One of the more interesting and unusual GT5 features announced before release was “Remote Races” (also known as “Gran Turismo Anywhere”), enabling you to control your B-Spec races on your PS3 from your PC or mobile device. Obviously, this was missing from the game when it shipped last November, and its future has been uncertain – despite the fact that it remains listed (with this screenshot) on Polyphony Digital’s official GT5 feature list.
Now, however, Kazunori Yamauchi has finally confirmed via Twitter the feature will be available in “early February”. It is unknown if enabling this functionality will require another update of the game, but considering v1.05 is nearly a month old already, this may be the target release date for the next revision. Regardless, though, it looks like this update won’t be coming soon enough for participants of the B-Spec-based Signature Edition Challenge.
Thanks to Rob Groove for the tip!
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Kaz please provide the right to set the password in the Online Louge and add more tracks such as Motegi, Sugo, Okayama and Autopolis please please please !
And come April, there will be a similar news update … “Kazunori Yamauchi confirms that GT5 B-spec arriving sometime in June.”
Well B Spec will still be flawed all together whether you’re using the races via PS3 or the PC! They should focus on adding more things to B Specs such a “Training” option or make more commands for you’re driver and make the AI drivers more improved!
Question: I know the PS3/GT5 game have to be on, but can leave home and RESTART races remotely (So, I’d be able to leave the house all day and still grind the American Championship over and over)? Or will you have to manually start a race, B-Spec it remotely until it’s finished, then manually start another race?
I don’t want to be the bearer of bad news, but I’m pretty sure you can’t do the regular B-Spec races as we know them. The remote races is for putting your own drivers and cars against the drivers and cars of your friends. The drivers will get experience, but I don’t think it will count for B-Spec rank.
So the way I look at it, it’s gonna be some fun you can do with GT5 when you can’t play the actual game. Just go to gran-turismo.com and chose your language and then search for B-Spec. The B-Spec page from that site is where I got the basis of my information in this post. If I have misunderstood, I appologize.
87th!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DAMN YOU Kazunori Yamauchi!!!!!!!! Hasn’t my home life suffered enough? Now you must take over my work as well?
(Shakes angry fist)
PS I don’t feel all that bad now for the stupid PSN accounts I made to get free birthday cars. Anyone else use Mike Hunt as their name?
Just a terrible idea, IMO.
I think we can all agree that the B-Spec from GT4 was more of a useful tool more than it should’ve ever been a feature that’s 1/2 of the career portion of GT5. It should’ve stayed that way…
Though, I am a GT fanatic it doesn’t change the fact that the A-Spec and overall game still feels incredibly rushed, incomplete, and just sub-par – which are things that Polyphony and full GT titles aren’t known for.
it need to be accesable from psp
Yes i can play gt5 from school
Yeah, that’ll look quite impressive on your resume …. if you somehow manage to graduate. ;-)
I read on a German site that you can only “remote race” against the Bobs of your friends. You won’t get any Credits or XP for this. There will be no possibility to “remote race” B-Spec events…Where is the sense???
I work 12 hour shifts behind a computer…… I don’t know about the rest of you but I can’t wait for this.
I want more admin controls in ONLINE racing.
Make driving backwards a PENALTY that AUTO-KICKs the person.
Like in some 1st person shooters on the PC, if someone amasses too much ‘damage given’ points to other cars, (like Team killing), AUTO-KICK
Make all tracks “Reversable”. I’d love to give the Ring a go going the OTHER direction…
More parameters for “RESTRICTIONS” on the multi-player settings. Such as:
Year limitations. (1965-1969 cars only)
Country Limitations (German cars only etc…)
“Race Car Only” or “Street Car Only” settings
Give US control!! It sucks to have a great server going where everyone is complying with the ‘communicated’ settings and someone comes in and takes a car that falls within the current restrictions but is a total cheater car compared to what everyone else already agreed on. With some of the above restrictions, it would be so much easier to have a successful, on-going online race server.
Thanks ahead of time for listening..(yeah right)
As for B-spec. Those of you who say it’s useless obviously haven’t gotten the cool cars it gives out. Either that or you’ve already gotten them through some ‘duplication’ method. Either way, I don’t care but I do think it’s a nice way to earn extra$$. I put “Bob” to work on the lvl 24 “Dream Car Championship” and he earns over $1 million/hour. I just click start and check back every 15 minutes or so whilst watching TV. Easy Money.
First we had A Spec, where you drive the car. Then we had B spec, where you watch the PS3 drive the car. Now we have remote driving, where you don’t watch the PS3 driving your car for you. What’s next? Imaginary driving, where you don’t even have a PS3.
BTW, I am unbeatable at imaginary driving.
ROFL..
I “imaginarily” just overtook you in the last corner…..
I think Sony made PD invent Bspec to increase the wear and tear on the PS system.
Now my PS3 can be on all day when im at work too.
This is why i endorse duping/bday car cheats..
Why burn out my REAL ps3 just to unlock DIGITAL cars i want?
I, and many of my friends have waited years for GT5 to be released. Purchased the original PS3 for almost $1000au the day after it was released in anticipation of GT5. Picked up the signature addition for $300au, purchased a steering wheel for $200au. WHY THE F… WOULD I WANT TO WATCH AN A.I. DRIVER RACING MY CARS!?!?!?! ridiculous!!!
Looking back at that article from September makes me wish they would implement more stuff for point to point racing.
They have great potential for online rally racing and touge and point to point create a track races
How about a real online community? Online classifieds? Online events (NOT MORE SINGLE PLAYER EVENTS, BUT ONLINE EVENTS vs OTHER PLAYERS)
It’s rare to get a decent race going online with this antiquated lobby system, you’d think that PD has been out of the loop for over a decade.
What about online B-Spec?
And I will be level 40 by then, most likely … will there be more to play for, beyond $$?
A-Spec in GT5 has less than 1/4 of the races that GT4 A-Spec has, and there’s tons of things missing completely that we were told would be in GT5 like marathon race and mid championship saves and poin to point generated rally stages, etc…, yet Kaz and PD spend their resources adding garbage like this that nobody cares about. WTH FIX GT5, then add BS features later.
OMG!kaz you are wasting you time..portable B-spec half the people i know arent even past level 4 on there B-spec and this is gonna be the 1st up date of the year? FAIL!! why not give us a update with some new premium cars or new maps i got 148 cars in my garage and im bored with all of them already we need new cars!! and instead of wasting time on this why not keep workin on that free roam so it can out earlier..5yrs im sorry but 5 yrs doing what? all this could have been done in at least 2 1/2 yrs
ummm, ya, your not getting free roam. He said he had wanted it, past tense, not that he was doing it for an update. The PS3 has a hard enough time with 12 cars on tracks that are nothing compared to a free roam enviroment. You might see it in GT6, but I wouldn’t hold my breath. Kaz loves to talk about concepts, post release, but that’s often the last time you hear of them has well. At least from PD anyway.
YES!!! Finally! been waiting for this!
Sorry, trophy (fail)
Dishonourable trophey – first person to get the sack for B-speccing at work…
Well along with this “update” from PD, please fix the fully customizable tranny to be fully customizable, put back in the turning angle setting (it was in GT5P), allow paint colors infinite usage, allow any wheels to be put on any premium car, and include the ability to pause or stop+continue an endurance race.
No offense but I dont want those weirdo races, I want more premium cars and a-spec races.
NO!!! Raise the level points. Dont make it playable 24/7!!! GRRR….
Now I can study and play GT5 at the
Same time. Great!
I just lost my ipod too, so I can’t use this.
What about B-Spec online races? It’s a must for this game…
Thnx for the Iphone app Jordan :D , great news 2
I don’t see why people are complaining? Oh no, they are giving us more features! jeez. They are adding more stuff when they didn’t need to so stop complaining!
Having said that, i would like events with stricter criteria. I.e Front Wheel drive and less than 340bhp, just so you have a reason to buy a wider selection of cars and also they will be closer and tougher races but there is no need to whinge about them giving us other stuff first
Ok, so if they add the option for fuzzy dice, rolling down windows, hitchiker pickups, and McDonalds drivethru durring endurance races, over the next six patches, but you never get your race event regs, you’ll be ok with that just because PD didn’t have to add any of it?
Because I think most people would find the features I have listed to be silly, pointless, and a waste of dev time, and would rather have the event regs.
Point being this: All the above complaints are from people who find b-spec to be in the silly, pointless, and/or waste of dev time catagory, and would rather the dev time be spent on other things.
Does that mean I agree with everyone, and think b-spec should be ignored? No, certainly some people play it and would benifit from this feature, but I also think people who don’t care for b-spec have a right to speak out, just has you or I, and are wise to do so given that PD seems to pay attention to the comunity feedback. In the end it’ll lead to a more balanced set of feature upgrades with a higher chance that everyone gets some of what they want.
Well the content is free.. if they were forcing a subscription of dlc charges then I understand but yea people are just complaining
Online racing experience points and stats are wellcome as well
Instead of waisting time for development of dat B spec mode they’d better off give us drift events and drift tracks like Ebisu Circuit. It a great game but Kaz’s forgotten dat Japan is a homeport of drift and we got nothing from Pd about drift, exluding those boring single drift runs on the track without any heat of battle. WE NEED DRIFT BATTLE and DRIFT GP EVENTS. I’m very surprised dat there is no discussion on forum about willing of having those events. May be Kaz would give’em us in the future updates or DLC
Stop saying dat
He does have a point though. I know many would like to have campaign, split-screen (we’re just playing around with regular split-screen giving each other 10-scale points, lol) and online drifting added.
B-Spec drifting anyone? Bob’s already too damn good at it already.
This is kind of a meh feature. The biggest story is the fact that it’s a slap in the face to those of us who had to sit at the ps3 and guide Bob while not being able to play ourselves. Now we can have people who spend a few minutes a day (probably while at work) to move through B-Spec and get all the benefits we did but late adopters don’t compromise their own A-Spec/Online race time.
I hope they raise the level cap. It has taken me almost 2 months to get to level 40. So I will have absolutely no use for this feature. I don’t have many complaints about this game, but this advertised feature coming out after 2 months of b spec grinding is kinda ridiculous.
More tracks and events please!
Dont really need more new ones, I want the likes of Seattle and Motegi brough back
This seems like a terrible idea. at first, I thought it would be useful if you needed credits, but B-spec, let’s admit it, is not fun at all and we only do it because cars and cash is hard to maintain.
A better fix is to have lots more tracks and events.
I’m pretty happy with what cars we have now, so I think the future strategy for GT5 improvements should be (in this order)
— More tracks, optionally track packs as DLC, but keep things high quality
— New premium cars, if they are DLC, then they should not cost in game credits. This should not include things like “More skylines”, but instead cars that are very fun and unique to drive.
If all GT5 folks did was produce more tracks, I’d be in love with them. B-spec seems like they don’t know their fans.
Love the skyline bit. Lol
I think B-Spec is pretty cool once you get to about level 20…
I’m waiting for that Bugatti Super Sports and the Gumpert Apollo.
How the hell did EA get them first?!
I don’t want to be the bearer of bad news, but I’m pretty sure you can’t do the regular B-Spec races as we know them. The remote races is for putting your own drivers and cars against the drivers and cars of your friends. The drivers will get experience, but I don’t think it will count for B-Spec rank.
So the way I look at it, it’s gonna be some fun you can do with GT5 when you can’t play the actual game. Just go to gran-turismo.com and chose your language and then search for B-Spec. The B-Spec page from that site is where I got the basis of my information in this post. If I have misunderstood, I appologize.
You are correct. I posted that in the forums before. What you stated is how its on their website and I interpenetrated it the same as you. Remote Races will only be good for leveling your (and your friends) drivers and maybe make some extra cash.
Also the gear ratio function confirmed
Really? Awesome! I was shocked when i bought the so called ‘fully customizable transmission’ and couldn’t change individual gears.
about time , at leas now i can control the action without being tied to the ps3 , as it is quite boring to watch a b-spec race which you know you can win easily. i’d rather watch tv
Bluetooth app?
Great. Do we really need this? It’s nice to hear they are focusing to this kind of bs. And ofcourse support for every kind of tikitalks what ever made.
One more thing is this thing going to be an app of some sort you could buy for ipod or iphone and if it is does it require wi-fi
Great news. I feel like such a downer when i do B-spec just watching them race and pressing the same buttons over and over. (alough ive only done 2 sunday cup races and then i got bored => )
What i think is a good idea is speech recognition. If you have a ps eye or headset you could talk to the driver eg overtake, increase pace or just somthing like xbox kinect voice recognition.
Mind you if this was in it i still wouldnt really like B-spec tehe
good idea, but still though i prefer driving myself… i think b spec is for people who dont want to drive themselves, or who are not good at driving.or maybe they just want good cars… who knows…
B-Spec is nice in that you can run races when you don’t have the time to sit and actually drive yourself. Like while I’m doing work on my computer in front of the TV, for instance. It lets you earn cars, money and XP while doing something else.
We have get an beta version thats a bit annoying…
I think most of you guys have already finished B-Spec and there is no need for this anymore…
I haven´t touched the B-Spec and I think I will never touch that BS…
While I’m glad to see this is getting released, one thing on Kaz’s twitter that caught my eye was a message reading “I will have a real bike game to the company”. Could be that he’s ruled out bikes in any incarnation of GT, dreaming of a new TT maybe?
OK, good to hear that.
I’m ready for remote b-spec endurance :)
Bring it on !!
Polyphony Digital should make Android and iphone apps for this,
+1
I could really use that, since I’m going to purchase (prabably) an Android phone ;D
and wp7 :p
Android and iPhone have all the fun while Blackberry is left crying in the corner…. :'(
More Premium cars and tracks please, thank you.
So I guess we won’t get the 1.06 update this month :( ….
Is this fun? … or whole B-spec thing for that matter?
Yes, it a lot of fun.
I reckon the AMG Comp is exactly the reason this hasn’t been added yet personally…just my 2 cents…
It is that for sure…
I don’t think so. Look at my comment further down.
Cool, hope it come to iPhone at release, not sure my bss will appreciate me doing this all day using works PC lol
It won’t be available on iPhone by mobile device it means psp’s and sone ericson phones it will all be done through remote play
@ TheMasfer
That is not what has been said. From what I understand, you just need to have your PS3 on and log unto your PSN account via the internet. Therefore I can’t see why you shouldn’t be able to use any smartphone (unless you have to have a program/application installed first..).
Umm.. Doesn’t your iPhone have Safari?
I’m on my iPod atm..
Yes! Finaly my PSP can do something else the IPhone can’t do! I guess I know what I’ll be doing during lunch now.
Does that mean we can do our B-spec races on our mobile device without having the PS3 on?
No, the PS3 must still be on.
@Andy
Really?
Aw, that’s too bad.
I always figured it’d be like racing
ghosts of other players, or their b-spec racers.
This way it’d have no need for me to still sit and watch.
In other news, I’m still waiting to see if he
was serious about that “Free Roam” mode or something.
This is fine with me because I can run it with my Playstation on while my brother is using the TV for his Xbox and I can still earn money. I’m happy.
Great news!
I see nothing about the Dacia Sandero…
NOOO!!!! NOT THE DACIA SANDERO!!!!!!! :D
Great, PD is finally making this available just as I’m completing my B-spec Endurance Series. Two 24hrs races to go.
At last. And. first
So that’s why you are at the top of the list.
Yep. And. sad
very