How Exactly do penalties work?

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Stigy
I've searched but all of the giant threads make finding info hard. :dopey:

How exactly do penalties work? Is it just like GT4 Prologue where you only get penalties if the front of your car hits the wall? What happens if the back or side of your car hits the wall? What happens if you hit other cars?

Also how much do you control your car in the pits? Do you drive it yourself right up to your pit crew? Do you get a drive through penalty if you speed in the pit lane?

Are all of these penalties carried over to the multiplayer modes?
Thanks for any answers guys.

P.S. Bring back Red Rock and Grindewald PD. :sick:
 
From the videos that have been posted on here, you enter the pits and the computer takes over, which gives you just enough time to select what you want to change on the car. Your pit crew make the changes and you drive off.

Not sure about the penalties. Sorry.

Cheers

Jamie
 
Radicool02
Can anybody confirm whether the 10 second penalty is in?
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if you hit the wall in GT4 the screen now goes blurry for a few seconds :)

dont know what happens if you bump into another car
 
In regular sim mode races (beginner hall, professional hall, manufacturer specific races, etc.) there are no penalities. You are free to slam into cars and walls as you see fit...

There is a special hall, however, call "special condition race". Forgive me if that's not the exact name, but it's down in the lower left of the world map. Each series in this hall is a two-race series where you race against one other car. The first race is the normal version of the track, and the second race is the backwards version of the track. You race against one other car in a 2-lap race (at least the first couple series are 2-lappers). In this hall, you do have penalties to deal with. Depending upon the severity of impact, you get a 1-5 second (variable) penalty that locks you at 50km/h. It seems to me that no matter how hard you hit the other car, you will always get the 5 seconds. Wall impacts, however, can give you a lower penalty if you don't hit it as hard.
 
I've seen one video where it shows at the bottom an indicator of the car's speed versus the speed limit while it was in the pits. Looked like you got to control the speed yourself, finally.
That sucks that those penalties don't always apply.
Thanks for the answers guys.
 
As someone said earlier, penalties apply in the races in the "Special Condition Hall". Actually just substitute "Rally" for "Special Conditions" - this is the Rally section of the game. Basically if you hit the wall or side of the track harder than a gentle nudge, or you hit your opponents car, you get a 5 second penalty. All that happens is that a speed limiter kicks in and your speed drops to 50km/h for the duration of the penalty time.

It's not so bad on the easier races because most of the rally courses in GT4 are narrow, full of tight bends and pretty slow in places, so your opponent won't disappear into the distance at 300km/h because basically he can't go that fast. It can be a bit of a pain on some of the rally circuits because at times the road is barely wide enough for two cars, so you can end up getting penalties trying to squeeze past your opponent even from a small nudge. But personally I think this makes the game a little better, as you tend to hold off just behind the car in front and wait for a good point to overtake which is more realistic than just forcing your way through.
 
Saiing
As someone said earlier, penalties apply in the races in the "Special Condition Hall". Actually just substitute "Rally" for "Special Conditions" - this is the Rally section of the game. Basically if you hit the wall or side of the track harder than a gentle nudge, or you hit your opponents car, you get a 5 second penalty. All that happens is that a speed limiter kicks in and your speed drops to 50km/h for the duration of the penalty time.

It's not so bad on the easier races because most of the rally courses in GT4 are narrow, full of tight bends and pretty slow in places, so your opponent won't disappear into the distance at 300km/h because basically he can't go that fast. It can be a bit of a pain on some of the rally circuits because at times the road is barely wide enough for two cars, so you can end up getting penalties trying to squeeze past your opponent even from a small nudge. But personally I think this makes the game a little better, as you tend to hold off just behind the car in front and wait for a good point to overtake which is more realistic than just forcing your way through.
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Hardly rally, it just contains some rally races, but Paris is not a rally track, nor are the other 3-4 city tracks. They are wet however, but it's not purely rally.

I agree though, it can get quite annoying sometimes, very bothersome indeed...makes me upset to be winning a race in the last lap...and then you get nuged, but if it's the front end, regardless if you did it or not, the penalty is on you...it can cost you races if you aren't extremely careful in the smaller tracks
 
BMW318ciC
does the other car get a penalty if it hits you ?
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It doesn't appear to..

I've been hit hard from behind after cutting a guy off and braking hard for a turn.. he stays with me throughout the turn and on the exit, so it doesn't appear that he received a penalty.
 
And that is wrong, I was racing against a Lancer and barely touched his back bumper, 5 second penalty :grumpy:

Yet 2 turns later he rams into the back of my car because the A.I. driver under braked, I get rammed in to the wall and I get the 5 second penalty again!
He races off to the chequered flag, Not very impressed!

The A.I. drivers can ram you, Push and shove you but they never get a single penalty.

Big 👎 on that one PD
 
No, no, no. You guys have got it all wrong. You get a 5 second penalty if you hit, touch, tap, cough at, sneeze at, leer, fart at, wink at, roll your eyes, gesticulate to the AI opponent or the boundaries of the course, or a specatotor, your mother, your girlfriend, or a potato.

EDIT: Oh yeah, and the AI can 🤬 and get away with it.

[edit by mod]: Please watch your language.
 
Locost7Rules is correct the AI recives no penalty for hitting the wall or you I have nuged the AI into a wall from the side and i got a 5 sec penalty but the ai had none :grumpy:
 
Locost7Rules
No, no, no. You guys have got it all wrong. You get a 5 second penalty if you hit, touch, tap, cough at, sneeze at, leer, fart at, wink at, roll your eyes, gesticulate to the AI opponent or the boundaries of the course, or a specatotor, your mother, your girlfriend, or a potato.

EDIT: Oh yeah, and the AI can 🤬 and get away with it.
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lol that seems to be the case but defiantly 👎 on PD for letting the AI do anything to you
 
erab610
In regular sim mode races (beginner hall, professional hall, manufacturer specific races, etc.) there are no penalities. You are free to slam into cars and walls as you see fit...

There is a special hall, however, call "special condition race". Forgive me if that's not the exact name, but it's down in the lower left of the world map. Each series in this hall is a two-race series where you race against one other car. The first race is the normal version of the track, and the second race is the backwards version of the track. You race against one other car in a 2-lap race (at least the first couple series are 2-lappers). In this hall, you do have penalties to deal with. Depending upon the severity of impact, you get a 1-5 second (variable) penalty that locks you at 50km/h. It seems to me that no matter how hard you hit the other car, you will always get the 5 seconds. Wall impacts, however, can give you a lower penalty if you don't hit it as hard.
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Hitting anything over 80km/h results in a 5 second penalty at the speed of 50km/h.
 
I found a way AROUND the penalties. Well first of all the "sensors" are ALL on the front of your car, sooo if you hit something with your front you WILL get a 5 sec penalty. But if you hit a wall with you back end i.e(take a corner to fast) then hit your e-brake(making your rear end come out) then BAM your rear end hits, you keep going and best of all NO penalty...Trust me i tried this on Swiss alps II with my Subi Rally car going over a big jump, e-braked and hit the wall going over 100mph and keeped going no problem :) try it and give me feedback on how it works!!!
 
Yup that works, only in the front of the car is when you must worry.
 
Mkey
And that is wrong, I was racing against a Lancer and barely touched his back bumper, 5 second penalty :grumpy:

Yet 2 turns later he rams into the back of my car because the A.I. driver under braked, I get rammed in to the wall and I get the 5 second penalty again!
He races off to the chequered flag, Not very impressed!

The A.I. drivers can ram you, Push and shove you but they never get a single penalty.

Big 👎 on that one PD
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You know, that pissed me off many times, so I always used much stronger car :grumpy: in those events to beat the crap out of those "favored" AIs.
 

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