Gran Turismo 7: Latest news and discussion thread

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I-M-Pulsive
Kaz hasn't tweeted in General for over a month now. So the Silhouettes not showing up is not something to necessarily worry about I guess? Maybe we won't get any Silhouettes this month, but do get an update.
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Maybe. But there is no update notice too. So I guess it could be early november big update.
 
MroczMR
Maybe. But there is no update notice too. So I guess it could be early november big update.
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Just speculation but I do think your right and the reason being since its a big update releasing it close to Black friday for those extra sales since there's a good chance GT7 will be part of the black friday sale on PSN.

Just speculations on my part.:)
 
Chikane_GTR
Just speculation but I do think your right and the reason being since its a big update releasing it close to Black friday for those extra sales since there's a good chance GT7 will be part of the black friday sale on PSN.

Just speculations on my part.:)
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Yes.

This + there will be more natural transition to early december update. If they would send update at late november then it will be around 2-3 weeks before christmas and PD probably will make holiday update at begining of december like last year.
 
Maybe it's me just being optimistic, but I'm thinking it'll be next week now. Free practice for the TBA Nations round would open on the 5th, so if the assumption that that race uses new content is correct an update would need to be before then. And there's news articles on the GT site reminding people that the Honda and Michelin sponsored TTs both end on the 29th/30th. That makes me think that the Thursday between those two dates (the 2nd) has prime update potential.
 
Chikane_GTR
Just speculation but I do think your right and the reason being since its a big update releasing it close to Black friday for those extra sales since there's a good chance GT7 will be part of the black friday sale on PSN.

Just speculations on my part.:)
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My speculation: You are Kaz and you're too busy doing Le Mans, so the update is postponed 🤔
 
I've had a thought nagging at my head for the past couple of days about the lack of single player events compared to GT Sport - I think that the use of World Tour competitors as opponents is a factor in this. You no longer have a pool of opponents to populate each race like in previous games, just the same 11-19 cars in the same grid slots every time because God forbid you miss out on the pre-race flavour text from Fraga & co. :/
 
DK
I've had a thought nagging at my head for the past couple of days about the lack of single player events compared to GT Sport - I think that the use of World Tour competitors as opponents is a factor in this. You no longer have a pool of opponents to populate each race like in previous games, just the same 11-19 cars in the same grid slots every time because God forbid you miss out on the pre-race flavour text from Fraga & co. :/
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The flavour text shouldn't be hard to create though. Most of it is nonsense and none of it was written by the actual named people, who didn't even get paid for appearing in the game.
 
"We will also be hosting various other events at the venue; to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Vision Gran Turismo, full scale models will tell the story of this project as part of a special exhibition in the Gran Turismo Garage. Snacks and drinks will also be on sale at the GT Café in the interactive zone of the World Finals venue."

The madmen did it. They made the GT Cafe real.
 
MroczMR
I think there would be already update/servers maintenance notice, and we have nothing.
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That's right, but where does it say next week? 31 is a tuesday, usually it's on Thursday
 
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https://www.gran-turismo.com/us/gt7/news "We will also be hosting various other events at the venue, including celebrating the 10th anniversary of Vision Gran Turismo, where full scale models tell the story of the project as part of a special exhibition in the Gran Turismo Garage. Snacks and drinks will also be on sale at the GT Café in the interactive zone of the World Finals venue" / "gran turismo 4 prologue 20th anniversary December 4 and gran turismo 6 10th anniversary December 6"

Don't even mention it
 
MroczMR
Sorry. "Next week" is just my speculation based on TBA on 18.11 for World Series Nation Cup.
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Oh, forgot about that. Update on 31th or 2/11 makes sense (or on Thursday 16/11)
 
Nebuc72
The madmen did it. They made the GT Cafe real.
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It already was:

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Dave A
The flavour text shouldn't be hard to create though. Most of it is nonsense and none of it was written by the actual named people, who didn't even get paid for appearing in the game.
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It's not the flavour text itself that's the issue, it's that each "character" has to have specific cars at each performance tier, show up in specific races and start from a specific position, it's taken the variety out of each race, and has created a very constrictive yet bare-bones "lore".
 
On a non-update subject, it was mentioned before about exact locations of fictional tracks being available through the weather radar. So I booted up each of the fictional locations and looked at their radars, and have compiled the locations below in case anybody was curious:

  • Alsace is roughly 10km south of Strasbourg, just a tad north of the Pierre Pfimlin Bridge
  • Lago Maggiore is unsurprisingly near Lake Maggiore, just southeast of the town of Piancavallo, Italy
  • Blue Moon Bay is in Half Moon Bay, California
  • Broad Bean Raceway is between Aioiyama Park and the Tenpaku River in Nagoya, Japan
  • Sainte-Croix is next to the Sainte-Croix lake in France. Shocking, I know. Interestingly the map is all on land, they don't have the bridge crossing the lake on the weather radar.
  • Colorado Springs is east of the I-25 between the towns of Colorado Springs and Pueblo, Colorado
  • Fishermans Ranch is just south of Patagonia Lake State Park in Arizona
  • Sardegna Windmills is about 5km north-east-east of Oliena (on the isle of Sardinia, of course)
  • Sardegna Road Track is in the exact same place. Like, the exact same place, you should see the other if you're racing on one. Which is probably the hint to not try and read too much into these map placings.
  • Deep Forest is by Churwalden in Switzerland
  • Dragon Trail is between Baška Voda and Promajna on the coast in Croatia
  • Grand Valley is positioned on the real Highway 1 in Monterey, California. Roughly adjacent to the Sea Otter refuge.
  • High Speed Ring is next to Lake Kussharo on the Japanese island of Hokkaido
  • Kyoto Driving Park is a couple of km north-east of the city of Kyoto itself
  • Northern Isle is in the city centre of Dallas, it's in the middle of the big interstate intersection
  • Route X is on the coast between LA and San Diego, closer to San Diego.
  • Tokyo Expressway is in Tokyo. More specifically, like Sardegna, they are all in the same place, which is overlapping where the Imperial Palace is in real life. That was amusing to me. It's also very very close to where R246's roads are in real life, but the fact they are all in the same place means we shouldn't use that to speculate IMO.
  • Trial Mountain is at the southern end of Wawona Road just past the southern entrance to Yosemite National Park
I hope that's been interesting to someone. My takeaway is I didn't realise just how much PD seem to love putting tracks either in California, next to a body of water, or both.
 
Nakano219
On a non-update subject, it was mentioned before about exact locations of fictional tracks being available through the weather radar. So I booted up each of the fictional locations and looked at their radars, and have compiled the locations below in case anybody was curious:

  • Alsace is roughly 10km south of Strasbourg, just a tad north of the Pierre Pfimlin Bridge
  • Lago Maggiore is unsurprisingly near Lake Maggiore, just southeast of the town of Piancavallo, Italy
  • Blue Moon Bay is in Half Moon Bay, California
  • Broad Bean Raceway is between Aioiyama Park and the Tenpaku River in Nagoya, Japan
  • Sainte-Croix is next to the Sainte-Croix lake in France. Shocking, I know. Interestingly the map is all on land, they don't have the bridge crossing the lake on the weather radar.
  • Colorado Springs is east of the I-25 between the towns of Colorado Springs and Pueblo, Colorado
  • Fishermans Ranch is just south of Patagonia Lake State Park in Arizona
  • Sardegna Windmills is about 5km north-east-east of Oliena (on the isle of Sardinia, of course)
  • Sardegna Road Track is in the exact same place. Like, the exact same place, you should see the other if you're racing on one. Which is probably the hint to not try and read too much into these map placings.
  • Deep Forest is by Churwalden in Switzerland
  • Dragon Trail is between Baška Voda and Promajna on the coast in Croatia
  • Grand Valley is positioned on the real Highway 1 in Monterey, California. Roughly adjacent to the Sea Otter refuge.
  • High Speed Ring is next to Lake Kussharo on the Japanese island of Hokkaido
  • Kyoto Driving Park is a couple of km north-east of the city of Kyoto itself
  • Northern Isle is in the city centre of Dallas, it's in the middle of the big interstate intersection
  • Route X is on the coast between LA and San Diego, closer to San Diego.
  • Tokyo Expressway is in Tokyo. More specifically, like Sardegna, they are all in the same place, which is overlapping where the Imperial Palace is in real life. That was amusing to me. It's also very very close to where R246's roads are in real life, but the fact they are all in the same place means we shouldn't use that to speculate IMO.
  • Trial Mountain is at the southern end of Wawona Road just past the southern entrance to Yosemite National Park
I hope that's been interesting to someone. My takeaway is I didn't realise just how much PD seem to love putting tracks either in California, next to a body of water, or both.
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Grand Valley always reminds me of the old movie Its a Mad Mad World shot in California i think

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DK
It's not the flavour text itself that's the issue, it's that each "character" has to have specific cars at each performance tier, show up in specific races and start from a specific position, it's taken the variety out of each race, and has created a very constrictive yet bare-bones "lore".
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Again though, that's not a difficult thing to achieve. You only need the front car to be passable by the player at some point late in the race. The AI cars have always been individually set up, with specific modifiers and setups in past GT games even before the chase the rabbit format was introduced. You balance the AI you want to be rabbit and work backwards from that.
 
Nakano219
On a non-update subject, it was mentioned before about exact locations of fictional tracks being available through the weather radar. So I booted up each of the fictional locations and looked at their radars, and have compiled the locations below in case anybody was curious:

  • Alsace is roughly 10km south of Strasbourg, just a tad north of the Pierre Pfimlin Bridge
  • Lago Maggiore is unsurprisingly near Lake Maggiore, just southeast of the town of Piancavallo, Italy
  • Blue Moon Bay is in Half Moon Bay, California
  • Broad Bean Raceway is between Aioiyama Park and the Tenpaku River in Nagoya, Japan
  • Sainte-Croix is next to the Sainte-Croix lake in France. Shocking, I know. Interestingly the map is all on land, they don't have the bridge crossing the lake on the weather radar.
  • Colorado Springs is east of the I-25 between the towns of Colorado Springs and Pueblo, Colorado
  • Fishermans Ranch is just south of Patagonia Lake State Park in Arizona
  • Sardegna Windmills is about 5km north-east-east of Oliena (on the isle of Sardinia, of course)
  • Sardegna Road Track is in the exact same place. Like, the exact same place, you should see the other if you're racing on one. Which is probably the hint to not try and read too much into these map placings.
  • Deep Forest is by Churwalden in Switzerland
  • Dragon Trail is between Baška Voda and Promajna on the coast in Croatia
  • Grand Valley is positioned on the real Highway 1 in Monterey, California. Roughly adjacent to the Sea Otter refuge.
  • High Speed Ring is next to Lake Kussharo on the Japanese island of Hokkaido
  • Kyoto Driving Park is a couple of km north-east of the city of Kyoto itself
  • Northern Isle is in the city centre of Dallas, it's in the middle of the big interstate intersection
  • Route X is on the coast between LA and San Diego, closer to San Diego.
  • Tokyo Expressway is in Tokyo. More specifically, like Sardegna, they are all in the same place, which is overlapping where the Imperial Palace is in real life. That was amusing to me. It's also very very close to where R246's roads are in real life, but the fact they are all in the same place means we shouldn't use that to speculate IMO.
  • Trial Mountain is at the southern end of Wawona Road just past the southern entrance to Yosemite National Park
I hope that's been interesting to someone. My takeaway is I didn't realise just how much PD seem to love putting tracks either in California, next to a body of water, or both.
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It’s interesting what Polyphony Digital did with Special Route Stage X. Because judging by the map, the location is clearly on the military base, Camp Pendleton. But judging by the topography and windmills, they took artistic license and mixed in a healthy dose of the Tehachapi Mountains right by Willow Springs, as well as the topography that surrounds the Salton Sea area…which their photographer’s and devs clearly went to based on the scapes locations IG


Well played PD 😎🇺🇸
 
Another thing that points to November 2nd is that Polyphony like to have a new regular online time trial for an update car the same day as the update itself.
The event at the Alsace Test Course expires in 8 days, which would be Thursday November 2nd.

As for the silhouettes, the window for those is either this weekend, or early next week. If I had to guess I'd say the latter.
 
Japan Mobility show is from October 26-November 5. Wouldn’t be surprised if a couple concepts from Toyota and Mazda are added in a next update.
 
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