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Posted: 9/23/2016 10:59:15 AM EDT
Anyone else getting Horizon 3? It is one of the first XboxOne / PC cross compatible games.

I preordered the Ultimate Edition and it appears to have downloaded in the background without my noticing on my Win10 machine and was ready to play this morning, so I fired it up for a test drive.

Native ultrawide support with no stretching? Check.
Native XBox One controller support WITH trigger rumble and all the other bells and whistles? Check.
Looks fookin' awesome and runs at 60+ FPS? Check.
Obnoxious Ricky Gervais asshole from the second game dead in a ditch somewhere? Double Check.

I may not even play this on my XB1, the PC version is pretty badass. I'm going to try to tweak some of the graphics settings tonight, perhaps see if I can DSR it and clean it up even further.
Link Posted: 9/23/2016 3:31:07 PM EDT
[#1]
Requires Windows 10, though. No-go for me there. Otherwise I would totally give it a shot!
Link Posted: 9/23/2016 9:10:49 PM EDT
[#2]
Any steering wheel support for PC?
Link Posted: 9/23/2016 9:22:52 PM EDT
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I had to check, but yep... it shows native support for several Thrustmaster and Logitech wheels as well as the ability to make a custom wheel profile.
Link Posted: 9/28/2016 11:19:48 AM EDT
[#4]
Just ordered it from Amazon.  I have been playing the first Horizon the past week or so since it was free on gaming with gold, and I have been having fun.  Hopefully this won't disappoint.
Link Posted: 9/28/2016 11:22:00 AM EDT
[#5]
I've been playing it, but on xbx1
Link Posted: 9/28/2016 11:29:37 AM EDT
[#6]
I've been playing on PC but have hit a wall of sorts.

When I find the Falcon XB barn find my game just locks up... it doesn't lock up solid, it just "hangs" with the characters looking at the car, music and animations still playing. No way to get out of it, it just stays like that forever.

The rest of the game works well enough, but the longer I play on PC the more I notice little glitches and I experience more and more CTD's.

The experience on PC, when the game is working, is fun... but lately the game seems to be getting progressively buggier.
Link Posted: 9/29/2016 2:28:41 AM EDT
[#7]
I will test the Win 10 app store with this and GOW4 this week or next. Hope it goes smooth.

Videos of this game look like it's fun. The NFS games have bored me lately. I play a game like Just Cause 3  just to cruise around in the cars. Hope this mimics that wide open game experience.
Link Posted: 9/29/2016 8:32:53 AM EDT
[#8]
When it is working it is a fun game.

If I had a complaint about the game unrelated to technical issues, it would be that there is still too much structure. Compared to the first two games, 3 is a little looser when it comes to the overall imposed structure the game puts on you. Events are now more user controlled like in 2, and with the shift of the tone of the game from "participant" to "boss" certain aspects feel more user-derived rather than simply you doing what the game tells you to do. But the options the game presents you with are all "on rails"... things unlock when the game wants them to unlock, there is no "driving around on your own and discovering new events". You CAN drive around and treasure hunt the billboards and post card places, but all the events, stunts, barn finds and showcases must first be triggered by the game.

The only other minor gripe I would have is that unlike say Gran Turismo, Horizon is much more focused on supercars and exotic / rare cars. There are like fifty different Ferraris in the game but only like a handful of "regular" cars (that aren't some kind of rare collectible version). And since 3 takes place in Australia Holden cars are kind of over-represented. It is more like a big case of Hotwheels cars than it is a representation of the driving world at large. So if you like racing LaFerraris and Bugattis then you are in luck... if you like racing Nissan Stanzas and Ford Escorts you are SOL.

But if all you want to do is tool around on your own you can do that... it just gets kind of boring after a while and you go right back to the structured events.
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