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SUMMER | SERIES 19

Starts February 13 at 6:30 a.m. Pacific
This is the first season of Series 19.

Next change: February 20 at 6:30 a.m. Pacific




BARN FIND RUMOR:

• (Spoiler - same model each Summer - collectible once)

#FORZATHON SHOP - rotating cars for Valentine's Day

• 600FP Car: 2011 McLaren 12C Coupe (previously available Exclusive model)
  
• 500FP Car: 2012 Hot Wheels Rip Rod (previously available Exclusive model)
  
• Emote: Chicken Dance
  
• Car Horn: The Planets - Jupiter
  Wheelspins cost 40 & 150 FP

The Forzathon Shop timer is counting down to midnight London time (4pm Pacific), when the cars will start rotating through February 14th, offering the Ford Focus PO, Volkswagen #34 Beetle, Hot Wheels Twin Mill, and Apollo Intensa Emozione for reduced Forzathon Point prices.






FESTIVAL PLAYLIST REWARDS

• 50% Summer Completion: 2010 Lexus LFA (newly available Exclusive model)
  
• 80% Summer Completion: Porsche 917 LH (previously available Exclusive model)
  
• 50% Series 19 Completion: 2018 ATS GT (previously available Exclusive model)
  
• 80% Series 19 Completion: BMW E92 M3 GTS (previously available Exclusive model)

See the How Festival Playlist percentages work article at Forza Support.


#FORZATHON

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Earn 100 FP from the weekly challenge plus 10 per Daily, plus Bonus for all, double for owning the Lake Lodge.

Weekly Challenge: - 15%
Must be done in sequence to count, all completed within the season to earn completion.

• Own and drive any Modern Supercar
  
• Win 3 Street Scene events in your Modern Supercar
  
• Rack up a total of 15 stars from Speed Zons with your Modern Supercar
  
• Earn 20 Awesome Speed Skills with your Modern Supercar^

Daily Challenges: - 1% each
Each challenge is open for 72 hours from 7:30am Pacific of the start day. See Skills list.

• Filter through traffic to earn 3 Threading the Needle Skills
  
• Earn 4 stars in total from Drift Zones
  
• Earn 3 Awesome Drafting Skills
  
• Earn 1 Awesome Skill Chain
  
• Earn 3 Ultimate Clean Racing Skills
  
• Earn 2 Landscaping Skills
  
• Earn 6 stars in total from PR Stunts

SEASONAL EVENTS - (6-7% each) 54% total

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Championship Rewards include the named item for placing 1st against Highly Skilled Drivatars, plus additional CR rewards.

The Trial Co-Op Championship: "Top Marques" | Road Racing | (S1 900) Aston Martin vs Chevrolet

• Reward: 2017 Aston Martin Vanquish Zagato Coupe (previously available Exclusive model)
  
  Seasonal Playground Games | Mudkickers' 4x4 | (C600) Cult Cars
  
• Reward: Emote - Sleepy
  
  PR Stunt: Bamburgh Castle Danger Sign | 715.2 feet
  
• Reward: Super Wheelspin
  
  PR Stunt: Coombe Speed Trap | 185.0 mph
  
• Reward: Super Wheelspin
  
  PR Stunt: Forest Green Speed Zone | 115.0 mph
  
• Reward: Super Wheelspin
  
  Championship: "Muscle Bound" | Dirt Racing | (B700) Classic Muscle
  
• Reward: 1970 Buick GSX (previously available Exclusive model)
  
  Championship: "It's Never Over With a Rover?" | Corss Country | (A800) Land Rover
  
• Reward: 1984 Rover SD1 Vitesse (newly available Exclusive model)
  
  Championship: "The Monument Wynds" | So Last Decade | (S2 998)
  
• Reward: 2010 Rossion Q1 (previously available Exclusive model)
  
  Monthly Events
  
• Monthly Rivals: LEGO Bugatti Chiron at Moorhead Wind Farm Circuit - 6%
  
• Online Adventure - Qualification 18%

Completing the monthly events applies their completion percentage to all four seasons in the Festival Playlist, applying retroactively for past seasons within the series.

Edited by user Thursday, February 13, 2020 11:14:26 AM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

"PSA: Series 19 – Summer Weekly Challenge.
The final part of the challenge should be to Earn 20 Awesome Speed Skills in your Modern Supercar.
However, in every language other than En-US, it has the incorrect description of “Earn 3 stars at the M68 Speed Trap”."
https://twitter.com/forza_support/status/1227981985630453760

They really need to pay more attention.

Its not the first time the describtion is messed up in other languages 👎

They even fail at translation. Once again.

Losers

I don't know if it's a translation failure necessarily, because I remember checking the previews last week, and seeing that same requirement. So they might have actually changed the requirements last minute, and then went live before the translators got the memo.

If you add up the percent for all the events, it comes out to 94%. Am I missing something?

15 weekly
7 dailies
6 trials
6 playground games
18 pr stunts
18 championships
6 rivals
18 ranked online
94 total

Or a copy/paste error.

The Rover is an awesome fun car, love it, thanks PG.

By the way, nice job on LFA sound, impressive!

Does it have that nice howling sound to it?

Loving this series and seasons rewards. LFA, 917, M3 GTS, ATS GT, Q1, GSX, and the SD1. Wonder what they have for next season since I can’t get to the Xbox right now.

Competitive players should go for Rossion this month. LF-A is expected to be competitive as well.

I'm not a expert in car sounds, but i think it has, better than FH3 for sure!

When there's a showcase remix, the percentages are straightforward. However this week there's no showcase so PG will change some of the 6% events to 7%.

I've not completed all events yet but I would expect it to be similar to the following:

Thursday 2:30pm (U.K.)
FORZATHON (WEEKLY): 15%
FORZATHON (DAILY)
Thu: 1%
Fri: 1%
Sat: 1%
Sun: 1%
Mon: 1%
Tue: 1%
Wed: 1%

PR Stunt 1: 7%
PR Stunt 2: 6%
PR Stunt 3: 7%

Championship 1: 7%
Championship 2: 6%
Championship 3: 7%

Showcase Remix n/a

The Trial: 7%
Playground Games: 7%

Monthly Rivals: 6%
Online Adventure Ranking: 18%

Total: 100%

betinhogvz usually provides a useful and accurate list of percentages and recommended cars, tunes and upgrades so this may appear in the next few days.

Edited by user Friday, February 14, 2020 1:01:52 AM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

Yeah, I knew those percents were based upon having the Showcase, just wasn't sure which events go to 7%.

The championships may be:

Championship 1: 7%
Championship 2: 6%
Championship 3: 7%

I never do these until Friday.

Edited by user Friday, February 14, 2020 1:00:55 AM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

Good cars.

LF-A has great chassis and sound.

Rover B700 bored to 4.2L is really fun.

Just finished it:
PR stunt Bamburgh Castle danger sign: 7%
PR stunt Coombe speed trap: 6%
PR stunt Forest Green speed zone: 7%

Championship Muscle Bound 7%
Championship It's Never Over With a Rover 6%
Championship So Last Decade 7%

Edited by user Thursday, February 13, 2020 5:29:05 PM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

Fairly easy trial I thought. Last track is wet though. I recommend the Corvette Z06 2002 with GTz Marple’s “AWD S1 Rain” tune. It has rapid acceleration to get quickly to the front and handling is very smooth both in dry and wet conditions.

I am old enough to remember when they had these “special division” Rovers as cop cars here in the UK many moons ago. My dad had the civ 3.5l version of that car. Really fast but like all Rovers the build quality wasn’t great. The Audi’s, BMWs, Hondas and toyotas of that era trounced them for quality.

The cop version of the car was famous for doing something called the “liver run” which was taking a donor organ from an airport into a central London hospital in record time. 27 miles in under 30m.

Edited by user Thursday, February 13, 2020 4:59:09 PM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

Clock ends at 4pm Pacific.

Hi all,

For those it may help, here are cars/tunes/suggestions for the two online seasonal events. All tunes are my own, all shared. (tune name / share code)

**Trial: "Top Marques" | Road Racing | (S1 900) Aston Martin vs Chevrolet
**Car used: 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air (Autoshow 130,000 Cr)
**Tune: S900 Road Trial / 142 063 528

If you feel like doing the trial in style, the Bel Air is for you. Easy driver, plenty fast enough to beat the A.I. Tune is AWD swap, 6.2 V8 swap, supercharged, forza air (needs it), 'stock' rims (unchanged from base model).


**Seasonal Playground Games | Mudkickers' 4x4 | (C600) Cult Cars
**Car used: 1966 Hillman Imp (Car pass, Autoshow 25,000 Cr)
**Tune: C600 Cult Games / 135 961 028

I think everything on offer in this weeks games is very even when upgraded, I looked at a few, none seemed to have an edge - not sure on Peel, as this I did not look at it, as felt would be bad news at Mudkickers' So, Hillman Imp, car pass car, AWD swap, turbo, Wide-body, rally tires/suspension, upgraded stock engine. Turns sharper, quicker and is more stable doing it than the cars I faced. Faster in acceleration than the 'rental' (Jaguar) - although at this location this doesn't always help. Car will flip, as short wheel base, does tend to right itself, watch double bumps, and the main straight with the jump, water, jump, water compo. C class, so avoid all obstacles to maintain speed. If you don't have the Imp, and although I did not try them, the Meyers Manx, 1959 Ford Anglia, or the 1973 AMC Gremlin all seem good on paper, similar in spec to the Imp once upgraded -top speed, acceleration.

Cheers,

Edited by user Friday, February 14, 2020 3:33:23 AM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

It's great piece of car history for those into that. Rover actually had great reputation to P5 model, which had some reputation even in mainland Europe, which is huge achievement considering that I don't even know if it was made with left hand drive. PG covered some of SD1 history in live stream, end of an era in sense that following model was based on Honda platform. SD1 was rare in mainland Europe so it's really great addition IMO.

Took it to Street Scene run and enjoyed it and its V8 quite a bit. It's Street Scene safe even on Unbeatable. I just wonder a bit about graphical model, it looks like it has discs in rear? Original design had drums. Did they really build them with discs in rear too?

Edited by user Saturday, February 15, 2020 10:36:33 AM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

In case anyone is interested, I'm not saying these are the best cars, as there are a lot of cars to choose from, and I have only tried these 3, but these 3 cars can all easily win every race in the Trial, and I also did multiple rivals runs for the first race with each one to compare them:

1st Camaro PO 1:56.1
2nd Corvette Z06 '15 1:56.3
3rd Vantage GT12 '16 1:57.1

I've shared all 3 tunes as "TopMarques Trial". The Camaro PO is a tricky one, as it seems to be a choice between race tyres RWD or rally tyres AWD, so I went for the latter. It gives it noticeably less grip than the other two, but it's fast if you adapt to the lower grip and drive it within its capability. The rally tyres are good for the 3rd wet race, of course.

Edit: also tried the AM Vanquish '12 later, it was similar with 1:56.5. For comparison, with the McLaren F1, I did 1:53.9, so every Chev and AM I've tried so far has been well off that pace.

Edited by user Sunday, February 16, 2020 4:12:51 AM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

The SD1 was not badly designed. Its successes in motorsport can attest to that. But it was still a British Leyland car built in the final years of the state-owned holding. Quality was hilariously bad for a car of that stature.

Not as bad as a Maserati Biturbo, though!

Was this part of Valentine's day, or ?



PS
Again nice team in Trial, done with AM '16 with own tune - thank you guys, rest done with random cars found in my garage, that fit the requirements. Stunts again done with Agera RS dirt tuned