Forza Horizon 6 Finally Fixes One Of The Series' Most Annoying Aspects
Overview & Key Takeaways
Forza Horizon 6 offers another massive open world to fulfill your every racing and car culture desire, but among all the headlining features it offers, it also addresses a small but annoying milestone of the franchise that has irritatingly been seen in every previous entry in the series: a goal that insists you drive down literally every last stretch of road.
There are always hundreds of roads in these games, and you don't get credit for driving on a road until you've driven the whole length of it. The game tracks which roads you've been on by changing them from gray to white (or orange for dirt roads) on the map screen.
For those who wanted to complete this feat and unlock the related Achievement or Trophy, this often meant painstakingly scanning over the map after many hours to find small patches of grayed-out roads that you'd not yet cruised over. Thus, maddeningly, the closer you were to finishing this task, the harder it was to spot the little bits you'd missed.
Forza Horizon 6 offers another massive open world to fulfill your every racing and car culture desire, but among all the headlining features it offers, it also addresses a small but annoying milestone of the franchise that has irritatingly been seen in every previous entry in the series: a goal that insists you drive down literallyevery last stretch of road.
There are always hundreds of roads in these games, and you don’t get credit for driving on a road until you’ve driven the whole length of it. The game tracks which roads you’ve been on by changing them from gray to white (or orange for dirt roads) on the map screen.
For those who wanted to complete this feat and unlock the related Achievement or Trophy, this often meant painstakingly scanning over the map after many hours to find small patches of grayed-out roads that you’d not yet cruised over. Thus, maddeningly, the closer you were to finishing this task, the harder it was to spot the little bits you’d missed.
Forza Horizon 6 has mercifully changed this objective for its version of the Achievement (and eventual Trophy when Forza Horizon 6 comes to PS5). In this latest sequel, you only need to “reveal 100%” of the map, which means something different from the way past games did it.
I unlocked this Achievement once I had revealed 100% of all of the game’s regions, including Legends Island, the 10th region that opens up when you get your last Horizon Festival wristband (which took me about 40 gameplay hours, if you’re curious).
In-game stat-tracking makes this so much simpler than needing to drive across every last bit of dirt or paved road in the game. Instead, you can open the map, press LB (L1 on a PlayStation controller) to view the map as distinct regions, each with its own completion stats. What you’re looking for is the Region Discovered stat at the bottom. Once all 10 regions are 100% revealed, you’ll unlock the Achievement/Trophy, likely well before you drive down every road.
Toward the end of this process, this is done most efficiently in drone mode (down, then up, on the D-pad while unpaused), as all you’re doing is trying to erase the light fog effect from each region. Pro tip: Some fog on the outskirts stays there even after the job is done, because it’s in places where your car can’t get to anyway, so focus on the drivable areas and clear all that fog, and you’ll have this done in due time. Hopefully, the inevitable Forza Horizon 7 uses this same approach.
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