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

[TheNormsk]

I did my first quick race last night with the new Sophy at Deep Forest. I was in a 4C road car, just having come out of a 550 cup race and I totally crushed the new AI. Was not competitive at all. I did see better race craft but the issue was my tuned 4C just destroyed the cars the Sophies were driving.

Is the deal with racing Sophy just to run around in stock road cars? I thought it was meant to adapt to what you were running to be competitive..

Prior to that I completed the weekly missions(or what ever it is called). I like that and it gave a good payout - not that I need the money. It gave two 100,000 cr tickets for competing and a wheel ticket for completing it which gave another 500,000. So that was 700k + decent payouts from the races as well. Not bad for once a week and I had fun driving a variety of stuff with an in-cockpit view that I don't usually do. Now, I'm thinking perhaps I should ask for VR for Christmas....

 

[Silver_Wolf]

I did my first quick race last night with the new Sophy at Deep Forest. I was in a 4C road car, just having come out of a 550 cup race and I totally crushed the new AI. Was not competitive at all. I did see better race craft but the issue was my tuned 4C just destroyed the cars the Sophies were driving.

Is the deal with racing Sophy just to run around in stock road cars? I thought it was meant to adapt to what you were running to be competitive.

Sophie cannot run a tune without separate training so you will always win that easily unless a stock car is used.

 

[MonoTonouS]

Is it just me or is the AI in general just better. The few races I did i was finding it hard to even podium.

 

[Strittan]

I did my first quick race last night with the new Sophy at Deep Forest. I was in a 4C road car, just having come out of a 550 cup race and I totally crushed the new AI. Was not competitive at all. I did see better race craft but the issue was my tuned 4C just destroyed the cars the Sophies were driving.

Apparently Sophy needs months of training for every variable it’s given, and therefore does not run tuned cars.

Let’s say you give Sophy a stock R34 Skyline GT-R to drive around Nordschleife. When it has learned the track you then put sport suspension on the car. It’s like giving it a completely different car basically. Then add tyre wear, different weather conditions, etc etc. I bet it will be years, if not decades before it can replace the normal AI, if that’s even the plan to begin with.

 

[HarVee]

"How about fixing all the crap" (proceeds to mention specifically 2 things related to one mode, ignoring the massive influx of community requested fixes and additions added to the rest of the game).

Ok mate. Sort your ego out first. More to the game than Sport Mode.

I wish I could like this more than once. It's tiring having these Sport Mode enthusiasts crap on the game because they didn't get what they wanted in what is clearly a single-player focused update.

 

[R33NICK]

Bit of an oddball question but do you need a PS Plus account to access the Paddocks? I have a PS plus but my friend doesn't so he can't do Sport mode but can he at least access the Paddocks?

 

[MonoTonouS]

Apparently Sophy needs months of training for every variable it’s given, and therefore does not run tuned cars.

Let’s say you give Sophy a stock R34 Skyline GT-R to drive around Nordschleife. When it has learned the track you then put sport suspension on the car. It’s like giving it a completely different car basically. Then add tyre wear, different weather conditions, etc etc. I bet it will be years, if not decades before it can replace the normal AI, if that’s even the plan to begin with.

It doesn't take months , It probably takes a few hours at most per car variation . Might take a few days to map ONE car out to all the tracks and difficulty . It's AI pathing not rocket science.

 

[x__myst69__x]

I mean you can always go play lame Forza and pay for dlc....... PD gives all of this for free ......how about some gratitude?? You're right things need fixed but let's not ignore the victories and progress made .........some people just love to live in misery I guess....

and some people are just pathetic PD sycophants... I guess

 

[Bojador]

I wish I could like this more than once. It's tiring having these Sport Mode enthusiasts crap on the game because they didn't get what they wanted in what is clearly a single-player focused update.

I’d say it’s as tiring as when people complain that no single player content is added. People have different things they would like to be improved. Get over it.

 

[Famine]

This is the discussion thread for an article on GTPlanet:

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[jrwilliam269]

and some people are just pathetic PD sycophants... I guess

Ah so you can have your hateful opinion but people can't be positive about PD??

 

[Famine]

and some people are just pathetic PD sycophants... I guess

Ah so you can have your hateful opinion but people can't be positive about PD?? Typical narcissist

I'll invite the pair of you to re-read this site's Acceptable Use Policy.

 

[ChaosL]

it is obvious sport mode enthusiast and esport sweat have zero respect for what makes gran turismo gran turismo, just begging for BoP, gt3 cars, boring real world race tracks and penalty system that can never be perfect. we need a gt sport 2 or something to isolate these people and we can go back to a gran turismo that is focus number one single player, ever since they add online in gran turismo on ps3 single player is suffering, peak suffering was gt sport release, but spec ii is our favourite sushi chef Kazunori-san realising to focus on single player, now he see the true gt fans like it, let us hope it stays like this, i am liking this new and improve direction for gran turismo 7, enough with the esports ****

 

[jrwilliam269]

it is obvious sport mode enthusiast and esport sweat have zero respect for what makes gran turismo gran turismo, just begging for BoP, gt3 cars, boring real world race tracks and penalty system that can never be perfect. we need a gt sport 2 or something to isolate these people and we can go back to a gran turismo that is focus number one single player, ever since they add online in gran turismo on ps3 single player is suffering, peak suffering was gt sport release, but spec ii is our favourite sushi chef Kazunori-san realising to focus on single player, now he see the true gt fans like it, let us hope it stays like this, i am liking this new and improve direction for gran turismo 7, enough with the esports ****

Agreed spot on... Single player deserves love not just Sport mode

 

[HarVee]

I’d say it’s as tiring as when people complain that no single player content is added. People have different things they would like to be improved. Get over it.

It's tiring when people complain about people complaining about people complaining. Get over it.

 

[RobertHammer]

Imho the game deserves both single player and multi player

 

[Bojador]

It's tiring when people complain about people complaining about people complaining. Get over it.

Except I wasn’t complaining. I actually want more single player content. But I can understand different people want different things and was just pointing that out.

 

[kjeldsen]

delete

 

[HarVee]

Except I wasn’t complaining. I actually want more single player content. But I can understand different people want different things and was just pointing that out.

I was merely joking with you. Sort of an anti-humor joke.

 

[ikon_313]

It's tiring when people complain about people complaining about people complaining. Get over it.

Yet you are here complaining about people complaing about people complaing about people complaining. Excuse me, but I find this rather funny

 

[HarVee]

Yet you are here complaining about people complaing about people complaing about people complaining. Excuse me, but I find this rather funny

It's kind of a rabbit-hole that we tend to go down on this forum.

 

[ikon_313]

I was merely joking with you. Sort of an anti-humor joke.

It's kind of a rabbit-hole that we tend to go down on this forum.

Should've guessed your ironic nature, but in the interwebs you never know. Very entertaining, ironic or not

 

[symaski62]

How did one achieved this in replay?? Is this vr?

 

[MOPARbarrett5]

I was going to make the usual cinematic jelly car video for the newest update featuring the '68 Charger with Hooked On America but I hooked it a bit too much and this is better.

 

[Quakebass]

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This image is going places

 

[evldave333]

Im loving dancing with Sophy Ive been sticking with new Porsche GT3 to give myself a better chance. Its so much more dynamic racing now while playing solo, the challenge is just about right if you make a mistake it is pounced upon / getting a win is so satisfying. Looking forward to more tracks with Sophy in the future, this has breathed life into GT7 im addicted again done over a thousand miles since the update lol

 

[HarVee]

The American Clubman Cup 700 at High Speed Ring now has a Tesla 3 and a Wicked Fabrication GT 51 appear in its AI car list. I also saw the new 190E in the European challenge at the Nurb (the one in the current weekly challenges). Seems they updated the list of car the AI can use for some of the events. I don't know if these cars replaced existing AI choices or if they've been added to the list but it'll still be interesting to see what other cars appear in the other events from now on.

 

[JDMKING13]

Im loving dancing with Sophy Ive been sticking with new Porsche GT3 to give myself a better chance. Its so much more dynamic racing now while playing solo, the challenge is just about right if you make a mistake it is pounced upon / getting a win is so satisfying. Looking forward to more tracks with Sophy in the future, this has breathed life into GT7 im addicted again done over a thousand miles since the update lol

I didn’t get into bed til 2am.. I got gold on Masterclass license and I really enjoyed it! Had that feeling like I had as a little kid lol.

 

[cvjoint]

Im loving dancing with Sophy Ive been sticking with new Porsche GT3 to give myself a better chance. Its so much more dynamic racing now while playing solo, the challenge is just about right if you make a mistake it is pounced upon / getting a win is so satisfying. Looking forward to more tracks with Sophy in the future, this has breathed life into GT7 im addicted again done over a thousand miles since the update lol

Most of the sweat in this update probably went towards Sophy.

Great update, the LFA is sublime (as expected). Now all PD need to do is re-map the sound for the Carrera GT and I'll be a happy man

Sorry, but it will never be a true even firing V10, so it will never sound like the LFA. Then it doesn't rev as high either, which is key for the right harmonics. You can get a Gallardo V10 to sound like an LFA but never a Carrera GT.

 

[Strittan]

It's kind of a rabbit-hole that we tend to go down on this forum.

Indeed.

On a more serious note, though, I wonder if it has ever crossed peoples minds that those who “complain” (me included) does it because they’re massive fans of the franchise and has been for a long time, and that they (we) are frustrated about the lost potential rather than just being negative for the sake of being negative.