New “World Compact Car” GT5 Seasonal Events & More

After nearly a month-long hiatus, GT5’s Seasonal Event updates have returned. The “World Compact Car” series is now available, open to cars with less than 450pp and less than 4200mm in length. Races take place at the following circuits:

  • Rome City (5 laps, 356,100 Cr.)
  • Grand Valley East Reverse (5 laps, 384,000 Cr.)
  • Cape Ring Outside (3 laps, 403,200 Cr.)
  • Tokyo Route 246 (3 laps, 395,100 Cr.)
  • Tokyo bay (Kart) 107A (5 laps, 406,800 Cr.)

In addition, new Time Trial events at SSR5 and Suzuka East are now available, along with new Drift Trials at Trial Mountain and Rome Reverse. The game’s Online Car Dealership has also been updated with a curious selection of “classics”.

As always, head on over to our GT5 Seasonal Events forum for more analysis and discussion. Thanks to RACECAR for the early tip!

GT5 Photomode image by Moglet.

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Comments (66)

  1. LordVonPS3

    1. The PS3 has a video edit and YouTube upload feature, so would be happy for GT5 to write to HDD in MPEG4 to upload subsequently out of game.

    2. Starting to tune or setup a car while a track is loading doesn’t imply you can’t carry on tuning after the track has loaded. It merely gives you something useful to do instead of watching a loading screen for 20 to 30 seconds before being given access to tune or setup.

  2. EliteDreamer

    To anyone who thinks this seasonal isn’t competitive… it’s called down tuning. And if your not willing to do that, go somewhere else. Enjoy the seasonal! :)

  3. Yes, we need DLC!

    For crying out loud, where’s the bloody DLC? I mean Dirt 3 came out months after GT5 and it has tons of DLC already, just really gutted to know that we might not even get any sort of DLC for the PS3.

  4. Singh

    I did in a fully suped Renault Clio V6 Sport, and then just set the power limiter to 450PP, in total giving you a reasonable 280bhp. Just a little tip for you guys. :)

  5. Ras35001

    ^^

    Indeed, the OCD looks so boring now, omg.
    And i want more competitive race car seasonals (LMP / Group C cars). It`s a racing game not an old man`s game.

  6. Pato

    all these seasonal events are well and good but when are they going to give us some DLC?????? some new tracks and some new cars? like c’mon polyphony give us some DLC!

  7. Mazerati

    A month long wait for a pathetic “compact car” event (?) PD please stop milking ideas that were very unpopular first time round. Give us a ‘Le Mans’ race with LM cars only, or a ‘Concept Car’ race, themes that are new, instead of this childish garbage. ‘Compact Car’…..*pfft*.

  8. Moglet

    Wow, thanks for using my photo again Jordan!

    Regarding the image, it was created by taking 3 separate shots from the same angle and merging them in Photoshop. I then added the reflection in the rear bumper of the black car to make it more realistic.

    Sadly I had to get rid of my real 500 but at least I still have GT5 ;)

  9. darren200cook

    @Slick. Thumbs up. We waited a PSNs outage amount of time to get these seasonals, be glad you have them. I waited, we all waited, we got in the end.

  10. LordVonPS3

    Nice seasonal and great to see these but it’s a pity they expire as I’m only just getting stuck into the main A-Spec endurance events.

    GT5 patch update next please! GT5 Spec II.

    * Tune / parts config / set up while loading track.
    * Fix jaggy shadows and low-rez smoke / dirt / spray.
    * Endurance race saves (from pit lane will do).
    * Time Trial for every track (dry, sunny) + car combo.
    * FWD and RWD in replays.
    * Save replays to MPEG4 format (480p & YouTube compat).

    Follow this with premium / paid for DLC:-
    * Weather & dynamic time of day to other existing tracks.
    * More tracks…
    * More premium cars…

    Keep trying & don’t give up! :-)

    1. Slick

      You aren’t going to see saves that are YouTube compatible, they take to long to render. They are Flash, not MPEG btw. They tried and couldn’t get them to a reasonable time. Look at Shift 2. You can upload to YouTube, but its only 10 second segments because it takes to long to render an entire race.

    2. crcrn11

      @LordVonPS3… “set up while loading track” – wtf? How long does it take for you to load a track? You can’t tune a car in like 10 seconds….

    3. Chadders85

      What about multiple set-ups for each car like in Prologue? At the moment i’ve got to get the pen and paper out to write down all my settings every time I want to change tracks using the same car.

  11. Bien Cien

    Is it just me or should they have included new a Fiat 500 Abarth car in the new dealership to go with this new exciting seasonal event? Yes yes I know blah blah blah you can tune a 500 to Abarth specifications blah blah blah. That’s not the point. I like the Abarth styling.

  12. tika

    so that was fun for 40 min our les, to bad the season event brings nothing new just more helmets and suits, bye the way what is going on with that in arcade mode the driver has team clothing why dont whe get those instead of the grapy looking suits and helmets we have now. beter idea make a shop where you can buy those silly things.

    and is there any possibility that we get a answer to the question if we will get cockpitview for a the cars. fotr that will be the best update ever.

  13. jimbo11

    There seems to be a bug in the cars allowed for the “compact car” championship. The current list of legal cars includes: Range Stormer Concept, SSR ’03, F-150 Lightning, Charger Super Bee, CL 600, VW Bus….

    Someone with fat fingers typed in the “4200” instead of “3200” perhaps? Or something of the sort?

    Also, I notice that someone has found a way to cut corners on the NASCAR Suzuka Time Trial, there is currently one time 25 seconds better than most of the other times. Count on that one being taken down tomorrow.

  14. Super T

    Have been checking before going to work the last couple of days to see if they’ve been updated… Wish I hadn’t now, a) nearly made me late this morning and b) I now have to wait until I finish work to get stuck in. :-(

  15. pigboy

    i got 2 different helmetys for finishing first at toyko bay,,,deep black paint for 3rd,gunna try again now

  16. AstonMartinGT5

    I think it is photoshop because I think you can create reflections on photoshop using the right type of brush :)

    1. Klaus

      Moglet would have just cut around the red car, resized and then placed the red reflection on the chrome bumper. It’s not *that* difficult to get a similar result

    2. Moglet

      Like Klaus said, it’s not hard to do it. You just cut it out, resize and flip it and then blur it a little!

    1. N99GT

      HAHA!! you’d be surprised sunshine!! sortov the point when you want to make the picture look ‘legit’…

    2. Moglet

      I studied Graphic Design for 3 years to get my degree, by being in that environment for a while you tend to get into the habit of paying a LOT of attention to the details! ;)

      Details are very important if you want an image to be believable or stand out from the crowd. It seems to have worked as it got picked up on by several members despite being a very easy edit to carry out!

    1. kaos

      Look at the filename of the picture: it’s called “montage” so yes, it’s photoshop or equivalent.

    2. Klaus

      What you can’t do in MS paint however (or it would be extremely difficult), is the reflection of the red car on the bumper of the black car. That’s attention to detail ;)

    3. VBR

      Great picture Moglet, what would’ve been really clever is if the cars were in green, white, and red (from right to left), to match the colours of the Italian flag.

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