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00:00:28Hello and welcome to the second of our Forza Horizon 4 streams live from Playground Games and this week we're
00:00:36taking a look at Autumn but now to introduce the stars of the show we have Ralph the creative lead
00:00:41and Ben the art director. First of all, what is Horizon 4?
00:00:46What is Horizon 4? Yeah, it's the game we announced at E3, it's the fourth in the Horizon series and
00:00:53this time we are in Britain as we have shown you last week and we're going to show you more
00:00:57of this week.
00:00:58And also in this game, seasons change, everything is a thing we are saying a lot. Last week we showed
00:01:03you summer, I guess you'll see how the world changes this week as we show you much more of the
00:01:09world, some bits of the world we haven't shown you yet in Autumn.
00:01:12And the map as well at some point. Ben, trees, I know you love them, you talked a lot about
00:01:17them last week of summer, what is new with the trees in Autumn?
00:01:21So yeah, so we've well and truly established that reputation for myself. Yeah, so we'll be seeing obviously a very
00:01:28autumnal palette with regards to the trees but beyond that as well you'll be seeing all the kinds of things
00:01:33that you would associate with the autumn season.
00:01:36So lots of ambient moisture in the environment, lots of standing water on the roads and the terrain, lots of
00:01:41fallen leaves on the ground as well. Lots of things that are going to affect the experience of driving around
00:01:46in the environment as much as the general look.
00:01:48And we did talk about mud last week and I believe we are going to show mud. What a promise
00:01:54to make.
00:01:56We have got a lot ahead of the stream, right? We've got showcases, we have Forzathon as well which we're
00:02:02going to be taking a look, cross-country races, loads and loads of things.
00:02:06to take a look at. But guys, remember, ask your questions that you have in the mixer chat, in the
00:02:11comments, let us know what you have to answer, that you want to know about Forza Horizon 4 and we'll
00:02:15answer him right here and also remember this is a developer build of the game so there may be bugs
00:02:20and little things that happen but I think we should kind of get into the gameplay because that's what we
00:02:25want to do.
00:02:25We should, we should. The bugs are just part of the fun of it, right?
00:02:28Let's see what's up, let's see what's up, let's take a look at the autumn.
00:02:34Awesome, so I think, I think the best thing to let you guys do is kind of talk, what is
00:02:38the car that we've got?
00:02:39So yeah, we are, so we're in a different player house from last week and we have got a Jeep
00:02:44Grand Cherokee Trackhawk, he read from the top of the screen.
00:02:48What Andy just did there is he applied one of the new off-road body kits that we have brought
00:02:57to the game in Forza Horizon 4, I am reliably informed there are about 12 of them in the game
00:03:01that you can apply to some of the more extreme off-road vehicles that are great for the world of
00:03:07Forza Horizon.
00:03:08And Andy is supporting one of them now as he leaves his house with little care for property damage and
00:03:18we are in the Highlands, we are in the north of the map which we haven't really shown anyone yet
00:03:25in an area of the world that's kind of bits of beautiful Scotland, right?
00:03:30Yeah, so there's two specific areas that we used as reference, so there's Glencoe, which people don't know, like Google
00:03:37that place, it's an incredible looking part of the world, amazing vista, so it was a real obvious choice for
00:03:42us in terms of location selection.
00:03:43But there's also a place called Rannoch Moor, which again is another Scottish location, so this is a bit of
00:03:47a mash-up of those two areas which we've sort of selected the best bits from and created this section
00:03:52of the map.
00:03:54It looks stunning.
00:03:55Yeah, and also you'll notice we wanted to show you guys something about the verticality that we've hinted at before
00:04:01when it comes to this particular part of the, well, this particular game, especially versus what we had in Horizon
00:04:073, so we really listened to the community, we knew that the guys wanted something that had a bit more
00:04:11verticality associated with it.
00:04:12That's the barn find right there as well. Spoilers, yeah, that's where that guy is.
00:04:17The first one, if you're obsessed with finding all the barn finds, they're in Horizon 4.
00:04:23Who built that at the top of a mountain?
00:04:26Where else would you put one? This guy.
00:04:32Yeah, as Ben was saying, much more vertical world than I think we've ever built before, which is great when
00:04:38you're showing off the Scottish Highlands and the Lake District.
00:04:41It really benefits from it. And I know our fans have been asking for more mountains, more mountain roads, switchbacks,
00:04:50and certainly this game delivers them, which is wonderful.
00:04:53Well, it's great with off-road vehicles as well. And I remember last week he promised something to the viewers,
00:04:58right?
00:04:59You said it's going to happen, alright, and it's taking a look at the world map for the first time,
00:05:04because you see it, it's a huge world.
00:05:06Like, can you talk us about it? It is a huge world, yeah. So we're going to show by popular
00:05:11demand the world map, so that's where we are sort of north-east of the world.
00:05:16And as we move south, we're down into this lake district, which we showed you quite a lot of last
00:05:22week.
00:05:23You can see, I think this is a pretty full map. I think I'm right in saying that we've kind
00:05:27of unlocked a lot of stuff that's on the map there.
00:05:30And people will see, I think, the things that they're looking out for. I know a lot of people were
00:05:34asking about the Goliath and whether it was going to return.
00:05:38If you notice there, it has. A really cool thing I think we've done this time, as well as the
00:05:44Goliath, we have a bunch of really massive routes.
00:05:47There's the Gauntlet, there was the, I've forgotten the name of the other one, the Titan is there as well.
00:05:51So there's lots of really big routes for people who like big routes in Horizon games, which is great.
00:05:57And there's Edinburgh as well. And Edinburgh, yeah.
00:05:59Also, there's loads of comments as well, because one of the big things I've noticed is trees.
00:06:03Alright, so Ben, you'll be happy when people agree with you in the comments. Are you lusty gaming? I love
00:06:08trees, Ben.
00:06:09So you've got loads of tree lovers across there. It's not just me, it's not just me.
00:06:12I don't blame you, they do look incredible as well. But we're actually getting up to a bit that I
00:06:16think everyone gets really excited about in Horizon,
00:06:194, it's a big part of the game, showcases. So Ben is going to leave us for a little bit
00:06:23now.
00:06:23Yeah. We're going to be joined by Aaron, who's going to talk us through showcases.
00:06:27So thank you very much for talking to us about trees, Ben.
00:06:31But thank you, Aaron, for joining us. And can you just tell us a little bit about showcases in Horizon
00:06:384?
00:06:38Yeah, certainly. So for those people that don't know what showcases are, they've been like a pillar of the Horizon
00:06:48games.
00:06:49up until this point. And what we've done in Horizon 4 is push them to the next level with what
00:06:58we've got.
00:07:00Using what Ben mentioned earlier in terms of the verticality compared to Horizon 3, it's going to make a big
00:07:08difference.
00:07:10No, I'm pretty excited as well, because I've always wanted to know, is one of the things, what's kind of
00:07:14your thought process of kind of going into making these showcases?
00:07:17Well, we always say at the start of a Horizon game, and definitely at the start of Horizon 4, like,
00:07:22where do we go with the showcases?
00:07:24You know, how can we top what we did last time? I think we did some great showcases in Horizon
00:07:283.
00:07:29And there was some head scratching at the start of Horizon 4, like, what can we do?
00:07:35I think that the showcases we've got in the game, we showed one at E3, we're going to show another
00:07:39one now.
00:07:39And I don't think we're going to show any more until the game is out and we'll allow people to
00:07:43find them for themselves.
00:07:44But I think that the showcases we've got in this game are just spectacular. And you said earlier, like, they
00:07:50turned the whole formula up to 11.
00:07:52As I think we'll see now with the behemoth.
00:07:57Right, let's get into it. I'm kind of, because I sort of saw a little bit of this earlier, and
00:08:03I was like, kind of, I think it's the first reaction you always have, you just kind of, like, scream,
00:08:07like, whoa.
00:08:08It's like when, you know, when, like, the music comes here.
00:08:10So presumably nobody knows exactly what we're going to be racing just yet, and it's revealed here in this sort
00:08:16of pre-race cinematic.
00:08:17And obviously, at the top of a mountain in Scotland, it is a hovercraft.
00:08:22It is a hovercraft. The perfect natural habitat of the hovercraft.
00:08:30So showcases are quite challenging from, like, a dev point of view.
00:08:34And, like, this one, we spend months on them, really.
00:08:39And they go around, like, all the different teams.
00:08:43So from working on it, I'll go away and then come back to it.
00:08:47And the effects have been on it, or cinematics have done some bits at the start of the race and
00:08:52stuff.
00:08:52So it changes as it goes on.
00:08:55And with all of that, it's really, it is really a team effort for these big showpiece events that we
00:09:02have.
00:09:03It must be really exciting with seasons as well, just kind of, like, seeing them.
00:09:06So, right, should we kind of get straight into the...
00:09:09Yeah.
00:09:09Straight into it. Don't crash this time, Andy.
00:09:11Right.
00:09:12Right, that is the...
00:09:14Right.
00:09:16Also, guys, remember, if you have any questions about showcases, do drop them in the chat as we kick this
00:09:21one off.
00:09:23Right, so, do you want to talk us through it a little bit?
00:09:26Yeah, certainly.
00:09:26So, we've started up at the top of the mountain, as we saw, and we're coming down into this beautiful
00:09:31valley.
00:09:32Big slow-mo jump there towards the viaduct.
00:09:37We had a previous route for this was down by the lakes, which is the general direction we're heading.
00:09:43But in True Horizon style, it wasn't, it wasn't, there wasn't enough.
00:09:49It wasn't down a mountain.
00:09:50It needed, it needed some extra, extra special sauce on it and throw on a hovercraft and this wonderful Toyota
00:09:57truck down the mountain.
00:09:59Because I think we've all thought at one point, what would it be like to race a hovercraft down the
00:10:03mountain?
00:10:04Exactly.
00:10:05And now we, now we get to find out.
00:10:08Bit of inside baseball, actually.
00:10:10The hovercraft was actually, we built it for Horizon 3 and we had an idea for a showcase using it
00:10:16in that game,
00:10:17which we, we just never really got it to work, I guess, is the, is the thing.
00:10:23And it was really only when we sort of started playing, oh, that's nice.
00:10:30When we started playing around with it in this world, again, you know, like around this sort of area of
00:10:36the world in particular,
00:10:38that it started to really come together and obviously making it smash through lots of stuff that, that works as
00:10:43well.
00:10:44Being, being the size of what it is and how hovercrafts move around, they do drift a lot.
00:10:50Mm.
00:10:51Which is going to prove a bit of a challenge for a player, as most of the showcases in previous
00:10:58games have been, say like planes or so,
00:11:01you've either been like them flying over the top of you, whereas this is actually like front and centre, it's
00:11:06right in the race route with you.
00:11:07It's right, yeah.
00:11:08Which is, which is, which is another, another thing to, the deal with.
00:11:13It's just wrecking absolute havoc.
00:11:17Which is a shame because we're coming down to, um, thanks to your 360.
00:11:25Right.
00:11:27Cool.
00:11:27Have we, uh, excellent.
00:11:30Right.
00:11:31So remember this, guys, this is a developer build of the game, so we will kind of just get straight
00:11:34back into the gameplay.
00:11:36But I think it's actually a good opportunity to talk a bit more about Showcase because previous games, it's been
00:11:40one of the biggest features of the game.
00:11:41It's like something that everyone's got really excited about.
00:11:44What's kind of the, with Horizon 4, we've talked about kind of expanding those.
00:11:49What's kind of the next things that you kind of want to do with the Showcase with Seasons?
00:11:53So there's, there's, uh, I think I'm right in saying there's a, there's a Showcase for every season.
00:11:57Yeah.
00:11:57Um, and, um, obviously, you know, different ones make use of, uh, of different, um, uh, of different seasons.
00:12:05Um, and what we're going to do as part of our, um, uh, post-launch, um, is that for you,
00:12:12that note?
00:12:13Or is that for...
00:12:14Do you want to throw me the controller?
00:12:15Do you want to throw me the controller?
00:12:16Yeah.
00:12:17Certainly.
00:12:18Right.
00:12:18Here we go.
00:12:19I can do this while we, uh, while we, while we chat.
00:12:22Um, so Braden is asking, why is there a hovercraft on a mountain?
00:12:27That is a perfectly reasonable, uh, question.
00:12:30Well, when you, you can tell us, is this just like regular occurrence when going around the Scottish Highlands
00:12:33is kind of like seeing a hovercraft, like kind of go flying down.
00:12:36Being from Scotland, I can confirm that that happens a lot.
00:12:39It happens a lot.
00:12:40Um.
00:12:41Why not?
00:12:42Oh, indeed.
00:12:43Indeed.
00:12:44Why not?
00:12:44This is Horizon, so...
00:12:46So we are just turning off our notifications so that hopefully, um, that doesn't happen again.
00:12:52Uh, yeah.
00:12:54Right.
00:12:55Here we go.
00:12:56This is, this is what...
00:12:58Wait.
00:13:00We're switching boxes.
00:13:01We're switching boxes.
00:13:03It works.
00:13:04Um, yeah.
00:13:04But to your question earlier, another thing that we're going to be doing, um, post launch,
00:13:08and we've been talking a little bit about this, uh, is continue to update, uh, the game with,
00:13:13with new things.
00:13:14Yeah.
00:13:14With quests on existing gameplay.
00:13:16Um, on that sort of monthly cadence, which comes from having seasons lasting a week each,
00:13:21and therefore four, uh, you know, a full year lasting, uh, pretty much a month.
00:13:26Uh, and one of the things we're going to do with the showcases, I think, is, uh, is kind
00:13:29of remix them, um, post launch so that you can play them a bunch of different ways, you
00:13:34know, different times of day, different season, different vehicles, um, and really sort of,
00:13:39um, uh, get more challenge and more value out of these, uh, these events.
00:13:43Yeah.
00:13:43So the one we saw at E3 as well with the, with the bikes is, there was that thread the
00:13:47needle
00:13:48moment.
00:13:48Is there like other bits and pieces like that we, we, that we can expect as well?
00:13:52Cause that was really exciting even though it crashed.
00:13:54There is honestly some, uh, nuts stuff coming up in showcases, but kind of like I said at
00:13:59the top, I feel like having given away, uh, two of them pre-launch is enough.
00:14:05You mean this kind of ease back?
00:14:06Yeah.
00:14:06Let, let players find and discover themselves.
00:14:09Cause there is, there is legit one showcase in there, which I think will blow people's minds
00:14:13nobody is going to be expecting it.
00:14:15Um, but kind of the fun of it, um, is, is waiting for people to experience that themselves
00:14:20at launch.
00:14:21Yeah.
00:14:22It's kind of like a tease as well.
00:14:23It's just like, oh, you've got, we've got one that will absolutely blow your way, but
00:14:26you'll have to wait, right, until, uh, 28th, 28th of September, if you've got the ultimate
00:14:30edition.
00:14:31And then the 2nd of October.
00:14:32That's right.
00:14:32Alright.
00:14:33If you've got extra game pass or a release of the game.
00:14:36Um, there's a question there actually that I want to take about soundtrack, uh, from Makusha.
00:14:41I've been hearing, I've been asked this question a lot on Twitter as well.
00:14:44I feel like we, we need to speak to it.
00:14:46Um, the, the situation with soundtrack is that it, it gets worked on really, really,
00:14:50um, right to the last minute.
00:14:52Uh, basically, you know, there's, there's a lot of moving parts going into Horizon soundtrack,
00:14:56which is why we always generally announce it around about launch date.
00:14:59Uh, and that's what we'll be doing this time.
00:15:01Uh, obviously we're playing, uh, with music off.
00:15:03Um, uh, so, you know, so that's the, that's the situation with music.
00:15:09Stay tuned on that one.
00:15:11Obviously music remains an incredibly important part of Horizon.
00:15:14Um, our soundtrack is shaping up really, really well and we'll announce it later.
00:15:18So, shall we, um, with that, shall we have another crack at the showcase
00:15:21or shall we, uh, have, start having a look at, uh, Fortsport?
00:15:24Let's move on, I think, because we've got a ton of stuff to, to, to get through.
00:15:28Um, and we were, we were pretty much at the end, uh, there.
00:15:31Um, it would be great to show some people, um, how we're doing with, uh, Horizon Life.
00:15:35Yes. So, um, Aaron, big thank you for joining us as well and showing us showcases.
00:15:39I'm really excited to see some more.
00:15:41Uh, Ralph, I believe this, you're, you're off for the rest of the week now as well.
00:15:44I am. Yes.
00:15:45So you will return next week, but thank you very much for talking us through there.
00:15:49We're now going to be joined by another Ben and Mike, uh, to talk through, uh, Forts of Life.
00:15:54So thank you very much and we'll see you in a little bit.
00:15:56Remember guys, if you've got any questions, do go ahead and drop them in the comment section
00:16:00because, uh, like Ralph and the team are also looking at them and answering them
00:16:04and we'll be answering them right here on stream.
00:16:06So go ahead, put them through, ask anything that you want to about Fortsport.
00:16:09Forts of Horizon 4 especially awesome season.
00:16:12But there was a big question last week, right?
00:16:15Ben and Mike, thank you very much for joining us.
00:16:17Is what is your favorite season?
00:16:19So Ben, I think we should start with you.
00:16:20All right.
00:16:21What is your favorite season?
00:16:22That is a tough opening one.
00:16:24It's going to have to be winter, I think.
00:16:25It's winter.
00:16:26So you're, you're kind of the same as Ralph.
00:16:28You're kind of like living in the winter, which we're going to be looking at on stream next week,
00:16:32which is 7 p.m. next Tuesday.
00:16:34Uh, what about you, Mike?
00:16:36Uh, I think I go with spring.
00:16:37I think spring is, uh, basically rains almost as well.
00:16:39Most of the time in spring, which is why all the surfaces have got this really like slick cover of
00:16:44water,
00:16:44which just adds that extra layer of complexity and difficulty to all handling.
00:16:47So it's always a little bit more tricky, a little bit harder to control those powerful rear wheel drive vehicles
00:16:51that I tend to favor.
00:16:52So if you're a terrible driver like me, it means you're just going to go flying off the road a
00:16:55lot more.
00:16:56Maybe swap to all wheel drive for spring.
00:16:58Yeah, that's probably going to be my go-to.
00:17:00But I think E3, there was a huge discussion about the shared world.
00:17:04Um, could you tell us a little bit more about it?
00:17:06Yeah, of course.
00:17:08So, um, yeah, obviously at E3 we showed on stage a shared demo where we had loads of people on
00:17:13stage all playing together.
00:17:14Um, today we're going to show you a bunch more stuff, a load of things we've not shown anybody else
00:17:17before.
00:17:18And we're doing that with the help of, uh, some of our developers upstairs who've managed to put down their
00:17:22keyboards and mouses for a little bit.
00:17:23They've not stopped fixing bugs for an hour or so so they can help us show some, uh, some of
00:17:27the shared world of Forza Horizon 4.
00:17:28Um, I think I'll start off just by talking you through the sort of, um, the sort of genesis of
00:17:34this idea, how I ended up in this place.
00:17:36Um, obviously we're developers but we're absolutely gamers as well.
00:17:40And, uh, as developers I think we know that, uh, when you make a video game into a shared world,
00:17:46you, uh, you bring with it a load of, um, a load of emergent ambient fun.
00:17:51There's things that, uh, real players can do in an online world that you would never be able to create
00:17:54an AI player to do it.
00:17:55Um, obviously we have Drivatars, uh, in our game and we've had those in previous titles and they are brilliant
00:18:00at replicating a racing driver.
00:18:02I think a good thing to do as well is just because we've kind of had a, with shared worlds
00:18:06being mentioned at E3s is actually have a quick look at E3 before we kind of get into shared worlds.
00:18:12So let's take a look at that right now, guys. Let's take a look at the E3 video.
00:18:22Today, I am excited to show you the world premiere of Forza Horizon 4 set in beautiful, historic Britain.
00:18:32Forza Horizon 4 features dynamic seasons in a shared open world and seasons change everything.
00:18:43Forza Horizon 4 is coming to Xbox One and Windows 10 on October 2nd and I am thrilled to announce
00:18:50that it will be included in Xbox Game Pass on the same day.
00:18:56When Horizon started, you know, Ralph came out, the trailer, you know, people were just screaming.
00:19:00So it was great, you know, sitting in the back, Alan and I kind of took a seat back in
00:19:04the mezzanine.
00:19:04Just watching the reaction ripple through the crowd was just fantastic.
00:19:08To make that announced live on stage, represent the team back at Playground as well.
00:19:12Yeah, it was a real thrill.
00:19:18We have just unveiled the beautiful McLaren Senna.
00:19:22Andy, thank you so much for bringing this wonderful machine with you.
00:19:25Hey, thank you, Graham, for having us here.
00:19:27It was an honor to be here and launch the McLaren Senna mixer booth.
00:19:30Tell me the specs for this thing. I mean, just how fast is it?
00:19:32It is incredible performance for a road car. It's zero to 60 in 2.7 seconds.
00:19:38It has, as we said, 800 horsepower, 800 kilograms of downforce, all coupled to a car that only weighs 2
00:19:45,961 pounds.
00:19:47It's fantastic to have it as a cover car for Forza Horizon.
00:19:52Graham, it's fantastic to be here. It's been great to be a part of Xbox here at E3.
00:19:55All right, everybody, there you go. The McLaren Senna, absolutely incredible.
00:19:59You've seen it here. Don't worry, you'll be able to experience it for yourself very soon in Forza Horizon 4.
00:20:17So that was E3, but now let's take a look at that shared world and we can talk about Forza
00:20:23life and everything like that.
00:20:24So what can you do in this shared world and what we see?
00:20:29Yeah, so right now we can see the guys are connected to a shared world.
00:20:32As I said, these are some of our team upstairs helping us out demo this today.
00:20:36When the game launches on October 2nd, you'll be able to join with up to 72 people on our server.
00:20:41We don't quite have that many here now. We don't have that many people that can stop fixing bugs and
00:20:45finishing up the game to come and give us that time.
00:20:46So we've got a few guys here with us now who are going to help us to demo the game.
00:20:51As I was saying earlier, Drivatars were great in races and you can still absolutely race against Drivatars in races.
00:20:57But when you're in the open world, there's an emergent fun and a character that real people can bring that
00:21:03you just can't create with an AI.
00:21:05On last week's show, if any people tuned in for that, we spent a long time just chasing sheep around
00:21:10a field and trying to herd them up onto the white horse.
00:21:13We'd never be able to make an AI system that could authentically recreate that experience.
00:21:17But in Forza Horizon 4, as you're driving around, those emergent experiences just happened.
00:21:21Even now when we're playing in development.
00:21:23I think we've just got a point in saying straight away as well. So there's that auto-ghost feature, isn't
00:21:28there?
00:21:29Yeah, yeah. So Ben, let me take a minute to that.
00:21:31Yeah, cool. So auto-ghost is this really awesome way of just making our online world feel kind of super
00:21:37welcoming to everybody.
00:21:39Because one of the things that is not nice when you go online is people crashing into you, is kind
00:21:44of people griefing you if you're trying to be still or take a photo or something like that.
00:21:48So what auto-ghost does is it says if somebody is not your friend, is not in your convoy and
00:21:53you kind of haven't allowed it, they can't grief you at all.
00:21:56You would just pass straight through them.
00:21:58So this is kind of one of those things that kind of makes it more accessible.
00:22:01Because I think that's been one of the biggest questions that I've seen being asked is that shared world and
00:22:05then offline.
00:22:06So it's just kind of creating that barrier between the two.
00:22:09Yeah, it's just trying to kind of bring the friction and bring the barriers right down.
00:22:13Really cool thing about auto-ghost, we've just done a speed zone there but one like kind of massive piece
00:22:18of community feedback that we got was traffic in drift zones and speed zones.
00:22:23Like regularly people giving us grief about how bad they are.
00:22:26And I will hold my hands up, it does get annoying if you're nailing the perfect drift and you smack
00:22:31headlong into a traffic car.
00:22:32So we've used the same system to ghost out the cars when you're doing the speed zones and the drift
00:22:37zones.
00:22:37So you can kind of perfect those zones to kind of get the perfect experience and nail the drift and
00:22:41get those kind of like really high scores that you want to.
00:22:44Yeah.
00:22:44So also offline mode and shared world, it's a seamless like transition between them.
00:22:50Can you tell us a little bit more about it?
00:22:52Yeah, I think the best thing to do would be to demo it because it's something that we're really proud
00:22:55of.
00:22:55If Andy wants to, he can just pause the game at any point and go offline.
00:23:00Can't get Andy to pause the game though, that's the hard bit.
00:23:02He'll be fine.
00:23:03And instantly everyone will get taken out of your world and eventually replaced with Drivatars who start to spawn in.
00:23:09And this is...
00:23:10So that's it?
00:23:11Yeah.
00:23:11You're now on offline mode?
00:23:13Yeah, there's no waiting around for it.
00:23:14It's just brilliant.
00:23:15Yeah.
00:23:15There and done.
00:23:16No loading screens, no cinematics or anything.
00:23:18You can see a Drivatars just there up the road.
00:23:20If Andy quickly goes back and again reselects Horizon Life, it will find him a session.
00:23:26This takes around ten seconds or so.
00:23:28So if Andy just drives around now, once that's connected, we should see all Andy's friends who we were just
00:23:34playing with pop back into the world.
00:23:39Just give that a second.
00:23:41But while we're waiting for that as well, there's an absolute disaster.
00:23:44Can you turn off Autogo's thing in a private lobby?
00:23:47You can convoy up with people you know and have collisions turned on.
00:23:52So you can still get those crashes if you kind of want.
00:23:54Absolutely, yeah.
00:23:55So, that's cool.
00:23:56Also, we've got another question from DXSizzle99.
00:23:59Remember guys, if you've got any questions for Horizon 4, drop them in the comments below.
00:24:04What side of the road is the main side?
00:24:06Because it's one of those big questions.
00:24:09The main side.
00:24:10The main side.
00:24:10Which side of the road do you drive on?
00:24:13I mean, I drive through fields.
00:24:15So, you know.
00:24:16That's an answer to that.
00:24:17Everyone goes through as the crow flies.
00:24:19You kind of crash through the fence and stuff.
00:24:20But you know, with the civilian traffic, right, which side of the road are they driving on Horizon 4?
00:24:25So we drive on the left, which is the same as Horizon 3, but you drive wherever you want, really.
00:24:31It's safe.
00:24:32So we actually blinked and missed it there because it was so seamless.
00:24:35But whilst Nanny was driving on that road, he reconnected into that session, all his friends popped back in.
00:24:40There was no loading screen, no pause.
00:24:43Entirely seamless.
00:24:44And now we're into photo mode.
00:24:45Yeah.
00:24:46So, online photo mode.
00:24:47So how does that work?
00:24:49So, it just works like it does offline.
00:24:51You go into photo mode, everything that you can see stops.
00:24:53You see all these cars here, which you might ordinarily have driver-tars in free-run or in a race,
00:24:59if you think back to Horizon 3.
00:25:00Yeah.
00:25:01And now this is all the people you're playing with.
00:25:03Obviously, in their game, they're probably donating round or they might have driven off, but you had the perfect opportunity
00:25:09and you wanted to take a picture.
00:25:10So you go to photo mode and there you go.
00:25:12And if someone else is in photo mode, is there a way that you can tell or is it just
00:25:16kind of, so are they just going to let a ghost out so you can see if someone's in photo
00:25:20mode?
00:25:21Yeah.
00:25:21Yeah.
00:25:22I think everything gets communicated.
00:25:25There we go.
00:25:26Matthew upstairs has helped us out.
00:25:27His car now ghosts out, so we know he's not going to interfere with us.
00:25:30And a little bubbler pops up above his game and starts to tell us that he's in photo mode.
00:25:33We also keep getting these little chat messages, because I think one of the biggest barriers with online gaming is
00:25:38not everyone wants to go on and have to put a microphone on and you've kind of worked on implementing
00:25:42a system.
00:25:44What is that in Horizon 4?
00:25:46So this is another one of those cool things that we're trying to make online as seamless and as easy
00:25:50as possible.
00:25:51It's not always easy to plug a mic in and start chatting and not everybody wants to do that anyway.
00:25:57And you've also got the kind of language barrier as well.
00:25:59So Quick Chat is just this huge collection of really fast phrases that we've got.
00:26:04You can assign four of them and you can assign kind of different ones for free roam at a race.
00:26:08Yeah.
00:26:08And you just get to find a communication back and forth between people.
00:26:11So like let's go exploring or maybe help kind of lead someone to a barn find.
00:26:16But you can also have things like protect me if you're playing king and someone's chasing you.
00:26:19It's really, really cool.
00:26:20I think I love that language barrier a bit as well.
00:26:23It's just like how I can break that down.
00:26:24But that's a little look at Forza Life.
00:26:27We've also got a few questions in the chat asking us if we can look at the map again.
00:26:30We will take a look at the map again later on.
00:26:33But should we talk about Forza-thon?
00:26:35Because I think...
00:26:36Just before we do, just sorry.
00:26:38We saw both of those guys taking a photo.
00:26:40One of the new features that we've got in Forza Horizon 4 is that as well as sharing those photos,
00:26:45which we've always had and we've always had these big communities around Reddit and our forums and stuff like that
00:26:49where people would share them and there's competitions and things.
00:26:51We've now made a change where in-game you can now get rewarded for that.
00:26:56And there's actually like a whole campaign around it.
00:26:57If I could borrow the controller a second out there.
00:26:59Thanks.
00:27:03So in here, which is the screen that we call My Horizon Life,
00:27:06this tracks all your progress across the whole game.
00:27:10So one of those is a photographer campaign.
00:27:13So it's basically a series of challenges and rewards which reward you for being a great photographer.
00:27:18So you take photos, you upload them, other people download them and like them
00:27:21and then you basically get rewards in-game and challenges and stuff to do in-game.
00:27:25And this screen, My Horizon Life, like each one of these little tiles represents a sort of mini campaign
00:27:30that you can take part in.
00:27:31So if you want to play the game and all you want to do is playground games modes,
00:27:33which is like our fun, like King and Infective type modes,
00:27:37there's actually a campaign for that and you can just play the game that way
00:27:39and you'll still be able to level up and get all play.
00:27:41And progress.
00:27:41And progress, exactly.
00:27:44Yeah, so I just wanted to show that before we jump down to Forzathon.
00:27:46I'll try to hand back over to Andy now for that next time.
00:27:48That's awesome.
00:27:48But let's get into Forzathon.
00:27:50So that's actually a really nice addition into going in.
00:27:53But Forzathon, what is it?
00:27:55So Forzathon is a guaranteed piece of gameplay, kind of, there's three flavours of it now.
00:28:04Every hour, every day, every week.
00:28:06It's one of the main reasons that I kept going back into Horizon 3, kind of week after week.
00:28:12And we've taken it and we've massively expanded it.
00:28:15We're going to show Forzathon Live here, which is a brand new piece of Forzathon.
00:28:20And as I said, it's every hour, so Forzathon Live is the hourly system.
00:28:25And this is another one of those ways that we're making online really easy and really fun.
00:28:32So what happens here is, every hour the server says,
00:28:35for anybody who wants to take part in this, get over here, you get the little message,
00:28:39you can set a route there, and a kind of radius appears on the map.
00:28:42Yep.
00:28:42And anyone who turns up, group together, and they immediately then compete
00:28:46to do a kind of cooperative challenge with three stages.
00:28:51We'll look at that in a little bit more detail when it starts,
00:28:54but if I go into the kind of rest of Forzathon,
00:28:56so we've got daily challenges which are like the ones you remember from Horizon 3,
00:29:00so kind of bite-sized simple things like earn three stars on a speed trap,
00:29:04or earn 100,000 points on a drift zone.
00:29:07Like really simple ways that we just kind of reward you for coming back to the game that day
00:29:12and give you a reward for it.
00:29:13and then the weekly ones where you can think of it like a car story.
00:29:18So we get you to get into a particular really cool car.
00:29:21Maybe it's a car that's been filmed or it's something that's kind of brand new
00:29:25and everybody's loving it.
00:29:26And then we give you a bunch of challenges and we'll extend the gameplay out there
00:29:29kind of half an hour plus.
00:29:31Right.
00:29:32This is the hourly stuff that we're heading towards at the minute.
00:29:35It looks amazing though.
00:29:36I just love how you've just kind of got this whole crew of players
00:29:38just kind of rushing towards the Forzathon zone.
00:29:41Yeah, it is a real spectacle and something that was just on screen there a second ago
00:29:45is not only do you have the radius on the map and the message saying go over and get there,
00:29:50but we've managed to squeeze the blimp that just sits above it while it starts
00:29:54so you know exactly where to go.
00:29:55And the blimp will follow you around the world as you do the challenges.
00:29:58so it's like the viewing platform.
00:30:00You've always got that kind of visual indication of where you need to be as well.
00:30:04So it's every single hour, what kind of, because we're going to see them in a few seconds as well,
00:30:10what kind of challenges and races can you expect to have within a Forzathon?
00:30:13So Forzathon will give you a lot of the really cool open world stuff.
00:30:18So you'll be doing things like speed cameras, drift zones,
00:30:22we'll put radius, a radius on the map where you'll be banking skills,
00:30:27doing particular kind of certain types of skills,
00:30:29like you'll see loads of people drifting around roundabouts and stuff.
00:30:31Yeah, yeah.
00:30:34Also, with these Forzathon live events what players are going to be able to earn by doing them?
00:30:39Ah, so I'll let Mike get into that one.
00:30:42Yeah, so all of the Forzathon things you just mentioned,
00:30:44so the daily, weekly and Forzathon live, all contribute, all pay out in Forzathon points.
00:30:49It's a new currency you can only get from Forzathon.
00:30:52And that is spent in the Forzathon shop, which is every week as the season changes,
00:30:57there's a Forzathon shop and it's restocked with fresh content.
00:31:00A lot of that stuff is the stuff that you might otherwise only be able to get in wheel spin,
00:31:03so you only have a random chance of getting.
00:31:05But if you can wait for it to come to the Forzathon shop,
00:31:07then you can choose specifically,
00:31:09oh great, it's that legendary car I've been waiting for,
00:31:11perfect opportunity for me to jump on and get that.
00:31:15And there's always that thing as well,
00:31:19because there's daily challenges, weekly challenges,
00:31:21these things that happen every hour,
00:31:23you are constrained a little bit on how many points you can get,
00:31:25so you're never quite sure whether I should drop them all this week on that car
00:31:29because the one I really want might be next week.
00:31:30So there's always that nice risk and reward element to it.
00:31:33I can see myself just like on for like 18 hours straight,
00:31:36just like hitting every Forzathon live,
00:31:38because there is the total points that you can earn by kind of hitting all those Forzathon,
00:31:42and just imagine just sitting there for hours and hours and hours,
00:31:44just kind of making sure I'm hitting every single one.
00:31:47And there's different stages to Forzathons, aren't there?
00:31:49So how are they going to work once,
00:31:51because we're about to get into it in a minute,
00:31:53but just before we get into that,
00:31:55how many stages and what's the progress like within a Forzathon live?
00:31:58So the stages within a Forzathon live, there's three,
00:32:02and they kind of increase in difficulty.
00:32:05Basically, everybody in the group gets 15 minutes,
00:32:07and you get given your first objective.
00:32:10And then if you manage to complete that,
00:32:12you'll qualify for stage two and so on and so forth,
00:32:14all the way to stage three.
00:32:16It works brilliantly when there's loads and loads of people,
00:32:19because you can smash through it,
00:32:20get all the way to the end of stage three,
00:32:22and everybody gets the same reward,
00:32:24regardless of kind of how good you are.
00:32:26But if there's only a couple of people,
00:32:28maybe you just happened to be playing with your friend,
00:32:30and you were the only people who jumped in,
00:32:33you still get the full 15 minutes to get through as far as you can.
00:32:37It's also just a few comments as well,
00:32:39because remember, guys, get involved in the comments,
00:32:41ask your questions about Horizon 4,
00:32:43anything to a Forzathon as well,
00:32:44which we can answer right now.
00:32:46But there's a few things like,
00:32:48that blimp is a nice touch.
00:32:50It is a nice touch.
00:32:51I would say it's an awesome touch.
00:32:52Yeah, I agree.
00:32:53And then that little announcer as well,
00:32:55just kind of coming in,
00:32:56and boom.
00:32:57All right, so we're off.
00:32:58So can you kind of talk us through the first event?
00:33:00So this is stage one.
00:33:01You've just seen it on the screen there,
00:33:03it says get to the speed zone.
00:33:04And as I said, these are cooperative challenges.
00:33:08So everybody is now racing towards the speed zone
00:33:10that's been marked on the map.
00:33:12You can see at the bottom of the screen there,
00:33:13it says zero miles an hour.
00:33:15Ah, this is really cool.
00:33:17Andy has demonstrated online Rewind there.
00:33:21So much like, as we said earlier,
00:33:23online photo mode, it just works.
00:33:25Rewind has been a staple feature
00:33:27of the full franchise for a while.
00:33:29And Andy, by nearly stacking it into that wall,
00:33:31has ably demonstrated that it's still there in the game.
00:33:34Totally intentional.
00:33:35Yeah, so of course everyone else keeps going forward,
00:33:37you basically reverse your mistake
00:33:39and then you're able to apply a bit more break
00:33:40and catch yourself.
00:33:42That's really cool.
00:33:43It's kind of like showing that auto ghost feature again as well.
00:33:45It's kind of that thing where you just kind of see the cards
00:33:47that you would normally collide with
00:33:48just like seamlessly just kind of disappear.
00:33:52So progress part.
00:33:53So we're in the speed zone now.
00:33:55Yeah.
00:33:55So how can you kind of gauge your progress?
00:33:58So when you're in the speed zone here,
00:34:00you can see that that's your current attempt that you're doing.
00:34:03You get to the end of the speed zone
00:34:04and you'll bank that and you'll bank that into the group target.
00:34:07So you'll see that the UI appears
00:34:08and it will fill up showing the group progress.
00:34:11It shows what you just added to it.
00:34:13When that then fills up, you've essentially completed the stage that you're on.
00:34:16So it's got this kind of really nice, fun feeling
00:34:18that everybody's chipping away at this like overall target
00:34:21and when somebody does something really awesome,
00:34:23you'll suddenly see it like there, like shoot up a kind of huge amount.
00:34:26I think also I really like how it's a co-op feature
00:34:29as well as like you mentioned earlier with it being that
00:34:32there isn't a leaderboard within the group,
00:34:34it is a group effort to complete this.
00:34:35Yes.
00:34:37So that's something we were really conscious of
00:34:39because often when you're playing like an online game for the first time,
00:34:43you're not very good.
00:34:44The last thing you want to do is have somebody basically saying,
00:34:47I'm carrying you, get out.
00:34:48It's just, it's not very nice.
00:34:50So there's no, there's no leaderboard,
00:34:52there's no kind of mention of individual scores.
00:34:54It's just completely, purely cold.
00:34:56So you're just kind of nailing it to kind of all get the best reward possible together.
00:35:01There's a few other questions as well,
00:35:02we're moving on to the second challenge as well.
00:35:05Alex Gamesert asks,
00:35:06have you put an area of off-road in the game?
00:35:08Please respond because I love off-road.
00:35:11That is coming up later in the stream,
00:35:12which we will see once we've done finished Forzathon,
00:35:14which is cool.
00:35:15And also Josh Miller asks,
00:35:17are there ambient sounds in the background?
00:35:19Absolutely.
00:35:20Yeah.
00:35:20So our audio guys have done incredible work
00:35:23having full audio soundscapes for every season.
00:35:26so each region of the map in every season's got a unique soundscape.
00:35:29So the countryside sounds different in winter
00:35:31to a dozen autumn to a dozen spring,
00:35:32you'll have completely different things.
00:35:33And then if you move to Edinburgh,
00:35:35then they'll have a completely different soundscape again,
00:35:37which again changes based on the seasons.
00:35:39I think Edinburgh even has like the cannons going off,
00:35:41doesn't it?
00:35:41The ceremonial cannons.
00:35:42Yeah, I mean it goes beyond that.
00:35:44So I have been informed,
00:35:46we've got regional birdsong.
00:35:48Regional birdsong?
00:35:49Regional birdsong.
00:35:49So for anyone who is a bit of a twitcher,
00:35:52keep an ear out for birds of your region appearing
00:35:55in your region and going.
00:35:56You're just going to see Ben like sat in a tree
00:35:58that's kind of like leaning going like,
00:36:00do I hear that?
00:36:01The right bird?
00:36:02Is that a blue tit?
00:36:03Or is that?
00:36:03I don't even know what the regional bird songs are,
00:36:06to be honest.
00:36:07Also, Texas asks motorways.
00:36:09We are going to be having a look at those later
00:36:11in this very stream,
00:36:12so don't go anywhere.
00:36:13But get your questions in,
00:36:14because we're coming up to the second challenge now,
00:36:16which is a speed trap.
00:36:17Yep.
00:36:18So what's kind of the progress now?
00:36:20So stage two gets more difficult every single one.
00:36:24How long would you expect like a full team
00:36:27to kind of be able to get through?
00:36:28So I would expect a full team should definitely
00:36:31be able to complete all three stages within 15 minutes.
00:36:34It's one of those things that as we're constantly
00:36:37playing the game,
00:36:37we're still kind of fine tuning.
00:36:39And in fact,
00:36:40we'll take some feedback from the guys upstairs
00:36:41playing with us here.
00:36:42but it does get harder in stage two,
00:36:45and it'll get even harder in stage three.
00:36:47But let's see how they do.
00:36:49The stage three I'm excited about,
00:36:51because it's going to put Andy under pressure,
00:36:53and you guys are going to see it,
00:36:53because it's the most challenging,
00:36:55it is the most challenging one.
00:36:57Yeah.
00:36:58And it's drifting, isn't it?
00:36:59So what's the skill?
00:37:02Yeah, so stage three will be a skill area
00:37:06in a really, really awesome abandoned rail yard.
00:37:09So it's perfect for doing kind of gymkhana stuff,
00:37:11you know, loads of things to drift around,
00:37:12loads of stuff to smash,
00:37:13loads of like jumps to take.
00:37:15And in fact,
00:37:16they have nearly nailed this one.
00:37:19In fact,
00:37:19they just blitzed that.
00:37:21I looked away for a second,
00:37:22and suddenly it just went straight away.
00:37:24Right, here we go.
00:37:25Round three.
00:37:26Right, so guys,
00:37:27involved in the chat,
00:37:28do you think Andy is going to be successful
00:37:30and not break his skill chain
00:37:32in the skill area?
00:37:34Okay?
00:37:35Yes or no?
00:37:36I'm intrigued.
00:37:37What do you guys think?
00:37:38I'm gonna say...
00:37:40Do you have faith in Andy?
00:37:42You can see him getting nervous.
00:37:44I wanna say I've got faith in Andy.
00:37:47Does that mean you have faith?
00:37:48That doesn't seem like a very, like,
00:37:51confident answer.
00:37:52I want to say it.
00:37:53I have got complete faith in Andy.
00:37:55I think Andy might want to change car
00:37:57to give himself a better chance.
00:37:59This is a very good point.
00:38:00I think one of the new features
00:38:02that we've added, or tweaked I should say,
00:38:04is that any point now in the game,
00:38:06players are able to just pause the game
00:38:09and change their car,
00:38:10and it'll have it delivered to them
00:38:11right there in the world.
00:38:12This was a feature that we actually had
00:38:14in Horizon 3.
00:38:15It was a little hidden away,
00:38:16and we also charged the player
00:38:18in-game currency to do it.
00:38:20Now, you can just pause the game,
00:38:22select your car,
00:38:23and it'll be delivered to you free.
00:38:24Like, super fast, like you saw.
00:38:25Which is great for things like
00:38:26Forth of Thun Live,
00:38:27where the type of challenge
00:38:28is changing all the time.
00:38:30So, obviously we had speed challenges
00:38:31at the start there,
00:38:32and now we've got a skills one
00:38:33where I can tell Andy's conscious
00:38:35that he's gonna end up flipping his other car,
00:38:36so he's come for something
00:38:37that's a bit more planted.
00:38:39He's this thing.
00:38:40He's risen to the challenge.
00:38:42Yeah.
00:38:42I'm just gonna see what the chat are thinking.
00:38:44Are they feeling confident in Andy,
00:38:46or are they kind of feeling a bit
00:38:48as if he's gonna crash?
00:38:50I think he'll miss the jump.
00:38:51That is the big part of this.
00:38:52We might miss the jump.
00:38:53He's taking it safe,
00:38:54so he's going for the smash everything
00:38:56kind of in the skill chain.
00:38:58The group is actually doing this
00:39:00really quickly as well.
00:39:01What other tips and tricks
00:39:02would you give players
00:39:05to do as well in the esports-a-thon
00:39:07live challenges?
00:39:08Go on, Andy.
00:39:09So, I would say,
00:39:11in terms of skill chains,
00:39:13the key point is to not let it bank,
00:39:15which Andy just got away with there,
00:39:17because the higher you get your multiplier,
00:39:19the bigger it will be,
00:39:20and you want to bank that
00:39:21massive skill chain at the end.
00:39:22So, as you see,
00:39:23there are actually some players
00:39:24who've got some really big chains
00:39:25that they've been banking,
00:39:26but you don't want to be banking
00:39:27lots of little skill chains
00:39:28kind of frequently.
00:39:29You want to try and hold on
00:39:30to a huge one
00:39:31and get your combo all the way.
00:39:33Prof Tobi's PhD has said,
00:39:35in Andy we trust.
00:39:37Right.
00:39:37That guy's got a PhD,
00:39:39so he knows what he's talking about.
00:39:42He is pulling this together.
00:39:43So, what's the total?
00:39:44Is it a million
00:39:44for the group progress?
00:39:46Or is it just kind of...
00:39:47Oh!
00:39:47Someone's banked a big one.
00:39:48Yeah, so that was someone
00:39:49holding onto a huge chain.
00:39:50I think it would be about
00:39:51a million and a half for this one.
00:39:52Andy's doing pretty well
00:39:53with that chain as well.
00:39:54He's not banked it.
00:39:56If there's a few more players
00:39:57holding onto big chains like that...
00:39:58This could be over pretty quickly.
00:40:00Which is a pretty good time as well,
00:40:01like as a group.
00:40:02They've managed to do it
00:40:03in around eight minutes,
00:40:05for the whole 15-minute challenge.
00:40:07Yeah, that is not bad going.
00:40:10These guys are pretty good at the game.
00:40:11They've definitely played it before.
00:40:12Have they?
00:40:15They probably haven't made it or anything.
00:40:16There we go.
00:40:17So that is the Forza Thorn Live event,
00:40:19which is like...
00:40:20They happen every hour,
00:40:22all week round,
00:40:23every season.
00:40:24Every season,
00:40:25every hour on the hour.
00:40:26And it's completely synced
00:40:28worldwide as well.
00:40:29So like when you see it on your server,
00:40:31every player in the entire world
00:40:33will see that Forza Thorn Live
00:40:34fires at the same time as well.
00:40:35and it'll be the same Forza Thorn Live for everyone.
00:40:39Also, Timmy the Kid has just came in and asked,
00:40:41what area of Britain is it set in or inspired by?
00:40:44Which particular part?
00:40:45I'm guessing the region that we're in,
00:40:47based on the question.
00:40:49So the region that we're in,
00:40:50do you know where...
00:40:51Yeah, this is kind of inspired by,
00:40:53like rural South Edinburgh kind of countryside.
00:40:57I also think we need to now do cross country,
00:41:00right, which is a pretty exciting thing.
00:41:02Cross country races,
00:41:03kind of showcase all the new big,
00:41:06like the 4x4s.
00:41:07Yeah.
00:41:07Especially because we're like,
00:41:09the verticality of the world.
00:41:11Oh, no.
00:41:11So we're going to the motorway now.
00:41:13Right, actually that was a question that was asked earlier.
00:41:15Are we going to the motorway?
00:41:16Alright, so we're going to head to the motorway now
00:41:19and kind of talk through a little bit more of the world
00:41:22as we're doing it.
00:41:23So what can other players expect from Autumn?
00:41:27So from Autumn you'll be getting,
00:41:29like any other season,
00:41:30you'll get a lot of awesome content coming in.
00:41:33So you'll get just middle now on the minimap,
00:41:35but you'll get kind of specific events called out.
00:41:37These are like kind of seasonal championships.
00:41:41Something we'll go into more detail later.
00:41:45And you'll also get your kind of Forzathon as well.
00:41:48so that changes every week with the season.
00:41:50Never mind the fact that the whole world,
00:41:52the whole world changes.
00:41:53The whole world is a completely like
00:41:55different driving experience.
00:41:57We're also,
00:41:58I think we're going to get Ben in as well
00:41:59because we're going to have three Bens.
00:42:01So Mike,
00:42:02thank you very much for talking us through Forzathon.
00:42:04Really appreciate it.
00:42:05It's been really interesting as well.
00:42:07We're going to get the third Ben in
00:42:08because this is the first time
00:42:10that three Bens have been united on a safe.
00:42:12We have Tree Ben, right?
00:42:15I feel like we need to have like nicknames,
00:42:17like Tree Ben.
00:42:19I can just go Benny
00:42:20and then you can have the real Ben.
00:42:21All right, fine.
00:42:22The real Ben.
00:42:22I'll be the real Ben.
00:42:23The real Ben.
00:42:24That's going to stick now forevermore.
00:42:25What, real Ben?
00:42:26Yeah, in the studio.
00:42:27That's what I'm going to call you.
00:42:30So motorways, right?
00:42:30Because we're heading up to the motorways now.
00:42:32It's really exciting for me and someone from Britain
00:42:35to kind of see the blue signs.
00:42:38Yes.
00:42:38The go really fast signs.
00:42:40So there is something really eerie actually
00:42:43for a Brit going down this stretch of road
00:42:45because it does feel very authentic,
00:42:47especially with all the average speed camera signs
00:42:50across the motorway,
00:42:50which is something that other British people will recognise.
00:42:54but obviously we're going to blast past those way faster
00:42:57than 60 miles an hour,
00:42:58which is something I've always wanted to do in real life
00:43:00but obviously never do
00:43:01because I'm a very responsible person.
00:43:04So we've got all the details on the motorway as well.
00:43:07Like, I feel bad every time I talk to you,
00:43:10I keep going back to trees.
00:43:15because autumn is obviously so, so, so different
00:43:18to what we saw in summer last week.
00:43:20Sure.
00:43:21So kind of using the trees as a basis,
00:43:23what kind of other changes are there in the world?
00:43:25Because you did promise us mud.
00:43:27Oh, yes.
00:43:28Yeah.
00:43:28So actually we're hightailing it down the motorway
00:43:32towards a 4x4 adventure park,
00:43:34which is in the game world.
00:43:36And it's a real sort of showcase
00:43:39what we've been doing with deformable surfaces
00:43:41and deformable mud especially.
00:43:43So yeah, so we're going to be showing off exactly
00:43:45how that changes up some of the driving experience there
00:43:49as well as the visuals.
00:43:50As I said, everything that we're showing here
00:43:52when it comes to autumn,
00:43:52it's not just about visuals,
00:43:54it's about how we're changing up
00:43:55the actual driving experience in the world as well.
00:43:58As it just starts to rain a little bit as well
00:44:00because there was barely any rain last week.
00:44:04Yeah.
00:44:05Yeah.
00:44:05It was very much a mirror of the weather outside,
00:44:08wasn't it, last week?
00:44:09And actually I've been watching you guys
00:44:11from the back of the room,
00:44:12we actually had quite a lovely blue clear autumnal day.
00:44:16But as you can see at the moment,
00:44:17we're starting to get some of that real time
00:44:19weather conditions start to change
00:44:21and arguably be slightly more representative
00:44:23of a British autumn at the moment.
00:44:24So some of that mist is starting to roll in
00:44:27and you're starting to get a bit more rain.
00:44:28of a British autumn.
00:44:30PJ Tyranny has just come and asked as well, Ben.
00:44:32I can just say Ben and I'm always right.
00:44:35PJ Tyranny has just asked,
00:44:37do skill songs return?
00:44:39Skill songs, yes.
00:44:40They do very much return.
00:44:42A particular favourite of mine.
00:44:43I will not spoil how you get them
00:44:45because you will unlock them
00:44:46in a slightly different way.
00:44:47That's just being a massive tease.
00:44:49It's like, yeah, they do return
00:44:51and I'm really excited.
00:44:52and yeah, that's all I'm telling you.
00:44:55Also, Crackenus has just asked,
00:44:57looks like a part of the M8 motorway
00:44:59outside Edinburgh.
00:45:00Sweet beans.
00:45:01That was aces.
00:45:03So obviously a favourite part of the motorway for him.
00:45:06Yeah, that's part of the M8.
00:45:08Beautiful.
00:45:09Was he right?
00:45:10Do you know what?
00:45:11He actually might be right.
00:45:12So we were obviously coming from
00:45:13the sort of northern part of the map,
00:45:15which is where Edinburgh is at.
00:45:16So yeah, I very well could have been taken
00:45:19from that particular section.
00:45:20And we are now getting to the mud track.
00:45:22There you go, yeah.
00:45:23Yeah, this is it.
00:45:24So you'll start to see all the other players
00:45:26tearing the place up
00:45:27and really starting to, yeah,
00:45:29turn it into a mud fest.
00:45:32Just look at that.
00:45:33I sink into that mud.
00:45:35So can you talk us through a little bit
00:45:37about this area?
00:45:39Sure, yeah.
00:45:40So this is inspired from a real-life
00:45:43off-road adventure park,
00:45:44which a couple of the guys, including Andy,
00:45:46actually had the displeasure of having to visit
00:45:49in real life and drive their cars around
00:45:51and have a bit of fun in.
00:45:52so that we could get all the reference
00:45:53and make sure it was all represented
00:45:55as accurately as possible.
00:45:56And it's translated really well.
00:45:58It's definitely one of the most fun areas
00:46:00in the game, I think,
00:46:00to play those playground arena-type game modes,
00:46:04like Infected and King,
00:46:06as well as being a real cool-looking place as well,
00:46:09especially at night.
00:46:10Obviously we're in the day,
00:46:11but we've actually set the whole place up
00:46:13with lots of really cool festival touches
00:46:15so you get lots of neon lighting that sort of punctuates.
00:46:19It gets dark in time,
00:46:20because we don't have control of the weather.
00:46:22We do?
00:46:23Like real life,
00:46:24we don't have control of day or night.
00:46:26Crackless has said,
00:46:27was I right?
00:46:28Thanks, about the motorway.
00:46:30We think so, right?
00:46:32I believe you were right.
00:46:34We do think so, yeah.
00:46:35The mud looks incredible.
00:46:37What kind of work has gone into getting it
00:46:39so it's just like this?
00:46:41So yeah,
00:46:42we actually did a massive overhaul
00:46:45on the way we were representing
00:46:48variable levels of moisture in the world.
00:46:50Something that's really important, obviously,
00:46:52to represent each of those seasons
00:46:53and that obviously plays a big part of it in Britain.
00:46:57So yeah,
00:46:57there's a system that analyses the whole world
00:47:01for different dips and divots
00:47:02and finds out where water would collect
00:47:04and which surfaces it would collect.
00:47:05Shall we go into the event as well?
00:47:07Sure.
00:47:08To kind of like try out the,
00:47:09like see it in action in the event?
00:47:11Because I think we can have some fun, right?
00:47:13Towards the end of the stream.
00:47:15Guys, keep your questions coming in as well.
00:47:18T-Dec said that deformation looks so good.
00:47:20Nice work.
00:47:22So it is absolutely mind-blowing though,
00:47:25like kind of the level of detail
00:47:26and how much the world changes from season to season.
00:47:29Because if you went there in summer,
00:47:30what would that be like?
00:47:31Yeah, so all the mud in summer
00:47:33obviously gets really compact and hard,
00:47:35so it's a very different experience
00:47:36and you're able to,
00:47:38well, you're not able to throw the car around
00:47:40maybe quite as easily as you would
00:47:41when everything's a little bit wetter
00:47:42and a little bit slicker.
00:47:44Right, so which event are we going into?
00:47:46I miss the event.
00:47:47We are going to go into a race
00:47:49around the 4x4 park.
00:47:51Right, should we see if we do a little,
00:47:53like, lap challenge,
00:47:54see Andy set a set of time
00:47:56and then the bends can go at it
00:47:57to see who can get the fastest lap.
00:47:59Don't do that.
00:48:00I mean, he'll win.
00:48:01Don't.
00:48:02Have confidence in yourself.
00:48:04You are the tree man, right?
00:48:07Yeah, yeah.
00:48:08Wait, this just reminded me.
00:48:09Yeah.
00:48:09Soil.
00:48:11Oh, don't make me talk about soil hell.
00:48:13Right, this is the level of detail there is in this game.
00:48:15It's like it blew my mind.
00:48:16You can tell the differences of quality of soil based on...
00:48:20Yeah, so...
00:48:22Like, before we go down that rabbit hole...
00:48:24So, yes, we do...
00:48:26Like I said, we have, like, a piece of tech
00:48:28that finds out where water would be pooling in the world.
00:48:31So we sort of use that to translate to
00:48:33how much moisture would be in the ground
00:48:35and how healthy a tree might be.
00:48:37So a tree that is around a more moist area of the world
00:48:40might hold onto its greens for longer, say.
00:48:42So it will be more green in autumn
00:48:43and less sort of like those autumnal colours starting to come through.
00:48:46It's a nice little detail that we threw in.
00:48:48Nice little change.
00:48:50And Mr. True Man says,
00:48:51Can confirm Britain is muddy.
00:48:54Oh, yeah, that's true.
00:48:55That is true.
00:48:56That is definitely true.
00:48:57And mud is fun, it turns out.
00:48:59It depends.
00:49:00Like, if you're in a big 4x4, it's going to be a lot of fun.
00:49:04If you get stuck in some wellies, not so much.
00:49:07Oh, I see.
00:49:08I think that is quite fun.
00:49:09On a level.
00:49:10But yeah, you're right.
00:49:11In a 4x4, it's more fun.
00:49:14Branko says,
00:49:15Never been an off-road guy, but the mud looks awesome.
00:49:17I think that's the thing you can go more into this,
00:49:19is the different styles of driving that you get in Horizon 4.
00:49:23Yeah, so we've put loads and loads of work into the kind of, like, road asphalt-based driving.
00:49:31Yeah.
00:49:32Versus the kind of off-road stuff.
00:49:33So, trophy trucks like this are even more effective at just driving in a ridiculous speed across uneven terrain in
00:49:41a straight line as fast as possible.
00:49:44The suspension work, you can see the wheels through the bodywork there at the back, soaking up everything.
00:49:49Should we take a look at a different view?
00:49:52Andy, should we have a look at cockpit view so we can kind of see the mud?
00:49:55Oh!
00:49:56See?
00:49:58So this is because I was talking about how good he was at the games.
00:50:00Yeah, and then suddenly we asked for a cockpit change.
00:50:03And this is why I did it.
00:50:05It's all over the place.
00:50:07Yeah, so you can just see how much, kind of, the car is soaking up all the terrain.
00:50:11But then take this onto the road and, you know, it starts to kind of, to steer a bit, it's
00:50:16got a bit less grip.
00:50:18Whereas a hypercar on the road is absolutely perfect.
00:50:22And maybe they weren't as affected, hypercars going off-road kind of in the past,
00:50:28but now in Horizon 4 we've really started to, like, push it a bit so the differences between the cars
00:50:32are enhanced,
00:50:34which means you really start to, especially with the ability to change car anywhere in the world,
00:50:39you really start to notice the advantages of driving.
00:50:42I wouldn't say the right car, because you can have fun anywhere you drive, in any car.
00:50:46Don't get me wrong, driving a hypercar in this race is still very much a fun thing to do,
00:50:50but it's probably more effective if you're going for, say, the fastest time or something like that,
00:50:55to be in a car that's kind of built for these environments.
00:50:58But you can kind of have a different choice of car than you want to experience, which is really cool.
00:51:02Also, another question, why did Ben choose red flags for the race?
00:51:06Oh man, right, okay, so on the subject of developer builds,
00:51:11there is a bug in this particular build of the game that has given us these lovely red balloons and
00:51:16red flags,
00:51:17which isn't a... that wasn't an art choice, no.
00:51:21I never normally question colours.
00:51:25Do you like that shade of red?
00:51:26I don't know, I can't see it.
00:51:27Well, do you know what, we're going to change anyway, so...
00:51:31But yes, yeah, that's development built for you.
00:51:34Right, so what was that time? What was that time?
00:51:37I feel like Ben and Ben should all have one lap each, right, to kind of see who is the...
00:51:43as we come up to the end of the stream.
00:51:45Absolutely, can I go last?
00:51:46Yeah, fine.
00:51:47Is that fine?
00:51:47Yeah, absolutely fine.
00:51:48Right, one... you've got... the time to beat is one minute.
00:51:52Looks like one minute thirty, I think I just saw.
00:51:54One minute thirty, I saw one minute like point oh nine or something along those lines.
00:51:58So we're going to get into that guy's prediction, alright, in the chat.
00:52:01Who do you think is going to win?
00:52:03Tree Ben or the real Ben, okay?
00:52:07Tree Ben, let's just put in the chat... can we put a poll up?
00:52:10Can we put a poll up?
00:52:12If possible, right, vote... if we have time, Mark's just like, no!
00:52:17If we have time to put a poll, otherwise, in the chat, write tree or real.
00:52:21Tree or real?
00:52:24Alright, here we go.
00:52:25Right, real is on the sticks.
00:52:27See, the problem is when I do this, I'm just going to get distracted by the red flags.
00:52:29Don't get distracted by the red flags.
00:52:31And the trees.
00:52:32And the trees.
00:52:33Just constantly distracted.
00:52:35Alright, here we go.
00:52:38So I thought Andy was going to leave this on manual gears, which would be just the end of it.
00:52:41I never lived like that.
00:52:43Oh, did he have the common courtesy to switch it back to automatic?
00:52:46He did.
00:52:46He did.
00:52:47So we're playing in a more accessible way.
00:52:51Of course, I'm brilliant at this game, manual or...
00:52:55Right.
00:52:57Tree, Tree, you've got the lead at the moment.
00:53:0070% are saying that you are going to win this, Tree.
00:53:05Right, okay.
00:53:08I'm hoping they're not putting money on it.
00:53:10Also, Iron Glass has just asked a question, is the train from Harry Potter and the Game as landmark?
00:53:15Because we did see that viaduct earlier.
00:53:17So you will see a steam train shooting across that viaduct from time to time.
00:53:21Is there going to be a flying car in front of it as well?
00:53:24Maybe not that, no.
00:53:26But yes, it's quite a cool sight actually.
00:53:28We were doing a rehearsal for this earlier and it was perfect timing.
00:53:32We saw the steam train going across the viaduct and sure enough we said it probably wasn't going to happen
00:53:36during the stream.
00:53:37And it didn't.
00:53:39But yes, people playing the game will be delighted to see it when it arrives.
00:53:43Tree is definitely getting a lot of support.
00:53:45Right, real.
00:53:45You need to step up.
00:53:46You're the real Ben.
00:53:47You need to step this up and like pull this off.
00:53:50Right, because what's your fastest lap time at the moment?
00:53:51Oh, you've got a 194.
00:53:54994.
00:53:55This is close.
00:53:56I have faith and I'm kind of going for you, right?
00:54:00Because I feel like everyone is voting for Tree.
00:54:02This could be the first time the internet is disproved.
00:54:06If only.
00:54:08We're going to see as well.
00:54:10What other, like, because this week we are looking at Autumn.
00:54:13I think it would be a good time as well to start talking a little bit about what we're going
00:54:16to be looking at next week.
00:54:17Because last week we looked at Summer.
00:54:19Right, this week Autumn.
00:54:21What are we looking at next week, Ben?
00:54:22So obviously we're sticking with the chronological order that we've gone with so far.
00:54:26So next week we're going to be looking at Winter.
00:54:30Which is obviously a dramatically different looking landscape to anything we've seen so far.
00:54:35Lots of snow, ice, frost, very different driving experiences.
00:54:40So yeah, it should be fun.
00:54:42I'm pretty excited because quite a few people have said it's one of their favourite seasons as well.
00:54:47Don't look off the road.
00:54:49Right?
00:54:49Keep your eyes on the road.
00:54:50You have a lap time to beat.
00:54:51Concentrate real, Ben.
00:54:53Right?
00:54:53There's 30% of the audience are rooting for you to do this.
00:54:57Prove that 30%.
00:54:58And Mr Sneaky says Tree's coming home.
00:55:02Right?
00:55:02Yeah.
00:55:02The football's not coming home, but Tree, you're coming home.
00:55:05That's surely too soon.
00:55:06It is.
00:55:07You know, you've got to laugh about it, don't you?
00:55:09Yeah, that's true.
00:55:09It's the only way.
00:55:11And we're in Britain, so.
00:55:13Yeah, actually, it's worth mentioning the part of Britain we're in at the moment, I guess.
00:55:17Because this is something we haven't been through yet.
00:55:18So this is based on the Yorkshire malls.
00:55:22Oh.
00:55:23So in the summertime, all of that Heather turns a beautiful shade of purple as well, which is quite a
00:55:28striking visual.
00:55:29Okay.
00:55:30Right.
00:55:30I'm going to stop talking about.
00:55:31Wait, wait, let's see the time.
00:55:32Best lap was a 15-up.
00:55:34You beat Andy.
00:55:37Andy's in second place right now.
00:55:39Can I just hit restart?
00:55:40Okay.
00:55:40Yeah.
00:55:41So, alright, this is a step up.
00:55:42But also, I like this quote from Lamacros from the chat.
00:55:47Did someone say winter is coming?
00:55:49Because, yes, it is.
00:55:50Next week, it will be here.
00:55:51But we now need Tree to do his lap.
00:55:54Everyone in the chat is rooted behind you.
00:55:56I'm sorry.
00:55:57You do realise everybody in the studio is going to call me Tree now.
00:56:01I'm really sorry.
00:56:02That's what's going to happen.
00:56:04Sorry, Tree.
00:56:07My aunt's called Tree.
00:56:10Oh, really?
00:56:11That's good.
00:56:12So, alright.
00:56:13What else are we showing in the coming weeks, I think?
00:56:15Are we going to have a bit of a visit to Edinburgh, Ben?
00:56:18Oh, yeah.
00:56:18Yeah, we absolutely will.
00:56:19I've seen a few people in the chat asking for that, actually.
00:56:21So, yeah, we will be going to Edinburgh and driving around the streets.
00:56:26I think we've obviously got winter coming next, then we'll have spring.
00:56:30At some point, we're going to have a look at Team Adventure,
00:56:32which is our kind of competitive team-based multiplayer mode.
00:56:35That's going to be really exciting.
00:56:38We'll have a look at a new feature I really like called Car Mastery,
00:56:42which is, I won't put too many spoilers,
00:56:45but it's kind of progression for every car in the game,
00:56:49so that's really cool.
00:56:50So, we're going to see the next couple of weeks of Car Mastery.
00:56:53Right?
00:56:54Because remember, guys,
00:56:54every Tuesday for the next couple of weeks,
00:56:56we're taking a look at a different season.
00:56:58So, 7pm, same time.
00:56:59So, follow the stream, put notifications on.
00:57:02Next week is winter, which is going to be pretty exciting as well.
00:57:05And we get to see trees and snow, I believe.
00:57:08Oh, yeah.
00:57:09Well, you'll get to see everything in snow, Benny.
00:57:11The whole lot.
00:57:12The whole thing.
00:57:13Because the thing is...
00:57:13Oh, my God.
00:57:14You made me look away.
00:57:16Keep your eyes on the road.
00:57:17I can't talk and drive at the same time.
00:57:20Also, for those wondering as well,
00:57:22we are going to take one last look at the map
00:57:24before the end of the stream,
00:57:25because I know that's one of the big things
00:57:27that was shown today early on.
00:57:29So, for those of you that didn't see that,
00:57:30we're going to be showing that once a tree has managed to complete.
00:57:34I mean, yeah, luckily I'm doing this in record time.
00:57:36You've got a one minute one so far,
00:57:38so you just need to shave, like, two and a bit seconds off.
00:57:41Really?
00:57:42Is that true?
00:57:43But this is your hot lap.
00:57:44That's depressing.
00:57:45You'll be okay.
00:57:47You've got it.
00:57:48You've got it.
00:57:49You've got it.
00:57:49Shinjold says,
00:57:50Tree Ben's life has been ruined by this stream.
00:57:55Did you get, like, a little mini tree on your desk?
00:57:58I feel if I don't get one,
00:57:59somebody will get one for me after this.
00:58:02Wait, I'm intrigued by your time so far,
00:58:06because you've got a 1.58.
00:58:08Oh, it's...
00:58:09Wait, actually.
00:58:10It's going to be close.
00:58:12Could you do it on this first go?
00:58:13Because if so...
00:58:14Oh, no.
00:58:16Right.
00:58:16You need to do better.
00:58:17You need to do better.
00:58:19Right.
00:58:19Okay.
00:58:20Right.
00:58:20I might have to go completely silent now, Ben.
00:58:22I'm sorry.
00:58:22Okay.
00:58:23Well, me and real Ben will talk about next week.
00:58:27So, next week, once again, 7 o'clock.
00:58:29What other things can we expect to see in the next couple of weeks?
00:58:33I think we will show off a lot of exciting things.
00:58:37I'm not...
00:58:37I've put you on the spot right now.
00:58:38I'm just like, what stuff can you tell us about?
00:58:41Because I think it's one of the great things about this stream.
00:58:43We saw last week, we're learning about so many new features from Horizon 4.
00:58:47We're learning...
00:58:47We're seeing new parts of the world.
00:58:49We're just seeing, like, the maps.
00:58:50We've learnt a bit more about barn finds today.
00:58:52Yeah.
00:58:53We've seen that Tree is currently losing the race, which is a shame.
00:58:57I'm sacking this.
00:58:58Come on.
00:58:58We did an entire Forzaon Live.
00:59:00Yeah, Forzaon Live, which is going to be really exciting.
00:59:02Daily, weekly challenges as well within Forzaon Live.
00:59:05Loads of way of earning, like, new items for the game.
00:59:08So once Ben, or Tree, sorry, has finished his lap because he's a few seconds away.
00:59:14Is he going to do it?
00:59:15Is he going to do it?
00:59:16And he let down the internet.
00:59:19Right.
00:59:2070% of the chat was wrong.
00:59:23But Saragu says, these graphics are out of this world.
00:59:26The game looks stunning.
00:59:27Should we have one last look at the map before we finish up the stream for today?
00:59:31Guys, remember, do hit that follow button so you don't miss next week's stream.
00:59:36But what else?
00:59:37Before we have that as well, how can people get the game when it comes out?
00:59:42So they can...
00:59:43Oh, Ben, sorry.
00:59:45I will get something wrong.
00:59:47How can people get the game?
00:59:49Xbox Store?
00:59:50Yep.
00:59:52They can pre-order it now.
00:59:56There's multiple versions to get.
00:59:58You'll find that on Xbox.com.
01:00:00Yeah, because the Ultimate Edition comes out on the 28th of September.
01:00:02It's got four days early access, doesn't it?
01:00:04So there's early access, yeah, for the Ultimate Edition.
01:00:06And then the game itself comes out on the 2nd of October.
01:00:08Which is also available on Xbox Game Pass, isn't it?
01:00:11Game Pass on the same day, yeah.
01:00:12Which is really cool.
01:00:13So for those of you that have got Xbox Game Pass, you can get it on the 2nd of October.
01:00:17Let's take one final look at the map.
01:00:19And also, guys, if you've got any questions, do drop them in the chat.
01:00:21We will still be able to see those questions and we can maybe answer them on next week's stream as
01:00:25well.
01:00:25But one final look.
01:00:27Which is your favourite part of the world?
01:00:29Oh, do you know what?
01:00:31I actually really do love Edinburgh.
01:00:32I know we've talked about showing it later on.
01:00:35We're kind of saving that for a bit because it's a real special part of the map.
01:00:38There it is.
01:00:38There's a nice little tease.
01:00:40Especially at night.
01:00:40It's a real visual feast for the eyes.
01:00:44I'm looking forward to seeing an official tree.
01:00:47Is there lots of trees?
01:00:48There are actually not that many trees.
01:00:50More buildings, a surprise for us.
01:00:52Foliage, bushes.
01:00:52Yeah, yeah.
01:00:53Around the edges.
01:00:55Yes, everyone for watching.
01:00:56Thank you so much for tuning in to this stream.
01:00:59I hope you've enjoyed it.
01:01:00Loads of new things for Forza Horizon 4.
01:01:03We're going to be here again next week on Tuesday at 7 o'clock.
01:01:06So put it in your diaries.
01:01:08Thank you very much for watching and thank you very much for Ben and Tree for joining us.
01:01:13And we'll see you next time.
01:01:15Bye.
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