Forza Horizon 5 Reveals Collab with Donut Media for New Update

Playground Games has revealed the details of the upcoming update for Forza Horizon 5 with an exclusive collaboration with Donut Media. The new update’s download will arrive on November 8 with the Festival Series starting later on November 10, 2022. The new update will bring a brand-new Donut Media Test Track to Forza Horizon 5, a new Horizon Story featuring Donut Media along with Rocket Bunny widebody kits and tons of new visual candies for PC players.

Forza Horizon 5 is getting a new Horizon Story called Donut Media @ Horizon which is also the inaugural chapter of Donut Media @ Horizon as you meet James and Nolan who are on standby to provide radio comms as you take on a series of challenges that test your car building and driving skills on the Donut Media Test Track. This test track is built exclusively for this Horizon Story where you can upgrade and test drive vehicles with the goal of transforming a Classic Muscle or Retro Sports Car into a Rally Machine.

You will have three different options to choose from for this adventure:

1993 Ford SVT Cobra R
1993 Nissan 240 SX SE
1977 Pontiac Firebird Trans AM

After completing it initially, you can revisit the story to try again with different builds and to reset your progress in the Story, you just need to play Chapter 2 – The Test Track which will reset your progression for the next three chapters giving you the option to play them again with your newly built car. If you are a fan of widebody kits, Rocket Bunny widebody kits are coming back to Forza Horizon 5 as well as the new upgrade will bring 21 new Rocket Bunny widebody kits to the game. The following cars will get these new body kits:

1997 BMW M3
2005 BMW M3
1992 Honda NSX-R
2003 Honda S2000
2015 Lexus RC F
1994 Mazda MX-5 Miata
1997 Mazda RX-7 (features 2 Rocket Bunny widebody kits)
1993 Nissan 240SX SE
1969 Nissan Fairlady Z 432
2003 Nissan Fairlady Z
1992 Nissan Silvia CLUB K’s
1994 Nissan Silvia K’s
1998 Nissan Silvia K’s Aero
2000 Nissan Silvia Spec-R
1993 Nissan Skyline GT-R V-Spec
2015 Porsche Cayman GTS
2013 Subaru BRZ
2013 Toyota 86
1992 Volkswagen Golf GTI 16v Mk2
2014 Volkswagen Golf R

No Series Update is complete without its our four sets of Festival Playlists and the Donut Media update is no different. You will be able to complete four new Donut Media Festival Playlists, one for each week during this month, which are all themed around Donut Media and their iconic car culture. If you have been following Donut Media for some time, you will instantly recognize some of these events by their names such as the Pop Up Headlight Races, HiLow Fairlady races, and Up to Speed challenges among many others.

No Festival Playlist is complete without new cars and this one is no different. However, this time around, we are just getting recycled vehicles from Forza Horizon 4 so if you were looking for some cool new vehicles to arrive in the game, you are in for a disappointment. The new cars coming to Forza Horizon 5 during this update include:

2020 Lynk & Co #62 Cyan Racing 03 – Earn 20 PTS during the Summer “Wet” Season on the Donut Media Festival Playlist. Available from Nov. 10 – Nov. 17.
1965 Morris Mini-Traveller – Earn 20 PTS during the Autumn “Storm” Season on the Donut Media Festival Playlist. Available from Nov. 17 – Nov. 24.
1946 Ford Super Deluxe Station Wagon – Earn 20 PTS during the Winter “Dry” Season on the Donut Media Festival Playlist. Available from Nov. 24 – Dec. 1.
1953 Morris Minor Series II Traveler – Earn 20 PTS during the Spring “Hot” Season on the Donut Media Festival Playlist. Available from Nov. Dec. 1 – Dec. 8.

If for some reason, you were looking for new clothing items, the new update is bringing exclusive Donut Media clothing for this update as well including:

Donut Media Leaf Cap
Donut Media Grey Hoodie
Donut Media Black Jumper
Donut Media HRSPRS Relaxed Tee
Donut Media Black Cap
Donut Media Modern Race Helmet
Donut Media Black Bomber Jacket
Donut Media Yellow Relaxed Tee

There are also new Forza LINK unlocks and Accolades which unlock cars and clothing items for you:

Forza Link:

“MO POWA BABY”
“POP UP, UP & DOWN, HEADLIGHTS”

Coming to game fixes and release notes, the upcoming Forza Horizon 5 update will bring tons of new visual options for PC players along with fixes to some of the issues currently present in the game. Some of the highlighted changes in the new update include:

New resolution scaling options for NVIDIA DLSS Super Resolution, NVIDIA DLAA and AMD FSR 2.2, as well as enhanced DirectX Raytracing pre-sets for PC players have been added. We have more details on these features and how they work below.
Cars are now sorted Alphabetically in the “Car Type” section when players are browsing their Garage in the “My Cars” interface.
We’ve fixed an issue that caused the chosen Steering Wheel Input Mapping layout to revert to its default settings after restarting the title on the PC.
Further improvements have been made to alleviate incorrect percentages being displayed on the Props Budget UI in the EventLab Blueprint Builder.
Horizon Origins will no longer prompt players to set a route when starting the game or traveling from Hot Wheels Park to Mexico.
The hat in the Tankito Doritos Outfit now correctly displays the Doritos brand logo on top.
We’ve made improvements to localized VOs in Horizon Stories.

Detailed release notes will be shared next week however PC players can now use advanced visual options such as DLSS, FSR, and DXR. Players using Nvidia GPUs will be able to enable Nvidia DLSS Super Resolution while AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 2.2 is supported by all Nvidia, AMD, and Intel GPUs in order to maximize their image quality. Both of these options will allow players to upscale images to 4K if they are rendered from a 1080p frame resulting in higher performance at higher resolutions.

The game now also supports Nvidia DLAA which uses AI-powered technology to anti-alias a native resolution image at high quality. The new patch also enhances the DirectX RayTracing implementation on PC with two additional presets Ultra and Extreme further improving the reflections for the player car in Free Roam and races.

Are you looking forward to jumping back to Forza Horizon 5 to try out the new content featured within the Donut Media collaboration? Let us know in the comments section below.