Forza Horizon 5: Hot Wheels DLC and Series 10 update are live – here’s the patch notes

Stefan L 19/07/22 Comments Closed

Forza Horizon 5’s Hot Wheels DLC expansion is now live, with the looping chaos of orange track enabled by a hefty update to the brilliant open world arcade racer, kicking off Series 10 of in-game missions and content.

You might have a sense of déjà vu from a Hot Wheel expansion pack coming to a Forza Horizon game. Forza Horizon 3 also had a DLC filled with enlarged toy cars and covered with swooping plastic orange loops and track, so this will feel like very familiar territory to fans of the series.

For this take on the popular toy range, Forza Horizon 5 Hot Wheels includes 212km of track (in five different types) looping across and between three biomes. There’s 156 missions to take on, 42 events and, of course, a whole host of collectibles to grab. 45 of them to be precise. But back to the map, just check out this craziness which puts the Spaghetti Junction to shame!

If that sounds ace – and why wouldn’t it? – but you haven’t played Forza Horizon 5 before, then don’t worry, you can get to the new loop-de-loops in pretty short order. In fact, Playground Games has created a straightforward step-by-step guide, which outlines the roughly 15-20 minutes that you need to play of the main game before you can load up into the Hot Wheels content.

Quick Start Steps

Complete the drive to the Horizon Festival
Customize your character
Pick your first car from the 3 options
Finish the first Showcase Event
Do a mission in one of the two Horizon Stories
Blast off to the Hot Wheels Park!

Of course, the patch does more than just add Hot Wheels stuff to the game, and makes a broad set to improvements across the game.

Here’s the patch notes for Forza Horizon 5’s 19th July update:

General

Various stability and performance improvements
New Save Recovery System has been added. If loss of save data is detected, players will be shown a pop-up offering to restore a previous backup.
Players will not be able to recover lost saves from prior to Series 10 with this new system.
Fixed an issue that could cause players to lose credits if their Auction House bid failed
Fixed an issue where certain cars were more unstable when using simulated steering after a physics change in Series 9
Fixed a bug that could cause the Horizon Tour in Festival Playlist to autocomplete
Fixed the timer in Test Driver: Horizon Wilds – Off the Beaten Trail
ANNA and VO are now affected by the Speech Volume setting
Player character prosthetics will now be consistent in the V10 Story cutscenes
Fixed a bug that could cause loud echoes in Forza Vista when opening car parts

New Car Customisation features

New Hot Wheels Semi-Slick Race Tyre Compound
Hot Wheels Spectraflame paint featuring 12 colours variation

Online

Fixed an issue that could cause the Win Screen timer to show 0 seconds when completing a Story Mission in Co-op
Fixed an issue that could cause players to timeout when joining an EventLab event in Co-op
Fixed an issue that could prevent players from getting challenged in Eliminator when displaying the Telemetry UI
Fixed an issue that could cause players to be kicked back to Freeroam during Horizon Open

Cars

Fixed an issue where the Koeniggsegg Jesko was able to reach unintended top speed
Fixed an issue where the Volkswagen Beetle ’66 passenger side front window wasn’t showing tint from the cockpit camera view
Fixed an issue with the McLaren 620R passenger side headlight not working as intended
Fixed an issue with the Audi TT RS 2018 where the “Unable to Paint” message was not appearing when trying to paint mirrors