FH5, Series 44, Preview

Well, I was wrong about the cars. It seems that the Noble M600 will not be series or seasonal reward car in Series 44. Like recent series, the Backstage Pass remains the 80% reward, but I’m pretty sure that the only car I don’t have more than one of in the new list is the Koenigsegg Agera RS (but the reward is going to be the Agera; I believe I have two already). As for the rest, I have at least two of each. (Aside: I’ve just learnt that the 2012 BMW M5 is in the Autoshow; I must confess that it’s a feature of the game I either ignore or use as a classification system.)

I now find that Max had posted lists of new series cars on the forums, but I missed that… because the list (which I found earlier this morning) was buried in the thread.

Are the missing cars going to be part of the Backstage Pass vote? Or will they be in the Forzathon shop? Or will players have to wait for their random inclusion in revised future series? What will they do if the Extreme E series turns up because that was very much locked into those cars? (As I’ve said before, I suspect that we’ll never see that series again because the licence may have expired; I could be wrong, of course.)

The problem with this car shuffling is that some players, hoping for a particular car, are likely to find themselves thwarted and waiting for a long time before the car they want finally makes an appearance.

Really, if PGG are going to be helpful, they ought to start by recycling the oldest one-off cars and work their way from there. I already have three Porsche Mission Rs and suspect (if I bothered with such things) they can be found in the Auction House.

Also, the Eventlab events will be different in the updated series.