In-Race Game Saves Coming to Gran Turismo 5
Kazunori Yamauchi confirmed via Twitter early this morning that “game saves during endurance races” are currently “under development” for Gran Turismo 5. Here’s a translation of the tweet kindly provided by our own Shirakawa Akira:
I’m sorry. Game saves during endurances. They are currently under development. RT @andrepeniche: as I simply don’t have 4, 9 or even 24 hours available to stay in front of the TV to do endurance races, as much as I love GT5, unfortunately it’s not possible for me to complete them.
Since our GT5 Feedback Forum launched, this has been the most-wanted feature in the game among GTPlanet’s community, having received over 8,500 votes. It’s great to see that Kazunori and his team at Polyphony Digital are responding the request, though it is not yet clear if this will be implemented in the next immediate game update or sometime later. Stay tuned for more, and thanks to all who sent this in!
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March 30th, 2011 at 4:17 pm - #COOLfiat
I raced a Go-Kart in RL at an indoor track and it was helluva fun! But in GT5, it just seems really boring with no G-Forces and you just don’t get the same feeling of speed, than in RL.. I dunno how you can fix it, but it just bothers me so much! :(
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March 28th, 2011 at 11:38 pm - #toolittletoolate
Be affraid.
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March 25th, 2011 at 9:47 am - #DRT77
Perfect THX!!! Kaz!
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March 24th, 2011 at 10:08 am - #Boing
I havent been on gt for a few weeks and I only have a spec endurance left but really can’t be @rsed to do it without the save feature as well as work, family, friends, sleeping and general living. Does anyone know if it’s been introduced yet or when? Thanx
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March 14th, 2011 at 10:49 pm - #Steven
Sweeeeet I Can finnaly do 24 hr nurburging 24hr Le Mans and all 4 hr races too XD
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March 13th, 2011 at 10:34 pm - #Danko
I’m actually pissed off! This should have been in the game from the START!!! It will be nice to have it in the game now, better late than never, right? What’s worse is that it’s already almost mid March and all they’ve been doing is taking away the trade feature!
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March 9th, 2011 at 8:39 pm - #Seeker589
I really want this feature and am very glad to have it coming in a future update.
If this was the only update coming in the next year – I could see how some would be bitter about the decision – But it isn’t the only update. There will be other updates.
This addition to the game will allow us to make choices that apply to our respective lives. If you don’t want to use it – don’t.
To all the haters – change your prospective – you aren’t the only GT5 player on the earth.
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March 7th, 2011 at 10:04 am - #Dezmond_vr6
I dnt see how ppl can complain bout the saved game feature coming in. If u want the game to be so realistic then gt5 should put the 24 hour race together as u and 3 of ur B – spec drivers. There is no race out there were 1 driver races for 24 hours. So u as a human driver does so many hour then at pit stop it B – spec drivers take over untill it comes bak round to u. That would make the game as realistic as it could be and I hope they do actually do this but they won’t. So the only thesable way of sorting this for ppl is the mid race save game feature. So stop complaining bout it. If u have 24 hours or even want to be infront of the game for that long then good luck but I guarantee wen it’s inplace u won’t complain anymore u will use the feature.
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March 7th, 2011 at 8:02 am - #dearlybeloved
I could never understand the 9hr tsukuba endurance race. the track for one thing was way too short and it would have been better to make it a 4 hour race and make the suzuka race a 9hr race. i could never bring myself to do that race in A-spec, only B-spec.
Still this makes the GT5 life so much more bearable once it comes into effect.
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March 6th, 2011 at 9:11 pm - #Andrew
Simulating events that take longer then the average gaming session lasts VS. what constitutes “realism” is timeless. I wouldnt spend 6 hours navigating the kiel canal or completing a trans-pacific flight, I, as many simple set waypoints or Auto-pilot ( or directional vectors coupled with auto-thrust) and fast-forward.
Since that simply isn’t feasible in this case PD could have gone with far more unrealistic approaches such as allowing the A.I. to take over and simulate through to the next pit stop, allowing FFWD based on sector or lap times or, simply shortenng the event. Instead they choose to leave it intact and accomodate the player while leaving the event relatively unchanged.
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March 4th, 2011 at 5:43 am - #Ryan
Aw excellent…i think it is realistically almost impossible to complete the 24 hour endurance races..i am glad this is going to be featured..WooHoo
can any one tell me if there is going to be like DLC were it will contain like new models of cars that are out and maybe more cars than can have the racing modification installed?..thanks guys keep up the great work
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March 4th, 2011 at 5:26 am - #Hawkmoon
I think it’s funny all these ‘purists’ complaining that being able to save the long endurance races is wrong. Nobody in RL ever drives in a race for 24 Hours straight, nobody could there are up to 4 drivers in a team for a long endurance race and THEY TAKE TURNS!
So if you really want to be uber realistic you need about 4 of your buddies to come round you house and take turns at maybe 2 hours stints for the next twenty four hours. Sitting in front of your PS3 for the whole race is just dumb and is really not healthy.-
March 5th, 2011 at 10:32 pm - #M. Alexander
I know I don’t have the time to sit in front of the tv and play a game non stop for hours on end so a save feature would be nice just in case something came up ! I could save and resume later ! Being a purist is one thing but being realistic about a video game is something different altogether !
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March 3rd, 2011 at 9:15 pm - #xXDoc187Xx
great news to celebrate im gonna do the nurburgring 4hr endurance
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March 3rd, 2011 at 6:10 pm - #Greyum
Seriously, who cares? This game got boring a LOOONG time ago.
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March 3rd, 2011 at 4:01 pm - #AstonMartinGT5
Yay!!! Thank you polyphony for this, makes endurance races possible for me! :D
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March 3rd, 2011 at 12:32 pm - #Mads
Great! now i will finally be able to do it! furthermore i will not need to use a FGT or X2010. I can actually do them with a car that will give me a challenge, because it probably won’t be a one off experience to do the 24hour races, so if i loose one time i can just come back with a slightly faster car another time and try again. This is absolutely great news! This can quite possibly make the endurance races fun, not just a boring, endless, PS3 melting, wrist snapping, sweaty, stinky, unpleasant, butt hurting, headache to get though! I just hope that it will actually come. I don’t really dare to trust PD and Kaz, even though i want to so much.
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March 3rd, 2011 at 11:12 am - #wakojack
Oh thank god for that! Now i can do endurance races, i used to leave my ps3 on to go out while i was halfway through an endurance race, then i come home to find out my dad has turned my ps3 off :\
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March 3rd, 2011 at 4:10 pm - #Detroit Iron
Lol, I used to leave my 8bit NES on and go ride my bike, only to come back and find my dad playing Mario Brothers……XD
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March 3rd, 2011 at 4:58 am - #Squall
Everthing PD do they seem to just make the game easier… Where are the challenges now? Mess up Suzuka on fgt… Oh nevermind just restart it
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March 3rd, 2011 at 9:35 am - #Streaker
@squall Make your own challenges dude. Do you not have enough self control to challenge yourself? You need a video game to put limitations in because you can’t make your own? It seems THAT is too hard for you. You mess up on Suzuka, DON’T restart, NO ONE IS MAKING YOU.
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March 2nd, 2011 at 2:01 pm - #cramerizking
I haven’t played gran turismo since the ferarri seasonal events a few week ago… Only A-spec I have left to complete is endurance and this would definitely bring me back. I’m crossing my fingers this is not just another bs brush off comment like g27 support.
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the way GT5 is going forza 4 is looking way better. screw in race saving we want more PREMIUM CARS NOW!!!!!!! I meAn this was suppose to be GT5 not GT4 part 2.