FH5, Series 56, Week 4

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A slightly late post because I’ve been on my travels.

Impertinence of the week: age verification. While I look nothing like an 18-year-old, I’m sure the system said to itself, “Hmmm, ’bout 45±15, I reckon.” At least, I’m pretty sure it said that. Nonetheless, parents! it’s your responsibility to monitor your children, not the government’s to do it for you and thus ruin everyone else’s fun.

We start with a treasure hunt. Picture of a Ford Falcon in front of that waterfall. And in case you think I’m being a miser, I actually spent some FPs in the Forzathon Shop on a horn that I’ll never ever use.

The weekly was in the 2000 Nissan Silvia Spec R. The race was all right, but after two weeks of doing the bare minimum in the game, I was more than a little rusty. My attempts to do the drift tasks were, erm, painful. All right, so I was trying to do this RWD, which I’m terrible at, but I didn’t want to do a drivetrain swap [Lazy old git. –ed.] The trick for the ultimate drifts seemed to be to go as fast as possible on Eventlab Island before starting the drift and trying to control… no, spin like a demented bluebottle.

I one-shotted the Festival ST for a one-third very good SWS. I PB’ed the Estadio ST (as I think I did on the previous occasion). The SWS was rubbish. The ST on the motorway just requires manipulative tuning and a clear run. One-third good SWS.

That bloody HW DZ annoyed me yet again as I thumped from one side of the track to the other again and again. There’s probably this one simple tuning trick that doctors hate etc. This is what I fear FH6 is going to be – a mass of irritating DZs.

And reinforcing this concern was the RA PR stunt. Two rubbish SWSs in a row. Well done, game.

The HT was S1 900 CC. I chose the Porsche Macan, won Airfield, came 2nd in Ribera Rocosa, and quit because of dirty driving in El Descenso. We had to have the obligatory ethics void in a Bone Shaker as well. ¶ Tried again. B700 UK CC. In the Mini All-4. Won the Festival CC from fourth and Costera CC from third. 2nd in Ribera Rocosa, but I deliberately went a little deep at the curve ahead of the jump to let the other other player in a built car get past.

For the Trial I picked the i30N without really thinking about it. I was in last place for Lookout and came 3rd, 3/10s behind 2nd. Teagan cheated as usual. Started in fourth round Plaza and came 2nd, but all of us were taking corners badly (I was, I think, the least bad, but bad anyway). This is why I ought to have given the car the once over because as I discovered afterwards, the car was on utterly stock tyres.

Finally, Eventlab. Ah, yes, once again, the tiles weren’t working till this morning.

Eventlab (1). Coast View Circuit. Layout was all right, but marks off for night time and that damnably awful road surface. One-third good SWS.

Eventlab (2). District 17: Sewer Run. Marks on for an atmospheric build. Marks off for night, even more off for fog, and a frown for the breakable bars. I did hear that the circuit is buggy on some difficulty settings, but had no problems myself.

Japanese Automotive won the vote (no surprise), although I expect there are the usual people who’ll complain because the other series had some hard-to-find accolade. It’s an accolade. It’s like kudos in that it’s utterly worthless. Once again, #ForcedEngagement.

FH6

The Eliminator and Hide-and-Seek will be back. Let’s hope they won’t be on the Festival playlist (which, it seems likely, will be returning).

There’s some talk about measures to deal with cheated scores on leader boards as well as resetting the new PR (only?) stunt on a weekly basis. No clear idea of what PGG are going to do with this, but I’ll also remind everyone that we all get some bizarrely improbably personal bests that we’ve never done. I think my longest jump is 11,000m even though the longest I know I’ve done is a bit over 900m, and I believe on one occasion, I’m supposed to have drifted many kilometres non-stop.

The Maserati MC-20 is going to be in the game. It ought to have been in FH5. We’re also under threat of our first unwieldy American barge.

I assume we’ll get a bit more of Tokyo in due course, and the full map would be nice as well, but that probably won’t come for a while yet.

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