This guy is a troll. And not even a good one!
Can’t believe he’s sucked a bunch of veterans like ya’ll in 😂
Maybe, but we've all had that same feeling at one point or another. We just didn't all say it out loud. You get done with racing the single player stuff in Gran Turismo and you're feeling pretty good. You beat the AI by miles in every race, you know all the tracks, you feel comfortable enough with the cars that you run the racing lines you want. You're a great driver. You know you are. The game said so.
Then you go up against other people and it turns out that you're mediocre. Or just plain awful. Turns out hundreds of thousands of miles of experience counts for nothing when it was hundreds of thousands of miles of going slow.
I remember signing up for GTP WRS in GT5P. I thought I was all right. I'd been playing Gran Turismo for years and years. The career was easy and I even managed to do okay in some of the online races I tried. I wasn't the fastest, but I was sure competitive.
I did my best in the week's time trial, and got put in Bronze. Bottom of the barrel. I was not quick. I was
so not quick that at the time I wasn't even good enough to be able to see exactly how the other drivers were gaining time on me. They just seemed to go faster everywhere. It felt like cheating. I wasn't that bad. It must have been a mistake.
But week after week I kept placing roughly the same. It wasn't a mistake. I was slow. I was ****ing slow.
But it turned out that as I practised more and talked to people and got advice, and I slowly got better. I started to be able to see how other drivers went faster, and although I struggled to copy them I could try and sometimes I'd get a bit faster too. I learned how tiny differences at key points on the track made huge gains in time. I learned how going just a few kph faster everywhere on the track could add up. I'm still no alien, but I'm a lot quicker than I was and these days I mostly have the skills to see where I'm losing time.
This guy might be a troll. Or he might just be a guy who is only now hitting that stage where he finds out that the Gran Turismo AI is awful and that he's actually not nearly as quick as he thinks he is. Which hurts, but it's actually an important stage of learning to be a racing driver. If there's 16 drivers in a race, someone has to be 16th.
The responses that he's getting from people here are because they're kind. If he's a troll, that's on him. If he's not, then he's got people offering to help. But the first step is going to have to be to lose the attitude that he must be fast and that it's a problem with other people. We all started somewhere, and that somewhere was usually being embarrassingly slow. If he posts a lap video, then there's probably easy advice he can get to gain a fair chunk of time. Or there's any number of guide videos out there that explain how to run any given track quick and clean.
