Gran Turismo 7: Latest news and discussion thread

[GT714]

Yeah, we beat them to it by more than an hour:

New Gran Turismo 7 Videos Feature Valentino Rossi and Sung Kang

Two new promotional videos for Gran Turismo 7 have hit official social channels today, featuring a wide variety of famous faces from across the motoring world. The first appears on the global Gran Turismo channel, and takes the form of a round-table chat between five figures from various aspects

www.gtplanet.net

There's another video but from PlayStation France.

 

[Samus]

So they added user difficulty settings for the career but then all the events still have a fixed difficulty, some which are harder than the hardest user difficulty option? Which can't be user selected for any other events? And the first few events are all easy, even if you select hard?

Someone make it make sense. Does the user difficulty option REALLY affect career races? Why can't I just select maximum spice for every event myself?

 

[Cosbuster]

The hype is real. It really does seem to be shaping up as the best GT in recent memory, warts and all.

GT5 was extremely disappointing in a myriad of ways after a very long wait with 6 being too little way too late, they nearly killed the franchise for me. Sport was amazing in its technical aspect: physics, sound and online were what I always wanted from GT, but it unfortunately felt like a game between a prologue and a full GT. It took many years, but it looks like we're finally coming back home!

 

[Veinz]

Someone on reddit has finally got a PS4 copy. His initial reports are positive, says the game runs well on base PS4. Anyway, tomorrow we will find the truth. I'm not worried, but I find it bizarre that Sony hasn't showed any gameplay on PS4 with 3 days to go.

There were people saying Cyberpunk ran well on old consoles at 20 fps too, I will take this with a grain of salt until I try it myself.

 

[GTFan24]

Someone on reddit has finally got a PS4 copy. His initial reports are positive, says the game runs well on base PS4.

 

[AchooMR2]

There were people saying Cyberpunk ran well on old consoles at 20 fps too, I will take this with a grain of salt until I try it myself.

there is literally no reason gt7 will run badly or at 20 fps on a base ps4
it uses same engine as gts and that runs at 60 fps on it

 

[H1s6n]

can choose what to download if i preorder gt7 from ps store? i don't want credits and cars

 

[GT714]

So they added user difficulty settings for the career but then all the events still have a fixed difficulty, some which are harder than the hardest user difficulty option? Which can't be user selected for any other events? And the first few events are all easy, even if you select hard?

Someone make it make sense. Does the user difficulty option REALLY affect career races? Why can't I just select maximum spice for every event myself?

From a couple of video streams I've seen, it does to an extent but not greatly. I think there's also a setting where you change the AI difficulty to 3 different levels of settings before a race - Professional Level being the highest.

 

[syntex123]

PD/Sony should make the game for free for all ukrainians.

Well, Italians got a certain hub premium for free when ‘rona hit, soo.. I think this is a fair comment.

 

[Rotax2020]

3 days until release and Thrustmaster still hasnt released a FW-update for T-GT II and BT LED Display.

Thats a shame

 

[Veinz]

there is literally no reason gt7 will run badly or at 20 fps on a base ps4
it uses same engine as gts and that runs at 60 fps on it

It won’t be that bad but I do know that some people have a very weird perception of how well games run.

 

[MatskiMonk]

So they added user difficulty settings for the career but then all the events still have a fixed difficulty, some which are harder than the hardest user difficulty option? Which can't be user selected for any other events? And the first few events are all easy, even if you select hard?

Someone make it make sense. Does the user difficulty option REALLY affect career races? Why can't I just select maximum spice for every event myself?

I've not watched any of the streams, but from what people have said my reading is that the initial easy/medium/hard settings would contain within them different levels of difficulty depending on the race. Tiers within tiers - so whatever the difficulty level, there is still a progression in difficulty as you go through the game.

 

[Nielsen]

there is literally no reason gt7 will run badly or at 20 fps on a base ps4
it uses same engine as gts and that runs at 60 fps on it

GT7 has complexities that GT Sport doesn’t. That is one reason why it might run worse on PS4.

 

[Famine]

So it isn't you who's reviewing the game...maybe Jordan is?

he wouldnt be able to tell you that even if he was.

🤔

Downloading my copy...

 

[Lord Protector]

Just so you know, a "Day 1" patch is a patch available on the launch day to consumers. It doesn't mean it only arrives on launch day for everyone - several games I've reviewed have had the Day 1 patch applied a week before launch.

I don't know if this is the case for GT7 or not, but I'd be surprised if it wasn't.

True, but I'd be surprised if there isn't another patch landing on Friday. After all, GT Sport received about 3 updates by the time it actually released IIRC.

 

[Veinz]

Day 1 patches are the norm now a days

 

[NICKname]

I've not watched any of the streams, but from what people have said my reading is that the initial easy/medium/hard settings would contain within them different levels of difficulty depending on the race. Tiers within tiers - so whatever the difficulty level, there is still a progression in difficulty as you go through the game.

That doesn't make any sense if that's true. Why would someone who knows that they want to be challenged still have to do races that are too easy for him at first? (Though they'll probably never get any truly hard races, it's Gran Turismo after all). There's no point in babying someone who chooses to make the game as hard as possible.

 

[Monkey Man]

Are the reviewers able to assess the online component?

If so, how? Does PD set up exclusive, "closed" access to the servers for them so they can race each other?

 

[ICEYOU3]

Reviews should start coming out tomorrow correct?

 

[Phaceless_Ph]

There was confusion over this with the PS4 version of D2 Witch Queen:

Is pre-downloading/installing enabled on PS4?

 

[BigSarj]

There's another video but from PlayStation France.

He is speaking too fast for me to understand. Can someone translate the obvious fluff? Because I'll take anything I can get.

 

[Samus]

From a couple of video streams I've seen, it does to an extent but not greatly. I think there's also a setting where you change the AI difficulty to 3 different levels of settings before a race - Professional Level being the highest.

So there are THREE different difficultly settings, one fixed and two user chosen? That seems rather confusing.

So I can enter a fixed easy difficulty race with hard chili AI selected in one menu and beginner AI selected in another?

Surely there is some level of misunderstanding and some of these settings only affect custom/arcade because otherwise it sounds bonkers.

 

[Nowax]

Someone on reddit has finally got a PS4 copy. His initial reports are positive, says the game runs well on base PS4. Anyway, tomorrow we will find the truth. I'm not worried, but I find it bizarre that Sony hasn't showed any gameplay on PS4 with 3 days to go.

Great news!

 

[Black_Stance]

They first nerfed the clutch during the PS3 era iirc. The clutch is still not right in GTS, you simply just do not miss gears in real life like you can in GTS.

It shouldn’t be OP either but nerfing it into the ground isn’t the answer considering it’s the most difficult way to race.

i have 1300hours on gts and i promise you it's not different than at launch

Assetto Corsa do provide more freedom on shifting gear but GTS require a small timing

i could show you a recent video of me powershifting with the e92 as proof xD

and also maybe your clutch doesn't press completely

 

[Famine]

Reviews should start coming out tomorrow correct?

11.01 UTC on March 2nd:

Gran Turismo 7 Review Embargo and Media Live Streaming Dates Revealed

GTPlanet and other members of the media woke up to review copies of Gran Turismo 7 in our Inboxes this morning. We can confirm the international review embargo lifts on March 2 at 11:01 AM GMT (convert this to your local time here). Our written and video reviews of the game will both be published at

www.gtplanet.net

🤷‍♂️

 

[MatskiMonk]

That doesn't make any sense if that's true. Why would someone who knows that they want to be challenged still have to do races that are too easy for him at first? (Though they'll probably never get any truly hard races, it's Gran Turismo after all). There's no point in babying someone who chooses to make the game as hard as possible.

I would imagine to give a sense of progression.

He is speaking too fast for me to understand. Can someone translate the obvious fluff? Because I'll take anything I can get.

Turn on the subtitles and then click translate in the settings.

 

[Darla Starch]

Well. I have been on this forum now for a month or so, but I have to confess that something like half the discussions here are bordering on or beyond bizarre .....

That's the time-honored way of the Gran Turismo subforum.

 

[Brend]

Are the reviewers able to assess the online component?

If so, how? Does PD set up exclusive, "closed" access to the servers for them so they can race each other?

Reviewers typically have 'press sessions' for multiplayer and the like to test some functionality out. I imagine Sony/PD rolled something like that out to help with the process🤞

 

[Nielsen]

So I can enter a fixed easy difficulty race with hard chili AI selected in one menu and beginner AI selected in another?

I died 😂

We may know tomorrow.

 

[NICKname]

I would imagine to give a sense of progression.

Just like how doing chores is technically being productive, while not achieving anything of note. It's hardly real progression if you're just getting boring stuff out of the way to get to the races you actually want to compete in. Why not make the game challenging (by Gran Turismo standards) from the start, for people who want that challenge?