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[SlimySnake]

Insane that it now has nearly 200k concurrent users despite a $120 price tag. People really like this series.

I am convinced that GTA6 will launch at $70 but the early access version will be $120 or $200 and millions will pay for it.

 

[Mercador]

I got the AMG One from FH5 but not the FH4 reward.

And you've played both on the Xbox versions?

 

[Topher]

Unfortunately no

Dang. Not much point in Deluxe then

 

[Mercador]

On windows its required....yes. (not on linux) Also had to re-install the xbox app and starting the game once through it (after that you can start via steam)...otherwise would have get errors ingame. Thats all soo horrendously bad.

How they can force that out if it's not required to play? I guess it's only for gathering information for marketing reasons..? Otherwise, why would it run normally on Linux..?

I hope it won't be to difficult to launch later today, otherwise I'll refund and wait a few patchs.

 

[Sardaukarama]

Spent 2 hrs last night trying to fix the no save data (E:17 error code) which was stopping me from launching the game ,Turns out I had to re-enable windows and the xbox app telemetry data using o&o shutup10++
Really enjoyed playing though but the character creation really is an abortion. My dude just looks scary with his polygon bald head ,hearing aid and false leg
Looking forward to exploring the game some more!

 

[pudel]

How they can force that out if it's not required to play? I guess it's only for gathering information for marketing reasons..? Otherwise, why would it run normally on Linux..?

I hope it won't be to difficult to launch later today, otherwise I'll refund and wait a few patchs.

Dont ask me what this "gaming service" is for. Never needed that before.

But when you finally manage to make the game work...its pretty damn fun. I am enjoying it.

 

[BennyBlanco]

Insane that it now has nearly 200k concurrent users despite a $120 price tag. People really like this series.

I am convinced that GTA6 will launch at $70 but the early access version will be $120 or $200 and millions will pay for it.

And this is just people that opted against getting it on gamepass + the premium upgrade which would've been like $80 cheaper

I bet a shitload of people did that too

 

[Vaga]

Dont ask me what this "gaming service" is for. Never needed that before.

It's that shit xbox app for windows. I also had to update it to get into the game. And even with the app closed I get double notifications for each achievement, one for steam, one for xbox.

And you've played both on the Xbox versions?

FH5 on PS5, FH4 on PC xbox.

 

[LostDonkey]

And this is just people that opted against getting it on gamepass + the premium upgrade which would've been like $80 cheaper

I bet a shitload of people did that too

In my humble opinion it's because these developers never really miss. I bought the premium edition for full price because I respect what they do for my favourite genre of gaming and they deserve it. It's like a love letter to car culture. Like an episode of top gear you can play. And then some.

Every game in the series has improved upon the last, and this one is the peak right now.

I have a PS5 pro and I will probably buy it again when it releases just because.

I feel it's THAT good.

 

[adamsapple]

And this is just people that opted against getting it on gamepass + the premium upgrade which would've been like $80 cheaper

I bet a shitload of people did that too

Do we know if FH6 has an in-game player counter like FH5 did? Would be a good indicator to see how many people are paying for the premium version/upgrade.

 

[CuteFaceJay]

Ayo the map is huge and the music slap! This game is major chill!

 

[Gonzito]

Only the deluxe edition, or people who buy the deluxe upgrade for game pass, have it today.

Regular street date is the 19th.

hear you

 

[Mercador]

FH5 on PS5, FH4 on PC xbox.

It seems they didn't fuse all versions. I'll try it out later today, all my previous saves are on Xbox.

 

[SaiyanRaoh]

And this is just people that opted against getting it on gamepass + the premium upgrade which would've been like $80 cheaper

I bet a shitload of people did that too

That is what I did. I'll buy the game proper at some point. Hopefully it will be discounted. At least I have the premium stuff and expansions already knocked out from buying the premium upgrade.

 

[SupremeJ]

This is an interesting and I just read: The game's new "Horizon Life" system supports up to 72 players in a single freeroam session.

 

[Fess]

Do we know if FH6 has an in-game player counter like FH5 did? Would be a good indicator to see how many people are paying for the premium version/upgrade.

Iirc it wasn't a counter but the number of people up on the leaderboard for the first race. Should be possible to look at similar stats here.

 

[adamsapple]

This is an interesting and I just read: The game's new "Horizon Life" system supports up to 72 players in a single freeroam session.

What was it before?

 

[nikos]

I don't know why they didn't keep MSAA in this game. None of the AA methods look particularly good. Even DLSS and DLAA don't look great, especially on things like power lines, for some reason.

There also seems to be some weird draw distance/LOD stuff going on. Image quality is definitely leaving something to be desired.

 

[prinz_valium]

There are no Bugatti's in this game lol

No Teslas either.

But we'll get car packs at some point

 

[Gonzito]

I don't know why they didn't keep MSAA in this game. None of the AA methods look particularly good. Even DLSS and DLAA don't look great, especially on things like power lines, for some reason.

There also seems to be some weird draw distance/LOD stuff going on. Image quality is definitely leaving something to be desired.

Use DLSS Preset L for that. It will get rid of aliasing in power lines

 

[HeisenbergFX4]

Do we know if FH6 has an in-game player counter like FH5 did? Would be a good indicator to see how many people are paying for the premium version/upgrade.

198,907 players have done the first speed trap

 

[hououinkyouma00]

I booted up the PC version (Xbox Store) just to see how much better it looks/performed and was surprised by how bad it ran. No matter what I did I kept getting a system RAM issue where it was using 18GB of 16GB.

I'm just gonna stick with the Xbox version anyways since this is 100% a Tv game for me.

 

[HeisenbergFX4]

Do we know if FH6 has an in-game player counter like FH5 did? Would be a good indicator to see how many people are paying for the premium version/upgrade.

Scratch that, the 200k players my filter was set to America only, global shows 773,135 people have completed the first speed trap

 

[adamsapple]

Scratch that, the 200k players my filter was set to America only, global shows 773,135 people have completed the first speed trap

Holy shit, getting to a million it's still not even the after-office hours of the first early access day.

 

[AGRacing]

Extreme RT @4K. DLSS Performance. 5800X3D + 5070TI
Look at them RAMs!

 

[adamsapple]

Extreme RT @4K. DLSS Performance. 5800X3D + 5070TI
Look at them RAMs!

I mean .. I get that to a point, lol.

4K *and* DLSS will probably need a lot of juice.

Based on some other testing, dropping to 1440p instead of 4K and Ultra instead of Extreme is a pretty big relief on resources and performance.

 

[SupremeJ]

Extreme RT @4K. DLSS Performance. 5800X3D + 5070TI
Look at them RAMs!

XBOX Mode?

 

[SupremeJ]

What was it before?

Meanwhile, I read that we can meet many more people on the map, since the game uses multiply servers and dynamically changes the players near us on the map. So theoretically we can meet hundreds of players in a few hours of playtime.

 

[adamsapple]

 

[HRK69]

Happy rock hunting Gonzito

 

[HeisenbergFX4]

Holy shit, getting to a million it's still not even the after-office hours of the first early access day.

Yeah I think a million will be easy this weekend, just hit 800k on that first trap

 

[adamsapple]

Yeah I think a million will be easy this weekend, just hit 800k on that first trap

I think at this rate it's gonna hit a million before Friday is over.

 

[HeisenbergFX4]

Not my video but here's how to get a very good car early in game

https://www.instagram.com/reels/DYXKQ6TCFx6/

 

[Don Julio]

I really tried to get into these because visually it's beautiful and I love cars but I played FH5 for a week and never touched it again :/ . Same with 4

 

[clarky]

Hows the progession this time around? A mess or a bit more focused like they claimed?

 

[pudel]

Hows the progession this time around? A mess or a bit more focused like they claimed?

Its a bit more focused due to this "armwrist" progression...yep. But there is still lots to see and discover off the "main quest"...side missions, barn finds, treasure cars or just modified cars for sale on the sideway. You still get lots of awesome cars and credits...and there is still the wheelspin. But somehow I like the whole balance!

 

[clarky]

Its a bit more focused due to this "armwrist" progression...yep. But there is still lots to see and discover off the "main quest"...side missions, barn finds, treasure cars or just modified cars for sale on the sideway. You still get lots of awesome cars and credits...and there is still the wheelspin. But somehow I like the whole balance!

Biggest issues for me with this franchise is the unfocused progession and low stakes. Smoking about the lovely map is awesome but the racing bit not so much. Big fan of Japan though so will pick it up at some point. Seems like everyone is enjoying the game though, best thing Xbox puts out by a large margin.

 

[MMaRsu]

Extreme RT @4K. DLSS Performance. 5800X3D + 5070TI
Look at them RAMs!

Yeah it performs really well tho but thats to be expected since their previous games were so well optimized as well

 

[BennyBlanco]

I got some weird error when I booted the game asking me to update my intel drivers. So I did. And I still get the message.

 

[SoloCamo]

For AMD gpu users the latest drivers are an absolute must. I went from 55fps on the built in benchmark to 85fps at 4k Native all extreme (no RT) on a RX9070 and 11900k.

 

[adamsapple]

 

[Vaga]

Anyone else with the GPU stuck at ~80% utilization? Only time it goes to 97% is in main menu.

 

[DarkShadowXI]

Few questions :

Anyone tried to redeem loyalty cars with the Steam version?

Why we must install Game Services of Microsoft on the PC Steam version?

Also, anyone tried it on the Steam Deck?

Thanks a plenty!

Mine were redeemed automatically.

My MS account must have already been connected to my Steam account. I didn't manually do anything, I just had a pop-up show up early on into the game that said "here are all your Forza loyalty cars".

 

[pudel]

Beautiful game!

 

[SoloCamo]

Anyone else with the GPU stuck at ~80% utilization? Only time it goes to 97% is in main menu.

What CPU & GPU, also what resolution?

 

[BennyBlanco]

That welcome pack R class Ferrari is insane. I just used it for a speed trap and to mess around for 5 mins but sheesh. Sense of speed is much better now.

 

[Vaga]

What CPU & GPU, also what resolution?

I figured it out, it was because of frame gen. Disabling it maxes out the GPU.

 

[Darchaos]

The game is just Chefs kiss, that is all.

 

[SoloCamo]

Ok after playing a bit this game is absolutely carrying the torch and this new setting is amazing. Also not sure where people are getting the handling complaints, if anything this feels slightly more realistic than FH5 - but don't get me wrong it's clearly still focused on arcade style. Also the performance from a launch title is absolutely stellar and I'm doing way better than I anticipated on my setup, even with RT on. For those trying to run RT on AMD at least, RT medium and max look near identical but the performance delta is huge. I'm averaging over 100fps with RT set to med, FSR 4.1 to quality at 4k with everything else on Extreme and I'm just on a RX9070 with a very mild oc / uv, so it's still slower than a 9070XT in RT.

 

[Mercador]

I've decided to keep it since I know I will play it on release

Spoiler

and I'm weak

.

Map seems smaller than FH4 and 5 or it's just me? More compact, perhaps because of the city.

Now I want to play Persona 5 and watch Evangelion.