Gran Turismo 7

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EvoDelta

8,222 posts

192 months

Saturday 23rd December 2023
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We're getting this for our lad for Christmas with a PS5. Are their any guides you'd recommend for someone starting from scratch?

axel1990chp

650 posts

105 months

Saturday 23rd December 2023
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paul99 said:
Use one of the trucks and turn off TC (Raptor/Tundra) tuned up. It's very easy. It's weird but the trucks seem much easier to drive quickly on dirt than the rally cars.
Noted cheers Paul!

EvoDelta said:
We're getting this for our lad for Christmas with a PS5. Are their any guides you'd recommend for someone starting from scratch?
I’d say part of the fun is experimenting yourself! The only real backwards step you can make is throwing money away too quickly on a car you won’t need in a few races time.

I’d say be mindful of events and only spend where you need to, and give the licenses a proper good go. They help get a feel for the game and show you the mechanics of what you can get away with and can’t, and the added bonus is they give you a car at the end, especially if you achieve Gold!

Stussy

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1,897 posts

66 months

Saturday 23rd December 2023
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If you work your way through the licenses and stick at it to get gold for them all you can get quite far just from the cars you win, same with the menu challenges

MrVert

4,399 posts

241 months

Saturday 23rd December 2023
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I’d also check out some of the YouTube guys for guides.

SuperGT, Rory Alexander & TheKie25 are decent, although you may need a swear filter for the latter hehe

AWRacing

1,715 posts

227 months

Sunday 24th December 2023
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Completing the circuit experiences is a good way of gaining credits, i think its a minimum 250k all bronze an 1mil all gold, per track.

W201_190e

12,738 posts

215 months

Sunday 24th December 2023
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EvoDelta said:
We're getting this for our lad for Christmas with a PS5. Are their any guides you'd recommend for someone starting from scratch?
Get the licence tests and circuit experiences done first, that will get millions of credits and dozens of cars to start with. It’s a long slog. I’m 14,000 miles, 450 hours into the game and I still haven’t completed everything or got every car. It is the best racing/car game I have ever played though, it has an insane amount of content.

axel1990chp

650 posts

105 months

Sunday 24th December 2023
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Is there a January update? Wish there were some more mid range EU cars and some more endurance races!

W201_190e

12,738 posts

215 months

Sunday 24th December 2023
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axel1990chp said:
Is there a January update? Wish there were some more mid range EU cars and some more endurance races!
Nothing announced yet but there is bound to be something soon. Although Spec II was a hefty update.

Don Roque

18,026 posts

161 months

Monday 25th December 2023
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EvoDelta said:
We're getting this for our lad for Christmas with a PS5. Are their any guides you'd recommend for someone starting from scratch?
Keep your credit card hidden as he'll be wanting to buy credits to buy more cars given how measly the earnings in the game are. Could easily spend a good chunk of real money just to get into an F1 or an XJ13.

BlueMR2

8,666 posts

204 months

Tuesday 26th December 2023
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Don Roque said:
EvoDelta said:
We're getting this for our lad for Christmas with a PS5. Are their any guides you'd recommend for someone starting from scratch?
Keep your credit card hidden as he'll be wanting to buy credits to buy more cars given how measly the earnings in the game are. Could easily spend a good chunk of real money just to get into an F1 or an XJ13.
£15.99 2 million credits, so £159.99 per 20 million car.

At the moment there are some free prizes if you log on every day upto 5 times over the next week or two (didn't check the details). You get I think a 6 star parts ticket a 4 star ticket, 100 or 200,000 credits a five star ticket and maybe a 6 star engine ticket, so worth going online over the next week even if you are not playing to get the free stuff. If you have time though, do just under 27 miles to get the daily bonus ticket too.

SpudLink

5,974 posts

194 months

Tuesday 26th December 2023
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BlueMR2 said:
£15.99 2 million credits, so £159.99 per 20 million car.

At the moment there are some free prizes if you log on every day upto 5 times over the next week or two (didn't check the details). You get I think a 6 star parts ticket a 4 star ticket, 100 or 200,000 credits a five star ticket and maybe a 6 star engine ticket, so worth going online over the next week even if you are not playing to get the free stuff. If you have time though, do just under 27 miles to get the daily bonus ticket too.
Never spend real money on anything in the game. Play it for fun, and enjoy the prize cars. You’ll get plenty of credit doing licences and circuit experiences.
The only reason I can think of why anyone would spend real money on cars is if you plan to do online racing and think you need to have the best car for every race. Even then I’d suggest ‘grinding’ for practice and earn the credit that way.

EvoDelta

8,222 posts

192 months

Thursday 28th December 2023
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Thanks for all the tips, guys. He's currently playing through Spider-man 2, but we'll put these to good use once he's done.

BlueMR2

8,666 posts

204 months

Thursday 28th December 2023
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EvoDelta said:
Thanks for all the tips, guys. He's currently playing through Spider-man 2, but we'll put these to good use once he's done.
Log on for the free stuff, just start it up and go to the world map, you don't need to do anything else to get it.

NordicCrankShaft

1,726 posts

117 months

Thursday 28th December 2023
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Two tracks I'm absolutely dying to see in this game, twin ring motegi and pikes peak.

Can we also get rid of the utterly ridiculous roulette tickets now please. Just got a 6 star ticket and awarded 10k credits... Cheers then!!

axel1990chp

650 posts

105 months

Friday 29th December 2023
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NordicCrankShaft said:
Two tracks I'm absolutely dying to see in this game, twin ring motegi and pikes peak.

Can we also get rid of the utterly ridiculous roulette tickets now please. Just got a 6 star ticket and awarded 10k credits... Cheers then!!
Carbon shaft for a GT86...

Invitation for a car I already have...

Absolutely daft way it works, but i suppose thats why its a roulette biggrin

Id love to see Silverstone on it, though!

AndySheff

6,642 posts

209 months

Sunday 31st December 2023
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axel1990chp said:
Carbon shaft for a GT86...

Invitation for a car I already have...

Absolutely daft way it works, but i suppose thats why its a roulette biggrin

Id love to see Silverstone on it, though!
I'd like to see the 'build your own track' tool like GT5 had.

viggyp

1,917 posts

137 months

Friday 5th January
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Happy New Year to you all. Not posted in here for a very long time.

Does anyone know if there is a database for all the past fortnightly time trials please? I ask this as it took me ages to get into the top 3% (on both accounts and managed to get gold by 2 and 3 tenths of a second respectively) at Lake Louise using the GR Yaris.

Anyway, when collecting the credits I ended up getting silver meaning that whoever took the top spot must have absolutely smashed it!

Really, I'd like to see how far outside the 3% I got as I remember it was a 1.46:505 which I had to beat. Maybe I was too cautious or just plain rubbish!

Another thing but I was watching Rory 'EERIEISSS' Alexander's stream earlier in the week and the abuse he got from Kimi Velocini was just awful. I know Kimi is dirty but this just beggared belief that I was getting angry for Rory. I don't know if anyone saw it but Digit uploaded a video of it on his channel. Kimi needs to be banned and now.

Have a good day all.

ferrisbueller

29,384 posts

229 months

Friday 5th January
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Basically, this happened: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36qBs-IhGME&t=...

Very late on in the two week window, he blew the gold time into the weeds. Lots of people got caught out.

viggyp

1,917 posts

137 months

Friday 5th January
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ferrisbueller said:
Basically, this happened: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36qBs-IhGME&t=...

Very late on in the two week window, he blew the gold time into the weeds. Lots of people got caught out.
Dear Lord! That is incredible and I noticed how he managed to go around one of the bollards too. Thanks Ferris. They make it look so easy don't they.

Muzzer79

10,186 posts

189 months

Sunday 7th January
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I got this for Christmas for PS5

I’m enjoying most of it but poxy Spa in the poxy wet/dry in a poxy 1970 Porsche 917K! madcensoredbangheadcursefurious