Seriously. I absolutely love this game. No paying to win. Just pure skill. I use a pad and get a win once every 10 races which is good enough for me. Love watching the replays too.
Yep, that's also what I loved about GT Sport and now in GT7. The competition is extremely fun and challenging.
Once you're out of the depths of very bad (by this I mean unfair and dirty) drivers, it's really fun. Of course you'll still get the occasional meltdown of someone, but that's unavoidable. Plus it's not as niche as private leagues would be.
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For todays Nations Cup at Kyoto, I used the Subaru with a tune I found online.
Had some practice laps before starting in third slot (EU), but not that much. No strategy required due to low amount of laps and both fuel and tire wear set to 1. Plus I hate hard sports tires, so I only went once.
In qualifying, I wasn't able to extract everything out so only managed P11 with a 1:48.6. Could have been a few tenths better here and there...
The race was just about surviving and not making an error on these tires. And it paid out. In the first lap, I gained three places in the first chicane as others crashed and made errors (hence the thumbnail
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At the end of the first lap down to P9, and then up to P8 again as another one messed up the aforementioned chicane in lap 2.
In lap 3 the car in front got a 1sec cut penalty in the same chicane again, so up to P7. At the end of lap 5 I gained another two places due to penalties, up to P5.
Stayed there for the end. Gained 6 places without making a single overtake
Gained 285 points. P1 got 342, which I think was the highest points ever given in a lobby I was part of.
In the end, this put me up to 31st in Europe and I believe 1st in Germany overall.
I know a lot of good drivers did not participate in many races in the Nations cup (which you can see from my rank despite having missed more than two races), but still very happy with this result!
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