Building points is less about skill than numbers and endurance.

The Forzathon Live events-enough with the hashtag-are diverting at first, but never build in complexity. Complete them (along with the daily and weekly bounties), and you'll earn #FORZATHON Points to be spent at the #FORZATHON Shop, where you buy rewards such as cars, clothes and emotes, which change every week. These are cooperative group events in which players drive through speed traps, drift zones or danger sign jumps, banking points collaboratively with other drivers. There's a low-level voyeuristic interest in encountering another player to seeing what car they drive and wondering what they're up to at that particular moment.Įvery hour, the game attempts to cajole players into the same location with its '#FORZATHON Live' events (a name that reeks of the boardroom). It's a subtly different type of fantasy to the singleplayer sandbox, where AI racers drive recklessly to sell the festival atmosphere, but it makes the world feel alive in a different way. Drive into another player and you'll pass through harmlessly-preventing would-be trolls from messing up your skill chains.