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FH5, Series 45, Week 1

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I had to switch to the Fiat Abarth 131 to complete the treasure hunt. The Desert Flyer was too underpowered to fling about the place. The weekly passed through my life without leaving a scar. I did the air skills by going back and forth over the same ridge not far from the main festival site. One-shotted the danger sign (one-third good SWS), but the speed zone took a couple of attempts in that FE Nissan. Another one-third good SWS. I PB’ed the Trailblazer (which we only did last week or sometime recently) by doing the usual thing of an oblique entry to follow the road rather than barge my way ineptly through the trees. The SWS ended up being one-third very good and one-third excellent. Eventlab (1). Don Joe Won Song’s Utopia Gardens Recension . Top-quality use of props, but I did exactly what I did the last time, crashing into the barrier in the beach section (twice) because of the lack of any visual indicators as to the route. Eventlab (2) was Castillo Scramble . Judicious use of prop...
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FH5, Series 44, Week 4

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For the treasure hunt I three-starred a speed trap in my Cerbera, which is mad as a bag of hammers, and got rewarded, although not for driving a car that’s utterly certifiable. The treasure’s over in Teotihuacán, but there’s no need to crash into any of Mexico’s ancient monuments. Fast travel. Completing the weekly challenge also got me the McLaren F1. Third one, I think. No, there’s nothing much to say about the weekly challenge. I one-shotted the danger sign in the F40 Competizione, managing to not botch the landing one way or another. One-third very good SWS. With some gentle cornering, I one-shotted the speed trap as well. The SWS was rubbish, which started a theme. I expected the speed zone to be a pain and it was. I wish I could say something helpful about doing it, but in the end I think the Forza gods got bored and let me complete it. I did switch to the M-Sport Fiesta for it. The SWS was absolutely awful. Eventlab (1). Cannonball Raceway suffered from that awful road surface ...
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FH5, Series 44, Week 3

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The patch actually worked this time. I raced a track toy round Mulegé to do the treasure hunt. I’d only just recently been racing such cars on that circuit and had a custom race to use. What I’d forgotten is that the creator thought that a light smattering of traffic would add to the fun. It wasn’t bothersome, but not welcome either. The treasure was over at the airfield in a hangar. The weekly in the Ultima was a bit of a pain because to complete the upgrades part of the challenge, I had to buy three sets of tyres. I have two of these things; at least I didn’t have to buy a third one. The danger sign was a pain, but I expected no less. I did my run from the corner on Lookout Circuit , which was sufficient. I was sailing through the air for the right distance and either landing on the rocks on the right-hand side of the road or going nose first into the road and failing the jump until as usual, the Forza gods allowed me to complete the stunt. It’s no great feat to guess that the SWS w...
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FH5, Series 44, Week 2, The Trial: GMC Syclone edition

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Having seen another player’s somewhat ropey performance in the GMC Syclone in the Trial this week, I thought I’d try it myself. The Syclone starts in mid C class, which gives it a decent amount of scope for building with tuneable components. I managed to get it to a PWR of 0.300 (weight down to 1,312kg). I was on the second row of the grid for Panorámica. Most of the other players – apart from one, I think – were prestige something. I was aware of the likelihood of chaos at the start of the race, but managed to do my usual magic on the corners and finish in 2nd. I couldn’t quite catch Teagan. I was last on the grid on Plaza Circuit, but used the usual mess on the first turn and what follows to pass most of the field and take 1st place. By the time the race finished, I was 15 seconds ahead of 2nd place. The rest of humanity (mostly) ended up in a solid block, enabling a team win. I could see one player sitting it out, waiting for the rest of us to do the heavy lifting. I’d say the Syclo...
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FH5, Series 44, Week 2

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May the farce be with you. I wasn’t surprised to find that the patch that was supposed to fix the problem with playlist points not being awarded last week was waiting to be installed. I launched the game, made some adjustments to my 2015 Corvette for the weekly, and left my house. I was about to check my messages when the game went CTD. I didn’t think much about it because the game does this from time to time, but when I started the game again, it crashed a second time as it went through the prefatory waffle. I went to the forums to see whether this was An Issue™, and found that the matter had already got 101 votes. By lunchtime my time, a second patch had been dispatched, reversing the deleterious effects of the first one, and I was able to play the game, albeit with the same glitch as last week. In my case, it doesn’t matter, but it’ll be annoying for a lot of other players. I assume that the game got confused if players had already done this season previously because some flag neede...
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FH5, Series 44, Week 1

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I’m still here, but I oughtn’t to be. I started with the PR stunts this week. Muffed my first attempt on the danger sign in the Jesko, but got a two-thirds good SWS from the second attempt. I one-shotted the speed trap and got a one-third good SWS. The speed zone was a sodding pain in the arse. I tried with the Jesko even though I knew it’d be way to fast to be any good. I tried the F40 Competizione without any success and eventually completed the task in the Koenigsegg CCGT. I blasted my way through Rivals. Normally I’m a bit cautious because I don’t usually need to worry about not defeating my opponent, but today it was all pedal to the metal even in the Mission R. The photo was where the wheels started to fall off this week’s shopping trolley. I took a pic of the 812 Superfast outside Buenas Vistas, but later found that the tile was still live. I took the picture again, completed the job, but think I got no points. The treasure hunt also proved to be faulty. I got five near miss ski...
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FH5, Series 44, Preview

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Well, I was wrong about the cars. It seems that the Noble M600 will not be series or seasonal reward car in Series 44. Like recent series, the Backstage Pass remains the 80% reward, but I’m pretty sure that the only car I don’t have more than one of in the new list is the Koenigsegg Agera RS (but the reward is going to be the Agera; I believe I have two already). As for the rest, I have at least two of each. (Aside: I’ve just learnt that the 2012 BMW M5 is in the Autoshow; I must confess that it’s a feature of the game I either ignore or use as a classification system.) I now find that Max had posted lists of new series cars on the forums, but I missed that… because the list (which I found earlier this morning) was buried in the thread. Are the missing cars going to be part of the Backstage Pass vote? Or will they be in the Forzathon shop? Or will players have to wait for their random inclusion in revised future series? What will they do if the Extreme E series turns up because that wa...
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