Arcade racing...

[Duke]

Well, I tried the arcade single races for the first time last night, and I finished off Area A, S class, on Hard difficulty.

Talk about a place to pick up lousy racing habits! The competition were all track bullies, to each other and me. Plus, you must start at the back of the pack and the cars are pretty evenly matched in power. This means the only real way to win is to shoulder your way through the pack and knock everybody out of the way.

I was able to beat them all by several seconds (with an exception or two when I made stupid mistakes), but it wasn't very clean or controlled. Not exactly how I like to race.

Now, some questions - I understand that doing them on Hard difficulty automatically fills in the Easy and Medium as well.

But do I have to run each series in each class of car? Or can I just do one class? If so, should it always be the S-class? TIA...

 

[Der Alta]

Neon:
The one redeeming factor is that you can use your garage. The Arcade single races I have a bit of a beef with (being considered part of the 100%) so I simply knocked them out with a highly powered car. The Viper concept IIRC.

I generally advocate matching power to AI, but these are all races you have done, or will do soon. Simply grab a fast race car from your garage and blast through them. Your car listed stats only show stock, but it will have all the upgrades you've done to it. Remember, that the miles you travel in Arcade will contribute to the mileage on your car. So you will have to change the oil at points.

Best o' luck

AO

 

[Duke]

Thanks for the information. I really didn't have a problem using the Arcade cars, because I only have 1 or 2 S-class cars anyway (the Camaro racer, and the SLK Touring car).

Do you happen to know about running the races using all classes? Or is it only the difficulties that it counts?

TIA...

 

[Der Alta]

I made the mistake of running Easy, Medium, and then Hard. (Skipped pro mode). All you need to run is the Hard level, it automatically fills in each of the Easy and medium "dots". Once you finish the hard level, unlocks the credits. Nothing exciting.

My 2nd trip through the game, I ran all the races with an F094/S. Wrapped it up fairly quick. By classes, do you mean different car levels? The only piece that matters, is winning the races. Be it won in a modified Miata, or a 787B. Winning's winning.

This help?

AO

 

[f1king]

Just difficulty.

 

[Sage]

1) You only need to beat the difficulty. You don't need to use each class of cars.

2) I second what AO said... just beat it for 100%, and screw trying to run a clean race, because it's not going to happen. I truly cheated a lot in Arcade Mode- Once I got my F688/S, I just cleaned up everything in Arcade Mode with it. The only nice thing about Arcade Mode is that after you beat it, you unlock a huge amount of cars, including all of the Big Three Japanese racers.

 

[Der Alta]

Woah! Hold the phone. YC: this really unlocks some cars that before you couldn't buy? Or is this only in Arcade mode that you are allowed to use them?

Could you please expand upon that Unlocking a bit?

AO

 

[Duke]

Hrm, I thought the only thing it affected besides completion % was to allow more tracks to be available in the Simulation "test-n-tune" area.

Where is the arcade completion grid that indicates how much you've done? All I saw was that there were Area B tracks available.

y_c: Thanks, that's what I meant. I didn't want to run A class cars, then B class, then C class, then S class racers. Glad I don't have to.

 

[Der Alta]

I can answer the Completion grid question.

They open up as you beat them. When you beat the last race in Area B, Area C will open up.

AO

 

[Sage]

Originally posted by Der Alta
Woah! Hold the phone. YC: this really unlocks some cars that before you couldn't buy? Or is this only in Arcade mode that you are allowed to use them?

Could you please expand upon that Unlocking a bit?

AO

Oh, sorry about that... I meant "unlock" as in just unlocking cars that you can only use in Arcade Mode, not actually winning them for Sim. I just mentioned it, because it's a neat way for people who haven't yet won one of the Big Three cars to actually race them.

[edit]: Here's an excellent link for all the information you ever would want to know about GT3's Arcade Mode.

 

[Max Powers]

they should give you a prize car for beating arcade...that was no fun to do...

 

[vat_man]

The only car you win in Arcade Mode is the Panoz, when you finish the dreaded time trials.

 

[quattro_bro]

I didn't really think too much of the 'unlocking'. The cars they already had were good enough to get through the races.

Then...I tried the i.link battle. :rockon: We got pretty bored with the limited selection of cars in each class. This prompted us to try to unlock more cars so we had a better selection.

What is the method to unlocking cars? Do you need to use cars of a particular class to have more of that class unlock? i.e. If you just run s-class cars, do more s-class cars unlock?

 

[Sage]

Originally posted by quattro_bro
What is the method to unlocking cars? Do you need to use cars of a particular class to have more of that class unlock? i.e. If you just run s-class cars, do more s-class cars unlock?

Just check out the link in my last post.

 

[quattro_bro]

It gives me a link error.

 

[Sage]

Originally posted by quattro_bro
It gives me a link error.

Oh. Poo.

 

[Race Idiot]

Originally posted by youth_cycler

Oh. Poo.

hey you NO swearing

It doesnt matter what class car you use just use whatever you feel like. Its the difficulty of the race detirmines what you unlock, basically if you do the races on hard it will unlock all the things for that track, so sace time and do all the races in hard.