Yamauchi on GT5′s Mechanical Damage, Updates, & More
Kazunori Yamauchi has been fielding questions from fans on Twitter over the past few hours. The tweets are in Japanese, but with a little help from Google and medhi_san, we can get a pretty good idea of what he’s talking about. Here’s the highlights:
- Flexible camera angles and “dynamic and wide-area lighting needs” are to blame for the sometimes blocky shadows. Yamauchi admits they are a problem and wants to improve them.
- Yamauchi appears to consider the possibility of removing the in-game HUD (heads-up-display features) at some point in the future.
- To unlock the Red Bull X1, you’ll need to complete the “Sebastian Vettel Challenge”, which appears at Level 30.
- Online “lounge” functionality and other features will be added “one by one”.
- Polyphony Digital continues to work on fully supporting the Logitech G25 and G27, though Yamauchi admits he would like a “new steering device soon”…
- Mechanical damage options will be implemented in a new update for GT5 coming “early December”.
- As you may know, many players noticed that GT5‘s face-tracking functionality only worked in Arcade mode. According to Yamauchi, it’s not available in GT mode due to memory issues with the PS3.
- In-game rewards (such as the monetary prize in GT5 Prologue) for your performance in online events is something Polyphony Digital is considering, and may be implemented in a future update.
- Gran Turismo 5‘s official, 2-disc sound-track will be released soon.
- Yamauchi wanted to implement a “free roam” gameplay mode in GT5, where players could drive around, respecting speed limits and obeying traffic laws, and even exit the car to walk around and explore the environment on foot.
- The YouTube replay upload feature had to be pulled from the final version of the game because it took a very long time to render and it consumed too much memory. Yamauchi is still considering it, however.
As always, it is refreshing and exciting to see Yamauchi’s interactions with fans via Twitter. Let’s hope the medium continues to be a valuable open line into Polyphony Digital as GT5 to evolves!
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December 4th, 2010 at 1:51 pm - #Markyy
I HOPE Kazunori Yamauchi will see this..
I think it will be better if we can adjust the gear ratios in our own way.. I love all the sound of shifting down it sounds so real and how the transmission is so close but it’s about the adjustments for the gear ratios. AND yes I read that when racing at night, lights should be wider and brighter..-
December 5th, 2010 at 7:36 pm - #bob c
i like the idea of free roam.
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December 4th, 2010 at 9:06 am - #Hypergolem
The complainers are really getting on my nerves… Take away this, put this in, why there is no this track, why there are too many of this cars, the sound a corvette does when it crashes is not like in real. Oh my goodnes. Stop it!!! Enjoy the game, you can play it even if the sounds are not perfect and the shadows are annoying only right before the race starts. GT5 is GREAT!!!
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December 3rd, 2010 at 6:40 am - #GT Pro
When will PD release an update that allows wheels and aftermarket body modifications to standard cars? Being unable to change the typically horrid and boring stock wheels on old used dealership cars frustrates me to no end. :( CHANGE THIS PD!
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December 2nd, 2010 at 7:41 pm - #Dustyr
It’s not a racing game. Last time I checked it was the real driving simulator. Who cars about rims this isn’t need for speed and the don’t make you faster. Why would anyone use the veyron? It goes fast in a straight line but is not a race car it is a statement to say they have the worlds fastest car and is not useful. 2 laps on the green hell and you will need a full tank of gas. I can’t beleave that so many people are bitching about this game when those same people said if it’s not out by december I’m not buying it. The launch the game and now the cry babies are out in full force talking about shadows and why there g25/g27 is not suported? Ask logitec why the didn’t give Sony access to the firmware. And damage is there you just have to unlock it. Starts at lv 20. I for one think this is a great “driving sim”.
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December 3rd, 2010 at 1:15 am - #researchALLwars
the ‘rims’ we want are actually lightweight racing wheels.
Rotational weight?
Wider track?
Those are powerful topics in the discussion of speed. Not to mention that wheels of the right taste make a car look like a totally different beast. You cannot deny that.
And as for the damage unlocking at level 20? That’s straight butt, son. Straight. Butt.
Why should the average player have to grind away for weeks just to experience the most desirable new aspect of GT5?
Kevin Butler where are you?? Get Kaz on the horn and tell him you’ll give the red SLS back when he reconnects with reality!
http://www.gamesthirst.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Kevin-Butler-GT5ad.jpg
LOL!
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December 2nd, 2010 at 1:03 pm - #Mike
I can’t understand how they could release this game at all. It’s not finished. Far from it.
- The damage is there, on some cars, sometimes. So it’s not complete.- You can share your car with friends, but for what purpose? So that you can’t drive it yourself, is that the idea? Wierd.
- Sure you can make decent tracks with the track editor, but you can’t play them online, not even with your friends, hum.. whats the point then?
- The online mode sucks, sometimes your car is facing the other cars when starting, so you have to turn it around. Sometimes it just stands with the sides to the other.
- The online mode sucks, part 2.
You don’t win any money or get any experience from racing online. Why?- The online mode sucks, part 3.
There is no leaderboards. Uhm, is this game from 2010 or 1996? A racing game with a online mode 2010 but without leadeboards, ok? Thats just stupid.- The online mode sucks, part 4.
You have to set your cars that you want to play online to favourites. Thats just wierd. Whats wierder is that the game lets you chose some other cars even if you havent earned them. Whats that for? For begginers that don’t know how to earn money?- Driving in the dark you can. But the headlights are so bad that it’s very hard. Yes, I have a driver license and I’ve had many cars and they all had 10 times better lights. Actualy, if they had as bad as in the game, I would probably be dead now.
These were some things I could remember that has annoyed the shit out of me, Iam sure there is more. Like no mechanical damage… Instead Kaz is talking about making a family simulator were you can walk around Nürburgring and drive with traffic rules on. I can manage without that, thanx! This is a racing game for crying out loud. I think Kaz needs to take a vaccation and then come back to finish GT5 before it’s to late. Because this is the biggest disapointments in gaming history.
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December 2nd, 2010 at 9:55 am - #CarlDx
When is the release of this update???? I cant wait!!!! :(
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December 2nd, 2010 at 3:37 pm - #Gulyo
The weakest point’s of the game :
- sounds are unpredictable ( sometimes pritty good but sometimes disgusting artificial sound )
- standard cars unusable most of us ( no cockpit view )
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December 2nd, 2010 at 7:27 am - #alucard0712
Removing HUD “sometime in the feature?WTF PD???It’s a 5-minute business and ALL fans are happy!I hate PD for that – they are “too complex” – much more than it needs most of the time…Just be simpler.
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December 1st, 2010 at 7:35 pm - #sporkafife
The HUD on GT5 is set up in lots of little individual cells (one with tyre wear, one with fuel, one with gear etc). And I think it would be an amazing option to turn off each one of those individually.
For example: Personally, I like being able to see what gear I am in, my revs and my speedometer. I would turn off things like the boost pressure gauge and the tyre wear indicator (it would be a better experience to feel for myself when my tyres are wearing).
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December 1st, 2010 at 6:15 pm - #Digolgrin
Hell, Free Roam sounds like a good idea. If you remember from GT2, there were Four Cities (Note how I capitalized Four Cities.) on the game’s map. If Kaz can just bring them to virtual life (with the architecture of the countries each city represented), placing each dealership right where it is on each city’s map, adding GT Auto locations, racing attire stores, and player lodging in their appropriate locations, get rid of that GT Life menu, connecting the cities via a vast highway system, with scenery placed in between and every single car in the game placed into a Random Traffic Generator of sorts, the Four Cities will FINALLY be unified! (in a sense…)
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December 1st, 2010 at 11:19 pm - #andrew c
Kaz reads my mind on this part.
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December 1st, 2010 at 3:29 pm - #hushypushy
Detroitbb, I agree. By putting “REAL” and “SIMULATOR” in the title, they are boosting expectations far too high. Then all the clueless sheep who have no concept of the existence of racing sims go along with it because they don’t know any better. It should be “The Realistic Driving Game”…
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December 1st, 2010 at 1:48 pm - #Michael
POOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRRRRRSSSSSSSSSSCCCCCCCCCCHHHHHHHHHEEEEEEEEEE
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December 1st, 2010 at 12:15 pm - #TS
Fix career mode, remove leveling, fix used car dealership, fix AI, make license tests relevant again, add tracks, add non-duplicate cars, fix online, fix gear ratio adjustments (why, Why, WHY can I adjust ratios in Prologue but not here?), fix menus, fix career mode races (add more basic races and remove some of the niche races), fix gravel physics, fix loading times, fix graphical glitches, fix the clutch (how is this a sim if I can’t heel-toe?).
That’s off the top of my head. It’s a pretty long list, but you’ll note that “add free roaming mode” isn’t on it.
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December 1st, 2010 at 12:41 pm - #Khlad
@TS
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December 1st, 2010 at 1:58 pm - #hushypushy
“how is this a sim…”
News Flash: It’s not. You want a sim, go play iRacing or rFactor or NetKar Pro or something like that.
GT5 is realistic. “Real” is far different than “realism”. It bugs me when people think GT is a sim, or bitch about certain features because it’s not “sim-like”.
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December 1st, 2010 at 2:05 pm - #Detroitbb
When PD itself calls the game ‘The Real Driving Simulator’ and then delivers a less than sim-like game, then fans begin to feel duped.
hushypushy – it isn’t the fans putting unrealistic ‘sim’ expectations on the GT series, it’s Kaz and Polyphony Digital who make that claim year after year!
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December 1st, 2010 at 2:36 pm - #Circuit*star
@Detritbb +1 I agree
I believe they have been doing a great job since gt3 and gt4 but with this one I don’t know it sometimes feels like they went back to another series not gran Turismo.
Not being able to exchange wheels on 800 cars is frustrating. Not being able to put front spoiler instead big wings on 800 has no logic. Having B-spec as half of the game has no logic either, we here to race and drive not to direct and watch.
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December 1st, 2010 at 11:51 pm - #Bernd
@circuitstar – Agreed, I’m climbing up in career-mode at the moment and didn’t even race a minute in B-spec
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December 1st, 2010 at 11:55 am - #Gran Turismo Vet
I hope they add free roaming to GT 6, that would be the next step imo.
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December 1st, 2010 at 11:17 am - #Schwarzenegger
On his twitter, he has also stated that xp and cr for multiplayer may come, but that you have to wait a littlelonger.
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December 1st, 2010 at 10:48 am - #Rios
By the way I’m really angry they didn’t included a bug generator engine, I would have liked to have seen dead bug carcasses accumulate on my windscreen throughout the race, and I would have liked the ability to control how many bugs and what kind of bugs and what direction the bugs are flying.
And I would hope they’d get the bug shadows right and that each bug had the appropriate sound based on what species it is, even if it means years of extensive bug sound recording sessions in the Amazon at incredibly high cost to Polyphony, they should do it because I want it.
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December 1st, 2010 at 12:12 pm - #BWX
GT5 has plenty of bugs.
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December 1st, 2010 at 4:25 pm - #Skiddy
@Rios
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December 2nd, 2010 at 12:54 am - #Rios
Clever, but not the kind of bugs I was talking about. I’m not sure what game you guys are playing but I haven’t experienced any bugs, glitches or freezes. I could complain like everyone else about jagged shadows but I wouldn’t call it a “bug”, Id call it the inability for the engine and or system to accurately calculate and display dynamic shadows in real time at an acceptable frame rate, but maybe thats just me. Everyone not getting everything they personally wanted in the game does not constitute a “bug”.
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December 1st, 2010 at 10:43 am - #firerider23
free roam you say? thats AWESOME but one question now are we ganna free roam in cities and we can go anywhere or in normal tracks we can free roam their?
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December 1st, 2010 at 10:42 am - #Rios
Well one thing I know for sure, if Polyphony tries to implement everyones personal requests and address everyones gripes for GT6, we will probably get it some time around 2030 to 2035 if we’re lucky. You cant appease all of the people all of the time, and no one knows that better right now then Polyphony Digital.
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December 1st, 2010 at 12:17 pm - #rkk01
That’s EXACTLY why KY / PD need to decide what the core offering is with GT5.
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December 1st, 2010 at 2:05 pm - #Circuit*star
See the things is that it is not our request it is everyone complaining about same logic things. I really think the game disseminated a lot of fans including me using “USELESS FEATURES”
1- B-spec (what were they thinking in making this stupid half of the game feature using all the memory on b-spec)
2- 800 Cars Standard( Wheres is the logic in that, and not just that Iconic cars like the supra, Veyron etc are standard over stupid show cars or family sedan cars and others.)
3 – Lack of customization on cars and options to tune them. ( wheels only a few compare to hundreds from gt4) No front spoiler on standard cars are u kidding me anybody the races needs a front spoiler no matter what car it is basic logic. No tire pressure effect, etc)
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December 1st, 2010 at 8:15 am - #Gulyo
More realistic sounds AT LEAST FOR PREMIUMS in one of the next patches !!!! Please !!!
Hear Audi R8, Ferrari’s,Mc Laren F1, Viper GTS etc … terrible and disgusting !!!! :(
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December 1st, 2010 at 8:04 am - #O.Z
This should have had SPOILER ALERT
•To unlock the Red Bull X1, you’ll need to complete the “Sebastian Vettel Challenge”, which appears at Level 30.
WTF! :(
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Rims for standards? with a hood view…
Hell atleast bring back wheel of the day from GT4 for standard cars, putting spoon rims on a s2000 was quite sexy..
Hell i know japanese, ill just tweet it to him.