Think You're Fast in Forza? Think Again

For the record, if anyone DOES want a challenging GT style license system in FH5... GO DO HRA ITS COMMUNITY RUN AND APPLIES TO FIDA ELO AND IT'S AMAZING!! discord.gg/rdVc6kfzTU

Don't worry, Hoki. I-I didn't

I know i'm slow; I drive stock cars without tuning them because i'm working on my general driving skill; but it's always hilarious watching others fly off the track in online races 😂

I'd also like to see filters for assists like which transmission type people use, and especially filtering AWD power builds where RWD or FWD are expected.

In Forza Horizon 1 there was a progressive main story line, in-game charater Rivals that you really wanted to beat, bracelets. And tunning cars to a certain performance class was requiered. And also the famous outpost challenges that gived discount and were sometimes pretty hard and needed pactice to complete Am I alone to miss those things and would kind of want them back?

What I would believe would be a cool idea is to have for every track to have set medals. I thought you could do this like Trackmania. There is Gold Silver and Bronze and then also a much more difficult author time, which is an actual time from the creator of the track. Having these set times gives you a much better perspective if your lap times are good or not and would maybe bring players to grind for these medals

I could care less about being competitive on Forza Horizon 5 the only reason why I play the game is to have fun and exploration .

I am generally a casual player, mainly I dislike online racing in general due to being yeeted in to the walls one to many time to want to deal with other humans. I do like rivals though. I don’t really care about my leader board placement, but I get a clean track with 0 extra cars and I can go for hours just seeing how clean and fast I can get my personal best. The fact I also get exp and credits are a nice bonus as well. I don’t mind all the dirty or stupidly high times on the boards, but I would like to see cheated times removed on principle if for no other reason.

I do agree with one of your points, rivals lap times should be clean times only.

I consistently get times in the top 1000-2000, but even then I’m still slow especially when I race against some other people like you and your group (love watching your streams by the way).

Making goals harder to reach will inevitably put them out of reach for the players that can't find the time or willpower to master a game to the level required. It'll help those interested in being better drivers get more out of the game, and tying it into the narrative could be a brilliant way to set up the endgame, encouraging players to take pride in honing their skills. However, I wonder how controversial a take this might be. There is likely a sizeable contingent of players who, no matter what, will ask "why should I CARE if I'm slow".

Damn guess I’m skill issued

Hoki once again representing the competitive community better than any other youtuber. Such a good job linking competitive and truly fast players with a more casual audience who may be slightly ignorant of the true state of leaderboards and skill gaps in horizon.

Yes, GT style license systems, I agree this is something that would improve the quality of life in the game. The Community has it handled (sort of... we don't have a great way to teach racecraft sadly) with HRA, but it would be better if it was built into the game. Special rewards for all 3 stars/golds is a very GT reward system too that I agree with. Hopefully we can do that in the future with HRA, but oh boy that would be a heavy lift with the constant changes. All that said, great topic, great take, and please join us at HRA! ❤

A friend of mine is a seasoned sim racer (multiple hour races and so on). When he gave FH5 a try we decided to compete in rivals. We tuned a car together and when it was done he was sitting at top150 times and he basically beat me on most tracks but i gave him a run for his money. The one thing i noticed afterwards was that a huge amount of players are really bad at braking. If they improved this one skill there might be a lot more faster times.

I only classify a "good player" if there fast enough to get into teamwars or are nearly able to be in team wars, which must be the 0.2% or something of players

I wanted to rant about the conflict of splitting casual-competitive but honestly: thanks for making these videos for such a small title WITHOUT being polemic or toxic and wrapping up with on a good note. It shows you care about the lower end skilled players and appreciate them altough sacrificing qualities that you can only get in motorsport titles

Wouldn’t be an issue if laps from single player and private co-op weren’t sent to the leaderboard. Almost every single lap 1 is going to be flagged for collision, every lap 2 will be flagged for slipstreaming, and lap 3 is usually their only chance to get something clean. And then sprints are hopeless. Removing dirty times is a good idea.

I knew the leaderboard times weren’t an adequate gauge when I was able to set a time in the top 5% on all of them. That really shouldn’t be possible.

Going along with those rivals times, I have found that you are able to get top 200 or top 1% times with stock cars, and even some that are over 50 pi below the limit. I also believe that there should be a more clear way to get faster and better at the game, with better tuning guides and other resources from pgg to aid in this.