Forza Horizon 4 Catch-All

Here, will this make the wait easier?

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Is there a way to buy the bonuses alone for early access? Since I have Gamepass I’m not going to preorder the full game. But I plan on buying the DLC.

That makes the wait worse. Interesting that they're dishing out 2 cars each week.

BlackSabre wrote:

That makes the wait worse. Interesting that they're dishing out 2 cars each week.

Reading between the lines in various interviews and marketing materials, driving and maintaining player engagement in a game-as-a-service style was a big focus this time around -- which is interesting, because after the continuing struggles they've had over the last few years both in Horizon and Motorsport trying to find the right balance, they've also committed to no micro transactions in the game at all. Or at least, no car tokens or paid wheelspins -- sounds like they still will be selling the treasure map cheat, and I'm not sure whether or not they'll be selling character customization items. I suppose it makes sense regardless of their choices along that avenue, though, when you consider that every first party release now also serves as content for Game Pass, which means continuing player engagement is hugely important even if you aren't selling much in game.

Also,

Different perk tree for every car, gosh that's going to really wreck my life!

Over on the Forza fora, Xbox folks are saying the game will unlock at 00:00 Eastern on the 28th for NA folks. A German player said the Xbox store showed him 00:00 CEST, and a UK player said 23:00 on the 27th. So for the ultimate edition, it looks like some time around zero AM local on the 28th is the time. AU/NZ players get the jump on everyone else!

For my part, I'm assuming 9PM local time tomorrow, but I have not seen confirmation on the windows store.

BadKen wrote:

AU/NZ players get the jump on everyone else!

MUAA HAA HAA HAA HAA HAA!

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Actually wait... I'll more than likely be asleep... you know.... because of Work and all... gah! Curses!

After watching this and his coverage of Dragon Quest 11 and the Xenoblade DLC, I'm starting to think that Tim Rogers might be my new favorite and maybe I should go watch any other video reviews he's made.

My god this game looks amazing. Trying to talk myself down from buying the Ultimate Edition since I’ll get it on game pass.....

I’m assuming you can buy VIP separately if you have the Game Pass version of the game?

Docjoe wrote:

My god this game looks amazing. Trying to talk myself down from buying the Ultimate Edition since I’ll get it on game pass.....

I’m assuming you can buy VIP separately if you have the Game Pass version of the game?

I've half considered canceling Gamepass just so I can justify buying this early.

Well, my curse with Forza continues. Downloaded the game ok. Now it won't even run. Shows splash screen for 2 seconds, then nothing. Apparently I'm not alone here and this has also happened since Forza Horizon 3.

Windows is up to date. Ran WSRESET. Downloaded another store app and ran that as apparently that works for some people. Still nothing.

Just once, Microsoft. Just once I'd like to play without issues. I'm at a loss of how to fix this? Surely if other people are having the same issue then it's gotta be a fix for it right?

Were you able to run the demo? Have you restarted? Did you try adjusting system sound settings?

Demo was fine. Restarted multiple times. Haven't adjusted sounds settings though.... what should I adjust them to?

11.

Heh... well, I don't know for sure. The things I seem to remember from the demo are:

- turn off Spatial Sound
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- ensure that "Disable all enhancements" is not selected (but individual enhancements can be on or off as you choose, afaik)
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- change the sample rate to... something that works (changing to 44.1 then 48k worked for me)
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OK, will give that a go when I get home. At work now so have to wait. *sigh* Just was kinda hoping it would just work fine. Demo was fine, no issues, so yeah, not sure why it's failing.

So when I try and run the game, I get this in the Event Viewer under System:

Unable to start a DCOM Server: Microsoft.SunriseBaseGame_1.187.929.2_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe!SunriseReleaseFinal as Unavailable/Unavailable. The error:
"5"
Happened while starting this command:
"C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.SunriseBaseGame_1.187.929.2_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe\ForzaHorizon4.exe" -ServerName:SunriseReleaseFinal.AppXtkd2atfxzeqx8366ah1yws2z78mgh5d8.mca

I've tried so many other things. Redownloaded another windows store App. Ran the WSRESET.exe and then restarted the PC. Logged in as a different user. Etc.

Nothing seems to work. Pretty sure I'm cursed with Microsoft Games. :/

That really sucks. For a software company, the experience just getting their games downloaded and running on PC is consistently crap, at least at launch. I know how frustrating that is, especially when you’ve paid extra to enjoy a game early. Hope you are able to get it up and running soon.

That really sucks!

But, from the hour and a half or so I played last night, the game is (predictably) really, really good. And I didn't even set up my wheel yet! The biggest problem is that it kept me up about 45 minutes later that I wanted since I was having too much fun barreling around the countryside in my WRX exploring the new terrain.

Just one more skill chain, you know?

Also, if for anyone else who may be a fan of Hospital Records, they'll actually be releasing a soundtrack this time around: https://www.hospitalrecords.com/news...

Why? Well, the Hospital radio station on the last two games each featured a small number of new/exclusive tracks and mixes amongst a larger amount of already released music. This time around, though, it's almost entirely new music across the board, including Fred V and Grafix's bespoke dynamic soundtrack played during the opening of the game (posted in various places around the internet as "Sunrise Seasons Mixes," although only the related but different Auckland Sunrise appears on the soundtrack's track list).

BlackSabre wrote:

Well, my curse with Forza continues. Downloaded the game ok. Now it won't even run. Shows splash screen for 2 seconds, then nothing. Apparently I'm not alone here and this has also happened since Forza Horizon 3.

This is why I gave up on Forza 7. I actually enjoyed the game, but literally every time I launched it I had to go through the wsreset hoop, or the download-another-app hoop.

Eventually I found a surefire way to make the game launch was to open apps on windows 10, uninstall the Hoonigan DLC pack, go to the game's page in Windows Store and reinstall the Hoonigan DLC pack and then start the game.

Sometime after that I got tired of the ridiculousness and just stopped playing.

So when I finished the intro my drivatar got out and *gasp* she was a woman!!!!!!!! Then she turned around and talked to two other women!!!!!!

This is an outrage, an outrage. Please point me towards the appropriate reddit, so that I may cry my salty man tears.

Agent 86 wrote:

So when I finished the intro my drivatar got out and *gasp* she was a woman!!!!!!!! Then she turned around and talked to two other women!!!!!!

This is an outrage, an outrage. Please point me towards the appropriate reddit, so that I may cry my salty man tears.

Please tell me she wasn’t an Asian woman because we all know they can’t drive!

/s

BlackSabre, have you checked to make sure all the Xbox Live services are running? They should start automatically, but sometimes they don't. In Task Manager, use the Services tab and sort by name. Scroll to the bottom and make sure anything starting with "Xb" is running and not stopped. You can right-click an item to start it. I have xbgm, XblAuthManager, XblGameSave, XboxGipSvc (that may just be for the controller) and XboxNetApiSvc.

If nothing else works, get a support ticket going with Microsoft. You paid a big chunk of money for this game. It should be working for you.

The lighting in FH4 is freakin amazing.

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Then you notice the tree...

I just got into the 'real' part of the game, when you become a Forza member or something like that. Anyone thinking of starting a club or whatever they're called? I'm playing on PC and my Xbox friends list is full of names I don't recognize from ten years ago.

Today is our anniversary in the Bismarck house and it turned out to be a great time to be looking wistfully at a video game when Lady Bismarck walked in and said "Soooo... I didn't know what to get you..."

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Hah, nice, Bismarck!

BuzzW: I just got into the "real" part of the game too, but I'm not much into multiplayer. I do like the co-op Forzathon stuff though.