FH6, 1st session

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The game started by installing itself, which took about ten minutes before it informed me that I needed to update my nVidia drivers. I was expecting this, but not that it would be a requirement for playing the game. I knew that you needed to be using a particular version of gaming services, which I’d checked earlier. And yes, xbox time came ahead of local time.

The same annoying splash screens which we can presumably never be rid of. Then it was into some cutscene which I ignored, instantly disliking Mei’s grating American accent, which was followed by a “race” to the Festival during which I changed to proper settings – cockpit, manual with clutch, no driving line.

The characters are the same as ever, which is disappointing. They’ve added Japanese characters, who all look gormless, although all the characters do. The old characters also somehow look worse than they did in FH5 – low-poly models as I believe they say. If only we had the same sort of system as Skyrim, where we could adjust different parts of the character model.

There was another tedious cutscene, which led to the first car selection screen. I chose the Nissan Silvia K’S for no other reason than that it was the first choice. The stock reg plate is boring, but I think there’s a setting to change it. After that, I went into Tokyo and did a race.

This was followed by an SWS which gave me a 458 Italia. I three-starred the first ST on the second attempt, and then did a race round the Shirakawa Circuit; the Airfield Trail (but wasn't paying attention and missed out on tuning the Celica). I also kept getting some message about how spring was approaching. Next up was the Wind Farm Cross-country in the Jimmy. There’s an intermediate screen with the Horizon logo which keeps appearing and seems to be the equivalent of the spinning circle. Irritating.

I was sent off to the Hokubu Time Attack round which I ended up being 96th in the world in C class in the Jimmy (although there were probably only 95 players in total). I assume I can quit whenever I like or it seems inescapable.

By this point I’d reached the Horizon Invitational in the 2020 BW M2, although I didn’t seem to have to win it. I got my yellow wristband and chose the GR86 as my next first car.

Various wheel spins gave me the Vivio RX-R and the Honda City E II. I also tracked down the first treasure car, the Dodge Charger, but am not sure which bridge the Rainbow Bridge is. There’s still a lot to explore and a lot to do.

I also did a Horizon Stunt Party. Although this is supposed Forzathon Live rediviva, it’s still more like Horizon Arcade. This was a wreckage skills HSP, which was probably scaled as there were only two of us doing it. Worth it for the credits, but I wonder whether the same events have been ported over from FH5.

I finished this session with CR464,000, but spent CR77,000 on a bargain Honda S2000 sitting on the side of the road near my free player home.

Other stuff in no particular order

Some possibly interesting new paint colours.

Wheel spins still include clothing items (although I only know this from Don Joe Won Song’s Colossus video; so far I’ve been spared such things).

Tuning has been imported directly from FH5.

Driving seems much the same, but I’ve not built any cars yet because I’ve been able to tune them without upgrades.

The Colossus is a circuit race in a major departure from the past two games. It was all right as a longer, but not too long sprint race in FH4; it was too long in FH5 to be an agreeable diversion. This new version doesn’t look to be technically demanding, and Don Joe Won Song was getting round it in an X-class car in under 6 minutes.

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