No, Gold times shouldn't be achievable by the average player, that's what the Bronze time is for, the average player is not interested in setting great lap times but rather driving their favourite cars, there's no shame in getting a bronze or a silver time, if people want to better their skills then it takes time, practice and lots of laps, how this is an issue I don't understand,
I'm an average player. I've golded every CE. Some were done right after PD patched the credit rewards and some after the physics patch.
The difficulty is mostly fine as it is. That's not the issue. I'm not at a level where I noticed much of a difference with the physics patch. The sectors that I had trouble with were still difficult. The sectors that I found easy were still easy.
The issue would be if PD starts messing around with the requirements because some faster players think it's "crap" that others are also beating the gold times like it somehow takes something away from them or because they're under some belief that gold shouldn't be achievable by just anybody.
Nothings stopping you? well PD are because its their game and have made how they would like people to play it, they've set a benchmark for people to aim for.
Just because PD set a time doesn't mean you can't go faster. Does the game stop you from setting a new time once you've beaten it?
The content is not locked away from the average player because they can't get a Gold Time in CE, there are other ways to play the game outside of CE, Micro Transactions and Grinding in a Tomahawk to earn credits to "unlock" content.
Either pay up or glitch the game, fantastic alternatives.
Well you clearly aven't understood the point of the CE for Tokyo of carrying speed through Blind corners if you feel like it was just luck, with that approach you probably don't get the point of CE at all.
Oh I got the point. But on a controller, doing what felt to me like exactly the same thing over and over often gave me very different results. I will either end up beating a gold sector by over a second or graze a wall and fail. It never felt like I made an active improvement to get a gold run. It just felt like luck.
if getting Gold shouldn't be special why should we even play this game, I mean no drive or incentive to do so then.
There being no reason to keep playing is more indicative of the lack of fun repeatable singleplayer content in the game, actual races against competent AI for example.
Getting the gold rewards is just another part of the singleplayer content. It's not some special achievement.
Winning a race in a singleplayer racing game is nothing special. It's more or less expected. What makes beating a gold CE time any different?
Please show examples of this toxic nonsense then
Oh there were plenty of posts both here and on other platforms crying about everything being made too easy after the physics patch and how getting gold is meaningless because more and more players are able to do it too.
If its Superfluous you sure seem to care a lot then...
Because I want PD to do more with CEs. How are they currently any different from Licenses or the time attack Missions?
Why not incorporate some active, guided learning material to show an average player what to do to actually go fast beyond just what needs to be done to beat a time with a specific car and track combination. You can watch the demo lap over and over and learn the inputs like it's a rhythm game in a Japanese arcade but doing that doesn't really teach you
why a particular line is faster.
For example, Harmonic's Maggiore lap guide video on youtube is infinitely more valuable than anything that's presented to you in the game itself.
Why can't PD do something in the same vein with all the resources at their disposal? Hell, don't stop at just a video. Turn it into an actual circuit experience with an active instructor telling you where you can improve instead of Sarah telling you to take a deep breath. But all PD did was to recycle the time attack formula and give it a different name.
CE is a part of the game that offers people more opportunities to drive cars, how this is an interruption is beyond me.
Having a menu pop up that literally stops you after every lap is not an interruption vs Time Trials where you can set laps over and over without pause?
Gold should be special, and should be hard to get, that has been the interpretation for gold since it was introduced in any kind of sport, it does not matter who is first imo, that completely not my point., but you can't just change the difficulty level in mid game and compare the achievements, not in GT7 and not in any olympic game or what so ever,
Some (alot) of GT7 drivers including me value their setted times.
Equipment, training, and resources all improve over time for any sport. Does Hamilton or Vettel or Verstappen setting new records in F1 take away the achievements of those that came before them?
