Ready or not, here I come: Forza Horizon 5’s new game mode revealed

Playground Games has revealed that a new multiplayer game mode is coming to Forza Horizon 5 on the 10th of September.

‘Hide & Seek’, as the name suggests, sees one player hiding from a team of five Seekers, with the Seekers aiming to stay close enough to fill their ‘Seeker’s Detection Meter’. Once filled, it’s round over.

Each game of Hide & Seek is split into two four-minute phases. In the first phase, the Hider must remain incognito, avoiding detection if possible by blending in with AI traffic. In the second phase, an End Zone will appear on the map, giving the Hider four minutes to reach it undetected to win the round.

Hiders and Seekers have extra abilities to help them, however. Seekers can use their Radar to point to a Hider’s approximate location and use the Ping function to highlight their exact location for 20s.

Hiders, on the other hand, can use the Chase BReaker ability to stop the Seekers in their tracks, also turning off their Radar and Ping abilities while being able to pass through destructible objects undamaged.

Forza Horizon 5 Hide & Seek Hider vehicles

• 2012 Jeep Wrangler
• 2017 Ford F-150 Raptor
• 2017 Chevrolet Colorado ZR2
• 2018 Mercedes X Class

Forza Horizon 5 Hide & Seek Seeker vehicles

• 2016 BMW M4 GTS
• 2017 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1
• 2011 Mercedes SLS AMG
• 2015 Audi RS6
• 2008 Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X GSR
• 2021 Ford Bronco

Hide & Seek will be accessible through FH5’s Online menu, opening up its own progression table, with new accolades and bucketloads of XP available for repeated game time. The game mode will go live on the 10th of September as part of Forza Horizon 5’s ‘Hidden Horizons’ series.

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