Gran Turismo 7's Next Update is Coming This Week: Escudo Pikes Peak Returns

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I don't understand why they have no added race events for the new menu books, what is the sense to collect cars wuthout specific events to race them ? Vero poor design choice
I don't mind just having car collection tasks without associated races, but the races they have added are very vanilla indeed. Would like more of the brand/style specific stuff.

Saying that, we have the option of racing in anything with custom/arcade races.
 
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I don't get why PD have always had this issue of rain having to be specially added to individual circuits. Every other race game with weather just universally has it available on every track, no problem.

How badly have PD programmed theirs that it can't easily just be enabled on any track?
 
Love that they added a rotating camera finally this is one of my most wanted features, especially since Forza and pretty much every other racing game has the feature, it's abit wonky around certain parts of tracks but it works fairly well. 👍

Currently at $2.8 million will try to get to atleast $5 mill before the Escudo releases tonight. Will also pick up the new Ford hopefully it has a ton of upgrade options like it does IRL.
 
I Like the update. The Glen is a very welcome surprise! Very pleased to be able to calibrate pedals personally. Hoping they add one day qualifying sessions, to bring not chase the rabbit races.
 
Also, they have a pretty wide range of cars in the game now and all they can still come up with for events is PP restrictions. What happened to all the specialised events to make use of all these cars? US Muscle cars would have been the obvious choice for the Glen.

Still they just lazily persist with "WTC" events that aren't even for touring cars, meaning all the events are broadly the same.

Where did the imagination go? Is this all we are going to get now? [Generic Event Name][PP]?
 
Also, they have a pretty wide range of cars in the game now and all they can still come up with for events is PP restrictions. What happened to all the specialised events to make use of all these cars? US Muscle cars would have been the obvious choice for the Glen.

Still they just lazily persist with "WTC" events that aren't even for touring cars, meaning all the events are broadly the same.

Where did the imagination go? Is this all we are going to get now? [Generic Event Name][PP]?
It's definitely not all we'll ever get, but I also don't expect much more variety in the future. The few remaining "car type" restrictions that are unused will probably be the end of variety.

I rambled about this here,

But basically, with such a low number of events it's no surprise they're prioritizing ones that any car can enter. Unfortunately this means pretty much any given car has not much more to do than these WTC races.

The game still seems 2/5 complete judging by the licenses that are used, but really, who knows at this point? Kaz's vision is a mystery, but apparently it's the most cut down experience possible. This pace will never give us a complete game.
 
I don't get why PD have always had this issue of rain having to be specially added to individual circuits. Every other race game with weather just universally has it available on every track, no problem.

How badly have PD programmed theirs that it can't easily just be enabled on any track?
I think it might be more, how well the programmed their website rain/weather model that it can’t simply be comped and pasted between tracks. They way the dry line forms how the puddles fill in specific paces on the track. I imaged it would need to be done for each track individually to have it as accurate the way that want. You wouldn’t be able to just copy the model from track to track.
 
Yes... agreed it's a good update overall, obviously great to have a new track, like the Sport improvements and at least a few lobby issues fixed. I can't help but remain frustrated with the number of world circuit events though, this is my #1 frustration right now. All well and good getting new tracks and cars, but there's nothing to do with them. Only 3-4 events are worth doing for credits, and some great circuits like Interlagos only have a single event available?? I really don't understand why this hasn't been rectified, as it seems much easier from a dev POV than adding new cars/circuits.
My biggest problem so far (like many others here) is that the content they usually add with each update can be completed within a single sitting. In my opinion they should add 10-15 races with each update.

The circuit experiences don't mean all that much to me as I much prefer to race.
 
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I think it might be more, how well the programmed their website rain/weather model that it can’t simply be comped and pasted between tracks. They way the dry line forms how the puddles fill in specific paces on the track. I imaged it would need to be done for each track individually to have it as accurate the way that want. You wouldn’t be able to just copy the model from track to track.
Project CARS 2 did the same thing in 2017 with LiveTrack. Worked on every track.

I'm sure they did have to program where water builds up and such, but still, they managed it with a smaller team and budget AND far more tracks. The number of tracks which support it in GT7 is tiny.
 
I don't get why PD have always had this issue of rain having to be specially added to individual circuits. Every other race game with weather just universally has it available on every track, no problem.

How badly have PD programmed theirs that it can't easily just be enabled on any track?
I believe it is because the scenery lighting for the various situations is pre-rendered to be able to run at acceptable framerates on the PS4.
 
I don't get why PD have always had this issue of rain having to be specially added to individual circuits. Every other race game with weather just universally has it available on every track, no problem.

How badly have PD programmed theirs that it can't easily just be enabled on any track?
I cannot believe how bad they are on those stuff! No sense at all. Brands hatch, this and so many others without rain. So annoying. That’s the thing that i find incredibly frustrating. JUST PD doing PD. Thumbs down for them 👎🏻
 
It's to early to know if this is the pattern, but if we do indeed get a new track every 3 months or so, PD should at least add rain weather to a track every other month.

We don't have rain available in any american or british circuit, that's odd. Watkins Glen, Daytona, Interlagos, Brands Hatch, Monza, Barcelona should all receive rain, at least. And a couple of other fictional tracks should too.
 
My biggest problem so far (like many others here) is that the content they usually add with each update can be completed within a single sitting. In my opinion they should add 10-15 races with each update.

The circuit experiences don't mean all that much to me as I much prefer to race.
Circuit Experiences are good for money though.
 
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