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One thing I like that hasn’t been in the previous ones is properly variable weather/track conditions. Different bits of Spa can have different weather, like in real life.
Aye so got it downloaded last night, scooted through the licenses(Just bronzed them all, one after the other), still got the last test to do in the super licence, SPA in with a variably wet track and hard tyres is a pain in the arse I keep spinning off in the last long run, think it gets wetter just as you build up speed, going to have to crawl round there! 😆
First impressions on the game are, the physics are better in the cars, they are a bit more lively I think(I might need to go back to GTSport to confirm) but it's defo my impression, definitely feel I need to be more sensitive on the accelerator, some of the tracks are slightly adjusted. The game feels faster overall I think too. The live weather system is interesting. Seems a decent upgrade. I imagine there will be tracks added and the game expanded as time goes.
What kind assists are you all using? I'm doing my usual, everything off and manual gears. But I did have to go back and stick ABS on to weak, just to temper the break pedal a bit. Other than that, as usual a few cars I find sticking on traction control to 1 or 2 helps a bit, but try to keep it off as much as possible.
The reasoning has always been ‘why make the cars look so good only to smash them up’.
IIRC, the argument Sony used back in the day was it was a licensing requirement, the manufacturers wouldn't let them. With the benefit of hindsight I rather suspect that the issue was more one of horsepower in the original Playstation.
I think if they did do proper damage, they would want to go so far with it that they would never actually release a game…
As for car damage, this is from Forza Horizon 5 last night:
https://imgur.com/gallery/i46VBTY
FYI, apparently licence IN-5, the Evo rally car one is a bit borked at the moment - the most recent update has put road tyres on the car instead of dirt tyres.
I couldn’t get within 7/10ths of gold time so googled settings etc and found the info. Think I’ll leave it until it’s fixed. Makes sense as I simply couldn’t get any traction round the last bends whilst the demo car sails round.
I assume it will get realeased over time, but there doesnt appear to be a big money race that’s good for acquiring decent credits quickly. There’s the World Series which works out around 450k for an hour of driving (5x10ish min races at 60k plus 150k for winning the championship) which is frustrating if you want a 20mil car and you don’t have literally thousands of real pounds to spend on buying the credits.
Seems you can’t sell cars either, which is a bit weird, given the car collector/dealer aspect.
And no events that need a higher qualification than national A licence…
I’ve just watched this and I really rate Failrace - he’s a bit underwhelmed with it and watching that video make the game seem really dull.
Mind you I play FH5 and it’s mental sometimes.
FYI, apparently licence IN-5, the Evo rally car one is a bit borked at the moment – the most recent update has put road tyres on the car instead of dirt tyres.
It's acknowledged in the "Known Issues" post as of yesterday.
IA-3 was almost impossible, scraped a bronze and absolutely no chance of anything better...
I’ve just watched this and I really rate Failrace – he’s a bit underwhelmed with it and watching that video make the game seem really dull.
If you like the previous ones (millions do), you’ll like this one.
He’s bang on in everything he says though. The only justification I can maybe give is that the was a TON of free dlc released over the years for GT Sport. Can only hope that’s the plan here, start small and grow
Won a 911. Next stage is the Porsche cup. Race 1 is the full nordschleif in the wet, with a pp limit that seems low. Spent about 2 hours and failed to proceed. Anyone else find it tough without anti spin turned on?
well the whole game (single player included) has now been offline for over 24 hours. What a s..ty design solution - whoever came up with "if the servers aren't online the game wont function" should be fired.
The update has sorted all the tire issues though, supposedly.
The update has sorted all the tire issues though, supposedly.
that may be the case, but I'd rather be playing with the wrong tires than have nothing at all. I'm actually having to do work instead!
I stupidly upgraded the mini without paying attention to the PP limit, now cannot do the mini cup, is there anyway I can reverse upgrades without buying a new plain mini?
Shame there seems to be issues as i picked up my PS5 last night with GT7, havent set it up yet, thats on the list tonight as the wifes away all weekend.
Looking forward to getting cracking on it.
I stupidly upgraded the mini without paying attention to the PP limit, now cannot do the mini cup, is there anyway I can reverse upgrades without buying a new plain mini?
Go into the car settings, you can change parts to originals, or restrict Power etc.
yeah you can buy either a power restricter or ballast (both cheap) and then go to car settings and tweak them to get under the PP limit, or just remove parts as suggested above
cheers guys, I'll try that,
dirtyrider
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I stupidly upgraded the mini without paying attention to the PP limit, now cannot do the mini cup, is there anyway I can reverse upgrades without buying a new plain mini?
Me too! Although it was a while ago now, the suggestions above are spot on.
A tip for the future for you - when you're completing the Mustang menu a little further on don't be surprised if you get yourself a 5.0 Mustang, add a supercharger to it and find that even on a simple oval track it's undriveable and ends up spinning into the wall at the slightest provocation. If you've got ASM (Active Stability Management) enabled in the driver assistance settings that's your issue. Took me ages to work out after adding a 2 way LSD to the car, uprated dampers, etc. It was the ASM all along!
back online here after v1.08 downloaded. happy times
well the whole game (single player included) has now been offline for over 24 hours. What a s..ty design solution – whoever came up with “if the servers aren’t online the game wont function” should be fired.
Yeah, I had to go back to CoD last night 🙂
So the real life valuations of (legend) cars has thrown up it’s first ‘WTF’
‘94 McLaren F1 - price in GTSport, around a million, maybe 2 million credits, or £2.49 if you CBA to grind. Price in GT7? 18.5 million. That’s around 42 hours of gameplay to get the required credits, or £148 if you CBA with grinding that out. Keep in mind these cars are only available for around 5 days.
tomhoward
Full Member
There’s the World Series which works out around 450k for an hour of driving (5x10ish min races at 60k plus 150k for winning the championship)
Yeah this is the most I've won so far in one go, though I got 4th on the last 2 lapper on the nurburgring, so that too my prize down to 390k, got a nice pagani huayra too mind. I need to fix my gt car settings just felt to unstable to really rating it through the corners, seems I need to learn about setting up a car now!
tomhoward
Full Member
So the real life valuations of (legend) cars has thrown up it’s first ‘WTF’‘94 McLaren F1 – price in GTSport, around a million, maybe 2 million credits, or £2.49 if you CBA to grind. Price in GT7? 18.5 million. That’s around 42 hours of gameplay to get the required credits, or £148 if you CBA with grinding that out. Keep in mind these cars are only available for around 5 days.
tbh I think we'll get plenty opportunity as time passes to earn credots, I doubt this game is even half finished tbh. It's still basically gtsport with some tweaks at the minute. I probably could have hung off buying it for a bike, but I'm sure there'll be other stuff to come. Loving the changing time of day mind in particular, the night races are class.
I just need a ps5 now! 😆
haha, saying that I've just got the credits, erms me completed it. 😆
tbh I think we’ll get plenty opportunity as time passes to earn credots,
Oh I’m sure I hope they do the ‘beat Lewis’ again, that was a rich (one off) vein, it just annoys me that You are time pressured to buy the legend cars. I’ve spent 2 evenings repeating the same championship to get to 4mil credits for a 166bhp Ferrari as it’s an interesting car, screw spending a working week grinding to get a car (that’s in most other racing games, including the last version, for next to no effort), all because it’s rare and expensive in real life!
And todays legend car addition, a 70s Porsche 917 LM car. 18 million. 🙄
The more I read about this game, the more I’ll be sticking to Forza Horizon 5.
And todays legend car addition, a 70s Porsche 917 LM car. 18 million. 🙄
Well, if I had any doubts before (I did not), I definitely need to get it now. I presume the Legends cars will cycle back round over time?
You would hope, but there’s, I think, 70 odd of them, and a new one gets swapped in/out of a group of 5 available to buy every day, so if you miss it, it might be a while before it comes around again.
Well,it'll be awhile before I get the game, so.... 🙂
Please tell me it's Gulf-liveried...
clubby
Full Member
The more I read about this game, the more I’ll be sticking to Forza Horizon 5.
I've got both. FH5 is a completely different sort of game and in lots of ways better, the fact that it's open world is great fun and I think I prefer the way the cars handle. BUT..... I still like a bit of GT. Maybe because I'm sort of finished FH, at least until they bring the expansion packs out. I won't be paying for additional credits for GT but then I quite like the free cars that you get given pretty much every time you've completed a menu challenge. I still haven't used any of the pre order bonus cars yet - Porsche 917K Living Legend (admittedly the 2014 concept rather than the 70s version) was one of them so luckily I can keep my 18 million credits (that I don't have) in my pocket 🙂
Please tell me it’s Gulf-liveried…
Yep.
Porsche 917K Living Legend
That’s what I’ve been using to grind out credits in the World Series.
Yep.
Oh baby! 😀
If you go into your garage in the gifts(which is where you cash the lottery tickets I just learned), you'll have a ticket for a million credits in there.
Apparently they are going to let you sell cars too but that's not active yet.
Yeah I cash the tickets as an when I get them, got the mil a couple of weeks ago.
Anyone tried the nordschleife circuit experience? 6:55 is my best there. 😆 good knows where I'm picking up 10 secs for silver never mind 17 for gold!
Ah, just seen the mail as an apology for the server maintenance…
First time doing the nordscheliefe experience, 6.51, silver is definitely doable, after that it’s 0.1sec per corner improvement you get to gold 😉
how do I access it, playing through quite slowly at the moment
Go to your garage, there will be a ‘gifts’ tab to click on which, if you haven’t been there before, will have loads of rewards for stuff you’ve done in the game.
I'm meant nordschleife not the only 1 million
Ah, go to the track, then at the bottom of the screen there’s options for races/time trials, settings etc, one of those says ‘circuit experience’. It’s that.
It may be best to hold off on the circuit experience for a minute. Reason being they're updating in April to increase the rewards for it, part of their bid to win everyone back after they nerfed the payouts in the last update.
Having now got a driver rating in Sport after enduring the dodgy standards in the initial races I'm really enjoying the online races. Payout for them is still a bit rubbish but there's a good standard which makes it fun, even won a race the other day which something I'd never quite managed on GT Sport.
Loving GT7 though and looking forward to the future updates.
ah it's not unlocked until menu book 21
Well after finally getting round to setting up my PS5, and downloading the updates - i reckon about 10 hours worth, i actually managed to play a bit last night.
got to say im enjoying it so far but only about 2 hours in so its slow progress, kids and life really make a dent in the gaming time.
I finished the cafe menu books yesterday. I have really enjoyed playing through them all but now I am a little disappointed they are over. I have a few races on the map I've not done yet but then after that I don't know what to do. Buy and mod more cars...but for what? I have not done many of the missions so I guess that's something else to do. Maybe I need to venture into the online part of it but that will involve signing up for the ps subscription service.
I've just completed all the licenses (not too bad once they put the right bloody tyres back on the rally cars). All Gold except for the Super License, which I flashed through on bronze or silver - bloody glad I did as there is no way I could see myself getting gold on the final test round Spa in the wet. I am only using a dual shock though.
From a few videos it looks like a wheel is really needed as so many corrections needed to get round in a decent time.
Or am I just crap - anyone got gold at Spa with a controller?
spec 2 comes out tomorrow - new tracks, better AI, a whole bunch more licenses and more weekly events. Pretty excited here, as I was running out of things to do (already gold on all licenses and circuit experiences). Anyone else still playing?
Or am I just crap – anyone got gold at Spa with a controller?
spa took me about 2 evenings with a full wheel setup, after which i beat it by a couple of seconds. crazy-hard race
Haven't played it for months! Might give it a spin at the weekend 🙂
Oh, and getting the license at Spa? Have you got a driving sim mad 16 year old son? If so, give your controller to him for a bit, worked for me 🙂
Anyone else still playing?
Only finally got round to buying it a few weeks ago, so still building up the car collection for more online racing. Not loving the fact that they make me drift these days!
the enforced drifting and rally stages (to progress the game to 100%) are the worst bit for me. There's a new snow course coming tomorrow that might be fun though
Had a go this morning on the new track. It's just another rallycross stage but I'm not sure what I was expecting! Being able to see the progress percentage of each race series is a good idea, made me realise how much I have still to complete! The weekly races might keep me coming back to the game more regularly as well. Apparently there was a new opening movie as well, but I skipped that!
It’s just another rallycross stage but I’m not sure what I was expecting!
I've installed the update but sadly had to go to work. is it closer to the rally stages or rallycross? I quite enjoy the later, but the jumps and lack of clear edges in the former put me off..
the new license is crazy - it seems like every single license from the main game has been re-done with more difficulty (rain/snow on the ground, etc)
Sorry, closer to rally! I meant all racing together, rather than a point to point stage like rally. Quite nice scenery though! Haven't tried the licences, will try them later.
Is GT7 playable at all with just a controller or is a wheel essential?
It's certainly playable - I don't have a wheel and I have passed all the licences.
I do get the impression that a wheel might well be easier, and I haven't raced online so I don't know what that would be like with a controller.
I bought a vr2 a few weeks ago, now looking at buying a wheel to play GT7, this is costing me a small fortune.
A wheel is not essential. They have done a good job of implementing the controller steering. I did have a wheel and found it was advantageous on certain tracks (eg. Monza) but other tracks I was faster with a controller. I can also do OK in the online mode, currently have a DR of a high B. The controller usually gives higher tyre wear as well, which is a disadvantage. I sold my wheel/seat/VR setup for the same price I bought it for second hand, so you can always buy it to try it out and it should hold value. I found that I just preferred the ease of picking up the controller for a quick spin, rather than the chair which took up space, and the VR headset which made me hot! Having said that, the immersion with the VR and wheel/seat is amazing.
So what are folk using for a wheel / seat set up? My son is getting into his driving games and of course I'll be jumping on for a go as well 😀
G29 here, mounted to a foldable/adjustable stand, in front of an IKEA Poang chair 😊
G29 here, mounted to a foldable/adjustable stand, in front of an IKEA somethingorother chair
I've had VR2 and a G29 as well, I use a wheelstandpro which is really robust and folds the kit out of the way quickly when the wife turns up. Tempted by a G pro wheel as my potentiometers are going a little flakey, but not sure it's worth a grand.
now got gold on all licenses except master-super-5 (full lap of the snow) and the master-super-10 (final test, which I haven't unlocked as I haven't bashed the snow one yet)
Thanks for the feedback.
My PS5 arrives on Sunday from John Lewis as they have a good bundle offer at the moment with the new call of Duty release.
Added GT7 to the order as that’s the game I most enjoyed the last time I had a Playstation. A PS2!!
The Spec2 update is pretty decent. I find the drift stuff unbelieveably tedious and generally just skip it. You can spend hours trying to complete everything but I personally haven't. I'm actually more likely to just get in a decent car and do lap after lap trying to better my time on a track, which I find addictively enjoyable. The online time trial is a nice way to do that as well
I have a playseat set up with a Thrustmaster T300rs gt (as well as a gearstick but generally use the paddles, particularly on the quick cars) with a 27" monitor on a next level racing stand with a soundbar above. I could easily spend a couple of hours in it!
Slight Hijack...
There is a PS4 hooked upto my TV, not mine, and I've been wanting a car racing game for a while for occasional fun - I'm not a gamer, but have enjoyed car games in my youth
Is GT7 the one to go for on a PS4?
Thanks
Not sure if it works on a PS4 unless it's the pro version?
Not sure if it works on a PS4 unless it’s the pro version?
My PS4 is ancient (before Pro existed), works absolutely fine
Is GT7 the one to go for on a PS4?
for realistic racing, yes. If you want something more arcade-y there are other bits available
Project cars 1/2/3 is good for pick up and play.
1&2 are quite simm-y but 3 is more arcade-y
Well that was short lived.
PS5 delivered Sunday afternoon.
Immediate problems reading discs, but eventually got GT7 to load and was able to play.
Then refused to “see” the disc thereafter and could not play again.
All trouble shooting failed and it now won’t read any disc.
Just about to take it back to John Lewis for a full refund.
Can’t get a replacement as OOS everywhere.
Just about to take it back to John Lewis for a full refund.
Why not take it back and ask for a swap instead? They're still showing stock
Not at the time I was online earlier they were not, note mine is the bundle with Call of Duty. So £70 less than a disc console on its own normally sells for.
Just checked again and this bundle is OOS at JL and direct with Sony.
Still ask for a swap, John Lewis have cracking customer service so might be happy to help sort you out e.g. swap just the console and let you keep the game
out of interest is cod a download code or a physical disc?
its a code
JL customer service online/phone was an awful experience today.
They would not swap for the more expensive console only
I probably should have gone to a store instead
Why are there horns available in online races? Why?!?!?