Forza Horizon 2
88 Achievements
2,000
150-200h
Friends with Benefits
Earn a total of 1,000,000 Cr from Rivals.
10
0.35%
How to unlock the Friends with Benefits achievement in Forza Horizon 2 - Definitive Guide
You can also do this through the actual rivals menu if you know the track as well as class you want to play.
A good method is also to do 1 after every race so there is not much grinding involved later on, but that is up to you.
Griffey95's solution is pretty good but I just want to show you that.
Thirst thing, join a clan with a lot of members (Trueachievements is a good one, because there are members with all kind of skill playing)
Choose the car you're good with.
Start a circuit race, each lap slow down the much you can when the finnish line is near you (set a good time too, because if you don't, your next rival will get you 250Cr). Complete the race.
Now press to play against your rival (don't forget to raise difficulty for more Cr) and beat it! (starting with 1.000Cr is enought it will rise up after 3/4 races).
You win about 6.000/7.000Cr by beating a rival with 1.000Cr, beating a 5.000Cr rival will give about 16.000Cr. 16.000Cr/1min20 with loading times = 240.000Cr per 15 minutes with loading times.
The only thing you have to do is to slow down as much as you can to beat your rival with the fewest time difference (less than 0.00.100s is the more profitable).
I started my rivals time with 1min11s and in the last race I did in the video I was only 1min07s with about 15 rivals beaten.
If you break too much and crossed the line after your rival, simply press and replay the part you failed.
(You can find shortest race with 55s a lap).
Once the challenge is too difficult for you, search a new race, and repeat. (I got 890.000Cr with 3 races).
I made a video for convenience.
Hope it could help some of you , if you thumb down please explain why.
Sorry for my english, I am not bilingual.
In your video you show getting 10,904 credits against a 4,000 credits rival in 1m07s. If you have to press the rewind button (for which you take a -15% credit penalty) then in reality the lap time is actually more than 1m07s. So assuming you can even beat 15 different 4,000 credit rivals from a standing start on the first lap, that would be 1m07s x 15 = 17 minutes for 163,560 credits. You need to add the number of times you press Y and the time between races to the 17 minutes, so let's say 5 minutes of extra time. That averages 112,800 credits in 15 minutes, which is less than half of 240,000 credits.
So how to get this achievement and what to remember.
1. Play Rivals events either from completing normal races or using the rivals menu when you press start.
2. Do not worry about prioritizing the rewards I've earned 10k from 250 rewards events and it still counted towards the achievement and pushed me up 1% each time.
3. Losing doesn't stop you from earning credits thankfully.
4. Try to have fun, you can repeat events over and over but that could get dull real fast.
I have a video below proving that the reward credits don't mean much. I deliberately went for a low 250CR reward and still earned 10k pushing me up another 1% towards the achievement.
1. I think Promenade Circuit in Nice Massena is the shortest track.
2. I believe Lamborghini Veneno is a better choice.
Here's a video of the first and the final lap of my 1 hour grind:
https://screenshotscontent-t2001.xboxlive.com/000900000e91e6...
You can try different S2 class cars, different tracks and different difficulty settings to find a combination that really suits you.
I recommend Nice Massena, City Rapide Circuit, using an A or S1 class car. After doing 30 laps which took about 25 minutes, I would get around 88,000 CR. Which would be 211,000 CR/Hour. Your results may vary depending upon difficulty.
Please read this guide in its entirety before attempting to pop any of these achievements. This solution and the others posted for the above achievements took a lot of time to research & document.
To pop ANY of these achievements, we must be connected to the Forza Horizon 2 servers. We will refer to this as THE GOLDEN RULE.
(Press , go to the "Club" tab, select "Join New Club", then "Recommended Clubs".)
*We will begin by referring to the guide posted by MassoodT.
Press , go to the "Rivals" tab, select "Festival Routes" -> "Nice Massena" -> "Promenade Circuit". This is one of, if not the shortest track in the game. You should average around 38 seconds per lap depending on what car you use + skill.
Be prepared for a grind, you will probably end up having to do over 100+ Laps just to pop this achievement. Try your best to have a "Rival" that will net you a bigger bonus for beating their time. I would recommend trying for at least 2,000 cR. I used S2, S1 and A class cars to eventually pop this.
If after you post a time in Rivals mode and it says:
Each time you set a time in an event you will be asked if you want to compete against a rival to see if you can beat their time. Each time you do beat the target time you will receive a sum of credits and be asked if you want to try for a faster time. There is also a tab in the menu for rivals where the game will constantly add possible rivals for you to beat. This is often an easier approach as you can select your car and some cars are better suited for certain events such as using an AWD car for an off-road event. Depending on your skill you should be able to earn an average of 8,000 to 10,000 credits per rivals event, significantly more if you are better at the game. It's also worth mentioning that even if you don't beat your rival's time across the line, you will still net yourself a decent amount of credits so don't quit out if it doesn't look like you'll win. Overall this shouldn't prove to be a difficult achievement but may take some grinding.
Then in the menu Rivals --> Festival tracks --> NICE MASSENA --> PROMENADE CIRCUIT
Before the start of the race, set the difficulty to the highest (+85%) and complete one lap. At the end of the lap, select “rivals at the finish line” in the menu and complete the race. Without even beating the time, they gave me about 3300 C. Well, then you restart the race by pressing when offered by an opponent.
The race is short. One time will take no more than 1.5 minutes, taking into account downloads. So 7-8 hours and your achievement is yours.