Hardest licences to gold (DS3)?

[Yev]

In my oppinion it has to be A-8 (the Schumacher S) iC-4 (Indy Road course with 370Z).
I hope I got the licence numbers right, feel free to correct me.

 

[Counter_Z23]

I think it's the FR Cone Slalom one (IB-3).

But active steering made it easy.

 

[Jose']

Ia, no doubt.

 

[FULL_THROTTLE]

The last one I did was ia 2

 

[Yev]

Ah, braking from Mulasanne.

 

[Beldrueger]

Closed out 60 yesterday and the FR slalom was the only real struggle.

 

[garbuckle]

IB-3 (FR Slalom) by far.

I've golded everything else with a controller... can't gold IB-3, even with a wheel

I've also just realized that I never golded the Special Grand Tour... I can't even get silver on the first one

 

[Yev]

For me the hardest was by far the Indy Road Course with 370Z, took me 50 minutes.
As for cone slalom FR - I used sensitivity set to 7, front brakes 0, rear brakes 6, abs 10 and I've steered as little as possible.
Beaten the gold time by 0.300.
I'm using sixaxis.

 

[Skyline_77]

B-5....

 

[Bigbazz]

Cone slalom test.

 

[Beldrueger]

Garbuckle - I use an HKS controller for everything but had my breakthrough on the FR slalom by switching back to the d-pad on a ds3. I had about an hour in with the HKS and almost no progress. I switched, immediately silvered and hit gold shorty thereafter. The d-pad alternated cleaner than I could manage with the HKS. It's all about rhythm. Keep trying. I used active steering on strong, everything else normal.

I hit gold by 0.200 after my best previous was over 19sec.

 

[Blitz24]

I can't get gold on IC-3 and I got gold once on A-8 but I don't know how to again on a different account. What settings did people use on these 2 to get gold?

 

[sumbrownkid]

The Schumacher S test with the BMW 1 series is my bane.

For the life of me, I just cannot trim that extra .084 off my time to get that gold!

 

[Seismica]

I did A-8 first time with my DS3, I was building up to that, having heard the tales of it's difficulty. Then I got a couple of tenths under on my first try, I was like WTF.

The hardest I found was license B-5 at Tsukuba, the margin for error is far too small. There is a way to cheat on this test, but I decided to do it legitimately. It took me a couple of hours to gold it. The slaloms are always annoying, but they're just about good throttle control and making sure you don't clip the cones, I still think B-5 is harder.

I actually had a lot of trouble golding the Aston Martin Acceleration and braking test. Without adequate travel on the pad and with traction control being disabled, it's very difficult to get a good start. The braking bit is easy, but seeing your silver medal run ghost pulling off into the distance at the start line means you've already failed.

 

[garbuckle]

Yev, Beldrueger: Thanks, I'll have to try that. At the moment, I'm 0.018s off the gold, and it's incredibly frustrating. Not only do you have to find a rhythm of turning, but as your speed increases, you have to start turning in sooner (as they say in the driving tests, look where you want to go, and not at the pylons)

 

[StephenNW10]

The Schumacher S test with the BMW 1 series is my bane.

For the life of me, I just cannot trim that extra .084 off my time to get that gold!

Are you using the rumble strip on the outside before throwing it in? Rumble strip is the key to this! It took me a while.

Also, the aston martin stopping test was my hardest test.

 

[trangurismo]

IC-10 and IA-10.

 

[red piramyd k]

Are you using the rumble strip on the outside before throwing it in? Rumble strip is the key to this! It took me a while.

Also, the aston martin stopping test was my hardest test.

hahaha same 4 me, the aston martin stop is hard!!!, i dont know how i get gold on the S nurb GP hahaha, but it was really hard to get!

 

[X-Power]

There were a couple of really difficult tests that took me ages to gold.

The Nissan 370Z at Indy Road Course took me about two hours to gold, I had to really throw the car into the corners because the margin for error was so slim. I let out a huge sigh of relief when I golded that test.

The Aston Martin DB9 at TG Test Track was quite difficult because I had to get my gearshifts exactly right and I had to get my braking spot-on, I eventually golded it after about 40 minutes.

The BMW 135i at Nurburgring GP was hard because I found it hard to keep up my speed through the corner, so that took about an hour to gold.

Those were the most difficult ones to gold, some of the others were hard but I golded them after a few tries. 👍

 

[Barra333]

hahaha same 4 me, the aston martin stop is hard!!!, i dont know how i get gold on the S nurb GP hahaha, but it was really hard to get!

I had trouble with both of these too.I know it isnt exactly realism, but I got the Aston to stop by hitting the brakes and handbrake and just chucking it sideways. Bit hit and miss on the braking point but it seemed to pull the car up quicker.

At Nurb, it was just repeat, repeat, repeat. Took me a while to get the BMW around the haripin at Trial Mountain too

 

[Widowmaker00]

B-5 took slightly longer than the rest for me, just took a while to figure out the fastest line.

Golded all the rest no problem, all of them.

Golded all special events too.

DS3 user here.

 

[laker2323]

S-2 is the only silver i got ,i able to gold the rest .Just keep trying and trying .

 

[smalldave]

Schumacher S test, all the rallies I think, and the Alfa 8c S licence I just cannot gold :'(

 

[dschoene]

My impression is that there are no "hardest tests" as such, because the difficulty depends on the users driving style.

Many users seem to struggle with B-5 (the Tsukuba test), which I golded in the second attempt. I do however struggle with B-6 (Dunlop corner @Nürburgring), which I've clocked 500 attempts at so far with at least 80 times missing it by less than 0.050 seconds. I'm sure it was easy as pie for most others, but I'm stuck at it.

GT5 has however some almost physically impossible ones (at least with the DS3). The Alfa Competizione thing on Eiger short is a joke and a very bad one at that. Drives me absolutely insane and since the 1.06 nerf... er, I mean patch... the last NASCRAP challenge is nigh-on impossible without resorting to dirty tactics, since it is impossible to turn off that anti-skid malarkey, which a NASCRAP canal boat doesn't have in the first place.

Generally, I'm rather disappointed that half of GT5 is now just useless time-trialling, while A-Spec is reduced to a handful of races carbon-copied from GT4.

What doesn't help either is that many of the "example videos" in the license tests are completely useless, since they didn't make the gold time themselves. Now that's as useful as a one-legged bloke at an arse-kicking contest.

I'm going with the tactics that made me gold all licenses in GT2. Try, try, try and if it still isn't working - retry. I eventually made it after 14 months and an aggregated count of about 20.000-30.000 attempts on the 60 tests.

Problem is, now I'm old, bald and have something called "a life", so I probably won't make it in GT5

 

[Yev]

I can't get gold on IC-3 and I got gold once on A-8 but I don't know how to again on a different account. What settings did people use on these 2 to get gold?

IC-3: TCS off, ASM off, ABS 1, controller sensitivity set to 7.
Tried for 50 minutes 'till I got it by 0.300.

A-8: TCS off, ASM off, controller sensitivity to 7, the trick is don't brake.
I got gold by 0.001.


Hardest ones in my oppinion:
B-6 (Dunlop corner on Nurburgring GP)
A-8 (Schumacher S on Nurburgring GP)
IC-3 (Indy Road Course)
IB-3 (FR slalom)
IA-1 (LM's Indianapolis section)
S-4 (Tokyo in Ferrari 330-P4)

Those are the ones I'd never do again, ever.

 

[keskparane]

IB-3 for me with Sixaxis, I left it for the last test to gold and struggled really hard. Then found
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7n-WFVtDoM
checked his start, where exactly does he leave off the throttle a bit, then where he accelerates again and in ca 5-6 tries later golded the event.

 

[Yev]

1st time I tried IB-3 I literally struggled for silver (the only licence I struggled for silver).
Then a few weeks later I've golded it on 4th try without looking at any youtube vids, I just thought up my own strategy - steer as little as possble.

 

[Blitz24]

IC-3: TCS off, ASM off, ABS 1, controller sensitivity set to 7.
Tried for 50 minutes 'till I got it by 0.300.

A-8: TCS off, ASM off, controller sensitivity to 7, the trick is don't brake.
I got gold by 0.001.

Hardest ones in my oppinion:
B-6 (Dunlop corner on Nurburgring GP)
A-8 (Schumacher S on Nurburgring GP)
IC-3 (Indy Road Course)
IB-3 (FR slalom)
IA-1 (LM's Indianapolis section)
S-4 (Tokyo in Ferrari 330-P4)

Those are the ones I'd never do again, ever.

I've done S-4 twice after golding it the first time through and golded both attempts again. The key is to pace yourself and aim for 5th after the first 90. You will catch the field if you take it easy.

 

[Yev]

I've done S-4 twice after golding it the first time through and golded both attempts again. The key is to pace yourself and aim for 5th after the first 90. You will catch the field if you take it easy.

I golded S-4 before 1.06.
Now it's easy.
I was just sayin' the hardest test in each class.

 

[Blitz24]

I golded S-4 before 1.06.
Now it's easy.
I was just sayin' the hardest test in each class.

I golded S-4 twice before 1.06 and once afterward. I found S-8 though to be a bit less forgiving than all of the other tests. I should note that S-9 is irritating due to the track involved and when I first did it, I was thinking "oh great, S-10 is going to be on the 'Ring and I'm going to fail it miserably."