Gran Turismo 5 v1.02 Update Available for Download
As was quickly reported here in our forums, the latest 1.02 update for Gran Turismo 5 has just made available for download. 1.02 allows the game to take advantage of Polyphony Digital’s upgraded server infrastructure while enabling maximum power and weight restrictions for online races.
This is apparently the November 27th update that Yamauchi mentioned to Eurogamer, which will “double” the game’s online capacity from 500,000 to one million simultaneous connections.
Photomode image by Fredde_swe.
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November 28th, 2010 at 6:28 pm - #victor
^ Point taken, but in my opinion even for 5 years, it is difficult to implement everything that everyone wants. It’s all about priorities and this is just the way PD decided to do things. We need to bear in mind that PD practically started the game infrastructure from scratch, throwing away all legacy coding. For 5 years, I’d say they got a lot done. It doesn’t seem like a short game to me when you strive for perfection (gold trophies, all first place wins, playing with different cars, tuning, and playing with your friends online. It took me almost 2 days to get good with the wheel too (practicing left foot braking and countersteering). I’m just happy they finally got the game out because I am having a blast. Too bad I have work tomorrow, otherwise I’d be playing non-stop.
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November 29th, 2010 at 9:28 am - #jim
I have to agree. even if you do ‘complete’ the game you can always go back and do the races with another car, of which there are over a 1000!
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November 28th, 2010 at 3:42 pm - #victor
Why is everyone complaining? This game is such a monumental achievement yet many people are too blind to see so. Actually, I say this half jokingly. Many of the people complaining are also the same people who just can’t drive. They’re also the people who are complaining about features, but not able to see deep down how good of a driving game this is, namely how realistic everything is and how detail oriented the cars and tracks are. Here’s my advice. Get a nice monitor 24″ and above. Put the ingame display settings to sharpen and brighten up appropriately. Get the Driving Force GT wheel, and adjust feedback settings appropriately. Play with all the settings. Get a nice pair of earphones so you don’t hear the mechanical whirring of the wheel and to be immersed. Last, have the will to learn about the real fundamentals of race car driving and go for the gold trophies. People who are in it just for the cars are not going to do well. You need to appreciate the technical aspects of race car driving. Then you will see truly how great of a game this is.
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November 28th, 2010 at 3:49 pm - #Khlad
Because we’ve been waiting 5 years now, and there still is so many things missing.
- I agree, it is realistic and so but for example, you can not change gear ratios separately like in the previous games, you can only change all gears at same time. Also A-spec is too short compared to the other gt games, which means you complete the game in 1-2 weeks or something. I’ve almost done everything… But because im a big fan since the beginning, i love it.
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November 28th, 2010 at 3:13 pm - #Tintorera
I’we got my Signature edition and G27 waiting for me back home in Norway, while I’m stuck working on a drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico for the next three weeks.
And I must say, we have all been waiting for this game in 5 years now. And when it’s finally here all you can read about in the comments is people complaining about shaddows in replays etc.
FYI there is a thread in the forums for glitches etc.
I’we been really looking forward to playing GT5, but I don’t know what to expect after reading 100′s of post from peope complaining about this game. I’m sure it will be great and i have comfidence that Kaz and PD will “iron out” the glitches and bugs remaining. Cheer up guys!!! You got GT5, I’we gotta wait 3 more weeks for my “release date” Looking forward to meet you on the traks… -Tintorera- -
November 28th, 2010 at 1:42 pm - #NASCARFAN160
Gosh dang it, that ZR1 is in the GAME?! NIIIICE
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November 27th, 2010 at 10:45 pm - #JasonMann
are u guys missing the fact that there are NO brake mods? and that the car still doesnt idle with clutch mode on, on the g27? pd really needs to work on theese patches
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November 27th, 2010 at 9:37 pm - #CarlDx
I do not seen a big difference or what this update has fixed (1.02). Also I will play with my friend in arcade mode 2 players battle and the game runs very lag and the cars consume a very much time to load the thumbnail.. is incredible.
Not Possible: Auto-Save Turning Off & Make a Backup of Save Game… GT5 don’t coming with those feature, is very stupid… :S why GT5P have it and the final version goes not, WTF polyphony, and other thing.. the save game you can’t copy for backup, what the hell were they thinking, the people of polyphony… I’m very disappointed with that, I think polyphony should make an update correcting the performance and development of the game and also these problems that I mentioned … I know most of you have seen the same thing and is very disgusting, but I hope they make a patch for fix that soon…
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November 27th, 2010 at 8:08 pm - #canadasux
2 updates within 2 days after release. At this rate, we’ll be up to version 2.0 of the game in no time :)
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November 27th, 2010 at 6:24 pm - #rydeen
Jordan, i think you should take a week off:) you deserve it.
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November 27th, 2010 at 4:38 pm - #Benny44
anyone else have trouble with the Lotus 111R’s on the top gear track? I had to turn on TCS and ABS just to get 5th. And I HATE cranking up the assists – feels like cheating.
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November 27th, 2010 at 5:44 pm - #terminator363
yeah, I know what you mean I couldn’t do the first turn, I gave up and carried onto the AMG Driving School
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November 27th, 2010 at 6:12 pm - #Wass
Yeah the car is REALLY twitchy under braking and spins out from even the slightest movement.
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November 27th, 2010 at 6:25 pm - #rydeen
yay i got 1st place on that one but im a drifter so im kinda used to the strong oversteer.
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November 28th, 2010 at 12:05 pm - #ZR1 Driviera
The 111R is a bit tricky at first, but once you get the hang of driving with comfort tires and feathering the throttle, you should be able to turn off the aids. The first corner get it into to 4th and take the left hander while feathering the throttle, and try to brake in a straight line. The rest is really just beng quick enough to get past the other cars.
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November 27th, 2010 at 4:35 pm - #VEYRON STANDARD? WTF
Jordan, thanks for letting us know what the update was used for. It’s a lot easier for us to come here to find out what the updates mean than it is for us to go anywhere else so thanks for making our lives easier. Man Furismo Jive FTW
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November 27th, 2010 at 2:46 pm - #Yaycandy69
i got psnplus so i have automatic download on. i went to turn on my system today at it said that the update patch was already automaticly downloaded. the power of $50 a year
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November 27th, 2010 at 12:00 pm - #Chris
ZR-1 FTW!
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November 27th, 2010 at 11:41 am - #Tim
I think some of the issues we have like blocky looking graphics and online stuff will get fixed soon , i think we just need to be tiny bit more patient i know we been waiting ages already but lets be happy with what we have got. at least it is out. I expect over the next few weeks alot of teething issues will be fixed and corrected.
at the moment the main real issues i see are
the online stuff , AI and some of the graphics are a little as i say blocky and not don’t look that good.
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November 27th, 2010 at 11:00 am - #guyc1161
ok so being able to send out invites to track days while in (my lounge is an absolute must.The way its set up now is annoying to say the least.You have to text message people to invite them or announce it in your comment box hoping people will see it which is iffy at best because they’re so concentrated on game play to notice either the incoming message or your comment box.Now i dont mean this as bashing but i can’t believe they overlooked that.
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November 27th, 2010 at 10:36 am - #Fredde_swe
First of all, I was quite surprised to see my vette-picture on the front page, but I liked it so thanks Jordan:)
Second of all, playing online works alot better now. Didn’t have any problems at all when I played with some friends for a few hours today. Well done with the servers PD!
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November 27th, 2010 at 11:01 am - #AGNT009
Fredde, I STILL havnt got online yet. The servers are always down when Im playing.
How was it? did you notice any lag at all looking at the other cars on track? Whats your connection? Ive got DSL, which works perfect for all other games, but I worried how it woud do for this one. Im trying to decide if I should upgrade to cable.
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November 27th, 2010 at 2:39 pm - #MAidioPT
AGNT, i played today aswell, it was alot of fun. no lags, just chose a 4-5stars / good connection Server and there you havit.
i raced with my R34 804 hp vs a Audi TT , men my friend got that audi tuned, i didnt had a chance. :)
no, dont change to Forza belive me. There are gonna come dlc with sure new cars, and better damage.
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November 27th, 2010 at 7:42 pm - #Fredde_swe
I created my own lobby and played with some friends from Sweden and it didn’t lag at all. I’ve 100Mbit up and down.
If you haven’t got any problems with other games you don’t need to worry, try again tomorrow and I’m sure it will work perfectly:)
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November 27th, 2010 at 10:34 am - #robert
off subject but does anyone else have trouble with the tuscani rally section of the grand tour section on the special event ?
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November 27th, 2010 at 1:34 pm - #b4revenge
I got silver pretty easy, bout quarter second down on gold.
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November 27th, 2010 at 10:04 pm - #robert
my Focus wouldnt accelerate when i wanted it to and only just managed bronze unlike the rest where i got at least silver :@
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November 27th, 2010 at 11:45 pm - #Bernd
@robert – Trouble isn’t exactly the right word for what I experienced. I don’t have a wheel and it’s difficult as hell, to drive these Rallye-cars on gravel with a pad. Steering is very different from GT4, which had the best of all GT-series imo. Guess, GT5 is really meant to be played with a wheel. (starts writing a letter: “Dear Santa…”)
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November 27th, 2010 at 9:09 am - #Cytoria
I’ll add the possibility of fast-forward and rewind in the replays… At least a lap-to-lap selection (although it won’t help much in the Nordscheilfe). It is very annoying to make a very hot lap or a great action at the end of a 10 lap race and have to see the whole thing if we want to watch it.
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November 27th, 2010 at 11:45 am - #nicefrog
I’d like to see a replay Fast forward and rewind too. But the only real big flaw in the game a far as driving goes for me is the lack of torque steer in the front wheel drive cars, this should be blindingly obvious for anyone that’s ever driven a front wheel drive car at any kind of decent amount of throttle and should have been easy to do with force feedback wheels. The rear drive cars also don’t torque steer either, you can see the softer cars lift but it’s just a lift, not the front left wheel and twisting the car. But anyway it’s more important on the front drive cars, for me this is a gaping hole in the physics engine.
I also think you should be able to buy a bottle of Rain X and switch the wipers off :)
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November 27th, 2010 at 8:58 am - #AGNT009
The game is an epic disappointment for me. So much so, Im tempted to go buy my first Xbox and join the Forza Darkside. The awful shadows in replay totally ruin what was my favorite part of the game. I dont even save replays, because they are too ugly to look at. Having no wheel lock adjustability in the game is killing me in tight tight corners. I havnt been able to get online once yet. Every time im playing, servers are down. im just so royally pissed off that I paid $60 to be a beta tester for this once great franchise.
The king is dead on arrival.
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November 27th, 2010 at 9:43 am - #jj
Are you the illiterate fool that post news articles on Autospies?
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November 27th, 2010 at 11:02 am - #AGNT009
No. Do I look illiterate to you? Just because Im upset that the game I purchased a PS3 for has totally let me down, and has a bug around every corner, doesnt make me or my posts illiterate.
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November 27th, 2010 at 12:00 pm - #vardd
Are you saying that you play GT because of it’s replay?
“replay totally ruin what was my favorite part of the game.”I mean, I know we all play games for different reason, but I rarely heard someone saying that they bought a driving game not to drive, but to watch themself driving?
Personally, i watch replay when i did a mistake and want to learn from it + I’ve haven’t have any major bug that truly piss me off.
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November 27th, 2010 at 12:38 pm - #infamousDee
If some sketchy shadows during replays irritate you, I can’t even think how much you’ll be offended by Forza’s graphics. -.-
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November 27th, 2010 at 4:33 pm - #VEYRON STANDARD? WTF
you’ve been whining and trolling since before the game came out. Firsty you whine about one of the NASCAR liveries not being up to date, now you’re crying about the shadows? The shadows don’t look good but how can that ruin an entire game of this size? you’re pathetic
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November 28th, 2010 at 1:58 pm - #fast
@Veyron Standard WTF?
… says the whiny guy who’s screen name is “Veyron Standard WTF”
If that isn’t the pot calling the kettle black.
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November 27th, 2010 at 7:19 am - #Tim
I agree i will just install updates as i get them and when i have the time as i work long ish hours
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Let me just add this. Making a racing game is as complex as the most complex of games. This isn’t a simple first person shooter. Again, this game shines at the details. Cars are complex. Racing is complex. And when you have a good number of them (1000+ cars, 20 tracks), it takes a long time to get everything accurate.