Gran Turismo 7 Spec II Revealed: Upgraded GT Sophy AI, New Snow Track, New Cars, and More

[PlanetJanet]

Some very nice additions here. Not sure what I'm more excited by, Sophy (didn't have the game when the trial was added), the addition of weekly challenges or the Paddocks mode. Not too fussed about the track, although if it means the addition of snow as a weather option in the future then I'm all for it.

One thing we now know, whatever your thoughts on the content itself, is that if Nenkai and Kaz claim an update is big, they mean what they say.

 

[Nebuc72]

Of course it's useless when it's only implemented in an insignificant part of the game, not where it matters.
PD lacking sense of game development as usual.

It's only insignificant if you choose it to be. You control the buttons you press.

 

[chengman]

The only concern I have about this update is for my speakers. Might get hearing damage from the sound of the LFA

 

[Cerebral303]

I had almost stopped playing. The cars are nice but the track is not what I wanted or expected. The real highlight is Sophy.

 

[zlays]

Hopefully they restore those smoke/dirt/water spray effects like they were in first month or two after game launched...

 

[Jump_Ace]

It'll be fun to race against Sophy AI for sure, but I'm still holding out hope for some 1:1 driving school with Sophy where it can analyze how you drive and how your line is and help you improve with some back and forth texting/chatting like ChatGPT #daretodream


Jerome

 

[Seikenfreak]

Of course it's useless when it's only implemented in an insignificant part of the game, not where it matters.
PD lacking sense of game development as usual.

I imagine this is more of a case of them just needing to give the AI more time to learn more tracks and cars. If they are using AI learning like stuff I've seen, then it literally has to run a course thousands or 10s of thousands of time etc etc, maybe even per car, for it to learn. This could just mean in the amount of time that has passed since they kinda got Sophy mostly working, its been able to learn this much.

Perhaps in upcoming updates, maybe every month or a 6 or 12 month update, they'll add additional tracks/cars or all of them.

The real question is whether they are able to actually implement Sophy with the standard "career"/single player events with GT7 or is that something so deeply complicated in the game code that it'll have to wait until GT8 and be designed/coded from the start for it.

 

[Nakano219]

Per the Playstation Blog post, it's a mix of new events and existing ones at different tracks, and it's also a lot more than the 7 races mentioned in the gran-turismo.com post:

The WTC900 and X2019 Nations Cup events are brand-new events (and presumably new Menu Books), while the other races are expansions of existing events.

That's a decent amount of content.

I will admit I chuckled a bit seeing there's a chili race... at Route X.

 

[StealthVel]

You know the update's good when you get so excited about all the new features that you completely forget about the LFA

 

[Eggstor]

What would the update needed to have had to make you feel excited? Genuinely interested.

Nvm I didn't read right. You can make your own endurance races, but you can't make your own super strong AI.

If you have the PS5, those endurance races can include Sophy.

Er, strike that - I mixed up Arcade/Quick Race with Custom Race.

 

[Wip3outFan]

I'd LOVE it if the new track had FALLING snow and not just accumulated snow on the ground. And if the falling snow muffled all of the sound accurately, it would be so cool.

 

[Cayit]

Of course it's useless when it's only implemented in an insignificant part of the game, not where it matters.
PD lacking sense of game development as usual.

Thank You!!

 

[Lebowski]

If it was Chamonix or Ice Arena, would you still accept it?

No.

 

[RobertHammer]

Looks great but they could give us that Montreal but maybe later then

 

[GTboyz]

If you have the PS5, those endurance races can include Sophy.

Wait what?

Is that true?

 

[Fruitcake]

I like this screenshot, you can pick races by the type instead of the track now:

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How hard is it to give us more Championships..

 

[Touring Mars]

Im very happy to see this ^

New events plus a guaranteed 4,5 and 6* ticket each week for doing them...

It'll be fun to race against Sophy AI for sure, but I'm still holding out hope for some 1:1 driving school with Sophy where it can analyze how you drive and how your line is and help you improve with some back and forth texting/chatting like ChatGPT #daretodream

I hope Sophy has ALOT of patience, as she will have her work cut out with me.

 

[GTboyz]

Awww look at that face 🥲

 

[Porsche_Racer]

It's a snow circuit, just what everyone was hoping for. Oh, wait . . . .

I get why you don't want one, but where I live, it snows a lot. This is just practice for me.

 

[Backes]

Hopefully, with the new dashboard, there will be numeric DR and SR ratings again like in GT Sport instead of the bar, so we can have proper statistics again and get proper math about the ups and downs.

 

[Vinylshark]

Sounds like PD has prepared a big update for us.
New track is always nice, even if I'm suprised that it's a snow rally one, because I never felt like rally was that popular in any of the GT games due to the physics.
Hopefully with the release of "Spec II" PD will start to bring in new tracks more regularly with updates.

 

[Mafio]

#Teamnogrinding.

 

[i386]

"Where B-Spec?"

Spoiler

💩

 

[Theufcveteran]

No shade to you. It does like funny 🤣. I just saw another of videos saying GT7 was finished so I got triggered unnecessarily by the new video. So don't feel bad about posting it. How are you to know it was gonna bother some random person (me) on the Internet?

I wasn’t to know indeed, but I should’ve considered who might’ve been upset or disgruntled by it. In any case, hope you enjoy the update when it drops, and have fun riding the excitement into tomorrow 😊

 

[TorpDaTorpedo]

I imagine this is more of a case of them just needing to give the AI more time to learn more tracks and cars. If they are using AI learning like stuff I've seen, then it literally has to run a course thousands or 10s of thousands of time etc etc, maybe even per car, for it to learn. This could just mean in the amount of time that has passed since they kinda got Sophy mostly working, its been able to learn this much.

Perhaps in upcoming updates, maybe every month or a 6 or 12 month update, they'll add additional tracks/cars or all of them.

The real question is whether they are able to actually implement Sophy with the standard "career"/single player events with GT7 or is that something so deeply complicated in the game code that it'll have to wait until GT8 and be designed/coded from the start for it.

I've talked about this before with some people on FB that they could do something like a new game+ all the events reset but you still have your credits, cars, and Licenses but all the events have Sophy AI, Maybe finally add the ability to qualify and not have it as a last to first chase.

Also since the beginning Kaz had discussed the plans for endurance races in the future and 2 years later the longest events are only an hour long. My guess they are working on getting Sophy AI to some sort of B-spec capabilities, One of the tracks was shown to have sophy AI was Le Mans, Could that mean they added le mans to the demo of the AI so they can record our driving data and make it into the 24hrs of le mans?

Its just a thought but I called it that Sophy will be implemented in this game not fully but its a start in the right direction!

 

[Eggstor]

Wait what?

Is that true?

I mixed up Arcade/Quick Race with Custom Race. Sorry about that.

 

[speeeyskells]

Well we finally got a new track and also finally get to use the snow tyres because of this new track. Was not expecting spec 2 tomorrow

 

[Nakano219]

Also, I just noticed the 400R is 1995, not 1996 - does that make it the "Preceding Model" that was only in GT2? Would steal the "longest absence for a return" crown from the R32 Nismo if it is.

 

[cowboyjon]

Update doesn't have my exact back-road commute in my exact real life car so I am unimpressed.

 

[Barareklam]

Amazing update, getting ready for tomorrow!