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FH6, Series 5, Preview

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The new update arrived this morning. Quite a few of the comments on Facebook were the usual whine about Japanese cars. No, the topic is the British Automotive update. Focus, children. What are we getting? A new Bentley Continental (probably marketing), but I still want to see the GT3 version return from FH4. An old Ginetta GT40 Junior that already looks rather retro as if it came out of those Cars films (the current one looks better, but is marketed “for 14-17 year olds”). Is this going to be better than that awful E-Type wannabe from FH5? But where’s the GT4 car or the G56? And from the antique end of the paddock, some old Vauxhall Astra. Let me listen. No, I can’t hear anyone screaming for it. The FE Jaguar XJ-S is probably going to be an undrivable mess without a drivetrain swap, although controller players will be all right. I’ll probably have to buy the standard XJ-S (which I had out in FH4 and as usual, the drivatars were all in the same car). I expect that Drift Attack will be o...
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FH6, Series 4, Week 4

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I went Geoguesser on the treasure hunt, assuming that it’d probably be down one of the green lanes in Tokyo. I was right, and even picked the right lane just near the Raku Raku icon. I’d not driven the Honda e previously, and it didn’t surprise me that there was no racing event in the weekly since EVs are typically weak in races. I also used the weekly to deal with the photo challenge, which was another round of me: “There’s the mascot.” Game: No, wrong place . Me: “What about here?” Game: Fine . Me: “What’s the difference?” Game: Don’t ask questions. The Forza gods have spoken . Are unlimited buggies starting to be the off-road equivalent of B-class modern rally? I was back in the Ariel Nomad for Unlimited Buddies , although I admit it’s my only properly built A-class car in this category. Oh, and what absolute larks! All night time races. I had to close the curtain or the glare created too much contrast to see properly. This also reminded me why I’m even less fond of cross-country ra...
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FH6, Series 4, Week 3

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I looked at the map, looked for an SZ, and pretty much fast travelled to just the right spot to find the treasure. It’s under a section of the SZ on this week’s Festival playlist. The weekly started slightly badly. I got the Autozam, but started upgrading it before I’d driven it. I then went to the Autoshow to buy a new one even though it was a reward for one of the seasonals (but I’d forgotten it probably was). In fact, it was only about CR36,000 and hardly what I’d call a reward. I did Bandai Azuma for the touge race because that’s the A-class one. At least the photo was merely taking a picture of a cult car somewhere on the Edamame Circuit and not a picture of some infantile mascot which you can only get if you place the car in just the right position. Micro Circuits was back to one of those vague car categories for which you can’t search and the options offered by the game will only cover the eligible cars in A class. I chose the MG Metro 6R4, which I turned into a road racer as...
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FH6, Series 4, Week 2

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I started this season with a combination of the weekly and the seasonal, Scenic Nights , for some irony racing, using the i20N to win another i20N. I upgraded the car to the top of B class, but that barely made any difference to the overall performance at all, and pumped it up to S1 class for the final weekly task. This was, in truth, a mistake because as I said last week, Edamame is awful for anything much above B class. As for this weeks photo op., go into the stadium, find that ridiculous mascot, and snap pictures until the game decides you’ve done. There appears to be a specific location, but it should work regardless so long as the mascot is in view. The collectibles were a nuisance because like FH5, they’re not all in the stadium or around its external circumference. There’s one with the roadside cars, there’s one across the road under the arm of a digger, and a whole bunch on the baseball field which is just near the stadium. As I discovered, if another player gets one before y...
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FH6, Series 4, Week 1

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I’d seen the location of the treasure on Facebook. Fast travel to the Shimanoyama Circuit icon, and the treasure is in the garages to the left. The weekly challenge was in the weak and weedy Toyota JPN Taxi. I’m sure it’s iconic. I drove it without wasting any money or effort on it. For the picture at the station, park on one of the roads outside. The location for the photo of the Wuling Sunshine is the field south of the start of Sunflower Charge . The Nissan Be-1 seemed to be a good choice for Small but Mighty , although probably absolutely anything eligible was. It was a bit of a pain to take the lead round Shimanoyama . Edamame is a silly karting track, continuing the tradition of terrible stadium circuits started in FH5. And what was the reward? A Honda S800. I’m sure that it, too, is iconic. For Dango Dashes , the choice was modern or retro supercars, which they could’ve stated directly rather than some vague, meaningless category. I picked the 2-23 Audi R8 Coupé. Still can’t t...
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FH6, Series 3, Week 4

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As usual, I started with the treasure hunt. I knew roughly where I could find it and then had to narrow down the exactly location to the end of the track above the waterfall with the view of the temple(/pagoda). The weekly was doing things in the Fiat Abarth 131, which was a favourite of mine in FH5. The challenge to get three ultimate wreckage skills was the usual random sort of thing. There’s probably a good place to go and do this, but I don’t happen to know where it is. I took a picture of a Lamborghini and got, er, something. Rickets? Probably. I picked the G Wagen for Out of the Loop , but feel this was probably a mistake. It was understeery round the annoying Kawazu Nanadaru spiral. I went too fast into the turn at the bottom of the hill in Cherry Field Trail . Crash! Bollocks! The good thing about this seasonal was that three missing cars came out to play, and I got snaps of them. For It’s Snow Problem At All I went with another old favourite from FH4, the Range Rover Sport S...
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FH6, Series 3, Week 3

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Meanwhile, somewhere in Hokubu… This damned treasure must be somewhere. I should’ve paid more attention to the screenshot on Facebook that gave its location. I’ll drive around a bit… And round and round… I’m worse at navigation than Odysseus. I eventually find the spot in north central Hokubu, not too far north of the Flower Run ST . Some arse is half hiding the treasure chest with his car. I expected to have to do a seasonal to get the Lamborghini Huracán for the weekly. Instead I had to do the spending-my-money. I randomly drove about and eventually, randomly got a great skill chain. Did my two laps of Soni and took a picture. Then it was off to the castle for a photo. Once again I resorted to the 458 Speciale for Play Time . I was all right round Narai-Juku , but have probably only done the Venus Sprint once, hence I did it badly. The conditions weren’t exactly ideal for racing in S1-class cars. I drove the 2005 MX-5 for Spyder Sense . Again, it was unfamiliar courses in the dark ...
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