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Welcome to the Forza Week in Review, where we’re getting ready for the next updates in both Forza Horizon 4 and Forza Motorsport 7, as well as prepping for the next edition of “Forza Monthly.” All of these various efforts arrive on Tuesday, May 7, which obviously makes that a busy day in the world of Forza. Tuesday will be here before you know it, so let’s recap this week and focus on what we’re excited about next week.

The Series 9 update for Forza Horizon 4 comes next week and Playground Games will be celebrating the launch with a live broadcast from PG HQ, starting at 10 a.m. Pacific. Make sure you tune in for the show on the Forza Mixer and Twitch channels and get ready for jam-packed hour of news and fun with the PG crew.

Airing directly after the Series 9 Stream from Playground Games, we’ll be diving deep into topics from all over the Forza universe. We’ll be joined by members of the Turn 10 publishing team to talk about the Series 9 update for Forza Horizon 4, followed by a look at what’s happening in Forza Motorsport 7 with members of the Forza Race Regulations dev team. In addition, we’ll be diving into “process of concept” at Turn 10 with design director Chris Esaki and art director Scott Lee, giving viewers insight into how the Motorsport team approaches the all-important “concept” phase of development.

FH4 Release Notes: May 7th, 2019

We're constantly working to improve the experience in Forza Horizon 4. Below you will find a summary of items fixed or improved upon in this content update.

Version Number
PC: 1.295.960.2
Xbox: 1.295.960.0

New Features
Online Adventure Anti Griefing Measures
This update adds two new features designed to reduce griefing behavior and wall-riding in Ranked and Quickplay Online Racing Adventure. Players who slide along walls to attempt to corner will have a slowdown applied to their cars for a short period of time. The system will ghost players when a high difference in speed is detected. The faster car will now be ghosted to reduce the number of high speed impacts, for example when players are too late on the brakes and fail to make the corner. This will also reduce occurrences of players intentionally colliding at high speed to force other players off the track.

New Story – THE CAR FILES
It’s time to join the exciting world of car insurance! Automotive Consultant Hans Liebold has set up shop in Bamburgh Village, and is looking for a business partner to help prove (or disprove) a range of peculiar insurance claims! This new Horizon Business adds 10 chapters of gameplay, and the ability to unlock the Crash Test Dummy morph-suit.

New Online Mode – CUSTOM ADVENTURE
Sign up for Custom Adventures, where you can freely select Car Class, Racing Series, Freeroam Rush and Collisions. Note that Custom Adventure only finds other players looking for exactly the same type of Adventure.

New Showcase Remix – NIGHT FLIGHT
Strap into a classic 80s speed machine, and race a jet black delta-wing at night.



Cross Platform Fixes

• Fixed an issue which prevented Hats from appearing on the player character in open top vehicles
  
• Fixed an issue where entering replays twice, would result in the player receiving no Credits or Influence
  
• Added in a prompt when starting seasonal championships to ensure the correct difficulty is set to earn the top reward
  
• Fixed an issue with the Koenigsegg Agera RS Audio becoming distorted after driving for an extended period of time
  
• Fixed an issue where players were not able to see cars they had been awarded in their garage, only on event sign up
  
• Fixed an issue where map slams for new activities would reset a player’s map filter settings
  
• Fixed an issue where the Broadway Danger Sign PR Stunt wasn’t always activating or calculating distance properly
  
• Fixed an issue where selecting a rivals event through My Rivals for an event on a different island would result in an infinite load
  
• Fixed an issue in festival playlist where achieving exactly 80% wouldn’t show the Seasonal reward as achieved
  
• Added more details to Map Pins for seasonal events, which will now show vehicle restrictions
  
• Fixed an issue where players were unable to begin a Private Adventure in a convoy
  
• Fixed an issue with the F150 Hoonitruck engine audio being incorrect
  
• Various Stability improvements

Xbox-Specific Fixes

• Fixed an issue that prevented the Treasure Hunt Location from spawning if the player had system notifications turned off.

Festival Playlist (VOD point: XX:XX:XX)
Showing what’s coming up in the next Festival Playlist seasons.

Showcase Remix – Night Flight
Strap into a classic 80s speed machine, and race a jet black delta-wing at night

Cars

• Overall 50% - Quartz Regalia
  
• Overall 80% - Hotwheels BoneShaker
  
• Summer 50% - Morris Traveller
  
• Summer 80% - VW Type2 FE
  
• Autumn 50% - MC12 Cosra ‘08
  
• Autumn 80% - Peugeot 205 FE
  
• Winter 50% - Mini Countryman
  
• Winter 80% - LR Series III FE
  
• Spring 50% - Buick GSX
  
• Spring 80% - BMW M5 ’88 FE
  
  Custom Adventure
  Sign up for Custom Adventures, where you can freely select Car Class, Racing Series, Freeroam Rush and Collisions. Note that Custom Adventure only finds other players looking for exactly the same type of Adventure.
  
  Wallriding (VOD point: XX:XX:XX)
  This update adds two new features designed to reduce griefing behavior and wall-riding in Ranked and Quickplay Online Racing Adventure. Players who slide along walls to attempt to corner will have a slowdown applied to their cars for a short period of time. The system will ghost players when a high difference in speed is detected. The faster car will now be ghosted to reduce the number of high speed impact, for example when players are too late on the brakes and fail to make the corner. This will also reduce occurrences of players intentionally colliding at high speed to force other players off the track.
  
  Horizon Story – Car Files (VOD point: XX:XX:XX)
  It’s time to join the exciting world of car insurance! Automotive Consultant Hans Liebold has set up shop in Bamburgh Village, and is looking for a business partner to help prove (or disprove) a range of peculiar insurance claims! This new Horizon Business adds 10 chapters of gameplay, and the ability to unlock the Crash Test Dummy morph-suit.
  
  Audio (VOD point: XX:XX:XX)
  Topics Covered:
  
  • Finding cars
    
  • Recording the sound of cars
    
  • Video showing IRL recording the sounds & how they compare to in game
    
  • How we get cars into the game
    
  • Granular Synthesis process
    
  • Mix process for the cars
    
  • Length of time to record, edit & mix a single car
  
  
  Updates & Fixes (VOD point: XX:XX:XX)
  Cross Platform Fixes
  
• Added in a prompt when starting seasonal championships to ensure the correct difficulty is set to earn the top reward
  
• Fixed an issue with the Koenigsegg Agera RS Audio becoming distorted after driving for an extended period of time
  
• Fixed an issue with the F150 Hoonitruck engine audio being incorrect
  
• Fixed an issue where players were not able to see cars they had been awarded in their garage, only on event sign up
  
• Fixed an issue where map slams for new activities would reset a player’s map filter settings
  
• Fixed an issue in festival playlist where achieving exactly 80% wouldn’t show the Seasonal reward as achieved
  
• Added more details to Map Pins for seasonal events, which will now show vehicle restrictions
  
• Fixed an issue where players were unable to begin a Private Adventure in a convoy
  
• Fixed an issue that prevented the Treasure Hunt Location from spawning if the player had system notifications turned off.

Lots of complaints addressed. New round of them inbound

(snipped)
New cars:

• Morris Traveller
  
• Mini JCW Convertible
  
• Mini Countryman
  
• '19, Mini JCW Buggy
  
• Buick GSX
  
• Apollo I.E.

Think you forgot one:
2006 Maserati MC12 Corsa is also a reward this month.

The wallride fix looks good to me! I wont know for sure until I try it but at least now I can stop skipping road lobbies. I'll play in them all. No wallriding and smart ghosting when it comes to passing will be superb. I hadnt been playing much the last couple weeks but this might get me back consistently for a while

Smart ghosting system looks pretty good, but will see how wallriding will work because that they didint really show on stream, you get slow down when hitting wall but will that work when you actually try to wallride.

Something tells me rammers, particularly those who missed the stream, are in for a surprise.

I wanted that Apollo car, but I don't use Gold.

FH4 Release Notes: May 7th, 2019

We're constantly working to improve the experience in Forza Horizon 4. Below you will find a summary of items fixed or improved upon in this content update.

Version Number
PC: 1.295.960.2
Xbox: 1.295.960.0

New Features
Online Adventure Anti Griefing Measures
This update adds two new features designed to reduce griefing behavior and wall-riding in Ranked and Quickplay Online Racing Adventure. Players who slide along walls to attempt to corner will have a slowdown applied to their cars for a short period of time. The system will ghost players when a high difference in speed is detected. The faster car will now be ghosted to reduce the number of high speed impacts, for example when players are too late on the brakes and fail to make the corner. This will also reduce occurrences of players intentionally colliding at high speed to force other players off the track.

New Story – THE CAR FILES
It’s time to join the exciting world of car insurance! Automotive Consultant Hans Liebold has set up shop in Bamburgh Village, and is looking for a business partner to help prove (or disprove) a range of peculiar insurance claims! This new Horizon Business adds 10 chapters of gameplay, and the ability to unlock the Crash Test Dummy morph-suit.

New Online Mode – CUSTOM ADVENTURE
Sign up for Custom Adventures, where you can freely select Car Class, Racing Series, Freeroam Rush and Collisions. Note that Custom Adventure only finds other players looking for exactly the same type of Adventure.

New Showcase Remix – NIGHT FLIGHT
Strap into a classic 80s speed machine, and race a jet black delta-wing at night.



Cross Platform Fixes

• Fixed an issue which prevented Hats from appearing on the player character in open top vehicles
  
• Fixed an issue where entering replays twice, would result in the player receiving no Credits or Influence
  
• Added in a prompt when starting seasonal championships to ensure the correct difficulty is set to earn the top reward
  
• Fixed an issue with the Koenigsegg Agera RS Audio becoming distorted after driving for an extended period of time
  
• Fixed an issue where players were not able to see cars they had been awarded in their garage, only on event sign up
  
• Fixed an issue where map slams for new activities would reset a player’s map filter settings
  
• Fixed an issue where the Broadway Danger Sign PR Stunt wasn’t always activating or calculating distance properly
  
• Fixed an issue where selecting a rivals event through My Rivals for an event on a different island would result in an infinite load
  
• Fixed an issue in festival playlist where achieving exactly 80% wouldn’t show the Seasonal reward as achieved
  
• Added more details to Map Pins for seasonal events, which will now show vehicle restrictions
  
• Fixed an issue where players were unable to begin a Private Adventure in a convoy
  
• Fixed an issue with the F150 Hoonitruck engine audio being incorrect
  
• Various Stability improvements

Xbox-Specific Fixes

• Fixed an issue that prevented the Treasure Hunt Location from spawning if the player had system notifications turned off.

Sorry to sound negative, but I can't see custom adventure working. I think it needs to have a way to see what adventures are available to join. So I might want to race e.g. road without freeroam rush, but don't care what class or if collisions are on or off. If everyone has to pick specific options and can only match those options, you're going to really struggle to find an adventure. If people could see what adventures are available to join, they could instead pick from the ones available. If they really truly don't want to play anything already available, then they can set parameters to create a new one that other people can see when they look at what is already available. I think that would have much more chance of getting decent numbers of people in the same adventure.