Excited for GT7? Me, too, so I unboxed a Thrustmaster T300RS!

[SvennoJ]

Second impressions: Not good.

I turned the adaptive triggers off for the brakes. It's just annoying, not helpful at all.
Races are the old upgrade to win again while the AI is the same rubber band nonsense as always.
The perspective or FOV in default bumper cam is off, zoomed out to increase the sense of speed I guess, Tracks look longer and wider as a result, stretched.
Sport mode has tuning, no contact penalties, it's a crap show. And now also the indication whether you gained or lost SR is gone after the race.
Lobbies are missing the show only rooms with friends option, annoying.

I tried to race on the Nordschleife in a lobby (still locked in single player, got to grind) which I have been racing on all week in GT Sport. It looks ugly in GT7. Maybe it was the time of day (low sun) chosen by the host, yet the road looked like plastic and overall the lighting is a big downgrade (but dynamic)

Single player is kinda boring, collect cars and unlock more things to do by doing the cafe missions. I'm not far in yet mind, yet at this point I prefer the 'campaign' of GT Sport lol. This cafe stuff is already feeling tedious after 9 'menus' (need to complete the first 9 to unlock multiplayer) It's the same thing over and over, place 3rd or better in 3 short Sunday cup races to collect the cars.

I guess it will get better when it opens up more and I unlock more. Atm it feels like a heavy dose of buyers remorse and I'll be playing GT Sport again tomorrow. I'm going to play Horizon FW now to get rid of this yucky feeling from GT7. It feels like a step backwards, messing more things up that worked in GT Sport at the start.