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The "Gran Turismo Sport" September Update: Four New Cars and Wet Conditions on the Tokyo Expressway! - Gran Turismo® Sport - gran-turismo.com

The latest update was installed on Gran Turismo Sport on September 26, 2019.

www.gran-turismo.com

Cars:
Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 1LE Package '18
Chevrolet Corvette StingRay Racer Concept '59
Ferrari 365 GTB4 '71
Dodge Super Bee '70

"Wet Conditions" are now available on the Tokyo Expressway - Central Outer Loop and Tokyo Expressway - East Outer Loop:

 

[benzy]

 

[sublimit]

Cool but when will they add any original tracks like Trial Mountain,Grand Valley,Deep Forest etc?

 

[PhilipDoesMatter]

The support of this game is crazy. They keep adding cool things. Hoooray!

 

[DarkestHour]

I should pull the PS4 out of the closet to play this game.

 

[ethomaz]

I will try tonight... looks gorgeous.

 

[lem0n]

That Camaro looks like it's going to be a lot of fun.

 

[Birdo]

The lack of Super Bee pics in this thread is disturbing.

 

[FranXico]

How do the GTS weather effects compare to DriveClub?

 

[Thanati]

Got to admit (as an Xbox owner and not PS4), that game does look pretty as hell!

 

[Turk1993]

How do the GTS weather effects compare to DriveClub?

It looks good but not Driveclub good. Driveclub is still far ahead when it comes to weather effects. The reflections are super low quality and the rain droplets on the windows don't have the watery jelly effect that Driveclub has. The rain itself is also barely visible in oustide car view. They had to make alot of compromises to get weather at 60fps. I think they did a fantastic job with the render budget they had, it looks good enough.

 

[Nero_PR]

It looks good but not Driveclub good. Driveclub is still far ahead when it comes to weather effects. The reflections are super low quality and the rain droplets on the windows don't have the watery jelly effect that Driveclub has. The rain itself is also barely visible in oustide car view. They had to make alot of compromises to get weather at 60fps. I think they did a fantastic job with the render budget they had, it looks good enough.

The rain and snow in Driveclub could get scary sometimes. Never I feared so much driving during a storm at night, especially in a videogame.

 

[Turk1993]

The rain and snow in Driveclub could get scary sometimes. Never I feared so much driving during a storm at night, especially in a videogame.

Shame we didn't get a Pro update or a sequal with PS5 upgrade with full weather effect enabled in VR

 

[Nero_PR]

Shame we didn't get a Pro update or a sequal with PS5 upgrade with full weather effect enabled in VR

The sad part is not that. It is the Evolution studio being closed and the majority of the staff went to Codemasters to work on On Rush.

 

[Fake]

Those gifs and pictures are superb.

 

[-Arcadia-]

The rain and snow in Driveclub could get scary sometimes. Never I feared so much driving during a storm at night, especially in a videogame.

Indeed. Don't get me wrong, this update for GT Sport is cool, but there's nothing like Driveclub unleashing the full wrath of nature (and capability of the PS4) on you.

I really hope other developers prioritize weather for future (and next-gen) sims.

 

[benzy]

How do the GTS weather effects compare to DriveClub?

I went back to play DC and found its rain effects actually looks notably worse than GTSport in several areas, although there are other parts where its better. In DC there are much more rain particles in the environment, plus the rain pooling on the windshield is great. But GTS actually has considerably more alpha particles for water mist kickup from the 20 cars on track versus only 12 cars in Driveclub.

GTS

DC

Also not really a fan of how car headlights make the rain look like unrealistically large shooting needles in DC.

GTS

DC

Road texture wet shader reflections are much better and more detailed in GTS.

GTS

DC

GTS also uses cubemaps for reflections instead of screen space reflections, but DC heavily relies on SSR for most if not all of its reflections. Screen space reflections are cheaper to render but it comes with too many visual occlusion artifacts. Notice the road reflection detail completely disappearing because of the car's rear view mirror blocking screen information of the environment.

DC


Can also be seen in replays with reflection detail disappearing when objects go out of view.

 

[NahaNago]

it's been too long since I last played the game so my update file size is 34gb.

 

[-Arcadia-]

I went back to play DC and found its rain effects actually looks notably worse than GTSport in several areas, although there are other parts where its better. In DC there are much more rain particles in the environment, plus the rain pooling on the windshield is great. But GTS actually has considerably more alpha particles for water mist kickup from the 20 cars on track versus only 12 cars in Driveclub.

GTS

DC

Also not really a fan of how car headlights make the rain look like unrealistically large shooting needles in DC.

GTS

DC

Road texture wet shader reflections are much better and more detailed in GTS.

GTS

DC

GTS also uses cubemaps for reflections instead of screen space reflections, but DC heavily relies on SSR for most if not all of its reflections. Screen space reflections are cheaper to render but it comes with too many visual occlusion artifacts. Notice the road reflection detail completely disappearing because of the car's rear view mirror blocking screen information of the environment.

DC


Can also be seen in replays with reflection detail disappearing when objects go out of view.

Great post. I guess nostalgia can be misleading, even within the same generation. I do love the torrential feel, and windshield pooling of Driveclub, but GTS holds up a lot better to it than I thought.

 

[PleaseDontBanMe]

meh, Driveclub still looks better in all its 30fps glory

 

[Geki-D]

DC

That is not how you turn a steering wheel.