Playground Games has released a fresh update for Forza Horizon 5, adding a community requested feature to the open world arcade racer. Co-op is now available for the Horizon Story events, with convoys of up to six players now able to stick together and race through these narrative moments.
Up until this point, if the host of a convoy group started a story mission, it would dissolve the session and send you in solo. Given how Forza Horizon 5 is an eminently social racing game, this was quite an odd omission. It’s also a bit late in the day to be adding, as most players will now surely have completed the story, but better late than never!
Beyond that, they’ve also added temporal anti-aliasing (TAA) to the PC version of the game, adding a more modern anti-aliasing method to the game in an attempt to eliminated or minimise jagged edges to the graphics. Up until now, it only supported MSAA.
There’s also a whole bunch of new localisation options for more countries and languages, fixes for certain camera views being too dark at dusk and night time, duplicate car filters, and new Hot Wheels themed cars and cosmetics, what with the new Hot Wheels paid DLC that’s on the way in July!
Here’s the Forza Horizon 5 – 21st June 2022 update patch notes:
General
- Added new localization languages
- Added Subtitles for Danish, Greek, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, European Portuguese
- Added Voice Over for European Spanish, Italian, Korean
- Added new Forza EV Rivals event
- Added Horizon Story Co-op
- Added TAA option when playing on PC
- Various stability and performance improvements
- Fixed issue where hood and bumper cam was too dark during dusk and night time of days
- In Series 9, the Accolade “It Just Works” now unlocks as intended once players have completed the Car Mastery skill tree on the 1963 Volkswagen Beetle. Players who already fulfilled this requirement prior to this update will need to select and drive the car to successfully unlock the Accolade.
- All players will now see their Creative Hub rank increase as intended.
Exploits
- Fixed exploit when using Photo Mode
- Fixed exploit with gifted cars
Festival Playlist
- Fixed issue where players could lose Daily Challenge progress
Online
- Fixed rare issue where players matchmaking for Co-op Seasonal Championship can result in a player entering the wrong event
- Fixed issue which could end up in wrong car class in an online race
- Fixed issue which could cause Horizon Arcade events to not spawn
- Fixed issue where players in a convoy could end up not seeing all other members of the convoy
Cars
- Added a duplicate car filter to Car Select screen filters
- Added Freeroam convertible functionality to Ferrari California T and McLaren 650 S Spider
- Updated Volvo’s logo
- Fixed idle RPM on the 93 Nissan 240SX SE
- Removed Forza Aero Splitter from the Maserati MC12
- Fixed 97 Lamborghini Diablo engine audio when at high RPM
- Fixed issue with Audi RS4 Avant and 2011 RS5 interior cockpit dash
- Fixed misaligned backfires on the Mercedes C63 AMG when using the Liberty Walk body kit
EventLab
- Added Car Horns from Series 6 and 7 to EventLab
- Added Orbit Cam option
- Added stepped rotation
- Added new camera speed options
- Fixed an issue where players entering EventLab events with a full convoy could get disconnected
- Fixed an issue where the stadium floor wouldn’t load when starting an event nearby
- Fixed an issue where props could remain in Freeroam
- Fixed Rule Importing only showing events with Custom Routes
- Fixed an issue with one of the flood lights which would appear invisible when placed
Further Reading: Physics and race weekends will define Forza Motorsport more than ray-tracing
The Forza franchise is on a bit of a roll of late. Forza Horizon 4 and Forza Horizon 5 were both exemplary open world arcade racers, with the latter being a real showcase for what the Xbox Series X|S console generation can do. But the more exciting is yet to come. Forza Motorsport will be out in spring 2023 and looks simply spectacular, and I’m sure that Playground are already looking to the future and Forza Horizon 6.
But let’s not get ahead of ourselves, since we’re only just getting the Hot Wheels DLC next month. Looking back on our Forza Horizon 5 review, Dom wrote “Forza Horizon 5 continues the series’ legacy, usurping Forza Horizon 4 as the new pinnacle of open-world racing and as a graphical showcase for the new generation of Xbox console.” We scored the game an impressive 9/10!
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