Kinda overwhelmed?

[ConeHead]

First real entry into the Forza Horizon series and it being my first racing game since Dirt 3. Ive played a bit of the prologue and got my first house. my question is what do I do? I see you can spend quite some times upgrading cars and just driving around but whens a good time to upgrade that particular car you like?

[GeorgeDroid]

whenever you can do a few races youll make majority of your money from wheels spins 100k is usually enough to fully upgrade any car

[Green1]

The minute you like it. You'll be swimming in cash soon. Just hope they get the servers fixed so I can properly enjoy the game. They need to fix other things as well. You'll be amazed when it all gets rolling properly!

[CatNotHuman]

Enter events and go race!!!
You can can go into tuning and select pre-tuned builds and try them out.
I personally have enjoyed this YT channel for a few years now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0cH95YIRRo

[ConeHead]

Originally posted by Green1:

The minute you like it. You'll be swimming in cash soon. Just hope they get the servers fixed so I can properly enjoy the game. They need to fix other things as well. You'll be amazed when it all gets rolling properly!

Okay makes sense. I was just worried to upgrade too early. And yeah I hope the servers are fixed soon. I ran into a player last night doing burnouts and cruising with me so hope to see more of that

[Zero McDol]

You can do whatever you want to do:

Want to race?, there's tracks for that or you can create a track.

Want to do story?, you can run races, do pr stunts, etc for points to unlock more festival sites or upgrade your current festivals.

Want to pvp?, go to the menu and find the, I forgot the name, but it connects you to pvp matches.

Want to do timed events?, they spawn on the map at intervals.

Want to do side stories?, you can drive to it and start the chapters for those stories.

Want to upgrade your cars?, you can do that whenever you want, provided you have enough money. Your car, your build or you can download someone elses'.

There's more, but I'm tired and currently drawing a blank. Basically, you can do what you want. Consider it a combination of a sandbox and a story. The main story is optional, but is there if you want it.

[Cusco]

Anytime you get the cash. You won't find yourself tied to one car in this game, you cannot. The game forces you to switch cars up constantly

[Zero McDol]

I'd advise taking your time and doing what interest you. There's plenty to choose from in this game.

[CatNotHuman]

Ive just been racing my beautiful 2020 Alpine A110, and trying to tune it myself, so far having good results, even if its not a world beater

[J.Jonesey]

I think something I PERSONALLY don't like in this game is the fact they do all the events or most with a more freelance attitude... I preferred the original Forza Horizon where you had to use certain classes and types of cars I think anyway definitely certain classes! But I do love the return to more of a festival vibe as In my experience Forza Horizon 4 really didn't have that...

[CatNotHuman]

Originally posted by J.Jonesey:

I think something I PERSONALLY don't like in this game is the fact they do all the events or most with a more freelance attitude... I preferred the original Forza Horizon where you had to use certain classes and types of cars I think anyway definitely certain classes! But I do love the return to more of a festival vibe as In my experience Forza Horizon 4 really didn't have that...

Check out Rivals, kinda hardcore and you can pick classes

[Tiberius]

The only thing that matter is your car's class. The ai will scale with the class, not the upgrades

[CatNotHuman]

Originally posted by Tiberius:

The only thing that matter is your car's class. The ai will scale with the class, not the upgrades

Idk, change difficultly level of AI and it scales

[Silcaria]

As others have pointed out, the game throws money at you so buy and upgrade whatever you want whenever you want to. At the end of the day, if you ever find yourself short on cash you can always do the custom highway race which nets 1.2m per hour in pure cash. There's also the method of buying the 2020 Supra and using 5 mastery points to unlock it's super wheelspin which is a good way to earn passive income if you just want to play casually and end up finding yourself with extra mastery points that you won't use.

[TheHuskyGT]

I'm not a Forza veteran, but I'm also not a stranger to the series. Played FM3, FM4, FM6, FM7, FH3, FH4 and now FH5. But I kind of agree with OP? The map and number of activities are a bit too much, all at once.

Don't get me wrong, the more events/activities the better, but the map and menus get very cluttered, very quick.

OP: This game is different than older racing titles like Dirt, GT or NFS. Horizon is all about freedom of doing whatever you want, whenever you want however you want. There is really no progression. Just unlocking more stuff to do. And play around with cars.

Every time you fire up the game, just decide what you will focus on that session. It makes it a bit easier and you feel like you're doing something different every time.

About upgrading and tuning, there really isn't a moment to do it. You can pretty much play and finish the game with a single car, without even upgrading it. Every event will adjust to the car you're driving, except for Weekly Challenges which have specific rules.

[Izuzul]

I tend to turn off all events on the map except for whatever I'm doing at the time, just so I can focus.