No more autodrive when you pause online.
What is the alternative though? This still seems preferable to totally freezing the car to me, also it's very handy when you've bumped someone and want to give back a place.
For my part I would like the following as-yet unconfirmed features (am very happy about A and B Spec being combined again):
- More than 10 top personal times for hot laps/performance tests, and the ability to delete results (why this was removed seems inexplicable to me). The list could be pretty much endless and scroll down, all it needs to do is log the time, car and perhaps its settings. Logging the best time by a given car/configuration rather than all its times would be a nice option too.
- Free practice and quali sessions
- Standing starts (except for races where rolling starts are more traditional eg. Nascar)
- The ability to skip the slow lining up for some of the rally stages, where you have to watch 3 or 4 cars race off before you.
- Faster loading for GT Auto, also your garage and paint chips when you've amassed a lot of them. I seem to remember someone confirmed a while back that the way data chunks are stored on the GT5 BRD is pretty archaic and badly thought out.
- More intelligent replays, less "fixed" camera shots and movie-style close ups of the cars when we want to see the relative positions of the other cars. Overtakes could switch to an aerial view from a little further out, for example.
- Better and more fallible AI, grudges, more "characters" eg. reoccurring opponents with particular styles and skills. Bobs had this to some extent so why not the AI?
- Without wanting to sound predictable, better sound. I've been playing a lot of Forza lately and whilst some of the engine sounds are quite generic and awash with distortion, it still sounds way more gnarly and exciting. To me, cars are as much a mechanical beast with soul as they are an exercise in engineering and design, and the GT series needs to be imbued with a lot more of this.