FH5, Series 55, Week 3

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Treasure hunt. Spend CR30,000 on a Lancer Evo. Drive round the stadium maze to get your reward. I don’t know how many FPs I have this week. Last week it was 152,000 or so.

The weekly. The Isetta. I had to do an engine swap for this, but left it RWD. It wasn’t as awful as I feared. I repainted it in two-tone red and satin bronze. Rather fetching.

I have a note that I took a photo. Oh, that’s right. The detective statuette at the airfield, which is over the far side (south) on one of the half fuselages of the planes.

I did the SZ in the Ford Ranger T6 with a decent run-up. It held its speed well for a one-third very good SWS. The DZ ended up being easy money in the Escort RS 1800. I pumped up the tyres and slid around like I knew what I was doing. One-third good SWS and the Valhalla Concept, which I gave away. Did the recipient thank me? No. Rude bastard.

Drive round the stadium maze aimlessly. Crash into the tank detectives. Complete a task. What a satisfying life I lead.

Eventlab. Miniracers – Family Room was the race I thought it was. Not a bad attempt at a track in a room. It got a bit too tight in some sections, but C600 was generally a good choice. It could easily have been S1-class track toys. The SWS was one-third good.

I built a hybrid Holden Torana for the HW PR stunt, which actually worked quite well for a one-third excellent SWS. I had to rebuild the car a little for the RA PR stunt. The SWS was rubbish.

I’d been doing a little testing for the Trial in which pickups and 4x4s seemed to be a good choice. I opted for the Colorado ZR2, but the Ranger Raptor should get an honourable mention. I started third on El Descenso and won, but had some unethical poltroon in a Bone Shaker right behind me at the finish line. I was second on the grid in Estadio and came 2nd. I didn’t have the manoeuvrability of the Bone Shaker, which got a decent distance ahead of me. A good, mostly solid team performance. Job done once again. I got another T6. Third one I think. I did consider this for the Trial, but at the bottom of El Descenso, I’m most likely to understeer into the trees, which does rather ruin a chap’s race.

Four seasonals this week. I did All Wheels Down in the 2017 Ford Focus. I should probably have rebuilt one of the Audis such as the RS6. Stupid races against cars that oughtn’t to be in road events (Extreme E, fat American SUVs, etc.) I was young and naïve, and doing it for the points.

Did we get a tune-of-the-week? I wasn’t paying attention.

The leak

The leak seems to have knocked those tiresome discussions about which tiresome series we should do next out of public consideration. As for the leak, I’ll venture this is probably genuine, although as Ericship111 observed, the source seems to be one person since no one else seems to have stepped forward to say they’d seen it, too.

On the assumption this is the screen we’ll eventually all see, it would appear that we’re probably getting drip fed old cars again, but perhaps rescanned models rather than recycled content from FH1 and 2. If that’s the case, I hope they’re called returning-to-Forza cars, and there’s no pretence that they’re new. Straight into the Autoshow as well at sensible prices, and none of this Backstage Pass nonsense in which pointless little people argue over which dreary little car ought to be accessible in the game without waiting for some series to be recycled.

The Italian car pack seems a little odd for Japan, but makes the leak seem a little more authentic because you might expect some Japanese car pack instead. The J50 as a special car also makes sense in context because that’s a Japan-specific Ferrari.

The time attack car pack also makes sense if we end up with speed zones on a lot of annoying, narrow, twisty roads up hillsides.

A release date in May’s a bit of a nuisance because it’s exams and there are likely to be more important matters demanding my attention Even now, the latter probably ought to be demanding more of my time.

I was hoping that I might’ve bought a new machine by the time FH6 comes out, but that’ll have to wait. I’m hoping, though, that the game can be installed on some other drive because I’m not sure the C:\ drive on this machine will have the space for it. As I discovered just recently, you can transfer FH5 to a different drive after being told a couple of years ago that that was verboten.

Developer Direct is now a week away because the Americans are a day behind the rest of the world as usual.

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