Gran Turismo 7

[MCBrowncoat]

UTH said:

What is everyone using to race? Are most people on some sort of wheel setup, or mostly just using the controller?

Controller. And an armchair

[JRFrench]

From what I’ve heard, the latest physics update was mainly to fix the MR Gr.3 cars along with a few others….but has ultimately ruined the handling on the majority of the cars now.

As a consequence of the major physics changes, they’ve also reset all the leaderboards for licenses, circuit experiences and missions which is pretty stupid.

The penalty system is also worse than it’s ever been, particularly at Watkins Glen this week where people are getting 10sec penalties for tapping a wall.

Got to laugh really

[TO73074E]

I was doing the Le Mans 700pp race in a Porsche 959 and got caught in a massive rain storm on hard slicks. Going up to Mulsanne Corner it just aquaplaned straight into the barrier and gave me a 6.5 second time penalty. It started aquaplaning just before the advertising hording going over the track. Gravel did nothing!

Also with the glitching, again at Le Mans has anyone noticed the track itself glitches when going through Tertre Rouge just as it starts raining and when it is drying out? This is on a PS5 but it has always done this even before the new update.

[T3LLIOTT]

TO73074E said:

I was doing the Le Mans 700pp race in a Porsche 959 and got caught in a massive rain storm on hard slicks. Going up to Mulsanne Corner it just aquaplaned straight into the barrier and gave me a 6.5 second time penalty. It started aquaplaning just before the advertising hording going over the track. Gravel did nothing!

Also with the glitching, again at Le Mans has anyone noticed the track itself glitches when going through Tertre Rouge just as it starts raining and when it is drying out? This is on a PS5 but it has always done this even before the new update.

Yes, I’ve noticed this glitch too. Always been there unfortunately.

[MCBrowncoat]

T3LLIOTT said:

TO73074E said:

I was doing the Le Mans 700pp race in a Porsche 959 and got caught in a massive rain storm on hard slicks. Going up to Mulsanne Corner it just aquaplaned straight into the barrier and gave me a 6.5 second time penalty. It started aquaplaning just before the advertising hording going over the track. Gravel did nothing!

Also with the glitching, again at Le Mans has anyone noticed the track itself glitches when going through Tertre Rouge just as it starts raining and when it is drying out? This is on a PS5 but it has always done this even before the new update.

Yes, I’ve noticed this glitch too. Always been there unfortunately.

Hmm, it feels like they've adjusted how slippy it is off the dry line to me. Admittedly I've just been doing the Le Mans race in a 930, so it's liable to act like a pendulum at times, but going into the first chicane down the Mulsanne just now on a track where the dry line was about a 3rd of the way in that first section of the rainmeter, slightly off line on the left turn of it, ploughed straight into the tyre barrier on the exit. Could not turn, felt impossible. Not sure that would have happened before.

And then slightly on the wet line going into turn one resulted in multiple spins. Oth times on slicks on a almost dried track

Braking distances seemed a little long on wets to going into mulsanne corner, straight over the gravel trap into the barrier. Just ploughed on. Been modulating braking

[SturdyHSV]

MCBrowncoat said:

slightly off line on the left turn of it, ploughed straight into the tyre barrier on the exit. Could not turn, felt impossible. Not sure that would have happened before.

There seems to have been a significant increase in how rearward weight transfer creates understeer, this could have also played a part in that incident?

[MCBrowncoat]

SturdyHSV said:

MCBrowncoat said:

slightly off line on the left turn of it, ploughed straight into the tyre barrier on the exit. Could not turn, felt impossible. Not sure that would have happened before.

There seems to have been a significant increase in how rearward weight transfer creates understeer, this could have also played a part in that incident?

Hmm, not sure, but I think the transfer would have already happened - that first chicane is a right - left - right, right? () so by the time I'm taking the left hand part I'm already feeding the throttle back in, not braking

I dunno, just seemed super slippy to me. But could be the way the 930 behaves too. Combination of things maybe.

I negotiated the first right hand part fine, caught the damp patch near the kerb on the left hand part, that hampered me turning and pushed me over to the right side of the track and onto the other damp patch, and at that point I couldn't brake or turn, so barrier it was. And then the bounce off the barrier span me round anti-clockwise as well. Like being on ice

[Don Roque]

I hadn't realised that the physics model had changed when I logged in the other day and bought the 959. It was all over the bloody road and I thought it seemed more flighty than other sims where I've driven it. Well, the new model explains it. Still a very quick car but obviously needing a little more delicacy than I was giving it at the time.

[Avenicus]

MCBrowncoat said:

Controller. And an armchair

And a beer

[Avenicus]

Catching damp parts of the track is now really nasty


I need some variety. For the grind, I am mainly doing these thrown in with a few other bits and pieces;

Aston DP-100 VGT on Le Mans 30 min (weather fun)
Porsche 962C on Spa 1 hour (weather fun)
Porsche 962C on Sardegna Road Track 15 laps (always dry)

I know it's been asked before, but what are your favourites at the moment?

[MCBrowncoat]

Avenicus said:

Catching damp parts of the track is now really nasty


I need some variety. For the grind, I am mainly doing these thrown in with a few other bits and pieces;

Aston DP-100 VGT on Le Mans 30 min (weather fun)
Porsche 962C on Spa 1 hour (weather fun)
Porsche 962C on Sardegna Road Track 15 laps (always dry)

I know it's been asked before, but what are your favourites at the moment?

I've just been playing around with stuff I haven't fully tuned yet, starting with the first things I won. Then playing in a kind of tune as you earn way. Nothing I won early doors is good enough to do the big cash prize stuff

I've also been messing around in my engine swapped 930. Which I've painted in Porsche's Ultraviolet which looks rather sharp...

Also made a 2 lap race round Route X to sit there for 9 minutes in the 1200bhp Silvia Q's just to quickly get the driving marathon ticket, as I'm still hunting down the Veneno.

I've also got a stock Delta (other one has the engine swap) so tonight I'm probably going to do the tune as you earn method in various races. Slowly getting up to 1 million to get the last car from the update (the DTM Audi)

I've got all the cars so it's nice just to pick something I haven't tuned up, or used much, and play around with the setup.

Edited by MCBrowncoat on Thursday 6th April 17:08

[jammy-git]

Sounds like the handling is back to how it was on release day.

[ferrisbueller]

Has tyre temp become a bigger factor? Driving a 962 on RH in a race with tyre wear, absolutely no front end grip. Just understeer everywhere.

[ferrisbueller]

I've just got the Veneno on a six-star roulette: Remarkable.

[ferrisbueller]

Dynamic weather in quali. wtf.

[Avenicus]

ferrisbueller said:

I've just got the Veneno on a six-star roulette: Remarkable.

Ooooh! Thought that was invite only? That's the last car I need.

[ferrisbueller]

Avenicus said:

ferrisbueller said:

I've just got the Veneno on a six-star roulette: Remarkable.

Ooooh! Thought that was invite only? That's the last car I need.

So did I. And based on your experience I'd bought one when I got the invite!

[MCBrowncoat]

ferrisbueller said:

Avenicus said:

ferrisbueller said:

I've just got the Veneno on a six-star roulette: Remarkable.

Ooooh! Thought that was invite only? That's the last car I need.

So did I. And based on your experience I'd bought one when I got the invite!

Last car I need too. Five months so far. Tbh, haven't had an invite for ages....sad face.

Happy for you though!

[TO73074E]

Avenicus said:

Catching damp parts of the track is now really nasty


I need some variety. For the grind, I am mainly doing these thrown in with a few other bits and pieces;

Aston DP-100 VGT on Le Mans 30 min (weather fun)
Porsche 962C on Spa 1 hour (weather fun)
Porsche 962C on Sardegna Road Track 15 laps (always dry)

I know it's been asked before, but what are your favourites at the moment?

After hammering the Le Mans 30 min race to gain enough credits for the Porsche 917K I have switched it up to the Spa 1 Hour race. The weather and day / night cycle make it a much more enjoyable race. Plus the rain seems to be much more severe than at Le Mans. It is Spa after all!

The last time I did Spa I used the Audi RS5 DTM, I pitted just as the rain started which seemed to catch out half the field that had passed me while I was in the pits so caught them with ease on full wet tyres. As the track dried down to Intermediate levels of wetness I noticed the wets wear much faster which I prefer to how it was.

I switch over to hard slicks as you could see a dry line appearing, but if you stepped off that line onto really wet parts of the track it caught me out completely on 3 occasions. I really like the changes they have made to how the tyres behave.

[MCBrowncoat]

MCBrowncoat said:

ferrisbueller said:

Avenicus said:

ferrisbueller said:

I've just got the Veneno on a six-star roulette: Remarkable.

Ooooh! Thought that was invite only? That's the last car I need.

So did I. And based on your experience I'd bought one when I got the invite!

Last car I need too. Five months so far. Tbh, haven't had an invite for ages....sad face.

Happy for you though!

Okay....Avenicus you might want to do the marathon today....



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