FH5, hide-and-seek mode

-

Oh, and some collab with some shoe manufacturer.

PGG gave it away in a video. I watched Ericship111’s video about the video (how meta-video can you get?) which hinted strongly at a hide-and-seek game mode, and then watched JakeXVX’s video last night after the full details were revealed.

I guessed that the new game mode would be multiplayer of some sort. On paper, hide-and-seek is not a bad idea, but it’s not for me. If I avoid Playground Games events, I’m not going to be doing this. Dude, where’s my racing game?

Like the Eliminator, I wonder whether this will become an event that appears on the Festival playlist once or twice a series (#ForcedEngagement). Like the Eliminator, I can see the OCD boys finding ways of exploiting this whether they’re the hunters or the hunted. I can also see the entire thing being massively frustrating if the hunted gets pinned and can’t use the ghosting power-up.

As a keyboard player, I’d be all right as a hunter, but if the hunted is meant to blend in as Alex Day does in Survive the Hunt, it’s impossible for me to maintain a constant speed even if I can turn corners better than a lot of players. The wheel-wobblers on controllers aren’t much better off, I think. A few players will be able to do the stealth element well, but most probably won’t have the skill.

And speaking of speed, why do the hunters have way faster cars? Why did the game play footage have them pootling along after the Jeep Wrangler as if it was outrunning them? I suppose the idea is that the hunters have an advantage in an urban environment in the first half of the event. Well, sort of (#RubbishCornering). In the second half, the hunted allegedly has an advantage because at that point, I assume the game mode essentially turns into the Eliminator (i.e., cross country racing) where the hunters may lose their advantage. Well, perhaps.

I’m not sure whether there’s more than one starting town for the first part of this game mode. Guanajuato puts me off because it’s a frustrating, spaghetti-like tangle of streets. Playa Azul (where FailRace has occasionally set Hunt the Survivors) might be another starting point, but Mulegé would be too small in my view.

I wouldn’t be surprised if hide-and-seek is actually being play-tested for FH6.

If the shoe fits…

The collab is going to be with Jordan who, I believe, make shoes. We’ll all get some antique American banger which seems to be another version of some FE car that we already have. Do some races, get a pair of shoes; or something. I may be old enough to be a High Court judge and I may have heard of Jordan, but this has no cultural resonance for me. Perhaps these shoes are popular in Mexico, but this is more likely to be #JordanMarketing regardless of the setting for FH5. At least players aren’t expected to buy a pair of shoes to get a region-locked unlock code to get the car.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

FH5, Series 37, Week 4

-
With the return of the academic year I’m probably not going to be posting entries till sometime on Saturdays. I have a fair amount of time on Friday between lunchtime and my return to school to get much of the Festival playlist done, but I also have P1 and P10 classes and on some occasions, am likely to prefer a nap. The treasure hunt, as I discovered, wanted you to add a new part to your Ford Focus. I tried adding a part I’d already bought, but the game was having none of it. But in reality, I assume that this was another attempt to force players to use the Test Track which, I feel, has nothing practical to offer. I ended up doing a wreckage HA because there was one near the location of the treasure chest. The weekly was in the Alfa Romeo Giulia. Job done, but drag racing and drifting? The Audi S1 had no problems with the speed zones. I switched to the 2012 Mini JCW for the Trailblazer because in testing it had no problems hitting the target time and then some. What happened? I kept
Read more

FH5, Series 29, Week 4

-
Two treasure hunts this week. I went fast in a Lancia Delta and got clean racing skills in a Jaguar Project 7. The weekly was in the Ferrari 512S. Again, no upgrades required. Eventlab (1). SS£-FCG – Outlaw Canyon . Nicely built map, but little more than a twisted circle. Annoying. Eventlab (2). Rally Finland . Apart from the checkpoint bug at the end, this was a good idea. A one-third good SWS. Completing this got me the GTA Spano, a car which I’ve barely ever driven in Horizon 4. You get the idea. Eventlab (3). The Round Table 1960s [TA]. I tried with the Mini Traveller. Attractively built circuit, but too bumpy, which made it rather like one of those HW races with the speed bumps – but worse. Eventlab (4). Desert Raceway . I picked the Dodge Viper SR10 ACR (or whatever it’s called; the 2008 model) for a 2nd-and-3rd-gear race. I just managed to avoid an accident at the crossover on the first lap. Having a sharp corner about 50m from the start is a dumb idea. Don’t. Too many of those
Read more

FH5, Series 38, preview

-
Lazy. My thought – to anticipate my post about the final week of Series 37 – is that Series 38 looks a little lazy. The Forzathon Shop seems to be alternating between HW and 10th-anniversary merch. Yes, I’m sure newer players will be delighted to be able to acquire such items if they missed out on them. Four new cars in the playlist. The 1995 Mitsubishi Evo III seems to be a refugee from that popular Forza Motorsport which everyone is playing [ They are? –ed.]. I’m hoping it’ll be decent on dirt, but I already have my go-to Evos for seasonals in the game. I’m also not sure about the 2022 Subaru WRX now that I’ve heard AR12 Nick give it a shrug. Again, I have my preferred, ready-to-go Imprezas/WRX/STi Subarus. Is this like an SUV in that it looks like it ought to be out in the countryside, but never ever strays off tarmac? In other words, it’s a saloon car that aspires to be a rally car. As for the Toyota Chaser, I admit I’ve never heard of it. I assume that it’s a rival to the Nissan
Read more