Becoming a top racer in Forza Horizon 5 requires more than just being skilled on the road. How you spend your hard-earned credits goes a long way in determining how quickly you ascend the ranks and leave your opponents in the dust. From buying dream cars to fast-traveling throughout the game world, here are the top five ways you can spend your Forza 5 credits.
5. Fast Travel
Cruising through the beautifully rendered landscapes of Mexico is one of Forza’s best features. But at some point, this can get repetitive.
That’s where fast travel comes in. Once you unlock any of the 50 Fast Travel boards scattered throughout the map, you can teleport to that location for a starting price of 10,000 credits. This drops by 200 credits each time you unlock another Fast Travel board. So, in essence, you can access free Fast Travel by unlocking all 50 boards.
Alternatively, you can purchase houses around the map and use them as fast travel points. Once you have enough credits – 2 million to be precise – you can invest in the Buenas Vistas property, which enables you to travel to any road instead of set points. However, you’ll have to complete the Guanajuato Expedition before being able to make yourself comfortable in this property!
4. Houses
Houses are not just glorified fast travel points; they also come with other perks. For instance, the Lugar Tranquilo property grants you the Horizon Promo perk, enabling you to take fancy pictures of your car, which will count towards the Fit to Print achievement.
Similarly, Hotel Castillo rewards you with free daily wheelspins, which can win you handsome rewards. You’ll have to break the bank for this, though, because it requires a massive sum of five million credits!
If you are new to the game, my advice would be to shy away from the more luxurious housing properties and turn your focus towards areas such as tuning instead. These will get you more credits in the long run, which you can later spend on houses as you see fit.
3. Upgrading Car Components
Looking to fine-tune your driving experience? You’ll want to buy upgrades and modifications for your cars. From the upgrade menu, you can purchase and install several car components into your ride. These include engine enhancements, suspension tuning, and aerodynamic modifications involving front and rear bumpers, to name a few.
These modifications affect factors such as speed, handling, and acceleration, which can help you get the better of your opponents. If you don’t want to get into the nitty-gritty, you can simply select the Auto Upgrade option, which will improve your car in exchange for suitable credits. But ideally, you should know your beast and how to get the best out of its individual components!
2. Purchasing Cars
If you are playing Forza Horizon 5, chances are that you are a car enthusiast. And every car enthusiast wants to add the next shiny car to his or her collection.
Thus, one of the most obvious uses of credits in this game is to purchase and try a wide variety of cars. Each vehicle offers something different in terms of speed, control, and just the general feel, and you’ll want to find the one that suits you the best.
Once you have enough credits, you can look to purchase absolute beasts such as the Mercedes-Benz for 143,000,000 credits or the Ferrari 250 GTO for 50,000,000 credits. Ultimately, purchasing cars can be quite expensive, so you might want to try your luck at festival events and hope to win there before breaking the bank. While you can always get these cards by grinding for the ingame credits or you can simply purchase a FH5 modded account to unlock them all at once.
1. Buying and then selling cars
One use of spending credits is to make additional credits out of them. If you are patient enough, you can look for a bargain price for a particular car sold in the auction house, buy it, and then sell it off for a higher price. It’s a simple idea but a really effective one.
This can come in handy when you are low on credits and do not have the best field day on the racetracks, so you need to earn them through some other means. Once you have those credits in the bag, you can use them to buy the other stuff mentioned in this list.
Conclusion
Credits offer an interactive and challenging way to buy stuff in Forza Horizon 5. With so many things to choose from, it can be difficult to decide where to spend them. The five avenues mentioned above may solve that problem for you as you look to speed along your journey of becoming a Forza Horizon Pro.
