Open Lobby, Private Lobby, and Community Section

[ynot]

So far from the few looks at the menus, I have not seen the ability to create your own lobbies or even anything in print about it. Sure hoping it is in the final release. Many people are going to want to just open a lobby and race with friends and not complete in the FIA events. Would be nice to set up Championships of our own.

 

[Akiras Mantis]

yea. If GT Sport doesn't have things that GT5 and 6 had, it's gonna be a bummer. I was really surprised GT6 took almost a year to have community features. That's just silly.

 

[ynot]

yea. If GT Sport doesn't have things that GT5 and 6 had, it's gonna be a bummer. I was really surprised GT6 took almost a year to have community features. That's just silly.

Was dumb

 

[Wilo28]

If you look closely, in the main menu nex to arcade mode, sport mode ect.,theres an online option, greyd out ofcourse.

 

[ynot]

Well I missed that. Sure hope so.

 

[Akiras Mantis]

There will be online. That's a given. But what kind of online options will we have? HOPEFULLY lots.

 

[Sharpie]

There will be online. That's a given. But what kind of online options will we have? HOPEFULLY lots.

Probably like gt5,gt6.

 

[Tenacious D]

This is a good question. It's possible that we won't have any offline racing, and we won't have anything to do online that isn't part of the FIA championships. We don't know.

BUT, this is the time to lobby PD and make sure our wishes are known. We got a Livery Editor in GT Sport when it was the last thing I expected to see. GT5 Prologue was updated nicely with all sorts of goodies: High Speed Ring course, the car count was doubled, and a lot of features added in a Spec II update.

Ask, and it might be given.

 

[ynot]

This is a good question. It's possible that we won't have any offline racing, and we won't have anything to do online that isn't part of the FIA championships. We don't know.

BUT, this is the time to lobby PD and make sure our wishes are known. We got a Livery Editor in GT Sport when it was the last thing I expected to see. GT5 Prologue was updated nicely with all sorts of goodies: High Speed Ring course, the car count was doubled, and a lot of features added in a Spec II update.

Ask, and it might be given.

I thought I read somewhere that there is going to be 117 offline events to do. I'm sure I read it either here on gtplanet or the www.gran-turismo.com site. I will have to go back and look for it.

 

[Tenacious D]

It did say that very thing, but this has become one of those hotly debated topics. A lot of people are afraid that, from some of Kaz's remarks, GT Sport is going to be focused almost entirely with eSports online racing. The only thing we know is that those 117 events are at least partly involved in racing school and Missions that reflect what you've "learned" in racing school. And there's an Arcade Mode. When Kaz did mention a single player mode at the reveal, it seems he was answering a question about GT7's single player career. Unfortunately, that's all that has been directly stated in the reveal, and quite a few people are nervous that there isn't going to be much to do offline.

I'm more hopeful. Kaz talked back during GT6's development about wanting an online structure that supported clubs and leagues, as well as championships and even little racing seasons of some kind. That didn't happen. While this might be the goal of GT7, I'm hopeful that GT Sport will provide some of this. If we get an Event Maker, we could use that offline to make our own events, even up to an entire racing season for each class, something I've enjoyed doing a lot in RaceRoom. Online, it could be used to manage online clubs and leagues, again with single events, championships and even racing seasons. But this is a wish list kind of thing for me, because Kaz is holding a lot of stuff back from us as to just how GTS plays out.

I'm quite doubtful that Kaz is all that enamored with the iRacing or Live For Speed model, another game which has a disposable offline mode, but... well, this is an eSports game. E3 should provide some answers.

 

[Samus]

There is a plain 'Online' option in the main menu alongside the three other modes. It was greyed out during the test.

 

[syntex123]

I just hope they don't force us to play online to earn our credits.. This way it will take forever to build a decent garage. But then again very very rewarding when you've drooled at a car for a week and finally have credits to buy it.

 

[Tenacious D]

I'm surprised that no one made mention of this tidbit from the news section:

Kazunori also touched on certain social features. With regards to the popular ‘Clubs & Community’ features from GT6, the PD head had this to say about their presence in GT Sport:

“Rather than copy-pasting the system over, you could say that we really just redesigned it altogether. So, it’s not like you’ll be losing any features that were available before, but all those media features will be more integrated, and appear naturally.”

So... user clubs and leagues? An Event Maker? The ability to easily share content like liveries or elements from them like user decals and custom number plaques? Cars, photos, replays, racing suits customized for the "buyer"? This is the sort of stuff that would be a good implementation of that. Even better if we got a Course Maker as well.

I'm saying yes, give it to us. What about you?

 

[ynot]

Well I hope in the end we get something really good. It would be nice to be able to transfer your club from GT6 over to Sport. Also to create championships with in the club and not only in the real events planned by PD. Either way, as long as there is an online mode I and many other will figure it out. I can just use the community section on the PS4 to schedule events and post race info. I can not say how excited I am about GT Sport coming out. I am running a league now on GT6. Running one more after this one that will end on Nov 8th. Then the next week on the 15th hoping to start figuring out what we can do with GT Sport. Hoping the release date sticks. Already scheduled a week off from work to stay home and play with it.

 

[Mike458]

I just hope they don't force us to play online to earn our credits.. This way it will take forever to build a decent garage. But then again very very rewarding when you've drooled at a car for a week and finally have credits to buy it.

From what I saw in the picture above:

There is a plain 'Online' option in the main menu alongside the three other modes. It was greyed out during the test.

I don't think there is a credits system.

 

[Johnnypenso]

From what I saw in the picture above:

I don't think there is a credits system.

There is. More than one of the pre-order packages contains credits.