24 hour races

[Bonneville120]

Anyone know if they have a save function from the pitlane or something, or do you have to race for 24 hours? Or just hope the PS5 doesn't close the game when you put it in rest mode?

 

[KAlex122]

Anyone know if they have a save function from the pitlane or something, or do you have to race for 24 hours? Or just hope the PS5 doesn't close the game when you put it in rest mode?

The PS5 doesn't close your game in rest mode. But of course relying on that option would be an incredibly weak dick move from PD.

 

[Bonneville120]

The PS5 doesn't close your game in rest mode. But of course relying on that option would be an incredibly weak dick move from PD.

No it doesn't but for some games it can mess them up when you wake it up to carry on playing. Both BF6 and EA WRC have issues reconnecting to the server IME. I think it will also close the game automatically in rest mode if it discovers a new update. So if that's the only way to save your 24hr race, I'll wait until they patch in some kind of save game feature from the pitlane

 

[Famine]

It's been my experience that GT7 is 100% reliable when suspending and resuming on PS5.

However:

I think it will also close the game automatically in rest mode if it discovers a new update.

It does - and GT7 (as a whole) is unplayable and cannot be saved until updated and restarted. Also power cuts, kids getting on your console to play Among Us on their accounts, and acts of dog.

To answer your first question, we've not had anyone unlock and start one of the multi-hour endurance races (to my knowledge) yet to report back.

 

[regnar]

To me it seems like a oversight to not have a save/suspend feature in a 24H races, is the payout worth running the game that long, seems like something we could already create in custom races.

 

[Famine]

is the payout worth running the game that long

Couldn't tell you - I can't find any way to see race payouts any time before finishing the race - but as a data point I just nabbed 315,000cr for nine (clean) laps of Trial Mountain...

I'm thinking they'll be high.

 

[PwnusWagner]

Eagerly waiting on someone unlocking the long races to see if there's a save function. So far the best we have is someone in the other thread claiming their buddy did it and there's no save function but that seems unreliable.

 

[Lemansfan]

I desperately hope the rumor of not being able to save our 24 hr races during the race are not true I’ve been wanting these to come to the game for some time along with other types of endurance races that aren’t 24 hr like in GT4 or GT5 but they don’t seem like they are in the power pack although the tweet seems like a pretty unreliable source for now

 

[PwnusWagner]

In the other thread someone is currently doing the 8 hour Spa race and can't find a save option.

This may have turned my very positive opinion of the DLC fully around. What a joke.

 

[Voodoovaj]

This may have turned my very positive opinion of the DLC fully around. What a joke.

Because you planned on running 24 hour races on a daily basis? A missing save feature turns the DLC from an overall positive to an overall negative.

 

[PwnusWagner]

Because you planned on running 24 hour races on a daily basis? A missing save feature turns the DLC from an overall positive to an overall negative.

Because I'm a dad with an 18 month old and my own business and there's just no logistical way I would ever be able to do a 24 hour race now. Even with suspending the PS5 the odds of a power flicker or an update or the dog tripping over the power cable or any number of things makes it a completely useless feature and I don't think I'm the only one. We do this because we can't do real races.