I can't stand the amount of dirty racers out there, it's very annoying to be in the same lobby with these people, and that's not even the worst part. The worst part is that a few friends and I always have a lobby open, and it is called "CLEAN RACERS ONLY" and yet they still join and race like morons, whether it be ramming others off the road, driving backwards or even forming roadblocks. I guess it's time to just have a lounge set up so only friends can join, I wish more people would just race in a clean fashion, this is Gran Turismo not Burnout. If anyone that wants to race clean, feel free to add me PSN- Bloodshot_718, we usually have a lobby open everyday, but like I said I might just switch to running a lounge to avoid these people that can't race properly. Hopefully this thread can get some people to join my room for a good clean race. I'm not sure if this thread is in the right place as I could not find anything in my search, so my bad in advance lol END RANT
I can tell you, it's not just GT5. It's been nearly 3 years since I've had my PS3 and virtually every console racing game I've played on line had it's share of "problem" players.
You have the noobs who go in with full aids, completely oblivious to the fact that they can't even circumnavigate the track on their own without crashing 2-3 times. Fine, we all have to start somewhere. 👍 But they think nothing of joining clean racing lobbies and knocking other people off. Oops, well, Hey, it's just a game, right? You have the players with some skills, some even highly skilled, who just think it's perfectly fine to crash and bash your way through the field, so long you win, using other people as a brake or barrier. You have young kids who don't even understand the concept of racing, outside of Mario Kart, but thanks to the racing line, are just quick enough to be a danger. But they just cut corners left and right and drive anyway they can to get to the front. You have the talkers who babble on incessantly the entire race. You have the potty mouths who have to drop the F-bomb at least 3 times in every single sentence. You have the pseudo-clans who are dropping over the FPS fence to try their hand at racing en masse and think it's gang warfare on other cars. You have the drifters and drag racers and cops and robbers kids, who can't read simple lobby descriptions like "serious racing only". And then you have the true muppets, the guys who actively seek to drive backwards, smash into other players on purpose, by waiting for them and lining them up like prey. Grid, Ferrari Challenge, GT5
rologue, F1:CE, Superstars of V8 Racing, NFS: shift, Supercar Challenge, F1:2010, SSV8:NC, Shift2--I've played ALL of these games and I can tell you, they ALL have more than their share of clowns online. GT5 is no exception. And I don't suspect it will be any different with GT6.
This is why, I gave up racing in public lobbies more than 18 months ago. And it's why, even though so many people want them back, I could care less if PD never patched in player-matching. Because I ran into plenty of punters and idiots in Prologue too and don't want to go back to those days. I want to be able to choose my racing online. If I want to race online, I do so with:
- people on my friend list who I KNOW are clean.
- people I know through organized events where we agree on rules in advance
- Official GTP sanctioned events where people have to follow the OLR rules
That said, racing online is easily a million times better than racing against the AI. There's nothing like racing, living, breathing, thinking opponents. And there isn't a game out there, especially GT5, that has AI good enough to compare with the better human racers. So if you don't have enough people on your friend list, it's a quandary. But as others have suggested:
1. Open your own lobby.
2. Put "clean or kick' in the description.
3. Turn off ALL aids, especially SRF and the RL
4. Try and limit it to 500 PP or less.
5. Nothing more than racing hard tire, or preferably, sports soft.
6. Make a note of the clean racers who join your lobby and race fairly. Send them friend requests. Kick the dirty ones and add them to your block list.
Soon, you'll build up a list of who's worth racing and who isn't. From time to time I'll lurk in public lobbies. Just to watch. And there is some great racing and great racers out there. But more often than not, the baloney I see going on, just re-enforces my opinion. 2 out of 3 people who play GT5 or ANY PS3 console game online, are just not people I want to play with.
Nice one.
