Re: Gran Turismo News and Information

[clacksman]

New A-spec Challenge seasonals too, Wednesday night update as usual. 650pp 5 lap Suzuka was pretty good.

Gonna have to go shopping, I think I'm short an old Fiat too.

[clacksman]

Rounds 3 and 4 of GTAcad '12 are available. Pretty fun batch. Just done the DS3 gold & go so far, snuck into the friendlist top 10 at 4-4 'Spoon Curve'.

[vkaifh]

I got into the top 5 of my friend list for all 5 events of round 3. Currently 150th of 3-4. Neither will last long

And I admit of cheating in the sense of downloading ghosts and using them

I must say the events are quite enjoyable.

[Forgetful]

Went to bed 46th overall in the rd 3 La Sarthe challenge.

[Forgetful]

'supdate to 2.06 - 475mb DLing now

[Forgetful]

http://us.gran-turismo.com/us/news/d6377.html

A new update has been released for Gran Turismo 5.
The main contents of the update are as follows:

- It is now possible to adjust the race BGM and sound effect volume from "Quick Options" during a race.

- A save data backup feature has been added.

- Compatibility for the sequential shift mode of the Guillemot "TH8 RS" gear shifter has been added.

- A "Performance Difference Adjustment" has been added to the rewards for seasonal events (Applies only to seasonal events held after this update).

- Force feedback for the "Driving Force™GT", "GT FORCE®Pro", "G25 Racing Wheel", " G27 Racing Wheel", and " T500 RS" steering wheel controllers have been improved.

- A car with racing modifications applied are now categorized as a Racing Car (previously Tuned Car).

- The off-track shortcut penalty has been tweaked.

- A new GT5 Photo Stream service has started on gran-turismo.com. Photographs taken in Photo Mode and set to "Share" will now appear on a web page viewable by all visitors.
- GT5 Photo Stream


[Correction of Known Issues]
- Fixed a problem where Karts and Ferrari F1 cars could drive together with other cars in the Lounge
- Fixed a rarely occurring issue in which the system freezes when exiting the lounge
- Fixed a problem where you could purchase tires for the 125 SPL racing Kart in the tuning parts shop (Tires purchased previously will now become invalid)
- Fixed a problem in which the straight-line stability of the Lancer Evolution X was decreased when using a steering wheel controller
- Fixed an issue where wrong color dirt and snow tire wheels were displayed on some cars when the wheels were changed
- Fixed delay when launchiing electric cars using controllers other than a steering wheel controller pedal
- Fixed a rarely occurring issue where the system would freeze at the end of a race
- Fixed an issue where it becomes difficult to hear your own car when driving with other racecars in online races, etc.

[clacksman]

Neato.

PS 475MB is way bigger than those bug fixes would require.

[clacksman]

Lurking PSN off and on today. Looks like FFB is stronger/changed, headlighting has been played with, and the automatically-made-upon-game-start backup gamesave works.

[Forgetful]

The new Seasonal events are up. This round introduces the new "Performance Difference Bouns", which increases the payout the lower the PP of your car is.

This is an expert level event using FF cars.

Tuning is allowed up to 430PP, and tires are limited to Sports/Hard or less.

In this race there is a "Performance Difference Bonus" where cars with lower PP receive a reward bonus For example, winning with a 400PP car in this race will roughly double the reward.

Tsukuba - 7 laps
Daytona SS - 5 laps
Cape Ring "Outer" (It's called Periphery, but apparently someone at PD doesn't know that ) - 5 laps
Clubman Stage Route 5 - 7 laps
Eifel (Kart) 103B - 7 laps

Neat. Shame I don't need the credits. Would have been handy a year ago.

[clacksman]

That FF seasonal is neat, grind detected if anyone needs some Cr/XP in a hurry. I ran a 391pp Hyundai, it was giving me 750k ish per win (200% login bonus involved).

OUCD got a refresh too.

[Forgetful]

http://us.gran-turismo.com/us/news/d6399.html

The online service of Gran Turismo 5 will undergo maintenance during the following hours:

Start: 05/31/2012 23:00 EDT
Finish: 06/01/2012 00:00 EDT

During the maintenance, you will not be able to connect to any of the online services.

*Please note that the exact time of the maintenance may slightly vary.

[clacksman]

http://us.gran-turismo.com/us/news/d6399.html

The online service of Gran Turismo 5 will undergo maintenance during the following hours:

Start: 05/31/2012 23:00 EDT
Finish: 06/01/2012 00:00 EDT

During the maintenance, you will not be able to connect to any of the online services.

*Please note that the exact time of the maintenance may slightly vary.

2.07 update rollout apparently. 2 entire megabytes to bugfix the pits at SSRX.

[clacksman]

Just went through GTAcad rounds 7 & 8. Interesting that round 7 had a new car (GT-R Black Tuned) and round 8 had a old car (370Z Tuned '08). One DS3 run per round, other than the Spa traffic one (8-...4?) which took two tries to gold. Somehow 250th overall on 7-3 Cote D'Azur, rest of them were in the thousands. Did a second lap at 8-8 Motegi because I like East best of all the variations there.

[HWKII]

Did 8-5 no where near the proper pace, but that's to be expected. Fun track - hoping they put that in to GT5 soon.

Had some good times in Event 7 that I am sure will tumble down as more people put them in.

[Forgetful]

Playstation Firmware update... *cough* ver. 4.20 *cough*

[clacksman]

Playstation Firmware update... *cough* ver. 4.20 *cough*

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2012/06/25/ps3-system-software-update-v4-20/

Couple audio tweaks, group save data delete/copy, maybe some more stuff.

[Revengel]

Oh, and this:



http://blog.us.playstation.com/2012/06/26/gt5-toyota-fr-s-and-twin-ring-motegi-dlc/



Makes sense with the car commecials & GT Academy wrapping up. Perhaps sometime in a couple-few months there could be an event or two that I could take last place in...

[timneyb]

But no additionally superfluous Subaru BRZ. Curious.

[vkaifh]

$5 for the new track(s); I consider that a fair price

I wouldn't have spent money on the car but when I saw it's free I decided to download it too

[Revengel]

$5 for the new track(s); I consider that a fair price

I wouldn't have spent money on the car but when I saw it's free I decided to download it too

Because free works in everybody's budget!

Track will be popular. At least in my house. Also perhaps they are trying to make as many 86 variants as there are Skylines. We have, what...nine already?

Levin, Truneo, Truneo S-version, New Concept '10, Sports Concept '10, '11, '12, '12 Sport concept, Scion.

Did I miss any?

[HWKII]

Playstation Firmware update... *cough* ver. 4.20 *cough*

Whooooooooooa maaaaannnnnnnnn... My playstation is totally bogarting this firmware...

[clacksman]

But no additionally superfluous Subaru BRZ. Curious.

Indeed. I wonder if they fixed the torque curve on this one.

$5 for the new track(s); I consider that a fair price

Super Speedway, Road Course, and East and West shorter road courses if I'm reading it correctly. Also I'll be able to tell if they modelled it this year or last based on modifications they did for the Indycar race late last fall.

[timneyb]

Here's your $5 sir.

Thank you sir.

[timneyb]

Added tracks and car to GTData.

FR-S needs break in and build to confirm that values are identical to the Toyota 86 GT.

[clacksman]

Also I'll be able to tell if they modelled it this year or last based on modifications they did for the Indycar race late last fall.

The modelling was done not before this time last year; the pit lane in/out on the left side of the front straight of full/west road course is the Indycar pit lane modification done after the natural disaster. The Indycars needed the 'oval' pit lane for space, the normal (right-side) pit lane is too narrow to use. The speedway was too damaged and the track owner (Honda) didn't want to spend the effort on fixing it with all the other stuff that needed doing to regular public infrastructure at the time.

Two and a half raceable tracks. West is kinda useless. East is great. Full road course is pretty good. Speedway is what it is. No weather change kinda disappointing especially for $5.

FR-S is neat. Might have a fruitier exhaust note than the 86GT. Is left-hand drive (correctly). Torque curve is the same guesstimate as the 86 rather than the actual torque curve, ah well.

Some times going into GTData shortly.

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