FH5, Series 39, Week 2

No seasonals this week as I see no point in doing a bunch of races for cars that I have, have more than one of, and probably don’t want yet again. Also, with particular reference to this week, Street Scene is being overdone.

I had to build the car from scratch for the treasure hunt only to pick a sketchy, fog-enshrouded Jungle Descent as the Street Scene race in a monstrously fast car with somewhat iffy handling. Another CR90,000. O thou veriest wit, game.

Rather annoyingly I repainted one of my three Diablos before doing the weekly. I slightly altered the colour. Yet another Street Scene race. I chose Highland Climb which the Diablo aced even though the handling was rather dubious.

I discovered that I have two Lotus Carltons and have driven neither. Took a picture. I’m sure the reward was something naff.

Eventlab (1). Horizon Wave Circuit. Nighttime again. Props brilliant, but the circuit was bloody awful, not actually running back into itself, but looking like it was on the minimap. The SWS was one-third excellent and one-third very good. I used the Ferrari F355 and also got the first reward car of the series, the MB 500E.

Eventlab (2). Atlantica. A circuit somewhat reminiscent of Cathedral with a good use of props and corners. Very little 2-3-2-3. Overall, more right than wrong.

Eventlab (3). Autodromo Tierra Próspera. A long, single-lap race. Not bad as an intermediate-length track with none of the irritating corners we had last week. The props were very motorsport.

PR stunts. I decided to go with the MB 190E for the speed trap, which I one-shotted and got a one-third good SWS. I made a mess of the speed zone on the first attempt, but got a one-third very good SWS. The drift zone. In a B700 car. What a recipe for pleasure and delight. One-third good SWS, but a pain i’ th’ arse.

Took multiple attempts and a rebuild of the Do(ugh)nut Media Nissan 240SX to get the danger sign in the HW theme park. Actually, I’m sure the contrary Forza gods eventually bore me aloft to the target distance. Clear that you were probably meant to use some dodgy Formula Drift car because little else seemed to have the power to complete the task.

I used an untuned (?) Hoonigan Escort Cosworth for the RA PR stunt. Botched the first turn and had to do it again. The SWS was beyond excellent.

And finally the Trial. I ended up in the Escort Cosworth because I couldn’t use the Peugeot 207 even though it looked like a 90s car. 3rd round the Baja Scramble from a front-row start after the player in 3rd missed a checkpoint, although we won nonetheless. Some of the driving seemed a little dirty in that I was 3rd, and a couple of players seem to have decided that this was just not done, and some nudging into walls was in order. Another front-row start round San Juan and another 3rd by my own efforts. Another solid team win and the job was done. A somewhat effortless Trial this week.

Series 40: some idle speculation

There was some update for FM8, which was being touted on YouTube as the Best Update Evah™. It made me suspect that Series 40 is going to see more cars from FM make their way over to FH5. For example, FM has got the Mustang RTR Spec 6. It’d be a pity, though, if we end up with a bunch more hard-to-drive FD Mustangs. It also made me wonder whether Series 40 will feature more DLC, with FH5 players paying for content that the FM crowd have for free.

Nonetheless, since Series 40 is called Track Day, it would seem very likely that we could end up with more cars from FH5’s less pretty sister.