Forza Horizon 4 |OT| Seasoned to Perfection

Malverde · Oct 30, 2018

disillusion386 said:
What setting do you have steering? Simulated or normal? Also, what inputs and which direction should I be steering? I'm having a hard time staying in control and usually end up spinning out or losing speed.

I use normal steering. As far as drifting, break or pull the e-brake (or both) and steer far left or far right, then counter steer in the opposite direction as needed to keep from spinning out. Fiddle the analog stick to find the right groove, it varies from car to car. All the while hitting the accelerator as needed to continue moving without moving too fast. If you are in manual you are able to control you speed better by redlining or allowing for more speed as needed. You may have to pull the e-break more than once if you speed/timing were off, and it is also needed if you want to go in a different direction.

Edit: It is similar to a fighting game where it is trial and error and a lot of practice. If you notice in the video I posted, there are no flags left and a lot of bricks are missing because of multiple spin outs and failures in different spots.

Teggy · Oct 30, 2018

Kind of tough to get a daredevil skill if there are literally no npc cars on the map. What on earth?

Malverde · Oct 30, 2018

Teggy said:
Kind of tough to get a daredevil skill if there are literally no npc cars on the map. What on earth?

Select solo mode and the cars will repopulate. It is somewhere in the mess of menus.

Trup1aya · Oct 30, 2018

Teggy said:
Kind of tough to get a daredevil skill if there are literally no npc cars on the map. What on earth?

I just flipped to solo mode, then went to the highway. you can get 10 daredevil skills in a single trip if you drive on the wrong side of the road.

Teggy · Oct 30, 2018

Trup1aya said:
I just flipped to solo mode, then went to the highway. you can get 10 daredevil skills in a single trip if you drive on the wrong side of the road.

Yeah, that's where I always go for them, there just weren't any cars...

I'll look up solo mode.

chrominance · Oct 31, 2018

I'll bet the biggest reason why so few people have the Forzathon Live achievement is because the game takes nearly every opportunity to silently boot you from Horizon Life sessions, and then takes forever to find new ones if you do happen to notice. When is Playground going to fix this? It's incredibly annoying and frustrating to be ready to join a Forzathon Live a few minutes before the hour and not be able to get in because the game spent all that time failing to connect.

Random aside: I wondered if maybe I just forgot how to drive my cherished RS200 in actual races, but a few people on Reddit are wondering if the latest update somehow introduced additional understeer. Anyone notice anything?

disillusion386 · Oct 31, 2018

DarthOrange said:
I use normal steering. As far as drifting, break or pull the e-brake (or both) and steer far left or far right, then counter steer in the opposite direction as needed to keep from spinning out. Fiddle the analog stick to find the right groove, it varies from car to car. All the while hitting the accelerator as needed to continue moving without moving too fast. If you are in manual you are able to control you speed better by redlining or allowing for more speed as needed. You may have to pull the e-break more than once if you speed/timing were off, and it is also needed if you want to go in a different direction.

Edit: It is similar to a fighting game where it is trial and error and a lot of practice. If you notice in the video I posted, there are no flags left and a lot of bricks are missing because of multiple spin outs and failures in different spots.

Awesome thanks. Yeah, I did 3 drift zones just now, and it took me 10-20 tries to get the 3 stars on each. It's tough to get a feel of the controls, but hopefully I'll get the hang of it sooner or later.

caff!!! · Oct 31, 2018

Some reset vinyls I whipped up quickly based off the night theme colors (search for creator rrszz)

Trup1aya · Oct 31, 2018

chrominance said:
I'll bet the biggest reason why so few people have the Forzathon Live achievement is because the game takes nearly every opportunity to silently boot you from Horizon Life sessions, and then takes forever to find new ones if you do happen to notice. When is Playground going to fix this? It's incredibly annoying and frustrating to be ready to join a Forzathon Live a few minutes before the hour and not be able to get in because the game spent all that time failing to connect.

Random aside: I wondered if maybe I just forgot how to drive my cherished RS200 in actual races, but a few people on Reddit are wondering if the latest update somehow introduced additional understeer. Anyone notice anything?

I took my RS200 on an online adventure and was shocked at how trash I was. It felt like the controls are unresponsive... It felt like DOUBLE the response time. I assumed it was a bad connection, but I had to leave for work so I didn't get to try it in solo mode. I hope it was just a connection issue and not an update to the handling! That's my favorite car in the game.

Theorry · Oct 31, 2018

RetroKrystal · Oct 31, 2018

Theorry said:

Still not enough Peels.

RetroKrystal · Oct 31, 2018

chrominance said:
Like a livery specifically repping the forum, or an anything-goes contest that happens to be for Resetera people?

Either way I'd be down if I can think of a good idea!

There is one currently on the Motorosport forums for Forza Horizon 4. Both Livery and photography contest where you can win in-game credits/items/car prizes.

However if you do make a Resetera one, I'd love to check it out

noomi · Oct 31, 2018

Voryn said:
I was able to fix the static by changing the audio settings. The game doesn't like 44khz or something

Would you mind elaborating on this a bit? Is it just going into sound settings in Windows and changing the format to something else?

RetroKrystal · Oct 31, 2018

noomi said:
Would you mind elaborating on this a bit? Is it just going into sound settings in Windows and changing the format to something else?

Have you checked our troubleshooting articles on audio
However your question appears to specifically relate to the following article

noomi · Oct 31, 2018

RetroKrystal said:
Have you checked our troubleshooting articles on audio
However your question appears to specifically relate to the following article

I'll read this over and try it out tonight, thank you!

daninthemix · Oct 31, 2018

Can someone PLEASE tell me which upgrades most directly affect steering responsiveness? The 'handling' stat appears to have no relevance to steering whatsoever. I changed a couple of things on my XJ220 and now it steers like a boat, I don't know what caused it.

Theorry · Oct 31, 2018

I Don't Like · Oct 31, 2018

I just realized this has been happening to me since FH3 but every so often I'll open the game and it'll ask me if I want to use preset or custom graphics settings (PC version). If I hit preset it doesn't use my native resolution and only has AA at 2x so I always have to hit custom and max everything then wait for it to optimize. Kind of annoying.

chrominance · Oct 31, 2018

Theorry said:

Weird that they're already bringing back cars from previous Forzathon shop rotations, but I did miss out on that 911 so I'll allow it this once.

It doesn't bode that well for future Forzathon Live participation if they're already diluting rewards, though.

PlayALLTheGames said:
I just realized this has been happening to me since FH3 but every so often I'll open the game and it'll ask me if I want to use preset or custom graphics settings (PC version). If I hit preset it doesn't use my native resolution and only has AA at 2x so I always have to hit custom and max everything then wait for it to optimize. Kind of annoying.

This seems to happen every time the PC version updates, though I thought a previous patch at least managed to kill the prompt asking if you want to use a preset. I think the optimization has to happen no matter what.

daninthemix · Oct 31, 2018

How many showcase events are there in total?

Ramathevoice · Oct 31, 2018

chrominance said:
This seems to happen every time the PC version updates, though I thought a previous patch at least managed to kill the prompt asking if you want to use a preset. I think the optimization has to happen no matter what.

I had to go through the whole graphics settings rigmarole again this morning. Sick of having my settings reset.

daninthemix · Oct 31, 2018

Ramathevoice said:
I had to go through the whole graphics settings rigmarole again this morning. Sick of having my settings reset.

Is there any way at all to play offline, or are updates mandatory and is this essentially an always-online game?

marc^o^ · Oct 31, 2018

Tried HDR on PC for the 1st time with FH4, it's magnificient :)

KRaZyAmmo · Oct 31, 2018

daninthemix said:
How many showcase events are there in total?

5.

I noticed the cars in the polls are cars we've already had in previous forzathon shop.

Septic · Oct 31, 2018

Man imagine this game set in Japan.

Imagine the Wangan highway at night, mad races there then roads leading to mountains. Imagine races like these:

Drifting in the hills like in initial D, mad Tokyo races in car parks and the highways like Tokyo Drift, then leading from Tokyo to more rural areas for all the off-road hijinks.

I still think a story mode can be done well in this. The current format of just seeing a movie director or blogging enthusiast's ass as they chat to you isn't that effective.

Have carparks as the point where convoys mingle, perhaps get their drift sessions on there then go on a highway cruise/race etc.

Dzidza1978 · Oct 31, 2018

It took 7 attempts to connect to team ranked adventure, and 2 loaded but got disconnected!!!! So frustrating. 9nce i get the achievement, i wont set a foot in there :-(. Its so broken

chrominance · Oct 31, 2018

daninthemix said:
Is there any way at all to play offline, or are updates mandatory and is this essentially an always-online game?

You can definitely play offline in the game, but if you're asking whether you can ignore game updates and still play? I think the answer there is yes as well but I haven't tried it myself. The prompt that came up for me yesterday to update in the game seemed to allow me to continue without updating, so it might be possible in theory.

KRaZyAmmo · Oct 31, 2018

Are we all gonna decide on what car we're gonna have the livery contest on?

Shortt Sirket · Oct 31, 2018

Septic said:
Man imagine this game set in Japan.

Imagine the Wangan highway at night, mad races there then roads leading to mountains. Imagine races like these:

Drifting in the hills like in initial D, mad Tokyo races in car parks and the highways like Tokyo Drift, then leading from Tokyo to more rural areas for all the off-road hijinks.

I still think a story mode can be done well in this. The current format of just seeing a movie director or blogging enthusiast's ass as they chat to you isn't that effective.

Have carparks as the point where convoys mingle, perhaps get their drift sessions on there then go on a highway cruise/race etc.

Agreed completely man! Although what I really want is a new Tokyo Xtreme Racer but I would LOVE to see a Horizon game set in Japan.

I do enjoy getting my old Hot Version/Best Motoring DVDs out and then trying to recreate the awesome cars they used to have for their Touge Battles. Amazon actually has a lot of them on Prime also.

Calisupra2nr · Oct 31, 2018

Have they said anything about the barn find achievement being totally busted? I have had it stuck at 93% despite having all 15 barn finds..

marc^o^ · Oct 31, 2018

How am I supposed to get the sign that is on top of a church?

Ramathevoice · Oct 31, 2018

marc^o^ said:
How am I supposed to get the sign that is on top of a church?

Do some danger signs, eventually a ramp will spawn there.

marc^o^ · Oct 31, 2018

I see, thanks!

Deleted member 274 · Oct 31, 2018

marc^o^ said:
How am I supposed to get the sign that is on top of a church?

There are some annoying ways, but the easiest one is continuing to do danger signs until a ramp unlocks/appears near that church, then it becomes super easy

Deleted member 22750 · Oct 31, 2018

my elite controller just snapped while I was racing. WOW

the top right bumper broke when I went to change camera angle.

Captain of Outer Space · Oct 31, 2018

It's hard to get these Daredevil bonuses for the Forzathon when there are no cars on the road in the open world. It feels like a dead game with nothing going on in it.

Tap In · Oct 31, 2018

Captain of Outer Space said:
It's hard to get these Daredevil bonuses for the Forzathon when there are no cars on the road in the open world. It feels like a dead game with nothing going on in it.

Yep I had to switch to solo to get it

PyroPaperPlanes · Oct 31, 2018

How has the checkpoint glitch not been fixed yet?? I've had two races in a row where my car flipped upside down (while in first place if we wish to apply salt here), and I had to just sit there and take the loss.

I really want to love this game, but similarly to Rainbow Six Siege, god damn these bugs are just turning me off the game entirely.

Trup1aya · Nov 1, 2018

Captain of Outer Space said:
It's hard to get these Daredevil bonuses for the Forzathon when there are no cars on the road in the open world. It feels like a dead game with nothing going on in it.

Switch to solo mode, drive on the highway in the wrong direction, You'll be done in 60 seconds.

King Picollo · Nov 1, 2018

The difference in traffic between solo and horizon life is ridiculous

RetroKrystal · Nov 1, 2018

PyroPaperPlanes said:
How has the checkpoint glitch not been fixed yet?? I've had two races in a row where my car flipped upside down (while in first place if we wish to apply salt here), and I had to just sit there and take the loss.

I really want to love this game, but similarly to Rainbow Six Siege, god damn these bugs are just turning me off the game entirely.

The team are currently looking into this issue relating to the ghosting and inability to reset

PyroPaperPlanes · Nov 1, 2018

RetroKrystal said:
The team are currently looking into this issue relating to the ghosting and inability to reset

I didn't realize you guys were following this forum! :O

Thanks for looking into it. Means a lot to hear from you too.

Fuhgeddit · Nov 1, 2018

New season out today, right?

RetroKrystal · Nov 1, 2018

PyroPaperPlanes said:
I didn't realize you guys were following this forum! :O

Thanks for looking into it. Means a lot to hear from you too.

I joined the team at the beginning of September and I've been lurking in the social media shadows for a while. However, about time I start respond and helping in any way I can.
Don't forget you can always check out our troubleshooting articles on the support website for help: https://support.forzamotorsport.net

Fuhgeddit said:
New season out today, right?

Yes, it should be changing to Autumn today!

Asian Oni · Nov 1, 2018

Forzathon Shop looks to be up a little bit early.

Fuhgeddit · Nov 1, 2018

Asian Oni said:
Forzathon Shop looks to be up a little bit early.

I'd probably buy that top, awesome!

RetroKrystal · Nov 1, 2018

Just letting you all know, we are aware that the car is showing Twin Mill and not Boneshaker. We're looking into this at the moment.

Asian Oni · Nov 1, 2018

So, looks like it's the wrong Hot Wheels car in the shop because without the Boneshaker available, we can't compete in one of the seasonal event.
EDIT: welp didn't refresh

chrominance · Nov 1, 2018

Wait, the Twin Mill is the Forzathon shop car? Didn't everyone and their dog win that last week in the retro supercars tournament?

EDIT: murdered by lack of refresh, never mind! Boneshaker it is!

RetroKrystal · Nov 1, 2018

It should now be fixed for you all!

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