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FH6, the long races

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The Colossus I set the drivatars to Average and ended up in last place, overtaking a couple of the drivatars and merely getting 9th in visual range. Nothing I tried was effective, and the few place where the AI had to slow down didn’t help because I was never close enough to make a move on them. I repeated the race with the drivatars on Tourist and obviously won the race, but at what level would I get a fair race? I feel the Colossus has issues. In FH4, it was a slightly longer sprint race of about five to six minutes. A bit technical, but that was a good thing. I liked it in winter because it was mostly clear of snow. In FH5, the Colossus was too long to be a fun diversion, and I largely ignored it. In FH6, it’s merely a high-sped circuit with an occasional tighter turn. Because the track covers the whole width of the course, I don’t know what a good line might be. It’s clear there are alt. paths to take, but to what extent they might help, I don’t know as of yet and may never do. V...
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FH6, 4th to 7th sessions

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Introduction Rather than bore you even more than usual with my activities in the game over the past couple of days, I thought I’d offer some commentary bordering on a review – at least of the game so far. Progression If I’d had the time, the gold wristband could’ve been unlocked in about two days. The progression from purple to gold was a bit grindy because having done all the races, I had to do a bunch of PR stunts which, as usual, irritated the hell out of me. Anyway, I’d got as far as the DZs when I unlocked the sprint to Legend Island this morning. Progression through the gold wristband is probably even grindier and may not be completable at this time (i.e., Evolving World stuff); or it’s down to the trivial content such as Horizon Promo or Stories or Roads etc. Road racing I’ve yet to do the Goliath and the Colossus , but most road races seem to be all right, although there’s nothing as far as I recall like Edinburgh Station Circuit or Plaza Circuit . So far I’ve not...
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FH6, 2nd and 3rd sessions

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2nd session I spent awhile searching for the location of the Figaro. I expect everyone else was rolling their eyes and saying none too quietly, “Old person problems.” I thought it might be on the island, and then the foreshore, and then up the coast road until I returned to the foreshore. The car park faces south looking, in fact, towards the bridge where is turns east to the island. I did much better at finding the GT40, which is on the cape near the space port. As for the bonus board on top of the assembly building in the space port, if you take the jump from the road at about 140-45kmh, you should land on the roof without too much bother. I did the Daikoku Circuit in the GR86, but ought to have upgraded the car (which I’ve now done). This was followed by Daikoku Chase (Street Scene), which is another course I need to get used to. I did another Street Scene race, Kita Ine , in the Silvia K’S. I thought the drivatars were being a little inconsistent, but managed to win. This led to ...
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FH6, 1st session

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The game started by installing itself, which took about ten minutes before it informed me that I needed to update my nVidia drivers. I was expecting this, but not that it would be a requirement for playing the game. I knew that you needed to be using a particular version of gaming services, which I’d checked earlier. And yes, xbox time came ahead of local time. The same annoying splash screens which we can presumably never be rid of. Then it was into some cutscene which I ignored, instantly disliking Mei’s grating American accent, which was followed by a “race” to the Festival during which I changed to proper settings – cockpit, manual with clutch, no driving line. The characters are the same as ever, which is disappointing. They’ve added Japanese characters, who all look gormless, although all the characters do. The old characters also somehow look worse than they did in FH5 – low-poly models as I believe they say. If only we had the same sort of system as Skyrim, where we could adjus...
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FH5, Series 59, Week 3

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Bye, Mexico. You were all right while you lasted. We start with that traditional fan favourite, the treasure hunt. I did a DS in the Abarth Esseesse to add 300FPs to the pointlessly ginormous fund that I already have. The weekly was in the Renault Clio Williams. I broke out my unused one for this. I one-shotted all of the PR stunts, even the intensely annoying dirt SZ outside Guanajuato. The rewards from the SWSs were one-third excellent, two-thirds good, and a bunch of rubbish. I took a photo and got a stupid gesture that I’ll never use. Also, you couldn’t pay me to use it. Eventlab (1). Nelipo Circuit . The layout was all right, but marks off for night and a poorly placed checkpoint that was placed ahead of the corner. Eventlab (2). Ram Jam . Good motorsport feel to this one, but the circuit takes practice, I think, and reminded me of Bathurst. Eventlab (3). Ausi-ish International Circuit . I liked the circuit, but the surface was rubbish and ruined the experience. The SWS was one-th...
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FH5, Series 59, Week 2

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I dealt with the weekly in the Lancia Stratos without any issues. Eventlab (1). Ramen Autodromo . Spaghetti-like layout, but not annoying, Not the best surface, and the final turn kept causing problems because it was indistinct. Eventlab (2), Jardín Día . Marks on for props, but marks off for the racing surface and the karting track layout. For the PR stunts, the Peugeot 205 T16 was an excellent choice. I one-shotted all three PR stunts, in a couple of cases by a resounding margin. Took a picture of the DS23. Can’t recall what the reward was. Probably a bag of grated cheese from 2016. The HW PR stunt was the ST after the loop, but the 2003 Audi RS6 took care of it first time. The RA PR stunt was the colossal pain that I expected it to be. Multiple attempts before miraculously completing the task. How? No idea. The best line seemed to be to run alongside the dirt road, go through the narrowest part of the ford, and then turn across the corner apex. I started with one version of the Lotu...
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FH5, Series 59, Week 1

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I sorted out the weekly in the 458 Italia without any issues. Four rivals events this week. It’s been some time, I think, since we last had EV rivals, which looked to be a regular thing and then disappeared. I must admit that I’d completely forgotten about the Pininfarina Battista. As for the VW, I assume that was marketing. I don’t think I’ve ever driven it outside of Rivals except to take a picture of it for Horizon Promo. Eventlab (1). Coast City Circuit . Night, points off. Props, points on. Layout, a lot of points off. If you thought turn one at Monza was awful, you should try this. Eventlab (2). Dancing Gopher . Too many checkpoints because they kept popping into existence. Also, repeated poor placement of checkpoints ahead of corners. Layout not bad, though. Eventlab (3). Power Plant Surge . Not a bad circuit, but awkward transitions between different types of surfaces. I one-shotted all the PR stunts this week. The ST was a matter of charging straight at it over the hill. Two o...
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