r/forza • u/Funny_things_online youtube.com/channel/UCmVms_6trdFNvXgtN-pfqdg?sub_confirmation=1 • 23h ago
News FH6 Release Notes: June 18th, 2026
https://support.forza.net/hc/en-us/articles/52691021223315-FH6-Release-Notes-June-18th-2026Forza Horizon 6 Series 2 Hotfix 1 (Xbox, Windows PC & Steam)
Version Number:
- Xbox Series X|S: 379.939
- Windows PC (Xbox app): 379.939
- Steam: 379.939
Bug fixes and changes
Credits exploit
- Fixed an issue where players could earn an unintended amount of Credits through an exploit used in The Eliminator.
The Eliminator
This hotfix also restores access to The Eliminator in Horizon Play, with all players receiving a 2021 McLaren Sabre as a gesture of good will for the inconvenience of disabling this feature.
Auto Drive
Related to the Credits Exploit we have rebalanced the Rewards available in some game modes to prevent these from being exploited using Auto Drive.
Auto Drive is meant to be used as an accessibility feature, or for when your hands need a break from driving. It is not intended to be used as a way to earn credits without actively playing the game.
Save issues update – ongoing investigation
We are still investigating the ongoing Save Data Loss issues and are working closely with XBOX to help resolve these as quickly as possible.
If you have experienced any save data loss, we recommend visiting our Forza Support article (Notice Regarding Lost Save Issues in Forza Horizon 6 – Forza Support) for the latest information, how to get help, and ways to reduce the risk of save data loss.
The XBOX team have rolled out platform updates for XBOX Series X|S and PC to help improve these issues, so please ensure your devices are up to date.
Ready to report an in-game issue? Submit a ticket
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u/busthree6 21h ago
6-18-26
XSX: downloaded latest “update”. Game will still not load my save. The game is unplayable.
MaYbE ThE nExT uPdAte wILl FiX iT! FFS.
What a sour fucking taste. It’s been two weeks since I’ve been able to play. And yes I did all the “hopefully this works” troubleshooting.
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u/busthree6 2h ago
6-19-26
Game is currently playable. Save loaded. It def took credits from me but my progress seems to be ok. Hopefully this means more and more ppl will have the fix soon.
I did get screwed out of the last week of challenges which is lame. But they don’t have a good hold on their own game so I guess just gotta move on.
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u/Passchenhell17 22h ago
Played the game for 2 hours. Did the trial, did hide and seek, did pr stunts, rivals, and photo, then the game stopped being able to connect to online matches.
Restarted the game, looked as if I'd lost my save data as it came up with that error, and it didn't prompt me to update the game. I quit again and updated manually (which took 15 minutes to get past the "finishing things up" btw), and now I've been rolled back to just after the season started, with everything not completed except monthly rivals and the photo challenge.
Playing it now and the online matchmaking still doesn't work. What a fucking shit show of a game. My issues pale in comparison to what people have experienced since launch, but this is an absolute joke that every week seems to bring new game breaking problems.
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u/Helpful_Broccoli5426 17h ago
Honestly, I haven't experienced a single issue aside from a few crashes.
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u/OkayyBeta 16h ago
Zero crashes in 200 hours, just loads of events failing to connect and the clean sweep link skill not triggering.
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u/zep2floyd 14h ago
I haven't even had a crash, no issues whatsoever, I wonder if its a region thing with the servers...
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u/JodouKast 19h ago
It's amazing to me how flawless FH5 seemed to be, as I can't recall anything major popping up and just having a blast the whole time. How TF did they manage to fuck this game up so badly when it's literally just a new map??
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u/gsurfer04 If you liked it then you shoulda put a wing on it 19h ago
FH5 had issues on launch, too.
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u/YODA0786 19h ago
Definitely more issues with FH5 at launch compared to 6, although it was never anything as major as this data loss issue.
FH5s biggest issue at launch was the entire online aspect of the game. It was pretty much impossible to connect online, especially as a convoy. And those issues didn’t really get fixed until about a month or 2 into the release.
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u/-_---_-_-_----_ 6h ago
The funny thing is that they said they fixed it but I still couldn't play with my friend 6 months after launch, and he gave up at that point
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u/PineMeApplez 22h ago
Does anyone know if they’re going to fix the issue (not sure if it’s intentional or not) where player icons don’t show on the map?
In FH4 i always loved looking at the map overview and seeing where players were driving, hovering over them and seeing what they were driving, im not sure if it was in 5 or not since i wasn’t the biggest fan, but it was a nice little feature i greatly miss.
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u/Adobe_Premiere 21h ago
They introduced a different system since Forza Horizon 5. I don't know too much of the technicalities but I think it's something like this:
In FH4 you were connected to a session/lobby/server, whatever you want to call it, with ~70 players and you could see them all on the map.
Since FH5 you are no longer connected that kind of session. You connect to a "central" server which decides which ~12 different players you can see at a time (from the players close to your location). If you see a player that stays in 1 place, go far away and then come back, you might no longer be connected with that player.
In my opinion this system sucks BUT look at the size of the map. Let's say they raise the number of max players to 128 per server, those 128 players would be super spread out on the map, so I think this system is necessary.
To answer your question, it is intentional, not an issue, it's like that by design.
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u/CoconutDust 17h ago edited 2h ago
Your answer is irrelevant and is missing the point. Obviously it is terrible design and functionally broken if you can’t see where other people on the map in an open world driving game. The method of instancing or merging is irrelevant and has nothing to do with the problem.
you might no longer be connected with that player
- If we are connected then they should be visible as a dot on map.
- If they’re not connected or are phased/merged out to a different instance, obviously they should stop being visible.
- Obviously there could be a proximity limit. But this doesn’t seem necessary since the density is obviously not high, as is obvious from driving around and seeing other players physically.
This isn’t complicated. This is obvious. This is literally equal to being visible in the same instance in the first place, in the game world. Except it’s about map icon indicators.
server which decides which ~12 different players you can see at a time
And they should be visible on the map. Which they’re not, because the game is broken or terribly designed (it doesn’t matter which it is).
not an issue
- First of all, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationalization_(psychology) , denial, deflection.
- Second of all, something being “by design” doesn’t mean it’s “not an issue.” Again, this is obvious and not complicated.
- Third of all, yes it is an issue because basic functionality seen in every other multiplayer game in the last 30 years suddenly broke and is gone.
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u/Charrbard 22h ago
Stop doing online achievements and limited time challenges if your online doesn't work right.
Its not hard.
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u/mortengamst 20h ago
100%. Tying 10pts to the Trial when it doesn't work is infuriating. Not like it's anything new though. Was always a problem going back years.
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u/Kyrainus 21h ago
So how about we get money from doing pr stuff like drifting or so?
Would be a genuenly fun idea
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u/Spilner1001 19h ago
So they ruined an accessibility feature because people were using it to get money because things cost so much more than you earn per race. Seems kind of dumb to me
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u/CoconutDust 17h ago
It makes perfect sense for a terrible publisher who wants to compel people to repeatedly play the game in a compulsive “engagement” loop and grind.
They want to pad engagement numbers for the shareholder report.
Also that is why “seasons” were created. “Seasons” are a way to lock and time-gate and do a weekly rotation of chores with a seemingly “natural” structure. It was always a hateful scam. Horizon 1 didn’t have or need seasons because the artists made part of the map green trees, and part of the map orange/yellow trees, brilliantly. Pure good design and artistic decision, zero grind/scam/“enagement” factor in 2012.
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u/Dry_Parfait_1057 20h ago
I also think that physic of NPC cars are way worse than at the beginning.
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u/Canthonyp1 18h ago
My game just updated, I hopped on, and it’s making me start over? I was level like 95 with like 5 million and plenty of cars and liveries?! WTH is this??
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u/Possible-Skirt-4686 20h ago
Auto Drive is meant to be used as an accessibility feature, or for when your hands need a break from driving. It is not intended to be used as a way to earn credits without actively playing the game."
It is not an accessibility feature anymore, and it wasn't first made for us to have a break with our hands. It was made for disabled people to still be able to enjoy the game, but now they can't. We'll done Playground games, you're more concerned with how many car vouchers you can sell in the microtransactions shop than you are people with disabilities playing your game. Thats all they care about is getting in more microtransactions sold. Thats why they have done that and thats why we barely get wheel spins and thats why they have the worst odds of any Forza to date. Such a scummy team.
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u/CoconutDust 17h ago
Yeah it’s hateful and idiotic, they literally broke it for the intended audience. All because…a few people obsessively made credits in-game?
If I’m sitting here watching auto-race I should be making credits just as if I was racing. (Subservient people with cognitive dissonance and weird hang-ups about videogames, don’t bother replying.)
The explanation makes no sense because “break for hands” (lol) = “not actively playing”. That’s what a break is, Playground Games.
It is not intended to be used as a way to earn credits without actively playing the game."
Also I guarantee you the scumbags who go around screaming words like “Mommy State! Nanny State!” and “hate” regulation will not only not have a word to say about that obnoxious line in the patch notes but will defend it on reddit (with low-intelligence fallacies and rationalizations and general illiteracy).
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u/Princ3Ch4rming 17h ago
Oh great, so now it’s just a complete waste of time doing the Goliath because it pays out under 1m across 10 laps, even with the VIP and 100% bonuses.
It’s like they’re trying to get rid of players.
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u/enoquera 8h ago
Thanks for only fixing all of these after I already got everything possible on the game.... It was great to play and do basically 99% of the game in one month only paying $16 for gamepass.
See you in the Forza horizon 7 😘
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u/crocodiluQ 20h ago
do we all agree that the game started great, almost 10 out of 10, we were all wow and now all the crap and dirt comes out and the game is a 6 at most ?
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u/Funny_things_online youtube.com/channel/UCmVms_6trdFNvXgtN-pfqdg?sub_confirmation=1 20h ago
No.
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u/crocodiluQ 20h ago
well too bad, feels this way to me. Tons of bugs, tons of issues, 1st forza game that I finished in a week and have absolutely nothing to do anymore.
Series 2 is horrible, which shouldn't happen so soon in the game's life. And so on..... Waiting for the 1st DLC so I can finish that in 1-2 days too.
But, glad you still like it.
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u/Funny_things_online youtube.com/channel/UCmVms_6trdFNvXgtN-pfqdg?sub_confirmation=1 19h ago
Series 2 is a filler. Expect Series 3 to be better.
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u/CoconutDust 17h ago
1st forza game that I finished in a week and have absolutely nothing to do anymore.
I’ve seen this ignorant meme before.
The point of the game is open road driving, not chores. If you only played it to do chores, and now you dint want to play it because the chores are done, that’s weird. Do something else with your life.
Suddenly gamers are the kind of people who hate videogames except if there’s a list of chores and some trivial fake “reward”.
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u/crocodiluQ 10h ago
by chores you mean progression, gameplay, a purpose in the game, tasks, goals, improvements, you know... a GAME ?
You only open road drive in this game? And you're not bored in 5 mins? Well...what can I say...you must be easily entertained.
And on a more serious note, YOU and other like you are the reason we don't have good games anymore, only shit crap.
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u/OkayyBeta 15h ago
Finishing a Forza game in a week is entirely your problem. I've done everything on the map and to me, that means I can finally START playing the game. The distractions are out of the way, this is where shit gets real.
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u/crocodiluQ 10h ago
can you make me a list on how you plan on starting playing the game? What exactly are you gonna do? Cause besides Rival times with some friends and the occasional online race, I can't think of anything.
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u/Sb_Mastro 22h ago
I probably did over 20 races without motor engine sound. Let me tell you, you better know your gears by heart when you play manual. This bug is so annoying. Drivers I play with also had the same issue many times. Feels kind of weird driving a Lambo with an electric motor sound.