Transmission settings are not saving. As soon as a race is started, all gears except "top gear" revert to their original configuration. This leaves all the lower gears crammed together with an extremely large divide separating 4th from 5th on 5-spd cars or 5th from 6th in 6-spd cars. As soon as top gear is selected during the race, all acceleration stops. Going back into transmission settings shows the screwed up gear configuration, but, and this is the really messed up part, top gear is much wider than configured. I set it to 340, balance 1st-5th, start the race which messes up the gearing, exit race, lookcat transmission settings and not only are 1st-5th all crammed down at the beginning of the chart, 6th is now at 419.
Nevermind the settings are still in kph when I have selected mph as my unit of measurement. I expected this to be resolved by now. AS AN AMERICAN I DO NOT THINK IN METRIC. Surely I'm not the only one.
Not exactly happy with tire performance either. I have a 300HP AWD car with racing-soft tires and a 50/50 torque split. Anything beyond 5% throttle in top gear going around a large bend like Daytona or Blue Moon results in me losing traction IN THE REAR and oversteering. This configuration shouldn't even be able to loose grip. EVER! It should handle like it's on rails, but instead it acts like a 2,000lb 2,000HP RWD on Comfort-Soft.
Polyphony has never released something this screwed up. I was under the impression we waited years for GT7, and waited even longer so Polyphony could get it right. I'm all for that, and if handled like Sport, don't mind getting part of the game on release day and getting the rest via incremental updates, but this? What a cluster-****.
What changed Polyphony? This is so out of character. Did you drop your highly paid, well educated, and experienced developers in favor of teenagers who had a computer class once? ...sure feels like it. Feels like a whole bunch of copy/paste by someone who doesn't comprehend code. Sport displayed transmission settings in mph if mph was selected as units, why not 7? Why hasn't this most simple of changes such as this been addressed? Better yet, why wasn't this found during testing? Maybe contrary to your post today about the reason for the outage, you actually don't test? Now that I'd beleive.
I've preordered or bought GT on launch day every release since 2. NEVER have you sold such a mess. In my eyes, never once have you even dropped the ball. Not this time though. This time it feels like you forgot what a ball is.
Even Prologue was closer to release quality than this...