The Things That Annoy You

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  • Backing out of a menu in GT Auto taking you back to the World Map rather than the previous screen
  • Not being able to preview paint on your own car before buying it (this one absolutely blows my mind)
  • Not being able to move the camera around the car freely when viewing body parts, wheels etc.
  • Having to back out of each Circuit Experience sector/License Test to be able to select the next one, we really need a "next" button here
  • Not being able to skip the roulette animation - I already know I'm going to get 5,000 credits every single time so just let me skip it
  • Ray tracing reduces the quality of wheels and lights on some cars in Scapes for no apparent reason
  • Rolling starts on every event
  • Some missions requiring you to wait over a minute before you can start, every single time you try it. This is one of the worst bits of UX I've ever seen in a videogame
 
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tiberiusteng
The Audi R18 2016's hybrid KERS system is 6 MJ battery + 300 kW of electric motors, so in real life it can do 20 seconds of power assist. If the fuel consumption multiplier affects KERS then it becomes 5 seconds in Spa 1-hour, 2.5 seconds in Sardegna 15 laps, 3.3 seconds in Le Mans 30 minutes, surely severely cripples it.
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Exactly, I think we agree it's a mistake to handicap those extraordinary hybrid cars and take away a lot of their power because of the fuel consumption factor. It shouldn't work like that. GT7 should be smarter than that. Same goes with Electric cars, a Taycan is undriveable in most events lol, they should have come with a solution for that, even not realistic...
 
Cherryturbo
Hardly a little thing, but Sport mode is a huge step backwards from GTSport. I’m at a loss as to why the developers seem to have removed all the detailed information & social interaction that GT Sport has.
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The removal of the quick replies and tagging has removed the community aspect for me. Have a good race and want to say congrats or whatever to someone but they’ve invariably left by the time you’ve managed to type anything out. So most people just immediately leave now. Little thing like that has made a big difference.
 
I have to complain about replay cameras again. They're too damn low. There are too many extreme close ups. It's rare that I see the roof of my car with its wonderful graphics I spent time to apply. It's rare to get a good look at a pass I make on a competitor. It's rare to get a good look at a curve with a stream of cars I'm in making their way around it. There are camera positions on cranes strewn around almost every track but they won't use them. When a camera is up fairly high, many times it drops in the course of the scene, often to ground level!

If you won't get the cameras up from below head level for the most part, give us a Director's Editor so we can fix them ourselves.
 
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I redeemed 3 roulette tickets, a 1 star and two 4 star. Got 10k and two racing exhaust for cars I don’t use, gg.
 
I don’t know if this is a little thing, but it annoys me a lot how nearly all the entry-level events below WTC are restricted by region / country, such as the European Clubman Cup or Japanese FF Challenge. Just ditch the regional themes and let us enter cars in these events regardless of their origin.

In GT Sport the Sunday Cup, Clubman Cup, FF, FR, MR, and 4WD Challenges were all global events, and then there were separate events like J Sports for Japanese cars, or Stars and Stripes for American cars. This is part of the reason why GT7 feels so empty, because PD combined different themes under a few umbrellas and then only provided three races at launch under each of them. :banghead:
 
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Nielsen
I don’t know if this is a little thing, but it annoys me a lot how nearly all the entry-level events below WTC are restricted by region / country, such as the European Clubman Cup or Japanese FF Challenge. Just ditch the regional themes and let us enter cars in these events regardless of their origin. Oddly enough the 4WD events do not have this limitation.

In GT Sport the Sunday Cup, Clubman Cup, FF, FR and MR Challenges were global events, and then there were separate events like J Sports for Japanese cars, or Stars and Stripes for American cars. This is part of the reason why GT7 feels so empty, because PD combined different themes under a few umbrellas and then only provided three races at launch under each of them. :banghead:
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Agreed. I sometimes use these events for a quick check of the car setup and in that aspect the current events are a bit inconvenient.
These entry-level events had no PP limit, each race was relatively short, and the AI difficulty could be controlled, which was useful for checking the performance of a car when racing with friends under non-PP rules.

It is unfortunate that many regional circuits are only available for events for models that belong to those regions, and that some brands belong to those regions but cannot participate, such as Hyundai/Genesis at most events in Asia.
 
Does nitrous not work in Time Trial? I got all excited because my crappy one star roulette ticket actually gave me a Nitrous bottle for a car I own (Charger Hellcat) so I installed it and took it to the Nordschleife to try it out, but even though the part is enabled and I have a button mapped to it nothing happens. 🤷‍♂️ Kind of annoying.
 
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meekrab
Does nitrous not work in Time Trial? I got all excited because my crappy one star roulette ticket actually gave me a Nitrous bottle for a car I own (Charger Hellcat) so I installed it and took it to the Nordschleife to try it out, but even though the part is enabled and I have a button mapped to it nothing happens. 🤷‍♂️ Kind of annoying.
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Yeah, it's disabled :(

I kinda get it, but there should be a stock and modded leader board

Nielsen
I don’t know if this is a little thing, but it annoys me a lot how nearly all the entry-level events below WTC are restricted by region / country, such as the European Clubman Cup or Japanese FF Challenge. Just ditch the regional themes and let us enter cars in these events regardless of their origin.

In GT Sport the Sunday Cup, Clubman Cup, FF, FR, MR, and 4WD Challenges were all global events, and then there were separate events like J Sports for Japanese cars, or Stars and Stripes for American cars. This is part of the reason why GT7 feels so empty, because PD combined different themes under a few umbrellas and then only provided three races at launch under each of them. :banghead:
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Yeah this bothers me as well after coming from GT Sport... custom race payouts are so low
I guess we can hope it is added later :(
 
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Every aspect of online lobbies being worse than GT Sport

Not being able to select wheels and change wheel colours in the same menu

Not being able to buy parts in an online menu

Having to buy wet weather tyres for racing vehicles

Every cafe and license menu bombarding you with invasive and meaningless dialogue, turning half the menu experience into mashing the X button

Terrible lighting resulting in the player driving blind for 2 seconds when entering tunnels

Upgrades for the same engine component being split across five different sub-menus with no intuitive layout at all

The fact that the only major leap forward to offset these issues are the driving physics, and PD have started to patch that to make them more like GT Sport.

The fact that these design decisions come after 25 years of this series and were totally avoidable
 
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ShiftingGears
Every cafe and license menu bombarding you with invasive and meaningless dialogue, turning half the menu experience into mashing the X button
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Top tip - in the options screen, there's a section right at the bottom where you can enable Circle to cancel out of any conversations. 😉

No idea why this isn't active always, or at least by default.
 
1.- totally stupid AI (especially on takeover missions where the game punishes you for the ai to run into you)
2.- drift missions: all of them, got gold on all but its just no fun at all. has nothing to do with racing.
3.- Waiting for over a minute on some missions to see the cars in front of you leave. make a little mistake... wait over a minute again...
4.- i wanna see racedata laptimes/sectors, braking points etc, maybe a ghost of opponent.. nothing like that.
5.- no weather info
6.- not able to buy tuning parts in lobby
7.- VGT cars in general
 
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Jesus christ... cut the "little" from the thread title here. Wanted to finish my F430 livery and it glitches out like crazy, decals going all over the place. What is this ****? I believe in this age we'll never see a finished, polished game ever again. Every patch which fixes something brings new issues.
 
Sport mode still missing the little/big things.

The game has been out two months now and I still can't see my best lap time in the post race screen.

I can't see any of my statistics other than wins, clean races and fastest laps. I cannot feckin believe we can't even see our podiums, top 5 or top 10 finishes. Not everyone wins races every day and it would be nice to hang our hat on something.

Credit payouts for Sport races still a joke.
 
The top bar should have shortcuts/links to many things like your profile and garage. Just make each part a link. The only prominent thing they implemented is the very easy and convenient way to top up your wallet by buying MTX.
 
Read through some of the replies, and I agree with most of them, but I'm not sure if this one has been mentioned before, and it's something that's been bugging me since GT1, and that's over-rev downshifts. GT likes to bill itself as a real driving simulator, and yet they allow over-rev downshifts with no consequences.

Cars in real life with auto clutch are programmed not to downshift if it's going to over-rev the engine, so I don't understand why PD cannot program the same into the game, which should be straight forward to do. I suppose they could allow people using manual clutch to downshift and over-rev the engine, but at the same time, there should be some consequences if they do, as in real life.
 
Nordshleife inconsistent attention to detail.

Most probably won't even notice these, but this year they (PD) added the new sign for Sabine Schmitz Kurve, and also the AstroTurf strip on the right approaching Hohe Acht, also the drainage and drain covers/grates on the curbs.

Nice attention to detail......but then they miss out more obvious stuff like the Gable end of a building visible on the outside of Bergwerk, the lower cut back tree line on the left at Kesselchen allowing a view around the curve, the top of Brunnchen also has A LOT less trees IRL - especially the 'YouTube Corner' part just before Eiskurve on the right and straight ahead beyond the track before you turn left.

Another small one, but very historic for the track is the lack of, and missing Cross at Schwedenkreuz!
I'm sure some hardcore fans and German cousins could name a few more, but that's what I've noticed so far.



Bit of audio annoyances:
One of the first things you notice that smacks you in the face when you watch motorsport IRL is the sound!
For me personally it was obviously the loudness of the cars closely followed by the sound of the hot Brake squeal and probably moreover, the how loud the curbs and brick cobbles are as cars pass over them - that's in the game, but needs to be much much louder, likewise the Brake squeal/squeak.
 
Autobahn GTO
Read through some of the replies, and I agree with most of them, but I'm not sure if this one has been mentioned before, and it's something that's been bugging me since GT1, and that's over-rev downshifts. GT likes to bill itself as a real driving simulator, and yet they allow over-rev downshifts with no consequences.

Cars in real life with auto clutch are programmed not to downshift if it's going to over-rev the engine, so I don't understand why PD cannot program the same into the game, which should be straight forward to do. I suppose they could allow people using manual clutch to downshift and over-rev the engine, but at the same time, there should be some consequences if they do, as in real life.
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I guarantee if they did this they would be inundated with people reporting it as a bug that the car doesn't downshift when they want it to! GT still has a lot of very casual players so it makes sense.
 
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This is a very minor thing and to say it's annoying is too strong a word.
But why is the classic Mini from the 60's a German car when it's clearly from the UK. I know it's because BMW now own Mini but still it's irritating.

I suppose it's similar to the older Nissans that should be Datsuns.
 
TonyLomas
This is a very minor thing and to say it's annoying is too strong a word.
But why is the classic Mini from the 60's a German car when it's clearly from the UK. I know it's because BMW now own Mini but still it's irritating.

I suppose it's similar to the older Nissans that should be Datsuns.
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Probably due to licensing. If BMW now own the Mini brand it makes sense for it to live there rather than try and negotiate a representation of the Mini Classic via the owners of what was originally BMC/British Leyland/Rover, now owned by the Chinese state-owned SAIC, and BMW.
 
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I am so over this "campaign"... it's just not fun if you have to be the WAY better driver (means it's not competitive) to catch up from 20th to 1st everytime. Or you'll have to balance it with your PP, often resulting in a much faster car, which can't really be the point, can it?

Why no qualifying? Why is the AI still on PS2 levels?
 
I really, really dislike those unsightly plates on cars. The ones that proclaim the name of the car.

The very first thing I do when I get a new car is take it GT Auto, rip off the front plate and burn it, then cover up the back plate with a decal. Such as a license plate. It’s the first thing I do.

I find the existence of these plates to be immersion-breaking. They remind me that I’m in a video game, not actually racing on Mount Panorama.

If I had my way, I’d have a global setting. PLATES = OFF.
 
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