Seasonal Event Update

[10,500RPM]

The ocd is amazing, i wasn't expecting so many racecars. I don't like the truck races but it made a nice change from like the wind......

I'm going to buy the BMW V12 soon, but i'm not sure if I should buy the Esperante GTR-1. The price seems a bit steep to me, then again I rarely ever see it in my UCD.

Hmmm, i have the bwm V12, add me if you want to try before you buy because i don't enjoy driving it, it's fairly slow and very tail happy.

 

[will4noobs]

Respect to PD!

it amazes me how people are still complaining even-though PD are adding new events during a national crisis

*sigh*

 

[boredgunner]

Pick-up truck challenge? More of the same... lots of credit to PD for updating the game during this crisis though. Once again they put some rare cars in the online dealership, making my garage a bit less special. My Panoz Esperante GTR-1 and Jaguar XJ220 LM Race Car are no longer rare. On the flip side, I picked up the BMW V12 LMR that I've been wanted.

 

[Milldrum]

Why not give them a try?

I tried the races, traction control 2 and low abs. No other aids. Was hard to keep my 'Pick up' straight. This seemed like more of a challenge than some previous races.

My weapon of choice was an upgraded Tecoma. I lowered engine power and racing was competitive for almost the entire race.

 

[Ronald6]

112k per lap of the 'ring! "Ferb, I know what we're doing today." And till they take it away.

But wait, a new time trial too! Oh the decisions we're forced to make.

PS: Sports Truck = oxymoron

 

[zippy_the_cat]

I agree. I used my Dodge RAM in every race of the new seasonal, and it handles like a dishwasher except in the ring. There is a beast!

The trucks seem to handle the Ring's bumps a whole lot better than most anything else in the game. Hit one and the Tacoma I used basically said, "thank you, sir, may I have another." Makes setting up for several of the curves significantly easier.

 

[canis39]

i love how illustratedtrick had to call someone in japan to figure out his attitude sucked. good times.

in other news...new seasonals! can't beat it, even if it's trucks (not my favorite) and even if it's the same...damn...tracks...that we see on every update.

gt5 continues to kick ass.

 

[DA__dogg]

The truck events are sweet. I used the Ram, the SSR, and the other Chevy at Fiji and the Ring. Good times. Thanks PD!

 

[cb1021]

the question is, is SRF still forced on?

 

[ucwepn]

I had allot of fun with these I upgraded power and nothing else only aid was abs 1, crazy trying to keep these trucks straight especially the big Chev with sports hard and 680hp

 

[BWX]

the question is, is SRF still forced on?

bump

EDIT- It's not on in the truck races.

 

[snowxdadx3]

Called a friend in Atsugi today and would like to share the following, with PD still doing development work for Nissan, GTA US finals going on, GTA only a week old in EU and a major Update coming in April for PSN, plus a major natural disaster in their backyard, he thought my opinion expressed here was callous and misinformed. With that in mind I offer to gogatrs my apologies in bringing my discontent to your thread, and to any and all that I offended with those comments, I'm sorry. I'm such an @$$ sometimes.

well done x2 👍

 

[tigermilk]

Called a friend in Atsugi today and would like to share the following, with PD still doing development work for Nissan, GTA US finals going on, GTA only a week old in EU and a major Update coming in April for PSN, plus a major natural disaster in their backyard, he thought my opinion expressed here was callous and misinformed. With that in mind I offer to gogatrs my apologies in bringing my discontent to your thread, and to any and all that I offended with those comments, I'm sorry. I'm such an @$$ sometimes.

One thing to consider, however, is that it is healthy to start moving on and getting about regular daily life. Just like losing a parent, spouse, child, friend to death, you have to grieve and move on with your life. That's not callous - it's reality and normal human nature.

As someone who has been through a big natural disaster in recent times (Hurricane Ike), I've seen firsthand what impacts a natural disaster has. Many of my friends and coworkers either lost their homes or had so much damage they had to move out for 6+ months. I was essentially given a 2 week paid vacation because my facility was damaged in spots as well as the Houston infrastructure was not ready for the workers to hit the road (debris and power outages). I've got friends and colleagues in Tsukuba, Tokyo, and Yokohama. My Tsukuba contacts were off the job for a week due to extensive damage, but they were back at work this week getting back to a normal life. Tokyo was relatively unscathed by the earthquake, aside from the parts of Chiba built on reclaimed land and the power outages. Now the radiation stuff is another issue, but from the natural disaster perspective, it wasn't so bad.

I can tell you that when Ike came through, the folks in Austin, San Antonio, and Dallas went on with their daily lives. The hurricane didn't strike those places. Why should they slow down to a crawl? Likewise, the tsunami, which did the lion's share of the damage (just like our hurricane's storm surge) was isolated to the northern reaches. Why shouldn't Tokyo get back to work? They have to. You think the people in Nagasaki aren't working? Osaka? Hiroshima? Nagoya?

It's not callous. I feel for the people of northern Japan just as I did for the Katrina victims and the Ike victims in my own backyard. But at some point you simply have to get back to work.

Now to me it's good news there's an update to the events. On a business trip now, but it means this weekend I have something to look forward to.

 

[BWX]

WTF AUDIO BUG. I've done the first three races.. a couple times each. With the SSR, on every single track, I had no tire sounds.. no skidding sounds or tire squeal.

So I jump out of race and restart it. Still no tire sounds. I have to jump out back to home.. GTlife, then back to seasonals, then back into race.

For the last race I did at the ring, I had to do the same, jump back to home and then back to race and tire sounds are back. BUT- only for one race. When I made some setup changes and restarted race to run it a second time, no tire sounds again. WTF, since 1.06 this and other missing sounds bug is annoying as ****.

And where is the official bug report thread? WTF GTP?

 

[liQster]

Why not give them a try?

it was more than enough for me to search weeks for a ssr in the ucd to race the a-spec event. was the reason i couldn´t close the whole amateur (i think it´s in the amateur section) series. the trucks handle like... well... like a truck. and i didn´t find any premium trucks, so i don´t see the point in doing those seasonals. correct me if i´m wrong and there are actually premiums of those kind.

only reason to drive those would be to get all 1000 cars.

 

[chaosdd]

This set of events was huge fun for me. I did them in a 440-460pp F150 Lightning. Some of the races were quite tough, some were a little easy - I tried to balance this with PP.

Anyway, excellent races. 10X PD.

 

[Elkay]

The trucks seem to handle the Ring's bumps a whole lot better than most anything else in the game. Hit one and the Tacoma I used basically said, "thank you, sir, may I have another." Makes setting up for several of the curves significantly easier.

You can fix that on many of the cars. Everyone seems to think lowering the cars is always the best thing to do. It's not.

 

[Zenith]

OCD was great this cycle. I spent over 11mil on race cars

 

[Wiegert]

Hmmm, i have the bwm V12, add me if you want to try before you buy because i don't enjoy driving it, it's fairly slow and very tail happy.

I actually have more than enough money to buy it, plus it's cheap compared to most other LMP cars so i'm definitely considering purchasing it. If it's as tail happy as the Pescarolo Hybride then I will know what i'm in for. I'll add you anyway to try it out when possible.

 

[uMadson?]

Summer tiem + 2 rally cars worth 300,000 cr. + a truckload of race cars worth a million cr. = I'm gonna waste my time grinding. lol

 

[nick155]

Respect to PD!

it amazes me how people are still complaining even-though PD are adding new events during a national crisis

*sigh*

THIS. Jesus christ have any of you people thought of what has happened in Japan yet they still try to do the best they can? come on guys.

 

[Lambob]

You can fix that on many of the cars. Everyone seems to think lowering the cars is always the best thing to do. It's not.

So True, I raised my F-150 to 10/10 , and even increased LSD IT to 20/45/25, and it handles better than most sports cars I have, tops at 270 km/hr, but I beat them too easy at 550pp limited 90% engine lol. 7:30 with some mistakes.

This seasonal is purely about getting rewarded $100K per lap on the ring, and experimenting with tunes prior each race.

 

[mcsimfan]

First set of seasonals that I really haven't liked. It just isn't much to me driving these trucks because they handle like trucks.

 

[rssjib]

OCD was great this cycle. I spent over 11mil on race cars

👍👍👍

I agree....there are some sweet cars in there.....I have bought most of them already.....now I just have to get those credits back...

 

[isildur]

OCD was great this cycle. I spent over 11mil on race cars

2 questions for you. My apologies if this is not the correct forum to ask.

Do any of the cars in OCD this week cost less than 1 million credit?
If any costs less than 1m, can it actually be giftable given that some cars may cost less than 1m but PD does not allow it to be gifted.

I am asking because I have other sub accounts with loads of credit/money sitting there and I would love to spend them on cars that cost less than 1m but that can also be gifted.

 

[WolfpackS2k]

While I'm grateful for PD to put out a seasonal update so soon after the earthquake, I really need to ask: WHY TRUCKS? And WHY TSUKUBA AGAIN? Everyone's sick of that damn track and trucks don't even belong in this game in the first place. There are a lot of fun sports cars that could have easily taken these damn trucks' places in this game 👎

 

[Garagiste]

Well it's something different at least, and 👍 to PD.
My Ram was going to be overpowered for these, so I bought the X runner. Did very mild tweaks and I think it handles like a dream - back end steps out but really easy to hold in a nice slide around the bends, good fun!

Edit - well the trucks are different, not Tsukuba - with you on that one!

 

[MileHigh98Snake]

Trucks on Tsukuba is no different than taking the PDI Kart on Indy or Nurburgring. Some races are awesome, some aren't. Just have fun with the game, and big kudos to the boys at PD. I wasn't expecting any seasonal updates for like a month, without knowing how badly their studio might be damaged.

 

[MetroGS]

Quit whining you flanges, they put trucks in as it's different!!! its a CHANGE! god, you lil ****** just keep on moaning and moaning like a spoilt child grow the **** up already!

Respect to PD!

it amazes me how people are still complaining even-though PD are adding new events during a national crisis

*sigh*

Sigh Agreed fella

 

[Cainius]

No, most of Tokyo is becoming a ghost town and the northern 1/3 could be an empty rock at any point. But hey as long as you get your free update it's okay.

falling victim to media hype ITT . . .

http://www.dannychoo.com/post/en/26054/Tokyo+Evacuation.html

(rather tokyo is NOT a ghost town, maybe read a map?)

(and I'm definitely not complaining about new stuff! )