I just flushed my FGT championship down the drain.

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Fastphil96
I was working on the fourth race in the A-spec Formula GT championship when I lost it on the 19th lap, so I decided to reset and try again. Sure, it's sort of cheating, but I just want to get it over with. When I reloaded the game, I realized I must have quit the championship instead of just quitting the game. What a freaking waste of time this is. I'm already beyond the point of enjoying this game. I just want to finish all the races and get it over with. Anyone else in the same boat?

Phil
 
Maybe you were a bit too "fast" Phil? :dopey:

I found it easy but hey, different strokes for different folkes. And how are you beyond enjoying the game? It has endless possibilities.

Anyways just restart the FGT Championship, its fun. Just make sure to have a few Redbull's with ya 👍
 
jagdrag77
Maybe you were a bit too "fast" Phil? :dopey:

I found it easy but hey, different strokes for different folkes. And how are you beyond enjoying the game? It has endless possibilities.

Anyways just restart the FGT Championship, its fun. Just make sure to have a few Redbull's with ya 👍
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I'm no ace behind the DS3, but I've never really found it impossible to gold almost anything in any GT game (except the X1 challenges). I find that these FGT races require my full attention, and I notice that I'm just not as good if I'm tired or unable to concentrate. And of course, in the meantime, I can't play any other part of the game because I have the FGT championship suspended. So I have to get it over with before I can go on playing other races, and if I'm gonna do it, I'm gonna do it once and do it right!
 
I had the same situation when I first did it. After the first two races I cracked and started to show weakness to the AI. On Cote I landed a 9th position and Suzuka landed 16th (it was raining and tried to overcome it but I quit after the 5th lap), but luckily I received pole overall, and oddly exactly what the amount of points 2nd position had. So it was a pretty crazy race :crazy:
 
Fastphil96
I'm no ace behind the DS3, but I've never really found it impossible to gold almost anything in any GT game (except the X1 challenges). I find that these FGT races require my full attention, and I notice that I'm just not as good if I'm tired or unable to concentrate. And of course, in the meantime, I can't play any other part of the game because I have the FGT championship suspended. So I have to get it over with before I can go on playing other races, and if I'm gonna do it, I'm gonna do it once and do it right!
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You don't HAVE to gold eveything you know...

Games are meant to be enjoyed 👍
 
When I first got this game (last year on release day), I was terrible, but I did manage to work my way up to the FGT Championship. Of course, I found it to be nearly impossible. It wasn't until I turned on TCS, Skid Recovery and Active Steering that I won it all.

Ten months later, I raced the FGT Championship Seasonal without any aids and won handily.

To me, that improvement is the joy of playing the game.
 
Advise u to continue the championship. I would do that than restarting. Most likely u will get overall gold. Come back to the race u 'messed up' and gold it separately. Just make sure u avoid losing it again. From my experience, 2 races of not making podium and the rest gold is as far as overall championship gold can allow. Golding each event separately will not give u the championship trophy.
Watch it in Suzuka (last race) which is quite easy to clip sand and spin out. Overall Monaco n Suzuka are the tougher ones.
 
LOL, thats nothing!

My friend had golded 5 of the 6 races, went to 'quit' the last race, but abandoned the championship on accident!

He swore he would never go back and do it again but low and behold he finished it the next day.

You think this game isnt fun now? Just wait until you have no races left to do, and your only option is playing online
 
seanneedscar
LOL, thats nothing!

My friend had golded 5 of the 6 races, went to 'quit' the last race, but abandoned the championship on accident!

He swore he would never go back and do it again but low and behold he finished it the next day.

You think this game isnt fun now? Just wait until you have no races left to do, and your only option is playing online
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I thought there was only 5 races... I must have been on the 5th one if there's 6 of them. That makes this even more ******. Once I've completed this game to the best of my abilities, I'll just continue playing L.A. noire. Then Max Payne 3 when it's released, then GTA5.
 
I don't really do A-Spec. I got into the game purely for the online, so I don't really understand your problem.

I also don't really understand the point behind the developers. I mean, I guess they wanted to make a game that was beatable. After all, who wants to buy an unbeatable game, I guess. I don't know. If I had designed the A-Spec, then I would've designed it such that the entire game could only be beaten by a F1 champion. If you aren't good enough to beat Schumacher or Vettel in the real world, then you shouldn't be able to beat the game completely. Thus, the game doesn't become "can you beat it", but "how far can you get".

So, maybe you aren't good enough to beat A-Spec. Get over it. Join the rest of us online.
 
Fastphil96
I thought there was only 5 races... I must have been on the 5th one if there's 6 of them. That makes this even more ******. Once I've completed this game to the best of my abilities, I'll just continue playing L.A. noire. Then Max Payne 3 when it's released, then GTA5.
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FGT is the only "real" race in GT5. its the only balanced even one. Its the only one that really puts your skill to the test

(other than the tracsk where the AI perpetually spins out)

Enjoy it man! Its fun, and once you beat it, theres really nothing left to conquer.
 
Just finished golding every FGT event seperately about 3 hours ago, not the championship.

All aids off, racing hards, DFGT user.

Defnitely the hardest A-Spec event in GT5. These races require 100% attention and flawless driving, especially Monaco and Suzuka.

Key point was to not give up. I must have restarted Monaco and Suzuka about 50 times each. All the others weren't that bad. You clip a barrier in Monaco and your almost guaranteed a loss. End up in the sand at Suzuka...4-5 laps of perfect driving in the dry just to catch up.

It wasn't even going off the track at Suzuka that got me, it was the throttle control. Too much throttle out of a corner and I spun out. The AI was about .1 to .2 seconds behind me the whole race. It was in the dry too...running in the rain got me about a 4 second lead but it was the spinning out that cost me the race in the end. It is easier to catch up in the rain though, I was trying to gold Suzuka in the rain.

I will do the FGT championship last, all I have are the endurance races left. After driving the FGT and only the FGT for the past couple of days, it is taking me a little bit of adjustment time to get back into driving a regular car again.

On a side note, I bought F1 2011 after driving the FGT. It was my first F1 car that I've ever driven and got hooked. F1 2011 is a great game too. Definitely a change of pace from driving a regular car. I understand now why F1 drivers are respected. It is not easy to keep those beasts on the track. The high speeds and cornering ability is insane with F1 cars, combined with undivided attention and endurance just to get through the race.
 
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Ha Ha you silly person LOL. Now if you had carried on and finished low down the field, You then could have done the last event and got the trophy as you can afford 1 bad race. Remember its points that win the trophy and you can come back at lesiure to finish that one you didnt win. Still nevermind.
 
After a valiant fight on Fuji coming back and win after a few offs and another brilliant recovery race on Indy then to spin out on the 19th lap then went on to take 7th place. I then went on and stuff it all up at Monaco. Quit the championship after that. It was easier than I recalled from when I first tried it, the dash view really helps me.
 
Fastphil96
I was working on the fourth race in the A-spec Formula GT championship when I lost it on the 19th lap, so I decided to reset and try again. Sure, it's sort of cheating, but I just want to get it over with. When I reloaded the game, I realized I must have quit the championship instead of just quitting the game. What a freaking waste of time this is. I'm already beyond the point of enjoying this game. I just want to finish all the races and get it over with. Anyone else in the same boat?

Phil
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Why would you buy a racing game if you don't like racing? :odd: The FGT championship is one of the few series on this game that is actually like racing. You like the completion of tasks? It doesn't sound like it. :odd:
 
gtnoobie
Advise u to continue the championship. I would do that than restarting. Most likely u will get overall gold. Come back to the race u 'messed up' and gold it separately. Just make sure u avoid losing it again. From my experience, 2 races of not making podium and the rest gold is as far as overall championship gold can allow. Golding each event separately will not give u the championship trophy.
Watch it in Suzuka (last race) which is quite easy to clip sand and spin out. Overall Monaco n Suzuka are the tougher ones.
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^This^

Suzuka, which is almost impossible in the championship, is a walk in the park when you re-do it. (For the individual gold)
 
Jaywalker
^This^

Suzuka, which is almost impossible in the championship, is a walk in the park when you re-do it. (For the individual gold)
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Obviously some of you haven't understood (or maybe even read) what I wrote: I screwed up and quit the championship by mistake. there is nothing to recover, and nothing to carry on with. I'll retry it today.
 
Do it for fun, not for gold!
I set up my fgt two hours long, to do the event when I have the time. Unfortunatly this will take a while.
 
Well, I got through the first race at Fuji easily enough this morning. It's weird, I love and hate that track at the same time. It's so difficult to keep the car from understeering off the track in almost every corner, but when it all goes well, you can carry so much speed through most of the turns!
 
gtnoobie
Watch it in Suzuka (last race) which is quite easy to clip sand and spin out. Overall Monaco n Suzuka are the tougher ones.
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Monaco is by far the easiest. Once you get out in front, the ai will NOT pass you. The track is way too tight.

Unless you seriously FUBAR yourself, monaco is an easy win.

Suzuka though I agree with you, I had to go back to this one a few times to take gold, its just so hard to run 20 laps without clipping dirt
 
I don't know what happened with my Monaco race but I seriously had the greatest race ever. I had worked my way all the way up to third but my pace just wasn't with first and second... and I lost sight of them. So I resigned to accept my fate at the bottom of the podium when the worst happened and I spun out. Falling back to 7th, I proceeded to pass every single car to get to 1st and win the race.

Then I went to Suzuka and my car had completely expired at this point, so even in the dry it was a pain the in arse to even race so I just gave up.
 
Fastphil96
Well, I got through the first race at Fuji easily enough this morning. It's weird, I love and hate that track at the same time. It's so difficult to keep the car from understeering off the track in almost every corner, but when it all goes well, you can carry so much speed through most of the turns!
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Go to the tuning section, there are multiple tunes for each individual curcuit that will help you with the undersrtear.
 
When I did the Formula GT Championship I did all the individual races first until they were golded for the practice than I did the Championship.

On Fuji I finished first easily
On Indy I finished first easily, but I lost it at about lap 10 and made an epic comeback and dominated.
On Monaco It was an epic grind full of spin-outs and betrayal that saw me go from first to last to second to last than making up a 14 second difference on the last 4 laps for an epic 0.03 second win.
Nurburgring I did okay but had an epic crash with a few laps to go and finished second.
Monza I finished first easily, it wasn't even a contest.
Suzuka I did well until about 9 laps in an than I got pit maneuvered and my race fell apart like an Apple Crumble. :dunce: No matter how much I tried I just couldn't get back. I finished last in the pack by about 2 minutes.. but I won easily for an overall first place victory. I felt like a champ because it was difficult and 4 something in the morning and I was beat :dopey:
 
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DaihatsuDriver
When I did the Formula GT Championship I did all the individual races first until they were golded for the practice than I did the Championship.

On Fuji I finished first easily
On Indy I finished first easily, but I lost it at about lap 10 and made an epic comeback and dominated.
On Monaco It was an epic grind full of spin-outs and betrayal that saw me go from first to last to second to last than making up a 14 second difference on the last 4 laps for an epic 0.03 second win.
Nurburgring I did okay but had an epic crash with a few laps to go and finished second.
Monza I finished first easily, it wasn't even a contest.
Suzuka I did well until about 9 laps in an than I got pit maneuvered and my race fell apart like an Apple Crumble. :dunce: No matter how much I tried I just couldn't get back. I finished last in the pack by about 2 minutes.. but I won easily for an overall first place victory. I felt like a champ because it was difficult and 4 something in the morning and I was beat :dopey:
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Was it epic?
 
Fastphil96
Obviously some of you haven't understood (or maybe even read) what I wrote: I screwed up and quit the championship by mistake. there is nothing to recover, and nothing to carry on with. I'll retry it today.
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I read it well enough. The point I was making was that you didn't need to 'reset' it, you could have carried on & still won the championship. THEN you could've gone back & golded the others, quite easily.
 
I know that situation, I myself have yet to finish the championship. Tried it twice already, wasn't statisfied with my results especially on Cote d'Azur and GP/F and quit.

Now I feel stupid. :D

Well, I'll give it a try again sometime.
 

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