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.
Summer, Series 6 — "Color Festival" Collectibles Challenge
Series 6 of the Forza Horizon 5 Festival Playlist introduces two brand-new collectible types, the first of which being these colorful "paint barrels" featured in the Summer Season. Smashing 25 paint barrels not only makes for quite the visual spectacle, but will also reward you with 3 Playlist Points and the Doodle Pattern Face Mask Vanity Item. Fortunately, this collectibles challenge is a breeze to complete.
Unlike some other collectibles challenges, which require you to participate in certain events or head to a specific location, these paint barrel collectibles appear to be scattered in great numbers across Horizon Festival Sites, making them easy to find and smash. Head to any Festival Site (I chose Horizon Mexico) and you'll likely be greeted immediately by numerous stacks of paint barrels. Even better, smashing these piles does appear to count as three paint barrels, making it even easier to complete this challenge.
Even with other players around smashing barrels I didn't get to fast enough, I had zero difficulties completing this challenge in a matter of minutes. The car you choose to use doesn't make a difference. Once you've smashed 25 paint barrels, you'll have completed the "Color Festival" Collectibles Challenge and will be rewarded with 3 Playlist Points and a new Vanity Item.
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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