You should back up your Forza Horizon 6 save before its latest bug brings you to tears

Forza Horizon 6: A car designed to look like The King from Pixar's Cars racing through Tokyo City at night. — (Image credit: Xbox)

Japan at your fingertips, over 600 cars to collect, and now the live-service Series updates rolling out every week, you could easily spend hundreds of hours in Forza Horizon 6. In fact, many people already have. I've put in 50 hours so far, and plan for many more learning to actually beat Touge races in style for a change. But what if you could lose it all in the blink of an eye? Well, you can. Sorry.

A bug has been discovered that's been wiping players' saves pretty indiscriminately. Take a quick look at the various Forza Reddit pages right now and you'll see a swathe of people hit with a blank slate.

"I'm genuinely devastated and there's truly nothing I can do about it but hope it doesn't happen again. I'm sick. Millions of credits, fully tuned cars, custom garage I built myself. F this game," one player wrote.

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Unfortunately, the official cause (or more likely, causes) is yet to be determined. While Xbox players are reporting having their progress deleted when using the Quick Resume feature, the same can't be said for PC, where issues with cloud saves on the Xbox App and the game crashing have seen saves wiped. Another theory is that a handful of cars may even be causing data loss if you paint or upgrade them, including:

2003 Ford F-150 SVT Lightning
1993 Schuppan 962CR
1957 Chevrolet Bel Air
1994 Ferrari F355 Berlinetta
1988 Lamborghini Countach LP5000QV
2019 Porsche #70 Motorsport 945
2017 Ford M-Sport Fiesta RS
2020 Wuling Sunshine S Forza Edition (annoyingly, one of the best cars for drag racing)

You're not guaranteed to run into issues encountering any of the potential causes, but frankly, I'm not going to chance it. For the time being, I recommend avoiding these vehicles. Plus, if you're on console, definitely switch off Quick Resume. PC players, either on Steam or the Xbox App, make sure to back up your save periodically—it should be located in C:\XboxGames\GameSaves/pgs. Just copy the file to a safe location, in case you need it.

If you're unlucky enough to get hit by the reset switch and can't recover your save, you should contact Forza Support, where you can get your inventory—cars, money, Wheel Spins—restored, but you'll still have to retread the campaign, find collectibles, and that sort of thing.

Rory has made the fatal error of playing way too many live service games at once, and somehow still finding time for everything in between. Sure, he’s an expert at Destiny 2, Call of Duty, and more, but at what cost? He’s even sunk 1,000 hours into The Elder Scrolls Online over the years. At least he put all those hours spent grinding challenges to good use over the years as a freelancer and guides editor. In his spare time, he’s also an avid video creator, often breaking down the environmental design of his favourite games. If you can’t track him down, he’s probably lost in a cave with a bunch of dwarves shouting “rock and stone” to no end.