Gran Turismo 7 Update 1.34 Now Available: Buyable Engine Swaps & Special Parts, Three New Cars

[Doncarlone]

As much as i would like 10 cars per month, its not realistic for the amount of work pd goes for scanning the cars, but maybe some months could have 7-10 cars for the lack in some updates

True. I'd rather have between 3 and 5 cars a month max, and have new missions like human comedy. Missions don't take much time to implement (i think). Still they wont do it. They are confortable giving us poorly rewarded "one and done" events

 

[RaY29rus]

It's probably not very funny to anyone else but it is funny to me how one of the most noticable visual differences between this new GT-R and the one we have, the Nismo sticker on the trunk, will disappear if you dare to repaint the car. Still one the worst decisions in this game, no idea why they did that, back in GT6 cars could be repainted without such issues.

 

[kjb]

The updates are going to be what they will be. Not gonna get to worked up one way or the other. I don't expect PD to change their MO with this game not saying they can't be I don't think they will . So I will enjoy whatever parts of the update I can

 

[jimihemmy]

Shouldn't some also be getting the special livery GR010 for participating in the Toyota GT Cup?

That makes 4 cars for some....

 

[Coke]

I haven't been officially active on the forum but I can see the same problem with the game. Whenever a new update is announced, I get curious and excited in hope that we get something amazing. I do like content updates with cars but I would prefer having tracks. Seriously, the number of cars is getting close to 500 and that's a decent amount. However, I think it doesn't really matter if the game had 1000 cars and 100 tracks. After a while, they would be boring and we would wish for more. I think, the game needs to grow more but instead of adding DLCs, the fun factor should be prioritized. So how could the game earn its magic again? Well, the problem is indeed with the basic concept and seemingly no update makes the intention to fix that. I understand that new ideas should be implemented but if something worked once great then why change it? However, I think even the way we play games have changed over the years. So, what do we players really need? More cars and more tracks? Or more events? No. We need more fun, more challenge and less frustration. There are games with less content and yet they're much more fun to play because of the main concept.

In GT we just chase the rabbit and that's not what's racing is about. Unfortunately, none of the GT games could really catch the essence of intense racing. That's probably very hard to achieve because if they make the AI of the game too competitive, then it only would appeal to the desire of the alien racers. Even the requirements for the Licence tests, Missions could be tougher but then it would be too difficult for most of the players. I think, that is the reason why since GT5 all the GT games have been nerfed, so that the level of difficulty to be plausible for human, too. I really was hoping, GT Sophy would slowly get fully implemented in GT but it seems, it was only an experimental project and needs more testing. Perhaps it's held for a future GT game. I think, that would be a game changer.

Another game changer feature could be if they would give a different approach to car customization and categorizations. How great that would be if we could build our own race car from a base car? During the upgrading of the car, we would get the options and perhaps a list as well to decide what kind of race car we would want to make from our car. We can go the tuners way, or we could make a touring car from it, or even a GT car. That would give a new meaning to the GT Auto and GT Tuning feature. Lust imagine, from a base Supra we could make something like a Fast & Furious car, or a GT500 version, or if we're fancy, even a bi-turbo 1600 HP monster! And, in online events, we could make own categories, instead of the developers creating categories for them. I guess that would appeal to more people and perhaps if all of those would be fully implemented it could give the franchise the revolutionary boost.

 

[Magog]

I haven't been officially active on the forum but I can see the same problem with the game. Whenever a new update is announced, I get curious and excited in hope that we get something amazing. I do like content updates with cars but I would prefer having tracks. Seriously, the number of cars is getting close to 500 and that's a decent amount. However, I think it doesn't really matter if the game had 1000 cars and 100 tracks. After a while, they would be boring and we would wish for more. I think, the game needs to grow more but instead of adding DLCs, the fun factor should be prioritized. So how could the game earn its magic again? Well, the problem is indeed with the basic concept and seemingly no update makes the intention to fix that. I understand that new ideas should be implemented but if something worked once great then why change it? However, I think even the way we play games have changed over the years. So, what do we players really need? More cars and more tracks? Or more events? No. We need more fun, more challenge and less frustration. There are games with less content and yet they're much more fun to play because of the main concept.

In GT we just chase the rabbit and that's not what's racing is about. Unfortunately, none of the GT games could really catch the essence of intense racing. That's probably very hard to achieve because if they make the AI of the game too competitive, then it only would appeal to the desire of the alien racers. Even the requirements for the Licence tests, Missions could be tougher but then it would be too difficult for most of the players. I think, that is the reason why since GT5 all the GT games have been nerfed, so that the level of difficulty to be plausible for human, too. I really was hoping, GT Sophy would slowly get fully implemented in GT but it seems, it was only an experimental project and needs more testing. Perhaps it's held for a future GT game. I think, that would be a game changer.

Another game changer feature could be if they would give a different approach to car customization and categorizations. How great that would be if we could build our own race car from a base car? During the upgrading of the car, we would get the options and perhaps a list as well to decide what kind of race car we would want to make from our car. We can go the tuners way, or we could make a touring car from it, or even a GT car. That would give a new meaning to the GT Auto and GT Tuning feature. Lust imagine, from a base Supra we could make something like a Fast & Furious car, or a GT500 version, or if we're fancy, even a bi-turbo 1600 HP monster! And, in online events, we could make own categories, instead of the developers creating categories for them. I guess that would appeal to more people and perhaps if all of those would be fully implemented it could give the franchise the revolutionary boost.

To be fair they just added full VR support to the game which is a massive change but if you don't have the hardware you can't appreciate it. As far as the tuning goes there are plenty of cars you can mod so they outperform GT3 cars.

 

[hawkeyez]

I haven't been officially active on the forum but I can see the same problem with the game. Whenever a new update is announced, I get curious and excited in hope that we get something amazing. I do like content updates with cars but I would prefer having tracks. Seriously, the number of cars is getting close to 500 and that's a decent amount. However, I think it doesn't really matter if the game had 1000 cars and 100 tracks. After a while, they would be boring and we would wish for more. I think, the game needs to grow more but instead of adding DLCs, the fun factor should be prioritized. So how could the game earn its magic again? Well, the problem is indeed with the basic concept and seemingly no update makes the intention to fix that. I understand that new ideas should be implemented but if something worked once great then why change it? However, I think even the way we play games have changed over the years. So, what do we players really need? More cars and more tracks? Or more events? No. We need more fun, more challenge and less frustration. There are games with less content and yet they're much more fun to play because of the main concept.

In GT we just chase the rabbit and that's not what's racing is about. Unfortunately, none of the GT games could really catch the essence of intense racing. That's probably very hard to achieve because if they make the AI of the game too competitive, then it only would appeal to the desire of the alien racers. Even the requirements for the Licence tests, Missions could be tougher but then it would be too difficult for most of the players. I think, that is the reason why since GT5 all the GT games have been nerfed, so that the level of difficulty to be plausible for human, too. I really was hoping, GT Sophy would slowly get fully implemented in GT but it seems, it was only an experimental project and needs more testing. Perhaps it's held for a future GT game. I think, that would be a game changer.

Another game changer feature could be if they would give a different approach to car customization and categorizations. How great that would be if we could build our own race car from a base car? During the upgrading of the car, we would get the options and perhaps a list as well to decide what kind of race car we would want to make from our car. We can go the tuners way, or we could make a touring car from it, or even a GT car. That would give a new meaning to the GT Auto and GT Tuning feature. Lust imagine, from a base Supra we could make something like a Fast & Furious car, or a GT500 version, or if we're fancy, even a bi-turbo 1600 HP monster! And, in online events, we could make own categories, instead of the developers creating categories for them. I guess that would appeal to more people and perhaps if all of those would be fully implemented it could give the franchise the revolutionary boost.

I don’t think they actually have AI. It feels loosely programmed. I swear they’re all programmed to move in front of me as I approach cause they do it every single time and it’s annoying. Yes you could call it defending, but they move again to their line after defending. Sophy was maybe not programmed but the current AI IMO is hardly AI at all.

 

[kjb]

Yeah I agree about the AI they are basically moving road blocks on a conveyor belt to me

 

[i386]

To be fair they just added full VR support to the game which is a massive change

Kaz, who "complained" about expensive wheels/gear, said in an interview gt7 was developed with the vr2 in mind so probably the feature was already there since release but not enabled

 

[Coke]

To be fair they just added full VR support to the game which is a massive change but if you don't have the hardware you can't appreciate it. As far as the tuning goes there are plenty of cars you can mod so they outperform GT3 cars.

To me that's just a differnent perspective or a different view but not a game changer. However, you're right, I don't have the hardware so I can't appreciate it. And, I think you have misunderstood me a little with the way of tuning the cars. I try to explain it better. Let's take that Supra in the following example.
You buy certain tuning parts to your car and you can decide whether you continue buying a few more necessary parts and make it a Tom's Supra, a Trial Supra or a TRD 3000 GT, or you keep buying more parts, strictly the ones required to make your car a proper race car. That way your Supra can be converted to a GT500 or even a GT2 race car, or you also could make it to be that track monster you mentioned with no kind of livery or anything. In GT7, by simply tuning your cars, you can make it indeed very competitive against other race cars but it will still lack having the elements, the parts which makes the car a genuine race car. I think of the interior and exterior changes. Yes, you can make your car look cool but there are many missing tuning options with without your car will not be a race car. First of all its name will remain the same, no matter what you do. But a conversion would modify the name as well.

 

[Magog]

To me that's just a differnent perspective or a different view but not a game changer. However, you're right, I don't have the hardware so I can't appreciate it. And, I think you have misunderstood me a little with the way of tuning the cars. I try to explain it better. Let's take that Supra in the following example.
You buy certain tuning parts to your car and you can decide whether you continue buying a few more necessary parts and make it a Tom's Supra, a Trial Supra or a TRD 3000 GT, or you keep buying more parts, strictly the ones required to make your car a proper race car. That way your Supra can be converted to a GT500 or even a GT2 race car, or you also could make it to be that track monster you mentioned with no kind of livery or anything. In GT7, by simply tuning your cars, you can make it indeed very competitive against other race cars but it will still lack having the elements, the parts which makes the car a genuine race car. I think of the interior and exterior changes. Yes, you can make your car look cool but there are many missing tuning options with without your car will not be a race car. First of all its name will remain the same, no matter what you do. But a conversion would modify the name as well.

A wide body, roll cage, giant wing and a rear defuser go a long way to it.

 

[mynameis66]

That’s a pic I took, in 2011, of an Australian Touring Car Championship GROUP A GT-R(‘91 or ‘92). Fuel tank in the back.

Nice one,at a glance I wondered if it might have been a rear engined mod.

 

[BradleyLove]

Kaz, who "complained" about expensive wheels/gear, said in an interview gt7 was developed with the vr2 in mind so probably the feature was already there since release but not enabled

I don’t believe Kaz in this instance given how such basic features as leaderboard information and adjustable seating position are missing, let alone how race starts and pits are implemented in VR.

 

[rsspyder21]

I know most sport mode guys could care less about car collecting… I mean, in GTS, I was one of them. But of PD really wanted to push sport mode more, they’d give a lot more credits in those races, with heavy bonuses for clean races. Some would argue that this would hurt their “MTX model” 🙄. But sport mode guys aren’t buying anything other than cars they want to put their own liveries on anyways. And the casuals, would just be looking for new, exciting ways to earn credits.

I'm not much of an online/Sport mode guy, but until VR I was never much of a car collector in any GT game, either. I would just acquire a handful of cars (usually top race cars) I really like and use them over and over again. In reality, that's where I'm going to eventually mostly end up again even with VR. But it's so amazingly cool to sit inside all these different cars and take them for a run. I just acquired the Ferrari P4 the other day. 9M credits or whatever it was, and I doubt I'm actually going to ever use that thing to run tons of laps or races. But I wanted to know what it's like, and that's only because of VR. If I was still on flatscreen, I wouldn't have cared at all.

Tokyo is more money in less time. It’s objectively better if you’re good at the game. 825k in less than 22 minutes. Sardegna is better if you’re mediocre, and Le Mans is better if you’re really really bad.

I don't even bother actually driving/racing properly in the Tokyo money grind. I just use the stupid wall-ride exploit and zero brain power while completing the event. Doing it that way means the final hairpin is the only corner you have to even brake for, to avoid running wide and over the white line and losing the clean-race bonus.

 

[RichiPuppy]

It's probably not very funny to anyone else but it is funny to me how one of the most noticable visual differences between this new GT-R and the one we have, the Nismo sticker on the trunk, will disappear if you dare to repaint the car. Still one the worst decisions in this game, no idea why they did that, back in GT6 cars could be repainted without such issues.

Yeap, super annoying for cars that you want in a different color where you don’t get to choose a color on.

 

[Techlet]

As much as i would like 10 cars per month, its not realistic for the amount of work pd goes for scanning the cars, but maybe some months could have 7-10 cars for the lack in some updates

PD was able to release 7-10 cars a month in GT Sport for the first two years of its support before trickling down to 3-5 a month.

A wide body, roll cage, giant wing and a rear defuser go a long way to it.

But we're still stuck with the stock interior with a roll cage sticking out of the back seats.

 

[dacc10]

The bolded is exactly what PD did with the XJ220, with the upgrades and visual upgrades you can essentially make both the XJ220S and XJ220C/LM variants with almost exact specs. Infact you can make quite alot of special variants of real cars by using the GT Auto and livery editor which as you mentioned makes the Nismo R32 abit pointless unless you are a fan of that specific car. It would have made more sense for PD to have added a Nissan that's nothing like anything currently in the game such as the GT500 400Z or a R390 variant, i've even seen someone post the R32 touring car which i'm sure would have gotten a much more better response instead of something that can basically already be made ingame.

This.

There are multiple instances, like facelifts and such, where they could just add the different external parts as a GT Auto option. Instead, they chose to add an entirely new car, for the sake of boosting the car count.

Interestingly, they managed to do that for the 3.0 CSL (which you can pretty much replicate the Group 5 car), or the Shelby GT350 (which you can replicate the GT350R), and plenty of other cars. Yet, certain brands, don't get the same treatment, and get an entirely "new" car.

 

[Artremis]

Hoping for a track or Sophy or something that makes the game a bit more interesting, kinda tired of it atm.

 

[AstroVex]

I gotta say it feels good to me since we now have a new TT every week. One every two weeks definitely wasn't enough for my taste. As for the update, I don't have any "wild" expectations from PD anymore. I've bought every car in the game and there's still a feeling of emptiness when I enter my garage. The problem lies a bit deeper.
A new track would be welcomed, or newer models of GT3 cars, but I'm pretty sure we're only getting these four cars now. Oh, and probably a few new scapes too, I guess

 

[lqpl]

After reading a few pages it seems we have all
"Accepted" gt7's mediocre drip of content that contradicts his-
" ..wanting players not to grind the same few tracks over and over again"
Even though over a year later, it's exactly what it is.3 grinds, and sport/public lobbies are a mess.
Rude kids ganging up and poking you to write something dirty or suggestive, to report your account- to get suspended banned. (Kiss all your bonanza sawps goodbye-)

But hey-
Here is a "Christian Dior mangusta" (🤢🤮)
Here's a movie-
Here's a glimpse of smart ai-
Here's VR capability.
The host has ended the game.

An unexpected error has occurred-
your fanbase is dying.

Swaps, S parts, undocumented changes, and Nenkai's leaks are about the only stimulating factors for me.

 

[BlinkerFluid]

is it too much to ask for 1 or 2 Audi wagons? Bring back the b5 rs4 and c6 rs6 please.

 

[JustMac]

I've finally just ... not "accepted" the way PD has handled the economy, it's offensive, but I've accepted that all I can do is the best I can do within it. So I copied one of those YouTube "credit-grinding builds" with the Escudo for the Tokyo Expressway (I hate that track) high-payout race. It takes about 25 minutes to generate 825K credits with the easily achievable clean race bonus. I don't even try to actually race the event, I just mindlessly wall ride the thing around the entire time and collect my money, then move on to playing for real. It pisses me off and it's super boring and annoying, but I've just now started doing it once a day. That way it doesn't take that long, and it doesn't bore me to the point of complete tears. Before you know it, you've got 10s of millions of credits.

I make a point to put on a new album in the background while I'm doing it as a kingd of compromise....it's something I never find time to do in the rest of my life so seems like a decent clawback of value/time while just mindlessly grinding for credits.

I hate the fact I'm partaking in the awful grind culture that's eroding videogames as art.

Excuse the digression! Do the update trailers come out at a preset time by Playstation? I really cross my fingers for a new track

 

[rsspyder21]

I make a point to put on a new album in the background while I'm doing it as a kingd of compromise....it's something I never find time to do in the rest of my life so seems like a decent clawback of value/time while just mindlessly grinding for credits.

I hate the fact I'm partaking in the awful grind culture that's eroding videogames as art.

Excuse the digression! Do the update trailers come out at a preset time by Playstation? I really cross my fingers for a new track

LOL Yeah, sometimes I put in my ear buds and listen to music. etc.

 

[B80]

LOL Yeah, sometimes I put in my ear buds and listen to music. etc.

I make a point to put on a new album in the background while I'm doing it as a kingd of compromise....it's something I never find time to do in the rest of my life so seems like a decent clawback of value/time while just mindlessly grinding for credits.

I hate the fact I'm partaking in the awful grind culture that's eroding videogames as art.

Excuse the digression! Do the update trailers come out at a preset time by Playstation? I really cross my fingers for a new track

Yeah, I use vr2 and as I know many do, I place buds for music (thats running from google music via bluetooth on my phone) in my ears, then my decent over ear headphones that has the game sounds blasting through.

People could also listen to podcasts, audiobooks etc to pass the grind.

I do feel for people who missed out on ticket bonanza glitch last summer and the pan am remote play script lol, which thankfully means I'm somewhat (not really) smugly sitting on garage full of cars and 80 mill now, so I just do whatever 'curated' PD race I can shoehorn cars I randomly feel like driving that day, even if only pays a pittance. Or just do some random personal time trials around Norschleiffe, Interlagos or Laguna Seca, Spa (my favourite tracks).

I love this game, particularly with vr2 now, played it most days since release, but some stuff is weird and deserves srcutiny and questions. One minute Kaz apologizes after early backlash, and says he nerfed some early big payers, as didn't want people to grind same races. Within a month or 2, we have the big 3 (and later spa 1 hour) paying substantially more than other races?? Like I say I enjoy his creation immensely, but as far as I know he's never been probed about stuff like that.

It's a glaring contradiction and things like that deserve scrutiny. They must have some inkling by now of feeling around poor paying races, repetition. As others suggested, increase custom races, let people share them - although I dont think custom race will ever be significantly increased, as its more open to rubber banding/abuse.

Anyway, positives and overall love for gt7 overshadows the negatives for me. Driving experience is just phenomenal, particularly vr2. Perhaps there'll be some kind of 2.0 update with significant career overhaul!

 

[Techlet]

At this point, GT7 is just something to do in the background while listening to podcasts.

 

[BrunusCL82]

It would be fantastic if INDIANAPOLIS or MONACO were added on Thursday, taking advantage of the week of the two most famous races in motorsport.

Le Mans was added to GT Sport on the 29th of May, 2018.

 

[RACECAR]

It would be fantastic if INDIANAPOLIS or MONACO were added on Thursday, taking advantage of the week of the two most famous races in motorsport.

Le Mans was added to GT Sport on the 29th of May, 2018.

Never expect ANYTHING (Apart from what's already announced). Remember, we STILL don't have Pikes Peak (Didn't even get it last year when it was the 100th running) so save yourself the future disappointment.

 

[KAlex122]

After reading a few pages it seems we have all
"Accepted" gt7's mediocre drip of content that contradicts his-
" ..wanting players not to grind the same few tracks over and over again"
Even though over a year later, it's exactly what it is.3 grinds, and sport/public lobbies are a mess.
Rude kids ganging up and poking you to write something dirty or suggestive, to report your account- to get suspended banned. (Kiss all your bonanza sawps goodbye-)

But hey-
Here is a "Christian Dior mangusta" (🤢🤮)
Here's a movie-
Here's a glimpse of smart ai-
Here's VR capability.
The host has ended the game.

An unexpected error has occurred-
your fanbase is dying.

Swaps, S parts, undocumented changes, and Nenkai's leaks are about the only stimulating factors for me.

Couldn't say it better, only i am not even interested in Swaps and Parts.

 

[Ande3200]

PD was able to release 7-10 cars a month in GT Sport for the first two years of its support before trickling down to 3-5 a month.

True but gt sport didin’t have tuning parts or customazion parts like gt7 does, i would guess it take some extra time as well, but i am sure they can do better than 3 cars as month, as kaz already confirmed they can make 60 cars per year, the updates has been small for the most part, but you cant deny how really good the car models are, and at this point that car count will just grow even for future titels

 

[FluxWildly]

The Custom Races are good if I want to make things a little more interesting but the measly rewards put me off most of the time.

I really hope that at some point PD addresses the payouts for custom races, if the payouts were 10x-30x of what they currently are I personally would no longer need PD to make events as I can make my own, i've already done this with Gr.2 cars as PD acts like that class no longer exists outside of Daily races which I do not play as I have no interest in online.

They can increase the payouts in custom races all they want but at the end of the day it still won't fix the fact that that mode is broken by too many issue to list. The horrendous rubberbanding of AI and lack of other options like adding tyre strategy and customizing AI cars (tyre types etc) mean you cannot create any type of strategy to races due to the way the AI handles are manipulated to "create better racing".