Engine Swaps in Gran Turismo 7? New Screenshots Raise New Questions
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i cant think of any car more worthy of a engine swap than a delorean, but go on, real car person
theres one with a 2jz and theres even one with an ls at the front
a delorean is slower than an ae86
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I do actually like the tuning-allowed Daily Races, unlike most people (or at least most GT Sport fans), but I can only imagine the ******** if it ever turns out that a certain engine swap, or even a certain other one of the "hidden" tuning parts you get through the roulette, offers an advantage in one of them.
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Since the game is in it's first few days, perhaps their plan is to add ready swapped cars into the UCD at some time, as another avenue to getting them.
If they don't wish to make them instantly accessible, it would add some surprise down the line to spot an engine swapped car in the UCD.
If they don't wish to make them instantly accessible, it would add some surprise down the line to spot an engine swapped car in the UCD.
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Just got a R26B-787B engine. Don't know what it's going in, but whatever it is is going to sound pretty sweet. 
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I'm one that feels that this is a game and shouldn't be too unduly burdened by certain aspects of reality.
I mean maybe there needs to be some attention paid to the challenges of swapping a V12 into a Fit, maybe, but not the rarity aspect so much.
Games by their definition imply some amount of restriction, or rules if you will, and it's by exploring these rules and mastering them, if not circumventing or otherwise besting them in inventive ways, that all the entertainment is found.
And these very fora are full of examples. Speaking of masochists, I'm reminded of those tortured souls who attempted to lap the Nordschleife in the Benz patentwagen in GT4. No trophy for that. As it should be.
And that's really the point. Make things flexible and accessible so that we can tailor our own challenge, assuming we're actually disciplined in any way. Not that it matters, it's a game, have fun!
I did think though that taking a car and removing its engine might be a bit heretical to PD, given this is about worshipping cars and collecting all of them and ultimately not letting them "die" in a sense.
I mean, if you remove an engine from a car, does its soul go with it? Clearly that's contradicted by the very presence of swaps in the game in the first place. But it does present a logistical problem: what happens to that engineless husk? How do you stop engines littering your collection? Etc. It needs to be comprehensive and robust.
Maybe for now it satisfies the lootbox criteria for Papa Sony at launch, and it can be patched to be more sensible at a later date. I feel PD have form on this kind of thing, e.g. something like exclusive pre order bonuses or some other such cynical nonsense, only for them to be patched in for all to be earned at a later date (I don't exactly remember).
I mean maybe there needs to be some attention paid to the challenges of swapping a V12 into a Fit, maybe, but not the rarity aspect so much.
Games by their definition imply some amount of restriction, or rules if you will, and it's by exploring these rules and mastering them, if not circumventing or otherwise besting them in inventive ways, that all the entertainment is found.
And these very fora are full of examples. Speaking of masochists, I'm reminded of those tortured souls who attempted to lap the Nordschleife in the Benz patentwagen in GT4. No trophy for that. As it should be.
And that's really the point. Make things flexible and accessible so that we can tailor our own challenge, assuming we're actually disciplined in any way. Not that it matters, it's a game, have fun!
I did think though that taking a car and removing its engine might be a bit heretical to PD, given this is about worshipping cars and collecting all of them and ultimately not letting them "die" in a sense.
I mean, if you remove an engine from a car, does its soul go with it? Clearly that's contradicted by the very presence of swaps in the game in the first place. But it does present a logistical problem: what happens to that engineless husk? How do you stop engines littering your collection? Etc. It needs to be comprehensive and robust.
Maybe for now it satisfies the lootbox criteria for Papa Sony at launch, and it can be patched to be more sensible at a later date. I feel PD have form on this kind of thing, e.g. something like exclusive pre order bonuses or some other such cynical nonsense, only for them to be patched in for all to be earned at a later date (I don't exactly remember).
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You know it's nothing to do with how cars work and everything to do with how Polyphony has balanced the PP system, right? It's a video game, these aren't real cars. They're just pixels.
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They could have done it like unique weapons in RPGs. They could make it so that some of the really cool engines you can only ever get one of (or a limited number of) in any given save file. And some of them could be really difficult to get. But there is a clear path to getting each them, and isn't random.
Yeah because Forza and GT are realistic racers that make it all worthwhile. If they spent less time pandering to MP and more on what makes the games enjoyable we'd have better ai etc.
If you want mp high skill driving sim you are kidding yourself if you think these games are the ones to choose.
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Perhaps you should dial it back a touch. Couple of reasonable questions that don't justify that kind of response.
And Delorean engine swaps are hardly rare, all sorts of LS, V8, V6 turbos and more besides. Someone recently did a V6 twin turbo swap to the tune of 630bhp.
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Are the engine parts only available in 4 star tickets?
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The roulette seems to be predetermined, my game hung on PS4 Pro after doing a race and doing roulette, had to restart the game, do the race again and the roulette prize was exactly the same afterwards, from the same set of available prizes.
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Save me looking to hard .... got me a engine at last , how do I see in game what its compatible do I have to click on every singe car indervidualy or is there a quicker way.
Also can you only use it the once in the compatible car ?
Any multi use to it or reclaiming the engine back from the car once fitted ???
Also can you only use it the once in the compatible car ?
Any multi use to it or reclaiming the engine back from the car once fitted ???
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Has this actually been confirmed? I think it's just like the other parts you find and only work on the original cars they are from....
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Yes it has.
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Drop the flame bait nonsense.
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