Occasional Tales

Once again, Igor, it’s alive! Yes, FH5 is working again, although I feel the solution is specific to me rather than a general fix. When I got home yesterday afternoon, I tried FH5 again, but it refused to sync and crashed when I clicked on Reboot (well, died without a whimper). I then tried Minecraft Bedrock and was able to log in to my MS account. There was also an nVidia update for which I used my VPN partly to make sure that I go to a website that speaks English and partly because the download is probably faster. I installed the patch and ran FH5 again, but left my VPN running. I don’t normally do that, but thought an experiment was in order. The game synced and I was finally off to Mexico. I started with the treasure hunt, quickly spotting the location of the obstacle course not all that far from the Horizon Apex site because I thought it might be tucked away to the left somewhere. I’ve been hearing stories of people heading all the way to Playa Tranquila. I made the mistake of usi...

From the tile, I guessed that the car for the treasure hunt was going to be the Caterham R500 doing that precarious danger sign next to that Festival site… No, I don’t know the names. Too old to remember or to care to remember. Anyway, just ahead of the change to the new season, I’d been practising. Without engine swapping the car, I’d upgraded it as far as I could and had determined that it probably wasn’t going to three-star the jump (I was hoping this wouldn’t be required). I did one last run with about a minute to spare and fast travelled up to the Festival site with the timer running out. I was sitting outside the site when the new season went live and was informed that I’d completed the task for the treasure hunt. I don’t quite know how that transpired, but I shan’t complain. The weekly was in the 1987 Pontiac Firebird, a car which I like so much that I’d never driven it and would never have driven it if this particular task hadn’t required me to. The late 80s rang, but was too e...

The treasure hunt was a drag race in the Dodge Challenger. Easy money. The weekly challenge was in the excellent Holden Torana (see below for more excellence). No real problems apart from trying to get an ultimate burnout skill which I can only do buy driving the car into a barrier and turning very slowly to get the rear wheels spinning. The photo of the Porsche 911 3.3 Turbo was another doddle. The Eventlab tiles were working first time. Is that three weeks in a row? It’s a Christmas miracle! Circuito de Mulegé was interesting, but a  bit of a start-stop affair for another stupid American hat. Racers in the Mist gave me a choice of two off-road cars, neither of which I liked. The reward was a horn (colour me indifferent) and a rubbish wheel spin (colour me annoyed). I unwittingly PB’ed the danger sign and one-shotted the speed trap, but it was messy and untidy. The speed zone nearly made me sick from the stress and frustration. It was twenty minutes of hell for which I got a rub...