Hi All, I just found another feature of Forza Horizon 5 which at first appeared to be not super friendly but I’ve just found a very cool work-around which makes this available to us.
It is the Event Lab which features tracks and races of all types, created by the Forza community. You can get to these events but neither the groups that contain them generally announce their titles nor the options themselves for each event. So it’s really hit or miss. However, I’ve just found that the search feature for these events is accessible and each event has a unique race code that you can search on to get to that event directly. So this is kind of a huge deal, as it means that we now have access to all sorts of community-created races and tracks etc, and we do not need to use the map or travel across the world to get to these events anytime we like. This is all available from the pause menu from anywhere in the game. For those who may not know, you get to the pause menu by pressing the menu button on your controller. Once you are in the pause menu, you get to the event lab by first moving to the Creative Hub group using the right or left buttons on an XBox controller. I do not know which keys this would be on PC. -My apologies. I can’t remember at the minute if the Creative Hub group announces itself via the screen reader but if it does not, the options in it do. So you would just locate the Event Lab option using the D pad and activate it by pressing A. Once you’re in the Event Lab, you will see two options which you can navigate between using the D Pad. I’m not in front of the game just now, but I believe these options are Blueprints and My Designs. I’ll verify this tomorrow and re-post if necessary. Anyway, the option you want is Blueprints. This option contains all of the comunity-based tracks and races. These are divided into groups, but only the first and last groups are spoken. You can still navigate between them and choose races within them, but the races will not announce their titles. So you cannot tell which event you are picking. This is where the above work-around comes in; As I’d mentioned, each event has a code associated with it and you can find these codes on the web. (Youtube etc) Once you are in the Blueprints section, you can go to the search area by pressing the View button on your controller. You should hear an option called Confirm. If you navigate up once with the D Pad, you should then hear a search edit field announced. You can click on this by pressing the A button and a search keyboard will open, which uses Narrator so we can access it. If you enter the search code for the event you want, and then click enter, you will get a search results group which should contain the option you’re looking for. If you just click the A button you will enter the event. I believe you can press Y in place of A if you would like to favorite the event. I’ll get to this again in a minute. For now though, once the event starts, it should be announced like any normal race would, so you can race like you usually do, but now we have access to a vast amount of community based events that do not require any use of the map or any travel to locate. Okay, so now on to favorites, when I was mentioning the groups in the Blueprints section earlier, I mentioned that only the first and last groups seem to be announced. The first group (all the way to the left) is the highest rated races (I can’t remember the exact name just now) and the last group (all the way to the right) is called History. This screen may be confusing, as you will still hear clicks if you keep moving to the right after you reach the History group. There are no more groups though and you will actually stay on the History group so just bear this in mind. So now, if you navigate to the History group and then go one to the left with the D Pad, you will land on the Favorites group. Even though this group and its options are not narrated, your favorites are here and they should be in the order in which you favorited them. You can access these using the D Pad as you normally would. So this is sort of a quicker way to get to these without needing to type in the race code each time. I’ve not used the History group yet but this also might work. If you like, here is a race code to get you started. This track is actually basically kind of a test track that you can race on alone. This one is actually meant for people wanting to get lots of points and credits using the auto-steering feature. I found this accidentally so thought I would give it a try and see if this was accessible for us. It turns out that it is, and this is a perfectly legit race. The race code is 966 452 663. A few words of warning / advice though; I believe this track is meant for class S 1 or 2 cars but for some reason when I started the race, it only let me choose the Jesko that I was currently driving, which is an X class car and currently the fastest car in the game. So I believe this car is way too fast for this track. I’m just saying this in case you run into the same situation I did. :) What I needed to do to be successful on this track is to kind of help the AI out a bit by doing some extra braking on the turns and taking some of the off-road bits slightly slower so as to avoid anything that would stop the car and cause me to lose points. when I notice the AI beginning to auto brake for me, I also brake manually a lot more to allow it to slow down as much as it should to take each corner. Taking corners on this track in a Jesko at full speed will absolutely cause you to crash! At least it does for me. :) So again, just bear this in mind when racing on this track. This is super fun though and allowed me to actually reach the Jesko’s currently tuned top speed of 303 miles per hour on a straight away so woohoo! this was awesome! :) This particular race is really long and I was never actually able to finish it because I got disconnected from the game server but your milage may vary so to speak. :) Also, this course takes you through some short off-road bits so if you hear your car suddenly slowing down and occasionally hitting a few things, this is actually normal and what is supposed to happen. The trick is just not to lose it in the turns and hit something big that will actually stop your car. Other than that, it seems essentially anything goes on this track. You can find a ton more race codes online and searching on Youtube for interesting event lab races will yield all kinds of treasures. I’ve already found more than I can race! :) Good luck with these events and hope y’all enjoy this! Cheers! 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