It is dry as we reach the winter season in Mexico like Forza Horizon 5 rolls through another season with a number of new challenges, rewards and activities. Series 10 – Winter is action packed, and we’ve got the cars you need – and the music to help you out – if you want to complete it all.
Series 10 – Winter of the Forza Horizon 5 Festival Playlist brings a ton of weekly challenges, all in the form of The Trial, numerous seasonal championships, PR stunts and more. There’s also Hot Wheels stuff.
Part 1: #Forzathon Weekly Challenge – Porsche Soul
This week the festivities kick off with the usual car challenges, and the challenge this time involves the 2020 Porsche Taycan Turbo S. This is a car that I object to, actually, because a turbo needs exhaust gas to drive it, and the Taycan is electric, so the name is meaningless.
But collect 185,000 credits in the Auto Show (or complete the Horizon Open challenge) to get behind the wheel.
Chapter 1 – Soul, Electrified
Get in your new “whip”, as the kids almost certainly don’t call it these days, and go for a drive.
Chapter 2 – Spirited Power
For the next challenge we need to earn six stars at speed zones. This should be pretty easy, but to help I tweaked the car a bit (within the S1 class barrier) to create part code: 171348713.
With a top speed of 220 mph, it should have no problems.
Chapter 3 – Cool Colors
This is a pretty simple challenge – Paint the car. Not like Daniel-san, just go to the Auto Show and paint it.
I think lime green…
Although I actually went for a Hot Wheels pink!
Chapter 4 – Record Holder
Apparently this car holds the world record for “Longest Drift in an EV” (not a hotly contested record, one suspects), but now we need to run an Ultimate Drift or E-Drift skill to close out this week. Pull that handbrake.
Part 2 – Weekly Challenges
A new week, a new collection of things to do in cars. The old EV vibe is still very strong, with the Porsche Taycan being not only an award but also a required car for some events. Hopefully normal gas guzzling service will resume soon.
Oh, and the Event Lab is back. Did I mention how much I love these events?
The Trial – C-Class Heroes
This week’s Trial promises to be a quiet affair, limited as it is to C class & 00 cars.
The series is a road racing series, so I went with an old favorite of mine road racing, the 1961 Jaguar E-Type. A little tinkering under the hood (not the hood) yielded a part code of 749596800.
This week’s prize for uniting a group of gamers into something that looks like a team is a Saleen S1 from 2018. It’s definitely not a C Class Hero.
Eventlab – Honz12 presents Beach Row Street Circuit
Oh god it’s back.
We have to take an A-class car, any A-class car, and win the race to be victorious. Since it was Street Racing, I apparently went for a Hot Hatch, and there’s only one car for the job: a 2017 Focus RS, part code – 151963655.
Only two laps and no competition so take it easy.
If you win this race you get the Snap emote, so totally worth it.
Seasonal Playground Games – Survival
Let’s play a game, and at least this week’s a good one.
Survival sees a team of zombies, and a team of non-zombies, battle to stay alive or capture their opponents. This is the best Playground Game, I think.
The car this week is any EV, up to a maximum of S1 Class 900. And what did we just tune? A Porsche Taycan. I would use that, as win or lose, it doesn’t matter.
To win we get another extremely non-electric car, a Jaguar Mk II.
Speed trap – Canyon Pass
Anything Goes, S2 Class 998, a 192 mph target, nearly 20 mph faster than the three star target. blimey.
This is what the Veyron needs and the share code is: 513611257.
Approaching from the east seems easier, but you’ll have to maintain the speed in a few turns. This is very tricky, be warned, so it will take a few tries to get it right.
Mastering this achievement will give you a Super Wheelspin, so hit it.
Danger Zone – La Cruz
At first glance, this seems like a tall order – D-Class 500, Anything Goes, and a 140-foot distance needed to clear the prize. I used a bone-in Ford Capri RS3100, hit the ramp at just over 110 mph and flew 144 yards on my first try.
The price for this is actually a good one, another Extreme-E car, this time the number 55 car.
Season Championship – Extreme E Copper Prix I
Working according to the age-old principle of “We made it last week, let’s keep the ball rolling!I am going to recommend the No. 44 X44 car for this championship (and the next) with a part code of 164790581.
Win all races, cumulatively, and your reward is the No.22 Extreme-E car.
Season Championship – Extreme E Copper Prix II
Same challenge, same car, with the added fun that winning the first race in this championship will also solve this week’s Treasure Hunt. Just look at that tunnel is my advice.
Win the championship? How does a Yellow Extreme-E Race Suit grab you?
Season Championship – Unplugged
For a championship called “Unplugged” it seems somewhat ironic to have to compete in an electric Porsche Taycan, doesn’t it? Anyway, get in your Taycan (part code: 171348713) and win either the championship, or the best two out of three races in a convoy.
The reward for quietly scurrying around is a (non-electric) Porsche Cayman, which seems like a fair trade.
Part 3 – Other Challenges
Now the bits that defy description or categorization – the other bits. We have a photo challenge, a treasure hunt and an open race to look forward to, so let’s get started!
Photo Challenge – #COPPERCHASE
You know that Porsche Taycan we’ve been using all week? Well, take it to Copper Canyon and snap a photo to complete this week’s challenge.
As always I will upload my effort (complete with sparkly new paint job) and location below.
Oh, and your reward for this? A Farid Rueda Bear Cap. I hope that Bear is the animal, not a hat with a naked artist on it…
Treasure Hunt – Practical Metal
“Copper is gaining in electrical conductivity and being used across the country,” reads this week’s cue, and I suspect it’s a combination of Copper Canyon, an EV, and a Cross Country race.
Coincidentally, the first race of the Extreme-E Copper Prix II Challenge is a Cross Country race in Copper Canyon, and winning this race unlocks the treasure chest.
It contains 100 FP which is nice.
Horizon Open – Land Miles
To complete this week’s challenge and save yourself a chunk of change by purchasing the Taycan, simply complete a Cross Country race in the Horizon Open Custom playlist.
Choose which class you prefer and just finish the race, you don’t have to win or anything.
Surprisingly, the prize is a Porsche Taycan Turbo S.
Part 4 – Hot Wheels Events
With the Hot Wheels brand fully integrated into Forza Horizon 5 we get some really crazy events to enjoy – and that’s the case here.
Speed Control – Edge of Forest
Another location, same old story. Take an S1 class car and fly past the Speed Trap at a speed of just 260 mph in a S1 class 900 car.
While there are boosters on the way to this speed trap, 260 mph is pretty fast, so we need a car capable of reaching those speeds. Enter the McLaren F1, once the fastest car in the world. With more than 1400 horsepower, it is fast enough. The share code is 160610239.
The prize for screaming through this camera is another Super Wheelspin.
Season Championships – Grand Touring Canyon
When someone says Mitsubishi, like one of Pavlov’s dogs, I immediately think “Evo!”. And so it is here, with the Evo VIII getting the nod, with a stock code of 141172186. With a B-class 700 limit, it won’t be fast, but it should be grippy enough to win.
And your prize for winning this championship (or the usual two out of three if you go up like Kris Kristofferson) is another Super Wheelspin.
There are also the two Series 10 Monthly Events to participate in, with the Tierra Propera Circuit and the Forza EV Airfield Cross-Country Circuit clean laps to nail. You get 4 points for each – unless you’ve already done them. .
As always, with each event you complete, you will slowly and surely work your way up to the free cars for the season and the series as a whole. Winter delivers the Emory 356 C ’64 for 20 points and the KTM X-Bow GT4 for 40 points, while the full Series rewards are those of the N0.58 Extreme E for 80 points and RAESR TS ’19 for 160 points.
Forza Horizon 5 is playable on Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S or PC via the Xbox store. It’s also on Game Pass, while the Hot Wheels expansion costs cash. It’s okay.
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