Forza Horizon 6’s latest patch released yesterday and with came a whole host of changes. But the ones that initially caught my eye were those concerning the AI drivatars, as they may go some way to curbing the rage of the infamous Bowie Knife99.
Under the subheading of ‘AI’ are the updates: “improvements to difficulty balancing” and “fixed an issue with drivatar race start behaviour”. We’re yet to see what this means, although there is some hope that it’ll dial down the likelihood of a drivatar from sporadically t-boning you at the start line.
This likely won’t, however, change the behaviour of drivatars for the rest of the week. Since Forza Horizon 6 released, there’s been swaths of videos depicting Bowie Knife99 (among other drivatars) forcing players off the road, pushing them into trees, or flying through the air to then come crashing down on their heads. While there have been some players fighting back against Bowie Knife99’s tyranny, it’s still largely gone unchecked.
But the changes to the AI drivatars don’t seem to be the most exciting part of this patch notes, instead players have latched onto the update which adds a “Roads Driven” percentage to the Region Overview. Players no longer have to blindly drive around regions attempting to complete all the roads available, or turn to message boards to help solve the puzzle.
“Literally was burning my eyeballs out of the socket staring at the map til I got the message in my mailbox that an update was out,” one player says. It looks like the roads percentage overview will be a huge help to everyone trying to check off everything on their to-do list. While another mentions how they’ve been stuck on 670/671 roads completed for over a week now—no doubt this update will come as a godsend to many.
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