I can't believe this happened. Ridiculous.

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Why PD? Why wouldn't you put a confirmation box after clicking exit race?? 22 hours in to A-Spec 24HR Sarthe and I went to turn the HUD back on to check the state of my fuel & tires. Ended up going one too far and clicked Exit, screen went black and I was greeted with that horrendous children singing. Felt like punching a hole in my wall.

I just don't get it.:guilty:
 
Was that your first time ever, putting GT5 on "pause" ? I handle my controller like I would handle a landmine freshly taken out of the sand when I need to "unpause" the game.
 
The even more ridiculous part is that if you click restart it asks you! Why have it ask for restart and not exit?? Unreal.
 
Restarting is next to continue so it increases the chances of accidentally restarting. Much rage about it until a fix came along. However, exiting is less of an accident so it was probably deemed unnecessary to fix. Yes, they could have anyways but, oh well.
 
If there is an option to go to "Settings", then do that so that a dropped controller won't ruin your race.
(I don't have GT5 but GT4 had a brightness settings box so maybe GT5 does aswell.)
 
careface
I was greeted with that horrendous children singing
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:lol: I can't stop laughing at that one string of words.

But going on topic, I feel your pain. I was doing the Indy 500 and I was on lap 187. I paused to do something and came back. I pressed X, thinking that I'll be put back into the race.

NOPE. I exited out by mistake. But my experience can't even compare to what happened to you. 22 hours, gone?! (on the bright side, your car is broken in!)
 
masterrawad
:lol: I can't stop laughing at that one string of words.

But going on topic, I feel your pain. I was doing the Indy 500 and I was on lap 187. I paused to do something and came back. I pressed X, thinking that I'll be put back into the race.

NOPE. I exited out by mistake. But my experience can't even compare to what happened to you. 22 hours, gone?! (on the bright side, your car is broken in!)
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2,9xx miles on a brand new 787B with nothing to show for it. I have such a bad taste in my mouth I may never set foot in the 787 ever again :(
 
careface
I have such a bad taste in my mouth I may never set foot in the 787 ever again :(
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Could be a worse taste ..


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..but seriously I know what you mean, I've done it more than once.. Not on an endurance unfortunately but did it on the last race in the formula series causing me to lose the points lead.. Still haven't done it again 1 year later..
 
I had a power out 18 hours into my first attempt, so I feel your pain :(

Did you by chance save your progress?
 
It happened to me on less critical races where i dont care, i can just turn off the machine and do it... but i can imagine the greater effect on for involving races...

this would be such an easy fix!!!, wonder why PD hasn't done anything yet?!!

and yes despite the non-proximity of the "continue/resume" and "exit" button....
and confirmation would be much appreciated....


just like after you have modified a race option during the race... when all done, i want to be able to return to the option menu before acknowledging race resume...

i dont want to go straight from option to race resume, that's ridiculous too...
 
Well, for some gamers, they get annoyed by that secondary confirmation, so it may have been omitted because of such reason. Anyways, I would always make sure about what i am doing before pressing any buttons. I would hate to be in your situation.
 
Bopop4
If there is an option to go to "Settings", then do that so that a dropped controller won't ruin your race.
(I don't have GT5 but GT4 had a brightness settings box so maybe GT5 does aswell.)
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There is, and this is what I tend to do, although exiting from the settings unceremoniously dumps you back in the game without the pause you get from the pause menu, if that makes sense. I.e. when you unpause from the little pause strip, the overlay disappears and then the race resumes. From the settings, you can see very little of the screen and there is no pause on resume - the overlay disappears and you need to get your bearings pronto.

They should probably add a confirmation to the exit control, too.
And add a pause in before resuming from the settings menu, or maybe have the settings exit to the pause strip first.
 
careface
The even more ridiculous part is that if you click restart it asks you! Why have it ask for restart and not exit?? Unreal.
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Agreed. This is truly ridiculous, almost asinine. FAIL

I am sorry for your extremely frustrating mistake and the whole experience.

At least it's good to know what to look out for when attempting the longer A-spec endurance races... I haven't even *thought* about trying anything over 4 hours. And at least they added the save feature when pitting during an endurance race. They did add this, yes?
 
When there is confirmation menues, we get complaining. When there isn't, we also get complaining. When will the complaining stop?

I once restarted an endurance race by accident, and while I was annoyed, I didn't whine about it on the internet... Why? Because it's such a small problem, that is caused by you, and not the game. You failed to check where you were in the menu, and you chose to press the X button. Your fault. Complaining about it is just absurd. Is it annoying to make such a mistake? Yes, of course. But it's still your mistake, and no one else is to blaime.

Sorry to be so harsh on you, but C'mon. Realise what you've done, yell a little and then get on with it. Don't linger at such petty things.
 
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careface
Why PD? Why wouldn't you put a confirmation box after clicking exit race?? 22 hours in to A-Spec 24HR Sarthe and I went to turn the HUD back on to check the state of my fuel & tires. Ended up going one too far and clicked Exit, screen went black and I was greeted with that horrendous children singing. Felt like punching a hole in my wall.

I just don't get it.:guilty:
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There wasn't a restart button in previous GT games, but the exit button had a confirmation button so that you couldn't make a mistake. To avoid mistakes like these, when I want to pick an option, I wait at least 2 seconds so my brain can realize what I'm actually selecting. This for me does the same function that the confirmation menu does.


Jawehawk
When there is confirmation menues, we get complaining. When there isn't, we also get complaining. When will the complaining stop?

I once restarted an endurance race by accident, and while I was annoyed, I didn't whine about it on the internet... Why? Because it's such a small problem, that is caused by you, and not the game. You failed to check where you were in the menu, and you chose to press the X button. Your fault. Complaining about it is just absurd. Is it annoying to make such a mistake? Yes, of course. But it's still your mistake, and no one else is to blaime.

Sorry to be so harsh on you, but C'mon. Realise what you've done, yell a little and then get on with it. Don't linger at such petty things.
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This. To be honest, I find it much more annoying to crash in a online endurance race and get permanent damage than restart an offline endurance race. Why? Because the chance to have another go is non-existent in online endurances.
 
Surely the simple answer is to ONLY use the pause button to either pause or restart during a race.

That way there is no chance of accidentally quitting.
 
Without the conformation you'd be crying because it didn't ask you. With it helps so you don't make mistakes and quit a race you worked long on.
 
Limey77
Surely the simple answer is to ONLY use the pause button to either pause or restart during a race.

That way there is no chance of accidentally quitting.
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[sarcasm]wow really? what a novel idea! thank you for bringing your expertise to my dull ignorant world![/sarcasm]

meanwhile, some of us like to drive in the cockpit view with the entire HUD turned off. The only way to check fuel and tire status is to use the pause menu.
 
careface
[sarcasm]wow really? what a novel idea! thank you for bringing your expertise to my dull ignorant world![/sarcasm]

meanwhile, some of us like to drive in the cockpit view with the entire HUD turned off. The only way to check fuel and tire status is to use the pause menu.
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I've driven a few online endurance races without HUD, and tire status can easily be determed by the amount of grip you have. Not difficult, espicially if you're a seasoned driver. Fuel is tougher in cars that have no fuel counter, but then you'll just have to do some testing before the race. It should be noted, that if you were using the Mazda 787B, you actually did have a working fuel gauge. None the less, it's still your fault, and this is still whining.
 
It's not his fault, and it's not whining. GT menus are complete crap, with unnecessary confirmations where you don't need them, and no confirmations where you do. It's been a known complaint for ages.

But all of a suddenly a legitimate complaint is whining? Only in the mind of a true PD apologist.
 
NLxAROSA
It's not his fault, and it's not whining. GT menus are complete crap, with unnecessary confirmations where you don't need them, and no confirmations where you do. It's been a known complaint for ages.

But all of a suddenly a legitimate complaint is whining? Only in the mind of a true PD apologist.
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It is entirely his fault. HE pressed the button before looking/thinking. 100% his fault. If there was a confirmation menu when pressing exit, we'd also get whining from the likes of you. Something you clearly demonstrate in your comment.

Stop your whining! It's getting rather pathetic.
It's amazing that people who lack the mental capacity to think before performing an action, actually think they have reason to complain.

All of the sudden, PD is responsible for your mistakes? Only in the minds of true whiners. See what I did there?

There are plenty of legitimate complaints on gameplay decisions in GT5. Not having a freakin confirmation menu when pressing exit, is not one of them. Unless of course, one is the kind of person who must whine about everything.
That must be one tough life if everytime you make a mistake, someone else must be blaimed...
 
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Jawehawk
That must be one tough life when everytime you make a mistake, someone else must be blaimed...
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Agreed. I've fallen down my stairs before, but I didn't immediately blame the bloke who built my house for not putting up a sign at the top. It was my own fault for not comprehending left/right foot movement. I think the same goes for the confirmation bit... if you're going to move about the menus, you've got to think it through. I'm sure we've all noticed the cursor likes to lag behind, especially whilst loading the menu interface. If you don't have the patience for it to catch up, and just hold the right arrow and press 'X', it's you're own fault. There is a reason why it is red and on the far right, as opposed to the other array of white buttons afterall.

I've prematurely exited a race, I'm sure we all have. In my case I mutter an expletive or two, but it has never crossed my mind that its a problem with the game. Passing the buck for ones own misfortune has never worked, and never will. Chalk it up as an error in judgement and move on.
 
NLxAROSA
It's not his fault, and it's not whining. GT menus are complete crap, with unnecessary confirmations where you don't need them, and no confirmations where you do. It's been a known complaint for ages.

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This. Thank you. The people saying its no big deal have probably a.Never done a 24hr endurance or b.duped their way to get prize cars, never really working for it, or both to not realize how broken the non-existent confirmations and the useless extra confirmations are...
 
Yes, it's his fault, of course. That's obvious. You have to make sure you're doing the right thing, and you also know that it is an issue so you have to be extra careful when in the menus in GT5.

It's also obvious that there is no possible reason whatsoever why there would not be a confirmation for any sort of action that can terminate a race after many hours of work.
 
Morgoth_666
It's also obvious that there is no possible reason whatsoever why there would not be a confirmation for any sort of action that can terminate a race after many hours of work.
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The problem only exists when people lack the mental capacity to think before performing an action. Thus taking 1-2 seconds to think before pressing a button, eliminates the problem. You people must have such easy lives when you have this much time to whine about such petty things. Once again, the problem is caused by you, not the game. If there were a confirmation menu, people would complain (whine), that they had to go through that, whenever they wanted to restart a race. Even if the confirmation menu only existed for the endurance races, people would still complain about it.

So stop your whining and move on with you lives god damnit.
 
themartlab
Sorry for you! When you think they ask 3 times if we want to connect to the psn when entering gt5...
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Exactly. 👍

careface
This. Thank you. The people saying its no big deal have probably a.Never done a 24hr endurance or b.duped their way to get prize cars, never really working for it, or both to not realize how broken the non-existent confirmations and the useless extra confirmations are...
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I've never done a 24hr endurance race and I duped myself a couple of cars, and I still can see the menu system is broken. :D

Don't mind the PD apologists though, when they can't counter your legitimate complaints with real arguments, they just resort to insults. Just put them in your ignore list. 👍
 
NLxAROSA
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I've never done a 24hr endurance race and I duped myself a couple of cars, and I still can see the menu system is broken. :D

Don't mind the PD apologists though, when they can't counter your legitimate complaints with real arguments, they just resort to insults. Just put them in your ignore list. 👍
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Uh, hypocrisy?
 
Griffith500
Uh, hypocrisy?
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No. There's a difference between legitimate complaints and blindly bashing the OP and defending PD's crappy design decisions without arguments.

Then again, that's why we have ignore lists. 👍
 
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