GT5 ship date predictions

[68_427]

Haha!  I still remember driving a Corvette Z06 around a wet circle and never being able to do it quickly enough or without spinning or understeering off. 

Good old GT3.  I remember trying to do it one night at my friend's house and we got so close.

[Gotta-Qik-C7]

Those test are the biggest waste of time, on top of being a royal pain!

[68_427]

Agreed.  I haven't done any in GT5.

[BimmerM3]

Estimated arrival date for G27: Monday.

This pleases me. I bet I'd have had it today if it weren't for the storm.

[Onslaught]

Estimated arrival date for G27: Monday.

This pleases me. I bet I'd have had it today if it weren't for the storm.

I love the feel of the G27. One problem, you can't program the buttons and I don't like  how they've got all of them.

[68_427]

My pedals come in about a week and a half.

[BimmerM3]

I love the feel of the G27. One problem, you can't program the buttons and I don't like  how they've got all of them.

I feel like we need to make a comprehensive list of specific things that the GT5 team needs to improve. We could make it as good as possible here, then post it on other car forums and sites like Reddit to gain popularity and other input. Who knows, if it gets big enough on a site like Reddit, the GT5 team might actually see it.

Would you guys be interested in trying something like this? We should probably start a new thread if we want this to happen.

[68_427]

Gtplanet has that sort of thing covered.  I doubt we could get morebijterest from PD than GTP

[BimmerM3]

BTW, I bought an RUF Yellow Bird earlier, just because I could. Found it in the Used Car Dealership. ~177,000cr.

[68_427]

BTW, I bought an RUF Yellow Bird earlier, just because I could. Found it in the Used Car Dealership. ~177,000cr.

How many miles?  er kms?

[BimmerM3]

How many miles?  er kms?

31,202.5 miles (I switched the units to miles).

I haven't done anything to it except an oil change.

456HP/6000rpm 
402lb-ft/5000rpm

[r0tor]

I'm fairly sick of the game... I'm never able to race in the races with the car i want because i can never afford the ones i want, i cant sell the hundred other cars i dont like for money, the sounds suck, the online environment is a clusterfuck, and driving the high power cars is next to impossible because anytime i hit the gas the rear tires go red and the car acts like its on ice.

bleh

[Gotta-Qik-C7]

I'm fairly sick of the game... I'm never able to race in the races with the car i want because i can never afford the ones i want, i cant sell the hundred other cars i dont like for money, the sounds suck, the online environment is a clusterfuck, and driving the high power cars is next to impossible because anytime i hit the gas the rear tires go red and the car acts like its on ice.

bleh

LOL! I have a lot of bullshit cars in my garage too!

[Onslaught]

Hold on. I've not looked at that yet for some reason. You can't sell the crap cars you win?

[Gotta-Qik-C7]

You can sell them.

[r0tor]

Hold on. I've not looked at that yet for some reason. You can't sell the crap cars you win?

Nope, you can only delete them

[Northlands]

Yeah there's a whole bunch that don't have any credit value. For reasons Rotor said, I've stopped playing the game about a month ago. It's trade bait at this point. When I've some more free time, I'll be looking at Xbox 360's for another famous driving game. 

[MX793]

Nope, you can only delete them

I've sold a few of the crappy cars (Demios and Vitzes and whatnot) I've won for money.  IIRC, some of the concepts have no monetary value and thus can only be deleted, but I'm pretty sure any car that is won that can also be purchased from either the new or used car dealerships can be sold for credits.

[68_427]

You can't sell expensive cars because they don't want money to be that easy.. I think.

Rotor do the seasonal events.  MAD MONEY YO

[BimmerM3]

B-spec is pretty good for money too. If you can beat the A-spec races, you should be able to use the same cars for B-spec.

[r0tor]

I have no use for b-spec

[MX793]

B-spec is pretty good for money too. If you can beat the A-spec races, you should be able to use the same cars for B-spec.

Not necessarily.  There are some A-spec races where I fitted my car with racing tires (in lieu of other mods) to be able to win and many of the lower level B-spec races don't allow anything better than sport tires.  Meaning I have to dump even more money into the car to allow my B-spec driver to win.

On top of that, the B-spec drivers are terrible.  I'm pretty sure one of mine is based on Jeremy Clarkson.  Put him in a RWD car with more than 200 hp and he powerslides and/or fishtails out of every turn even when his aggression meter is in the blue.

[Gotta-Qik-C7]

I have no use for b-spec

[565]

Not necessarily.  There are some A-spec races where I fitted my car with racing tires (in lieu of other mods) to be able to win and many of the lower level B-spec races don't allow anything better than sport tires.  Meaning I have to dump even more money into the car to allow my B-spec driver to win.

On top of that, the B-spec drivers are terrible.  I'm pretty sure one of mine is based on Jeremy Clarkson.  Put him in a RWD car with more than 200 hp and he powerslides and/or fishtails out of every turn even when his aggression meter is in the blue.

Maybe you got a bad batch of drivers.  My B spec driver controls my 957hp Zonda R and 900+ HP fully modded ZR1 perfectly well, even on races where tires are restricted down to sports medium or lower.  I've tried to drive the modded Zonda R with sport mediums, it's not humanly possible, and yet my B spec driver controls it easily, occasionally holding some perfect drifts when his aggression meter gets into the red.  I  my B spec driver.

[BimmerM3]

Not necessarily.  There are some A-spec races where I fitted my car with racing tires (in lieu of other mods) to be able to win and many of the lower level B-spec races don't allow anything better than sport tires.  Meaning I have to dump even more money into the car to allow my B-spec driver to win.

That's true. I just started on B-spec, so I haven't gotten to the point where I needed racing tires for A-spec. I used Sport Soft tires on most of the races before Expert series, so hopefully I'll just have to downgrade those to Sport Hard.

Actually, I think I'm going to start a new game once I get my steering wheel anyway (mostly because my current game file is on my roommate's PSN account, and I don't think can transfer to a different PSN account), so I'll just make sure I don't use anything softer than Sport Hard to win those races.

[Raza]

Started playing Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit.  I can see why it outscored GT5 on IGN.  It's actually fun. 

[Cookie Monster]

Not necessarily.  There are some A-spec races where I fitted my car with racing tires (in lieu of other mods) to be able to win and many of the lower level B-spec races don't allow anything better than sport tires.  Meaning I have to dump even more money into the car to allow my B-spec driver to win.

On top of that, the B-spec drivers are terrible.  I'm pretty sure one of mine is based on Jeremy Clarkson.  Put him in a RWD car with more than 200 hp and he powerslides and/or fishtails out of every turn even when his aggression meter is in the blue.

I thought your B-spec driver had to be trained.

[MX793]

I thought your B-spec driver had to be trained.

They do, and I'm hoping they get better as they get more experience (right now both are at level 6 or 7).  One of them isn't so bad with RWD cars and only tends to fishtail when his meter is in the red (and even then it's not every corner).

[68_427]

My driver is like level 22 or something.  Unfortunateley once he gets to a high enough level or you use him too much I hear his stats start to decline.

[BimmerM3]

Got t3h G27 today. Me gusta.

I don't have a very good set up for it right now though. I need to investigate the Home Depot down the street to see if I can remedy the situation.

Also, what did you guys do to make the pedals stop sliding on the carpet? Mine are sliding all over the place? Or, now that I think about it, is there something under the pedal stand that I'm supposed to lower to grab the carpet better?