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In a year where many games take been broken at launch and light on features, Forza Horizon 5 has been a shining light in comparison. Sadly, that doesn't mean it's perfect. Playground Games, the developer behind the hitting racing game, has been focused on updating the ever-present bugs impacting online and its many game modes. Thankfully, they've made strides since releasing the November hotfix and have at present dropped a significant patch.

This patch won't be the last, but it features drastic improvements to Horizon's multiplayer and Accolades systems while squashing pesky bugs. The most significant of these changes focus on Horizon's "Horizon Arcade."

In Horizon Arcade, you and a group of players are tasked with completing ever-escalating challenges fix around the open up world. This game mode has made previous appearances in the Horizon serial, except this implantation was especially difficult to cease in smaller groups. It's been confirmed that the difficulty was with challenges not scaling when the mode had fewer players present. Thankfully, this has been fixed, equally well every bit nine other Horizon Arcade-related issues.

We take also seen over fifteen updates to the Accolade arrangement, ranging from bug fixes to adding the power to jump to rewards directly. That ways no more than scrolling through the vast Accolades list to claim that new reward. These quality of life improvements are always much appreciated, and this patch features even more, which you can find here.