This whole mess with the invitational cars is why I prioritized them over everything else when starting out. I thought that with the UCD and LCD you can at least rely on all cars reappearing on a regular basis, whereas with invitations you're completely reliant on RNG. So that's where all of my credits went at first. Next I started focusing on the LCD while also swinging by the UCD every now and then when i had a bit of spare cash left over. Apart from the invitational cars, Brand Central has all of its cars available all the time, so those were rock-bottom on my list of priorities. In fact I'm pretty sure that I bought barely anything from there until I was completely done with everything else. And it looks like I made the right call with this priorization.
And you did the right thing.
1. Invitational cars (if you get an invite)
2. LCD cars (if you want the Platinum, the Ferrari 330 P4, Jaguar XJ13 and Ford Mark IV are the priorities)
3. UCD cars
4. Brand Central Cars
5. Cars that you have knowledge you can win in Café Menus/Missions.
This is the way to collect if you don't want to miss anything or have longer,
much longer, wait periods of time.
Same with the Chiron. The Veyron is apparently special enough to require an invitation but the Chiron you can just waltz into the shop and buy whenever you please. Both cars IRL were produced in similar numbers and neither are in continuous production as of 2023.
There's no consistency with this system.
Indeed. They introduced a system so bad, with so much negative feedback, that they stopped adding cars that would require an invitation to buy alltogether.
Because literally, the 918 Spyder is as much of a special car as the Carrera GT is.
In fact, it's rarer (918 918 Spyders vs ~ 1300 Carrera GTs) and was even more expensive when new. And it's now a car that has it's value increasing and has turned itself into a collector's item.
The Chiron is pretty much on the same pedestal as the Veyron, if not even higher.
And yet, despite the negative feedback, and them knowing it enough to no longer introduce cars with that mechanic, they still decide to keep the launch invitational cars as they are anyway.
After saying this... I'll be pissed if they add the LFA and lock it behind this stupid mechanic. But I'm 99.9% certain this won't happen. Chiron and 918 Spyder weren't, and you can't get any more "exclusive" than those.
It would look very bad to advertise the 918 and Chiron in trailers and then not let most players buy them.
That really isn't the reason...
Since the same applies to the trailers having the FXX K and the Carrera GT and then when you got the game, they were locked behind the invitational system.
Needless to say, it looked bad as well, especially after knowing it was based on RNG. This also applies to the engine swaps, with Sony/PD showing it in the trailers as this all new feature... to be something that's pretty much unattainable or close to regardless of how much time you sink into this game or how skillful you are.
Expect your mind to be completely blown.
Can’t wait for everyone’s first impressions here.
It will be glorious.
I don't think you'll have that many impressions. Considering the damn thing will cost more than a whole PS5 console.
If the February update is all about PSVR2
and nothing else, then that's yet again another L for 99% of the players who bought this game, since that's precisely the amount, or close to, that's not going to play this game with PSVR2.
But of course, youtubers or e-sports drivers or any other guys from the media are the ones that need the attention and not the 99%.
Funny way of defending one's rights to have an opinion, when telling people's opinions are wrong because real life comparison bla bla.
Stop comparing a game with real life. It's just silly to compare broken game features, like invitations, to real life situations.
Ever went to a car dealer to buy a Dallara SF19, a Porsche 919 Hybrid or a bunch of non existing cars? Off the shelve? No invitation needed? Yeah, thought so. Me neither.
The GT invitation system is broken and doesn't give any sense whatsoever. Period!
I wouldn't say it's funny...
I'd say it's outright silly to make the damn comparison in the first place. He's so running out of excuses for the way this has been implemented that it's getting hilarious at this point.
People have already told him a plethora of ways to make those cars special and not easily achievable without having to resort to randomness, but he keeps pressing the same key on the keyboard, that it's not something to be judgeful of this game, when it quite clearly is.
