A new set of Festival Playlist has dropped for Forza Horizon 5. The open world racer supports its live service via a 4-week long series (because seasons are referred to as the literal change of seasons in the world, taking place each week).
Playground Games may have stopped counting, but we aren’t yet, so this is what’s added to Series 12, Horizon Road Trip.
Horizon Road Trip is focused on longer races, with longer championships (the extra ones are five races long instead of three) and an extra Goliath-type route, which means one really really long race.
Each week focuses on one of the four driving disciplines covered in Forza Horizon: Road Racing in the summer, Cross Country in Autumn, Street Racing in Winter and finally Dirt Racing in Spring.
Forza Horizon 5 Horizon Road Trip Series 12 New Cars
Five new cars are added with the Horizon Road Trip series, three being new to Forza. And boy howdy, oh jolly, we’re getting new Audis.
The EV Audi RS e-tron, and the four-door Audi RS 7 make its Forza debut, alongside the Lynk & Co 03+, a sedan by the Chinese-Swedish marque that’s part of the Geely Group (which also owns Volvo, Lotus and Malaysia’s Proton).
Here’s how to earn all five of the new cars added in the Horizon Road Trip Festival Playlist:
- 2021 Audi RS e-tron GT – 80 points on Horizon Road Trip Festival Playlist
- 1991 Bentley Turbo R – 20 points during Summer
- 2021 Audi RS 7 Sportback – 20 points during Autumn
- 2021 Lynk & Co 03+ – 20 points during Winter
- 2018 Nissan Sentra NISMO – 20 points during Spring
The game update, live now, also adds new customisation for your characters: hearing aids. They are four different types of hearing aids, with multiple designs each. It’s a cool addition and folks that wear them get to represent themselves in the world, and another effort by Playground Games on accessibility- this is a game where you now have American Sign Language turn on as an option.
(There’s also a cursed “Tankito Doritos” outfit with no way to unlock it yet)
Plus, two new bodykits have been added to existing cars. The 2019 Hyundai Veloster N gets a subtle widebody by ADRO USA, and the 2010 Volkswagen Golf R gets a widebody kit by APR Performance.
It’s not much, but the recent Forza Monthly stream hints that more are to come.
The update is now live and patch notes can be found, which include some fixes and changes (thank god, car class filters are now sorted in alphabetical order). You can find them here.
The update after this will see Forza Horizon 5 celebrating the series’ 10-year anniversary.
Source: Forza