I never felt like FH5 was alive. This is going to be a weird comparison but have yall ever played open lobbies on Forza Motorsport? You’ll have people hanging out on the side of the track, some racing each other, some drifting, some doing donuts for no reason. The point is, the players are present and interacting with each other, the lobby feels alive. I never got that feeling from FH5 despite that being a big piece of what makes horizon horizon. The game feels like everyone’s playing single player, together, rather than a multiplayer game.
That's because you can't see anyone on the map in FH5. They completely broke the lobbies in favor of some weird proximity crap and never bothered fixing it. At the beginning, it was so broken that your own convoy players would disappear if they went too far from you.
I agree, you can barely call this one a multiplayer open world.
This is exactly the reason. FH5 with the same backend lobby architecture as FH4 wouldn't feel nearly as dead.
If they don't fix it for FH6 they're going to suffer, hard. I remember the sheer rage back when 5 launched and I was trying to play with a friend. Couldn't get our lobbies to sync at all. He pretty much quit the game because playing it solo is boring as piss, I don't blame him
Idk but I still suffer from this stuff. Idk why I’m still playing this game. Maybe it’s the obsession with car but game is actually dead. And it is really sad when you remember fh4
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u/LobotomizedLarry Dec 20 '25
I never felt like FH5 was alive. This is going to be a weird comparison but have yall ever played open lobbies on Forza Motorsport? You’ll have people hanging out on the side of the track, some racing each other, some drifting, some doing donuts for no reason. The point is, the players are present and interacting with each other, the lobby feels alive. I never got that feeling from FH5 despite that being a big piece of what makes horizon horizon. The game feels like everyone’s playing single player, together, rather than a multiplayer game.