature the same division more than once and that’s without Horizon Specials, decades, manufacturers etc.

I don’t think I’m being unreasonable thinking 3.03% of the available standard options taking up 37.5% of a week’s events or having it present for weeks in a row is a bit much.

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Ah, yes, I think I see what you’re getting at there. I never bother with either of those, myself. The remixes were always such a let down being just the one race that is almost entirely rigged in our favor, it’s hard to take seriously as a full-fledged event; at the very most it’s really just 1/3 of an event. The forzthon events I always look over/past as the dailies pretty much take care of themselves just by playing the game a bit, however, the more meaty 4-part challene side of it usually requires a considerable amount of time in some bo-bo vehicle I don’t care for. I hardly ever bother with either unless I find whatever remaining of the standard events and/or stunts standing in the way of 50% is so untenable that these things suddenly become more attractive. I guess my eyes just roll right by those, and I subconciously discount them from the start.

That said, I take your point and see your reasoning. Not trying to be sassy or anything, but I would push back just a little in the respect that what your calculation doesn’t take into account is the point I was trying to make about event appropriateness. While yes, there is a certain amount of combinations available, that doesn’t necessarily mean they’re all desirable. In some circumstances, some combination variables just make more sense together than others. As such, seeing Extreme Offroad in a muddy autumn playground games followed by a winter trial or xc set isn’t outrageous, rather it’s quite proper ― and certainly preferable to same in S2 Extreme Track Toys. Now, have there been excess use here or there? Perhaps. But by the same token, where you and others with the same non-offroad preferences may characterize this season’s offroading as PG ‘obsession,’ believe me there have been many stretches of consecutive weeks (2-3) where there was very little to interest those that do favor offroad, sometimes weeks with no dirt or xc at all. The point is, the knife cuts both ways.

But, to your point, frequency has been an issue in the past; whether due to lack of creativity or laziness, it’s unclear. Right off the top of my head I can recall B700 Modern Rally getting overused as well, three weeks in a row with two being playground weeks. That’s happened at least twice, I am sure. I guess I wouldn’t be surprised if that happened with other types as well.

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I think every division has always had it’s classes assigned from near the beginning of the game’s life for seasonal events even when they could have plenty of options within a different one (Modern Rally always B700 when A800 would be better and bring the Mitsubishi’s into play as good options, Cult Cars going no further than C Class, Vans + Utility only being either D500 or A800 etc), even just having a change there would add some variety.

At this stage in the game’s life I’d even be happy if we were given a championship with a particular class + just Anything Goes, so if it were A class for example you could use the AP if you want for an easy win but be just as able to jump in a hugely modified Taxi, the Limo or the Iron Knight (but even that would be dampened down a bit by the fact you’d likely just face a field of mostly TT’s + Focus’s like in most Anything Goes races).

I personally still miss the Community Championships, the unique tracks had more than enough variety on their own that it didn’t matter what car I was driving I’d still enjoy them hugely.

For the record though dirt events are actually my favourite, and I’ve come to appreciate them here in FH4 even more the past couple of weeks after starting Dirt 5.

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What kind of idiot would race any of those…?

walking away whistling innocently…

lol

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The new Batmobile sounds like a ghost in a Blizzard outside a castle. I think they used the sound effect from a Laurel and Hardy episode ‘Murder Case’ …lol…

“There’s somebody on the phone!”

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Winter again, yay :slight_smile:

So … lets just get into it, shall we.
The trial then and cross country racing with A 800 extreme offroad … trucks :slight_smile:
My started with only 3 drivers, one quit mid first race, so it should be an easy trial then, well nope, somedays everything simply just turns to poo, so first run and 6th for me and 8th for other person … hit a barn (had to reverse), hit all sorts of other stuff, hit highway arch concrete support (had to reverse from that one too), … didn’t hit the tunel and missed finish line though :stuck_out_tongue:
Anyway did better on next two races by winning them so yay 2:1 for us :slight_smile:
Truck/car used, taka a wild guess :slight_smile:
Ford F-150 Prerunner DD, tune - 795 974 100
or Jeep Wrangler DD, tune - 756 246 482
or Jeep Trailcat, tune - 877 210 367
Do wrap up warm for last two, coz no roof … :slight_smile:

So online aspect out of the way, time for solo stuff and starting with street scene A 800 modern sports car racing.
Didn’t really know if there is much snow on the road or not, took a gamble and picked a car with normal road tires and it was a correct one, as there is only a bit of snow on first track.
As there is Alfa Romeo among them, my choice was easy :slight_smile: A word of warning, she hates trackside furniture.
Alfa Romeo 4C, tune - 151 081 871
or Lotus Exige S, tune - 740 641 791
or Eagle Speedster, tune - 173 077 797 - same tip, to wrap up warm :slight_smile:

To next championship and some road racing, with A 800 classic racers, again a dilema about what tires to put on, first race on snow, rest on tarmac a gamble and picked … :slight_smile: Alfa Romeo TZ2 on road tires, surprised on snow grip it has.
Alfa Romeo, tune - 833 837 923
or Shelby Daytona, tune - 608 196 288
or barn find Ford GT40 MK1, tune - 259 527 044

Final championship and its dirt racing with D 500 vans and utility … hmm return of crazy Mini Traveler?
Morris Mini Traveller, tune - 113 152 826
or Ford Transit SuperSportVan, tune - 924 508 848

PR stunts and as usually used Koenigsegg Agera RS, tune - 167 849 655 for speed trap and danger sign, used Hooniogan Ford RS200, tune - 428 155 751 used for offroad speed zone. All done on first try, no rewinds.

Weekly Forzathon is to drive one of Extreme offroad trucks/cars, so just pick one of the options for the trial (I picked Ford), do few more cross country races (or do trial again :slight_smile: ), then pick an easy speed zone, my fav pick is Forest Green and finally cause loads of chaos - ultimate wreckage.

Weekly Super 7 reward is Hoonigan Bronco

Finishing pic

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Hope this can be of any help to somebody, take care everyone and have fun, bb

PS
Seems that tune share code thingey has been fixed.

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The trial and seasonal series races are all re-hashed from series 21, correct? They’re already showing complete for me even though I haven’t done them this week.

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Yep, copy of winter season 21. I remember that name “ice gauge” and using C600 muscle in PGG at Mortimer Gardens.
https://forums.forza.net/turn10_postst161898_Winter--Forzathon-Shop--Festival-Playlist-events-and-rewards-through-April-30.aspx

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Winter greetings,

For the solo championships I decided to started with the vans and utilities to get the lowest traction events knocked out. I seem to gravitate to the GMC Vandura. Fairly easy wins with a bit of drifting. For the other two championships I used snow tires on the builds. I chose the Cortina because it is one of the cheaper options and was fun in the past. Then a BRZ with the wide body kit sitting as low as possible. I probably lost out on a few hp but worth it. All won raced on unbeatable.

98 Supra cleared all of the stunts pretty easily but there was one tree that came out of nowhere.

Then the multiplayer, classic muscle games and the trial. Disconnected after the first games round and then lost 2 to 3. GTO ran well but I will probably run it again with a few more others. Tunes not saved yet.

GMC Vandura D500, seasonal race, 885 246 510
Cortina A800, snow dirt grip, 416 244 332
BRZ A800, Grip race, 966 368 300
98 Supra, Winter Rally, 609 842 300

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The Trial - So I was thinking of tuning up the Ranger for my run at Rivals (another thread) and saw that is qualified for the Trial as well. Awesome, get some test runs in. Turns out, the second race is even the same event. Upgraded, tuned, and set out to run. Ok, first, I need to adjust the steering. It steers like a cow. But aside from that, it’s pretty quick off the line and has a mean long stride to it. Decent upper end once you rescue it from the stock tune which is absolutely wretched. First race, got pushed into a barn, dead stop, still finished third. Second race took first. Third race, my favorite (insert sarcasm here) with that horrible pinch point beginning. Well by the first right-hander, I had made it up to fourth with the three AI right in front of me, then got Jedi-bounced under the gate. Still managed to make it back to fourth by the end. So I’m going to play with the steering settings a bit, and give it another go, but it has great potential. Runs well, good gains. I’ll add the tune when I’m done tweaking it.
2014 Ford Ranger T6 Rally

PGG - Saw Ritemare out in the wild. lol. Sadly, two events in, we were tied 1-1 and I got disconnected. Took til my third try to get all the way through. And then the other side dropped out/disco’d until they were down to 2 players. Has decent speed but stock tires make for a bit of a trick.
1977 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am

All events run on Unbeatable unless otherwise mentioned

Iceberg - I had one car already tuned that fit the event, so hey, let’s run. That broad stance, those wide tires, and plenty of launch. It made for the front of the pack with a quickness. Had a little controller issue on the first race but still took first. And it was an easy win for the remaining two. Smooth, responsive, and good braking even in Winter.
1964 Ford GT40 MK I Tune: Dirty Trial

Cold Street - Well, I’m glad the GT40 was tuned well, because my tune for this one was unimpressive. lol. I normally don’t like using the prize car as my entry but I wasn’t paying attention when I made my selection. Again, one qualifying tune already so let’s be lazy. Lackluster off the line. Turn in was fine, but understeer after the apex. Won the event but only took first once. If I’m inspired, I’ll revisit the tune and see where it needs adjustment.
2010 Audi TT RS Coupe

Cold Storage - Had a few ideas of what to run but decided to stick with the basic van. Keep to the spirit of the challenge, so to speak. It is D500 but it ran ok. Losing oomph going uphill but otherwise decent. Apparently though, the weight reduction involved dismantling the entire braking system. lol. Those hard 90-degree turns were brutal. Still took 1st throughout.
1983 GMC Vandura Tune: 370 371 558

PR Stunts - Ran each one with the RS200. Easily one of the most versatile vehicles in the game. I’m open to hear about any others. The jump took two tries but both the trap and zone made it in one run. Each, of course. lol Hey question: regarding the paint on the Hoon RS200…is there a way to get the matte / polish combo that is on the original paint? I wanted to recreate that, but I don’t see how. Just curious. Yes, there’s a whole section of the forum for that question, but I’m already here.
1986 Hoonigan Ford RS200

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I doubt it…I’ve done some Wrangler paint jobs and noticed the vinyl takes on the finish of the paint under it (which was a pleasant surprise for me since I got a matte tan top). But would mean not having two finishes on one panel on the RS200.

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Does anyone have a good tune for the suburu wrx sti 05 for the playlists speed zone
I Don`t have a rs200 so i was wondering if anyone had a good tune fro the speed zone because i couldn’t find any that worked.

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98 Supra works for cheap available from the autoshow, can have 1600hp. I posted my tune above. The Mustang S5 also works well if you have one. Basically max power, awd, rally springs and tires. I run it from the south and cut the corners by quite a bit.

Edit: I think my PB is actually from the north with a M6 FE. My Rally Forzathon tune is what I have been using recently and managed 103mph, 153 972 931