Gran Turismo 6....Official thread.

[Darkdice]

New 550 seasonal race - 430 scud etc - at apricot hill

I shouldn't be able to catch and win the race in a Clio with the only mods being a sports exhaust and a gearbox which was too short (hitting limiter across the line at 126mph). But I did and with ease - passed the lp560 on lap 4!! FFS

[stephen300o]

Darkdice said:

New 550 seasonal race - 430 scud etc - at apricot hill

I shouldn't be able to catch and win the race in a Clio with the only mods being a sports exhaust and a gearbox which was too short (hitting limiter across the line at 126mph). But I did and with ease - passed the lp560 on lap 4!! FFS

Maybe they weren't trying as hard.

[y2blade]

rufusruffcutt said:

y2blade said:

first I've heard of it tbh...any more details?

GT Planet said:

As confirmed in a major announcement from Polyphony Digital and the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA), Gran Turismo 6 has become the first-ever video game to feature FIA-certified content, with four of the game’s real-world tracks receiving approval from the governing body of world motorsport.

Certification was granted after FIA officials visited Polyphony’s Tokyo development studio to inspect the game’s 3D modeling standards. Other tracks featured in the game are also marked for inspection to receive FIA certification in the future.

Jacques Berger, Head of Safety for the FIA, spoke highly of the game’s quality standards: “It was not until we completed the tests between our track data and the game’s track data that we fully appreciated the level of work and attention to detail that goes into the development of Gran Turismo 6. It was not just the tracks that have been precisely mapped out, but also the surrounding landscapes such as the run-off areas, grandstands and buildings.”

Polyphony Digital’s partnership with the FIA will play an even more important role with the launch of the 2015 FIA Online Championship, an official competition which will be hosted in Gran Turismo by the FIA themselves.

“This innovative new partnership will ensure that millions of Gran Turismo and motor sport fans can race on even more detailed tracks at home. The Gran Turismo series has played an important role in helping to attract a new fan base to motor sport. With the input of FIA in the development of the upcoming FIA Online Championship, Gran Turismo 6 will now offer an experience even closer to the real world of motor sport. We are also excited to be working closely with Polyphony Digital and Sony Computer Entertainment in the future to find new ways to continue to make motor sport more accessible to millions of fans that share a passion for racing,” said FIA president Jean Todt.

Kazunori Yamauchi is understandably very proud of this accomplishment, referring to it as the “biggest accolade we have ever received” and a “major step forward [in] our mission to connect our virtual and real racing worlds”.

Stay tuned for more news and details on the FIA Online Championship, which is sure to be a major event in the world of Gran Turismo next year!

As revealed during Kazunori Yamauchi’s joint presentation with FIA president Jean Todt at the ADAC headquarters in Munich, the competition will consist of three “championships”: the “National Championship”, “Regional Championship”, and an “International Championship”.

Other details include:

To be made accessible to all age groups.
A wide variety of racing categories.
Winner celebrated at FIA Prize Giving ceremony.
Delivery of a message emphasizing safety.
Final race to be supervised by FIA officials.

These details emphasize the high-profile nature of the competition – the “FIA Prize Giving Ceremony” is one of the most glamorous off-track events in motorsport. Typically held in Monaco or Paris, it’s where the Formula One, WRC, WTCC, WEC, and all other FIA-sanctioned world championship trophies are awarded, and next year a Gran Turismo player will be right there with them.

Wow thank you.


Any hint on GT for the PS4 at all?

[stephen300o]

Yeah I am sure the FIA's head of safety will approve.. What the heck!? What a weird turn of events.

[rufusruffcutt]

y2blade said:

Any hint on GT for the PS4 at all?

No, nothing at all for either a Prologue version or GT7 for the PS4. So fingers crossed Project Cars is half decent on PS4 because it could be a long wait - again.

[RobGT81]

Sound update coming in GT7, it will have standard cars.

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/298n04/i_am_...

[y2blade]

GT7 news.....will have a mix of stty looking standard cars and better looking premium ones just like GT6
+
No prologue version this time


http://www.gtplanet.net/no-prologue-for-gran-turis...


Edit: ah beaten to it

Edited by y2blade on Friday 27th June 22:47

[designndrive62]

RobGT81 said:

Sound update coming in GT7, it will have standard cars.

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/298n04/i_am_...

I admire him for his outlook and aims but he seems to become distracted easily and rarely delivers everything he promises. I think he needs to be a bit more realistic in his goals....

A lot like the fia really! Maybe as a team they can actually deliver something but I don't hold my breath.

[kiseca]

designndrive62 said:

RobGT81 said:

Sound update coming in GT7, it will have standard cars.

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/298n04/i_am_...

I admire him for his outlook and aims but he seems to become distracted easily and rarely delivers everything he promises. I think he needs to be a bit more realistic in his goals....

A lot like the fia really! Maybe as a team they can actually deliver something but I don't hold my breath.

Well, at least one of those promises are likely to be kept.

[Slagathore]

Mattygooner said:

Both iracing and Assetto Corsa are really very good, the later of which has just announced they are going to implement the same sound system and Forza which is where it is lacking at the moment, Rfactor 2 is good and Project cars is advancing rapidly but looks absolutely gorgeous on a powerful machine.

You don't even really need a power house machine, I am still running a i7 sandy bridge with the only upgrade being a GTX Titan graphics card and it runs even the most demanding at full bells with much to spare, more than a PS4 but not as costly as you think.

I don't know why GT6 with all its development power can constantly disappoint when it could be great, the Sim game is changing with so much choice, they need to up their game.

I've seen a few videos on Youtube of AC and Iracing, and that's what has really sold it to me. Looks a lot better than GT6. I think PC gaming will always be that little bit better than consoles.

Yeah, I found a guide online for building a computer for Iracing, and it basically says that you don't need massive CPU power, just decent CPU and as good a graphics card as you can afford. From what I've specced up so far, it seems to be around the £1300 mark with i7 4820k and Gigabyte GTX 770. The Titan is a bit out of my price range at £700+ That would be half the build cost on the graphics card alone.

I was speaking to a friend who said that's overkill for the current generation of games, but also that there is a new Intel chipset and CPUs coming out later in the year, so think I'll wait for that and see what the prices are like for those, or if if lowers the prices of the above a bit. I'd rather spend a bit more and have an overkill machine that easily runs the latest games at full settings.

My T500rs seems a bit wasted on the Playstation. Can't really adjust any of the settings too much and the force feedback is meant to be much better on PC.

[Mattygooner]

Slagathore said:

I've seen a few videos on Youtube of AC and Iracing, and that's what has really sold it to me. Looks a lot better than GT6. I think PC gaming will always be that little bit better than consoles.

Yeah, I found a guide online for building a computer for Iracing, and it basically says that you don't need massive CPU power, just decent CPU and as good a graphics card as you can afford. From what I've specced up so far, it seems to be around the £1300 mark with i7 4820k and Gigabyte GTX 770. The Titan is a bit out of my price range at £700+ That would be half the build cost on the graphics card alone.

I was speaking to a friend who said that's overkill for the current generation of games, but also that there is a new Intel chipset and CPUs coming out later in the year, so think I'll wait for that and see what the prices are like for those, or if if lowers the prices of the above a bit. I'd rather spend a bit more and have an overkill machine that easily runs the latest games at full settings.

My T500rs seems a bit wasted on the Playstation. Can't really adjust any of the settings too much and the force feedback is meant to be much better on PC.

Yeah, the Titan is overkill, but I would rather have too much than not be able to run everything in all its glory, the new version is over 2 grand!! But it is a beast, effectively 2 cards and 6gig of Ram. I actually got an error playing a particularly graphic hungry mission on FSX with heavy cloud and everything on full that I had run out of memory, 22gig GPU and RAM! god knows what they were expecting when it released some 9 years ago. My Sapphire 9600 would have shat itself.

Well, at £14.99 AC is a bargain for something which is developing as well as it is, first mod also just released and already a promise to sort out the sounds. Kunos is listening to what people want improved upon and he is getting it done. As for other PC sims, Rfactor 2 is actually very good despite the slow progression and hopefully the very best mods like Historic X, ProtoC and DRM revival to name a few will be updated and ported across, the game rather depends on quality mods. PCars, despite what people say is not an arcade racer, not by a long shot, the physics model is constantly updating and improving, and the system they are using is actually one of the most complex used in sim racing, I am confident that it will be one of the best when it is released and it looks incredible, Le Mans with the sun going down and some black clouds in the sky looks about as good as it can do on a monitor.

And on to GT6, the recent announcement looks like more of the same 900 9 year old models of different skylines and not a lot else, disappointing. the FIA tie-up is bad news personally as I don't think Polyphony will make the most out of it and it will probably mean that proper sims will have difficulty obtaining licenses and doing them justice, Pcars has just signed a partnership with the ACO for Le Mans so hopefully some good will come of that. For me it is telling that i turn to Forza 4 on a gamepad rather than GT6 with a proper wheel setup. But, it could all change with GT7, the team are more than capable of making it special.

[Slagathore]

Mattygooner said:

Yeah, the Titan is overkill, but I would rather have too much than not be able to run everything in all its glory, the new version is over 2 grand!! But it is a beast, effectively 2 cards and 6gig of Ram. I actually got an error playing a particularly graphic hungry mission on FSX with heavy cloud and everything on full that I had run out of memory, 22gig GPU and RAM! god knows what they were expecting when it released some 9 years ago. My Sapphire 9600 would have shat itself.

Well, at £14.99 AC is a bargain for something which is developing as well as it is, first mod also just released and already a promise to sort out the sounds. Kunos is listening to what people want improved upon and he is getting it done. As for other PC sims, Rfactor 2 is actually very good despite the slow progression and hopefully the very best mods like Historic X, ProtoC and DRM revival to name a few will be updated and ported across, the game rather depends on quality mods. PCars, despite what people say is not an arcade racer, not by a long shot, the physics model is constantly updating and improving, and the system they are using is actually one of the most complex used in sim racing, I am confident that it will be one of the best when it is released and it looks incredible, Le Mans with the sun going down and some black clouds in the sky looks about as good as it can do on a monitor.

And on to GT6, the recent announcement looks like more of the same 900 9 year old models of different skylines and not a lot else, disappointing. the FIA tie-up is bad news personally as I don't think Polyphony will make the most out of it and it will probably mean that proper sims will have difficulty obtaining licenses and doing them justice, Pcars has just signed a partnership with the ACO for Le Mans so hopefully some good will come of that. For me it is telling that i turn to Forza 4 on a gamepad rather than GT6 with a proper wheel setup. But, it could all change with GT7, the team are more than capable of making it special.

Ha, yeah, that's the way I see it. Would rather have a system capable of running everything on the best settings than have something a bit cheaper that will just run them adequately. Might start buying the generic stuff like case, Fans and HDD etc now so that then when it comes to the main bits, it feels a bit less like I've spent a fortune! I'll probably only run the racing sims and maybe a few fps shooters, so nothing hugely demanding.

Asseto Corsa, Iracing, Project Cars and Rfactor will be on the list. My sim mad friend is raving about Project Cars and can't wait for it, so hopefully it's as good as he's saying.

Yeah, there's loads of cars on GT6, but some I just have zero interest in. Like the 1 Caterham! Really disappointing. Would like to have seen some Radicals as well. No Exige, either. The tuning does get a bit frustrating as well, some cars even with all the power mods still could do with an extra 100bhp! Like in real life, the power is there if you want to spend the money, I'd rather further options to get more power, even if the price hike was a couple hundred K credits.

If I make the move over to PC, I probably won't get a PS4 for when GT7 comes out, I don't think it'd be worth it after playing games like AC and Iracing.

[sparks_E39]

y2blade said:

GT7 news.....will have a mix of stty looking standard cars and better looking premium ones just like GT6
+
No prologue version this time


http://www.gtplanet.net/no-prologue-for-gran-turis...


Edit: ah beaten to it

Edited by y2blade on Friday 27th June 22:47

GT7 can't have standard cars, sorry but on the PS4 that's just fking unacceptable. PD are way way short of the competition already....

[CBR JGWRR]

sparks_E39 said:

GT7 can't have standard cars, sorry but on the PS4 that's just fking unacceptable. PD are way way short of the competition already....

On the bright side, at least we know now we don't have to get 7, as it will just be 6 again.

FIA approval for a game normally would mean something positive, but for GT it just makes me feel sorry for a developer who actually wants to do a series justice, but no longer can due to Polyphony and their half-arsed approach.

[Bullett]

Slagathore said:

I've seen a few videos on Youtube of AC and Iracing, and that's what has really sold it to me. Looks a lot better than GT6. I think PC gaming will always be that little bit better than consoles.

Yeah, I found a guide online for building a computer for Iracing, and it basically says that you don't need massive CPU power, just decent CPU and as good a graphics card as you can afford. From what I've specced up so far, it seems to be around the £1300 mark with i7 4820k and Gigabyte GTX 770. The Titan is a bit out of my price range at £700+ That would be half the build cost on the graphics card alone.

GT hasn't had a look in since I got into IRacing. You don't need anything special to run it unless you get into multiple monitor set ups. My single monitor set runs everything as high as it will go on an i5 3570k @3.4 with 8gb, SSD and a ATI 7990. I was running it fine on an old Dual core E6600 and 6770. It support Oculus Rift as well out of the box.
It proves you don't need 100's of cars. I've driven 2 mostly over the last year an MX5 and a Skippy (open wheel formula ford type car). They feel totally different to each other to drive not just faster or slower like GT.

[DanielSan]

sparks_E39 said:

GT7 can't have standard cars, sorry but on the PS4 that's just fking unacceptable. PD are way way short of the competition already....

I think thats put the final nail into the coffin regarding whether I buy a PS4 or nor. When it's time to change the PS3 it's going to be for an xbox one and forza.

[24lemons]

To be honest I'd be very surprised if GT7's standard cars turned out to be the same as the ones we have now.

I doubt that even polyphony are that arrogant or stupid as to believe they could get away with that.

I would suspect that the standards will be something along the lines of the current premiums and the new premiums will be proper next gen models.

[Killer2005]

Are there any proper endurance races as on the old games? I've done a the 24 minds of Le Mans, but I was slightly hoping for something a bit longer.

[stephen300o]

DanielSan said:

sparks_E39 said:

GT7 can't have standard cars, sorry but on the PS4 that's just fking unacceptable. PD are way way short of the competition already....

I think thats put the final nail into the coffin regarding whether I buy a PS4 or nor. When it's time to change the PS3 it's going to be for an xbox one and forza.

Out of the frying pan, into the fire.

[Richyvrlimited]

24lemons said:

To be honest I'd be very surprised if GT7's standard cars turned out to be the same as the ones we have now.

I doubt that even polyphony are that arrogant or stupid as to believe they could get away with that.

I would suspect that the standards will be something along the lines of the current premiums and the new premiums will be proper next gen models.

You're being extremely naive if you think that all of the current 'premium' cars will be updated to a higher level again, and also that all the current 'standard' cars will be brought to the current premium level.

There will be 20-30 'new' cars added and a few more tracks, the new cars and a few of the current ones will have the sound improved upon. The rest will stay exactly as it is.

But there will be much more of the unnecessary stuff, like accurately modeled raindrops, and a perfect clone of the 2015 Le Man fireworks etc etc