Mt Aso Saved Replay

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I just beat the 4WD challenge at Mt Aso after several attempts with the RS200 (try it, it's fun, I did fit SS tyres though)

Quite liked how I drove so saved the replay, but not sure what will happen when this event expires. As the replay save info is simply data relating to the events of the race, how will this work if the track isn't on my HD or GT5 disc?

Same goes for the Eifel tracks I guess.
 
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I just beat the 4WD challenge at Mt Aso after several attempts with the RS200 (try it, it's fun, I did fit SS tyres though)

Quite liked how I drove so saved the replay, but not sure what will happen when this event expires. As the replay save info is simply data relating to the events of the race, how will this work if the track isn't on my HD or GT5 disc?

Same goes for the Eifel tracks I guess.
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But the track is on your PS3! It was always there! It's an automatically generated track from the track creator!

Do you think that PD designed a new track from scratch? No, they just punched some data into the track creator - like you can do too! It's not a new track like some people think...

So in the replay you save, there is a numerical code that is passed to the track generator routines, and the track is generated on the fly.

It's a clever system but the implementation leaves a lot to be desired... No control over individual turns and scenery, small draw distances, boring track surroundings and (especially in Toscana, Alaska and Gravel auto-generated tracks) the road that is elevated above the terrain is completely unrealistic and immersion-breaking...
 
I do see your point but you still have to save your auto-created tracks if you want to play them again, and I know that is just a small data file, but the only way the replay can be viewed again is if the track data is also in the replay save, as you suggested.

Same goes for home made tracks people share online after the update. You are accessing that from a server, you don't download the layout data (unless that feature was added too), however small the file.

I would be interested to see if you can save a replay on someone else's home made track online too. If you can then you are right, the track data must be saved along with the data relating to how the race unfolded. However i'm not sure why you are assuming this as a given, they are two different sets of data and usually saved as two separate files ;-)
 
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However i'm not sure why you are assuming this as a given, they are two different sets of data and usually saved as two separate files ;-)
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Because surely not even PD would be that incompetent!

I mean GT5 has many flaws, and sometimes it looks like it lacks direction!
But still it's has some parts that work great and that means that there are some talented developers at PD. Surely they would have thought of that...

Here... do a test...
The rally tracks are randomly generated and different every time...
Save a replay of them...
If you can see the replay then I am right....
If not then PD are THAT incompetent... (highly unlikely) :D
 
Yeah good point, that proves it as I do have a saved replay from Alaska (the lighting effects are sooo nice when the sun isn't glowing through the ground!)

Funny thing is, on that basis I wish I *could* save Mt Aso, not the greatest track ever but I had fun with it. Seems ironic it is now on my HD locked into my saved replay, but I can't drive it offline!

If this is the case with online home-made tracks too, that's a bit of a fail on PD's part, but perhaps will be in a future update. It would be easy for the creator to flag it copy/no copy :)
 

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