Are you sick of seasonal events

[Gejabo]

I enjoy the seasonal races.
After I gold them I come back to them with lower powered cars...

great fun 👍


But it would be great to have some other forms of seasonals.
What about a seasonal endurance...

 

[Bogey]

I think they're are just what you make of them. I always use the tyres the Al use and always start at the minimum Pp and rarely exceed what they use on these too. Think there needs to be longer events, 5 laps are too short, that's my only gripe, for the £ available they could be 30-40 minute races.

 

[ZeGermanBastorD]

The current ones are one of the best seasonals ever. 👍

FormulaGT World Championship: a lot of fun & challenging with RSoft tires, ABS 1, skid recovery & everything else off. And every race is min. 10 minutes.

Eiger Nordwand Drift Trial: finally drifting in the dirt. Hell yea!

Cape Ring Time Trial: as the FormulaGT is the fastest car for this challenge, it's the perfect reason to tune & squeeze out the maximum out of the car. And after that you can attack the FormulaGT World Championship with your new tune.

I've got a top400 time, so my tune isn't that bad.

 

[racer39658]

Seasonals are for money, online races with friends are for the challenge. At least, that's my approach.

 

[xxDingerxx]

Variety is the spice of life. Unfortunately, someone forgot to add spice to the seasonals.

It needs mixing up a bit. While some might like the current format (thats fine) we now have a whole stack of "chase the chicken" races and none that resembles a real race.

I really dont see why they can't just mix it up a bit. Strict PP and tire restrictions, standing starts, AI borrowed from Spec II's arcade whacked on to max and turn on mechanical damage to stop the first corner nutters.

Sure, not everyone will be able to beat it but if PD always keeps pondering to the lowest denominator's, those who want more challenge might start looking else where.

 

[SKOT_FREE]

I'm not sick of the Seasonal events, I just wish they were races everyone could race in together. Maybe have A-Spec races online or something?

 

[SKOT_FREE]

I'm not sick of the Seasonal events, I just wish they were races everyone could race in together. Maybe have A-Spec races online or something?

 

[JohnBM01]

Pardon my language in answering... but hell no. No matter what you think about Seasonal Events, you have to agree that this allows more racing events to take part in. That is unless you fancy doing the very limited-feeling races shipped with the game more than these special challenges. I revel in the opportunity to try out these new events. Last night, I did something rare- win a race involving formula cars when I won the Formula Gran Turismo Seasonal at High Speed Ring.

I look at it more as more ways to race. I just hope the races are manageable and winnable (in other words, no races on super-short tracks with so few laps to actually try to win). Would you rather more races and (let's be honest) more reasons to race a certain car or be content with just the very limited in-game races? You are a gamer and a competitor, so you bring on more races. And therefore, you bring on the latest GT challenges like the competitor that you are.Pardon my language in answering... but hell no. No matter what you think about Seasonal Events, you have to agree that this allows more racing events to take part in. That is unless you fancy doing the very limited-feeling races shipped with the game more than these special challenges. I revel in the opportunity to try out these new events. Last night, I did something rare- win a race involving formula cars when I won the Formula Gran Turismo Seasonal at High Speed Ring.

I look at it more as more ways to race. I just hope the races are manageable and winnable (in other words, no races on super-short tracks with so few laps to actually try to win). Would you rather more races and (let's be honest) more reasons to race a certain car or be content with just the very limited in-game races? You are a gamer and a competitor, so you bring on more races. And therefore, you bring on the latest GT challenges like the competitor that you are. Or, do you prefer throwing in the towel rather than fight any more rounds?

 

[Tenacious D]

then it would be too easy. people will start to exploit this. seasonal events are meant to challenge racers: tuning and driving. it's meant to really challenge the player's skills, not rape the money out of the event.

Some of us want to buy all the cars, some multiple times to make modded and (mostly) racing versions. I appreciate money races because I don't want to waste three years grinding my life away to earn hundreds of millions of credits.

I'd be fine with a mix of hard seasonals and money races, since this game is supposed to cater to everyone's needs, not the top 0.1%.

 

[HKS racer]

Camaro RM "stock" with Comfort Hard tyres for the Classic Cars seasonal (that one until 1969) was fun, you should try it. Don't even bother with Sport tyres on that one.
Oh as a rule for more interesting seasonals try always to use the worst compund possible, i.e. if you win by 10sec. with Sport Mediums have another go with Comfort Soft. 👍

Think the point is this..

Seasonal events take a snail and put it half a lap ahead and say "ok go catch the snail". It would be more fun to have a bunch of fast cars around you to actually race against, rather than chasing down slow cars who just get put way infront of you.

In the recent FGT seasonal races I was lapping the AI cars. Where is the challenge in that?

I agree with you about the catch the snail concept of all this seasonals, it could be different for instantce using the new Arcade level 10 AI but for unknown reasons they keep'd for the arcade mode only. So if you lap AI in seasonals, seriously go detune your car.

I believe that the seasonals are set up the way they are now so that a wide variety of people will be at the very least satisfied with it. The people that want to skid around like a jerk and ram the AI can do that and the people who want to have a very close race from start to finish can do that too. It's all in how you choose to prepare for the event.

Race too hard? Change to softer tires, add power, raise aero...

Race too easy? Change to harder tires, use the power limiter, lower aero, add ballast...

You have options folks. Personally, I like to look at the competition and then choose a car that I think *might* be able to get in the top 5 if I drive phenomenally well. I use whatever tires the competition is using. I start racing with this baseline car and incrementally tune the quirks out of the car and slowly add power until I can get first place while requiring excellent, consistent driving to do it. You get more value out of each seasonal event this way instead of blowing through the whole thing in an hour and then going online to complain about it.

^ Spot ON. Folks you need to learn how tune and detune cars to keep things interesting.

 

[xxDingerxx]

Camaro RM "stock" with Comfort Hard tyres for the Classic Cars seasonal (that one until 1969) was fun, you should try it. Don't even bother with Sport tyres on that one.
Oh as a rule for more interesting seasonals try always to use the worst compund possible, i.e. if you win by 10sec. with Sport Mediums have another go with Comfort Soft. 👍

I think the point is not how challenging we can make the seasonals for ourselves but more to do with the nature of "the chase"

The problem isn't how fast you get to your opponent but rather the speed difference between the two. It doesn't matter if I catch the leader halfway through a race or on the very last corner. Problem is, when I reach him i'm past him quicker than s*** through a goose

 

[H20HYBRID_GT]

Tbh, if you restrict your car like this you usually have to fight each and every opponent for position. It was like that before the update, but its even better now, they even re-overtake me in corners!!
The only problem is you sometimes get a much faster car in the lead, which you cant catch then, but as this is random I dont see it as a big one and also its just as fun getting 2nd if you have good racing over 5 laps.

I love seasonals, without them it would be pretty boring to play this game (offline) and also really hard to earn credits.

 

[greg666]

seasonal events are the only thing I race offline now.
- more money
- helmet/suit/paint

 

[noisiaturismo]

What we need are more Expert seasonal events, those were actually a challenge.

More A-spec events too obviously.

No, the experts are hard

 

[Cucobr]

WTF?!?!!?

A big NO.

PD give us more.

 

[Sach]

I don't enjoy any of the 'races' against the AI because of the scenario that the OP described. It's not racing at all, really. So yeah, I don't have much use for seasonal events outside of money, because I don't get anything from slaloming through robot cars that have no reaction to anything going on.

 

[mykem]

The Seasonal races are great for people like who are not into games and just want fast quick cash so they can get enough money to buy the car they want to drive.

For me GT5 is about driving cars on the track you like- either TT or just testing cars. Once in awhile I would do online races with friends. But I would normally stay away from all the other modes- B-Spec, A-spec, license test and Special events (with the exception of endurance races in A-spec). So, Seasonal event (including TT) is like meeting Stephen Hawking a few days before handing in my paper on Quantum Gravity.

 

[Waheed]

seasonal events make me come moar for gt5!

 

[Samus]

So, you're sick of seasonal events because of the distance between you and the leader? What, do you want to start right on the leader's bumper or something? Where's the challenge in that?

Have you ever watched any real motorsport in your life? The cars all start on a grid at the same time, a few hundred metres from first to last. Some series have a rolling start, extending the gap between cars a bit more. They all then go off and have an evenly matched race, fighting it out throughout the laps. THAT IS RACING. Seasonals are not.

 

[maxpontiac]

No. If I was, I wouldn't play them anymore. It's that simple.

 

[koift]

like has been said, variety. Keep some as "chicken chasers", make some grid starts. it is getting old.
The important thing to remember is ANY race can be made harder/more rewarding by detuning your car. I only tend to do this with races i enjoy, but i don't enjoy racing the same scenario (whatever it is) over and over again.

 

[FT-1]

I actually like seasonal races. I just wish there was an option for standing starts too.

 

[JDMKING13]

Seasonal are great It gives me a chance to test out many cars and at the same time get some good money. I don't know how people say it's to easy all you have to do is down grade to a lower level of tires or match the AI tires, that what I do.

 

[GTOne2Three]

I want seasonals to be online where you can race against others.

 

[Samus]

Seasonal are great It gives me a chance to test out many cars and at the same time get some good money. I don't know how people say it's to easy all you have to do is down grade to a lower level of tires or match the AI tires, that what I do.

The problem with that is you've no idea how much to downgrade or upgrade because of the varying distance the chicken is ahead, you have to use guesswork.

 

[jz]

I enjoy the seasonal events. I use it as an opportunity to work on the tunes of my cars. Definitely better than just doing a spec over and over again.

 

[huskeR32]

Everybody who keeps saying "detune your car" and "it's as hard as you make it for yourself" are completely missing the point.

In these races, you start 20 seconds back, and gain 4 seconds per lap for 5 laps to win. Along the way, you overtake 11 evenly spaced rolling chicanes (as somebody perfectly put it earlier).

De-tuning doesn't make the process any harder, it just gives you less error room to complete the process. In other words, it's a time trial. If you don't gain the 4 seconds per lap, you lose. If you do, you win. Your "opponents" have absolutely nothing to do with the process.

In a real race, there's no magical lap time you must run to win. Instead, you battle it out with dynamic opponents, who react to you and the conditions around them. Chaos, randomness and surprises ensue. You in turn must also react to your opponents and the conditions to come out on top. It doesn't matter if you didn't click off 4-second gains per lap like a metronome. What matters is that you overcame everything the race and your opponents threw at you and got there first. That's a race. And that's exactly what these seasonals are not.

To sum up my rambling, yes, I'm tired of these seasonals too.

 

[GTP_FastM3]

I agree with others who find the seasonals getting old. I'd much rather start right behind the leaders and have the AI drive much better so I was racing for all 5 laps instead of always playing catchup. I'd also like rules in place that make my car competitive without having to tweak repeatedly to find out the right mix that makes me competitive.

 

[BarronGeddon]

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[R3D D3V!L]

No. The more races the better. Spa races please Kaz.