GT5P Online Update *UP*

[kingcars]

When I finally get my GT5P copy, I'll dust off the DFP and try to find some of you guys online. My US PSN is kingcars (ooo i bet you didnt see that comin). I'm lookin forward to some clean, hard racin.

 

[zippyuk]

Roll on introduction of private lobbies

 

[J-PaP]

i think we can be confident that PD is using gt5p to test new features to come in the full release on gt5. its a great starting package but because of the vast majority of cars in gt5 and that you can modify cars etc. I think we'll definitely see some changes in online play. I'm guessing it will work like that in other gt games where races are determined by max power output and you can enter a race with any car with up to that much power.

i hope there is self hosted races as well though.

 

[Tenacious D]

What J-PaP said.

If you check out the shots of the Polyphony rec room, there's a huge play area with PCs set up and some gaming systems, as well as musical instruments! I'm sure they laid a lot of groundwork like all developers do for their online system, and will be collecting data on server performance to see if code can be optimized for bigger races and voice chat. And surely with a whole year of development time, the internet will be faster too.

We're definitely the guinea pigs in this project, but we'll be helping make GT5 as good as it can be. sure looking forward to the updates to come next year. GT Planet servers will be my online home.

 

[Racer XO]

i think we can be confident that PD is using gt5p to test new features to come in the full release on gt5. its a great starting package but because of the vast majority of cars in gt5 and that you can modify cars etc. I think we'll definitely see some changes in online play. I'm guessing it will work like that in other gt games where races are determined by max power output and you can enter a race with any car with up to that much power.

i hope there is self hosted races as well though.

I would think that PD would limit races to max output or class rating also, considering that would be fairly easy to do I don't see why it wouldn't get done.

 

[STJ88]

I'm trying to download the update for the third time, keep getting that error at about 50%.

 

[Whoa91]

If anyone cares... there are only 1 professional Race and 1 Professional Time Trial. im kinda bummed about that... The elise race is the professional race and is quite fun if u get in with some good racers. im really hoping they allow us to host our own games... a GTP race would be fantastic.... I notice when i race some users with american type names they seem to run much smoother (less lag) then some japanese users.

Also seems like the average racer cannot drive, from crashing to spinning out, But all in all u find some good racing and it is quite fun at times.

I hope PD starts putting some updates quickly cuz I can see myself getting bored quickly being that there are ony a few amount of events. ....

 

[BreakerOhio]

Been having some good races. I filmed my first successfull online race. Might post that up on youtube shortly.

 

[STINGer71]

I hope PD starts putting some updates quickly cuz I can see myself getting bored quickly being that there are ony a few amount of events. ....

Nothing till January 15... http://www.gran-turismo.com/jp/gt5p/event/

 

[fasj6418]

First impressions from a seasoned online racer:

The worst experience I've had so far. I'm hoping it's the distance because the cars are jittery and in many cases disappear totally from the track then only to reappear as ghost cars at some unknown time.

Plenty of bumping that would’ve resulted in condemnation in any GT4 online race.

Apart from the new tracks, cars and overall graphics, this online experience is nothing compared to GT4 online even with lag. Seriously.

Poor so far.

how's your connection? from the reports i've heard that mostly happen when you have a bad connection and struggle to the information for the other cars... i also found this problem, but i have a bad connection (600k). some other players might be raceiving penalties, that's why sometimes you just run through some of the players.

however, when you find good players it becomes a very good experience.

 

[Sphinx]

how's your connection? from the reports i've heard that mostly happen when you have a bad connection and struggle to the information for the other cars... i also found this problem, but i have a bad connection (600k). some other players might be raceiving penalties, that's why sometimes you just run through some of the players.

however, when you find good players it becomes a very good experience.

16MB download (12mb) / 760k upload here.

I believe my first experience came as a shock more than anything, combine lag, god awful drivers and the lack of racing etiquette and the end result is a very poor first experience.

I'm sure it can only get better. 👍

 

[RC45]

I hope PD starts putting some updates quickly cuz I can see myself getting bored quickly being that there are ony a few amount of events. ....

I am confused.. people know this is a "Pay to Play" Demo (as in we bought the demo) - emphasis on DEMO, Prologue, Preview...

How come people people have unrealistic expectations? This is NOT the full retail product, and was never claimed to be.



Chill and enjoy the ride.. figuratively and literally

p.s. The patch downloaded in one shot for me.. I think it is regional netlag that is impacting th4e online experience and patch download speed, not local PD server/network conditions.

 

[KrayzieHotSauce]

Hi! My first post here!

Hopped onto PSN to download the patch the minute the clock struck Noon Tokyo time. Attempted 5 times and finally succeeded. Lots of little tweaks here and there. Finally a gamma correction option for the screen (I can finally avoid potholes on the track lol!)

I wish they would do a Professional lobby for Suzuka (my favorite track other than Nurgburgring) as I find I can only get 1 clean lap on the thing (after getting ramped usually from behind and have to chase all the way from last place.. feels like Senna driving lol!)

Does anyone notice the game is overall a tad faster now even in Offline mode? Looks like this patch is making good progress towards curing frame rate issues

 

[Duphman]

I am confused.. people know this is a "Pay to Play" Demo (as in we bought the demo) - emphasis on DEMO, Prologue, Preview...

How come people people have unrealistic expectations? This is NOT the full retail product, and was never claimed to be.



Chill and enjoy the ride.. figuratively and literally

p.s. The patch downloaded in one shot for me.. I think it is regional netlag that is impacting th4e online experience and patch download speed, not local PD server/network conditions.

Welcome to the internet where we need something to cry about at all times. Enjoy your stay

 

[Lotrzyna]

anyone know what the word is there? i'm guessing joining

the blue bar is what i meant as it goes to 95% then stops

It simply means "taking part in a race"...

I have a question - since there is starting grid what decides on your place ?
Are there any qualifications? offline time at the lap? random ?

Wish I could join you all ?
fasfj6.. (with nice Brazilian chick as avatar ) - could we please contact via PM?

have fun people

 

[alba]

it's first come first serve I think, if you join first you get the first place and so on... or it's random either those two (

 

[Mr P510]

Be great if someone could provide translations for the online screens lobby.

 

[TheMoose]

Roll on introduction of private lobbies

There were plans announced for a GT5 room in Home where you could meet to set up private races.
I'm guessing that will come in the full version.

 

[nasanu]

16MB download (12mb) / 760k upload here.

I believe my first experience came as a shock more than anything, combine lag, god awful drivers and the lack of racing etiquette and the end result is a very poor first experience.

I'm sure it can only get better. 👍

Why are you quoting your connection speed? It has nothing to do with lag in most cases. You should have just said 'i am on the other side of the earth' because thats where your lag comes from. Sorry to go on about this but its a pet hate of mine. It does not matter what the bandwidth of your connection is as long as its over 30kbps or so. Its lag caused by the time a electric signal takes to travel around the world that affects most games. You are in the UK playing a japanese game on japanese servers (i assume, we dont actually know how they have chosen to setup the online service), you should really expect lag. You can only hide so much with clever code.

 

[vanubermaster]

Well so far i'm impressed with the online racing

Of course there are a few 'eccentric' drivers and one in particular who purposely cut the last chicane at Suzuka but most of the drivers i've come across all wanna have a good race

The lag for me is minimal and a very smooth experience The only weird experience i've had is where I started in 1st at Suzuka and an elise was catapulted into my car and propelled me from 60-140km/h in a jiffy??? I guess he may have lagged and there were two cars on top of each other maybe 💡

Haven't tried the fuji speedway races yet coz i've only just bought an Audi R8

Have fun everyone and if ya see a yellow Evo 9, chances are it's me

 

[G.T]

Why are you quoting your connection speed? It has nothing to do with lag in most cases. You should have just said 'i am on the other side of the earth' because thats where your lag comes from. Sorry to go on about this but its a pet hate of mine. It does not matter what the bandwidth of your connection is as long as its over 30kbps or so. Its lag caused by the time a electric signal takes to travel around the world that affects most games. You are in the UK playing a japanese game on japanese servers (i assume, we dont actually know how they have chosen to setup the online service), you should really expect lag. You can only hide so much with clever code.

👍 This is something that peeves me off as well. A tad off topic, I know, but Americans who complain about UK connections being crap because bullets lag, it's not our fault. The same happens vise versa as well. It's the delay for the response going overseas. That's why I tend to dislike joining American hosts (or anywhere further) in online games.

 

[Sphinx]

Why are you quoting your connection speed? It has nothing to do with lag in most cases. You should have just said 'i am on the other side of the earth' because thats where your lag comes from. Sorry to go on about this but its a pet hate of mine. It does not matter what the bandwidth of your connection is as long as its over 30kbps or so. Its lag caused by the time a electric signal takes to travel around the world that affects most games. You are in the UK playing a japanese game on japanese servers (i assume, we dont actually know how they have chosen to setup the online service), you should really expect lag. You can only hide so much with clever code.

And why do you think I don’t know that.? The guy asked me how my connection was, he may have assumed that I was 56k, I don't know, that's why I quoted it. He may well have meant to enquire about my setup, and if he did then my bad.

You are correct that in "most cases" it doesn't, but how do you know that I'm not one of those "most cases". For all you know, my high connection speed actually causes poor latency/ping, if we want to go down the technical road. Let's not though, hey.


I apologise for rocking your boat.

 

[zippyuk]

16MB download (12mb) / 760k upload here.

I believe my first experience came as a shock more than anything, combine lag, god awful drivers and the lack of racing etiquette and the end result is a very poor first experience.

I'm sure it can only get better. 👍

Same experience here, had some really bad races, up to 2nd or even in 1st place only be taken out and put down to last place.

 

[Sphinx]

Same experience here, had some really bad races, up to 2nd or even in 1st place only be taken out and put down to last place.

Damn shame mate.

zippyuk, I see you're from New Milton. I'm 3 miles down the road, Lymington.

 

[STJ88]

My experience is the same the conection is very laggy and the drivers are awful. They will do every thing just to win. I did about four race's and then i had enough of it.

But online time trials are very fun, i am first on suzuka with the R34 GTR ( professional S3) and i am second with the R35.

 

[zippyuk]

Damn shame mate.

zippyuk, I see you're from New Milton. I'm 3 miles down the road, Lymington.

Small world, just sent a PM to you.

 

[fasj6418]

Why are you quoting your connection speed? It has nothing to do with lag in most cases. You should have just said 'i am on the other side of the earth' because thats where your lag comes from. Sorry to go on about this but its a pet hate of mine. It does not matter what the bandwidth of your connection is as long as its over 30kbps or so. Its lag caused by the time a electric signal takes to travel around the world that affects most games. You are in the UK playing a japanese game on japanese servers (i assume, we dont actually know how they have chosen to setup the online service), you should really expect lag. You can only hide so much with clever code.

well, actually i was the one who brought up the subject of internet speed. i'm not really a tech guy, so i always thought the speed had something to do with lag. guess you learn something everyday

 

[Robin]

Has anyone managed to get it to download in the uk?

Ive tried 10 times before the game and also in game and it keeps failing!!! Ive given up for today, I wish PD had better thought this patch distribution through.

Robin

 

[Dave A]

Yep, worked first time for me.

 

[MGR]

Has anyone managed to get it to download in the uk?

Ive tried 10 times before the game and also in game and it keeps failing!!! Ive given up for today, I wish PD had better thought this patch distribution through.

Robin

Keep trying.

The first time I tried it was incredibly slow and stopped at around 60%. It took about 5 or 6 goes before I managed to get the whole update. The previous attempts cut off at anywhere between 20% and 80%.

But you're right, the distribution process seems very flakey.