Hey again All, Hope you’re all having a lovely Friday!
Thought some might be interested to know that I found out how to make a test track today and the process is doable without sight. As usual though, it seems with FH5, there are a couple of areas which are not friendly. Go figure! lol! Anyway, to get right to the point, if you’d like to try this track out; if you go to the search area I mentioned before where you land on the Confirm button and you can search on a share code, I found today that if you use the D Pad to go up further, you will find many options you can search on. in this case, since it seems that I can’t find a share code for my event (probably due to inaccessibility) you can actually just search on the event name. So for my track, it is simply called Cara 1 So you’d go up in the search menu all the way to the top and press the A button on the Event Title option. This will bring up a standard XBox keyboard and you would type in “Cara 1” and then click enter with the A button. Then, just use the D Pad to go all the way back down the search menu until you get to the Confirm button and click that. YOu should then see a search results group with only my event in it. I’ll send along the share code when I can find it. Anyway, this is a road racing circuit event and there are no drivetars and no traffic so you can just drive. This event has 3 laps and you can use any car you like. Also, just as a note, any car class above the high S1 range will most likely require you to slow down a bit at the corners. These corners can occasionally be tight so just be aware of it. I will post another note either tonight or tomorrow to share the details of exactly how I did this. it’s not difficult but I need to check on a couple of specific steps so I don’t give you the wrong info. :) I’m super new to the process so I really want to make sure I am completely clear on it before I share it. Thanks, and for now, I hope you enjoy the event if you try it! Cheers! Cara > On Jul 1, 2022, at 3:50 AM, Cara Quinn <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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! > > Cara > > > > > > > > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#125099): https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/message/125099 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/92121835/21656 Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/leave/607459/21656/1071380848/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
