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- rekkon1420
The GT5 online penalty system is by far Polyphony's worst attribute on GT5.
1) Collisions where the person on the inside drifts outward and touches you for the speed boost except you, the outside car, get penalized instead. Yes that's right. A free boost of speed and being able to slow down a competitor. Bravo. I see this happen all the time.
2) Contact penalties seems random. You can hit a barrier or a car one way but you do the almost exact same thing a lap later you get a penalty this time.
3)YOU CANNOT FULLY TAKE AWAY THROTTLE CONTROL! Cannot be stressed enough....Throttle control is an essential part of keeping the car going after an accident. So many races where racer X nicks a good racer and causes him to wreck (no throttle control in a high speed turn) with very little chance of catching up against anyone of skill. But wait it gets better cause now you have to either give up and go do something else for 5+ minutes, after all you can't quit the race, or try to catch up to the lower skilled racer(s) only to have them do everything in their power to keep that X pole position. Which happen to be the very same people that abuse the penalty system. Huh, imagine that.
4) Someone in front of you completely messes up a corner and slams on their brakes in front of you. Okay you slam into them. Fine but then the person that rear-ends the player in front gets a penalty. Really? That's just not right at all.
Overall, there seems to be little polish on the penalty system. There are a few more major penalty flaws as well but another time. I have been playing since May of 2008. Sadly, the penalty system is more present but defiantly not improved. I would love to hear others comments and stories about the GT5 penalty system.
PS. Fix the background music to do more than just loop one song. It cannot possibly be that hard to load another song after the first track is done. Really, really, annoying.
1) Collisions where the person on the inside drifts outward and touches you for the speed boost except you, the outside car, get penalized instead. Yes that's right. A free boost of speed and being able to slow down a competitor. Bravo. I see this happen all the time.
2) Contact penalties seems random. You can hit a barrier or a car one way but you do the almost exact same thing a lap later you get a penalty this time.
3)YOU CANNOT FULLY TAKE AWAY THROTTLE CONTROL! Cannot be stressed enough....Throttle control is an essential part of keeping the car going after an accident. So many races where racer X nicks a good racer and causes him to wreck (no throttle control in a high speed turn) with very little chance of catching up against anyone of skill. But wait it gets better cause now you have to either give up and go do something else for 5+ minutes, after all you can't quit the race, or try to catch up to the lower skilled racer(s) only to have them do everything in their power to keep that X pole position. Which happen to be the very same people that abuse the penalty system. Huh, imagine that.
4) Someone in front of you completely messes up a corner and slams on their brakes in front of you. Okay you slam into them. Fine but then the person that rear-ends the player in front gets a penalty. Really? That's just not right at all.
Overall, there seems to be little polish on the penalty system. There are a few more major penalty flaws as well but another time. I have been playing since May of 2008. Sadly, the penalty system is more present but defiantly not improved. I would love to hear others comments and stories about the GT5 penalty system.
PS. Fix the background music to do more than just loop one song. It cannot possibly be that hard to load another song after the first track is done. Really, really, annoying.
Some of these have been closed and no doubt this thread will be too. Afterall we just don't need so many threads on the same thing over and over again.
