Why Does Forza Horizon 5 Feel So Dead? 

it feels dead because you practically get everything at the start and there's no progression

Another important point to mention: the nights lasts way too little. It always bothers me

Pedestrians would make such a big difference to the game’s vibe, all of the houses out in the wilds would be so much better if they just had a couple sitting on the porch or something

there just needs to be more interaction with the community. there's no other way to go about it. they're gonna fall out of favor if we continuously get disappointed like that

Would be cool if we could see planes and helicopters flying around the map...and let the volcano get active once a while..a game mode of "aviod the lava flow" would be cool too

I feel like you don’t even know Horizon is a music festival anymore

I think you can sum it up quite simply. The biggest problem with Horizon 5 is the atmosphere. The game doesn't have any. That's why the game feels so dead.

For me there are three main reasons why I think FH in general is feeling dead after a while 1: As you mentioned, the traffic should be way smarter and there should be a lot more traffic so you can have fun trying to drive as fast as possible through it. 2: You get everything way to fast. You have to play like 5-10 Hrs max to get so much money that you can buy mostly all cars and tune them. It would be way funnier if you had to race races to earn upgrades for cars and so on. 3: Exterior tuning. If we had way more different exterior tunings at every car it would be way more interesting and fun to make car meets.

Atleast the eventlab community is keeping the game alive with custom maps

I actually prefer FH4 over FH5 purely for the map! Driving around in FH4 feels and looks so much better in my opinion. I play mostly on a wheel setup with h-pattern and clutch, so I really enjoy cruising. One of the biggest things missing from FH5 for cruising is more areas where you can park! I actually had to start FH4 all over again, and I'm doing it with no HUD and 125% difficulty on my wheel setup, using the GPS voice to find my way around - it's such a great way to get immersed in the game again. 💯 I definitely think all the Horizon's could do with more life in the world, such as pedestrians (as you mentioned), more wildlife and other forms of transport like planes flying around, maybe more traffic in certain areas? And 100% on traffic having more intelligence - they should be more aware of the players! If you have played the original "The Crew" game, they had a bit of that happening and it bought some life to the game world. I remember seeing military jets and helicopters when you were close to military bases, huge planes landing and taking off near the airport, wildlife, police, etc. Things like that, make all the difference...

To me the original Forza horizon was perfect in terms of story, interaction and everything, a revamped Forza horizon Colorado, with the new cars, physics, and off road and water would be the perfect game

They have a big enough map for road trips like in fh2 so there's no reason to not have them

What i love about the first Horizon is that you HAVE to use the roads. I think the roads in Fh3/4/5 are way too wide, straight and you can just fly across the whole map. No challenge no fun

At least in 4 one thing that added a lot of atmosphere and "liveliness" was that the seasons actually made a huge visual difference. I feel like they swung too far in the opposite direction after people complained about winter and now the seasons seem to barely change anything in terms of visuals. Going from the very green summer to the yellow and orange fall felt great, even if the only thing that really changed in terms of gameplay is a couple of puddles. That also helped set it apart from the other Horizon games, despite the once again very, very similar gameplay. And the previous expansions were a very different kind of atmosphere to the main map, like the snow island in 3 compared to the main map full of deserts, jungles, palm trees and sunshine, and then there's the rally expansion in 5 which is just going to be... more of the same as the main map.

I really miss the highway drag races we had in FH4. It was also great to see huge convoys of players driving around and car shows

I actually started playing horizon 1 and honestly It's the best horizon I've played so far. It has actually a storylike progression.

If they made night long and did underglow that alone would make it better

I think that something we could potentially see in the future horizon games is where you can go on a bridge to another part of the map, for example if you look at fh4 map you can see manny bridges leaving and it would be so cool to be able to drive on them

Game (apart from festival) feels like march 2020

for me its mainly the car sounds that don't work they are a huge improvement from previous games but the quality of them make the cars feel like some sort of toys, especially when you rev them out it would be better if they sounded more like those in asseto corsa

One of the great things about the Lego expansion in FH4 was that the Airport wasn’t abandoned, and i honestly liked that, it made the map feel more alive.

0:42 mate, the autoshow actually plays music, well only if you put radio on, so your safe bet to show it on YT is by playing streamer radio

In Horizon 6 They need to have a better autoshow, pedestrains on the sidewalks like in Horizon 3, Modern cities, people on the beach, and maybe a bigger festival. for me, that would make it more alive.

There might not be any traffic due to limitations with the older Xboxes. Hopefully the next Horizon game is for newer generations cause its really keeping them from potential.

Very good video, thank you!

The sparse map feels like a byproduct of the map being designed with The Eliminator in mind.

This was also most of my complaints when the game came out, I felt bored of it within a week

You must have something changed in your settings, because I can hear the music just fine when the autoshows, whether that be the main festival or the outposts. It's exactly the same as FH4, where the music sounds like it's coming from a boom box in the corner of the garage

What I did recently was turn on all the difficult settings: simulation steering, abs off, tcs off, etc. Honestly made the game a bit more fun

FH3 vibe is still unmatched

I planned to get the game, but got to try it out first when i got a 3 month (1 euro promotion) gamepass subscription. It was really sick, but after 3 months i didn't fell like buying it. I would love to playing it again, but not for full price at least.

FH3 had an amazing atmosphere with animals, a good airfield, a proper city fr, a good desert, a good jungle, car meet-ups!!!!, and especially good pedestrians (incredible map)(incredible game)

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4:30 bro game was developed during Covid

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Honestly they should just chuck in a modern city with pedestrians and traffic like fh3 into the map. Theres already a lot of empty space and wouldnt take too much work as long as they dont make a whole other story for it.

'but the map is so big' and it's full of a whopping: Nothing

I absolutely agree with every statement you have!

It would be cool if there was an option to have characters join you in events or random spawns to challenge you

a massive thing for me i hear no-one mentioning is the roads. they are way too big and don't feel fun to drive on at all, the wideness plus how stable the camera is gives the game no sense of difficulty or speed. taking a look at dirt rally is a great example, because of narrow roads and the great camera movement and shake, you feel constantly on edge and insanely fast even when going only 88mph. the offroad sections are okay but the way the cars handle over them doesn't incentivise proper rallying and doing it with actual rally/offroad cars.

My main issue is i got it on launch and unlocked everything and got rich while the online was still broken af. When the online finally got somewhat functional me and my friends were already tired of it as we already had everything we wanted, and solo play is honestly just uninteresting

Gta just no crime problem solved I like being able to walk around houses and go in a garage and look at all your cars and the customization is great

I agree with your points but what I don’t understand is why FH5 is being talked about so much more than it’s rivals, NFS UB (for example). I really can’t put my finger on why I go to play FH5 again over choosing NFS UB even though the later is a better game in many regards. I liked NFSUB but got bored of it much sooner than FH5. And YT suggests the same pattern, FH5 related content is still be produced more

Trying to see my friends who are in my convoy is difficult. I have to prompt a drag race and finish it with them. Only after the race we can all see each other in the same convoy. Annoying to have to do this all the time.

they should have it so every once in a while you see a supercar or modified car every once in a while

this is why I want fh6 to be based in Japan there is a mix of mountain roads open fields and city's with loads of public transport

And also there is no snow in the winter!it feels so bad and it doesn't make seasons different from each other.but winter in Forza horizon 4 was amazing

The sandstorn wasn't the best but at least it would switch it up a bit

I hear music in the auto show. U do have menu music on, right?

I can’t lie, I never use the radio in FH5, I’d rather have the soundtrack of whatever car I’m driving (yes, even the electric ones) Maybe some people think this is weird, but I don’t ever upgrade or tune cars either so 🤷‍♂️

One good feature that the devs should add to FH6, is when you buy a car, you get to decide which trim you want

The "ancient map" part wouldn't be much of a problem if it was better made, or if only there was some context for it. Or even both, and Zelda Breath of The Wild is the perfect exaple, in that game, Zelda explains to us that the world was almost completely destroyed 100 years ago, and even with that, it still had some proper identity

The muffled music can be fixed with a muffled toilet club sound just saying it would work

Smoke slider, just like fov slider. Low, medium, high. That should be an option. Also adding for slider for console. That would change the game

I feel like the ability to go offroad anywhere kinda makes a map dull. I remember the old nfs maps (Underground 2, MW, Carbon. And horizon 1/2!) so well because you actually had to drive on the roads. You couldn't just hop off into the fields everywhere.

We just need FH1 progression like the wristband system and earning money that was mostly bellow 10K and gatekeeping pries only rewarding u with wheelspins after a level milestone rather then constantly

i honestly forgot this game existed until now

For sure too little traffic in town.

On top of there being no progression, it also didn't introduce anything majorly new to the franchise apart from Eventlab compared to FH4. Eventlab is absolutely amazing and there is a lot to see and experience, but the game itself does very little to promote skilled creators and awesome maps.

the controll of the car change i cant understand it. i was playing on wheel with perfekt settings and over night everything was different , all cars feels like front gear can someone please explain did i do something wrong or was it the update???

no in game voice chat either, despite the menu and driver lists suggesting it exists

I finally got around to playing this game with my mates, but we can't use our own cars, only using the same car as them or borrowing their car if we don't own it, does any more experienced players have some troubleshooting steps for this? had no luck with stuff I have found online

Forza needs an autoshow that actually feels like you're at an autoshow. Every single Forza Horizon game features a non-show autoshow that's really just you flipping through a catalog.

There should be an option or game mode where you can earn money very hard and for start you don't get so much car and so easily.. Like you have a borrowed car and you need to earn your very first own car, and then tune it piece by piece and not instantly go up from 150-200 hp to 700-1000 hp. Everything should have a cost that you can earn really hard. Like in NFS Unbound.

I miss all the FH4 dialog so much

I’m just waiting on TDU3 atp

Easy to complete story Bland boring map design (it’s mostly sand) The festival is quite boring The drag strip doesn’t have any lights so you have to trust that the other person won’t do the 3rd honk early

Since you love racing games and fast cars you might me fan of Fast & Furious series!

the music still plays in the autoshow but its muffled

ive completed all the main story missions.. theres nothing i wanna do, i dont wanna play the game anymore smh.

I think the biggest problem i have with forza horizon 5 is just its lack of variety in the map Like all you have are deserts and rainforests

fh5 is lowkey the worst horizon game out of the series 😅

UK maps will always be clear because it makes it feel for realistic i used to do police chases on FH4 with uk police wraps but it’s dead with mexico feels less real and this applies to all the other features

I think it feels dead because i barely encounter any players only in the festival and occasionally in the highway and players that are too far from you just disappear from the map so you can't use the map to locate players to maybe join them and the map it's so empty, just miles and miles of either desert or arid an dead terrain except the jungle wich i like.

I think the biggest thing is the map for me. Part of me likes that I don't have to worry about trees and lakes everywhere but the other part of me can't stand that it feels like a desert. There's already a desert area that, strangely enough, is at least more fun because of the jumps that offroad vehicles can take advantage of. The big field with grass, big field with sand, and big field with ash all feel like the same big field that covers 70% of the map. I also think they really wanted the eliminator to be bigger than it is, so the map caters to battle royal. Power to you if you like battle royals, but there's a lot of us out there who are sick of them and do not think it works well in driving games. This is the first Horizon title I didn't take the completionist route because 1. I'm not playing the eliminator, and 2. It liked to pick and choose which accolades it tracks. After I tried to spend that 10 million and it did not track I turned the game off and returned only for Hot Wheels dlc for like 2 weeks. Haven't been on since and I have more of an urge to play 3 or 4 over the current game.

i recently bought the game and YT recommend me this

You are 100% Correct Sir!

FH1 did it perfect not only a nostalgia affect but you could host private lobby’s or open For drifting, cruising, racing etc car collisions was on which makes the game feel more inclusive the map was a good mix of city’s and when it was scenery it was beautiful, the soundtrack was easily the best, you could gift cars to friends which made it so fun for people to race on the bridges for pinks bare in mind that game Was 2012 that’s crazy to me FH5 tries to bring life but I feel tried to hard and over saturated what the original game roots where

I've gone back to playing fh4 and to be honest it's been really enjoyable

The main reason is progression also the map feel so empty the car list is not that new most of the cars are recycled from fh4 and for the online experience there is not much to do i dunno why they removed ranked adventure from fh4 and why i can't choose class why i have to matchmake and hope i get the class race i want

The thing that kills the game for me... the fact that they want me to grind for a car once a season, I find this as a complete bore to the game being forced to play or else i wont have the newest car.

Forza need to add real life exhaust after you modified and also add cars that we actually can buy at autoshow

Tight roads would be sick

Needs more traffic. Smaller roads. Needs to be risks to going fast. More pedestrians. More random things in the map sort of like GTA.

They should add more cars on the highway so we can swing in and out of traffic

It would be amazing if i started from the bottom and scale my way to the top. It always feels weird how I start the game and everyone is just having an orgasm everytime anyone says my name.

TDU Solar Crown out soon(ish) guys, don't worry

Let me get out of the car. At least in certain locarions. My character has all these sweet clothes (lol) but they're kind of pointless when you only see them when loading a race

I never understand the perfect reviews of this game.

You can actually hear the music in the autoshow.

To me, the only thing you can do in Forza is step on the accelerator and never let go while causing mass destruction :'D thats just what I do when I get bored of a racing game.. just drive like ive lost my mind

Another thing that annoys me, and I've heard you mentioning this in one of your videos as well. Where is the second expansion? In horizon 4, we got fortune island 2,5 months after the release. And we got the lego expansion about 6 months after fortune island. Now the hotwheels came out almost a year after! And we still haven't heard anything of the second one. It seems a bit lazy to be honest, this will make a lot of people lose attention for the game.

To be honest, I wouldn't complain about the music at the festival side, while there is a way bigger problem you showed... Leaving the garage at a car festival and except for the crowd, there is just noone else. No cars, no nothing... Just empty streets.

I kinda hate that the streets are just straights that get combined, it just isn't fun after 100 gamedays in general forza horizon

Is it just me or is the tram @5:50 on TE's :'D

I was thinking of getting FH5 but then I started considering FH4 too which honestly has nicer scenery imo and not that big difference in graphics Perhaps I should go for completely different title?

Forza Horizon needs to bring back Rob Gorham to choose the songs for the soundtrack. He did that for Horizon 1 and 2 which is why those soundtracks felt so awesome. He actually founded Bestival. And we also need a modern city expansion. And some story cutscenes with cheesy characters.

The main problem is that it's a pc and Xbox game and the last one is a huge limitation because of its max performance.

The overall feel of Horizon 5 is super dead. I wished the mechanics from the previous titles had been added to 5 and the next titles that would make the players feel like they’re apart of the event.

we need forza horizon 6 but with forza H 1 story progression and forza MS 4 car list added aswell