GT7 Weekly Challenge Discussion Thread

[smoothbore12]

Damn right ! My quick shot :

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Glad that you've accepted the challenge, made my heart sing !

@smoothbore12

I'm curious ! What about telling ME ! what's on your mouth ?

@rheinaoi is one of our Titans member that we race every Sunday .
Is bloody fast especially in TT mod and due to that ,has the luxury to hear many times or see it written in our discord account the famous :


F...riendly A....sked Q...uestions. you Chall 🤣

As about your challenge i use an integra 98 and did a clean 1.56+ last night.

PS

It would be great if you could join us in our Titans group Joe .
We race every Sunday at 6.00 CET time .
We are a gang mostly of Old Camels and the priory is to have fun .

 

[jad_morffier]

This week...

Tsukuba | Japanese FF Challenge 450 | Stock Swift Sport '07

I chose stock Suzuki Swift for this race. 405.13 PP. Quite the challenge. Fun little buzz box.



Eiger Nordwand | European FR Challenge 550 | Stock BMW Z4 3.0i '03 with SS tires

I originally did this race in a completely stock BMW M3 '07 keeping it under 550 PP. Then I tried a stock Z4 3.0i. Not possible using SH tires. Not enough power. But with some sticky tires (SS) it could keep up making it a more action packed race without needing to go over 550 PP.



Lago Maggiore | Porsche Cup | Stock Cayman GT4 '16

This was my hardest race for the week. Multiple attempts to catch up to the leader and get past in the last corners. Love driving every stock Porsche in this game.



Red Bull Ring | World Touring Car 700 | Stock Honda RA272 '65 with no ABS

A stock RA272 with no ABS is just magnificent. Can't get enough of it.
Got lucky with light rain. No pit needed. Just race and hope for the best.

 

[ArronWestley]

WTC 700 at RBR is very difficult to win with the Elantra TCR. The Supra shoots far into the distance and the Elantra is underpowered compared to other Gr.4 cars. Even with lowest downforce, your top speed is too low.

 

[smoothbore12]

@jad_morffier you're nothing more than a .
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[Lunard]

 

[ROCKET JOE]

@rheinaoi

Another Valkyrie hunter killer ? FL5 and FK8 are equally fast in my hands, at least around Tsukuba. The Demio definitely can not keep up. What baffles me is that adding weight and shifting it to the front increases PP. Feels strange but is logical of course within a certain range. Will have to keep that in mind !

Spoiler: Swap FK8 at Tsukuba

Would you do me a favor and explain how setting the Diff accel sensivity to 60 affects the handling of the car ? !
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@smoothbore12

Thank you so much for inviting me to race with ya, I feel truly honored, mate ! My answer though ...

I've had my share of online racing back in the GT6 days running a beyond endless count of Quick Match races.
I've raced together with the Geezers here every now and then back in the days.
I've really had good times and lots of fun but I've always found that I don't have enough of that I call it racer gene.
To a point where I simply decided to not race real people anymore. Guess you know the pighead I can be so yes, that is it - to the day.
That's why I won't achieve Platinum this time round etc etc ... and why my answer is no !

And btw Sunday at 6.00 CET is an absolute no go, you SON OF BEACH !

 

[rheinaoi]

@rheinaoi

Another Valkyrie hunter killer ? FL5 and FK8 are equally fast in my hands, at least around Tsukuba. The Demio definitely can not keep up. What baffles me is that adding weight and shifting it to the front increases PP. Feels strange but is logical of course within a certain range. Will have to keep that in mind !

Spoiler: Swap FK8 at Tsukuba

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Would you do me a favor and explain how setting the Diff accel sensivity to 60 affects the handling of the car ? !
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And now

@smoothbore12

Thank you so much for inviting me to race with ya, I feel truly honored, mate ! My answer though ...

I've had my share of online racing back in the GT6 days running a beyond endless count of Quick Match races.
I've raced together with the Geezers here every now and then back in the days.
I've really had good times and lots of fun but I've always found that I don't have enough of that I call it racer gene.
To a point where I simply decided to not race real people anymore. Guess you know the pighead I can be so yes, that is it - to the day.
That's why I won't achieve Platinum this time round etc etc ... and why my answer is no !

And btw Sunday at 6.00 CET is an absolute no go, you SON OF BEACH !

Valkyrie hunter killer? Yes. I despise how that car sandbags for 2 laps then sets the fastest lap. PD saw how dumb the Vulkan on racing tires was in the Hypercar Parade and decided, more. I felt 1 point of guilt for bringing 800pp+ cars to slap the Vulkan. I now feel negative 100 points of guilt doing this to the Valkyrie.

WHY PUT A NEUTRON STAR IN THE FRONT BUMPER
In GT7, adding weight over the driven wheels helps with traction problems. Most of the time, adding a whole bunch of weight at the front decreases PP because PD's calculations assume that you've made the car understeer more and have compromised the car's braking. In the odd cases where PP increases, whatever PD uses to calculate PP probably sees the better traction / faster acceleration numbers and decides that those outweigh the drawbacks.

The PP system is busted and inconsistent half of the time.

WHY 60 ACCEL SENSITIVITY
The higher the acceleration sensitively, the more the diff will prevent the inside wheel from spinning. You get more understeer, but you can turn as hard as you like without worry of losing [as much] traction. Fighting the Valkyrie, I found this to be the best compromise to get 800hp through the front wheels while turning.

To get another idea of this, remember how it feels to drive many of the old muscle cars stock. They turn in surprisingly well, but when you want to power out of the corner, the rear tires (the inside one) begin to lose traction. The muscle car doesn't oversteer, but you feel that you've reached the maxium amount that you can turn and accelerate. Higher Acceleration Sensitivity (18 - 30) values completely fix this.

IS THE FL5 REALLY THE FASTEST FF ROAD CAR
My answer is still probably, but your FK8 is very interesting. I participated in several long-running time attack shootouts with a power/weight rule. With the same power and weight, the FL5 was always 1+ second a lap faster than the FK8 and all other FF challengers. Even the Avantime with its frankly superior aero kit was no match. I will need to take another look.