What’s Good?: Seasonal Events in Forza Horizon 4 for Series 13 Winter
Welcome back to Winter at the Horizon Festival, a magical season that I don’t hate nearly as much as it looks. This overview should be an even shorter read than usual. There’s no real big bad gimmicks and some pretty good Winter seasonals, two of which are Street Scene, and that means I can consolidate the standard advice paragraphs a bit.
The #Forzathon Shop this week (above) is full of good things you should try to pick up if you don’t have them already. If you don’t have the scratch for both, try to prioritize that Nissan ’95 GT-R FE — it’s a strong competitor in its class, and definitely worth your time to fiddle with it if you race Extreme Track Toys, or if you’re just looking for something smooth to grind out some time on the Goliath.
Weekly Challenge: Horizon 3 Anniversary
Continuing through the series and celebrating Horizon’s history, this week’s Challenge vehicle is the 2016 Lamborghini Centenario, the “hero car” from the cover art of Forza Horizon 3. If I’m reading this right, the Centenario was featured in Horizon before its actual road debut. Little bit of history for you there.
You’re tasked with two Road Circuit wins, 5 Pass skills, and 12 stars in any PR stunts. Unfortunately, there are no Road Circuits in the championships this week, so you can’t kill two birds with one stone that way, and you can’t complete the Pass skills at the same time as the Road Circuit events.
The Championships
Like A Boss
If you haven’t looked at some of the potential race restrictions you can set up in your own Blueprint races, there are some interesting ones. This Street Scene S2 (998) series is in a category called “High Rollers”, or cars that cost at least 2 million CR. Oddly enough, the aforementioned Centenario just happens to fit into that category, and performs pretty well in this series. Maybe you can get those Pass skills done here, since you want to win the championship anyways.
We’re dealing with snow again, so you’ll have some roads that are covered in slippery garbage, and others that have been freshly plowed, and you’ll have to adjust your driving as you transition between them so you don’t do any plowing yourself. (I had more issues on Highland Charge than the other two races for whatever reason, but nothing that can’t be overcome.)
Midnight Battle
Hope you like Street Scene! This time it’s Track Toys at 900. The reward car for this series is the 2002 BMW M3-GTR, which has been offered before, and if you already have it, it’s as fine a choice as any to run. The same caveats apply as in the previous series; you’re racing at high speeds on garbage roads, and need to manage traction just as much as anything else.
Down Under
The third and final championship pays homage to Horizon 3’s Australian setting by racing only Aussie vehicles. If you don’t know which ones those are (I didn’t), there’s only about six of them in the game, and most are various Muscle cars. All of them can be purchased from the Autoshow for less than 150k, but I raced a 1985 HDT VK Commodore that seemed to do pretty well — despite having the lowest price tag of the six.
There’s two Dirt races followed by the Beach View Cross Country race, and while “best two out of three” does apply, you might still feel like you’re floundering a bit when you suddenly have to drive through a river. Don’t worry. We’ve all been there.
