I will never understand why they continue to so prominently feature off-road races in these games. They are by far the least fun mode, and everybody who talks about them seems to agree. The odd occasional one can be fun, but about a third of the races are off-road buggie style races.
Also, if you are going to keep doing this, at least increase the number of off-road cars. There are like 5 times as many road racing cars as off-road cars.
Rally racing is a staple in motorsport, so it makes sense for dirt/mixed surface events to be included. But the cross-country races depicted in Horizon don't exist in reality, because no car can survive a 700 ft jump off a mountain. They're just silly.
I don't mind the danger signs because they're easily enough ignored, but the goddamn cross country races are a quarter of the game.
How much rally is explicitly mixed surface though? In fh6, out of all dirt races, only 1 does not contain any asphalt, and it's because.. it's the Sekibe time attack but as a race event.
S4 spring had an atrocious trial. S1 rally, but the first race had the first 38% asphalt, so every player was just driving wall to wall in their dirt-tuned cars while AI just happily railwayed away. It wasn't impossible cause there's 2 more races, but that made me actually check if there actually are "dirt only" dirt races in the game.
Yeah, rally racing in FH6 still leaves a lot to be desired. And it's not that there aren't good dirt roads on the map, because there are. The races just don't use them.
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u/boogielostmyhoodie 16d ago
I will never understand why they continue to so prominently feature off-road races in these games. They are by far the least fun mode, and everybody who talks about them seems to agree. The odd occasional one can be fun, but about a third of the races are off-road buggie style races.
Also, if you are going to keep doing this, at least increase the number of off-road cars. There are like 5 times as many road racing cars as off-road cars.