Everything you need to tackle the most difficult Forza Horizon 5 Festival Playlist challenges.
Forza Horizon 5 is a critically acclaimed open-world racing game, and developer Playground Games and publisher Xbox Game Studios are committed to perpetually adding fresh content to the game through the Festival Playlist. Every week, the playlist introduces players to new events, challenges to complete, and rewards to earn. Occasionally, however, challenges can ramp up the difficulty or be unclear in their descriptions and instructions.
From tricky Daily Challenges to enigmatic Treasure Hunts, this is everything you need to know to complete those Forza Horizon 5 challenges and obtain every exclusive reward in one of the best racing games on Xbox.
How can I complete the Festival Playlist challenges in Forza Horizon 5?
The Forza Horizon 5 Festival Playlist features a rotating selection of possible challenges and events, most of which are fairly straightforward. Every so often, however, FH5's Festival Playlist will present players with a particularly difficult challenge, either through design, confusing or unclear instructions, or even in-game bugs that prevent the challenge from being completed like normal.
Spring, Series 5 — "Acura Me Treasure" Treasure Hunt Challenge
The closing week for Forza Horizon 5's Series 5 Festival Playlist also came with a brand-new Treasure Hunt for players to unravel and track down. "Acura Me Treasure" once again rewards a handful of Credits to any player who manages to solve the clue and smash the Treasure Chest, and is pretty straightforward to solve.
- Clue: Acura a clue by traveling fast to see new stars on the Horizon, a quick flash and you'll see.
- Reward: 3 Playlist Points and 50,000 Credits.
As the clue (and name) both suggest, this Treasure Hunt revolves around an Acura car. You can choose any Acura car capable of achieving the speed and acceleration you'll require later on, but by far the most capable vehicle and the easiest with which to solve the "Acura Me Treasure" Challenge is the 2017 Acura NSX, which is a solid S1-Class car you can acquire from the Autoshow for 170,000 Credits. Personally, I used a tuned and upgraded 2002 Acura RSX Type-S to complete the Treasure Hunt (mostly to prove that any Acura will do).
After you've chosen your preferred car, you'll need to head to a Speed Trap PR Stunt with "Horizon" in the name. Of the new Speed Trap additions added with Series 5, only one fits the bill: Horizon Baja, which is located in the upper left-hand corner of the map, near the Horizon Baja Festival Site.
While behind the wheel of your Acura car, you'll need to speed through the Horizon Baja Speed Trap and achieve 2 or more Stars, which equates to at least 70mph. You do not have to earn all 3 Stars to complete the clue and reveal the search area for the "Acura Me Treasure" Treasure Chest, but the 2017 Acura NSX is more than capable of accomplishing that if you want to kill two birds with one stone and complete the PR Stunt.
Once you've earned 2 or more Stars at the Horizon Baja Speed Trap PR Stunt while driving an Acura car, the search area for the Treasure Chest will appear just north of the Horizon Rush Festival Site. You can either search the area manually to locate the Treasure Chest, or check the images above to find its exact location, hidden under the railway next to the road.
Once you smash the Treasure Chest, you will have completed the "Acura Me Treasure" Treasure Hunt and be rewarded with 3 Playlist Points in the Festival Playlist and 50,000 Credits.
The challenges continue
As the Forza Horizon 5 map shifts through the seasons every week, a new batch of challenges appear. If any mission poses a unique challenge to players, we'll update this section with instructions on how to (if you can) complete it. If there are any challenges you would like us to tackle, sound off in the comments below.
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