April 10th update delayed

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April 10th update delayed.

From GT5:P news section.

"Thank you for racing online in Gran Turismo 5 Prologue.
We are currently working on analysing your play logs to provide more of a varied and balanced set of events, and with the increase in the number of users playing online this is taking longer than antisipated.

Therefore, the online events will not be updated on the 10th April as orginally planned.
The new update schedule will be posted on this news section soon.

Thank you for your kind understanding."
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Do we know what the update would have done? I mean how would the events have changed? Car specific races? Higher PP races? Anyone know?
 
Ah well, might be april 17th, like US release. Although I was hoping for better events :/
 
I think they delayed the update for the events because at the same time they will update some of the online code. Im sure they know how bad online racing has been lately.
 
deadlyz33
I think they delayed the update for the events because at the same time they will update some of the online code. Im sure they know how bad online racing has been lately.
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Lets hope eh? I would like to see some better online races with a wider variety of cars in with a chance of winning the race events. 👍
 
We are currently working on analysing your play logs to provide more of a varied and balanced set of events
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My guess is that what they have seen so far (all the unclean driving), scared them poopless and it does take some good thinking how to handle this situation without an update to the game engine itself. :dopey:
 
magburner
I would like to see some better online races with a wider variety of cars in with a chance of winning the race events.
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Surely your mistaken. That's the actual problem with the online events! Too many different types of cars on one track in short races is ruining the whole thing. We need more events that have a narrower amount of car types to promote close racing and competitive amount of laps (3 laps?! c'mon!)

There is no way in real life that there would ever be a race like this, cars that are so varied in capability over such a short race distance, that's just asking for collisions.

I'm not even going to start with the penalties and 'catch-up' boost.
 
So what happens when the current events 'expire'?

If there are no new events, does this mean that there will be no on-line modes for the forseable future?

Jon
 
JackM
Surely your mistaken. That's the actual problem with the online events! Too many different types of cars on one track in short races is ruining the whole thing. We need more events that have a narrower amount of car types to promote close racing and competitive amount of laps (3 laps?! c'mon!)

There is no way in real life that there would ever be a race like this, cars that are so varied in capability over such a short race distance, that's just asking for collisions.

I'm not even going to start with the penalties and 'catch-up' boost.
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Have faith in PD. Penalties will be perfected and damage added. Catch-up boost will probably become a user chosen option. Picking which cars are in a race, not many laps, all these things are on the chopping board for update.
 
deadlyz33
Have faith in PD. Penalties will be perfected and damage added. Catch-up boost will probably become a user chosen option. Picking which cars are in a race, not many laps, all these things are on the chopping board for update.
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Your right.

But, I would have expected some of these basic things to have been implemented already. Just in a basic sense when the game was first being developed. But the thing is, there has been a Japanesse version out for a little while now, surely that would have mean't the EU/UK version wouldn't be quite as 'patchy' as it is.

I know its a demo, but its certainly not a free demo, it just seems these issues have been an after thought by PD after the development of the graphics.

:indiff:
 
JackM
... what are you talking about? :crazy:
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Sorry.. i must have missed the point.. I was under the impression tha the online modes had a 'start' and 'end' time.. I also thought that the current modes end on April 10th... Since PD have announced that they will delay the new modes, does this not mean that that after the 10th the current online modes will have 'expired' and therefore can't be played?

I have now checked and the "end" time of the current modes are April 24th, so my question was wrong.. But still relevant.. Does this mean that if PD havn't released the new modes by the 24th, then the online mode will not work?

Sorry if I am confusing things.

Jon
 
As far as I know the online mode isn't going to go offline at all, its just that I think PD wanted the online mode to be updated a safe amount of time before the actual US release of GT5:P so that the US users can instantly play with the new system/events.

Thats what I gather anyway.
 
jweaver
Sorry.. i must have missed the point.. I was under the impression tha the online modes had a 'start' and 'end' time.. I also thought that the current modes end on April 10th... Since PD have announced that they will delay the new modes, does this not mean that that after the 10th the current online modes will have 'expired' and therefore can't be played?

I have now checked and the "end" time of the current modes are April 24th, so my question was wrong.. But still relevant.. Does this mean that if PD havn't released the new modes by the 24th, then the online mode will not work?

Sorry if I am confusing things.

Jon
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If there is another delay they would extend the expiry date just like they have this time.
 
I've just thought of something that to me sounds promising (maybe obvious), longer races with tyre wear and pit stops. When we get that (maybe not until the full game) some drivers will be harder on tyres and some cars'll be harder on tyres so it might mean more drivers opting for harder tyres or cars that are more easy on them. Just a thought.
 

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