B-Spec, huh?

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Who would of thought B-Spec would be so fun. I originally though of B-spec as a way to make money by putting Bobin overpowered cars and setting him loose. But boy was I wrong. I've found that putting Bob in a similiarly spec'd car as his competition is great fun. I just watched my boy run the British Lightweights in London. It was a hoot to watch all these Elise's getting sideways around the city streets. Congrat's Bob!
 
Yeah, B-spec is great, I've also noticed a big difference if you put Bob in a closer matched car in the same exp level of race... It can be down right exciting, like watching a race on TV but with a direct feed to the driver... You actually need to manage him carefully or he will get grumpy... and if you over mange him he will get "sad" orange down arrow...

I think if B spec had tighter restrictions it would be a better understood feature/game mode...
 
Can be exciting yes, but frustrates me more often lol. He is so damned slow :grumpy: I tune a car for him and his laptimes are so much slower it makes me wonder why I hired him ?
 
Sometimes, a race can indeed be fun. Most of the times, it's either a breeze (overpowered car, leave it alone, free cars and cash...) or it's frustrating (matched car, Bob seems to have no will to win whatsoever...)

What I find most unrealistic is how, left to himself, Bob will slow down so much that he'll just loose. I dunno for sure, but I think most racecar drivers actually have to be told to slow the f* down more than they need to be told to speed up...

All in all, I guess it can be a fun feature at times, but I'd still rather they'd left it out and concentrated on Aspec. Given the choice, I'd rather race myself. And while free cars and cash are nice, I now feel obliged to run Bspec when I'm not playing. Otherwise, I'm "missing out" (though that might just be my own personal disorder).

The one thing I really would have liked is the ability to run endurance races together with the Bob's... alas, that is not an option :(
 
Khoin
What I find most unrealistic is how, left to himself, Bob will slow down so much that he'll just loose. I dunno for sure, but I think most racecar drivers actually have to be told to slow the f* down more than they need to be told to speed up...
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Not really, people tend to naturally pace down if they're far ahead, unless he himself or his team tell him to pace up. Just do a 15 lap race yourself, when you get 1st by a looooooong gap and you don't push yourself, you'll see your lap times will get gradually lower. That is, until you see your rivals have closed the gap too much. Then you pace up and probably make your fastest lap to get further from the others.
 
Khoin
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The one thing I really would have liked is the ability to run endurance races together with the Bob's... alas, that is not an option :(
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I have to agree this would have been a really fun option. Hey maybe in GT6.
 
LazyYouth
Not really, people tend to naturally pace down if they're far ahead, unless he himself or his team tell him to pace up. Just do a 15 lap race yourself, when you get 1st by a looooooong gap and you don't push yourself, you'll see your lap times will get gradually lower. That is, until you see your rivals have closed the gap too much. Then you pace up and probably make your fastest lap to get further from the others.
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True, but as you say, you'd speed up again when you see the others closing in, not just let them pass you as Bob tends to do :D
 
It can be fun if you use an equally powered car where your commanding skills are essential in order to win. However, just like A-Spec each event needs to have a bhp limit. In A-Spec it can be enjoyable driving in an overpowered car but it kills the excitement of the race. In B-Spec you can just watch your driver escape from the pack in an overpowered car which isn't very enjoyable and neither exciting. On top of that the game doesn't do much to explain the features very well and it would be nice if there was an overall point besides winning cars you can't obtain in A-Spec. I think B-Spec needs an overhaul for GT6.
 
In earlier gt's you could swap between a and b spec's
Didn't improve the game play because you done the first lap got the lead then handed over to bob and turned the channel over and came back once the race is finished.
 
GT5 B-Spec is terrible, completely wrecks the game, if i ever put my B-Spec driver in a similarly powered car as the competition, he will just pull over let the other cars overtake and roll round the track to come last by 1 lap or something :ouch:
 
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On a second thought I actually think they should ditch B-Spec altogether. Instead they should focus on improving rain and dirt surface physics.
 
I like my Bobbers.
To train them and see them progress into B-spec and drivingstyle is very rewarding.
I think that PD did an awesome job here.
I am making my 5th Bob tonight. I am looking forward to put him in a FR car, so that I can make him do the endurance and Le Mans type racing.
The extra Exp and cash comes in handy.
 
B-Spec is Great. In Even-Match-Races its so much fun! Bob even got some balls in the last race und pushed another driver oftrack in a corner, couse he just didnt want to give in! (lvl 14 R.Duke ... maybe the name is the key? ;D )
 
dj-smurph
In earlier gt's you could swap between a and b spec's
Didn't improve the game play because you done the first lap got the lead then handed over to bob and turned the channel over and came back once the race is finished.
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That is how bspec should be; someone you train to help your team win an endurance race. In GT5 bobs have their XP allocated according to how many laps they have run, so the same methodology could be applied to an Aspec driver. Race one lap and let Bobs do the rest...get one laps worth of XP, plus you have aspec and bspec running side by side rather than separately.
 
B-Spec is awesome, it lets me progress in the game in a different aspect if I cant be sat down infront of the TV for hours on end to do the normal mode.

Good way for early XP is to put even a lvl 1 guy in the World Championship with a FGT. Then he will show you how good of a driver he can become in 5 races. Sure he may spin out, but he could stop, leave the car, take a pee in a bush, get back in and still be comfortably ahead.
 
Nielsen
On a second thought I actually think they should ditch B-Spec altogether. Instead they should focus on improving rain and dirt surface physics.
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They did it's an option on the race settings menu right at the bottom. Either have grip difference low(default) or stick it onto real and let the fun begin
 
dj-smurph
They did it's an option on the race settings menu right at the bottom. Either have grip difference low(default) or stick it onto real and let the fun begin
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The real setting makes surface grip on wet roads even more unrealistic than it is on the low setting. Secondly, it has nothing to to with the physics on dirt tracks.
 
I prefer to see Bob lapping the field over and over again in my new FGT.

It will be even better when I get to 35 and he can do it in an even better car ;)
 
It was kind of fun for a while. Putting him in cars of similar performance to the other AI cars is hit-or-miss at best. Sometimes he drives like he's got a brain in his head, sometimes he doesn't.

Once you get to the endurance races the fun is over. Just hours and hours of repetition and not really anything to be gained from it - expect more exp so you can move on to the next level of repetition.
 
Khoin
The one thing I really would have liked is the ability to run endurance races together with the Bob's... alas, that is not an option :(
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I would really like that feature too. I hope they've included the feature where you race your own A-spec races along the same time you send your drivers to do there job.
 
kidd0218
I would really like that feature too. I hope they've included the feature where you race your own A-spec races along the same time you send your drivers to do there job.
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I would prefer it both ways. For certain races only (endurances come to mind);
- you help Bob and it keeps you more involved in bspec
- Bob helps you, in aspec races

At the end XP is allocated according to number of laps raced (like currently in bspec), but your XP is credited to your Aspec account, and Bobs to his and your bspec account.
 
My bob did this: He was running second, ran off the track, braked to a complete stop. Then, politely let other drivers pass him. He reentered the track in last. He's retired at lvl 2.

Bspec feel like a 4 yr olds toy version of Aspec. A 100% waste of time. As if video games are not a waste of time already. That makes Bspec a 200% waste of time. Only four options, really?
 

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