Wow that sucks
Hope they can add tab with events for a future update. I hope there will be some sense of progression at least. The Beginner --> Amateur --> Pro --> Expert format is better than what GT7 seems to oofer
I prefer this presentation for the career and arcade mode, but i understand why they choose that way in the easy accessibility
Honestly if there are menu list for events I'd rather if it's sortable by various means, like by difficulty (most GT games), licenses (GT6), car type (ex: Super GT, GT3, etc.), event type (ex: Drivetrain contest, etc.), etc. I'd want for events to not be limited on the difficulty format (Beginner > Amateur > Pro) like creating Beginner-like FR Challenge, but also Amateur-like or Pro-like version of it that makes use of a higher performance variant of that type of car in a single event list.
Don't lose all hope! On the first page of the "World Circuits" page, at the bottom is a list of Championships (or a list of races in the current Championship, it's not completely clear). Based on the names of the championships/events, it seems that there may be a combination of single races (High Speed Ring Track Day) and multi-race series (Asia-Oceania Championship).
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It writes Trial Mountain Cup and European Championship, no way those are list of races in current Championship.
For those few championships, probably. But there doesn't seem to be many of those. I was referring to all the regular events that come up as available when you hover a track.
I don't know why the Championships are thought as not many. It seems to just not list every races available from the start. 2 different screenshots with different Championship races:
And on the track selection screen, we can see an event "Japanese Clubman Cup 550" which has races at Autopolis, Fuji, and Tokyo Expressway. The same is true of the "Japanese FF Challenge 450" which can be seen at Suzuka, Tsukuba, and High Speed Ring and "Japanese FR Challenge 550" at Tsukuba, Tokyo Expressway, and High Speed Ring.
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I think there is still a lot that we don't know about how the campaign mode works, but it seems like it will offer some decent variety.
You mean that the "450" or "550" can indicate the different performance level version of the events like what's seen in GT2 and GT3? (though there gotta still be PP limits then, if everything doesn't have PP limit then why put it there....)
This decision to drastically change the career mode is either going to come off as a brilliant move by PD or be one of the more contentious decisions made for GT7, I'm still on the fence with this, until I can see actual game play, hard to call, menu jumping & blindly going from one event to the next without seeing the big pictures are my concerns.
Do you think that the career is really drastically changed? It's just now that the event selection is the opposite of the previous GTs. In previous GT you select the event title card, then choose the track the events provided to race on. Now you select the track first, then choose the events the track provided to race on.
Ah, so they're really splicing arcade and career mode together, that's neat. It'll definitely change up how you progress versus the past games. Though I do see a problem with how they set up event completion, you're doing it by track from the looks of it. Which can get tedious quick with progression, you're doing different events sure, but on the same track. I feel like I would get sick of that after a while.
Yeah and previously the GT with map menu (or GT5) didn't have the map menu as the main menu, map was a part of GT Mode only and it was a choice from the actual main menu which was far more simplistic (GT1's Quick Arcade, Gran Turismo, Replay Theater, Options). It seems that they just add Arcade mode there instead of creating the pseudo-Arcade modes separately in GT Mode so you can freely race while in GT Mode without leaving the mode like GT4's Race Meeting, Photo Drive, and Family Cup (with Free run as another option).
I just noticed this about the state-of-play presentation, the Boss 429 Mustang had side-pipes here, that wasn't a stock feature on these. I bet other people discussed this already, but I guess this is now another thing that excites me about the customization. Some cars at least may have side-pipes as a mod, that's kinda cool.
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For the exhaust part, those may be a part of either Racing Items or Others menu.
