The Halo Experience Showcase
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Bamburgh Castle, Northumberland, United Kingdom |
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Reach the evacuation point before time runs out. |
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Halopedia has a walkthrough guide for this level; see The Halo Experience Showcase/Walkthrough. |
- "The Horizon Tech Team just found a training program buried deep within the software of an M12S Warthog CST. Seems like some kind of evacuation exercise!"
- — Rivals description
The Halo Experience Showcase is a Showcase Event in the 2018 racing game Forza Horizon 4, developed by Playground Games.
This Showcase Event, set in the Summer season, is a 5.0 mi (8.0 km) long Cross Country route, represented by the icon of the front of a D79H Pelican. Unlocking it requires the player to qualify for the Horizon Roster, which means the player must accumulate 285,000 Global Influence (Level 20). The event's starting point is located on the Bamburgh Castle Beach, north of the Bamburgh Castle and immediately to the left to the Bamburgh Beach Drag Strip. Completing the event gives the player base rewards of 7,546 CR and 4,651 Influence.
Completing the event at least once unlocks two time-limited Showcase Remix variants: Assault on the Control Room (Winter), which features snowy weather and an Urban Warthog; and Pillar of Autumn (Autumn), which features an autumnal rainstorm and a Corp Warthog. Completing any one Showcase Remix variant during the time period it is available unlocks a Super Wheelspin and adds 6% and 1.5% to the Horizon Autumn/Winter Season Playlist and Series completion percentages, respectively.[1][2][3] The table below lists every Festival Playlist Series the Showcase Remix variants were featured in prior to Series 40.
| Series | Season | Showcase Remix | Start Date End Date |
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| 7[2] | Winter | Assault on the Control Room | March 28, 2019 April 4, 2019 |
| 12[4] | Winter | Assault on the Control Room | August 15, 2019 August 22, 2019 |
| 15[5] | Winter | Assault on the Control Room | November 7, 2019 November 14, 2019 |
| 19[3] | Autumn | Pillar of Autumn | February 20, 2020 February 27, 2020 |
| 21[6] | Winter | Assault on the Control Room | April 23, 2020 April 30, 2020 |
| 22[7] | Autumn | Pillar of Autumn | May 14, 2020 May 21, 2020 |
| 26[8] | Autumn | Pillar of Autumn | September 3, 2020 September 10, 2020 |
| 31[9] | Winter | Assault on the Control Room | January 28, 2021 February 4, 2021 |
| 33[10] | Winter | Assault on the Control Room | March 25, 2021 April 1, 2021 |
| 35[11] | Autumn | Pillar of Autumn | May 13, 2021 May 20, 2021 |
| 37[12] | Winter | Assault on the Control Room | July 1, 2021 July 8, 2021 |
From Series 40 (September 10, 2021-October 7, 2021) all the way to the final Series 77 (July 25, 2024-August 22, 2024), the event's Showcase Remixes could randomly appear in future Series Playlists as part of the Horizon Mixtape (new post-Series 37 Series Playlists combining events from past Series Playlists).[13]
Transcript[edit]
{Cutscene}
Immediately after Rebecca Dawson introduces the player to the Horizon Drag Strip, the map moves to the Bamburgh Castle Beach, and the icon for the event, shown as the front of a D79H Pelican, is placed on it.
If Subtitles were off before the Series 16 update.
CORTANA - PLEASE WAIT
- Cortana: "Chief! I need you! Hurry. We've got to get out of here."
{Gameplay}
The camera pans around the player's current vehicle in a clockwise motion. The player can choose to do the event solo, cooperatively, or as part of Rivals. The player makes their choice.
If the event is played for the very first time.
If Subtitles were off before the Series 16 update.
CORTANA - PLEASE WAIT
- Cortana: "Initializing UNSC Training Protocol 165F-D."
{Cutscene}
An M12S Warthog CST appears, with the player's character performing an emote near the driver's side of it. The camera rotates clockwise around the Warthog and focuses on its front right wheel.
Only the Warthog is now seen alongside a few UNSC crates used during the Fall of Reach with health packs and a disabled Fusion coil next to them.
A SPARTAN-II clad in modified GEN2 MJOLNIR Mark VI armor is seen walking towards the Warthog, with the camera changing to show him from the front. The Spartan is revealed to be none other than John-117. He stops walking and briefly observes his vehicle.
John then turns around to see a D79H Pelican touch down in front of him and walks back to his Warthog while still facing the Pelican. Unintelligible radio chatter is then heard. The camera cuts back to the front of the Warthog for several seconds, and the environment is changed to show the Bamburgh Castle Beach during a minimally cloudy afternoon, with a Halo ring in the background. John is seen relaxing and idling by the driver's side of his Warthog.
The camera shows the Warthog's front end while the event is loading.
THE HALO EXPERIENCE SHOWCASE
If the Winter Showcase Remix version is played.
ASSAULT ON THE CONTROL ROOM
If the Autumn Showcase Remix version is played.
PILLAR OF AUTUMN
If the event is played for the very first time.
If Subtitles were off before the Series 16 update.
CORTANA - PLEASE WAIT
- Cortana: "With the ongoing and evolving threat posed by an increasingly focused Covenant, all front line UNSC personnel are expected to complete the following training exercise. Upon completion of the training exercise, please submit results to UNSC Fleetcom for assessment."
{Gameplay}
John drives the Warthog through the beach towards the first checkpoint, which is close to the Bamburgh Castle.
- Kilo: "This is Kilo Actual. Cortana, do you read me? I heard you need a pickup."
If Streamer Mode is disabled and the Radio is on. (First time only upon starting the event)
Timeless FM
The Trials
Kazuma Jinnouchi
As John gets closer to the first checkpoint, which is marked by a pair of blue signal flares, the player assumes control. Indestructible Covenant props and shield generators litter the surroundings while a pair of Banshees fly through the sky and pursue the Pelican, which is flying towards the landing zone on the beach and trying to evade the Banshees, neither of which attack.
- Cortana: "Cortana to Kilo Actual. Perfect timing! We are all done here and ready for dust-off."
The Master Chief makes a right and clears the first checkpoint. He turns left and notices blue race barriers made out of hard light. He sees the second checkpoint, which is marked on a ramp made out of sand.
- Kilo: "Whoa! Aborting pickup. Sorry, Cortana, I gotta shake these bogeys."
- Cortana: "Affirmative, Kilo Actual. I'll scan for a new LZ. Chief, gun it. Get us outta here!"
If the Chief makes a hard crash anytime during the event, or if someone crashes into him.
- Cortana: "Hey! Keep your head down! There's two of us in there now!"
The Chief clears the gap and jumps onto the grassy terrain part of the Bamburgh Castle. The path is now surrounded by hard light barriers again, this time on both sides. Chief cuts through a narrow castle entrance and sees that the castle has been decorated with UNSC and Covenant props.
- Kilo: "Cortana, what is this place?"
- Cortana: "I don't know. Looks like a fortification of some kind, but it hasn't been used in centuries."
John exits the castle through another passageway and sees a Marine named Banks escaping to the landing zone in another Warthog. He turns right to reach the third checkpoint.
- Banks: "Is that a Spartan?! We're gonna make it home after all!"
John follows Banks's Warthog to the next checkpoint.
- Cortana: "OK, new LZ found. We don't have long. This ring is gonna go nuclear in three minutes, and we do not want to be here when it does. Marines, I've added coordinates to your nav. Be there for evac in three minutes."
- Banks: "Roger that, Cortana. Hoo-rah!"
John clears the fourth checkpoint, drives through the farmlands, and reaches a checkpoint close to several residential homes.
- Cortana: "Look at these ancient dwellings. It almost looks like something lives here."
After clearing the fifth checkpoint, John then continues to follow the Pelican and gets on a public road for the next checkpoint. He sees that it is on farmland terrain and that the roads are blocked off by UNSC scenery props on the left and Covenant props on the right.
- Kilo: "Just go straight up here. We've got a better chance of avoiding those Banshees offroad."
John exits the splitting road and drives his Warthog through another set of farmland, making a hard right turn to pass