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FH6, Series 3, Week 2

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We start with the weekly in the Alfa Romeo 4C. Why did we have to do a drag meet? What does this car have to do with drag races? (As Alcuin might’ve asked under the right circumstances.) The rest was the usual sort of stuff. The photo at the golf course wasn’t just a matter of taking a pic of the Maserati Ghibli. It seems that the car had to be on a green with sand traps in view. Or something like that. The collectibles are easily collected by driving from one end of Ine to the other. Rally Up and Go! saw the return of low-spec modern rally cars, but was für ein Laugh – cross-country racing. Wind Farm and Soni Highlands were awful with their jumps, one of which flipped me, and on the second attempt, I let the car flop over, thus offering the drivatars the chance to overtake me. I didn’t need the 4C, of course, as I’d already got one. Scenic Scrambles was another seriously?! moment. Super saloons doing dirt racing. Perhaps it’s a thing. I whipped out my… – steady, ladies – 2018 Au...
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FH6, Series 3, Week 1

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The treasure was obviously at the spaceport, where I roamed round and round, unable to pin down exact location because some Jeremy (Hunt – rhyming slang) was (deliberately) parked on top of the chest. This seems to be a new thing in the game to annoy players. I don’t appreciate having my time wasted like this. I had to do the Trial to get the Ferrari Dino because I didn’t want to buy it and end up with two, driving neither very much. My first attempt at the Trial did not go well. I tried an old favourite, the Renault Turbo 5, which just wasn’t up to the job, and quit before the end of the first race after the drivatars muscled back past me. I switched to the Celica for the second attempt. I was fifth on the human grid on Airfield and managed to claw my way to 5th to contribute to a team win. I was in second place at the start of Hokubu and finished in 2nd, somehow keeping up with the player who had comfortably won the first round. I’ll note that the car category was misleading. It sa...
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FH6, Series 2, Week 4

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I knew about where the treasure chest would be at the tip of the north-east peninsula. The weekly in the Ariel Nomad had me PB the golf course TB twice. For the CC race I did Yahikoyama and ran into a bug. On the big jump the nose of the car bounced upwards and it spun round on its rear wheels just as it pleased. I used a DS for the photo op., just missing a randomly stationary traffic car as I approached the jump. Mud, sweat and gears said “total buggies and off-road”. I thought “total” meant “anything goes”, but the game then said “unlimited” I ended up back in the Ariel Nomad. Poor labelling once again. If only PGG might employ a literate intern. The reward for Are ya winning, S1? was the Ariel Nomad, which ought to have been the reward for Mud, sweat and gears , and the Ford GT or something similar should have been the reward for this. I immediately suspected that Horizon Play (“three awesome air skills in a rally monster”) was forcing players to go CC racing because in those th...
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FH6, Series 2, Week 3

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The treasure is to be found in the far north-east of the map next to a chalet on a straight-ish bit of road. I wonder how many players ever go into the north of the map in free roam and how many only ever go there for a specific purpose. I mostly only ever pass through that region when I’m doing the Goliath. The weekly was in the Lancer Evo VI. Three laps of Sekibe got me into the top 10%. The SZ was annoying because you had to three-star it, not just get three stars across multiple attempts. I added another stupid phrase to my limited in-game vocabulary from taking a photo of a rally monster from the 2000s. B-class modern rally has reared its ugly head again in Stray from the Path , but this time in cross country races. Seriously? Who in their right mind would use a rally car in a CC race? But wait, dear reader, there’s more because I’d only just been doing Snow Forest and Oka yesterday. See below. Naruo CC struck me as being unreasonably wide. The Honda NSX-R GT was an absolute m...
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FH6, Series 2, Week 2

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I had to start with the seasonal On the Trail to get the GMC Syclone so that I could do the weekly. This was the start of me building cars which kept being the wrong year. Old person problems. The weekly was all right, although spare me the Street Scene races. I took a pic of a Jag from the 90s, and then went smashing bamboo, which got me the Crown Vic and the FE S-Cargo (following on from the FE MB 150E the other day). I dealt with the Evolving World car meet and a picture there. I’m inclined to observe that they could remove the car meets in a future update, and no one would miss them. uox populi cum uocibus magnis uox omnium non est as they might have said in Latin. Cosworth your Worth was my second attempt to use the wrong car even though it was eligible in all other respects. I ended up driving the 1995 Corvette ZR-1, which was another stock+ car (i.e., minimal scope for upgrading, and thus piss-poor handling). I wasn’t overly impressed by the inclusion of Soni, which is little...
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FH6, Series 2, Week 1

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It was easy enough to determine the location of the treasure chest from the picture (beach east of the spaceport). I did the new Hokubu car meet. Don’t see the point of this feature, which seems to have been added because a few vocal sorts were mistakenly believed to speak for everyone. Clearly most players are wary of these things. The weekly. Well, that was a little embarrassing. I’m so used to having the car that I didn’t consider that I could get it from doing the Street Runner seasonal. In truth, the Delorean’s so cheap from the Autoshow that buying it was no great bother. The tasks for the weekly were no great bother, either. I think the Delorean was also eligible for the photo. Another stupid phrase ticked off my bucket list. For the drag race, the target time was 21 seconds, which I just managed to do in the 911 Turbo 3.3. I’m sure some people willingly do these drag meets, but this feels like another forced engagement task on the playlist. I managed to one-shot the Deep Forest...
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FH6, Series 1, Week 4

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According to tradition and a fear of bugs, I started with the treasure hunt for which I got an A for completion and an F for dignity since I toppled over the edge of the building and landed roof-first on the chest. Later, I saw a video of what we were supposed to have done, which involved jumping to the lower floor of the building and then jumping obliquely across a gap. Later, I saw a video of my method. I hadn’t previously tried the RAM 1500 TRX, which was the car for the weekly. It was heavy and not much inclined to turn. Went over to the spaceport for the photo op. For the ST I started with the 2020 Supra which, I think, with a clear run I could’ve hit the target. Casting about for the right car, I lighted on the NSX-R GT. Engine swap and not much else, and managed to hit the target without too much rewinding for the excessive amounts of traffic impeding me. I one-shotted the TB in the WP Evo VIII, and then one-shotted the DZ in the Acty. The wheel spins were excellent (although I ...
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