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SPRING | SERIES 27

Starts October 15 at 7:30am Pacific
Ends October 22 at 7:30am Pacific

This is the fourth and closing season of Series 27.



BARN FIND RUMOR:

• (Spoiler - repeat Spring find)

#FORZATHON SHOP

• 600 FP Car: 1988 Mitsubishi Starion ESI-R (previously available Exclusive model)
  
• 350 FP Car: 1980 Renault 5 Turbo Forza Edition (previously available Exclusive model)
  
• Clothing: Ken Block Race Suit
  
• Clothing: Ken Block Helmet
  
• Wheelspins cost this series: 40 FP & 150 FP

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FESTIVAL PLAYLIST

• 50% Spring Completion: 2009 Lexus IS F ( newly released Exclusive model)
  
• 80% Spring Completion: 1939 Maserati 8CTF
  
• 50% Series Completion: 2018 Renault Megane R.S. (previously available Exclusive model)
  
• 80% Series Completion: 2018 ATS GT (previously available Exclusive model)

PHOTO CHALLENGE

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#FORDCROSSING - "Photo is taken within Derwent Water"; "Photo contains any Ford"
Tip: Derwent Water is the area surrounding the lake next to Mortimer Gardens; a picture on any of the surrounding roads or terrain should work but if you filter the map by Beauty Spot and take a picture at the Derwent Water Beauty Spot with any Ford it will count. Share a scenic photo with the hashtag on social media for a chance for your photo to be featured by Forza.

• Reward: Super Wheelspin

#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:
Must be done in sequence to count.

• Own and drive any Retro Saloon
  
• Drive your Retro Saloon for a total of 20 miles, preferably to the nearest beach
  
• Earn 3 stars at the Broadway Windmill Danger Sign with a Retro Saloon
  
• Win a Street Scene event at Edinburgh New Town in your Retro Saloon

Daily Challenges:
Each challenge is open for 72 hours from 7:30am Pacific of the start day.

• Earn 3 stars in total from Speed Traps
  
• Earn 3 Great Air Skills
  
• Earn 3 Lumberjack Skills
  
• Earn 2 Kangaroo Skills
  
• Earn 2 Daredevil Skills
  
• Reach 125 mph in any car
  
• Earn 1 Ultimate Air Skill

SEASONAL EVENTS

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The unique reward listed for seasonal championship events requires you to place 1st against at or above the Highly Skilled Drivatar difficulty setting; the Trial requires Unbeatable difficulty. As of Series 24 Playground Games rewards the car for all participants, win or lose.

The Trial Co-Op Championship: "Vamos a la Playa" | Road Racing | (A800) GT Cars

• Reward: 723 Quartz Regalia (previously available Exclusive model)
  
  Seasonal Playground Games | Rail Yard | (B700) United Kingdom
  
• Reward: 2017 Aston Martin Vanquish Zagato Coupe (previously available Exclusive model)
  
• As of Series 24 you don't have to win the event to earn the reward.
  
  PR Stunt: Leap of Faith Danger Sign | 449.5 feet
  
• Reward: Super Wheelspin
  
  PR Stunt: The Grange Speed Trap | 200.0 mph
  
• Reward: Super Wheelspin
  
  PR Stunt: Back Lane Drift Zone | 46,000 points
  
• Reward: Super Wheelspin
  
  Championship: "Sports Day" | Road Racing | (A800) Modern Sports Cars
  
• Reward: 2013 Toyota GT86 (newly available Exclusive model)
  
  Championship: "Flying Fifties | Street Scene | (C600) 1950s
  
• Reward: 1956 Jaguar D-Type
  
  Championship: "Alfa Romeo and Juliet" | Street Scene | (A800) Alfa Romeos
  
• Reward: 2007 Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione Forza Edition (previously available Exclusive model)
  
  MONTHLY EVENTS
  

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• Monthly Rivals: "Xbox Hall of Fame Circuit" | McLaren Senna | Horizon Festival Circuit - Night (Set a time and register by Oct. 11 for the #XboxHallOfFame sweepstakes)^
  
• Online Adventure - (requires 1 Qualifying race to get ranked)

Completing the monthly events applies their completion percentage to all four seasons in the Festival Playlist.

Edited by user Saturday, October 17, 2020 1:29:10 PM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

Drift zone 3rd try. I told you guys to practice. Easy trial. Won all 3 despite my really bad wall bouncing I don't care who I hit team. Looks like a nice easy Forzathon too.

Edited by user Thursday, October 15, 2020 6:55:07 AM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

Ohh, I wonder what that Ken Block Race Suit horn sounds like.

[MM- ha, copy/paste fault - fixed!]

Edited by user Thursday, October 15, 2020 7:52:47 AM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

At this point in every Trial there was always one DC on Elmsdon. Always person who was supposed to start from first place. Is this some kind of feature?

Elmsdon always DCs one person in ranked adventures. Hilarious that’s in a trial with that issue!

Never noticed that Elmsdon issue before, is there something I should know? Should I avoid doing it in ranked?! I'd rather not but I will if it's disconnection Russian roulette.

I can’t actually recall it happening in FFA but it may do. At RTA, it’s a known thing that someone will always get disconnected before the Elmsdon race starts. I’ve got d/ced the last two adventures I’ve entered in convoy there. Sounds like it’s happening in the Trial as well.

Hmm I did it twice earlier and never noticed. Just tried it again and after a very long wait for the first race to start (same as earlier) there were five, we'd lost one.

I'll look out for this in ranked FFA but I've done it loads of times and probably would have come a cropper myself there statistically by now so hopefully that is okay at least.

edit - tried the trial again and the same thing happened, so it's reproducible. The leader is gone when the race starts.

It takes like 90 seconds from when the scoreboard first appears, to the race starting.

Edited by user Thursday, October 15, 2020 9:08:57 AM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

LOL Yep just got d'c'ed just before race start. hey yo :)

Edited by user Thursday, October 15, 2020 10:03:34 AM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

A suggestion for PG.

Insert a friendly reminder into the pre-race screens in the Trial that the word 'team' does not mean drive into and block the blue ones like someone who's brain cells are outnumbered by the number of gears in the Rimac, even more so when they're the only player who can get the full 650pts for the team.

Anyway I used the Maserati, looked the best on paper for upgrading so went with it and won all 3 races comfortably despite 2 of my 'teammates' efforts.

Ok so i know Halloween is getting close but that was just weird. 1st Race, 4 start 2 finish, a loss. 2nd Race 2 start and 1 finish, me in third a win on points. 3rd Race 2 start and my teammate is in a S1 Camaro!!! What the..... LOL

2017 Bentley Continental blew the doors off the AI on The Trial.

Same here. Maserati was a shoe in for the Trial.

Ok, a couple things this so far this week:

1. don't check out the Backstage Pass during your Forzathon run. If you're going to check it, do it before or after. It seems to have stopped counting progress for me. I was doing my 20mile drive, and stopped at the festival to check out the Backstage Pass. I happened to check my Forzathon progress, and noticed I was at 7.4 miles. So I kept going. A while later, I check back, and I'm still at 7.4. Drove a little more just to make sure, and sure enough, my miles stopped counting. Closed and restarted the game to fix it.

2. If you're doing the Broadway Windmill run, and it doesn't trigger right away, don't rewind. It seems to be triggering a bit late. Like, in the air, late. If you try rewinding, it will cancel the jump altogether. I hit the jump cleanly, noticed it hadn't triggered, so reflexively hit rewind to try and trigger it, and it didn't trigger again. Had to go back and do the run again, and noticed that I was well over 1000ft in the air before the counter showed up on the screen. Hit the jump, stay in the air, let it trigger late, and if your experience is any different from mine, report back if you want to compare notes. I've actually noticed a lot of danger signs seem to have trouble triggering lately, especially on the first pass. So maybe I was right the first time, and it didn't trigger. But the second pass definitely triggered way later than it should have.

Anyone know the exact water spot needed ??? Been sloshing through the whole reservoir and not found it yet ??

Off the top of my head, I would try to photograph at the DERWENT - WATER TRAIL.
A dirt Racing series near the southwest end of the lake just above Ambleside.

Edited by user Thursday, October 15, 2020 3:54:42 PM(UTC)  | Reason: Spelling

BadRiver,

You need to put a space in between Derwent and Water or the profanity filter flags it. Stupid I know, but I found out by accident myself.

Regarding the question at hand, I don't know yet but will find out later tonight

It put **** automatically. :)

I took a couple of shots already and they were accepted.
I used a Maserati that I was driving at the moment. Not a FORD which is required to get a completion of the event.

Edited by user Thursday, October 15, 2020 3:56:34 PM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

It actually took me a while to figure out why it did it when I typed it...was back on some event I was blathering about. Think about the four letters it is replacing. And I'm like "seriously?!" it can;t even be IN the word?



Maybe it thought it was a Mazdarati? Ok, so bad joke. Maybe it's one of those things were you are supposed to do something different than what you are told to do ala Top Gear Horizon story and Stunt Driver challenge.

Edited by user Thursday, October 15, 2020 4:30:14 PM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

I’m in the water on the top of the dam and STILL not qualifying as being “within Derwent water” ??!!

Wait, dudes...it's not the Dam/reservoir area....Derwent Water is the big lake over by Ambleside. Try there.

I took mine by the bridge wich is on the right side of the name "Derwent Water" and that was accepted.

I took my Picture on the beach beyond the parking lot on the NE side

After trying out most of the GT the Maserati looks the best by far. Aston Martin DBD JB is a decent alternative.
Bentleys look the fastest but I could not keep those on the street to save my life. I wonder how you guys are driving those power-boats.

For the Forzathon, remember that the 1995 BMW M5 has the 5.2L V10 available.