Hard Seasonal events!

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AlexMk7
This. I don't know about you, but the main reason why I play GT6 is to become a better driver, not because it's fun to rack up credits to buy new virtual cars (although it is a lot of fun). If you can't appreciate a challenge, then you have reached a dead end. I spent an hour going at the Mount Panorama overtake challenge without ABS or anything else until I got gold. I can't say it was 100% enjoyable, it was frustrating at times, but the satisfaction I got when I finally managed to cleanly overtake that Aventador on the last corner was priceless. Of course right after that I tried again with ABS and instantly went a full second quicker but it doesn't matter, that's what GT6 is all about for me; challenge, hard work and ultimately pride.
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Seriously ...... you mean play the game better
 
Muxlee
Seriously ...... you mean play the game better
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Call me stupid but when the FIA approves of a "game" as an official competition ground and players are chosen to become successful racing drivers, I think it's fair to say that it can help you become a better driver.
 
We won't call you stupid.

However - Nissan approves of it, too.

What does Jann Mardenborough, a significant star that comes to the surface after many years of GT Academy existing, say? Let's read him:

“The training and support we get after winning GT Academy is amazing,” said Jann. “For me to get to this level in single seaters just shows how good the program is. It’s not a case of winning GT Academy and just going racing at all. They push us hard, every day. I keep learning and progressing all the time and today’s result proves that it works.”

This discussion, though, is taking place elsewhere. I believe this thread is about whether the present round of Holiday Seasonals with their extremely high payouts and prize cars has been made more difficult by PD for even the 'average' player - not the significantly small number of players that are in the top 100,000, or whether such gamers are the fastest drivers in the world or not.
 
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This discussion, though, is taking place elsewhere. I believe this thread is about whether the present round of Holiday Seasonals with their extremely high payouts and prize cars has been made more difficult by PD for even the 'average' player - not the significantly small number of players that are in the top 100,000, or whether such gamers are the fastest drivers in the world or not.
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I'm still confused... I never claimed to be one of the fastest racing drivers in the world or even be in the top 100,000 nor did I imply GT6 could turn someone into a racing driver. All I said was that it could make you a better driver. Why are you hating?
 
AlexMk7
I'm still confused... I never claimed to be one of the fastest racing drivers in the world or even be in the top 100,000 nor did I imply GT6 could turn someone into a racing driver. All I said was that it could make you a better driver. Why are you hating?
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I thinks he's saying that the recent "Christmas holidays" events are made to be hard for their payouts and prizes. I can't get gold but a close sliver in them; he's right for that. :)
 
Castrol96
Thanks. "I'm being honest and I'm not trying to hide my rank, I have forgotten it! The problem was I had exams to focus on at the months and I had a quick go on GTA late. So I assume my ranks must have been low to what I could have made it to with my Potential. And if I find it "somehow" it wont be my best. So, there you go.
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Honestly, why would you have remembered your rank in the first place unless you were in the top 100. I sort of feel sorry for you right now, this thread kind of backfired didn't it? You really should never have to be so defensive about your skill level. :indiff:
 
Chameleon9000
Honestly, why would you have remembered your rank In the first place unless you were in the top 100. I sort of feel sorry for you right now, this thread kind of backfired didn't it? You really should never have to be so defensive about your skill level. :indiff:
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Yeah, this community doesn't seem to collaborate completely well together with someones problem. That's why I don't log in often as I used to. Thanks anyway :)
 
I'm not trying to put you on the spot, @Stotty, so please feel free to ignore this question... How long did it take you to Gold the first two Seasonal Overtake Challenges (the Lancia & Jaguar)? How many "attempts" did it take? Feel free to omit the attempts that you might have rear-ended the very first AI car while trying to grab that perfect line in Turn 1. How many times did you reach the endpoint of the challenge with a clean time before you got a Gold on each event? And maybe you didn't have many DQ attempts, so if you want to include those, please feel free.

I have tremendous respect for your abilities in GT6. You've more than proven your abilities week after week with the Seasonal Events. I'm just curious if a guy like you usually grabs Gold on the first or second clean attempt. To be honest, I think I only ran about 4 clean laps in the Lancia Stratos event before I got a Gold time. Unfortunately, I probably had 50+ attempts where I didn't even get under the bridge cleanly before being DQ'ed. Maybe more. I can't remember how many times I slid off the road or bounced off the road into the rock walls on the very first incline! :lol: I didn't have nearly as many DQ laps with the Jaguar event. Still, I probably had 20 or so. I think it was my third attempt getting through the entire sector(s) without a DQ before I hit the Gold Medal times. Also, both times were just barely under the time limit and I haven't tried to improve them.

Again, this isn't to put you on the spot. I'm just curious how much effort, on average, it takes a top tier driver to get Gold compared to someone like myself - that I consider average skilled.

EDIT: I haven't tried the newer two overtake challenges yet, that's why I didn't mention them.
 
ALB123
I'm not trying to put you on the spot, @Stotty, so please feel free to ignore this question... How long did it take you to Gold the first two Seasonal Overtake Challenges (the Lancia & Jaguar)? How many "attempts" did it take? Feel free to omit the attempts that you might have rear-ended the very first AI car while trying to grab that perfect line in Turn 1. How many times did you reach the endpoint of the challenge with a clean time before you got a Gold on each event? And maybe you didn't have many DQ attempts, so if you want to include those, please feel free.

I have tremendous respect for your abilities in GT6. You've more than proven your abilities week after week with the Seasonal Events. I'm just curious if a guy like you usually grabs Gold on the first or second clean attempt. To be honest, I think I only ran about 4 clean laps in the Lancia Stratos event before I got a Gold time. Unfortunately, I probably had 50+ attempts where I didn't even get under the bridge cleanly before being DQ'ed. Maybe more. I can't remember how many times I slid off the road or bounced off the road into the rock walls on the very first incline! :lol: I didn't have nearly as many DQ laps with the Jaguar event. Still, I probably had 20 or so. I think it was my third attempt getting through the entire sector(s) without a DQ before I hit the Gold Medal times. Also, both times were just barely under the time limit and I haven't tried to improve them.

Again, this isn't to put you on the spot. I'm just curious how much effort, on average, it takes a top tier driver to get Gold compared to someone like myself - that I consider average skilled.

EDIT: I haven't tried the newer two overtake challenges yet, that's why I didn't mention them.
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Good question. And one of the best people to ask. ;)
 
Seasonals should be more harder than now,i play GT since day one and i love the feeling to master the hard ones,now i gold them all in one afternoon,there are so many good drivers out there who sure want a real challenge too
 
ALB123
I'm not trying to put you on the spot, @Stotty, so please feel free to ignore this question... How long did it take you to Gold the first two Seasonal Overtake Challenges (the Lancia & Jaguar)? How many "attempts" did it take? Feel free to omit the attempts that you might have rear-ended the very first AI car while trying to grab that perfect line in Turn 1. How many times did you reach the endpoint of the challenge with a clean time before you got a Gold on each event? And maybe you didn't have many DQ attempts, so if you want to include those, please feel free.

I have tremendous respect for your abilities in GT6. You've more than proven your abilities week after week with the Seasonal Events. I'm just curious if a guy like you usually grabs Gold on the first or second clean attempt. To be honest, I think I only ran about 4 clean laps in the Lancia Stratos event before I got a Gold time. Unfortunately, I probably had 50+ attempts where I didn't even get under the bridge cleanly before being DQ'ed. Maybe more. I can't remember how many times I slid off the road or bounced off the road into the rock walls on the very first incline! :lol: I didn't have nearly as many DQ laps with the Jaguar event. Still, I probably had 20 or so. I think it was my third attempt getting through the entire sector(s) without a DQ before I hit the Gold Medal times. Also, both times were just barely under the time limit and I haven't tried to improve them.

Again, this isn't to put you on the spot. I'm just curious how much effort, on average, it takes a top tier driver to get Gold compared to someone like myself - that I consider average skilled.

EDIT: I haven't tried the newer two overtake challenges yet, that's why I didn't mention them.
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No problems :)

I did my usual with new events; I ran them with the DS3. I like to whiz through them and see if they feel nice, then I'll set the wheel up to try and run a competitive time later (if I have time). I'm not very good with the DS3, but I'm pretty quick with a wheel, so at least I know what to do even if I don't have the hand eye coordination to do it with the DS3 :lol:

I started with the drift event and golded that after around 10 tries with an E55 (always takes a few runs to find the point scoring line)... I like the drift event and ran a few more attempts to improve my score (and had had another hour on it with a more suitable car yesterday morning :)).

Then I ran the 2 overtake challenges.

The Bathurst one took me a little over 20 minutes to get the gold time with the DS3 (by a few tenths). Lots of restarts as the 1st section over the crest took a bit of time to figure out, but the rest of it is relatively straight forward. I used AS strong and TC 5. When I sat down with the wheel to have a go yesterday, it probably took me 20 attempts just to get through the 1st section without a DQ, and even later in the session I was only getting through there 50% of the time at best - but by then I was trying to do it as quickly as possible rather than just clean.

The Nurb event took 5 attempts to beat the gold time by 0.5s... on RH tyres there are no traction problems, so just a matter of figuring out how much front end grip the car has in each corner, the gears for each corner and where the overtakes are.

I golded the Laguna event in the Mazda on my 2nd lap - 1st lap I slid wide in the 1st corner and immediately worked out the brake points were slightly earlier than I usually use. Adjusted to this for all the brake zones and golded it 2nd lap.

Including smoke breaks, took me around an hour to gold the 4 events.

On the older events, both have some oversteer and it's not very easy to feel until it's too late. I ran them both with the DS3 with TC at 1 on the Jag and 5 on the Lancia. The Jag I golded relatively quickly, the Lancia took a bit longer!
 
I always watch the top players best laps, braking points, gear changes, lines etc, helps me a lot. Also helped me to learn MT , takes a bit of time but it is worth it.

PS enjoy the difficulty, I never enjoyed this game as much as when I would struggle to get gold. Just not as fun now when I try to improve my gold time.
 
nowayback
PS enjoy the difficulty, I never enjoyed this game as much as when I would struggle to get gold. Just not as fun now when I try to improve my gold time.
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How times change, eh?

Earlier versions of GT were MUCH harder than GT5/6.

Some of the license tests and 'missions' took literally days of attempts to pass... Mission 34 for example, or the Viper license test on the corkscrew. If GT6 had events like these the whining would be epic :lol:

Personally, I don't think there's been anything other than the Vettel challenges in GT5 that have even approached that sort of difficulty level.
 
Ok, when I let my friends try out my wheel and I see them loose control of the car before start line at some TT it always reminds me how many god damn nights I have spend playing and grinding to get to this point where getting gold on these events is pretty simple. Also when I grind for two weeks almost daily for best possible result on some TT and end up loosing 2 seconds to world leader, it reminds me that there's a plenty of room to improve, and probably always will be.

Now what @Stotty is saying about previous games being much harder, I can't help but to think that it's a huge advantage that PD made us go trough these "near impossible" events. I really do remember that insanely depressing feeling of something being impossible, but after many nights of grinding and head banging I finally manage to do it and I felt like a god damn superman :lol: And when you learn that impossible can become possible with hard work it just makes approaching difficult event much easier, I have build some sort of confidence that I will make it anyway, just as I have made it countless times before, and every time I manage to achieve something that seemed impossible it just strengthens the feeling all the time.

But yeah, the game might be hard, but more you play, and especially more you go over the "impossible" easier it gets, and easier it gets more fun it is. So everyone thinking some events are too hard, they are meant to be so that you'll get better and have more fun, in the future :cheers:

And yeah, having guys like @SW__10 and @Stotty on my leader boards really keeps me going for that "impossible" and if I get even near these guys, I feel like a superman once again :lol:

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The Huayra event has beaten me. I've not logged a time at all as I can't get the damn thing to the end, but in my defence, I don't find them very realistic in the way that the overtakes are choreographed to the reward times.

It's probably the Sunday driver in me but I wouldn't attempt the overtakes in those locations on Bathurst and would wait for better opportunities. I guess I'm in the "better safe than sorry" camp so this event is a bridge too far for me but it's only an event that doesn't suit my style. No reason to be downhearted about it.

No real problems with the other events and got gold in a few attempts.
 
ALB123
I'm not trying to put you on the spot, @Stotty, so please feel free to ignore this question... How long did it take you to Gold the first two Seasonal Overtake Challenges (the Lancia & Jaguar)? How many "attempts" did it take? Feel free to omit the attempts that you might have rear-ended the very first AI car while trying to grab that perfect line in Turn 1. How many times did you reach the endpoint of the challenge with a clean time before you got a Gold on each event? And maybe you didn't have many DQ attempts, so if you want to include those, please feel free.

I have tremendous respect for your abilities in GT6. You've more than proven your abilities week after week with the Seasonal Events. I'm just curious if a guy like you usually grabs Gold on the first or second clean attempt. To be honest, I think I only ran about 4 clean laps in the Lancia Stratos event before I got a Gold time. Unfortunately, I probably had 50+ attempts where I didn't even get under the bridge cleanly before being DQ'ed. Maybe more. I can't remember how many times I slid off the road or bounced off the road into the rock walls on the very first incline! :lol: I didn't have nearly as many DQ laps with the Jaguar event. Still, I probably had 20 or so. I think it was my third attempt getting through the entire sector(s) without a DQ before I hit the Gold Medal times. Also, both times were just barely under the time limit and I haven't tried to improve them.

Again, this isn't to put you on the spot. I'm just curious how much effort, on average, it takes a top tier driver to get Gold compared to someone like myself - that I consider average skilled.
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I'm not @Stotty, but yes players like him ( if he is using a wheel :lol: ) usually grab Gold on first or second clean attempt.

A top driver will gold the latest 4 seasonals ( Mazda VGT, 2 × Overtake, Drift ) in less than 30min.
 
I'm loving the Christmas Seasonals - a chance to earn some big credits & buy a few 20M cars (2 so far), plus try out a load of race cars I have in my garage in the 10 lap 600PP races. All Gold so far in the Overtake TT races although they took a few more attempts than usual learning where the AI were going to be as you come up behind them.

Had a few wins & loses in both the 10 lap races earning from zero to the full 1.1M with a 200% login bonus and I'm a doddery 51 year old with 2 young kids & limited time behind my T500RS wheel!

It's not meant to be easy & for me I find it's a great way to relax, keep dementia at bay & have fun in a race type situation without needing to spend loads of real cash!
 
SW__10
Yes!...retire now!....You have done enough....just turn your attention to your garden.....:mischievous::mischievous::mischievous::mischievous:...:lol:...👍.


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:lol:

I already have fishing and golf as hobbies... I must be getting old ;)
 
I've started practicing and I've gotten better by using the wheel. I manage to achieve golds in seasonal now considering the races and time trials. I feel that GTA 5 ruined my driving techniques...
 
You're 47, Stotty? I never would have guessed. I imagined you being a dashing lad of 29-33 years of age! :lol: It's funny...When you're active on message boards and you interact with people almost daily, it's normal to subconsciously put an age, or sometimes even a face, on the people you "talk" to so often. If any of you have done that with me... Yes, I look EXACTLY like Brad Pitt, but a much better looking version.. :D :lol: :D

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I had just gotten done with my ab workout that day....ummm..at...the beach?! Yeah...that's it. At the beach. That's where I walk around with my shirt open. :lol: :rolleyes: :D
 

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