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Agree

I know exactly what you mean; it's ineffible.

Pffft...fanboy.

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I didn't know I wanted this but omg yes please

Id like to see F zero lol

@@senorsnipey1595 Same here. It's been nearly TWENTY YEARS since F-Zero GX on the GameCube! I hope once Nintendo announces a new console a new F-Zero is a launch title for it.

Was playing last night thinking the same thing. Or their take on an F-Zero game with cutscene and narrative. Would be awesome!

How about a Wipeout themed DLC for Forza? I'm sure the company that owns the IP would happily give it to Microsoft for free, for the exposure and doors it would open.

I mean Hot Wheels gets paid for licensing so I don't think they're hurt over this. Same way MLB has their own game yet allows PlayStation the license to make their MLB game.

@@ClapperDan cool

You can buy the game just go in ebay or any used market place

@@ezyclapz1221 Game? Yes. DLC? No.

saaaaaaame

I found a crack of it on PC within about 10 minutes. Has all the DLC too. I got into Forza through the 5th horizon game and wanted to go through all of them. Unfortunately piracy is preservation at this point.

@@polski8bit that’s annoying with Microsoft game isn’t that old but just remove it. Great game preservation. Even licensed it’s fucking Microsoft also they need to fix their drm

That would be fucking awesome

That would be really really good.

Same, but Battaglia Linneman and Ledbetter are still my faves

those things take time just say thanks they did a dlc in 6 months

@@lofi1598 no, there are nothing to do with time

@@lofi1598 I am not a professional game developer nor have I worked with Playground's engine so I cannot say for certain. But these things do not feel like very time consuming things to add at least compared to all the other incredibly impressive stuff in the dlc (which I would be seriously surprised if they've been working on it for only 6 months. This is a year project minimum). These are just caveats tho. I've been really enjoying the Expansion. Sense of speed is seriously incredible and the map is just breath-taking to navigate.

@@yellowbat79 They removed some big tripple loop from the trailer, Im sure this has something to do with keeping that paper weight of an OG xbox at locked 30.

@@RooeeZe can we drop last gen already. shitty jaguar cores and 5400rpm hard drives are holding back everything.

You do realize they use actual photographs and video of the real sky right?

​@@zybch Which equals a 2D image.. it's great for the skybox but I honestly think it should only be for the very distant clouds and the night sky (which still looks like garbage in Horizon 5).

Dude play GT7 that game has it from day one.

@@zybch Yes? That's how skyboxes work. How does that matter? Skyboxes will always have limitations and you can easily tell when you look at games like FH5. Volumetric clouds just look 100x better at this point, can be freely adjusted in terms of shape, softness, density, have actual volume, can be used even close to your car, can be interacted with, light can interact with them etc. And it will save devs from having to spend months taknig pictures and videos of clouds.

@@kwedl Honestly I’m arguing that FH5 has the highest picture quality for their sky out of any game that has ever been released. It is just a sandbox but there just isn’t any game that has come close to producing the “real-life” look that FH5 has. Yeah volumetric clouds might have better/easier features, however the sky literally looks like it is straight out of an I max movie. Honestly thinking this could be the new wave for Sky sandboxes.

Only the hood reflects cars and objects, because it uses screen space reflections. You can tell because it's very common for things to not reflect on parts of hoods that are angled back (like hood scoops), and the sides can't have anything reflected there with screen space and reverts to cube maps, low quality ones that take more than a second to update (the reflections on the car's body also do that if you're in first person in the cockpit, and the reflections aren't set to Extreme. In third person they do that if it's set to the lowest setting).

Plenty of games do that, but I'll admit it looks particularly schmick at 4K60 here :)

This only seems to work some of the time. I've noticed that though.

@@ptrcrispy Yeah, Ultra in FH3 got permanently changed to what used to be "Medium" in Nov 2016 or so (impossible to change it back btw) Grass and shadow distances cut in more than half - there was almost no pop-in on PC prior to that patch. Then bam, an update lands, performance doubles, the game looks like garbage and everyone rejoices on the forums. FH4, if anything, looks worse than post-downgrade FH3 and FH5 looks like FH4. Nice.

Interesting, I find the game to run better on both my PC with an i7 10700k and 3080 as well as the Steam Deck on the new Hot Wheels map than on Mexico

On PC he didn't cover that some places just tank FPS regardless of what HW you have. I've noticed clips online that show performance issues even on the RTX 3080 and 11 gen Intel Core i7 CPUs, but for some reason Oliver didn't see fit to include any issues with the PC version.

@@VariantAEC you have to set reflections one below highest setting and shaders also one below highest and its fine.

@@OutOfRangeDE That shouldn't be necessary with RT performance of PCs with an RTX 3080 being at least 60% better than the latest consoles. RT is only visible in Forzavista mode and inside garages, so switching that setting does nothing for performance at all outside of those modes. Supposedly that cheat engine hack has been patched out. My guess is the app now checks to see whether you are in the specified locations that use RT and ignores cheat engine edits if you aren't (until cheat engine users can convince the app that gameplay is Forzavista mode or inside the garage). Shader quality on Xbox is also set to "Ultra" if I'm not mistaken (the highest setting being "Extreme" for shaders). Another sad state of affairs when PCs that cost much more than consoles already well over a year after launch cannot max out game performance and visuals when consoles are pushing nearly the highest settings. Basically consoles are looking excellent against the latest gaming PC builds.

@@VariantAEC 1. I never talked about the rt setting, it doesnt affect gameplay performance, only FV . 2. No the game looks way worse with more pop in, even on series x vs the settings i just stated (all max except these 2 options that are one below max). I compared both with my own eyes.

@@OutOfRangeDE My bad confused cube map and SSR reflection settings with RT. I've noticed SSR has a huge impact in FH5 not so much the dynamic reflection cubemap setting.

This is what made me bored and put down both FH4 and 5 after 10-15 hours, I simply didn't feel that I had any real goal when it came to the cars. This is usually the main thing I work towards in other racing games, new faster and better cars.

@@MrMeanh Yeah. Same I always want a carrot to chase.

problem is series s will always hold them back a bit because they need to keep in mind the weaker console. That's why playstation took the right approach with making the same spec console. In general, these games are amazing even when the older gen is holding them back.

@@ShaShizzle series s isn't an issue it has the same cpu just need to scale down graphical effects

Yes, a good TAA is better and more performant than 4xMSAA :)

your hard drive sounds very tired... my brothers one S loads up the game a lot quicker than what you are describing but he got it brand new when lockdown hit.

Yea. Your hard drive seems to be coming to an end. You can always buy a new hard drive or ssd and replace it with the old one (up to 2tb support i believe).

Series x is almost instant sorry bud

The analysis itself shows that the game has had graphical improvements compared to the last Forza Horizon: Hotwheels (FH3), in addition to updates by the graphics engine.

Yeah I can only imagine playing that p2w gt7 cashgrab crap while there is Forza Motorsport and Forza Horizon on Xbox Gamepass.

@@redhunter1535 yeah and also Forza is a regular release which is amazing

Play it on pc. Get better graphics and access to all Xbox games and a lot of PlayStation games now

@@jsteezus or play on steam deck too!

@@martindescoteaux9288 no thanx i want to play at 4K on my tv at 60 fps and not at 720p 60 fps low/medium settings and don't want to spend 1000$+ on a decent gaming pc, only to be gimped. I'll buy Series X and PS5 Digital editon for best gaming experience.

@@jsteezus Trouble with PC is that most multiplayer games have cheaters making it useless to me for gaming.

@@jsteezus on PC you always have to tweak games to get rid of stutters, like disabling player's Drivatar Paints to fix stuttering

They certainly didn't care about the audio - the music has some decent selections but they've gone and censored the shit out of half of the songs so it's nothing at all like the artform was intended to be :(

It works in photo mode. TAA will enable if the image is still.

It 100% does not use TAA in photo mode.

@@FatSacks it works on my end. Whenever you stop moving the camera the image automatically smoothes out the edges if the camera is stationary.

I know what you're talking about. It still doesn't apply taa until after you take the screenshot and then upload it to their dumb service.

.... what do you consider a grown up?

Is it the fact that it's a hotwheels expansion that bothers you here, too many toys in your toy? You sound like a teenager that thinks they're getting too old for fun things because they're "for the children", yet you play video games and kids are one of their largest demographics. Grow up.

@@necrosis07 A Person that thinks they're above everything is the one that stagnates.

It won't be. We already get the base game so I don't mind buying the dlc. Can't have everything on GP.

There is an in-game Hot Wheels progression screen (accessible via the menu) where you can see the list of things you can do to earn the points to progress to the next level

It's all spelled out on the screen for the class, fill out the main goals for the class and you should be good. Usually some combination of winning all of the races in expert difficulty, doing the storyline missions and racing between point a and point b as fast as possible.