GT5 Online Rallying

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I have an open question for the GT Planet community... Why doesn't anyone do online rallying on GT5.

I've read countless complaints from people who dislike GT5's special event rallying, yet when someone opens a rally room nobody joins. Regardless of room name, room settings, track, car restrictions... Nobody seems overly interested in the idea.

I for one have always wanted to race against 15 other cars on a rally track, and when I finally get a game that allows that to happen, no one wants a bar of it.

So here's the question... why Is there no demand for online rallying on GT5?

Feel free to add me on PSN (GTP_MrDinosaw94) If you actually do enjoy GT5 online rallying
 
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I have been wondering the same. There are several rally track variations in the traditional Gran Turismo style but they don't seem popular. At the same time people get hyped when we get small hints that Pikes Peak might be coming to GT5. It makes no sense unless the new dirt tracks can't compete with the old ones but I don't know.
 
Rallying is much harder than racing on tarmac. The inexperience on dirt and snow often results in endless collisions which will generally ruin the race for everyone.
 
i start rooms a lot add me if you want to do racing on rally stages
everything from escudos,impreza vs evo
WRC
classic WRC
and random cars
gravel and snow driving is so fun with a g27
 
Mmhhh, one reason I can think off is the disaster that rally racing with simultaneous racers.

Mind you, I have never raced online in rallying, so this more based on speculation of my part.

- One thing I find frustrating is when approaching a car I am about to pass, the dirt handicaps my view severely, so drafting in rally is a really risky ordeal.
- There is also the matter of lack of keeping a rock steady racing line in dirt. During a curve, conserving a racing line in dirt is much more difficult than asphalt. Since part of the etiquette of clean racing is to surrender a line when it is clearly lost, pulling such a thing off is much much harder and punishing in rally. Dirt, being dirt, well, makes the car far more wavy (after all, Rally cars spend a great portion of the race sideways no? heh).

Those are two factors I can think off.
 
zanxion
Well it is a GT and not a Rally game after all, isn't it? Go get a Rally racing game instead.
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it's not a drag racing game... Or a drifting game... Or a photography game... Or a customization game...

What it is, is a chance for a player to do exactly what they enjoy doing with the (many) cars at their disposal. Don't get me wrong, I do have rally games (dirt 2, WRC 10) but they tend to be too arcadey in physics, too poor in visual cleanliness, have laggy online with too few people to a room and a limited car selection for my licking. Granted, it is in name a GT game, but in fact a much deeper experience.
 
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zanxion
Sure, but in any case it is a GT game as every other of the series and it does well what it meant to do.
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Which is being a driving simulator, no matter what the discipline.
 
Have you tried online rally head to head yet?
16 cars on a not so wide track sound dangerous.
Plus over taking could be very problematic unless your passing on straights.
 
I think too many people (myself definitely included) find rally too darn hard. That, and the possibility of frequent collisions, deters people from creating/joining rooms.
 
MNLumberjack
Have you tried online rally head to head yet?
16 cars on a not so wide track sound dangerous.
Plus over taking could be very problematic unless your passing on straights.
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i do 8m person rooms when rallying
works out very well
 
i live and breathe rally in this game, and am fairly good at it, but its simply because either 1) most people find it very difficult 2) many rooms are filled with kids or adults who just like to smash each other into walls with trucks or gtrs... hardly rally at all is it?

there are a few good rooms thankfully, but no, rally isnt too popular online :(
 
I was in a room last week where about 10 people were all driving AWD road cars like Imprezas and Lancers on Eiger (assorted trails) and it was fun, but a total cluster****. More like a demolition derby. I tried to race clean but it was truly impossible.
 
zanxion
My point is that GT is not about anything on wheels.
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How does your point explain the small demand for online rally in GT5? It's a fact that rally is a part of GT5 so what you think the game is meant to do is out of context.
 
Nielsen
How does your point explain the small demand for online rally in GT5? It's a fact that rally is a part of GT5 so what you think the game is meant to do is out of context.
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Not to mention it's about "cars" which, you got it, are used in rally. He's a bit lost, apparently.
 
Let me start by saying I enjoy rally but it definatly has some drawbacks. The dust and lack of visability just add to the chaos that is rally online. Many folks dont use the brakes at all and just ride the wall, yeah good racers would help for sure. The penalty system just doesnt work well in rally, which makes it hard to keep folks fair.

Also some people with wheels dont like it becuase its hard on the wheel, whether or not thats true I dont know but some folks dont want to risk it. I know before one of the updates using a wheel was just painfull (due to the massive force feedback which couldnt be adjusted, and still cant be) so I avoided it. I imagine others avoided it too, and its possible some of the people dont realize it has changed since then.



I like rally but hate GT's tracks, they're too difficult for my talentless self. Custom tracks is where it gets fun for me, I prefer a much simpler and wider track for the sake of good racing.

If the dust and snow spray could be turned off or toned down, I would do alot more rally for sure.
 
zanxion
That does not mean "driving" motorcycles too or anything with wheels, does it?
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you "ride" a motorcycle, if you are going to choose to be petty, atleast be good at it. Now quit being a troll, if you don't enjoy rallying find another thread.

I dont think a 16 car grid will work in gt5 due in part to the physics being akin to having tires made of ice cubes on a tile surface. In GT as in real rallying, there needs to be a delay between each racer.
 
Good luck!
I take up the entire course plus some when it comes to rally so I'm definitely not going to come and mess you up:dunce:
but 💡 I'd say start up a clean rally club in the clubs and leagues section and host that way
 
Stop being bully's to zanxion.
Not his fault he just means Rallying is stupid!
(By the way i love doing 16 car Rallying! Sounds Fun!)
 
Gran Turismo physics aren't THAT when you look at PC simulations. It gets even worse when you leave the tarmac, it's just atrocious.
Also you can't create point-to-point stages, GT5's rally circuits are ****ing jokes wide like a Formula One track.

But there's rallycross where you have wide circuits with multiple surfaces and 500hp rally cars.
I didn't see anything like that in the game...

Rallying in GT5 is just... bad.
 
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Not to mention it's about "cars" which, you got it, are used in rally. He's a bit lost, apparently.
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O.k. Count the rally ones against the rest out of the 1k+ cars in GT5. Also GT has nothing to do with Rallying and apparently you are unaware of this. PD has included a bit of it in GT5 but just to drag by the hair Rally fans into GT5.
 
GeneralJesh
Gran Turismo physics aren't THAT when you look at PC simulations. It gets even worse when you leave the tarmac, it's just atrocious.
Also you can't create point-to-point stages, GT5's rally circuits are ****ing jokes wide like a Formula One track.

But there's rallycross where you have wide circuits with multiple surfaces and 500hp rally cars.
I didn't see anything like that in the game...

Rallying in GT5 is just... bad.
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+1! GT5 certainly has lots of fun, but it is far from simulation (in all aspects).

PD has included some rally circuits just to get one more piece of the consumer's pie.
 

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