GT7 Update Coming August 25

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I’m actually hoping it’s one of the 2 missing Nations cup rounds, but the next TT is listed to be Interlagos (a Gr.2 event).
I'm betting one of the Nation's races is the MP4/4 at Catalunya "no chicane" and the other is Gr.B at the rallycross circuit. I still hope the MP4/4 is in a Daily soon though, because I want to drive it more than once, and I'd only be able to drive it once in the Nation's race (since I'd likely score my best result on the first attempt).
 
For what's been shown, I think the only interest I had was for an original track to return. For me, new layouts don't count but they are a welcome addition.

I'm waiting for what's coming in the patch notes for the real important stuff but looks like we might get grand valley and/or red rock by year 1 anniversary based on how long actual tracks appear to take to come to the game.

Major lobby fixes will be extremely welcome, as well as the weather radar fix and some new events.

It's not a bad patch in terms of content (as some will like what's given), it's just not what I would've chosen first.
 
In today's news, article reading comprehension still at all-time low, as many posts and tears over features that will be known when the patch notes are released still flood various threads ahead of patch release. Back to you at the studio..

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In today's news, article reading comprehension still at all-time low, as many posts and tears over features that will be known when the patch notes are released still flood various threads ahead of patch release. Back to you at the studio..
To be fair, I predominately am seeing complaints based around the lack of events, which is very much fair enough. We might get some involving the new Catalunya layouts, but the new menus are listed as "extra menus" which are just collection books without any related events, so they are finally addressing a lack of Gr.2 in singleplayer... by adding exactly nothing to race them on.

That's a perfectly valid cause for complaints.
 
I am familiar with the lineup thanks, but there’s still no denying that these are heavy cars, and therefore lack feel good factor when compared to lighter performance cars on the market.

Nope. I don’t understand why PD included these.

Hardly new though. The lack of “new” is what sparked this discussion.

I didn’t mention those cars. :boggled:

To each their own. Overweight saloons if you ask me. Power can compesate for weight in a straight line, but power cannot compensate for how a heavy feels when you aim for an apex.

Sure, but I was replying to someone who wanted newer cars, which in Bentley’s case limits us to limousine-esque saloons and overly heavy grand tourers. Fun how?

They actually do. Most of them have a performance pedigree of some sort, and were engineered by manufacturers with agility in mind. There are some exceptions, but the vast majority of road legal cars in GT7 are on point for circuit driving.

And it sucks. Very fast at full throttle, but otherwise a boat.

Late indeed, but the Chiron is only six years old. It was released in 2016, and the person I replied to defined “new” as cars from 2017 and later. So I’d say the Chiron is close enough within context of the original complaint.

It’s scarce but there’s still a fairly decent handful of cars released within the last five to six years. Especially when focusing on cars celebrated for their handling qualities.

Which is why I said your criticism regarding Audi is valid. Though, RS7 is once again too deep into the heavy territory for me to understand why anyone would want to drive it on a racing circuit. It’s little more than a fancy Autobahn cruiser.

You’re starting to drift away from your original point that the game lacks cars from 2017 and later. Like I said, MC20 is the only recent car from Maserati that doesn’t sacrifice agility for all out luxury and comfort.

That’s subjective.

Again, you started out by pointing out a lack of cars from 2017 and later, which I replied to specifically. I could also mention several older cars that I feel deserve to be in the game, but I think there’s no point in suddenly changing the subject.

I keep thinking, why add these big saloons to a circuit driving game when we could have something light and focused instead, such as the Porsche Cayman GT4 coming this week? Driving pleasure is a big deal, and those executive saloons and grand tourers mentioned have most of their merits on public roads.


Why M5 when you can have the M4 or M2? I understand that aesthetics and power might influence your preferences, but I’ll always argue that lighter weight should come first in a game where mastering racing circuits is the main objective.

I can relate to that. Then again, I see a pattern in the type of cars included and those they for the most part seem to ignore. Exceptions occur, but in general I’d say there’s direction as far as car choices go.

That's the 1st time I've heard the c63 described as a boat. Maybe if comparing it to it an f1 car or some 2 seat sports car, but it's comfortably under 2 tonne. It's a small to mid saloon. Same size as a 3 series, which I'd far from a boat. What do you think of the e63 or m5 ?

All of which have highly tuned sports suspensions too, so they feel tight given their size. Something like a camry is a boat imo.
 
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To be fair, I predominately am seeing complaints based around the lack of events, which is very much fair enough. We might get some involving the new Catalunya layouts, but the new menus are listed as "extra menus" which are just collection books without any related events, so they are finally addressing a lack of Gr.2 in singleplayer... by adding exactly nothing to race them on.

That's a perfectly valid cause for complaints.
new events aren’t detailed until the update notes, so it’s not a valid complaint YET.
 
Nice update with the McLaren and a new circuit.

I'm probably in the minority here but I'd actually prefer to see them add fictitious circuits instead. These are the things that differentiate Gran Turismo from other games.

I probably own a dozen or more games with Catalunya on it already so I'm not particularly excited to try it.
 
Honestly don't understand the whole "add more events", considering they don't count in the progression percentage and are only there to grind money.

If they added say 50 events, people will just play the one that gives the most amount of money per hour and ignore the rest. There are literally no real reason to try out different events.


Adding a proper GT Style campaign with prizes and stuff (cars, money, engine swaps, exclusive stuff..etc) would been much better, even if it's overdone to death by now.
 
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new events aren’t detailed until the update notes, so it’s not a valid complaint YET.
True, but I'd be surprised to see them include any related events alongside a menu book that isn't tied to them, it would be a pretty weird choice (not that PD isn't known for that though)

I expect something akin to a WTC600 or Hypercar event at the no chicane layout, a Dirt Champions event at the rallycross layout and probably an FF event at the club circuit. Which would certainly be nice, though still nowhere near as many as we should be getting.
 
In today's news, article reading comprehension still at all-time low, as many posts and tears over features that will be known when the patch notes are released still flood various threads ahead of patch release. Back to you at the studio..

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To be fair, this wouldn't be an issue if PD would release proper patch notes online on their site when an update is about to happen, instead we're all left in the dark until we install the actual patch.
 
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Honestly don't understand the whole "add more events", considering they don't count in the progression percentage and are only there to grind money.

If they added say 50 events, people will just play the one that gives the most amount of money per hour and ignore the rest. There are literally no real reason to try out different events.


Adding a proper GT Style campaign with prizes and stuff (cars, money, engine swaps, exclusive stuff..etc) would been much better, even if it's overdone to death by now.
Well. I want to play something new and earn "decent" money at the same time. Unfortunately playing Custom Race gives doesn't give you enough money to try out new cars.

However updating custom race and increasing rewards a lot would be much more welcome by me than new events.
 
If they added say 50 events, people will just play the one that gives the most amount of money per hour and ignore the rest. There are literally no real reason to try out different events.
If they add one event for 600pp cars that you can complete in ~27 minutes, that event will be an alternative for people to grind. Instead of only Tokyo, now we would have 2 events. It gives us more variety.

If Tokyo 600 is the baseline, with a race that last ~25-27 minutes, all PD needs to do is give us more events on other circuits that is a long as this one, with similar payouts.

27 minutes in Interlagos with 600pp cars is ~16 laps. There. Another 600pp race to grind if the rewards are the same from Tokyo.

The events we got from the latest update are bad because, like you said, they're the typical 5-lap that aren't really worth to do (except for fun, of course).

We do need more events, but events that are equally good as Tokyo, Sardegna, Spa or Le Mans.
 
Ok a rally cross circuit is amazing, also maybe a slight faint of hope that pikes peak one day makes an appearance
Fingers crossed we can have more Rallycross layouts in the future. Spa-Francorchamps, Nurburgring and Brands Hatch would be great additions.
 
You'll want to read the last paragraph there.
This is the last paragraph:

You’ll be able to download v1.20 first during the server maintenance period, from 0600-0800 UTC on Thursday August 25.

Nothing here. The one before the last one?
https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/posts/13823209
There’s also a new collection of Scapes, centered on the Rocky Mountains in Canada. However when it comes to other new features, changes, and bug fixes, we’ll have to wait until the update is available and the official patch notes are out.

Still, nothing. Yes, as always, PD turned changelogs into something mystic. Mostly, because there isnt a lot in them. Heyyyyy, heres a shiny new DIOR car! Focus on that, game media! the changelogs been crappy since release but HEYYYYY HERES A NEW DIOR CAR!!!111

PD is UNABLE to deliver a quality product. The game has been out for half a year now. They had time to fix all the issues, and they did not. They are unable to, clearly. Maybe this desaster will make Sony take GT from PD and give it to a capable studio for the next issue. Because old man Yamauchi has fully lost his mind, his talented employees and traction. All he does is making endoresement deals like DIOR, IMSA, the world league and other red-carpet crap no one cares about.

Sony, wake up! This dude is done!


https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/posts/13823209
 
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isn’t that the whole point of playing? or am i doing this all wrong?
Even when I'm grinding, at some point I want to do something different. I want to tune cars (which can be quite expensive), buy VGT cars or maybe finish my collection from the Legendary Dealer.

There's no way of doing all of that in a reasonable time only with those 5-lap races.

There's nothing wrong with those races. I also like them when I just want to relax, but I also want to buy the Porsche 917k, the Shelby Daytona, the McLaren F1...

It costs 452 Million credits to buy all the cars. I've been doing Sardegna, Le Mans and Tokyo and I'm still only half-way there, with a total of 251 million credits earned.
 
This is the last paragraph:

You’ll be able to download v1.20 first during the server maintenance period, from 0600-0800 UTC on Thursday August 25.

Nothing here. The one before the last one?
https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/posts/13823209
There’s also a new collection of Scapes, centered on the Rocky Mountains in Canada. However when it comes to other new features, changes, and bug fixes, we’ll have to wait until the update is available and the official patch notes are out.

Still, nothing. Yes, as always, PD turned changelogs into something mystic. Mostly, because there isnt a lot in them. Heyyyyy, heres a shiny new DIOR car! Focus on that, game media! the changelogs been crappy since release but HEYYYYY HERES A NEW DIOR CAR!!!111

PD is UNABLE to deliver a quality product. The game has been out for half a year now. They had time to fix all the issues, and they did not. They are unable to, clearly. Maybe this desaster will make Sony take GT from PD and give it to a capable studio for the next issue. Because old man Yamauchi has fully lost his mind, his talented employees and traction. All he does is making endoresement deals like DIOR, IMSA, the world league and other red-carpet crap no one cares about.

Sony, wake up! This dude is done!


https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/posts/13823209
These are the patch notes from the July update. Took 30 seconds to Google.

 
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This is the last paragraph:

You’ll be able to download v1.20 first during the server maintenance period, from 0600-0800 UTC on Thursday August 25.

Nothing here. The one before the last one?
https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/posts/13823209
There’s also a new collection of Scapes, centered on the Rocky Mountains in Canada. However when it comes to other new features, changes, and bug fixes, we’ll have to wait until the update is available and the official patch notes are out.

Still, nothing. Yes, as always, PD turned changelogs into something mystic. Mostly, because there isnt a lot in them. Heyyyyy, heres a shiny new DIOR car! Focus on that, game media! the changelogs been crappy since release but HEYYYYY HERES A NEW DIOR CAR!!!111

PD is UNABLE to deliver a quality product. The game has been out for half a year now. They had time to fix all the issues, and they did not. They are unable to, clearly. Maybe this desaster will make Sony take GT from PD and give it to a capable studio for the next issue. Because old man Yamauchi has fully lost his mind, his talented employees and traction. All he does is making endoresement deals like DIOR, IMSA, the world league and other red-carpet crap no one cares about.

Sony, wake up! This dude is done!


https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/posts/13823209
This dude is indeed done. Done good :sly:
 
Still, nothing.
That'll be because the patch notes are not out yet and won't be until the update is out. Like what I done gone said.

Until then, we won't know anything about features, changes, and bugfixes. Like what I done gone said.

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Yes, as always. And they had 6 months to put something substancial into these notes. They failed.
But... they're not available yet. We don't know if things like selling cars (the specific thing the user enquired about) are in the v1.20 update because... the patch notes for 1.20 aren't out until v1.20 is... like I wrote in the article.
Where is selling cars. It was mentioned months ago. Urgh.
Literally in the article
However when it comes to other new features, changes, and bug fixes, we’ll have to wait until the update is available and the official patch notes are out.
So we won't know if selling cars is part of the update until then.
 
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Honestly don't understand the whole "add more events", considering they don't count in the progression percentage and are only there to grind money.

If they added say 50 events, people will just play the one that gives the most amount of money per hour and ignore the rest. There are literally no real reason to try out different events.


Adding a proper GT Style campaign with prizes and stuff (cars, money, engine swaps, exclusive stuff..etc) would been much better, even if it's overdone to death by now.
Not everyone is fixated on what races have the highest payouts and if some people want to keep grinding for the most money, they can continue doing WTC 600 Tokyo until they’re blue in the face. That still isn’t an excuse to not add more events. The game needs them for the sake of variety.

And if 50 events were added like in your example, why can’t they all equally pay good money so that people can at least have some diversity in what they choose to grind? After all, Kaz said he wanted to avoid a situation where players end up repeating the same handful of races again and again, not that PD has been doing a good job at stopping that.
 
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Surprisingly good news to adding a rallycross track. Now I have to see if it's a good one.
Barcelona circuit is one of most boring to drive, maybe short layouts will make it more enjoyable (my point of view).
 
I hope they will correct the main problem in the lobbies, the fact that to chose one we don t know if the race has started or not..it is a pain...not speaking of the lags and the fact that to start a race all players must go out with red cross...
 
Surprisingly good news to adding a rallycross track. Now I have to see if it's a good one.
Barcelona circuit is one of most boring to drive, maybe short layouts will make it more enjoyable (my point of view).
The first sector really is one of the most tedious combinations of curves and straights. The National Circuit layout perhaps improves the speed flow.
 
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