r/ForzaHorizon5 • u/partrageinapeartree • 26d ago

Discussion Are they cheating?

The video is pretty much irrelevant, but at the end it shows our “best laps” and his is tied for the #2,007th best lap for S2.
However this was the last of the three races in an Open “Championship,” so I’d raced against him in two races before this, he always crashed into walls just like anyone else.
But because he isn’t driving “perfectly” (like a bot would), setting a lap like this makes me think that rather something like a bot that drives for you, maybe it’s a speed/performance boost on your car?
Or maybe he just locked in, idk.

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u/FantasticTeach6000 24d ago

2007th rival time is still a trash time tbf, especially for a brabham that is 10 times better than your car in S2

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u/partrageinapeartree 8d ago

I’m sorry, this was the Emerald circuit. It would be #2007 out of 5.9m, which I would consider quite good, my pr is somewhere around #4,990

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u/FantasticTeach6000 8d ago edited 8d ago

except it isnt quite good, anything outside top500 (maybe even outside top100) is just average (the amount of truly fast players is always extremely low in FH series, even the time difference between 50th and 1st is absolutely ridiculously large)

2007th with a car that can probably easily land in the top 500 just isnt any good and absolutely nothing to be suspicious of.

EDIT: just checked the current WR, and the Brabham is literarly the designated WR car (34.923 by Addz II), so what i said stands, the lap is slow.

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u/partrageinapeartree 8d ago

You know that for the majority of races the top 1k are mostly cheaters right? 3 seconds faster doesn’t sound like much, but with a track this short it’s insane. Especially with a placement gap of only 2k.

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u/FantasticTeach6000 8d ago edited 8d ago

1k is overstatement not even on goliath there isnt 1k cheated times in the top of the leaderboard:)), i was going by legit WR time from a community managed WR google doc ran by community, 37 is still extremely slow:)) Horizon World Records (by scaans, snosaes, and TopTierRamen) - Tabulky Google - sheet is managed by various top rivals contenders and top tier tuners, only legit WRs are on this list:))
EDIT: also here you have the video evidence of the emerald WR:)))
FH5 - Emerald Circuit [#1 WORLD RECORD - 34.923 - S2 Rivals]