GT7 Update Coming August 25

[Dave A]

PD could double the total number of events in the game, and people would finish them all in a few hours and still complain for more.

People might still want more, but what doubling the current number of events would do is give the game a simialr number of races to what we have in GT Sport.

At least people couldn't say there are fewer races that GT Sport in that instance. as it stands, a lot of the complaints about the shortage of content are cemented in fact, compared to other Gran Turismo titles the game still is very light on single player races.

There is a big different as well to people wanting more of a good thing and complaining that something is lacking.

I preferred not to say much about microtransactions before I got the game, but after I actually got it and played for like 2 months now I can clearly see all this microtransactions talk is completely made up by angry players who want blood and probably soon will blame Kennedy's death on Kaz and PD as well. There are plenty of problems with this game, including some problems with economics, but microtransactions just happened to exist in the game and have nothing to do with actual problems.

You talk about problems with the games economics, yet dismiss the impact MTX's might have on that.

 

[CodeRedR51]

Porsche Cayman GT4 is exactly the same car as the Cayman GT4 Gr.4.

Not really, no.

 

[Ryan Dungey]

I have not got enough credits to pay 8 million for it

Well go do so some races and grind them out 10 races on the LeMans 700pp race will get you 8 million

 

[Dave A]

Well go do so some races and grind them out 10 races on the LeMans 700pp race will get you 8 million

Oh what fun to be had.

 

[Real_StiFex]

Not really, no.

Yep it has an interior of commercial car a not racing one for one

 

[LordSlapshot]

From a sample size of one race on the Sardegna grind, physical damage is a lot easier to incur. Even a tap which I'd say falls into the bumpdrafting category results in the dreaded flashing red bumper.

On the plus side, it's still a one stop on RH and the PP change hasn't disqualified my 787. Yet.

 

[dacc10]

Speaking of LeMans 700pp, the 918 Spyder I used, had 699.xx PP before the update, and now has 718.xx PP. So it was one of the cars that were heavily affected by the PP changes.

 

[MrSitar]

So once again we either were lied to into thinking we were geniuses at tuning or the game just decided to alter their standards once again. Terrific.

My tuning setup for my fairlady z in Tokyo was heavily based on how i used to race in inner shinkanyo for example that was setup for other games and now it’s more PP the nerve of this game i swear

 

[Met Entso]

Did they change the tyre wear in Le Mans WTC 700? it's 10x now, dont remeber before but hards would last for the whole 30 minutes and now they are gone in 2 laps.

 

[C_Raccoon23]

Did they change the tyre wear in Le Mans WTC 700? it's 10x now, dont remeber before but hards would last for the whole 30 minutes and now they are gone in 2 laps.

It’s not just that event. Tire wear in general has essentially gone through the roof.

 

[SUBZERO-8K]

Did this update fix any of the issues with the 918 Spyder? Anyone tested it yet?

 

[MatskiMonk]

No, but if I was a bad developer I might. I assume that people will want to play my game and collect the cars regardless, but that they're frustrated with doing the same races over and over. But they have an easy solution, just grab their credit card and they can buy all the cars and parts they want!

The reason why people do the same races over and over is because of the payouts. PD could put 500 races in the game in one update, if they each had a reward of 1000 Cr. do you think that would stop people complaining, or do you think they'd still be complaining about the grind when PD also bung a 10,000,0000 Cr. car in the LCD? I mean, that's pretty much where we are now with Custom Races.

There's a load of things PD may well have done, and many more they could do, to push MTX's... blaming the number of events on MTX's is just senseless when there's thousands and thousands of races on offer, but people choose not to do them because they don't pay well enough.

 

[GlamFM]

McLaren will be 8 Mil apparently. Some more grinding to do tonight if I want to drive it tomorrow before work.

 

[Leggacy]

Without FFB-fixes, this is a waste of time. Just drive ACC for example and compare the FFB.

Also no mentioning of freeze-bug-fix in Multiplayer when track is loaded.

Just Porsche advertising

What is wrong with the FFB? What wheel are you using?

 

[breyzipp]

I believe that PD made a mistake in not putting the original "La Caixa" curve on the National Circuit and Original Circuit layouts. I know that "La Caixa" was recently changed, but it didn't hurt to put the original curve to increase the flow of the racetrack.

Leaving the three layout options with the same "elbow curve" leaves them with no personality of their own, it gets repetitive, without replay factor. Materially, the layout is already ready, built. Just change the code and allow access.



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PS: Sometimes, it is inevitable not to think that PD always does everything appealing to the least possible effort.

Agree and the same goes for Campsa.

I have raced those before though but I’m not sure in what game. Probably FM 5/6/7, PCARS 1/2/3 or else Asetto Corsa.

 

[jhuizinz]

McLaren will be 8 Mil apparently. Some more grinding to do tonight if I want to drive it tomorrow before work.

I'm assuming you got this info from that guys' twitter (I've seen it also but can't remember his account name now).

My question is: where is he getting this info from, if not just taking a guess? Scrolling through his past 'predictions' earlier showed he wasn't exactly Nostradamus...

 

[MrSitar]

We all talk bad about Sony and PD but literally Apple News gave me a heads up just now on how a Nissan Dealer Slapped the New Z a mark up of $73,000 OMG

 

[Veinz]

I appreciate the free cars and tracks but it still doesn’t give me any motivation to play this game. I think I’m reaching the end of the road with this series.

 

[GlamFM]

I'm assuming you got this info from that guys' twitter (I've seen it also but can't remember his account name now).

My question is: where is he getting this info from, if not just taking a guess? Scrolling through his past 'predictions' earlier showed he wasn't exactly Nostradamus...

Yeah, I assume he’s doing some data mining on the back end. But I have honestly no clue.
Pretty sure he’s been right that last time I paid attention though.

 

[Met Entso]

Did they change something about tire wear? I’m on lap 4 if my daily Spa grind and my tires are almost gone already.

Same in Le mans grind, hards last for 2 laps where they would last for the entire 30 minutes before.

 

[Ryan Dungey]

Same in Le mans grind, hards last for 2 laps where they would last for the entire 30 minutes before.

Tire wear did change abit but the biggest change is how it displays. Before the tire wear indicator when it got to 70% is when the grip had basically gone. But it still showed as having a lot of tire grip left despite it really not. Now it actually shows your tire grip to where you have no grip if you get what I mean.

 

[Samus]

The reason why people do the same races over and over is because of the payouts. PD could put 500 races in the game in one update, if they each had a reward of 1000 Cr. do you think that would stop people complaining, or do you think they'd still be complaining about the grind when PD also bung a 10,000,0000 Cr. car in the LCD? I mean, that's pretty much where we are now with Custom Races.

There's a load of things PD may well have done, and many more they could do, to push MTX's... blaming the number of events on MTX's is just senseless when there's thousands and thousands of races on offer, but people choose not to do them because they don't pay well enough.

Gee, I wonder what the solution could be to this conundrum? Maybe they could somehow, just somehow, combine a large number of events.......with high payouts. Then instead of people repeating the same three high paying events, they could rotate between 50 of them.

No, that can't be it.

 

[jhuizinz]

Yeah, I assume he’s doing some data mining on the back end. But I have honestly no clue.
Pretty sure he’s been right that last time I paid attention though.

Found it again. Dudes' name is Nenkai. His July update price predictions were bang on at ~4mil for the two LCD cars, his previous (June) price predictions I misinterpreted as being inaccurate (prediction was "less than 3mil" which I read as simply being 3mil, cost ended up being 2.15mil) [Source #1 Source #2]

Did a little more digging and its' implied by comments of others that he is indeed datamining for this info, so it's reasonable to believe that the 8mil for the MP4/4 and 200k for the GTO tomorrow are accurate.

 

[CodeRedR51]

Found it again. Dudes' name is Nenkai. His July update price predictions were bang on at ~4mil for the two LCD cars, his previous (June) price predictions I misinterpreted as being inaccurate (prediction was "less than 3mil" which I read as simply being 3mil, cost ended up being 2.15mil) [Source #1 Source #2]

Did a little more digging and its' implied by comments of others that he is indeed datamining for this info, so it's reasonable to assume that the 8mil for the MP4/4 and 200k for the GTO tomorrow are accurate.

He's on the forums.

 

[DivitLad]

If figures too be true I have enough in the Bank

 

[WolfpackS2k]

Not really, no.

I mean, for the 2016 street GT4 and track GT4 Clubsport they were about as close to identical as cars can be. The powertrain was literally 100% the same (though street version was 6sp manual and CS PDK only). Other than that, the CS weighed a bit less from a gutted interior, and had a little (stressing little) extra downforce.

 

[Met Entso]

Tire wear did change abit but the biggest change is how it displays. Before the tire wear indicator when it got to 70% is when the grip had basically gone. But it still showed as having a lot of tire grip left despite it really not. Now it actually shows your tire grip to where you have no grip if you get what I mean.

This is not how it feels, I was forced to change tyres in second lap because the car was sliding so much, whereas you could easily finish with the same set of hards before being a bit careful

 

[Ryan Dungey]

This is not how it feels, I was forced to change tyres in second lap because the car was sliding so much, whereas you could easily finish with the same set of hards before being a bit careful

Also might be worth looking into your tune. Due to other physics changes in this update your old tune might having adverse effects on the tires due to the physics changes. Or it could of been that the LeMans race has been bugged this entire time and was never actually on 10x wear like it’s always said.

 

[Nathan88]

PD could double the total number of events in the game, and people would finish them all in a few hours and still complain for more.

The majority of players will never come close to completing all available content. That’s before free monthly DLC. Same can be said for most AAA titles. HFW released a few weeks before GT7. Most of my friends where done with it within the month and traded in. No DLC, only performance patches.

Over the lifespan of the title free monthly content add’s up to a substantial amount. I believe we’ll also get paid DLC and some form of GT7 2.0 down the line. It’s hard to appreciate most GT7 owners (lifetime sales) won’t even own the title yet. At the moment GT7 occupies a half-way house between a traditional & service game. Go on Resetera and you’ll see praise for the monthly support.

I’m not sure what you can do to satisfy someone who states they’ve completed the monthly content in 20 minutes. If the MP4/4 is part of the next Time Trial I’ll put in a good few days with the car. The Cayman will be used to re-do Porsche events and try different tunes. People play the game in different ways.

 

[HarVee]

I've said it before, but I am convinced that PD does not want car selling. This update strongly infers it. 6 months later, half a whole year and that feature is still absent.

4 events that pay out pennies, to which none are relative to the Gr.2 extra menu, and are seemingly only aimed toward the Cayman. Where are the events for the MP4/4 and the GTO? Why did we not get an open wheel event and a muscle car event?

Why can PD never seem to do anything in a logical manner? I swear if it wasn't for how good cars feel to drive in this game I would've shelved it a long time ago.