Occasional Tales

Getting a discount so that you don’t have to. I quickly discovered from the forums that someone had made a boo-boo with the pricing, although I thought that an official announcement to that effect suggested that it probably wasn’t entirely an accident. In a bout of contrariness, the car pack was on the xbox app, but this time they sent you to the MS shop to buy it. Once I’d switched my VPN on. Yes, W11 has this whole annoying geographical location thing going on. Anyway, I got the car pack for the reduced price, but by lunchtime, that so-called glitch had been fixed. All the cars have 8/9 for tuning (the exception is brakes; more often it’s the only thing you can tune apart from tyres) and they all have the same car masteries, including the 200% XP perk. I thought I’d race the cars stock down Copper Canyon , tune them, and race them again to see what difference it made if any. The only thing I mostly didn’t alter was the aero tuning (with one exception). I also raced them round the Sta...

Phew! After the picture of the Pro Stock Camaro was released, I predicted a hybrid road-and-drag racing series, but reality has confounded this. I can see the Allstars Car Pack annoying some people, but don’t blame the FM crowd rejecting it because the cars are in the other game. I can also see some FH5 players being annoyed because it seems that we’re paying for the content of the other game, which I, cynical old bastard that I am, suspect may be true because I imagine the figures for FM remain minuscule. I don’t mind buying the car pack because I’m not likely to buy FM and would like some more proper track toys. Pity the Ginetta G55 GT4 wasn’t included. Or anything a bit more up-to-date (as AR12 Nick pointed out in his video). As for the rest of the series, apart from the Pro Stock Camaro and the HW Trans Am… However, before I complete that sentence, an aside. Once again JakeXVX called it a Trans a.m. Now, I know our lad’s never likely to see this blog, but Jake, if you do turn up he...