Current Events > Forza Horizon 3 Hot Wheels Expansion topic

(+) Yeah! (+)

Installing the update right now.
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How are you able to play that game? It freezes whenever I start it up
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no update on Windows store but I have the expansion installed, reeeeeeeeeeeeee

Behaviorism posted...

How are you able to play that game? It freezes whenever I start it up

game hasn't froze since October for me
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https://www.forzamotorsport.net/en-us/news/fh3_hot_wheels_available
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Behaviorism posted...

How are you able to play that game? It freezes whenever I start it up

I have an Xbox
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*clicks Check for Updates*

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*clicks Check for Updates*

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*clicks Check for Updates*
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Xbox tells me FH3 is ready to start
*start*
*get to title screen*
*press A*
"Installing...please wait"
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nearly 40 minutes of Windows updates

rise from the grave in the name of satan
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Update: I have turned rewind on and sim damage off. Those big jumps will fuck your car up without you even knowing it.
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oh, I never use sim damage in this game, especially since crashing into things is encouraged

kinda getting used to the tracks since I set up like 99% of the cars in my garage to sacrifice top speed in favor of... everything else, so I only have a few cars that are viable on these tracks

other than that, to quote Todd Howard: "it just works"
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one thing that's annoying me is that when your car gets reset when you fall off the track, the transmission doesn't reset to first gear for whatever reason
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I still wish this game was available on win8. I didn't trust it enough to upgrade to 10
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is it me or the stunts are stupidly easy compared to those in the base game?
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also, not a fan of the booster pads, since 99% of the time they send you straight to your car's top speed when you're barely on the 3rd gear

I've managed by switching to the highest gear the car's transmission has available before driving over one
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Yeah, I can only imagine manual is a mess.
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oh, and don't get me started on driving on all these loops in the cockpit camera >_>

generally all you have to do is look ahead and maybe the sides every once in a while to race, but now when you enter loops you're mostly driving blind because all you get to see is orange plastic

on a positive note, I love this thing but there doesn't seem to be anywhere in the expansion to use it properly


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also, not sure if the AI feels more aggressive because it drives more aggressively or because it seems like it acts as if your car isn't present on the track
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So I just finished every race (with all objectives) and the goliath (only championships remain), yet one question lingers: who was this made for?

My gripe is that the tracks are built in a way there really isn't a car in the game that can handle everything in them.

They demand a vehicle that has a high top speed, great handling, and a suspension that can withstand 500 ft jumps, and honestly, the only car that can more or less do all of those at once is the Jeep Trailcat. The S2 hypercars can't handle the jumps, everything below S1 class either can't go fast enough or doesn't have good enough handling.

On top of that, the AI doesn't know how to handle the tracks for the most part (I saw plenty of cars falling off the track) and is so aggressive I was wondering if I was playing online.

So I'm ok with how much I paid for it, but I wouldn't pay full price for it. It wants to be a casual, fun diversion, but the tracks demand too much for what the cars can do with a semi-realistic handling model.
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I get that. I think there was a legit gripe about the main game not offering any real challenging roads, and, well, you can't say that about this.
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To be honest, it would be much better if there were way less jumps. I don't really have an issue with the corners it added.

I loved the cars it added, though, so there's that.
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Is it fun? I'm gonna start playing it tomorrow night. >_>
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They actually made the PC version playable. I ought to update my review.
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I mean, it's fun, but it's gimmicky overall, plus all the stuff I mentioned >->
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also, I raged so hard when this happened



I managed to finish under two minutes on my next attempt, though >_>
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also, the McLaren 470...something, I think, it's a pretty sweet car for the expansion's tracks

at least on the S1 class

RWD, handles great, high top speed, great launch

shame about the jumps
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No RWD car handles well in this game, kek.
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Solid Sonic posted...

No RWD car handles well in this game, kek.

They do, you just need to learn how to handle the throttle and not floor it all the time. The issue with AWD cars on tarmac is that they understeer because the front wheels are powered. That's why every single purpose built racecar is RWD.
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Hell yeah 8th place!
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Solid Sonic posted...

They actually made the PC version playable. I ought to update my review.

Yep. Really happy with this patch. Used to get 40-50fps sometimes, but now it's 55-60fps.
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snesmaster40 posted...

Solid Sonic posted...

They actually made the PC version playable. I ought to update my review.

Yep. Really happy with this patch. Used to get 40-50fps sometimes, but now it's 55-60fps.

Actually I think they stabilized the game before this revision. I took a short break from the game and came back to it and it stopped crashing and even my lower end machine that runs a 960 can run the game at 60fps on Medium now.

I don't know what they changed in this version.
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Solid Sonic posted...

snesmaster40 posted...

Solid Sonic posted...

They actually made the PC version playable. I ought to update my review.

Yep. Really happy with this patch. Used to get 40-50fps sometimes, but now it's 55-60fps.

Actually I think they stabilized the game before this revision. I took a short break from the game and came back to it and it stopped crashing and even my lower end machine that runs a 960 can run the game at 60fps on Medium now.

I don't know what they changed in this version.

They made it use more CPU cores, so my FX-8320 runs it better now. I have it on high settings with MSAA off.
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Suvi and a Jeep, sitting in a tree


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Weird thing: there's no traffic on the bucket list events, and you can't turn it on for blueprinted ones.

So no fun near miss challenges at a billion miles an hour.
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well, there's zero traffic in the expansion, only terrible drivatars
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this was not designed to be driven >_>


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Mine still crashes to desktop. Yes, my drivers are up to date. Too many racing puns.
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no AWD? no problem?


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Okay so...the game crashed for me last night when I played the expansion for the first time.

I think they effed it up more.
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I haven't had any CTDs, but I don't have any of the expansions either.

I guess I should share a screenshot in this topic

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I only got one crash when going from the showroom to the main area once, but that's about it
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