Tomorrow’s Forza Horizon 5 Series 10 update has been detailed and explains the changes players will see alongside the Hot Wheels expansion that is also due to be released on July 19. Developer Playground Games also showed off a map of the DLC area showing a large play area with four different zones and a lot of the customary bright orange Hot Wheels track.
Forza Horizon 5 Series 10 Update Extreme E events and rewards
Playground Games hasn’t yet revealed the full patch notes for the Forza Horizon 5 Series 10 update, but they have revealed a collaboration with Extreme E to include the fully-electric Extreme E ODYSSEY 21 e-SUV and four weeks of Extreme E events in the Festival Playlist. Each week between July 21 and August 17, players will head to a new X Prix location in Mexico to take part in Dirt and Cross Country races in the ODYSSEY 21. Completing these events and challenges will reward Extreme E race suits in different colors and variants of the ODYSSEY 21 in the team colors of those competing in the real-world 2022 Extreme E Championship. The variants are:
- 2022 Extreme E #99 Chip Ganassi Racing GMC Hummer EV – Available in the Autoshow for 700,000 Credits
- 2022 Extreme E #58 McLaren Racing – Earn 80 PTS on the Series 10 Festival Playlist
- 2022 Extreme E #44 X44 – Complete the “Boardwalk” Danger Sign Seasonal PR Stunt on the Series 10 Festival Playlist between July 21-27
- 2022 Extreme E #42 XITE Racing Team – Complete the “Extreme E Island Prix I” Seasonal Championship on the Series 10 Festival Playlist between July 21-27
- 2022 Extreme E #23 Genesys Andretti United – Complete the “Bulevar” Speed Trap Seasonal PR Stunt on the Series 10 Festival Playlist between July 28-August 3
- 2022 Extreme E #5 Veloce Racing – Complete the “Extreme E Energy Prix I” Seasonal Championship on the Series 10 Festival Playlist between July 28-August 3
- 2022 Extreme E #55 ACCIONA | Sainz XE Team – Complete the “La Cruz” Danger Sign Seasonal PR Stunt on the Series 10 Festival Playlist between August 4-10
- 2022 Extreme E #22 JBXE – Complete the “Extreme E Copper Prix I” Seasonal Championship on the Series 10 Festival Playlist between August 4-10
- 2022 Extreme E #6 Rosberg X Racing – Complete the “Costa Rocosa” Speed Zone Seasonal PR Stunt on the Series 10 Festival Playlist between August 11-17
- 2022 Extreme E #125 ABT Cupra XE – Complete the “Extreme E Desert Prix I” Seasonal Championship on the Series 10 Festival Playlist between August 11-17
Forza Horizon 5 Hot Wheels content for everyone
Regardless of whether players purchase the Hot Wheel Expansion or not, all will get new car customization options that include the Hot Wheels signature redline tire compound, 12 new Hot Wheels Spectraflame colors and new Metal Flake paint options featuring customizable lowlight and highlight. There will also be the Shaken, Not Stirred Showcase Remix which is a new take on the Buggy and the Beast Showcase event, Players get behind the wheel of the 2013 Hot Wheels Baja Bone Shaker, and those that complete the playlist will get a Hot Wheels Rip Rod.
Meanwhile, the Forza Horizon 5 Hot Wheels map presents four different areas, all linked with more than 200 km of the customary Hot Wheels tracks. The Horizon Nexus, the hub of the Horizon Festival, is suspended in the center of three other biomes – the rocky Giant’s Canyon, the frozen tundra of the Ice Cauldron, and the lush greenery of the Forest Falls. The expansion also comes with ten new cars.
In terms of bug fixes and gameplay improvements, the Series 10 update introduces a new save recovery system, which allows players to restore a previous backup if the game loses the most recent save data, but this will not recover any saves lost before the update goes live. Other issues that have been fixed include:
- Players could lose credits if their Auction House bid failed.
- Horizon Tour autocompleting itself in the Festival Playlist.
- TAA on PC causing wheels to appear blurry or transparent.
- Certain cars feeling more unstable to drive when using simulated steering after a physics change in Series 9.
- Inability to challenge players to head-to-head races in The Eliminator if they were using the Telemetry overlay.
- Players could timeout when joining an EventLab event in co-op.
- Players could be returned to Freeroam during Horizon Open.
In other news, the latest Fortnite leak suggests a Dragon Ball crossover will soon be coming and will include character skins for Goku, Vegeta, and Beerus. Elsewhere, Xbox Game Pass adds six more games throughout the rest of July 2022, including As Dusk Falls and Watch Dogs 2.
