Mr Moose
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Maybe. I am shit and have only been playing against AI but I am enjoying myself.
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Gran Turismo Sport demo coming Oct. 9
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Maybe. I am shit and have only been playing against AI but I am enjoying myself.
Be sure to make use of the fuel management function in the MFD display and monitor it throughout the race and if needed switch to a more leaner fuel consumption preset, if you can see you're just short of having enough for another full lap.
eyeball_kid
Member
Mm I just don't agree with that; crashing your car is different than damaging your reputation, which is basically what SR is.
As I was saying last night, I think these races need to be gated by skill-based offline challenges. If you can't handle that class of car or don't know that track well, you shouldn't be allowed to mess up everyone else's race because of it.
GHG
Member
It's well worth doing again. I redid the race and have no regrets. The bonus is that i now know the track really well. It's just such great fun to race on.
Sport mode races are changed daily.
psn
Member
Normal ps4. But I can't record right now, I have to work for the next hours. Just unlocked it quick with the +13 timezone trick.
I am pretty satisfied with my garage for now, the duplicate sucks tho.
CosmicRomancer
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MegaSackman
Member
lem0n
Member
Oh I wish I realized that was a thing before I started. It ran out on the big downhill part before the tight right-hander, so I was nearly there.
psn
Member
0 lootboxes in here.
I was laughing my ass off earlier today after a sport race on Nurburgring GP. On lap 2 I saw an idiot run full speed over the grass in the last chicane to overtake me and on last lap I was close to his tail and he did it again. He finished race 2nd, but had 1 minute and 57 seconds in penalties from those cuts and his real position ended up beeing dead last. I forgot to check what the result was to his SR.
Yautja_Warrior
Member
Yeah been waiting all day for it. Maybe the video is taking longer than expected or DF are too busy to get it out today.
Hopefully it drops a little later or tomorrow.
Yeah been waiting all day for it. Maybe the video is taking longer than expected or DF are too busy to get it out today.
Hopefully it drops a little later or tomorrow.
https://twitter.com/digitalfoundry/status/918540719584890880
JetSetRadio
Banned
Do I smell SR C peasants?
CosmicRomancer
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Psycho_Mantis
Banned
Enzo_Ferrari
Neo Member
I've enjoyed this beta a lot but I'm gonna skip the full game until the server issues and game crashes are sorted out. Waiting around for a sport event to start and then getting disconnected before it even starts is not fun at all. The penalty system needs improving. Losing SR for being hit by others is ridiculous.
Also the early driving school stuff is mind-numbingly boring. It's like the game thinks I've never driven a car before.
Also the early driving school stuff is mind-numbingly boring. It's like the game thinks I've never driven a car before.
It seems I'm living on the edge of B and C because I go up and down, down when those idiots ruin my race.
Does the game start you out in B? I've never left B though I've gotten mostly blue ratings in every sport race.
PodcastFips
Member
The game just sent me straight from B to D with ONE (!) collision in the entire Interlagos race. And it's this one:
https://youtu.be/ZhDX4YVDHy8
Are you fucking kidding me?!
https://youtu.be/ZhDX4YVDHy8
Are you fucking kidding me?!
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
Banned
100%. Game has a lot of difficulty modes catering from the hardcore to the straight up casuals.
Easy mode gives you racing line, braking line, etc. It even automatically brakes for you so you can focus on driving instead of timing your brakes right.
Lastly, you can really customize the game to your liking, from degradation to slipstream advantage to boost advantage, etc.
Clearly your fault, in real life that guy behind would be dead from you brake testing him.
JetSetRadio
Banned
Full game will be better I guess, I'm calling it a day at B for now.
Radical Edward
Member
This demo has been pretty awesome. It went from a definite no buy to a probably and is just behind F1 2017 for my favorite racer this gen . GTS is super fun online but I hate getting smashed in turn 1 by a car not braking at all and having my SR affected. Either way, I wish more racing games had online like this.
I could agree with that. The reputation system worked well on wide courses but the one from yesterday's sports selection (middle one, night track) was a nightmare. Was driving on a straight away about a mile from the u turn, nailed from behind, car spins and I hit the wall into the lane into another car into the other wall and bounced back into the other wall. I'm fine with the position I finished in, stuff happens, but my SR lowered because of that. I was given a 40 second penalty for getting hit then bouncing into walls on a tight area of the course. I was able to work it off before finishing but the SR downgrade stunk. Bigger tracks getting hit didn't lead to as big of an issue since it didn't cause mayhem.
PodcastFips
Member
Clearly your fault, in real life that guy behind would be dead from you brake testing him.
Yeah! Apparently I was supposed to hit the guy in front of me like he did.
Is there possibly any explanation for the clusterfuck I just witnessed? To be fair, I was on the edge to C. But straight to D and this call in general is simply insane.
Tomeru
Member
I remember playing gt1 way back in 97. I did'nt really win races. At the 2h race on grand valley, my viper was lapped by the ai subaru. Twice.
And then I somehow discovered braking. And it all went high hill afyer that. GTS is actually making a big effort in teaching you to drive and race.
If you think you suck, I think this game will teach you otherwise.
MegaSackman
Member
haha maybe it was his first race? I haven't played a racing game since GT4 (a long time ago). My first race in Sport got me trying to do my best but I hit some cars from behind at first and some walls. I was 2nd the whole race until the very last curve that the 3rd passed me, anyway for my first race 3rd was very much welcome, I thought I was going to be destroyed by the competition tbh...
To my surprise, after that I got like +38 seconds of penalization and ended 11th, couldn't believe what happened but I asumed it was from all those crashes.
Now I barely reach the top 10 (sometimes) but oh boy how clean I race lol.
eyeball_kid
Member
Yeah. I'm not opposed to the SR system, but I think it needs to be augmented and refined. For instance, why the universal penalties for being rear-ended? The game knows your speed, knows their speed, and knows what a safe speed in that area of the track is. Surely they can more intelligently figure out who is generally at fault and apply the penalty in a more fair manner.
Was that the one where you had to pit? I remember on that one I didn't know you could pit or how to do it, so I ran the whole race on my original tires. By the end I was doing insane drifting just to keep the car on the track. Still ended up 3rd!
NullPointer
Member
Really dig 'What Can You Do'. Just super chill ambience, but can't find it anywhere but in the game.
I know there are ways to pull mp3s from YouTubes but I mean something legit and quality.
Also, speaking of the game's music, I wish there was a way to see what was currently playing. If you missed the pop-up it'd be nice if it showed a "playing" icon when viewing the music library.
Of course that'd be super low on the list of updates for the game, but still ...
David Incorporated Esq.
Member
Man, I really want to play this game without driver's aids but on a controller dealing with oversteer is freaking tough. I've cranked the steering sensitivity all the way up so my inputs are fairly close to what a real person could do, but there's so much delay and unpredictability that I struggle to keep it straight once oversteer starts.
Am I alone in this? Is practice all that's needed? I'm getting better at it but there are still times that I'm losing it that I could have and have saved while on a race track in real life.
Maybe I just need to buy a good steering wheel and setup already.
Am I alone in this? Is practice all that's needed? I'm getting better at it but there are still times that I'm losing it that I could have and have saved while on a race track in real life.
Maybe I just need to buy a good steering wheel and setup already.
Unknown?
Member
Thats what makes GTS infinitely better that previous games. It actually trains you whereas the license tests before did help some but were bare bones.
MegaSackman
Member
Mmm no that doesn't seem right, besides it would tell you on the screen if you got a penalization. You must be forgetting something.
Don't know if other games have a similar but I love it in sport. Seems like a fair way to control for sloppy driving or outright cheating. Needs a LITTLE refinement though since every once in awhile a penalty will pop up for no apparent reason
gutterboy44
Member
Glad I got a chance to put some more time in it today without battling crashes.
Sport mode is definitely the meat and potatoes of this. I like doing the license tests and missions as a challenge, but I can't wait to have them behind me, especially anytime you have the face the AI. Seriously, how are they still this awful at programming AI? I mean thank god it doesn't matter in the bigger picture because this is an online focused game, but still wooof. They are horrific. Luckily that is the main low point so far. Er, scratch that. Rally is the lowest point of this game. That mode needs to be euthanized and thrown in a dumpster. It is an insult to rally racing. I really hope there aren't too many missions that make you do rally racing. It is a joyless slog.
Need to finish off the endurance race and then going for sport mode only tonight. Loving Lake Maggiore.
Other note now that I think of it. Tire wear seems to be way off. Tires go off with like only 5% wear and the difference between medium and hard distances is negligible. They seem we wear at very similar rates with hard tires having less grip. Maybe it is just at the time scale of the last mission endurance race but with the pit deltas and fuel consumption, you can't really do long stints on hards to make up for the time lost even when they are fresh. I had this same issue with GT6. Supposedly some later patches sorted out how similar the tires were but I wasn't playing much at that point. Feels like a step back.
Sport mode is definitely the meat and potatoes of this. I like doing the license tests and missions as a challenge, but I can't wait to have them behind me, especially anytime you have the face the AI. Seriously, how are they still this awful at programming AI? I mean thank god it doesn't matter in the bigger picture because this is an online focused game, but still wooof. They are horrific. Luckily that is the main low point so far. Er, scratch that. Rally is the lowest point of this game. That mode needs to be euthanized and thrown in a dumpster. It is an insult to rally racing. I really hope there aren't too many missions that make you do rally racing. It is a joyless slog.
Need to finish off the endurance race and then going for sport mode only tonight. Loving Lake Maggiore.
Other note now that I think of it. Tire wear seems to be way off. Tires go off with like only 5% wear and the difference between medium and hard distances is negligible. They seem we wear at very similar rates with hard tires having less grip. Maybe it is just at the time scale of the last mission endurance race but with the pit deltas and fuel consumption, you can't really do long stints on hards to make up for the time lost even when they are fresh. I had this same issue with GT6. Supposedly some later patches sorted out how similar the tires were but I wasn't playing much at that point. Feels like a step back.
psn
Member
Oh shit :O
PodcastFips
Member
It says I got 10 seconds. For being shoved off the track from behind.
Unknown?
Member
This is great! I just let the idiots either spin out or cheat and dont worry too much and usually end up several positions ahead just for racing clean.
DriftingSpirit
Member
Ive definitely seen it in other games. Even in campaign. I want to say GT6 or the older Forza games also had it but its been awhile. I tried to cheese my way past the AI with cuts on an event once and clearly recall big time penalties pushing my rank standing down despite getting first.
Woah yeah looks like they have a bit of tweaking to do on penalties. I hope it's not something that finally fixed months after release when my interest in playing has waned.
MegaSackman
Member
It's weird, I've seen waaaaaaay more severe things and there's rarely such penalizations.