GT7 Daily Race Discussion

[GOTMAXPOWER]

As ever here are my highlights from a week racing at Deep Forest, there was a lot of crashes in this one, I'm sure most are accidental from the tricky braking zone into turn 1 but also a few people not interesting in playing nicely. I even managed to earn myself a 22 second penalty for one incident. Aside from the bad I've loved this race, the tyre multipliers are set just right so multiple strategies can work and whilst tuning is a pain in the ass it does plaster over the monumentous cockup that is the default setup changes PD inflicted on us with the last update, it feels nice to be able to use the Porsche in Gr.3 again 🥰

 

[Voodoovaj]

Worst case scenario this is what their tool came up with....

I think there are so so many factors that go in to these things. Marketing want to promote a car (cough Mazda 3 gr4 cough) the desire to sometimes roughly align them to real world events and then I think there is the data.

I assume the data tells them the most popular weeks add in some social media influence, some tour driver influence and we get these races.

Being pragmatic chucking DB5s round good wood is fun as a TT but not as a race, driving karts round eiger held zero appeal for me.

Racing group cars or cup'esque cars (clio, golf, focus etc) is fine but it's the meta BS that annoys me, it's not even fractional it's just clearly "the car" grrrr

AAhhh a Clio Cup race...that would be nice

 

[Chris30]

I'm sure there be chaos and carnage at Bathurst next week. The downhill part is no joke and can hurt someone's lap.

 

[Bullwinkle]

Well, I decided to try GT7 again after a long hiatus. First thing was to update my Fanatec wheel, which was a nightmare in itself. How is it that PD keeps screwing up their “official” hardware so badly?!

I decided to stick to Race A only, since I’m a bit rusty. And it turns out I need to completely relearn how to drive after the physics change. So I was happy to just run a few laps and then a few races. I saw a couple familiar faces and was looking forward to get back into the groove again.

After ten races, I was run off the road, often more than once, and finished last in every single one of them. And the usual solution: give me the track limit penalties and don’t give the people who ran me off any of penalties. Fun.

At least there’s ONE THING that PD will never change. Cars that shoot into space with the latest update? Sure, why not? Even the slightest improvement to the penalty system so that people can be held accountable for ruining other people’s races? Just go watch the sportsmanship video, sonny, and stop asking for the impossible!

Which brings me back to why I quit racing the last time around. What’s the point?! I’d like the challenge of honest racing, but this isn’t the game for that. Are things really still this bad, or am I missing something that makes this time suck bearable?