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I'm afraid to move my previous post over to there lol It's something like a wishlist but also loosely grounded in a supposed B-Spec mode in the works? B-Spec mode being added back in would certainly classify as- to use Jordan's word.. Interesting choice in my eyes. And that Kaz has said endurance/longer races are coming? Forever ago, albeit. And from there, it's just some logical deductions on my part. Famine probably cursing Jordan for dropping that vague hint bomb.

Threads will be chaos for a month.
 
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See I'm not sure if they would add B-Spec until Sophy A.I. is compatible with all tracks.
I suppose they could though.
If it's a key part to the longer Endurance Missions, then as long as it's available on those Mission circuits it would be fine if it's not available for every other track & layout immediately.

My main hope if those Missions are indeed still on their way, is that they can be repeatable for credits. Though they haven't done that for the ones in The Human Comedy, and that's been out for ages.
Other missions I can understand to an extent not having them repeatable for credits, but the proper races should be.

Will also add a disclaimer, it could very easily be that none of this has anything to do with the next update contents.

There's rumoured to be an upcoming State Of Play in February. If true, maybe something will be shown there if it's particularly juicy?
 
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So i started a custom race for a few cool shots of all my custom civics together and most liveries were not uploaded! This wasn't the case when i was doing that on my pa4! I wonder what changed?
 
Honestly, was watching onboard Pikes Peak... it's no way PD does this on GT7... talking about rendering, it's so maaaany trees, so much distance to render. PS5 could handle it but no way PS4 does without it looking like Circuito de La Sierra...
Maybe they cut it in half like GT2? But it would be so so awesome if possible on the PS5, amazing track even if only tarmac now.
 
Galvston
Honestly, was watching onboard Pikes Peak... it's no way PD does this on GT7... talking about rendering, it's so maaaany trees, so much distance to render. PS5 could handle it but no way PS4 does without it looking like Circuito de La Sierra...
Maybe they cut it in half like GT2? But it would be so so awesome if possible on the PS5, amazing track even if only tarmac now.
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It kind of looks like Trial Mountain. Sure, there's a lot more distance to render, but sometimes it's less expensive to render great distances than to render a bunch of things up close, because at those distances you can't really make out much detail anyway so you can get away with rendering a blur.
 
eran0004
It kind of looks like Trial Mountain. Sure, there's a lot more distance to render, but sometimes it's less expensive to render great distances than to render a bunch of things up close, because at those distances you can't really make out much detail anyway so you can get away with rendering a blur.
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Absolutely, look Eiger with the surroundings moutains or Mount Panorama, I don't think it would be an issue.
 
The biggest issue for modern development pipelines is unique asset creation, 4K assets take a ton of time to make. It's why city tracks like R246 aren't coming to anything - lots of trackside buildings you have to make in the same visual quality as everything else, none of which you can re-use at all because you need to match the real buildings.

Pikes Peak doesn't have that problem, trees are re-usable and are re-used all the time.
 
Nakano219
The biggest issue for modern development pipelines is unique asset creation, 4K assets take a ton of time to make. It's why city tracks like R246 aren't coming to anything - lots of trackside buildings you have to make in the same visual quality as everything else, none of which you can re-use at all because you need to match the real buildings.

Pikes Peak doesn't have that problem, trees are re-usable and are re-used all the time.
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We'll get Seattle some day. And Long Beach would be nice. Need some street circuits. Let me believe!
 
Seikenfreak
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We'll get Seattle some day. And Long Beach would be nice. Need some street circuits. Let me believe!
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...Nope. Kaz did say the same thing in a 2022 interview: that city tracks would take too long to make in GT7's quality and that some kind of tech innovation is needed to speed things up.

Maybe we'll get R246 since it was in the datamine for Sport, but that's about it. =/
 
Lux Klonoa
...Nope. Kaz did say the same thing in a 2022 interview: that city tracks would take too long to make in GT7's quality and that some kind of tech innovation is needed to speed things up.

Maybe we'll get R246 since it was in the datamine for Sport, but that's about it. =/
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A tech innovation you say?
While it shouldn't be used at the expense of human artists, but rather as a tool to speed up "grunt work", I wonder if the ever-advancing technology of A.I. could be the innovation Polyphony need to make city circuits more viable in the future.
 
happycorey
All of that makes sense until you realize there's a bunch of Tokyo Expressway tracks in the game. They're all based throughout a city..
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My understanding (from reading this site/forums) is that they're more of a Tokyo Expressway vibe, and the buildings are procedurally generated, whereas the city tracks based on actual locations in past games (R246, London, Madrid, etc.) all featured the actual buildings, and that is why they are too labour-intensive to update for GT7
 
BradleyLove
There has to be enough existing building-/structure-type assets that could be rotated, recoloured, whatever, to create some decent fantasy "city/town" locations. Sometimes PD's obsession with location accuracy is a detriment.
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It's the whole genre though, it isn't just a PD perfectionism thing. Forza 2023 has zero city tracks. Assetto Corsa EVO has zero confirmed city tracks, and I don't think it's unintentional that they've gone for a fairly leafy area rather than an urban one for their open world area.
 
Nakano219
It's the whole genre though, it isn't just a PD perfectionism thing. Forza 2023 has zero city tracks. Assetto Corsa EVO has zero confirmed city tracks, and I don't think it's unintentional that they've gone for a fairly leafy area rather than an urban one for their open world area.
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If people want city tracks they should try Grid Legends.

They should try it anyway but the city tracks are very nice.
 
Clinton Ducks
Haha, yeah I guess it's an unpopular opinion but I always enjoyed it. It's just slightly nerdy I suppose. In GT4 for example, there's RX-7 Type R's, Type RS-R's, Type RZ's, Type R Bathhurst R's, and so on.

And you have similar with all the Skylines, Z's, Silvias, NSXs, Civics, etc. It's mainly only the JDM cars that got this kind of treatment. And then you go into the tuner village and you have all those models too.

I used to enjoy testing them against each other to see if I could notice any difference. With the more detailed physics of the modern era I'd find this even more enjoyable.

How everyone wastes their time in Gran Turismo is totally different though, it's all horses for courses.
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I liked most versions in the Tuner Village in GT4, but those cars aren't really duplicates but modified/tuned cars based on the originals, similar to RUF compared to original Porsche.

Edit: "The "chase the rabbit" has been around since the very first GT, albeit there was a time you could qualify for the single player races ( think GT2) but that was eliminated in the next version." -- It is entirely different before GT6 [GT3-4-5 didn't have chase the rabbit because we started max 5 seconds behind the first car] because there are many more cars in a race, and the player starts much further from the first car, when it's so easy to implement grid start & let players choose starting position, why won't Kaz improve the game??
 
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It's over 1400 pages, so I'm not sure if it was discussed here before 😅 ... but I'm very suprised that PD didin't decide to change the max collector's level from 50 to ie. 100 with prizes for each lvl.
It's a simple solution, that would extend the life of the game for many players.
 
Emet_PL
It's over 1400 pages, so I'm not sure if it was discussed here before 😅 ... but I'm very suprised that PD didin't decide to change the max collector's level from 50 to ie. 100 with prizes for each lvl.
It's a simple solution, that would extend the life of the game for many players.
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That's something I pointed in the subject "The things that annoy you", the fact that :
  • Collector Level stops at 50, while it represents barely 10% of the collection value if you get one of each car
  • Tickets stats improve with collector level, but only up to CL 20 (so we keep receiving 90% of 3 and 4* with 90% of the time the lowest price possible)

I don't ask for tickets stats to improve in a linear way, but at least they could improve past CL 20.
 

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