The Official Gran Turismo 5 Thread

[A.Wilder]

i would assume the comments about this are pretty negative?

Not at all! It's a freaking Kaz/Sony/PD love-fest. Comments like "thanks PD! I don't mind getting a halfassed GT5, I know GT6 will be amazing!". And they aren't being facetious.

[Crzypdilly]

i still dont understand why PD decided to put B-Spec into this sim. well, i sort of do, but i don't know how many people get satisfaction out of watching the computer compete against itself over and over again. it was a legacy product that basically takes away half of the game's developer resources that could otherwise go towards more exciting products (such as some of the things found in F4)

I can stare at good looking cars for hours at shows, in magazines, and on GT5 b-spec. Love it!

[CuCo33]

the game was a bust, that's a fact. hopefully they amp up gt6 and make it what gt5 shouldve been and a lot more 9i have a feeling they will, but then I have yet to hear a statement saying they failed and let down fans so maybe they are contempt

Sadly selling some 7+mil copies doesn't make it a bust... And I hope that PD got enough flack to never do this standard vs premium thing or massively mismanage GT5. I still enjoy the game even with all it's faults but I'd be lieing if I said I wasn't really disappointed

[A.Wilder]

Update coming April 4!

What do you guys think it will include? More Skylines & Minis!?!?!

[Fritz27]

My guesses:

2013 GT-R
2013 GT-R egoist
Toyota GT86
Scion FR-S
Subaru BR-Z
Subaru BR-Z STI concept
R56 Mini Cooper JCW
R56 Mini Cooper JCW Convertible
R56 Mini Countryman
R56 Mini Coupe S

[A.Wilder]

My guesses:

2013 GT-R
2013 GT-R egoist
Toyota GT86
Scion FR-S
Subaru BR-Z
Subaru BR-Z STI concept
R56 Mini Cooper JCW
R56 Mini Cooper JCW Convertible
R56 Mini Countryman
R56 Mini Coupe S

I'm not making any wagers with you

[NoDubJustYet]

Update coming April 4!

What do you guys think it will include? More Skylines & Minis!?!?!

It's online service maintenance... No planned actual DLC or any updates that we'll notice.


http://www.gtplanet.net/gt5-online-s...ing-april-4th/

[hugoaswho]

So when are they releasing the XXL edition with all the DLC included?

my shiny new 320gb needs some GT5....

[orzel541]

Have they ever planned to add bumpers/sideskirts to the game?

[BRealistic]

I heard they were going to add vehicle damage and NASCAR.

[A.Wilder]

Kaz working hard over the weekend.

[CoolJetta3]

Motegi coming back soon.

http://www.gtplanet.net/new-motegi-s...ewards-in-gt5/

[horribleR]

Sweet.

[A.Wilder]

yawn, wake me up when there's something worth putting the disc back in the PS3. ZZZzzz

[scirockalot8v]

^haha. i just started playing the game again. played like a week straight and now im bored. i can start doing the endurance races but too lazy.

[A.Wilder]

^haha. i just started playing the game again. played like a week straight and now im bored. i can start doing the endurance races but too lazy.

i have no desire to do the endurance races. none. I love racing and would love to go to a 24 hour daytona, but simulate it in a game? no thanks

[scirockalot8v]

it cant possibly 24 hours of gameplay. i think my ps3 would melt. i may do the 60 lap race.

[A.Wilder]

nearly 1/2 gigabyte update today. Fixes some stuff and possibly loads future tracks for their release, and the cars you can "win" from the 2012 GT Academy events.

[evosky]

wicked. i'll turn it on and see what changes are made

[CuCo33]

A little coincidence that this patch released the day the FM4 Porsche DLC dropped. This is the 2nd or 3rd time these 2 developers have done this. lol

I'm significantly more interested in the FM4 DLC but I've read some good things about this GT5 (and some bad as well). Read that G27 users have better FFB, so I hope my Fanatec CSR gets this similar improvement.

Apparently the sound was tweaked, and botched...

[A.Wilder]

If I get home at a decent hour, hopefully not another 12hr day, I'll download and report my findings

[CoolJetta3]

I copped it, but everything seems the same. Though I did not hook up my wheels to see if there were any changes there

[A.Wilder]

i did a few seasonal events after the update. Doesn't seem like much was changed for such a large update. They need to improve the physics, imo. Slamming hard on the brakes on a heavily banked stretch of track will have some affect on the straight-line handling, iirc. In this game it goes perfectly straight, seems like they may have done that for controller users.

[A.Wilder]

anyone try the new seasonals? apparently the harder you make the race for yourself, using lower pp, the more credits you receive. So for this week it's a FF 430pp race. If you have 400pp you get more credits than if you have 430pp

[evosky]

hmm really? i did the other A-Spec one that was put up, not the 430pp one. i shall have to investigate ...

but to your point about the update, it does seem like most of it was fixing minor bugs in the game (that i basically never encounter) and updating the feedback for steering wheel setups (which i dont have)

[A.Wilder]

i have a g27 that i use, i can't stand using the controller, and i didn't notice any difference in the FFB. I did a few seasonal events before the update and did a few afterwards. I'll do the new one and see if i notice any difference. If there is any, it's probably very subtle.

[A.Wilder]

i did a few of the seasonal events and the final one pays 199,999 credits at 430pp, i used a mini cooper s bone stock at 388pp and got about 900,000 credits through the new bonus system. This is something i complained about when the game first released. IIRC the first Forza had a similar system where you won the race, got a bonus for clean driving or paid a penalty for car damage. This seems like a straight forward system to use for games of this type and the lack of any kind of system like this in GT5 is just another in a long list of oversights by Sony/PD/Kaz. But, reading the GT forums is pretty hilarious as a lot of the people think Kaz/sony/PD are gods for any changes/fixes/additions they make to the game.

[quinntendopower1]

anyone ever get the platinum?

i think i might go for it, all i really need to go is gold the vettel challenge and then grind for another 150 hours.

AND get 1000 cars...

i hope they keep the PP bonus races, they make a huge difference!

[robhurlburt]

grind for another 150 hours.

like use the grinder for 150hrs, or actually play 150 hours?!

I don't think i even have 150 hours in any game i own!

[Cousin Eddie]

all i really need to go is gold the vettel challenge

That alone is enough of a reason not to bother IMO, what a pain in the ass.

I fired it back up again earlier this week. Had a lot of fun in the Online lobbies around 470PP running my BTR on the Nurburgring. That's pretty much the only reason I will play anymore is to hit the 'Ring and Spa for a night.

[quinntendopower1]

i love how the vettel challenge is so hard. adds to the mystique, and obviously a huge fist bump when it's over.

i have never used the online races, just in game stuff.

the new seasonals can be done over and over! I used a mini-cooper S detuned to 139 hp and i got 108K XP and won by over 20 seconds. if it's the one with the type-r, you can run 1:58's and comfortably win.

thank god for that right hand uphill circle bend. the computer gives up 15 mph easy

i'm just going to keep removing HP and see how slow i can make it and win. this is going to make it way easy to grind to 40!

i really wish this game supported file time in the XMB. i have to have over 400 hours in this.

[quinntendopower1]

well, i am winning with this setup now, and getting big points!

[horribleR]

i love how the vettel challenge is so hard. adds to the mystique, and obviously a huge fist bump when it's over.

I have to say, it's only hard because they don't let you get enough time in the car...so you end up doing 3-4 corners then failing...then getting 1 corner after, failing...then failing 20 more times just to complete a whole lap..

[quinntendopower1]

i got to level 35, i think i did the race about 25 times. only about 150 more times

easily the best way to get xp from what i can tell.

[A.Wilder]

what were your final settings? I'll give that a shot.