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Dr. Faustus
Feb 18, 2001

Grimey Drawer

Fingat posted:

There's a discord?
There is, the FH5 GRCC Discord is here.

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Babe Magnet
Jun 2, 2008

watching a buddy do the trial a few times this morning

1) the AI does NOT know how to handle a bunch of players crowding up slamming into them/each other lol. Try and see if you can catch two AI colliding in midair, it's like that old troll physics comic where you can achieve flight by grabbing someone and lifting them while they grab and lift you

2) man the second race is dogshit. AI already doesn't obey the same physics rules you do, and I have the suspicion that once that get far enough enough, the game just tells them not to obey any physics at all because the player can't see them. They just lose you early and forever.

3) if it's the last race and you're in dead last, fuckin' leave lol

Babe Magnet fucked around with this message at 12:55 on Dec 23, 2021

stringless
Dec 28, 2005

keyboard ⌨️​ :clint: cowboy

Babe Magnet posted:

3) if it's the last race and you're in dead last, fuckin' leave lol
Unless it's a circuit, in which case turn around and bust into the leading AI

Babe Magnet
Jun 2, 2008

yeah that's a good idea too

AirRaid
Dec 21, 2004

Nose Manual + Super Sonic Spin Attack

Babe Magnet posted:

3) if it's the last race and you're in dead last, fuckin' leave lol

If it's the last race and you're in dead last, look at what the rest of your team is doing. If they're all near the front and your team has more points, keep going because it's a team event and you're throwing away a win if you leave.

Babe Magnet
Jun 2, 2008

well yeah but I didn't feel like I needed to add that part lol

Eclipse12
Feb 20, 2008

Babe Magnet posted:

watching a buddy do the trial a few times this morning

2) man the second race is dogshit. AI already doesn't obey the same physics rules you do, and I have the suspicion that once that get far enough enough, the game just tells them not to obey any physics at all because the player can't see them. They just lose you early and forever.



100% this. It took me a handful of races to complete the trial and I never had an attempt where the second race this season wasn't the AI just absolutely crushing everyone else.

On the attempt I won we outscored the AI by 2000ish points on the first and third race but still got annihilated on the second.

Babe Magnet
Jun 2, 2008

on my own attempt early in the week one of my teammates got ahead on the first hard turn, bounced off the wall in front of all of the ai and blocked them for the rest of us to squeeze by. I'm not 100% sure he did it on purpose but it worked

super fart shooter
Feb 11, 2003

-quacka fat-
The second race was the one in the huge storm right? AI is unreasonably good at driving in wet conditions (or they are just not affected by it, which seems possible given how everyone knows they cheat physics!)

I remember playing a seasonal championship in FH4 that was S2 cars in the pouring rain... I don't think anything in these games has ever made me think "this is literally impossible" so much

Goa Tse-tung
Feb 11, 2008

;3

Yams Fan
or they are driving a completely different car than you are seeing https://www.reddit.com/r/ForzaHorizon/comments/rmfkak/unbeatable_difficulty_is_honestly_just_hilarious/

Porfiriato
Jan 4, 2016


I opened up the Forzathon shop in the new season and noticed that the "time remaining" is counting down from 24 hours. Not sure if that's yet another bug or if they're going to rotate new stuff in every day for Christmas, but the clock is ticking if you want a couple of new annoying seasonal novelty horns.

Incessant Excess
Aug 15, 2005

Cause of glitch:
Pretentiousness

Porfiriato posted:

I opened up the Forzathon shop in the new season and noticed that the "time remaining" is counting down from 24 hours. Not sure if that's yet another bug or if they're going to rotate new stuff in every day for Christmas

It's for Christmas.

TorakFade
Oct 3, 2006

I strongly disapprove


I am getting EXTREMELY annoyed by unskippable cutscenes. Barn gift, cutscene. Story mode, cutscene. Leveling after winning a race? Forced wheelspin. Doing anything but driving is soooo slooowwwww

Iceache
Jul 9, 2009
FYI, the new trials are on tarmac circuits

Gasoline
Jul 31, 2008
So that's fun, game crashed on the way to the last race for the weekly, which wiped my progress. Except now it doesn't track any of the objectives anymore.

emdash
Oct 19, 2003

and?
It's grimly funny that the thing I dread most in the Trial is having a human-driven car behind me

Just lost a Trial because some dumbass ran me off the road in a meaningless attempt to pass. If he hadn't, we'd have won the first race and wouldn't have needed the third

Goa Tse-tung
Feb 11, 2008

;3

Yams Fan
won the trial in a 1998 Supra, we never made first or second place and just bullied the 3rd place and slower AIs lol

Powershift
Nov 23, 2009


I had to drag a team kicking and screaming to the win through this trial. For the third race, i had to hang back and babysit the moron who wouldn't leave, holding the ai traffic back so he wouldn't try to ram them in every corner, and getting him moving again every time he went nose first into a wall.


How do people even play this loving game? Like what is there for them to do when they can't even get around a circuit?

emdash
Oct 19, 2003

and?
vroom vroom and ram i guess

keeping in mind they are likely literal children

FreelanceSocialist
Nov 19, 2002
Shared a C600 tune for the 2013 Mazda MX-5. Intended for circuits and other road courses with lots of twisties. Keeps the stock drivetrain, horsepower, no aero. So far it's been doing a lot of work for me in rivals: 168 922 129

Powershift
Nov 23, 2009


emdash posted:

vroom vroom and ram i guess

keeping in mind they are likely literal children

they let children play videogames now? what is the world coming to

FishMcCool
Apr 9, 2021

lolcats are still funny
Fallen Rib
Good reset day. First try on the Trial, tight on the first race, blowout on the second, no third race required. And I scored a dupe Lambo Sesto FE on the spin so now I feel fuzzy inside thinking of the lucky radom who is going to receive it as a gift.

elf help book
Aug 5, 2004

Though the battle might be endless, I will never give up
I honestly appreciate the guy in my Trial in dead last spamming a "I'm coming through!" link message

Eclipse12
Feb 20, 2008

We're a looooong way off from the "Gift cars to earn unlock rewards" aren't we? I don't feel they're making it super clear to the community that this is A Thing.

I can only donate so many Mitsubishi Eclipses, is what I'm saying.

Serperoth
Feb 21, 2013




Eclipse12 posted:

We're a looooong way off from the "Gift cars to earn unlock rewards" aren't we? I don't feel they're making it super clear to the community that this is A Thing.

I can only donate so many Mitsubishi Eclipses, is what I'm saying.

I feel like it's starting to surge a bit. We are about halfway through it, with about two weeks to go, I think, so it's on track ish?

I do wish there was a way to mass buy cars tho. I gave a few Peugeot 205s the other day and it was a slog to even do a handful

Jabor
Jul 16, 2010

#1 Loser at SpaceChem
Given that there are no objective numbers on the track, I'm pretty sure we'll get there somewhat close to the end of the event period no matter how many cars actually get gifted.

Eclipse12
Feb 20, 2008

Serperoth posted:

I feel like it's starting to surge a bit. We are about halfway through it, with about two weeks to go, I think, so it's on track ish?

I do wish there was a way to mass buy cars tho. I gave a few Peugeot 205s the other day and it was a slog to even do a handful

Quickest way to buy is to go to the Collection screen and you can buy with two quick button presses, one after another

Jabor
Jul 16, 2010

#1 Loser at SpaceChem

Eclipse12 posted:

Quickest way to buy is to go to the Collection screen and you can buy with two quick button presses, one after another

Sure wish I'd known about this when the Willys was giving super wheelspins!

Powershift
Nov 23, 2009


i loving dare them to deny the entire community the car at this point.

Jabor posted:

Sure wish I'd known about this when the Willys was giving super wheelspins!

Still helps for mass buying 2015 porsche cayman GTSs. you can also fill the mastery tree in the car modification area of the festivals and stack up the spins rather than disrupting the flow doing them as you unlock.

It's still a loving slog to burn off 500 skill points.



There are Lancias and Fiats in the files. hopefully they were just waiting for people to get the game for christmas before opening the floodgates on new cars. even at 3/week it's going to take 2 years to get all the FH4 cars back.

I just want the 037 and the Bentley Turbo R back.

Incessant Excess
Aug 15, 2005

Cause of glitch:
Pretentiousness

Eclipse12 posted:

We're a looooong way off from the "Gift cars to earn unlock rewards" aren't we? I don't feel they're making it super clear to the community that this is A Thing.

It doesn't matter, even if the bar is real and fails, they'll just add the Peel to the game some other way.

Serperoth
Feb 21, 2013




Eclipse12 posted:

Quickest way to buy is to go to the Collection screen and you can buy with two quick button presses, one after another

Oh I'll have to do that tomorrow, Thank you. The Cayman is the money making car now that the Willys is gone right? I'm at only around 3 million so I'd like to clear the houses and then just throw 20k cars at people

Wiltsghost
Mar 27, 2011


They'll probably just juice the numbers if it doesn't get reached the other way.

Powershift
Nov 23, 2009


Serperoth posted:

Oh I'll have to do that tomorrow, Thank you. The Cayman is the money making car now that the Willys is gone right? I'm at only around 3 million so I'd like to clear the houses and then just throw 20k cars at people

the 87 trans am is good if you have more points and want a larger profit margin, but the cayman gives 4000xp, 1 super spin and 1 regular making it the better time saver.

Babe Magnet
Jun 2, 2008

Wiltsghost posted:

They'll probably just juice the numbers if it doesn't get reached the other way.

I don't think they'll juice the numbers because I don't think the numbers were ever real to begin with. This is a game where the AI will deliberately slow down at the end of races so you can pass them and feel good about being a cool racer, there was no way they were ever going to let the event possibly fail lol

webmeister
Jan 31, 2007

The answer is, mate, because I want to do you slowly. There has to be a bit of sport in this for all of us. In the psychological battle stakes, we are stripped down and ready to go. I want to see those ashen-faced performances; I want more of them. I want to be encouraged. I want to see you squirm.

Babe Magnet posted:

I don't think they'll juice the numbers because I don't think the numbers were ever real to begin with. This is a game where the AI will deliberately slow down at the end of races so you can pass them and feel good about being a cool racer, there was no way they were ever going to let the event possibly fail lol

Yeah 110% this. It's just a fake progress bar which will mysteriously unlock at Christmas and New Year

Tayter Swift
Nov 18, 2002

Pillbug
I've been buying and gifting cheap cars from the auction house, and if I accidentally buy something I don't yet have then that's fine too. (The auction results could use a QoL cleanup too tho)

Powershift
Nov 23, 2009


Tayter Swift posted:

I've been buying and gifting cheap cars from the auction house, and if I accidentally buy something I don't yet have then that's fine too. (The auction results could use a QoL cleanup too tho)

on that subject, the 599 GTO and Lambo Espada have been earnable for like 12 hours now and you're still not allowed to sell them.

do they have a human flipping the switch on this poo poo?

Eclipse12
Feb 20, 2008

webmeister posted:

Yeah 110% this. It's just a fake progress bar which will mysteriously unlock at Christmas and New Year

I've been hornswoggled!

T1g4h
Aug 6, 2008

I AM THE SCALES OF JUSTICE, CONDUCTOR OF THE CHOIR OF DEATH!

One of the seasonal PR stunts requires an S900 RX-7, so I figured i'd build something a bit wild for it:








For all the issues it does have, this game is still pretty awesome sometimes :allears:

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Powershift
Nov 23, 2009


The FD gets TWO completely nutso body kits, and my bug report of the itty bitty babby spoiler on the TVR speed 12 which basically renders the game unplayable still just sits on read.

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