What are your thoughts on the Gran Turismo Sport Demo?

[DonFerrari]

SvennoJ said:

DonFerrari said:

Perhaps it could also be hard on the processing with over 20 cars all close together fully rendering at once... but I also find it needs to have the option to stand still.

You have the option to do a 20 car grid start in arcade mode, runs fine. Maybe with online lag it could get a mess.

Btw how did you get first on the endurence race? Congrats!

There is some shameless rubberband AI going on. I planned my last pit stop at the end of lap 23, medium tires to the end, comfortably reached first place and suddenly in lap 25 T. Oshima appears out of nowhere (wasn't even in the list on screen when I reached first) zooms past me without effort and for the rest of the race stayed 100 meters in front of me. I'm still shaving of section times and lap times and end the race with my fastest lap times. T. Oshima simply stayed in front, weird.

Perhaps it's like DriveClub, they race with target times with some heavy rubberbanding to stay close to you. I was driven off road in the first half of the race and got stuck against the wall backwards. Plus I got a 10 sec penalty from the AI screwing up and went off road another time avoiding a slow AI car. I recovered from all that or did I really? I caught up suspisiously fast with T Oshima after my 3rd pit stop. I just passed him, went into the pit (he didn't), got out after a 23 sec pit stop and caught up with him before the end of the lap?!

Anyway, I got a taste of it all. Going back to VR now, or maybe try the rally track first. Dunno, it's not really grabbing me. It's pretty and drives well but not giving me the one more go vibe :/ I need to see it in VR I guess. Or perhaps the Nurburgring can get me excited again. I also do miss regular campaign mode. Starting with a crappy old car and tuning it up did have its charm. Plus that gave some guidance to what car to buy next. I have no clue which or why I should buy any cars now.

I haven't played the arcade... so there you have, no processing limitation, maybe lag have something to do with it or they just don't want a fuckover fest on most starts.

Well I started about 32s behind the first place, would take about 4-5s per normal lap until the 6th lap on the tank because my racing soft tyre would be a little slower. I was second or close when I done the first pit on start of 8th lap. Then it was a matter of recovering all the time I lost because of guys making me spin (lost about 12s per spin, happened more than 4 times).

I used racing soft for 6 laps strategy with full tank. I had to do a lot of late breaking and closing doors on some corners where the lambo would catch up very fast to me on the straight, but was bad on fast corners (to me it was a brazilian racer called Castellano that were on first the whole race).

One thing I noticed is that for this race as long as you don't push too hard so you don't commit mistake I would have been leading for half the race instead of just on the last lap.

I suspect that the AI top car have a target time that depends on you. When you are behind it allows you to catch up, but you have to look for very good portions to pass, I suggest you the 3 fast corners that then are followed by 2 almost no corners to gain terrain (that I usually lost on the deep turn) to catch up and then the 2 deep turns for almost 180 degrees for late breaking to overtake.

Considering how much better your times in DC were compared to me I think you can gold all session 6, perhaps you need to get adjusted to GT and TV after DC and VR for so long. I compared our times and positions on the challenges and you weren't as fast as I saw in DC.

The good and bad part of the old campaign starting with the bad car was that you could totally obliterate others if you choose a too powerfull car or you could give you a real challenge by choosing a bad car. With newer installments we got the performance points to show how we compare but still had lot of space for you to humiliate others... but nothing will come close to GT2 when buying Twin Peaks Escudo and going on the first races and being able to overlap some cars on a 3 laps race.

SvennoJ said:

twintail said:

This is part of the appeal. Keep in mind you also get those car prizes. So you have options. If you want to just save for the big stuff you can but its progression. Look around at cars, find the ones that look appealing to you and then compare their stats and buy.

But I think prizes should be enough to get your going for a while. So theres that.

I liked saving up for a new car that would unlock a new bunch of races. I don't think that's there anymore. (I always sold the prize cars in previous versions) I guess since the focus is online, you can save up for the cars that finish in the top 3 and go from there. I don't find cars all that exciting to be honest, they're just tools to get around a track. A nice big windshield and well placed mirrors is what I'll be looking for in VR.

I like cars a lot... I believe you'll have to look on internet guides for the best in class cars or perhaps they can all perform similar in the class. Like if you go on the Nurburgring or Le Mans 24h the cars in each class I believe are quite equivalent.