Are seasonals getting harder or is it just me.

carfanatic45
I was just attempting the Lamborghini events and I can't manage to catch up or out run the countach. I'm driving the Murcielago but the slower cars seem to be catching up to me in a straight line and I will always loose my postion. I used to be able to fly through the seasonals but it seems i've ethier lost my touch, or something is up with the game. I play just about every day and i'm not the best out there, nor the worst, but I just can't do it anymore. It's strange.
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It's just you, at least for me it's as easy as it was when the Seasonals started.
 
I don't know why people are having issues with the seasonals they are easy as ever.

I won the nurb lambo race by 7 seconds with a stock Gallardo. Get with it people.
 
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I haven't conquered the Lambo one.. yet. The cars are not ones I drive normally so opart of my problems are in set up, the rest is skill, or lack of it.
 
byegad
I haven't conquered the Lambo one.. yet. The cars are not ones I drive normally so opart of my problems are in set up, the rest is skill, or lack of it.
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Go to tuning forum and look up any PRAIANO tune for any car. I have played since GT1 and have played with tuning alot and as soon as I tried one of his tunes I took 2 plus seconds a lap on suzuka(my best track) first lap out! 👍
 
Has anyone else noticed that the cars you race against don't seem to change anymore? With this current one there's always two miuras starting first and second and with the trucks its was always two tacomas at the front, with the previous seasonals the lead cars would change if you reloaded the race.
 
Tough times with the 550 PP Lamborghini event but how did the AI improve, there has been no update patch pushed recently? Here are the lap times needed to beat to gold:

Nurburgring - 7:08
Toscano - 8:49
Autumn Ring - 6:51
SS 5 - 7:34
Rome - 6:08

I have noticed a lot of sloppy AI driving, spinning, in the dirt....
 
I quite like the challenge of the new seasonals, but I don't like the cars we're being made to use. I've got all these LMPs and Group Cs just sitting around doing nothing, and I want something to use them in.
 
gtnoobie
Not to nitpick but so far I've not see my AI opponent do any worse than 7:05
When I ran 7:07, the miura ran a 7:03:banghead:
The rest I am not sure though.
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The Miura in my race ran a 7:05 aswell luckily i ran a 6:58 and had the lead by 3/4 track. Coasted most the back half.

Just drive alittle more aggressive then usual and you will out brake the computer every corner.
 
I think that PD has made them a bit more difficult, especially the Ferrari F1 at the Nurburghring 👍 Some races in the new seasonals are quite challenging whereas others are too easy, eg. La Sarte. A lack of consistency in difficulty :confused:
 
Im glad the seasonals have become more challenging, however I think the tyres are a joke.

Before anyone jumps in, I have golded the Lambo challenge, im not whining about a seasonal I cant do.

The tyres PD have imposed on the game are ridiculously terrible. If you drive some of the cars with comfort tyres, turning or braking at 40 MPH, the tyres let go..... seriously?

Even the sports tyres aren't realistic, sill performing well below the real life counter parts. The racing tyres are the other extent, like glue.

I would prefer a seasonal that is challenging, harder than the Lambo seasonal, but with tyres that are realistic as the comfort and sports in the game just don't cut it.
 
Personally i think the seasonals became to difficult,but i have managed to win them all so far.I know there are superhumans that says the seasonals and challenges are to easy ,no matter how hard those really are! Why dont they lower the enginepower or/and put on comfort hard tyres?
 
Some of the recent seasonals I have found require different cars for particular tracks, tuning one car is not always the solution. Needing to experiment with different cars can be interesting as you have to try them, learn them, find out their quirks and tweak them for best performance. Frustrating at times certainly, as I have tried countless cars for some tracks (a spec no4, nurb) but preferable to having an ideal car easily available that will dominate the typical opponents and gold everything on the first try. Once I get the right car I find the win more satisfying and end up with a pile of cars that may be useful for another event!! I am also grateful for the seasonals as most of the main game racing is pretty easy.
 
It's harder that's for sure I'm gonna build a new setup for my '88 Countach then see if I can win. i had to use someone elses tune for the 80's seasonal to complete 2 races I'm doing it myself this time. I'm not giving up :) I'm hoping for a muscle car seasonal next Challenger,Mustang & Camaro that would be fun.
 
You know what I think it is? It's all in the tires folks. I remember winning 400pp seasonals with 32Xpp cars and thinking 'yeah, awesome!' but honestly, I was using Sports Soft, and earlier Racing Soft tires, and it just made those cars invincible, all I'd need to win the races were enough corners, it'd probably come down to a simple number of corners, the pp doesn't reflect that properly.

So instead of fixing the PP scale, they leave it as is, but force everyone to be on the same compound and further, these guys aren't all below the pp limit, some are now above, so we retain this problem of the front runners forcing up your cars pp, never mind if you can catch them yet, this was a problem we had before too. I'm not sure how they solve this, other than the simple solution of spacing the cars much closer together, and/or spacing the pp of the cars much closer together. I feel that roughly the first five are comple push overs then the next five are just slightly irritating, then I need to get into a good rythym to finally get to and break the last two, who are always way too seperated and far ahead, and often now, I can't even catch them, I'm lucky if I'm bumping my way into a podium finish.

On the other hand, I've read dozens if not hundreds of posts here saying 'please make it harder' so if they are reading this feedback at all, they've done just that, feels a bit hippocritical for me to go back from 'its too easy I always win' to now 'I can't quite win, you took it too far, can you make it a little easier now please?'. Besides, I don't know if we are all getting worse / the game is harder, or if it's just because people are playing the game less frequently, I can't remember the last time I had a 200% log on bonus, but it'd be months ago, May or June even.
 
SmellyWallrus
Im glad the seasonals have become more challenging, however I think the tyres are a joke.

Before anyone jumps in, I have golded the Lambo challenge, im not whining about a seasonal I cant do.

The tyres PD have imposed on the game are ridiculously terrible. If you drive some of the cars with comfort tyres, turning or braking at 40 MPH, the tyres let go..... seriously?

Even the sports tyres aren't realistic, sill performing well below the real life counter parts. The racing tyres are the other extent, like glue.

I would prefer a seasonal that is challenging, harder than the Lambo seasonal, but with tyres that are realistic as the comfort and sports in the game just don't cut it.
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Agreed. But I kind of liked the comfort tires in World Classics, because I could make my Camaro do burnouts under acceleration :sly:

And I agree with the guy above me. You can win 500PP races with 450PP cars if you're using Racing Softs.
 
SmellyWallrus
Im glad the seasonals have become more challenging, however I think the tyres are a joke.

Before anyone jumps in, I have golded the Lambo challenge, im not whining about a seasonal I cant do.

The tyres PD have imposed on the game are ridiculously terrible. If you drive some of the cars with comfort tyres, turning or braking at 40 MPH, the tyres let go..... seriously?

Even the sports tyres aren't realistic, sill performing well below the real life counter parts. The racing tyres are the other extent, like glue.

I would prefer a seasonal that is challenging, harder than the Lambo seasonal, but with tyres that are realistic as the comfort and sports in the game just don't cut it.
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Pretty much exactly my thoughts. I am starting to lose interest in the Seasonals. The key reason is that PD insist we use Sports Soft tires, which, as some may know, are not realistic at all. And this problem persists even when you, yourself uses Comfort tires, because the AI will be using SS tires, and they will definitely win.

Another reason is that the Seasonal Event races just aren't races. There is nothing fun about having to chase a car that gets a head start. That's not what they generally do in Formula 1 or NASCAR or Super GT or DTM or BTCC or WTCC or any sort of professional racing series. Seriously, PD needs to do their research on what real racing is. I have yet to participate in a race in GT5 (excluding online races) that I would actually call, a "race."

So basically, fix the tires, and fix the racing. Then I would be happy. Honestly, it shouldn't be a problem even if I told them that this is what I want for the next Seasonal. The reason being that PD can choose whatever tires we use, and they have the option of choosing a standing start or a rolling start. When that's done, tweaking the AI would just be icing on top of the cake.
 
Besides tire grip, I feel that the driving is artificially treacherous when "Skid Force Recovery" is off. I know some players think having SFR on is unrealistic, and I am not looking for an argument on that point. I just think PD needs to tone down the effects of it when it is off. In real life, it takes some effort to get a car to go sideways on dry pavement when driving at 30 mph in first or second gear.
 
SmellyWallrus
Im glad the seasonals have become more challenging, however I think the tyres are a joke.

Before anyone jumps in, I have golded the Lambo challenge, im not whining about a seasonal I cant do.

The tyres PD have imposed on the game are ridiculously terrible. If you drive some of the cars with comfort tyres, turning or braking at 40 MPH, the tyres let go..... seriously?

Even the sports tyres aren't realistic, sill performing well below the real life counter parts. The racing tyres are the other extent, like glue.

I would prefer a seasonal that is challenging, harder than the Lambo seasonal, but with tyres that are realistic as the comfort and sports in the game just don't cut it.
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I'm curious why you think the sports tires perform worse than real life tires? This member did an extensive test on GT5 tires vs real life tires. There's a chart on the link. https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showthread.php?t=160821&highlight=realistic+tire+grip

There's been much discussion on what constitutes a realistic tire grip between GT5 and real life. After doing some research on GTP the tires in the game have a lot more grip than I thought. Granted the GT5 tire model is pretty unrefined though.

I used to notch my tires down a notch or two to get closer "racing" in the seasonals. Thankfully the last few seasonals haven't needed the dumbing down. The last couple have had varied degrees of difficulty depending on the race or lineup. Hopefully this will continue so I can improve my driving.
 

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