FH2 Cars & Gameplay Mods

Extract the zip and put the FH2 Mods folder next to azimuth.exe. Requires Python 3 on PATH and Azimuth 1.0.2. See the README for setup and keyboard shortcuts.

What's new in 1.3

•Azimuth 1.0.2 and ExtraOptions 0.3.2. Update Azimuth from itch.io first (your saves carry over), then press Apply. On an older Azimuth everything works except ghost cars, ExtraOptions' keys, world keys and sky road.

•The included ExtraOptions is now 0.3.2 with this tool's additions (ghost cars, Ctrl world keys, random car, sky road). New from 0.3: the mods folder loader, Jump to Manufacturer, all online races offline, custom showcases, F1 to hide the HUD, photo mode from the garage, more audio and HUD options.

•Keys are now in the [Bindings] section of FH2_ExtraOptions.ini. Your old L / Q / E / H keys are moved over. Indicators need a short hold (0.5 s). J is Autodrive, K the roof, F1 hides the HUD. ExtraOptions' default F2 / F3 / F4 keys are moved off the overlay's keys.

•Apply now rebuilds FH2_ExtraOptions.ini from the new template and keeps your values, so an old ini no longer makes ExtraOptions refuse to start.

What's new in 1.2

•Game modes in the overlay: press F2 while driving (or use the new Modes tab) to switch between off, speed bomb, score attack and pursuit. Best results are saved.

- Speed bomb: reach 50 mph to arm it, then never drop below it, or the car blows up. It gets 5 mph faster every minute.

- Score attack: 2 minutes of points for speed, drifts, air time and near misses. New skills raise the multiplier up to x5; a crash loses the chain.

- Pursuit: drivatars are dropped behind you and chase you along the roads you drove. Stop next to one for 2.5 s and you are busted; 3 hits and you are wrecked; stay 250 m away for 8 s to escape, then they come back faster and more of them. Ghosting is off during a pursuit.

•The game modes are new and may be buggy, pursuit most of all (chasers can float or sink a little off your route; Chaser height on the Modes tab trims it). Press End to stop a mode.

•Fixed: swapping a car pack's gamedbRC.slt for another pack's and back mixed the two databases. Each pack's database is now taken as its own, and the car mods result warns when your garage has cars the pack does not have.

•Fixed: Apply failed with Access to the path is denied when FH2_ExtraOptions.ini (or another file it rewrites) was read-only or hidden.

•Fixed: indicator and other ExtraOptions keys went back to Q / E / L / H after Restore originals, or when another mod replaced FH2_ExtraOptions.ini. Your keys are now kept.

•Fixed: the window showed only Failed: with no reason; it now shows the error.

•Never delete backup_original after an Apply: the next Apply would back up already-modded files. Press Apply again after updating.

Extract the zip and put the FH2 Mods folder next to azimuth.exe. Requires Python 3 on PATH and Azimuth 0.9.10. See the README for setup and keyboard shortcuts.

What's new in 1.2

•Game modes in the overlay: press F2 while driving (or use the new Modes tab) to switch between off, speed bomb, score attack and pursuit. Best results are saved.

- Speed bomb: reach 50 mph to arm it, then never drop below it, or the car blows up. It gets 5 mph faster every minute.

- Score attack: 2 minutes of points for speed, drifts, air time and near misses. New skills raise the multiplier up to x5; a crash loses the chain.

- Pursuit: drivatars are dropped behind you and chase you along the roads you drove. Stop next to one for 2.5 s and you are busted; 3 hits and you are wrecked; stay 250 m away for 8 s to escape, then they come back faster and more of them. Ghosting is off during a pursuit.

•The game modes are new and may be buggy, pursuit most of all (chasers can float or sink a little off your route; Chaser height on the Modes tab trims it). Press End to stop a mode.

•Fixed: swapping a car pack's gamedbRC.slt for another pack's and back mixed the two databases. Each pack's database is now taken as its own, and the car mods result warns when your garage has cars the pack does not have.

•Fixed: Apply failed with Access to the path is denied when FH2_ExtraOptions.ini (or another file it rewrites) was read-only or hidden.

•Fixed: indicator and other ExtraOptions keys went back to Q / E / L / H after Restore originals, or when another mod replaced FH2_ExtraOptions.ini. Your keys are now kept.

•Fixed: the window showed only Failed: with no reason; it now shows the error.

•Never delete backup_original after an Apply: the next Apply would back up already-modded files. Press Apply again after updating.

Extract the zip and put the FH2 Mods folder next to azimuth.exe. Requires Python 3 on PATH and Azimuth 0.9.10. See the README for setup and keyboard shortcuts.

What's new in 1.1.1

•Fixed: traffic and AI cars didn't show in the Autoshow with the pack on. All 17 (hatchbacks, vans, the bus and the box truck) are now for sale, and they still drive around as traffic. Press Apply again after updating.

•Rocket on the controller: click the left stick (LS) to fire the rocket, as well as the 4 key.

•Faster UFO mode: speed up to 1000 mph (1609 km/h) and climb up to 300 mph.

•The FH2 Mods window and the overlay still work together: set car mods and packs in the window, then change your car live with the overlay.

•The game must run in windowed or borderless mode for the overlay to show.

Extract the zip and put the FH2 Mods folder next to azimuth.exe. Requires Python 3 on PATH and Azimuth 0.9.10. See the README for setup and keyboard shortcuts.

What's new in 1.1.0

•New: in-game overlay (press Insert while driving): boost, nitrous with pops and bangs, anti-lag, burnout, standing / rolling / wheelie launch, drift, more grip, super brakes, speed limiter, cruise control, barrel roll, 360, backflip, rocket, jump, instant stop, flip upright, air control, low gravity, UFO mode, ghost mode and 9 teleport spots. Every effect is put back when you pause, change car or switch it off.

•New: run timers and drag tree: 0-60 to 0-200 mph and 1/8 to 1 mile (or 0-100 to 0-400 km/h and 100 to 2000 m) with best times, a light tree with reaction times and your last 10 runs.

•New: on-screen gauges: speed and rev panel with shift flash, nitrous strip, compass, g-force, drift angle and score, trip and top speed. Move and resize them, pick your colour.

•New: mph / km/h switch for the gauges, the overlay settings and the run timers.

•The window and the overlay work together: the FH2 Mods window (bat) sets the game files (traffic, crashes, money, skills, camera, car mods, packs), the overlay changes your car live. Use both at once: boost and nitrous multiply the power your car mods give, and switching an effect off puts the car back to exactly what the window applied. Apply & Play can start the overlay for you.

•New: packs in the window: Race+ engine parts (an extra level of every engine part), engine swaps for every car, traffic and AI cars for sale, free cars. A pack your garage uses can't be switched off by accident.

•Fixed: "Car mods failed: NoneType object is not subscriptable" after switching car packs: cars and parts that are no longer in the game database are skipped.

•Fixed: a failed Apply could poison the backup of an added-cars database: the database is now built in a copy and only swapped in when everything worked.

•The game must run in windowed or borderless mode for the overlay to show.

Extract the zip and put the FH2 Mods folder next to azimuth.exe. Requires Python 3 on PATH and Azimuth 0.9.10. See the README for setup and keyboard shortcuts.

What's new

•Fixed Apply changing the wrong game when Azimuth also lists FH2 Presents Fast & Furious (Spire): the tool now only uses Forza Horizon 2 (Anthem), and refuses a backup_original that was made from another game.

•Fixed the Skill Legend perk (x6) capping the skill chain at x6 when Highest chain multiplier is set higher: with the perk it now goes one above your setting.

•Car mods work when a car mod moved the game database into mediaoverride (they failed with "game not found").

•New: Random car in game: in My Cars, click the right stick (or press R) to jump to a random car of your garage. The FH2 Mods window also has a Random car from my garage button.

•Rev limit now goes up to x2: higher values crashed the game (cars already set higher are applied at x2).

•Diagnose lists every game folder in azimuth.ini and which game it is.

Extract the zip and put the FH2 Mods folder next to azimuth.exe. Requires Python 3 on PATH and Azimuth 0.9.10. See the README for setup and keyboard shortcuts.

What's new

•Fixed "pattern not found in CameraSettings.ini" with cockpit FOV mods. Apply now works on top of them: leave Cockpit FOV at 48 to keep the mod's FOV, or set your own.

•FM5 Car Importer: cars it adds after an Apply are kept, car mods are no longer applied twice (which failed with "UNIQUE constraint failed"), and Restore originals goes back to stock again.

•Fixed Apply failing with a Test-Path error when data\bin has no azimuth-tls.dll.

•Diagnose no longer reports another mod's files as the cause unless Apply actually failed on them.

Extract the zip and put the FH2 Mods folder next to azimuth.exe. Requires Python 3 on PATH and Azimuth 0.9.10. See the README for setup and keyboard shortcuts.

What's new

•Works on the new ExtraOptions 0.2.98: it is included as winmm.dll next to azimuth.exe, with ghost cars, keyboard keys (L/Q/E/H), Ctrl world keys and sky road added. An older ExtraOptions in data\bin is backed up and swapped for Azimuth's own helper; Restore originals puts it back.

•Everything new in 0.2.98 too: hold D-pad left/right for indicators, tap up for hazards, Return to Garage, aero tuning without Forza aero, new drift camera.

•ForzaInfinity safe: if ForzaInfinity (or any other ExtraOptions) is in data\bin, the FH2 Mods winmm.dll switches itself off, so the game is never patched twice and does not crash. The rest of the tool still works.

•Added-car mods in Mount\mediaoverride / mediapc (e.g. the Rolls-Royce Wraith) keep working: Apply keeps their zipmanifest.xml in step and the added car can be modded too.

Extract the zip and put the FH2 Mods folder next to azimuth.exe. Requires Python 3 on PATH; ghost cars and the keyboard keys also need ExtraOptions installed. See the README for setup and keyboard shortcuts.

Extract the zip and put the FH2 Mods folder next to azimuth.exe. Requires Python 3 on PATH; ghost cars and the keyboard keys also need ExtraOptions installed. See the README for setup and keyboard shortcuts.

Extract the zip and put the FH2 Mods folder next to azimuth.exe. Requires Python 3 on PATH; ghost cars and the keyboard keys also need ExtraOptions installed. See the README for setup and keyboard shortcuts.

Extract the zip and put the FH2 Mods folder next to azimuth.exe. Requires Python 3 on PATH. See the README for setup.

Extract the zip and put the FH2 Mods folder next to azimuth.exe. Requires Python 3 on PATH. See the README for setup.