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[Hati]

Then the 4 and 3 star lottery tickets gave me a suspension kit for an amuse car (which up to now I have not even seen!) and cr10,000.
I know that Sony want to sell credit packs, but this is absolute urine extraction!

 

Ticket prizes are between sad and ridiculous but you get enough credits by playing for beating the game, If you want to get all cars it turns into farce, Highest prize is 1m and there are countless 20m cars.

[Tony Mandara]

Oh my word! A 4-star ticket....what do we have?..

A new engine, a big pile of cash, a Zonda, a nitrous kit...

What does it give me??

A sports suspension kit for a Nissan 5h1t80x, which is valued at cr6000!

F#@* off game!

Just F#@* off!!

Edited by Tony Mandara, 17 September 2024 - 09:47.

[babbel]

I got half a million from a 4 star yesterday

[IrvTheSwerve]

Saw the trailers. Nice to see Trial Mountain is back. I could be tempted towards Playstation for this generation, having been with Xbox for a few years.

A very delayed response to your post here - but I've been toying with going back to Playstation for a while, having owned a PS1 and PS2 and have been with Xbox (and PC) ever since, with the last couple of years being spent on a Switch. Last month I took the plunge and treated myself to a PS5, absolutely no regrets. It was refreshing to go back to something that isn't all Microsoft - great graphics and the updates feel less intrusive than they are/were on Xbox (I don't think I've touched my Xbox for 2 or 3 years now).

 

The remote play feature is also fantastic, it's great to be able to switch the PS5 on and play via my iPad with the controller connected. Handy for those times when the wife is hogging the TV or I'm sitting in another room.

 

I bought GT7 a couple of days ago, not got into it properly yet but seems fun.

Edited by IrvTheSwerve, 07 October 2024 - 13:10.

[PayasYouRace]

In the end I went for a Series X and I’ve been having bags of fun with Forza Motorsport (8), so yeah, bit late now.

[Alfisti]

I have not played in 18 months, they changed the physics and I could no longer drive with a controller. Snooping around for a used sim rig as a xmas present to myself.

[Hati]

Drove the Viewers Campaign races, first was ok but the Red Bull one was annoying. if you close a 19s gap in first lap the computer shouldn't be 1s behind after second lap.

[messy]

I’ve recently discovered that in GT7, if a car is in your garage, then you can race it against other cars in your garage. That might not sound like a big deal, but it means that you can buy a car, give it the exact livery you want, then buy a car to race against it and do the same thing. Then, bit by bit, you can build up a grid full of cars that compete in whatever championship you want. So, for instance, in my garage I’ve got a dozen-ish Super Formula cars, all decked out in the correct 2023 liveries, and I can go to Suzuka and set essentially a fully accurate grid up, then stick myself in the middle of a race. You can even enter the driver’s names and adjust the PP slightly for each car to reflect the relative strength of the drivers. It takes time to set up, but it works. I love it. I had no idea it let you do this.

I might try a 1980s F1 grid next, using the generic 1985-ish F1 car. 10 million credits to buy up ten cars and put them all in the liveries for that season? Yes please.

[Hati]

If you play 'my first Turismo' you'll get the 18 cars in it to GT7, they are worth little over 2m credits.

[Tony Mandara]

I have to admit, I've developed a morbid fascination with seeing how meagre a 'prize' I get from various roulette tickets. Today's SIX Star roulette ticket was exchanged for a camshaft set worth 9000cr. The NSX which it can be fitted to will cost me 230,000cr.

[mmmcurry]

If you play 'my first Turismo' you'll get the 18 cars in it to GT7, they are worth little over 2m credits.

Did these last night, just over an hour. Most were duplicates, think i made about 1.2m credits fir what I sold.

[Alfisti]

So I got myself a GT Omega Titan rig and Fanatec DD Pro wheel. I am REALLY struggling for pace and consistency, way off my controller times but the immersion is great. I suspect it will take me months to get back to where i was. The physics changes made over the past 18 months have sucked the life out of the game, there's so, so, so much understeer, really joyless at times. 

[Tenmantaylor]

Interesting, you should be better with a wheel, much better fine control at the limit. Are you driving with steering/braking/stability aids with gamepad that are now off with wheel? Have you driven sims with a wheel before?

Funnily enough I found an old PlayStation 2>PC USB adapter kit the other day and had a go with it on iRacing and BeamNG on the PC using the analog sticks like I did on Gran Turismo 2 back in the day when I nearly won the UK championship. Worked surprisingly well for a mess about but no way could I lap consistently with it like I can with the wheel. I still have a logitech G25 from about 12 years ago.

[noikeee]

It's pretty common to get slower before you get faster, when you first switch from a controller to a wheel. It's basically learning a whole new thing, you're probably used to driving on rails helped by a bunch of assists and have built muscle memory to maximise that, and then once you get a wheel the sheer freedom of driving in all axis and directions is overwhelming and it takes a long time learning the cues of what are you even supposed to do.

Edited by noikeee, 09 January 2025 - 12:32.

[PayasYouRace]

Some of us are hardcore enough to turn the assists off when we drive on a controller.

[noikeee]

Some of us are hardcore enough to turn the assists off when we drive on a controller.

I know but not everyone does because it's much harder

[Tenmantaylor]

Some of us are hardcore enough to turn the assists off when we drive on a controller.

 

I did this on Gran Turismo 6 the other day on my old PS3 slim. The graphics are still incredible but the physics barely changed since GT3. It's very easy to drive GT without aids compared to an actual PC sim.

[Alfisti]

So when I say controller i mean CONTROLLER, as in ****ing D-Pad like it is 1997. I had all assists off except mild opposite lock correction but that rarely engaged unless I about lost it. So to drive with a D-pad you need to use a very peculiar style, basically an extreme squaring up of the corner, and I mean extreme. People talk about U and V but I am more like a square U. I was fast though, DR of a high A. Now, they changed the physics 18 months ago and I needed TC1 but also so much understeer, it was joyless so I bailed. 

 

I missed racing and came back with said gear and they again went a step further with twitchy cars on throttle and even more ****ing understeer in a recent physics change. So I am using a wheel and under power the car feels VERY, VERY skittish, I need TC2 on most GRP4 and GRP3 cars (bread and butter cars), I feel like I am walking on egg shells. There SO MUCH UNDERSTEER now, all my lines have changed, as have brake points, the braking is not as good as it was on pad because pad smoothed out everything and made it easier, I was an animal under brakes. 

 

To top it off I can no longer use chase cam as it feels wrong with a wheel so learnign that too and turns out my favourite view, bonnet view, has no ****ing rearview mirror so I am relying on the radar and it's just shite. I am REALLY struggling to race in close quarters, i cannot see **** around me.  

 

This week has been fun as we are racing a Merc F1 car from the 50's so it's kinda slippy but I need TC2, I am struggling to judge turn in, i am often too early or too late, feel like I am guessing vs the pad where I was super aggressive and could really ATTACK the track, now I am dancing around. It's a slow process, real slow, but humbling to be in over $2K worth of gear and be ****ing slower!

[Tenmantaylor]

Lol racing chase cam with a sim wheel rig setup  You really should use bonnet at a minimum, preferably cockpit. Most GT cars GT6 onwards have a half decent cockpit.

Edited by Tenmantaylor, 14 January 2025 - 23:14.

[PayasYouRace]

Though I'm a Forza player, it's a roughly equivalent situation. I have always used the cockpit view if possible, going back at least 15 years, and I use the arrow indicators to know where opponents are. Sure, it's a bit fake, but it makes up for the fact you're not really there and don't have the full situational awareness. Oddly enough, braking has always been my weakness in any racing game.

[mmmcurry]

Bumper cam for me, so I have full screen. I know the cockpit view should be more realistic, but it feels like it's more obscuring than a real car. These days I only use chase view for Wreckfest.

[PayasYouRace]

Back in the days of the first Grand Turismo, my mate poked fun of me for choosing a colour on my car because I used bumper cam and therefore wouldn’t see what colour it was. He was a chase cam guy. Obviously I’d still watch the replays and admire the car in the garage.

I find I need to be fixed to the car to get a proper visual feel for what the car is doing. The only real exception were some older rally games like the CMR series and V-Rally, where your car spent so much time sideways I needed to be in chase cam.

[blackmme]

I’m enjoying the F3500-A that came out on Thursday in the 1.55 update.

The livery designers have been busy and doing a beautiful job! 
 

[Alfisti]

Lol racing chase cam with a sim wheel rig setup  You really should use bonnet at a minimum, preferably cockpit. Most GT cars GT6 onwards have a half decent cockpit.

 

To be clear i realise that, hence I am learning a new POV. I use bonnet cam but the lack of rearview mirror really bothers me. Can't see **** with cockpit view. 

 

I’m enjoying the F3500-A that came out on Thursday in the 1.55 update.

The livery designers have been busy and doing a beautiful job! 
 

 

Yeah this car is a ton of fun but I am struggling to get the gold time trial done. Perfect lap will be a 25 flat which is right on the cusp. 

[Tenmantaylor]

Can't you have virtual mirror with bonnet? Sure you could in old ones. Failing that, bumper cam with virtual mirror. At least then the camera is pointing the way the car is so you can steer accordingly.

 

In Gran turismo 6 news... my 4 year old daughter had her first ever go on gran turismo the other day with my old G25 wheel sat in a playseat. She couldn't reach the pedals (let alone know how to use them) so I did the accel and brake on the dual shock two sticks.

 

She chose the chamonix snow stage and the audi group B pikes peak rally car.

 

She didn't crash or spin once, overtook every car on the track and only won the bloody race. Will have to post the video, it's incredible.

 

And just to make it even more impressive my partner had a go after with the same race and couldn't even make it over the line before putting it into the barriers backwards.

Edited by Tenmantaylor, 03 February 2025 - 16:18.

[mmmcurry]

Just done this weeks races and the 4 star ticket for doing a marathon, what did I win, a car, a huge stack of money, a smaller stack of money, a pathetic stack of money? No a high lift camshaft for a DB11, woo bloody hoo! Can't wait to see what the 6 star 9ne gets me, some lightweight wheel nuts...

[mmmcurry]

Ok, Cr 1,000,000 isn't too bad, I'll let it off this time.

Hmm, Ferrari F40, or Jaguar XJR-9? Still need to raise a little money, but only 20,230 for the Jag

Edited by mmmcurry, 15 March 2025 - 17:32.

[mmmcurry]

Just won a daily online race, Daytona in the Plymouth Superbird. Always thought the whole turn left, turn left, turn left... was boring, but it's quite intense. Need to be behind starting the last lap to slipstream the win.