Gran Turismo 7 Custom Race thread

[Lilium]

I'm building up a touring grid from late 80's cars, as one of my hobbies in the game is to get Fictional series going and bopping the grid.

While I could do the old and tried Gr.A/DTM series, Instead of having a grid of 3-4 cars, I'm already on 14 cars, aha.
If after bopping, reggie can work well on Custom races (still on the PS4 here), I'll share some screenshots and more infor if needed.

What sucks with reggie is that it won't take the powerband into consideration, and short shift on cars that really need it, like the S13 Silvia Q's.
That means that appart from the BOP that i'm doing with humans in mind, I'll also have to have some adjustments for the AI

But custom races are still one of the best ways to enjoy the game, if one has the funds and time

 

[Voodoovaj]

I started a new GTLM series following the new approach of not balancing the cars and letting the game handle it. Here's a screenshot of the 10 teams in this series. Note, I swapped the Porsche for the V12 Vantage at the last minute, but the Vantage is in the screenshot as well. I'm in the Honda for this series.

And here's the first race. Just 10 minutes.



Doing every race set up as a series, rather than stand alone races, allows the system to shine. I think it's the biggest failure of GT7. They've set up the single player as a bunch of stand alone races, when it should be a collection of championships.

 

[05XR8]

Setting up a 1HR/24H Nürburgring. Cant believe I haven’t done one.

 

[A_Higher_Place]

Setting up a 1HR/24H Nürburgring. Cant believe I haven’t done one.

Man this really makes me wish we could have 40 or 50 cars on the track at Nurburgring. I'd send all my group A cars there with their various tunes and let them have it. You'd see DTM, JGTC, BTCC, ETCC, and ATCC from this era all mixing and mingling. One can dream...

 

[suomi1]

Setting up a 1HR/24H Nürburgring. Cant believe I haven’t done one.

Makes GT3 comparatively so boring.. We used to have cars.

 

[GTvsForza]

I've been itching to get my own enduros done, too. Spa 24H, Bathurst 12H, and maybe a "remaster" of Daytona using the BMW and Porsche.

 

[05XR8]

Tough race. 4X Tyre/1x Fuel. First pitstop, I acquire some front end gdmage. Dropped me to last exiting pits. Second stop, I just hate the “Dagnabbit! I pressed the button too early before selecting fresh tyres!” mistake. Moved me up to 8th position, but with only 1/4 tread left, had to nearly drift my way in corners to affect SOPHY’s trajectories. Good position changes with a few cars and my “teammate” that finished P9.

Forgot how crazy N24 is at night.

 

[jesse100190]

i treat some dirt tracks as endurance races taking about 30-40 mins to complete the 26.2 mile marathon

 

[Voodoovaj]

I think they made some more improvements to Reggie. I took my GR3 approach and copied my GTLM 2015 setup across Sophy and Reggie.

Sophy with and without boost versus Reggie with and without boost, and I'm preferring Reggie with no boost and light damage. Reggie slides the cars around a little more and the other cars pass each other more than Sophy does. Of course, we all know the downside of boost, so using PP to create more challenge is a better choice when possible.

And then there is the weather and full catalogue of cars and tracks. Sophy 2.1 has not seen improvement. I can't verify that Reggie has improved recently, but it's looking good.

 

[jesse100190]

that one jump in fisherman's ranch causing all the yellow flags tonight on the northern end of the track even i went flying backwards.

 

[XSquareStickIt]

Took an impromptu break from driving for about a month or so. Came back and loaded up a race with entry level family cars to ease myself back in. I always forget how much fun this game can be and how quickly I get absorbed into things and ideas I want to do.

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All cars are stock (except for maybe some aero parts for visuals).

 

[st3vao]

Hi everyone, hope you're all good!
I've tuned 20 or so Road Cars to the PP level of the Current Gr4 Cars under current BoP, and the results are starting to get where I want for the performance of the Custom vs Official Gr4 cars to be, with some minor changes here and there in the Official Gr4 BoP.
Some custom cars like the Toyota MR-2, Renault Clio V6, and Mitsubishi FTO are fantastic with light to medium power upgrades and weight ballast, while some high powered ones like the Camaro and Mustang GT '15 perform well when reducing their power and or adding ballast to adjust the weight distribution.
There were two cars that i could not get to gr4 levels of power and weight without major handling issues; those being the Audi TT '09 and the Mercedes 190E, the Mercedes was horribly ovesteery, while the Audi had some major understeer issues in every aspect.
As I tinker a bit more with the "Custom Road Car BoP" and get more results, I'll share the car list and settings if anyone would like to copy them.
Have fun everyone!

 

[CodeRedR51]

Got what I thought was my GT World Challenge grid together and discovered that the Huracan GT3 isn't Sophy compatible. WTF. (seriously tired of this)

Three classes (Pro, Gold, Silver) with the Pro cars having ~40 more horsepower than the others. They will act as the rabbit in this case. Did a couple 10 lap test races so far at Road Atlanta (arguably the best Sophy track) and I barely even moved from my starting spot by the end of the race. Had a great battle with another car for a couple laps and swapped spots a couple times. Might do a couple more small tweaks and then do a full season of races that are 60-90 minutes each.

 

[Theufcveteran]

Got what I thought was my GT World Challenge grid together and discovered that the Huracan GT3 isn't Sophy compatible. WTF. (seriously tired of this)

Three classes (Pro, Gold, Silver) with the Pro cars having ~40 more horsepower than the others. They will act as the rabbit in this case. Did a couple 10 lap test races so far at Road Atlanta (arguably the best Sophy track) and I barely even moved from my starting spot by the end of the race. Had a great battle with another car for a couple laps and swapped spots a couple times. Might do a couple more small tweaks and then do a full season of races that are 60-90 minutes each.

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Check this list here for incompatible cars (it seems to vary by track). It's updated as of version 1.67 which may have been the last update for GT7 with any Sophy changes on this front.

 

[CodeRedR51]

Check this list here for incompatible cars (it seems to vary by track). It's updated as of version 1.67 which may have been the last update for GT7 with any Sophy changes on this front.

I assumed it was compatible since it's been in the game forever.

 

[Theufcveteran]

I assumed it was compatible since it's been in the game forever.

Indeed, but I don't think Sophy can yet drive all cars (unless that's changed). When 2.0 was announced, the trailer said Sophy could drive 70% of GT7's cars (the article says 95% of the roster in the game at the time of 2.0's release).

Here's the article (trailer is inside) if you wanna check it out. The 70% bit is at 0:16 in the video.

 

[suomi1]

I assumed it was compatible since it's been in the game forever.

I mean, the CLK-LM was a trailer car for GT7 shown racing at Le Mans, it's obviously a car built for Le Mans, and Sophy cannot drive it there.. It can drive the GT-One though.

They distributed the frustration fairly evenly everywhere around.

 

[Passinho]

Got what I thought was my GT World Challenge grid together and discovered that the Huracan GT3 isn't Sophy compatible. WTF. (seriously tired of this)

Three classes (Pro, Gold, Silver) with the Pro cars having ~40 more horsepower than the others. They will act as the rabbit in this case. Did a couple 10 lap test races so far at Road Atlanta (arguably the best Sophy track) and I barely even moved from my starting spot by the end of the race. Had a great battle with another car for a couple laps and swapped spots a couple times. Might do a couple more small tweaks and then do a full season of races that are 60-90 minutes each.

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I think it’s Spa and Le Mans only but critical to custom championships!

I got round this by driving the Huracan, at least that way it’s part of it! Haha

 

[jesse100190]

had a wet to dry dragon gardens race tonight with light rain at the end, went on fuel saving mode after a 2nd lap pitstop to change to slicks to make it to the end. there were a few yellow flags from ai or i spinning out