Next Gran Turismo 5 Update Coming February 18th
Mark your calendars! Kazunori Yamauchi has just announced via Twitter the next update will be made available for Gran Turismo 5 this coming Friday, February 18th. Via Google Translator:
In the next update. What day 18 February. RT @ driftlover35r: @ Kaz_Yamauchi PP scheme is implemented or when? Have the sameadvantage in torque power difference, I get the penalty.
As you can see, Kazunori also appears to confirm the return of the “Performance Points” system used to benchmark cars in GT5 Prologue may be returning to GT5.
In addition to new features and bug fixes, this will have an effect on the start of the third round of GT Academy USA, originally slated to begin February 14th but postponed until after this update has been issued. Thanks to everyone who sent this in so quickly – stay tuned for more!
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February 18th, 2011 at 6:51 am - #lee
Few changes. Nothing that impressive. In my opinion!
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February 17th, 2011 at 11:19 pm - #Shaun001
Updates out no news on whats exactly in it yet but i can see PP and gran-turismo.com is down for maintanance so maybe gt anywhere :)
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February 18th, 2011 at 1:12 am - #Carmen
Custom tranny works, dealerships now have checkmarks for cars you already own. Don’t know what else yet though. Connection error requiring a reboot…..
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February 17th, 2011 at 10:38 pm - #mickey
Update is installing now…1.06 301mb
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February 17th, 2011 at 8:57 pm - #GTfan
i like the PP system “idea” id didnt penilize enuf for low weight in gt5P. it would also be nice if the system gave a carp what track youre on, and what drive train you have. like 4wd at dayton should probably drop a few pp but 4wd at autim ring mini should add a few pp (for exsample) as it is right now you can limit hp and weight that dosnt make it even, the lightest car that can hit the max hp limit will be the best. and what if you want to try a not so good handeling car but that has a lot of powr and see if you can win? cant do that now every one has the same hp. restricting car type would be nice to, like street car, race mod, pure race car, f1, prototype.
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February 18th, 2011 at 1:05 am - #WangansGodHand
wat
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February 16th, 2011 at 8:19 pm - #Hoodie
Sooooo… there’s a save game bug that affects everybody eventually, and we can fix it using the update.
Awesome. My PS3 doesn’t connect to the internet because of my stupid mobile broadband. Are you telling me I have to now pay for a new internet connection JUST to keep playing GT5?
This game sucks. Hard.
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February 16th, 2011 at 8:48 pm - #Alexander
Wow, I hadn’t even thought of that. Since you are not getting museum cards you should have quite a bit of time, but i’d be looking for a friend with a connection I could borrow for the update.
I wonder though, given the situation, if a downloadable fix might become available through a PC. The backlash potential to PD’s sales and reputation could be pretty high otherwise I would think. -
February 18th, 2011 at 2:37 am - #Obli
Wasn’t the bug introduced in a previous update? So if you’ve never downloaded any patches for GT5, you should be ok. If you can, it’d be worth updating though.
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February 16th, 2011 at 11:09 am - #Xeno
I realy dont like the PP idea. It realy sucks. But if they do use it in next update, i hope they will take alot more in account than the power ratio. Cause that just sucks and the prologue version realy sucked. The game isnt realy hard, but it takes way too long to level up on it. Thus the PP thingy wouldnt help. Otherwise I realy like the game:)
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February 15th, 2011 at 10:56 pm - #James
Does anyone know what this update will contain besides Performance Point and the GT5 game save file size fix?Don’t get me wrong i am glad both of these things are in but i was wondering if that is all that is going to be in there.
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February 15th, 2011 at 10:55 pm - #Ferdinand
Can we still dupe cars this friday? I have a lot of trades to do on the weekend still.
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February 15th, 2011 at 3:09 pm - #Rikard
Are they going to update all the flaws with the game? Are all standard cars going to be Premium cars?
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February 15th, 2011 at 5:41 pm - #O_o
No (well mabey, but that’s subjective) and no (some cars yes, all cars no).
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February 15th, 2011 at 2:41 pm - #chump
I hope they fix the mclaren tach, improve craptastic shadows, allow for individual gear change and fix everything thing else in between. :)
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February 15th, 2011 at 2:08 pm - #TakeshiSkunk
Oh yeah THAT’s why I stopped reading comments on the new entries.
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February 15th, 2011 at 1:32 pm - #DC
I’m happy they are implementing performance points. I like to know I’m on a relatively level playing field with the AI. As it is now, it’s difficult for me to know if I’m driving well or just overpowering the competition, ruining my sense of accomplishment. I’ve been playing less and less recently because of this….it doesn’t help that I won a ton of money in the seasonal events and my drive to play more to buy my dream cars has diminished.
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February 15th, 2011 at 6:30 am - #dvdxploitr
I’ve gotten bored with the game as it is, any new features will definitely get me back into the game. I have a Level 40 B-Spec driver and TONS of cars (over 400) and about 18M in credits, all the licenses and all the Gold in B-Spec. Only thing left is Gold in the Endurance races on the A-Spec and I do NOT look forward to the 24 hour races..got bored during the Daytona 500 race even..
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February 14th, 2011 at 7:42 pm - #mocheelz
I hope there’s much more in this update besides the PP system. What about customizable gear ratios. That’s a very important one, and I really hope they add more support and tweaking for the Logitech G27, especially being able to map those buttons on my steering wheel.
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February 14th, 2011 at 2:05 pm - #HighPlainaDrftr
I might be OK with the PP system if they leave out the penalty system from GT5P. That is one reason I quit playing, I would get a time penalty when someone hit me and they would just sail right on past. If I did the same, I get the penalty and they still cruise on past. Maybe I should give it another try.
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February 14th, 2011 at 11:46 am - #schigara
I think PP is a great idea. I am not a very fast driver and the only races that are challenging are the FGT and Vettel. When I say I am not very fast, I usually rank in between 2000-5000th place in the seasonal time trials and the racing is still way too easy in A-spec.
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February 14th, 2011 at 8:41 am - #Rob
Why is everyone assuming from those few poorly translated words mean performance points?
When I read the tweet, I took PP as meaning ‘P1$$ Poor’ as in we implementing a p1$$ poor update. A lot seem to be read into non official news and over the week they become the expectation
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February 14th, 2011 at 10:38 am - #pudge
You’re not funny.
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February 14th, 2011 at 4:00 pm - #Rob
Wasn’t meant to be. But back on topic, It seems to be gospel that we are getting performance points, they’re fixing the savegame and were getting b-spec anywhere. I’m just not sure how these rumours become so trusted.
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February 14th, 2011 at 8:59 pm - #Haverdash
Yep, you made alot more sense when it looked like you where trolling.
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February 14th, 2011 at 9:10 pm - #Brian
Apparently he isn’t aware all of these “rumors” came from Kaz himself, (who hase also refered to performance points has “pp” before so that it would fit in a tweet). Not exactly third party unreliable sources.
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February 14th, 2011 at 5:15 am - #Mohamu
Why don’t they push out an official post about the updates? Now we’ve got a short Twitter message, and noone knows nothing about that update.
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February 14th, 2011 at 3:56 am - #Daniel
What they should put in but is unlikely is a proper trading system. And more xp per races because I’m half way through 29 and will take me grinding to the 20th just to unlock vettels challenge. Bullcrap
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