GT7 Daily Race Discussion

[brockie]

I actually think that happened to me just now, put the break down first, then the accelerator and it did for a moment get stuck, so that was me running around on my own all race 😁

Watch out for the 'stuck on the grid' bug too - seems to happen every time they run this event, but I can never remember how to stop it happening!

 

[bone_tone]

I actually think that happened to me just now, put the break down first, then the accelerator and it did for a moment get stuck, so that was me running around on my own all race 😁

Yes, it's happened to me twice when I was on pole......🤨

 

[brockie]

Yes, it's happened to me twice when I was on pole......🤨

Ouch 😬

 

[Lightsider74]

Watch out for the 'stuck on the grid' bug too - seems to happen every time they run this event, but I can never remember how to stop it happening!

Yup. Happened to me most races today. So often in fact I double the accelerator pedal now just to save time.

 

[Stringerbell]

I’ve been sticking with B but definately prefer blasting round having a time trial more than I do the actual races.

Been trying to dip into the 56’s and agonizingly less than half a tenth off with a slide coming round the final corner 🤕

Not sure I fancy karts but I am going to have a blast at C, if nothing else just to repair the SR I’ve lost from quitting 3 C’s and a B this week 🤦‍♂️

Good to see you all enjoying race A 💪💪

 

[bone_tone]

Good to see you all enjoying race A

Not so sure that going from first to last before turn 1, due to a longstanding bug, can be classed as enjoyment 🤣

 

[Jflijohn]

Everyone seems to love race C this week, so in true internet fashion I'm going to defecate all over it (jk it's not awful just a few things let it down in my opinion):

The cars:
It's great to have these new cars and the grids look great with the custom liveries, however most of the people have been using the Porsche which hurts the variety, it was the same in the time trial so I guess the BoP is not quite there yet. I've been using the Ferrari and it feels decent enough but these high downforce cars still suffer on controller, the steering is a bit too slow when changing direction through the chicanes and in the Porsche curves you're not allowed to use as much steering lock as you would ideally want, it makes them feel a little heavy and sluggish.

The weather:
Rain is back, fantastic!!! Only it's not back every time, if you love wet races and join expecting that you have a 50% chance of being disappointed, even if you do get rain it's scripted so it will always seem to end in time for you to do the second half of the race on slicks, because of the tyre wear you don't have much flexibility on strategy. If that wear was set lower it would open up the option for the risky early pit, trying to stay on the narrow dry line in the dark or play it safe by running longer at a slower pace. As it is the tyres are wearing out towards the end so everybody has to do pretty much the same thing.

The length:
People will disagree with me but 14 laps and a 50 minute race is to long for most players, I did a race late last night and 7(!) people were there by the end, this was an A+/A lobby where people usually care about their ratings so they must've really hated it. I reckon so much of it being in the dark puts people off too, I like it but others will hate it. Limited the race slots to once per hour is a baffling decision too, if you turn your console on for a race at the wrong time you have a 59 minute wait before you actually see any action, that is too long and people aren't going to spend that time.

I'd give it a 4/10

Well, it definitely looks like the Porsche is IT so I dressed it like the #12 Cadillac (Cadiyak if youre in France.
With all of the money Cadillac has dumped into racing, Im not sure why they don't have a Gran Turismo entry, I'm curious as to who pays whom.
As to the weather, I went out on RM in a downpour and had to come in for IMs on lap 1, burned the hell out of them then back to RM for 10 laps and was able to squeeze a 6th place out of it by milking the last ounce of rubber.
I love the long races, night racing rain and rage quits, it helps absorb any deficiencies I may have in my driving skills.
I was at LeMans last week and I couldn't wait to get home and drive the track in the Hypercars.
There also seems to be fewer shenanigans in long races where you have a fair amount of time invested.

 

[afc5150]

I rarely do dailies these days unless a nice combo (at the Nurburgring) comes along, but I'll try the LeMans race at the top of the hour. Might report back (depending on how it goes )

 

[brockie]

I’ve been sticking with B but definately prefer blasting round having a time trial more than I do the actual races.

Been trying to dip into the 56’s and agonizingly less than half a tenth off with a slide coming round the final corner 🤕

Not sure I fancy karts but I am going to have a blast at C, if nothing else just to repair the SR I’ve lost from quitting 3 C’s and a B this week 🤦‍♂️

Good to see you all enjoying race A 💪💪

Rapid again bro any pearls of wisdom to get me fast like you😁

Getting in early this week 😁

 

[SeleneX]

Everyone seems to love race C this week, so in true internet fashion I'm going to defecate all over it (jk it's not awful just a few things let it down in my opinion):

The cars:
It's great to have these new cars and the grids look great with the custom liveries, however most of the people have been using the Porsche which hurts the variety, it was the same in the time trial so I guess the BoP is not quite there yet. I've been using the Ferrari and it feels decent enough but these high downforce cars still suffer on controller, the steering is a bit too slow when changing direction through the chicanes and in the Porsche curves you're not allowed to use as much steering lock as you would ideally want, it makes them feel a little heavy and sluggish.

The weather:
Rain is back, fantastic!!! Only it's not back every time, if you love wet races and join expecting that you have a 50% chance of being disappointed, even if you do get rain it's scripted so it will always seem to end in time for you to do the second half of the race on slicks, because of the tyre wear you don't have much flexibility on strategy. If that wear was set lower it would open up the option for the risky early pit, trying to stay on the narrow dry line in the dark or play it safe by running longer at a slower pace. As it is the tyres are wearing out towards the end so everybody has to do pretty much the same thing.

The length:
People will disagree with me but 14 laps and a 50 minute race is to long for most players, I did a race late last night and 7(!) people were there by the end, this was an A+/A lobby where people usually care about their ratings so they must've really hated it. I reckon so much of it being in the dark puts people off too, I like it but others will hate it. Limited the race slots to once per hour is a baffling decision too, if you turn your console on for a race at the wrong time you have a 59 minute wait before you actually see any action, that is too long and people aren't going to spend that time.

I'd give it a 4/10

I've always wished they'd change sport mode matchmaking to include hardware used.

It fundamentally doesn't feel fair that controllers & wheel users race together in ranked or ranked tournaments.

I've always wanted them to put little symbols next to people's names to show what hardware they set their leaderboard times on (& a filter so I can filter it X hardware for looking at replays I can learn from), as well as icons for people's names live while they're on a race (just a little wheel or controller symbol).

But more than anything I just want them to split the playerbase in ranked modes by hardware. It'll never happen, they'll always pretend it'll "make lobbies a ghost town" even though we apparently have apparently a healthy player base in sport mode weekly.

 

[Stringerbell]

Rapid again bro any pearls of wisdom to get me fast like you😁

Getting in early this week 😁

This track really feels like it's all about flowing round with a ton of coasting to get the best out of it mate.

I'm using the 992 so found a replay and noted brake points and apex speeds and just tried to hit the apex speeds the same with a mix of trail and coasting.

You're in the BRZ - here's a good lap guide from someone in the same car.

 

[GOTMAXPOWER]

I've always wished they'd change sport mode matchmaking to include hardware used.

It fundamentally doesn't feel fair that controllers & wheel users race together in ranked or ranked tournaments.

I've always wanted them to put little symbols next to people's names to show what hardware they set their leaderboard times on (& a filter so I can filter it X hardware for looking at replays I can learn from), as well as icons for people's names live while they're on a race (just a little wheel or controller symbol).

But more than anything I just want them to split the playerbase in ranked modes by hardware. It'll never happen, they'll always pretend it'll "make lobbies a ghost town" even though we apparently have apparently a healthy player base in sport mode weekly.

I'm not sure I would go as far as splitting the lobbies like that because the parity between the hardware is usually pretty good for most combos but it would be nice to see who is using what easier (you can tell from the replay if you know what to look for). The symbols above the players would actually be a good idea to warn of those playing in VR who can't see as much of what is happening around their car, if you know to be more careful it might prevent some of the crashes.

 

[brockie]

This track really feels like it's all about flowing round with a ton of coasting to get the best out of it mate.

I'm using the 992 so found a replay and noted brake points and apex speeds and just tried to hit the apex speeds the same with a mix of trail and coasting.

You're in the BRZ - here's a good lap guide from someone in the same car.

Thanks buddy, I got ratted out this morning so spent some times on TTs and managed a bronze on Le Mans and got gold times on spa and RBR

 

[sychobob]

I do enjoy Race B (LM rev) very much so far. The track has some tricky parts, which are a challenge to get right every single lap. Racing has been good so far too. I had a race where the top 4 battled for first place for the last 5 corners. We were at least two wide in every of those corners and the final gap between p1 and p4 was under 1.3s. Unfortunately I ended on p4 with only 0.1s behind p3.

Getting bored of a daily is not possible for me: I never have time to do more than 10 races a week.

I think I had the first wheel by wheel battle with a forum member here (at least that I know of). @Stringerbell The race yesterday with your unfortunate spin on the fast left turn #4 leading to the back straight.

 

[Stringerbell]

I do enjoy Race B (LM rev) very much so far. The track has some tricky parts, which are a challenge to get right every single lap. Racing has been good so far too. I had a race where the top 4 battled for first place for the last 5 corners. We were at least two wide in every of those corners and the final gap between p1 and p4 was under 1.3s. Unfortunately I ended on p4 with only 0.1s behind p3.

Getting bored of a daily is not possible for me: I never have time to do more than 10 races a week.

I think I had the first wheel by wheel battle with a forum member here (at least that I know of). @Stringerbell The race yesterday with your unfortunate spin on the fast left turn #4 leading to the back straight.

Yes that was a bit frustrating Unfortunately wasn't the first or the last time I did that!!!

What's your username in the game?

Next weeks daily's out already.

Race A - Autopolis International Racing - Short Course - SH
Race B - Mount Panorama - RH
Race C - Deep Forest - RM/RS

Think it's going to be Mount Panorama for me next week, such a cool course and never raced it

 

[sychobob]

Yes that was a bit frustrating Unfortunately wasn't the first or the last time I did that!!!

What's your username in the game?

Mike

 

[benjoi84]

I'm not sure I would go as far as splitting the lobbies like that because the parity between the hardware is usually pretty good for most combos but it would be nice to see who is using what easier (you can tell from the replay if you know what to look for). The symbols above the players would actually be a good idea to warn of those playing in VR who can't see as much of what is happening around their car, if you know to be more careful it might prevent some of the crashes.

Agreed completely on the parity between wheel and controller. Input method is no excuse, it's just sandbagging!

Wheel users have an advantage in some fringe cases (tyre wear), but then again controller users have an advantage in others.

 

[brockie]

Race A - Autopolis International Racing - Short Course - SH
Race B - Mount Panorama - RH
Race C - Deep Forest - RM/RS

Mt. Panorama is decent mate, it might even through up a new meta like the Mazda 3 to use, although I can’t help thinking this week should have been gr4 and mt. Panorama should have been gr3 which would have a real challenge for the week

 

[NevilleNobody]

Mt. Panorama is decent mate, it might even through up a new meta like the Mazda 3 to use, although I can’t help thinking this week should have been gr4 and mt. Panorama should have been gr3 which would have a real challenge for the week

Group 4 is terrible at Bathurst, there's way too much grip and not enough power, makes the driving style very very weird where you are getting on the power before the apex or you are dog slow.

2nd yet again in my sole race last night dang it!

 

[GOTMAXPOWER]

Agreed completely on the parity between wheel and controller. Input method is no excuse, it's just sandbagging!

Wheel users have an advantage in some fringe cases (tyre wear), but then again controller users have an advantage in others.

I don't even think tyre wear is that bad now, wheels have a slight edge but we're not doing races with ridiculous multipliers like on GT Sport so it's somewhat manageable, sometimes the wheels will be able to undercut by a few laps but I don't think there are any races where we're forced into doing an extra pitstop or anything that extreme. It's more where it artificially limits your steering lock in fast corners and the sharp chicanes where you have to go from full lock one way to the other where the steering just isn't fast enough, generally Gr3 and slower are fine it's more the high downforce cars where the input smoothing is overly restrictive.

Group 4 is terrible at Bathurst, there's way too much grip and not enough power, makes the driving style very very weird where you are getting on the power before the apex or you are dog slow.

That is my problem with Gr4 in general, the current BoP is so slow it's like racing Scalextric cars, combine that with the custom slipstream bunching everyone together and it's more like playing marbles than actual racing.

 

[Stringerbell]

@NevilleNobody @GOTMAXPOWER you party poopers! I was looking forward to race B or all of about 45 minutes mins before reading this!

 

[GOTMAXPOWER]

@NevilleNobody @GOTMAXPOWER you party poopers! I was looking forward to race B or all of about 45 minutes mins before reading this!

45 minutes is about the same time it takes to drag a Gr4 car with no power up the hill on Bathurst 😂

I've said it before and I'll say it again, Gr4 cars would be so much more fun to drive if they were ran on sports tyres instead of slicks.

 

[Stringerbell]

45 minutes is about the same time it takes to drag a Gr4 car with no power up the hill on Bathurst 😂

 

[Childe Roland]

Next weeks daily's out already.

Race A - Autopolis International Racing - Short Course - SH
Race B - Mount Panorama - RH
Race C - Deep Forest - RM/RS

I will try to race as much as possible this week at Le mans because next monday I´m coming back to my cave again until another great combo arrives

 

[Stringerbell]

I was struggling with consistency at Interlagos but this week I seem to have finally nailed some consistency!

Had 5 poles positions in a row in race B and I’ve managed to convert all 5 in DR losing finishing positions! Im in a rich run of consistent results 😂

 

[benjoi84]

45 minutes is about the same time it takes to drag a Gr4 car with no power up the hill on Bathurst 😂

I've said it before and I'll say it again, Gr4 cars would be so much more fun to drive if they were ran on sports tyres instead of slicks.

I think a more sensible solution is to bring both Group 3 and 4 back to something resembling their realistic BoP. I still can't remember why the mega-nerf all those months ago...

Race A - Autopolis International Racing - Short Course - SH
Race B - Mount Panorama - RH
Race C - Deep Forest - RM/RS

A new car would be great at Autopolis

 

[brockie]

A new car would be great at Autopolis

As long as it isn’t the testerossa which I remember being an absolute punt fest first corner 😬

 

[jrbabbitt]

I will try to race as much as possible this week at Le mans because next monday I´m coming back to my cave again until another great combo arrives

Do not laugh, I am doing same as La Sarthe is a good race to me and I'm good on that track. I tend to pick my races that I'm good at and only run on those...

 

[Gurzu]

Looking at next week, I see myself at DF assuming it will be in Gr3 (only if not reverse cause I, let's say, massively dislike it that way). Three reasons:
It's one track, coupled with big Willows, where I can really drive "blind".
Even if fictional, it remains a "home track" for me based in Switzerland.
I love to drive the Viper there, especially now that is basically antimeta.

 

[brockie]

Group 4 is terrible at Bathurst, there's way too much grip and not enough power, makes the driving style very very weird where you are getting on the power before the apex or you are dog slow.

Well I think it’s that or nothing for me so I’ll see how it pans out, be good if the FF were meta and not something like the Citroen, dailies just seem to be having a real lean moment currently

But positive thinking 🤞

This week I’ve already checked out, can’t bring myself to race anymore so the football/F1 will get all my attention this weekend

Shame the gtws misses out the hours I could race 1400-1600 🤨