Forza Horizon 5 Tips - Beginning Tips Every Player Should Know

Welcome to my Forza Horizon tips video. This is a beginner's guide for new players who are feeling a little lost or overwhelmed. I've pulled together 8 tips that range from unlocking fast travel to learning how to drift. So, if you're looking for a way to make more sense of the opening hours of Forza Horizon 5, you're in the right place. Enjoy the video!

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0:00 Intro
0:58 3 progression systems
3:09 Upgrade the fast travel option
4:48 Use filters to find cars faster
6:06 Unlock each festival before anything else
7:29 Learn how to drift
9:32 Rack up a monster skill score
10:46 Pick two favorite cars at first
11:45 Get familiar with the seasonal objectives
12:58 Outro

Forza Horizon 5 is an absolute spectacle. That’s easy to see. But there are some things the game doesn’t tell you early on, that I absolutely wished I knew early on. Like, how can you upgrade the fast travel option, how exactly do the game’s three progression systems work? These are just a couple of the questions I hope to answer in this video. But don’t get me wrong, this isn’t a video of advanced tips on how to win the game’s toughest races. It’s more of a beginners guide for people just starting out, or feeling overwhelmed by everything this awesome game has to offer. And with that out of the way, here are the best tips and things I wish I knew before starting Forza Horizon 5.

Progression
One of the more confusing parts of Forza Horizon 5 for me early on was how you earn progression. There are actually three progression tracks. One for how you earn skill points to upgrade vehicles. One for how you earn experience points to earn new cars and in-game currency. And one for how you unlock story missions. Let’s start with how you unlock story missions. This is done by earning Accolade Points which are rewarded by completing any of the tasks posted in the game’s accolades menu. By the way, if you press the A button to select any accolade that requires you to complete a specific race or event, you’ll pin it’s location, which will create a driving line leading you directly to where you can earn that accolade. Anyhow, each accolade rewards you with a certain number of points, which are then tallied in the top right of the pause menu. When you have points enough to unlock a new story mission, you can then go to the game’s Horizon Adventure menu to decide which story mission to experience next.
Next, let’s look at Experience Points. These are earned by doing just about anything in the game, from smashing XP boards to discovering new areas to completing events. You’ll get on-screen notifications when you earn experience and when you eventually level up, you’ll earn a wheel spin. These are basically loot boxes, but not to worry, the rewards are usually worthwhile, typically a new car or a significant amount of in-game currency. BTW, if you’re wondering what level you are, it’s displayed at the top left of the pause menu next to your username. Ok, what about the third progression track? Well as you drive around, you’ll rack up what’s called your skill score. More on this later, but for now, just know that you’re rewarded a score for driving around basically like a maniac. When you finally fill up this yellow tire meter, you’re rewarded with a skill point, which you can then spend to unlock perks and upgrades to any one of your cars. So that’s how progression works in Forza. I wish the game did a better job of explaining these three tracks, but if you’re new to Forza and you’re as confused as I was, at least at first, I hope this helped.

Unlock The Ability to Fast Travel Anywhere
Another thing I feel Forza Horizon 5 does a lousy job of explaining is the fast travel system. Before I explain how to unlock the ability to fast travel to any location on the map, let me first explain how to fast travel at the start of the game. Early on, you can only fast travel to any of the game’s seven houses you’ve purchased, or any Festival Outpost you’ve unlocked by progressing through the campaign. But what I missed and took an embarrassingly long time to discover, was the subtle prompt at the bottom of the screen to press the x button to fast travel. Yeah, I’m sure this was obvious to a lot of you, but I just didn’t see it and I can’t imagine I’m the only one. Anyways, this will cost you some in-game credits, but if you smash through fast travel signs, that cost will continue to drop. Ok, now for what you’ve been waiting for. How do you unlock the ability to fast travel to any road on the map? Well, the house appeared on my map after I finished the Guanajuato Expedition, which is the first story mission in the Street Scene festival.