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Hard Seasonal events!
- Thread starter Castrol96
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The seasonals are NOT too hard!
I started the GT series a couple months before GT6 was released--so I'm relatively new.
When I started GT6 seasonals, I would do 10 red laps before scoring a clean one, which was at the slow end of bronze, or the fast end of nothing. Six more laps, and I would hit silver. 10 more laps and I would luck out and reach gold.
With drift events, it would take two or three hours to reach gold.
Now? A year later? I gold 98% of the TT's on the first attempt. I gold 75% of the drift trials on the first attempt.
These holiday seasonals required more than my usual effort to gold them, but far less than the regular seasonals did when I started GT6.
I have two accounts: One with tons of credits, cars, and tunings, and one where I don't buy cars or tune them--I run only prize cars in stock condition. It took about two hours to gold both sets of holiday seasonals, on both accounts. (It would have taken much longer if not for the Mazda VGT that got me through the A-Spec endurance races).
So, no, the seasonals are NOT too difficult. Practice more, and you will agree.
I'm an average driver in my mid 50's (literally).
I started the GT series a couple months before GT6 was released--so I'm relatively new.
When I started GT6 seasonals, I would do 10 red laps before scoring a clean one, which was at the slow end of bronze, or the fast end of nothing. Six more laps, and I would hit silver. 10 more laps and I would luck out and reach gold.
With drift events, it would take two or three hours to reach gold.
Now? A year later? I gold 98% of the TT's on the first attempt. I gold 75% of the drift trials on the first attempt.
These holiday seasonals required more than my usual effort to gold them, but far less than the regular seasonals did when I started GT6.
I have two accounts: One with tons of credits, cars, and tunings, and one where I don't buy cars or tune them--I run only prize cars in stock condition. It took about two hours to gold both sets of holiday seasonals, on both accounts. (It would have taken much longer if not for the Mazda VGT that got me through the A-Spec endurance races).
So, no, the seasonals are NOT too difficult. Practice more, and you will agree.
I'm an average driver in my mid 50's (literally).
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Ok so I'm just over 30 and seems like it makes me a god damn kid around here 
Fully agree with @WhoosierGirl got great morning laugh out of this thread
Fully agree with @WhoosierGirl got great morning laugh out of this thread
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- nowcontrol
Oh to be 29 again.... just on the verge of completing GT3 for the 3rd or 4th time and eagerly anticipating getting my hands on a copy of the soon to be available GT4. those were the days. 
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- torm1
For my money, the hardest seasonal events of GT5 were much harder than the hardest seasonal events of GT6.
The same goes for the Red Bull X events of GT5. Those along with the licences and the special events were much more difficult than those of GT6.
The same goes for the Red Bull X events of GT5. Those along with the licences and the special events were much more difficult than those of GT6.
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I see a lot of people posting about how GT4 or GT5 was much harder and I've been seeing it in various threads many times. Don't you also think that you feel that way because many of you were just learning how to drive the Gran Turismo way with version 4 or version 5? I never touched a copy of Gran Turismo until I installed GT6 in Dec 2013. I struggled a lot at first. Heck, I still struggle with certain events now. When GT7 comes out, I'll probably find those events a little easier because I'll be considered a Gran Turismo veteran by then. Do you see what I'm saying?
Now, I'm not saying that the above paragraph applies to everybody. There are plenty of people here who have played every iteration of Gran Turismo and still say version 4 or version 5 had the most challenging events. And there are others who say the opposite. It's all a matter of opinion, of course, and I respect everybody's. I just wonder if anyone else has thought about that beginning version feeling most difficult because you have no experience yet!!
Now, I'm not saying that the above paragraph applies to everybody. There are plenty of people here who have played every iteration of Gran Turismo and still say version 4 or version 5 had the most challenging events. And there are others who say the opposite. It's all a matter of opinion, of course, and I respect everybody's. I just wonder if anyone else has thought about that beginning version feeling most difficult because you have no experience yet!!
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- GTP_Stotty
Certainly not the case for me as I've had every version of the game
To be honest, I don't remember a huge amount about the 1st 2, but I played 3 and 4 to completion with the DS. 3 and 4 weren't hard overall (the 'A spec' events were just as easy as in later versions), but some of the license tests were rock hard and some of the missions in 4 were very, very hard (particularly 34, the SLR on the Nurb)... even hardened players didn't just run a few attempts to get the feel then gold them on their 3rd or 4th try.
5 and 6 have been a disappointment as far as challenge/difficulty is concerned.
I was really looking forward to the license tests in 5, but I'd breezed through them all less than 24 hours after picking up the game - all gold. Very disappointing. The missions were all straight forward too. Only the Vettel Challenges were a 'challenge', but that car doesn't have anything to do with driving IMO!
6 has proven to be even easier than 5... I honestly don't remember anything in GT6 that took more than a few attempts to gold - maybe the X1 at Goodwood.
I think part of it is PD need to accommodate a range of abilities and also make the game accessible for both DS3 and wheel users. Despite some people being super quick with a DS3, a wheel does make the game easier IMO.
But the other part, I think, is more modern culture. To shorten a quote from Homer Simpson; 'Kids, you tried and you failed. The lesson is, never try.'
I'll obviously sound like an old fart here, but the amount of whinging when something is difficult is ridiculous. There's no appreciation of the 'challenge itself', or recognition that perhaps the person complaining needs to apply some effort to get better at the game, just an assumption that it should be easily achievable... the modern day 'it's always someone else's fault' attitude.
For me, the greater the challenge, the greater the pleasure when you beat it.
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- Rave2Grave
Took me 20-30 attempts to gold the Mercedes SLS AMG Nurburgring seasonal...
The Huayra is even harder than that. No hope for me there.
Also been playing GT since the first one. A wheel is pretty much required for this franchise now...
The Huayra is even harder than that. No hope for me there.
Also been playing GT since the first one. A wheel is pretty much required for this franchise now...
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- Johnnypenso
Or rather an adjustment to the times set for the Seasonals.
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- Sutuki
- Almu89
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- bunnyman327
For me, Seasonal events the time trails are hard, I was trying my best to win the XJ13 car. I ran this race 23 times only able to get silver. I got hit 3 to 4 times on the last turn man would have got gold. I give up on the time trails. PD cars hit you and take you out the race. Now I love the seasonal road racing events. I don't understand why we can't win cars in the these events. I lot of my friends witch I have 92 online we all race gt5. only 36 race gt6 now.
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@Sutuki @matej2547 @Ed_Night are all at least as fast with the DS3 as I am with a wheel... and I regularly rank top 20-30 in Seasonals.
Come back when you've spent 2-3 days trying... that was what some licenses and Missions took to beat in GT4!
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- BaronBlitzRed
Nope, it's not @SuzukaStar ... just determination. I use a DS3 in Automatic Transmission and I did it, and I'm nobody's hero. Take it as a challenge, because when you do accomplish it, it's so worth it. You put up some great times from what I've read in other threads, and I know you can do this one too... keep at it man!
Cheers
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How do you know if run #24 would have been the Gold Medal run? Don't give up...Take a breather. Then give it another go. If you usually get gold on every regular Seasonal Event, then you CAN get Gold on this Holiday events. They're just going to be more difficult. If you regularly struggle with the normal Seasonal Events, then maybe these Holiday events will prove to be a little too difficult to get Gold. Nothing is wrong with Silver though. The payouts are great for these events.
In my mind...A guy with my abilities SHOULD struggle to get Gold. Or, they should include a Platinum Medal time that requires that flawless run..
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- torm1
I'm not @Stotty, but yes players like him ( if he is using a wheel
A top driver will gold the latest 4 seasonals ( Mazda VGT, 2 × Overtake, Drift ) in less than 30min.
I'm not a "top driver" and I did that, so I suspect that the best GT players would do it much quicker or perhaps they just approach it in a different manner altogether to how I approach seasonals. For 95% of seasonals, I get gold and then stop. I'll put in 30 minutes on the very odd TT, but ranking just doesn't interest me enough.
Oh, I should point out that the drift challenges took me quite a few tries. I've only begun attempting drifting as of GT6 though, and I wholeheartedly suck at it (I even switch back to DS3 for drifting). Still, I've managed to get every gold in drifting (excepting a couple I didn't try because I was away) so they can't be all that difficult.
It's not possible to do it much quicker, because of the loading times between the events.
After golding the Bathurst challenge i just changed the car and got gold at the drift event on my 3rd attempt.
When i watch the leaderboard it shows that the drift gold was done 6mins after the Bathurst event.
The point is, everbody will need minimum 5mins from exit one event untill golding the next event. So even for the best players the limit for golding the 4 seasonals is around 20mins.
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I'm concerned by the thread title, PD might look at it and make things easier 
. @Castrol96 Soon as you think you are a pro now, try and get Gold on old GT games like GT1 or GT2 if you have the game, they work on PS3 and see after if you think the seasonal events currently are too hard or too easy in comparison.
I really hope for future games, it will be like the older GT games in terms of difficulties where first attempts are less likely to be Gold and some where you have to push really close to the limit to get gold. I think Kaz used to set the times, if he doesn't have time to do it anymore, then they should get YAM23 to do a good benchmark time which could potentially be then used as a platinum time.
I've yet to do the new seasonals so hopefully it is harder than usual and they continue on with this direction 👍.
. @Castrol96 Soon as you think you are a pro now, try and get Gold on old GT games like GT1 or GT2 if you have the game, they work on PS3 and see after if you think the seasonal events currently are too hard or too easy in comparison.I really hope for future games, it will be like the older GT games in terms of difficulties where first attempts are less likely to be Gold and some where you have to push really close to the limit to get gold. I think Kaz used to set the times, if he doesn't have time to do it anymore, then they should get YAM23 to do a good benchmark time which could potentially be then used as a platinum time.
I've yet to do the new seasonals so hopefully it is harder than usual and they continue on with this direction 👍.
I liked the Sls challenge. But i hate mt panorama and the Huayra and the challenge so i'm going to skip that.
i dont think a wheel is a necessity to get golds. Top leader board maybe yes. A wheel os hard work though, butyou get the pleasure of feeling like you actually drove the car to its finish, rather than controlling it like with a controller.
up until GT5.5 i was a DPad man abd use Square and X and there was little i truly couldn't goldwithout effort since GT1. Thumb fatigue was a problem though.
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No, it certainly isn't
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Really no need for a wheel, fairly easy to gold with a DS3 and auto transmission. I'm quite average compared to most of the drivers here. Couple of times when I did try to rank up in the leaderboard, I was around 1000th place in the end. Still it took me only about 1-2 hours in total to gold the latest seasonals.
In my opinion it all comes down to how fast you can adapt to whatever challenge or condition you are given. Most of the seasonals have always been out of the comfort zone in some aspect. But it doesn't mean they can't be dealt with, they just need to be approached a bit differently.
I like the added challenge myself and we are still far far away from the difficulty in the earlier GTs. Personally I remember driving some license tests for up to two weeks in GT2, improving my time by 0,1-0,001 seconds at a time to get the gold. Now achieving gold here in the overtake challenges on 2nd or 3rd clean run, I'd say they were easy.
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I didn't mean a wheel is required to gold seasonals, but it would be MUUUUUUCH easier to, due to more precise handling.
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I like this thread. The GT6 seasonals are absolutely horrible. I've spent the last three hours trying to get an impossible gold in the last drift trial, and trying to do the 600PP racing car one too. "Expert level racing car challenge" is an insult, I am stuck 45 seconds behind 1st place for the entire race in a car right on the 600PP limit, driving to the best of my abilities. Sorry if I'm not good enough for you, GT6. The drift trial is just as bad. In GT5 I could comfortably beat the Gold by a small margin in any one of my favorite drift cars. Here in GT6 it takes 30 minutes of constant re-runs in every car I can afford to put CH tyres on and I still can't get near to gold.
What I don't get is why the 450 and 500PP non-racing challenges are a cake walk. I can take a 450PP car and leave the other cars in the dust by the end of the 1st lap in the 500PP race. So why after two hours can I do nothing but watch every car pull away from mine?
What I don't get is why the 450 and 500PP non-racing challenges are a cake walk. I can take a 450PP car and leave the other cars in the dust by the end of the 1st lap in the 500PP race. So why after two hours can I do nothing but watch every car pull away from mine?
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- GTP_Stotty
Drift trial guide
Buy a 1954 Corvette C1 Convertible
Fit all parts available
Settings...
Ride 120 130
Spring 3.79 1.93
Bound 10 1
Rebound 1 10
ARB 7 7
Camber 10 10
Toe -1.00 -1.00
Brakes 5 7
Gears Set max speed to 106mph
LSD 60 60 5
Tyres f comfort hard, r comfort soft (you can use sports hard on the rear, but you'll need more skill for that)
Easiest way to gold...
Switch on driving line
You're aiming to start the slide before the sector markers, entering 1st corner from wide on right and keeping the nose of the car slightly to the right of the driving line all the way through the 1st corner... use 4th gear.
Transition the drift as the line changes colour, and again, keep the nose of the car slightly to the left of the driving line... make sure you continue the drift all the way to the outside... use 5th gear.
I'm no great drifter, but scored >8k with that car/tune.
Expert race event
Buy a Toyota TS0303 Hybrid (no oil change, no chassis strengthening)
Tune is someone else's and not sure where I got it from;
Settings...
Ride 85 85
Spring 16.85 17.00
Bound 4 4
Rebound 4 4
ARB 6 6
Camber 0 0
Toe -0.20 0.00
Brakes 8 8
Gears - dunnno how I originally set them, but a standard tranny flip would work fine
LSD 10 9 5
Power 88.5%
Downforce 600 800
Start on Inters, pit stop end of lap 5 and fit new inters + 25l of fuel.
I haven't run the latest one yet, but you should be winning the Suzuka race by over a minute. If you're struggling to win you need to concentrate on hitting the brake points and apexs, but most importantly, getting the fastest exit from the 3 slower corners.
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This is what I don't get. You say the Seasonals are horrible if you can't obtain Gold. Did you ever stop and think that perhaps you are not an "expert" level driver? I KNOW I'm not an expert level driver, yet I almost always get Gold. For full disclosure, I don't even attempt the drifting events as I have no interest in driving a car sliding sideways. People need to stop taking things as an insult just because they may not be able to beat the top level of every game.
I really wish there were events that were even more challenging. I have a terrible habit of being very lazy when it comes to Seasonal Event Time Trials. I usually get my Gold Medal time (if I'm able) and then I quit. I don't even try to improve upon it. I should...just to see how I stack up against others, but I'm lazy.
