gt5p online impressions

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let me start off by saying i am new to gtplanet and i find the site very informative.I would just like to know what u owners of gt5p think bout the online gameplay cause the vidoes i have seen it looks very unorganized so i just want to know wat u guys think and any videos would be greatly appreciated:dopey:
 
driverx - There's a GT5P subforum, just above. Maybe this thread would be better there instead.
 
Nah don't want to spoil the surprise for you


What do you mean disorganized?

There are new events every week with the old ones removed.
The only real downside for me is the lack of private rooms. But that said racing against random people is good so long as they race clean.
 
To quote Forest

"On line Is like a Box of Chocolates... You Never Know What You're Gonna Get!" :D
 
it does seem from the videos that any of the races are clean but once they are private races it would be good
and does it run laggy to anyone?
 
I experienced a few laggy races when It first went on line but over the last month or so it's been fine.
 
To be fair i've found it to be alot better lately, but like Jase said its just luck of the draw whether you end up with people who wanna race and stick to the track, or people who just wanna create some smoke.

I suffer a bit of lag now and then but i put that down to the distance.
 
Want the truth, online is rubbish in GT5P...... for now.....

Pd will sort it out over time but it is by far the oddest way of carrying out online I have ever seen....:lol:
 
let me start off by saying i am new to gtplanet and i find the site very informative.I would just like to know what u owners of gt5p think bout the online gameplay cause the vidoes i have seen it looks very unorganized so i just want to know wat u guys think and any videos would be greatly appreciated:dopey:

First of all - don't go by the japanese version for online play impressions. Lots of morons have uploaded videos on youtube of online play and it looks like it's jittery and sucking real bad. People are quick to blame it on the netcode or PD being morons otherwise.

This is not the case. At least, not ENTIRELY. I'm sure things can use tweaking - this is the prologue after all.. but the majority of the problem is not with the game itself, I'm willing to bet.

When someone from Europe or the 'states decides to play the Japanese version of GT5P online, where do you think the server is located? Where do you think the majority of the players are going to be located? You may have guessed it: Japan. Due to the limitations of the speed of light combined with inherent latency introduced by the insane amount of networking equipment required to get your packets to (and recieved from) this server in Japan, there's going to be a lot of problems. Sometimes it will be smooth, sometimes it will not be. Sometimes packet loss creeps in and that's when you see the "horror story" videos where cars disappear and reappear, or go 2000mph to a certain spot.

I can guarantee you when this hits stateside and people stop being retarded (and play on their country's version) it will be a lot better. Especially now that they're adding private rooms and things like that - looks like us GTPlanet freaks can get our game on without worrying about wreckers.

Online play will be great. Just don't be a tard by playing on a version not meant for your country. The poster above me is a prime example of what people are saying because they don't really understand how wide area networks (re: the internet) inherently function.
 
First of all - don't go by the japanese version for online play impressions. Lots of morons have uploaded videos on youtube of online play and it looks like it's jittery and sucking real bad. People are quick to blame it on the netcode or PD being morons otherwise.

This is not the case.

When someone from Europe or the 'states decides to play the Japanese version of GT5P online, where do you think the server is located? Where do you think the majority of the players are going to be located? You may have guessed it: Japan. Due to the limitations of the speed of light combined with inherent latency introduced by the insane amount of networking equipment required to get your packets to (and recieved from) this server in Japan, there's going to be a lot of problems. Sometimes it will be smooth, sometimes it will not be. Sometimes packet loss creeps in and that's when you see the "horror story" videos where cars disappear and reappear, or go 2000mph to a certain spot.

I can guarantee you when this hits stateside and people stop being retarded (and play on their country's version) it will be a lot better. Especially now that they're adding private rooms and things like that - looks like us GTPlanet freaks can get our game on without worrying about wreckers.

Online play will be great. Just don't be a tard and play on a version not meant for your country.

Your mostly right apart from the sever bit, there are no servers, the player who starts in P1 is the server.... it creates people as servers on the fly, ofcourse if your server person is in Japan and so is the rest of the pack and your in the UK then its going to suck as you said...

Once the UK and US go online and you can choose which lots of players to pay with you will connect to someone who is a lot closer to home thus reducing all the problems...

Maybe when GT5 proper comes out they will have dedicated servers but at the moment there actually are none.

I love the speed of light bit :lol:

Robin
 
Well, when you're talking about distances halfway across the planet, every fraction of a second latency counts - and the speed of light DOES become a factor. Most people don't think about it because light is so speedy but even 1/10th of a second is noticeable.

And don't take what I said as a personal insult. Just because someone doesn't understand something doesn't make them dumb or any lesser. It just provides for potential misinformation to be spread and that was my only point. I didn't intend for it to come across that way so if it did I apologize!
 
audio could be off-set happens a lot on youtube

but notice the tyre screech is more progressive? That's what you get with the steering wheel I assume :)
 
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