Forza Horizon 5 Update Patch Notes Today (1st, February)

Forza Horizon 5 has received a massive update today which makes a plethora of changes to the game.

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This all-new update doesn’t add any new features as such, but there are quite a number of bug fixes and performance improvements, alongside some quality of life changes. Here are the complete patch notes of the update.

Forza Horizon 5 Update Patch Notes Today (1st, February)

Game Stability

• Miscellaneous stability, memory, and performance fixes
• A crash could occur when the game was installed at a path that was too long (Steam only). An error message will now appear instead.
• Fixed a bug that could block progress on Horizon Stories, with later chapters not unlocking despite meeting their requirements
• Fixed a crash that can occur when deleting a Rival Notification in the Message Center

Multiplayer

• Various fixes for server stability and bandwidth optimisation to improve the reliability of all online game modes
• Players will no longer lose their Skill Chain when they disconnect from Horizon Life
• Addressed a bug that would prevent friends from appearing in the Online Player list
• Fixed the Online Player list displaying the incorrect car and player level for other players in the session
• Addressed a bug where Horizon Arcade “Stay with the group” message could get stuck on screen after the event finishes
• Fixed a bug that could cause the “Finding a Session” notification to persist on screen
• Addressed a bug where the car names may not appear in the Online Player list
• Fixed a bug that could cause the Horizon Tour matchmaking HUD to display when matchmaking for the Trial
• Players will now be placed at the Horizon Tour sign up location after their tour is complete
• Added an on-screen message when matchmaking into Horizon Open
• Prevent invites via LINK while in the Horizon Open session, waiting for the next event to start
• Fixed a bug that could cause Horizon LINK invites to exclude the event type
• Players can no longer accept LINK invites to PR stunts they have not unlocked
• LINK can now be used to join a Seasonal Championship
• Fixed a bug that allowed more than 6 players to enter a co-op event via LINK
• Players can now respond “Thanks ” after being sent “Good Luck” via LINK
• Prevented the Horizon Adventure screen from appearing during Horizon Arcade events
• Added audio cues to the Mini Mission HUD in Horizon Arcade
• Updated Horizon Arcade messaging when quitting the session
• Fixed a bug that could cause the Mini Mission HUD to stay on screen once the round was complete
• The Pinata Streak Bonus in Horizon Arcade now scales with player count
• Group Waypoint will now be cleared if set to a Horizon Arcade event that closes
• Group Waypoints are now removed when the player is no longer part of a convoy
• Fixed a bug that would prevent players from accessing the map in Eliminator
• Fixed a visual glitch with the sky, that can occur in Eliminator during a season change
• All players will now see all Horizon Outposts during Eliminator, regardless of whether they have unlocked them yet
• In Eliminator, if a player disconnects after you challenge them you are now considered to have won the challenge, rather than lose it
• Fixed inconsistency in Team names in the end of race leaderboard

Wheel Compatibility

• Fixed missing rumble on Wheel input devices on PC
• Fixed a bug that could cause the player to get stuck in Change Input Mapping settings after changing input for a Steering Wheel
• Fixed a bug that could cause FFB to be lost on the Logitech G920 after suspending the title
• Added wheel mapping for Hori Force Feedback Wheel
• Addressed a bug that would prevent some handbrake peripherals from working consistently

Exploits

• Rebalanced some Car Mastery tables to remove exploit loops. This will refund player’s Skill Points on any affected cars.
• Fixed an exploit which allowed players to earn Skill Points whilst AFK
• Fixed an exploit with Wheelspins

PC

• Improved the distance texture quality when running the Ultra quality setting on PC
• Improved the foliage quality when running the Ultra quality setting on PC
• Turning off screen effects now turns off chromatic aberration
• Fixed chromatic aberration becoming too extreme with ultra-wide resolutions
• The Limit Frame Rate option now works as expected
• Fixed a bug that caused longer loading times on PC when the framerate was unlocked
• Adjustments were made to the Target Hardware Profiler to better select the correct graphical preset

Cars

• Fixed hole near wiper on Zenvo ST1
• Fixed car reflectors clipping with rear bumper Toyota Arctic Cruiser
• Fixed Toyota Celica where applying JSP Motorsport Sport Rear Wing flips vinyls upside down
• Fixed Lamborghini Espada broken textures on wipers
• Added missing ForzaVista pins on Jaguar XJ220S
• Fixed Jaguar XJ13 cockpit cameras being too dark
• Addressed cockpit camera being too dark for convertibles when the roof was down
• Fixed rear brake position on Hoonigan Porsche 911 which was causing clipping issues
• Fixed collision on Reliant Stabilisers
• Fixed AO on the back of the Can-Am Maverick
• Fixed Trial – Street Front Bumper being overly dark
• Added new engine audio for the Pagani Zonda Cinque.

Accolades

• Fixed the ‘Stay Frosty’ and ‘Shopping Spree’ Accolade unlocks
• Fixed Proof Positive, Canyon Statue and Statues beneath Blue Water in El Camino not unlocking for some players

Fixed the Horizon Arcade accolades which required you to complete a specific Arcade type, not unlocking when it was the third round of a Horizon Arcade

• Fixed some Rival accolades unlocking without beating the Rival ghost
• Fixed some Rival accolades not unlocking when racing a P2P event
• The ‘Jump to Reward’ option in the Accolades menu will now take you to the accolade, rather than the category

EventLab

• Previously created routes can now be edited
• Difficulty bonus payouts from EventLab now scales with the number of Drivatars in the event
• Players can now add and edit checkpoints when using Route Creator at a Street Race location
• Players can now search EventLab events by keyword
• Editing a text string in EventLab (such as notification text) will no longer delete what is already there
• Added a “2020s” car restriction option
• Added Chinese car restriction option
• The flask poster icon (indicating custom rules) will now appear correctly after publishing the event
• Fixed up some assets that were missing collision
• Tooltip added for the “Add Rule” pill
• EventLab events can now be started via LINK
• Additional EventLab creations will be surfaced at all activation points
• Fixed a bug that caused surfaced EventLab events from being duplicated on the event select menu
• Crowd will no longer disappear after quitting EventLab event creation

Festival Playlist

• Addressed a bug where Seasonal Championships wouldn’t complete if the player changed difficulty settings on the Pre-Race menu
• Players can now match make into an Horizon Open event directly from the Horizon Open tile on the Festival Playlist
• Prevented progress on the Festival Playlist Weekly Challenge being reset after the user experiences a server error
• Fixed a bug that caused PR stunts to disappear after the weekly season change
• ‘Weekly Challenges Completed’ stat was fixed to show the number of completed challenges, rather than chapters
• Seasonal Collectible challenge progress will now persist between boots of the game
• Treasure chests and seasonal collectibles are no longer counted towards the Bonus Board collection stats
• Players must now take part in a complete Horizon Arcade (complete 3 rounds or all 10 minutes) in order to complete the Festival Playlist challenge
• The Weekly Challenge will no longer show incorrect progress towards its chapters when driving a car that does not meet its requirements

Other

• Added simplified Chinese Voice Over
• Fixed a bug that would allow users to redeem multiple manufacturer rewards from the Car Collection screen
• Some items in the Forzathon Shop will now only be purchasable a limited number of times
• Livery Editor’s default scaling option has been changed to ‘non-uniform’, in line with previous titles
• Added “Mobil” decal to the Livery Editor
• Head to Head challenges in Freeroam are now cancelled if the opposing player gets too far away before accepting the challenge
• Fixed several instances of overlapping text in some languages on the Tuning screen

A new option has been added to the Video settings screen to open the HDR system calibration app (console only)

• Voice over that plays when finishing a Super7 event is no longer cancelled when returning to the Super7 screen
• Prevented users from being able to erroneously publish Super7 events with both props and traffic enabled
• Fixed a bug that caused controller rumble and haptics to be lost after exiting during Horizon Open signup
• Improved car shadowing when entering tunnels
• Fixed a bug where players sometimes couldn’t make progress on V10 Horizon Story if they earned 3 stars in a previous chapter.
• Fixed some text overlapping on the Race Scoreboard in some languages
• The game will now show an explanation popup when trying to select exclusive emotes or clothing, rather than a marketplace error
• Players will no longer be announced as the winner after quitting and losing to the selected rival
• Notifications showing the CR earned in an event will now show after all events, when returning to Freeroam
• Fixed a bug that would remove car control from the player if they switched cars while changing the convertible roof state
• Fixed a bug when rewinding on the finish line in Rivals, causing an impossibly fast lap time

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