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I love how they don’t even mention they’ll lock oit anyone who didn’t install it on an NTFS drive like every other Forza game.
Looks like my 3070 is finally coming up against the wall. Only other game that made it chug was Oblivion Remastered. Maybe I should have gotten a 9070XT when they were $530… ah well.
It’s literally still above the requirements for high graphics at over 60 FPS. I assume this is not even considering DLSS or frame gen, which would double performance.
Consoles are the base experience. On Series X, Horizon 5, which is 5 years old, runs at the equivalent of medium graphics settings at best, with resolution scaling. Performance mode for a constant 60 makes even more compromises. Horizon 6 will likely be worse.
3070 is crushing that, you’re good. For a while in fact. And that’s just assuming you’re playing only brand new games.
Cool to see Intel on the recommended graphics cards
Agreed! I’ve definitely got my eye on them for my next GPU upgrade (someday)
No interest in the game but I do appreciate the notes giving expectations on performance there.
Now I wanna know where an Xbox Series X lands in those requirements. All I know is it has 16GB of RAM. I don’t know where its CPU and GPU fall, though.
I probably won’t buy the game. It looks fun, but I never got much into the Forza Horizon games. I think they are worth playing, but I’m real picky about driving games. I played a bit of Horizon 5 because I had GamePass at the time. When it was $15, it made sense. Since it’s doubled, it no longer does. Maybe if they let you keep a game every 1-3 months, I could see it, but without ever owning any of the games… nah.
FH1 was absolutely brilliant. Combined with a racing wheel, it genuinely felt like the Forza Motorsport series had been let loose, literally.
Each subsequent FH release has just been… cool, I guess? The next four iterations weren’t really groundbreaking and it felt like map packs than new games.
The soundtrack has consistently been absolutely banging though
I have no idea what the soundtrack is outside of hospital music, as I never change it
The graphics are better, new & more cars, some new event types, physics improve. It’s released infrequently enough that it allows the game to breathe and make you want more. Yeah it’s pretty similar, but like where do you go with the open world concept to evolve? I really don’t know. Add more of a story?
To be fair, in driving games, you dont really want to be changing a whole lot about the driving model once everyone agrees its perfect. Good driving mechanics are always good, and bad driving mechanics are always bad. The only thing worse than bad driving mechanics is when the previous game had perfectly fun driving physics and the next game changed it, making it objectively worse.
Which happened to Need for Speed. A fun arcade racer with predictable physics, Underground 2 had perfected the driving model Black Box had made. Slidey enough to make entering a drift feel easy and controllable, but still predictable enough to master over time. Then in Most Wanted they changed the driving model and added insane amounts of grip for some reason, making the driving model feel more like Mario Kart. Then every game after that one got progressively worse, until we land at the absolute bottom of the barrel games made by Criterion, who make all their driving models feel like they came from a mobile game with tilt controls. Like Unbound.
I dont believe a driving game with good and fun driving mechanics needs to really change anything other than the map, music, and adding cars for subsequent games.
The soundtrack has consistently been absolutely banging though
While the set list is great it annoys the hell out of me just how much they censor the songs. I understand taking out actual curse words considering the rating (but then why choose that song to begin with) however in 4 they started censoring more than just that. They censored god in the line “play out playing god” and high in “I’m flying high, on the wings of a wasted life” just as a couple examples and there’s plenty more.
Same word, different situation entirely, but I’ve long been used that the radio edit for Panic at the Disco’s I Write Sins… Was always “haven’t you people ever heard of, closing the g*d damn door”
Haha I remember in 3 the Chvrches song ‘Never say die’ has the titular ‘die’ quietened out all through the song
It weird, why include the song itself if you’re gonna censor out part of its title line anyway
RIP Radeon 5000 series? maybe this game needs mesh shaders or some other DX12U feature?
i wish these games were good:(
the downvotes… i just miss how much fun the Forza Horizon series used to be, it’s not like there aren’t reasons to dislike it. gamers are fucking weird
Hope your wish comes true. We will know it, once the games are out.
Maybe I just don’t know how my system is in context, but it’s cool to see it would comfortably fit in the Extreme RT category. Didn’t peg a 9070xt for that performance spec, but I won’t complain.
Won’t be on Horizon anyway, shit is…bad imo, for a big racing fan. The driving just kinda sucks, and such an emphasis is placed on off-road driving, you’d think it would have any kind of emphasis placed on how it feels and handles. But nope, shit is just…bad. I don’t expect 6 to improve in any meaningful way either, because why would they need to? The hype is insane simply because Japan and Cherry Blossoms.
Horizon 5 rallying feels great, but only on long-travel suspensions that don’t bounce over the road like a cartoon.
Try the RJ Anderson #37 Pro2 truck, give it 4WD, soften the suspension/tires, fatten the rear tires and take it on that downhill mountain course. It’s utter bliss. I also like the Ford Ranger T6 on flatter courses, and the Rally Fighter for RWD fun.
…But yeah, FH5 is too arcadey. Cross country is just miserable outside of the slowest class. The campaign is so sycophantic and stupid, and MP matchmaking racing is utterly broken. I’ll probably skip 6 too.
Forza just kinda lost its racing appeal, I think. The settings are great, the visuals are great, the vibe is usually good, if a bit corny, but Forza has just turned into a hardware showcase with a good-if-dated physics model there. I don’t think anyone is playing Forza Horizon because the racing is great, and that is kinda the crux of my issue with it.
Which sucks, cause I played the HELL out of FM2, FM3, especially FM4, and they have just kinda coasted since. The most recent Motorsport was supposed to boast some robust online ranked racing, and it was the most measly ranked system in existence, penalties weren’t consistent, and the game has basically died out, even as of 2024.
Yeah. Motorsport should have been right up my alley but… what the heck are they doing with MP?
Last I played, the only half-usable race was the mixed class one, as it was medium length instead of short. It meant soft tires weren’t the uber-end-all meta, that the start isn’t such an apocalypse, and that one troll who knocks you off doesn’t end your whole race because it’s like 3 laps. And that you actually have time to pass.
I think they did away with it, and with no reason to touch the SP campaign with the stupid AI… I just quit? Kinda with the feeling you get after mediocre fast food. “Why did I eat that?”
Which sucks, as some of the cars are so much fun. I love the can am monsters, the ancient Le Mans cars, the quirky supercompacts and such, all sharing a circuit. What a waste.
If they require winslop then I sure as fuck won’t be buying it.
It has “play on Steam Deck” so I guess they will ensure you can run it on Proton.
This is great. Big titles acknowledging and directly supporting the platform. I hope EA’s newly hired anticheat guy delivers Linux compatibility soon enough for the next FC. My kids want to play it and I won’t be buingy a Playstation for as long as I can hold it. Fortnite will still be an issue however. And cloud gaming has these queues, unacceptable.
Edit: To the people down voting, please read the article before down voting.
Uh, I think you responded to the wrong post.
This is a post about Forza Horizon 6, a racing game not made by EA, and released by Microsoft.
I don’t see any mention about Linux or anything, this also doesn’t mention Playstation or Fortnite
I don’t see any mention about Linux
It does mention Steam Deck
Its in the small text on the top right. “Play on Steam Deck”
They specifically mention Steam OS devices. I got excited that Microslop recognized the existence of Steam OS devices, and wished for the same at EA and others.
Ok, but where does EA and Fortnite come in?
Edited parent post for clarification.
