Forza Horizon 5

[-Jamie-]

Looking forward to playing this via game pass on PC for £1, perfect [emoji106] If enjoy it and think I’ll play it after BF 2042 will get it purchased in Feb when my game pass runs out. Never played a Forza game before but always thought they where a kids arcade game but hoping I’m wrong as I’ve heard really good things about this!

Horizon definitely is the more arcade type game but this feels really good, Physics don't feel as arcadey as previous games


It's the first Horizon game that I'm really impressed with as well, Can see why it's getting high review scores

 

[Greeny.]

Horizon definitely is the more arcade type game but this feels really good, Physics don't feel as arcadey as previous games


It's the first Horizon game that I'm really impressed with as well, Can see why it's getting high review scores

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Looking forward to getting my hands on it tomorrow, as much as I like sims/part sims I do love a chilled out good looking and sounding racing game tbh.

 

[-Jamie-]

It's a good way to loose a bunch of time without playing anything serious. Just good fun

 

[Clart]

7.4l v8 TT GMC Jimmy

 

[Clart]

Drift starion

 

[jenic]

Been playing for about an hour or so on my XSX, gone with performance mode and it's superb. FH4 always dropped frames at high frame rates but this is silky smooth.

I was so happy driving the recovery truck back with the barn find on, that's a nice touch.

 

[-Jamie-]

Been playing for about an hour or so on my XSX, gone with performance mode and it's superb. FH4 always dropped frames at high frame rates but this is silky smooth.

I was so happy driving the recovery truck back with the barn find on, that's a nice touch.

Recovery truck?

 

[Daz.]

I need to spend more time with it.

My love for FH4 is strong!

 

[jenic]

Recovery truck?

It doesn't seem to happen with subsequent finds unfortunately. But at the start when you have to choose something to do I chose to go get the Beetle barn find and then recovered it back.

Wish I was a student still, then I could sit and play it all day today eating pizza and drinking beer.

 

[-Jamie-]

Yeah I guess it's one of the adventure mission thingys. Was wondering if it's missed something as I'd done 4 barn finds and not seen any truck haha

 

[Darren S]

It doesn't seem to happen with subsequent finds unfortunately. But at the start when you have to choose something to do I chose to go get the Beetle barn find and then recovered it back.

Wish I was a student still, then I could sit and play it all day today eating pizza and drinking beer.

Lol - somehow I managed to get a 2:1 at uni and spent too much time on the PC back then.

Simpler times!

 

[Clart]

Loving the M2 drift car, proper beast.

 

[Adamm.]

Had a go last night as it's available for none premium version now and thought it looked pretty incredible on Series X and the new TV. Physics definitely took a moment to get used to but I'm using sim steering for now I think I just used normal in Horizon 4.

Bit annoying that there's no reference on the video brightness slider though to get the brightness/saturation as accurate as possible so I've just left it how it was for now and it does seem alright as it is anyway.

 

[sburrell93]

Amazon treasure truck have the Series X version of this for sale for 55 quid today including a £15 Amazon gift card. Decent price if you don't have game pass.

 

[Neil Clio 182]

Free on game pass I believe, shal install it on a bit

 

[Cookie]

Had a quick play this morning.. looks lovely on Series X

 

[Gray]

Pulled the trigger, even 350Mb fibre takes awhile to download 114Gb... Come on! 😅

 

[Rich-D]

Been playing for about an hour or so on my XSX, gone with performance mode and it's superb. FH4 always dropped frames at high frame rates but this is silky smooth.

I was so happy driving the recovery truck back with the barn find on, that's a nice touch.

Even the original XBox One can pump out a solid 30fps with no frame drops, which is impressive considering how old the hardware is.

Have you tried quality mode yet to compare graphics?


Ooh that does sound like a nice touch.

Just finished work, can't wait to play, just need the wife & kids to fcuk off LOL

 

[jenic]

Even the original XBox One can pump out a solid 30fps with no frame drops, which is impressive considering how old the hardware is.

Have you tried quality mode yet to compare graphics?


Ooh that does sound like a nice touch.

Just finished work, can't wait to play, just need the wife & kids to fcuk off LOL

Quality mode looks nice, but after experiencing the framerate of performance I find quality hurts me eyes 😂

 

[Rich-D]

Quality mode looks nice, but after experiencing the framerate of performance I find quality hurts me eyes 😂

I'm locked to 30fps on my One X, but at least I still get 4K visuals, it's like a lesser quality version of quality mode on the Series X apparently.

Expected the Series X to be 120fps in performance mode and 60fps in quality mode, so this must be very resource heavy if it's 60fps & 30fps respectively!

 

[Rich-D]

Free on game pass I believe, shal install it on a bit

"free"



*for just £10.99 a month LOL

 

[Neil Clio 182]

"free"



*for just £10.99 a month LOL

I did say free on game pass.
It was the only way I could get my hands on a X series on the monthly with a game pass.
*for just £8.78 per month actually, which I think is a fantastic deal considering the amount of games that are available on it.

P.S. it seems to running at 118 fps on my TV.

 

[-Jamie-]

I did say free on game pass.
It was the only way I could get my hands on a X series on the monthly with a game pass.
*for just £8.78 per month actually, which I think is a fantastic deal considering the amount of games that are available on it.

P.S. it seems to running at 118 fps on my TV.

The amount of games I've played and downloaded with games pass far outweighs the cost of the monthly pass

 

[Rich-D]

I did say free on game pass.
It was the only way I could get my hands on a X series on the monthly with a game pass.
*for just £8.78 per month actually, which I think is a fantastic deal considering the amount of games that are available on it.

P.S. it seems to running at 118 fps on my TV.

Just messing LOL

Gamepass is brilliant TBH, well worth the monthly cost and I blagged 3 years for £1 by loading up XBox Live Gold codes from CD Keys, so really was a bargain.

Not sure how it's running at 118fps when the game is capped at 60fps?

 

[Rich-D]

The amount of games I've played and downloaded with games pass far outweighs the cost of the monthly pass

Agreed, massive library at your fingertips and some good titles too, not just a load of crap, definitely worth it and if you don't want the PC or cloud gaming elements, the console only plan is just £7.99 a month, bargain!

 

[Rich-D]

Wife is going to bed... it's time... 🎮

 

[Jamie]

Agreed, massive library at your fingertips and some good titles too, not just a load of crap, definitely worth it and if you don't want the PC or cloud gaming elements, the console only plan is just £7.99 a month, bargain!

Can you continue to play downloaded games when you cancel the sub.

 

[jenic]

P.S. it seems to running at 118 fps on my TV.

You are probably referring the Hz rather than FPS. it just displays whatever the xbox is set to.

 

[Ol’ Tarby]

Had an hour in it earlier. Seems good so far

 

[Pistachio]

The Intensa Emozione with manual gear changes turned on is very satisfying. Music and announcer off, volume up. Beautiful!

Is there a way to have less AI cars? All I'm doing is crashing into them all the time 😆

 

[Darren S]

Wife is going to bed... it's time... 🎮

I bet that was a painful three hour wait!

What time did you finish this morning?

 

[Neil Clio 182]

You are probably referring the Hz rather than FPS. it just displays whatever the xbox is set to.

I just pressed the green button lots until the msg box flashed up with the info.

 

[Gray]

Just created a Cliosport club [emoji1303]


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[mace¬]

I like this alot.

 

[Daz...]

Had a quick go last night as my lad was playing it.

Looks nice on the One X, so I think I'll have to download it on the PC too.

 

[Rich-D]

Can you continue to play downloaded games when you cancel the sub.

No

 

[Rich-D]

You are probably referring the Hz rather than FPS. it just displays whatever the xbox is set to.

This

 

[Rich-D]

I bet that was a painful three hour wait!

What time did you finish this morning?

Decided to call it a day around half past midnight LOL

 

[Rich-D]

I just pressed the green button lots until the msg box flashed up with the info.

LG? If so that's Hz, mine is the same.

 

[SharkyUK]

Hmm, I'm actually having trouble running this on my PC. The issues seem to be related to streaming data from the drive it's installed on - which is annoying as it's an NVME M.2 drive with read/write performance that is more than a match for the XSX hardware. On XSX the loading times are minimal and the experience is pretty seamless; on PC I'm having pauses of 20-30 seconds on transitions and cuts! It's certainly not a PC spec issue!

In the meantime I'm playing on the Xbox Series X - which looks, sounds and plays beautifully. First-world problems!