New “World Compact Car” GT5 Seasonal Events & More
After nearly a month-long hiatus, GT5‘s Seasonal Event updates have returned. The “World Compact Car” series is now available, open to cars with less than 450pp and less than 4200mm in length. Races take place at the following circuits:
- Rome City (5 laps, 356,100 Cr.)
- Grand Valley East Reverse (5 laps, 384,000 Cr.)
- Cape Ring Outside (3 laps, 403,200 Cr.)
- Tokyo Route 246 (3 laps, 395,100 Cr.)
- Tokyo bay (Kart) 107A (5 laps, 406,800 Cr.)
In addition, new Time Trial events at SSR5 and Suzuka East are now available, along with new Drift Trials at Trial Mountain and Rome Reverse. The game’s Online Car Dealership has also been updated with a curious selection of “classics”.
As always, head on over to our GT5 Seasonal Events forum for more analysis and discussion. Thanks to RACECAR for the early tip!
GT5 Photomode image by Moglet.
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July 29th, 2011 at 2:28 pm - #ChicoMaloXD
I did all the events with my PD Kart :)
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July 29th, 2011 at 3:04 pm - #EliteDreamer
I heard something about people doing that! I’m going to go try it. Is it hard?
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July 29th, 2011 at 1:25 pm - #EliteDreamer
To anyone who thinks this seasonal isn’t competitive… it’s called down tuning. And if your not willing to do that, go somewhere else. Enjoy the seasonal! :)
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July 29th, 2011 at 10:45 am - #chez_white
I enjoyed doing some of these in my ‘compact’ Prowler.
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July 29th, 2011 at 6:52 am - #Yes, we need DLC!
For crying out loud, where’s the bloody DLC? I mean Dirt 3 came out months after GT5 and it has tons of DLC already, just really gutted to know that we might not even get any sort of DLC for the PS3.
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July 29th, 2011 at 5:23 am - #Singh
I did in a fully suped Renault Clio V6 Sport, and then just set the power limiter to 450PP, in total giving you a reasonable 280bhp. Just a little tip for you guys. :)
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July 29th, 2011 at 4:29 am - #Ras35001
^^
Indeed, the OCD looks so boring now, omg.
And i want more competitive race car seasonals (LMP / Group C cars). It`s a racing game not an old man`s game. -
July 29th, 2011 at 12:36 am - #TakumiFuji01
Wow! Bad Car choices for the Online Dealership…..
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July 28th, 2011 at 8:38 pm - #Pato
all these seasonal events are well and good but when are they going to give us some DLC?????? some new tracks and some new cars? like c’mon polyphony give us some DLC!
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July 28th, 2011 at 6:30 pm - #Mazerati
(Awesome picture btw :) )
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July 28th, 2011 at 6:26 pm - #Mazerati
A month long wait for a pathetic “compact car” event (?) PD please stop milking ideas that were very unpopular first time round. Give us a ‘Le Mans’ race with LM cars only, or a ‘Concept Car’ race, themes that are new, instead of this childish garbage. ‘Compact Car’…..*pfft*.
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July 29th, 2011 at 9:35 am - #crcrn11
Shut up
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July 28th, 2011 at 4:34 pm - #Moglet
Wow, thanks for using my photo again Jordan!
Regarding the image, it was created by taking 3 separate shots from the same angle and merging them in Photoshop. I then added the reflection in the rear bumper of the black car to make it more realistic.
Sadly I had to get rid of my real 500 but at least I still have GT5 ;)
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July 28th, 2011 at 1:48 pm - #MoLieG
Ok seasonals, but the OCD… fail…
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July 28th, 2011 at 1:31 pm - #darren200cook
@Slick. Thumbs up. We waited a PSNs outage amount of time to get these seasonals, be glad you have them. I waited, we all waited, we got in the end.
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July 28th, 2011 at 12:40 pm - #slashfan7964
All I can say is about damn time.
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July 28th, 2011 at 12:50 pm - #Slick
All I can say is patience is a virtue you seem lacking in.
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July 28th, 2011 at 12:06 pm - #AztekGamer
Kind of lame update
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July 28th, 2011 at 11:49 am - #LordVonPS3
Nice seasonal and great to see these but it’s a pity they expire as I’m only just getting stuck into the main A-Spec endurance events.
GT5 patch update next please! GT5 Spec II.
* Tune / parts config / set up while loading track.
* Fix jaggy shadows and low-rez smoke / dirt / spray.
* Endurance race saves (from pit lane will do).
* Time Trial for every track (dry, sunny) + car combo.
* FWD and RWD in replays.
* Save replays to MPEG4 format (480p & YouTube compat).Follow this with premium / paid for DLC:-
* Weather & dynamic time of day to other existing tracks.
* More tracks…
* More premium cars…Keep trying & don’t give up! :-)
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July 28th, 2011 at 12:52 pm - #Slick
You aren’t going to see saves that are YouTube compatible, they take to long to render. They are Flash, not MPEG btw. They tried and couldn’t get them to a reasonable time. Look at Shift 2. You can upload to YouTube, but its only 10 second segments because it takes to long to render an entire race.
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July 28th, 2011 at 7:14 pm - #Russianmule
Why not fix the crappy online first, duh?
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July 29th, 2011 at 9:34 am - #crcrn11
@LordVonPS3… “set up while loading track” – wtf? How long does it take for you to load a track? You can’t tune a car in like 10 seconds….
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July 29th, 2011 at 10:02 am - #Chadders85
What about multiple set-ups for each car like in Prologue? At the moment i’ve got to get the pen and paper out to write down all my settings every time I want to change tracks using the same car.
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July 28th, 2011 at 11:36 am - #Blazing99
The blue one is IDENTICAL to mine! I mean the paint/rims/rideheight is all the same. Wierd
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July 28th, 2011 at 9:20 am - #Bien Cien
Is it just me or should they have included new a Fiat 500 Abarth car in the new dealership to go with this new exciting seasonal event? Yes yes I know blah blah blah you can tune a 500 to Abarth specifications blah blah blah. That’s not the point. I like the Abarth styling.
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July 28th, 2011 at 9:12 am - #PIGBOY
all with 0-k’s too
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1. The PS3 has a video edit and YouTube upload feature, so would be happy for GT5 to write to HDD in MPEG4 to upload subsequently out of game.
2. Starting to tune or setup a car while a track is loading doesn’t imply you can’t carry on tuning after the track has loaded. It merely gives you something useful to do instead of watching a loading screen for 20 to 30 seconds before being given access to tune or setup.