Are headlights useless?

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I'm doing the Tuscan Night Race and I can't see a thing. The headlights seems absolutely useless. If it weren't for the driving line I would have no idea where to the road is. Is my TV or just bad design by PD?
 
Are the headlights on? The headlights do make a difference, it could be your tv settings or maybe you did not turn the lights on?
 
Headlights are exaggerated where they don't need to be, and lacking where the need don't need to be.

Sign reflections are insanely bright. Low beams are way too low. High beams are aimed properly but the intensity is lacking.
 
Are the headlights on? The headlights do make a difference, it could be your tv settings or maybe you did not turn the lights on?

you can't turn them on or off...you can only control the low/high beam. And yes they are on and the high beam as well.
 
If you think visibility is bad with headlights, trying running around the green he'll in a NASCAR in the rain at night.

That makes everything else seem much brighter.
 
Once upon a time I had a 12-player changing time/weather de la Sarthe. Final lap, raining, and it was a one-make race --- it was CT230R. Can you imagine in the final lap it turned dark on Mulsanne?? Without headlight, 175mph..?? No racing line allowed. OMG there were some real adrenaline rushes. Quite fun to have buddies around when you are stranded round the bend...
 
If you think visibility is bad with headlights, trying running around the green he'll in a NASCAR in the rain at night.

That makes everything else seem much brighter.

FGT in 24hr B spec la sarte was a bit difficult for my BOB too. He couldnt find the headlights!........doh FGT dont have any.
Was abit scary to watch......he still won easy tho.:)
 
I recently did this and I had no problems seeing where I was going? All with standard GT and TV settings and that is over two different TV's aswell ... Crank up the contrast & brightness on the TV and you wont have a problem.
 
Something that seems to get hugely overlooked by this community (evident in the fact that nobody is voting to have it fixed) is that the headlights are broken in this game. I've demonstrated that a month or two ago with supporting photos taken straight from the game's photo mode, wherein I shown that if you're going up a big hill your headlights don't shine up the hill properly, but instead continue shining perfectly horizontally which means aiming down at the road and making it impossible to actually see anything but darkness ahead of you. In the submitted photos, I shown my mustang with a patch of light barely large enough to illuminate an entire sofa.

They're broken. Period. People can argue about whether they're too bright or not bright enough, but from my photos it appeared that they weren't too dim but simply useless on inclines. In real life, your headlights shine up a hill when your car is going up a hill, but in GT5 they do not.

I'll see if I can dig up the photos I used.

EDIT:
Here it looks as though my headlights are shining plenty brightly. One is brights and the other dims, but I forget which order I took them in.
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Now, here I am going up a hill. Note how my headlights go basically nowhere. This is doctored in no way. It is straight from photo mode.
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It's hard to tell in this shot but was obvious on my TV when I took it, but my tail lights actually illuminate a larger area, all the way to the bottom of the photo.
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Something that seems to get hugely overlooked by this community (evident in the fact that nobody is voting to have it fixed) is that the headlights are broken in this game. I've demonstrated that a month or two ago with supporting photos taken straight from the game's photo mode, wherein I shown that if you're going up a big hill your headlights don't shine up the hill properly, but instead continue shining perfectly horizontally which means aiming down at the road and making it impossible to actually see anything but darkness ahead of you. In the submitted photos, I shown my mustang with a patch of light barely large enough to illuminate an entire sofa.

They're broken. Period. People can argue about whether they're too bright or not bright enough, but from my photos it appeared that they weren't too dim but simply useless on inclines. In real life, your headlights shine up a hill when your car is going up a hill, but in GT5 they do not.

I'll see if I can dig up the photos I used.


Well in that case, as I said above, use a bit of initiative and turn the contrast / brightness up, or just don't race in the dark if you are going to whine about it :D :P

I've never noticed this on the inclines at the Nurburgring though? (Or are you talking about serious inclines?)
 
Something that seems to get hugely overlooked by this community (evident in the fact that nobody is voting to have it fixed) is that the headlights are broken in this game. I've demonstrated that a month or two ago with supporting photos taken straight from the game's photo mode, wherein I shown that if you're going up a big hill your headlights don't shine up the hill properly, but instead continue shining perfectly horizontally which means aiming down at the road and making it impossible to actually see anything but darkness ahead of you. In the submitted photos, I shown my mustang with a patch of light barely large enough to illuminate an entire sofa.

They're broken. Period. People can argue about whether they're too bright or not bright enough, but from my photos it appeared that they weren't too dim but simply useless on inclines. In real life, your headlights shine up a hill when your car is going up a hill, but in GT5 they do not.

I'll see if I can dig up the photos I used.

EDIT:
Here it looks as though my headlights are shining plenty brightly. One is brights and the other dims, but I forget which order I took them in.
31243758.jpg

83507714.jpg


Now, here I am going up a hill. Note how my headlights go basically nowhere. This is doctored in no way. It is straight from photo mode.
96302218.jpg


It's hard to tell in this shot but was obvious on my TV when I took it, but my tail lights actually illuminate a larger area, all the way to the bottom of the photo.
85003514.jpg

^this
 
I'm mixed colourblind and have problems with these levels (Inc snow levels!).

I raised a thread about this and had a very handy tip - use the brightness setting ingame. I've managed to gold the S10 race and done the Tuscany race now so I'd give that a go!!
 
Yeh it does vary ... Snow races sometimes I turn the contrast & brightness down as some bits can be sooo bright! Night races I seem to have no problem, although if you turn your brightness and contrast up all the way you can see the track great at night without headlights so you really could take someone by suprise in a race! :P
 
I'm mixed colourblind and have problems with these levels (Inc snow levels!).

I raised a thread about this and had a very handy tip - use the brightness setting ingame. I've managed to gold the S10 race and done the Tuscany race now so I'd give that a go!!

From where exactly?
 
Try running Nurburgring at night and see if headlights make a difference.
 
I have been using the custom generator for Toscana templates lately which you can create custom night tracks, what became apparent to me right away is that there is a delay with the headlight system. I'm not sure if this is car specific for curve tracking headlights or a fundamental glitch in the system altogether, but when you corner the car is pointed into darkness and the headlights only gradually shift direction, but by the time that happens I'm driving through esses and have to turn in the other direction and overshoot the path of my headlights illumination. Once you straighten out for a few seconds the headlights become orientated as such to become usable again.
 
I'm mixed colourblind and have problems with these levels (Inc snow levels!).

I raised a thread about this and had a very handy tip - use the brightness setting ingame. I've managed to gold the S10 race and done the Tuscany race now so I'd give that a go!!


This is what I did for the Grand Tour event as well.

And if it isn't enough, try messing with the brightness/contrast settings on your TV.
 
some cars have headlights that don't even work. Here's the RX-7 Race Car

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tomisnic
From where exactly?

Pause the game during the race and choose quick options. There is a setting EV exposure (or something like that!) put that up as far as you can and away you go.

Plus you can always mess about with your contrast too - but I'd use the above first of all
 
some cars have headlights that don't even work. Here's the RX-7 Race Car

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Thats horrible. I couldn't ever think about racing in the night without headlights.
 
I believe this was fixed in the last patch. Try it again and see.
 
idea I used when lapping the ring in a kart ... put the course map on, and set the zoom to 1 ;) try it, it works!
 
Something that seems to get hugely overlooked by this community (evident in the fact that nobody is voting to have it fixed) is that the headlights are broken in this game. I've demonstrated that a month or two ago with supporting photos taken straight from the game's photo mode, wherein I shown that if you're going up a big hill your headlights don't shine up the hill properly, but instead continue shining perfectly horizontally which means aiming down at the road and making it impossible to actually see anything but darkness ahead of you. In the submitted photos, I shown my mustang with a patch of light barely large enough to illuminate an entire sofa.

They're broken. Period. People can argue about whether they're too bright or not bright enough, but from my photos it appeared that they weren't too dim but simply useless on inclines. In real life, your headlights shine up a hill when your car is going up a hill, but in GT5 they do not.

I'll see if I can dig up the photos I used.

EDIT:
Here it looks as though my headlights are shining plenty brightly. One is brights and the other dims, but I forget which order I took them in.
31243758.jpg

83507714.jpg


Now, here I am going up a hill. Note how my headlights go basically nowhere. This is doctored in no way. It is straight from photo mode.
96302218.jpg


It's hard to tell in this shot but was obvious on my TV when I took it, but my tail lights actually illuminate a larger area, all the way to the bottom of the photo.
85003514.jpg

Agreed, that special event on Toscana during the night has such poor visibility due to the headlights not shining up a road on a hill.
 
has anyone tried racing the Toyota 7 at night?:scared: thats a challenge.
 
Toscana to me is near impossible to beat b/c of the headlight issue. After spending around 2 hours on it I was able to get 2nd place but wasn't very close to first and the reason is b/c I CAN'T SEE. I have an LCD TV which is naturally darker than plasma but I turned up the brightness all the way and it helped a little but not much. The headlights suck. And I'm not gonna leave my TV's brightness up all the way b/c I'd prefer not burning out the bulb prematurely.
 
Did a 24 hr B-Spec with an FGT and no crashes last night (lol), so yes in this case :D
 
Did a 24 hr B-Spec with an FGT and no crashes last night (lol), so yes in this case
That was a bit sarcastic, wasn't it?
Bob knows his way, he never needs a light
 
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