What did you do in GT7 today?

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Had a couple hours of grinding for the McLaren. Calling it a night with 4.2 mil saved up so far. Hope I can get more in the next few days,I don't know when the next rotation is.
 
Tried 3 more tunes for the MP4/4 at Sardegna. It still can’t touch any of my Gr.2 times or those of CLK, 787, 962C, Sauber etc. It’s consistently more aligned with Gr.3 cars as far as lap times for me. Changed the oil, gave it a wash and will leave it parked until they give us an event for it.
Took the Mitsubishi Evo Gr.B to Le Mans for a win in a very wet race and then to the Rallycross event for some fun.
 
Messed with this thing for a bit.

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And I've been trying to build up a fleet of cars that have near stock power with a few upgrades to do Nurburgring laps with. This one is pretty special. All I did was wide offset on the stock wheels, sport filter/exhaust, SM tires, full suspension, racing brakes, and racing transmission so I could convert it to a E92 M3 with DCT. Front and trunk lips for a little downforce. Suspension tune only from @praiano63 , I kept the stock diff. It is very controllable, soaks up the bumps quite well. New favorite car for sure. 👍

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Did a bit of tuning to one of my A220s and took it to Le Mans for the WTC 700. 190 mph in the rain down the Mulsanne Straight.
Used cockpit cam for once, didn't realise it had a shifter on the door-side like the Ford GT40.
 
Raced Spa 1 hr 3 times, with 3 different Gr3s on hard mode and no turbo charge.

I love this race and they gave me a run for my money, but it makes me sick every time I see them braking at Raidillon and Blanchimont.

I wish there were more 1hr, 2hr, 3hr races.
 
I played for the 1st time in week. I did the revised Tomahawk X twice bought a 220 and gt my 10K ticket and brakes for my Mclaren MP-10. When I got the 6 * ticket I thought it was for an engine swap but it was parts 😞
 
Did 150 km over the last 14 days. Burned out on doing the same tracks. I just need a few more 30 minute/1h races with weather to get me back. Like why is there no endurance race on the nurburgring?? It just doesn't make sense to put this track in the game and only give it one lap events. Or just increase pay out on costum races, would be another great feature we'll never get from the devs. Its sad really cause its a good game lacking content or a just economy. The 3 new cars previously released were not for me either, so im gonna wait a bit more...
 
I decided to go for the McLaren F1 GTR to complete my collection of JGTC 1999 models, even though I had originally decided to not bother.

Two reasons: 1. The car is a must-have; Le Mans winner in 1995, and it's utterly gorgeous and brilliant in every way.

And reason 2.: Rather fittingly given that I want it for the 1999 JGTC simulation, it was co-piloted to victory at Le Mans by Masanori Sekiya, Japan's first Le Mans winner and also the driver of the Castrol Tom's Supra JGTC in 1999, which is arguably one of the most iconic of all cars in Gran Turismo.

The only trouble is, I've got a mega-busy week at work and I'm away at the weekend too, but somehow I've got to find 10.7 million Cr. in the next 11 days. :ill: And let's just hope the Supra GT500 doesn't appear in the LCD in that time, as I need 6 more of those :lol: :ill:
 
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As it's a holiday in the US, it's money-grinding day. First up on the Plus account, a rather wet race at Sarthe with the Cayman Clubsport. It rained twice, from mid-lap 3 to mid-lap 4 and again during lap 5, so hard that some of the AI came down for full wets. I instead, came down for intermediates after seeing the rain come on lap 2, and topped off on fuel on lap 5 anticipating a 7-lap race. It was, barely, because Haywood cleared lap 6 just before the clock ran out.

Next up was Tokyo, and the SLS AMG. I took almost enough fuel on my one pit stop at lap 6 to finish under power. Still, 27:47 while coasting the last 100 feet was good enough for the usual 10-second win.

Last was Sardegna, done with the Alpine VGT Race on a 6-5-4 lap strategy, with a tire change on lap 6. It wasn't the fastest, at 26:46 (including 6 seconds for a crash), but it was an easy win.

The all-cash 4-star Wheel of Despair contributed almost nothing - a lowest-possible/low-showing 10,000 Cr. Still, I had enough to get the Tomahawk S and Tomahawk X. I promptly took the X to Route X to get the 2 speed trophies I didn't already have.

On the GTP account, the need for cash was more acute, as I spent over 2,000,000 Cr. on both Super Formula cars for this week's WRS. I used the Viper Gr.4 at Sarthe (1-stop for fuel and tires on FM3 in a mostly-dry race), 2006 Ford GT at Tokyo, and the detuned Porsche 962C at Sardegna, all with the usual results. The 3-star Wheel of Despair, which gave me something completely useless - a semi-racing muffler.

@Touring Mars, you'll want the 1997, not the 1995, for the JGTC as the 1997 is (essentially) what ran there. If Wikipedia can be believed, it was chassis #19R, the first one built to 1997 spec, that Team Take One used in the 1999 season. Fortunately, that's 1 million Cr. less than the 1995, and if the Hagerty's reshuffle is just a skip of 22 cars in line, it will be quite a while before the 1997 is back there. The Supra GT500, on the other hand, may well be back there this week.
 
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Done a few arcade races, Tokyo for my roulette and cash, was thinking about buying The Merc Barker for 13mill but nah, big bucket, skip that one, keep building cash for whatever comes next the cobra or 250gto, played around with the music replay for a while, some cracking replay cams in ther and if you quit out and replay it, you will get a different set or maybe the one locked cam but just reload if you don't like what you see. only down side is if you the only car you can't change them, only works by skipping to another car and back. quite a messy setup but loooking forward too improvements, just love too watch replays, whats the point in not admiring your driving skills and beautiful cars :)
 
@Touring Mars, you'll want the 1997, not the 1995, for the JGTC as the 1997 is (essentially) what ran there. If Wikipedia can be believed, it was chassis #19R, the first one built to 1997 spec, that Team Take One used in the 1999 season. Fortunately, that's 1 million Cr. less than the 1995, and if the Hagerty's reshuffle is just a skip of 22 cars in line, it will be quite a while before the 1997 is back there. The Supra GT500, on the other hand, may well be back there this week.
Thank you for that, it is indeed the '97 F1 GTR Race Car that I need...

... so now I have to buy both :rolleyes: :lol:

At least it means I may not miss out on my 6 Supras now :)👍

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I did another Spa grind race but nearly got caught out with the Yellow Flags...



... very glad that I didn't lose the CRB for that...
 
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So today I raced in Daily R C, 3 times I was prevented from racing by this AF-160400 error that is so new PlayStation Support offer zero help to fix and with PD record of speed to fix issues caused by their zero test policy won’t happen any time soon

so I did race 3 times - first race moved from 7th to 2nd so really good race clean driving and positive experience, next 2 races typically what you get in B S rated lobbies, virtually identical just at different points of race.

started 7th in the race I was most disappointed with, first lap a few late breakers but I kept 7th and by lap end was up to 6th. Start of next lap first corner 2 cars take each other out and I’m 4th with 3rd in view.

turn 5 I think it is I brake and begin to turn in, 8 tenths in front of car behind - BOOM - He takes me out, into the wall, car glowing red from damage but good news no penalty for him - by the time I’m up and running gone from 5 seconds of the lead and 4th to 35 seconds of the pace and now 9th. I crack on, 4 laps later I’m back to 5th but light years off the Top 4 including the guy who took me out.

im 2 seconds ahead of the guy behind turning right into a slow tight corner, BOOM he hits me as well but good news he gets 3 seconds - I lose another 20 seconds.

I'm tired of the game, it’s too many negative experiences, i don’t mind faster drivers overtaking and being quicker, I don’t mind finishing mid table so to speak but to Be punted off and lost so much time just leaves me negative toward the game even more than I normally am..

I think like I did with GT Sport, GT7 will be retired because it doesn’t work as a racing game and despite being The Driving Simulator you can’t actually go and just drive anywhere.

too many negative experiences for me
 
Ran Sarthe twice to cover the cost of some cars I built specifically for Rallycross events. Already had the WRX Gr.B and Evo Gr.B so just made tunes for them, but then went and purchased their Gr.B Road counterparts and a GT-R R35 and built them up for the 600 and 700 Rallycross events. Had quite a bit of fun with all of them. The GT-R specifically is a blast to drift around basically the entire length of the course with 30:70 diff. Really requires good throttle control when using controller to maintain a controlled drift only breaking it for the jump.
 
I upgraded my PS4 Slim with a SSD and now I'm running into installing issues with GT7.

Apparently the game installation takes over 20 hours because even though I have a physical disk, the game doesn't install from it, it downloads from the internet and my internet speed is roughly 50mb/s only.

So, I try to install the game without my internet connected...And after like 4 to 5 hours installing and about 20gb later, the bar stops dead in its tracks without any warning whatsoever.

I don't think it's a issue with my issue with my SSD, but at this point I just don't care anymore. I give up.

GT7 is not a decent GT game anyway...
 
I'm preparing to start a banger racing custom championship.
Using cars that I've won but never really driven (mostly a lot of the old road cars) and downloading liveries which have the word 'rust' on them. There's some really well drawn damage, rust, dents and broken windows.

Then once I have 20 of them, I'll name drivers that I'd happily crash into and then do some races with damage on. I don't expect to win, but it'll be fun!
 
I ran another Spa 24h WTC800 race, but I forgot that I'd set the general game difficulty to Hard (or whatever the 'two chillis' option is, the hardest of the three available), and I didn't notice much difference in terms of results. In fact, my usual nemesis, F. Portilla shakes fist angrily at the screen was absolutely nowhere, and he was in fact a crazy 3 laps down - even though I am deliberately using an overpowered car because I need the credits quickly, that's still a giant win, even compared to recent races on medium difficulty.

This begs the question, does the difference in 'game difficulty' apply to races like the Spa WTC800, and if so, is the difference merely in the rubberbanding or speed of the AI opponents, or is it more subtle than that?
 
I ran another Spa 24h WTC800 race, but I forgot that I'd set the general game difficulty to Hard (or whatever the 'two chillis' option is, the hardest of the three available), and I didn't notice much difference in terms of results. In fact, my usual nemesis, F. Portilla shakes fist angrily at the screen was absolutely nowhere, and he was in fact a crazy 3 laps down - even though I am deliberately using an overpowered car because I need the credits quickly, that's still a giant win, even compared to recent races on medium difficulty.

This begs the question, does the difference in 'game difficulty' apply to races like the Spa WTC800, and if so, is the difference merely in the rubberbanding or speed of the AI opponents, or is it more subtle than that?
You know I kind of forgot that in game difficulty was a thing and that it didn't affect credits earned
Why the **** am I playing on the hardest difficulty when the credits is the same for easy? >_<

Also, Portilla and his Dodge Viper is my bane, but man can they drive that car good
 
You know I kind of forgot that in game difficulty was a thing and that it didn't affect credits earned
Why the **** am I playing on the hardest difficulty when the credits is the same for easy? >_<
Yeh, it would be nice to have a Cr. boost, but that would cut both ways i.e. you'd earn less for setting the AI to easy. In terms of realism, I'm already finding the AI a bit too easy in a few places, even on Hard/Pro difficulty, but it is still quite easy to engineer a challenging/more fun race with a sensible choice of car - even though I often want to win a race just for the Cr.
 
I FINALLY managed to install GT7 on my console with a internal SSD now.

What I had to do was wiping out all data and formatting the SSD with my notebook, then I first set up the console without an internet connection, then first I installed GTA 5 without the updates, a 50gb install that went in a blink of a eye somehow. Then I turned it off to do something else.

After I turned it back on I put the GT7 install disk and it started installing, also without internet, it took me an hour...Turns out the data on the installation is NOT 42gb as it was initially expected, it's about 95gb...And it all must be installed in one sitting for some dumb reason. Odd.

Now I left for work while the console is installing RDR2, also without an internet connection, progress says it takes an hour and the install file is 45gb...But it bet it's gonna be somewhere around 90gb too.

After this, I'll be done installing the base games and can move on to installing the updates while using rest mode.


What I don't understand here, is why GTA 5 1.00 that is about 50gb installed in a second, GT7 1.00 that was about 95gb took an whole hour, and RDR2 1.00 will seemingly take about the same time...My suspicion is that as more big data is allocated into the SSD, the slower the thing becomes to further install data.
 
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Running Mclaren 95 stock with Racing Medium at Willow Springs Neo-Classic 800. 13:11:545 First place AI easy. 1 Pit stop. Second Place is + 9.670. Faded late as last 2 laps were about 1:20. Not sure if that beats AI normal or not. may have to check. Super fun car on this one.

YIKES: Just checked another thread. Looks like Normal is around 12:15:00 and Hard is around 11:42:00. Normal is under my best lap no pit stop. 1:15:490. Fuel map 1 needs one after 5 laps. MIGHT be able to Normal at 1:10. I probably can't do that.
 
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First, after the UCD/Hagerty's refresh last night, I forgot which account I was on, and accidentally bought 2 VW Golf I's on the Plus account. It almost was 3 as I forgot the engine swap doesn't have any S parts, but I caught it just in time, switched over to the GTP account, where I intended to buy the extra Golfs, and bought the 2 I needed for when I hopefully get the Pikes Peak engines.

Today, on the GTP account, I had another weird weather Sarthe race while using the Silvia Touring Car. The rain came down on the end of lap 2, so I took intermediates (the only driver to go to rain tires at that point, though others pitted for a second set of whatever they were running), and immediately got punted by Kato in his Audi TT in Dunlop. Then, after almost wrecking the CRB on a snap yellow by almost passing Solis immediately after the yellow came out, I got rammed by Gallo (fortunately, for no further damage).

The rain was hard enough that I questioned my decision to take intermediates versus full wets, though it ended shortly after I started lap 4, and as Solis (in 8th) was about to transition to the in-pit graphics. The rest of the field was all over the place on tire choice when they came down at the end of their respective lap 3. In the order they came out - McEwen and Mendoza stayed on RH tires; Portilla, Healey and Sugawara put on fresh sets of RH tires; Haywood put on full-wet tires, Mangano, Lopez and Gallo stayed on RH tires; Solis and Kawakami (who came down for RS tires on lap 2) put on intermediates; Tapai stayed on RH tires; Blazsan (who came down for RH tires on lap 2) put on intermediates; Kevelham put on a fresh set of RS tires; Bishop and Kato put on intermediates; Hizal put on a fresh set of RM tires; Kokubun (who came down for RS tires on lap 2) put on intermediates; and Yamanaka put on a fresh set of RS tires.

The track was almost dry enough for me to think about going back to RH tires by the end of lap 4, but I held off until lap 5. On lap 4, Haywood went to intermediates from full-wet and Mendoza went to intermediates from his 4-lap-old RH tires. When I pitted on lap 5 for a second set of RH tires, McEwen, Healy and Portilla passed me, while everybody who took intermediates came down for RS tires.

The front-runners gapped me on lap 6, but there was too much time left and they all needed fuel to get through 7 laps. I crossed the line to start lap 7 at 29:30, passing the front-runners as they pitted. As time expired, McEwen (who never changed tires), Portilla and Healy made it out of the pits in time to start lap 7, Sugawara didn't quite make it to his pits for the splash of fuel he needed, and the rest of the field couldn't finish 6 laps. Tapai was committed to pit, and Mangano didn't realize he could have taken 6th had he not continued to slow down and pit. That decision cost Mangano an additional 3 spots as Gallo, Hizal (both of whom would have needed fuel to get through lap 7) and Haywood all passed him as they didn't pit.

Portilla did pass McEwen for 2nd, but Healy couldn't quite make his fresher tires work for the final podium spot. The bottom half of the field - Kevelham, Mendoza (who passed Lopez after he ran out of fuel in the Corvette Curves), Lopez, Kawakami, Blazsan, Solis, Yamanaka, Bishop, Kokubun, and Kato (who unsuccessfully tried to ram his way out of last in the Ford Chicane). The last-place finish serves Kato right.

The 4-star roulette didn't quite do me as dirty as Kato, though I already had two Charger safety cars.

On the Plus account, I tried once again for an 8-lap Sarthe with the Red Bull Junior, only to be thwarted by rain at the end of lap 3, necessitating a change to intermediates for 2 laps. The cashless 4-star marathon roulette gave a second Hellcat engine, while I bought the Tomahawk GTS-R.
 
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