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Just a few thoughts, no rant really. I know a lot of people are feeling the same way. Please excuse my crappy English, it’s not my mother tongue. I hope to bring my point across though.
After a year of GT Sport PD has succeeded in seeding substantial doubt in me about their will to cater to a more professional and therefore demanding target group.
Surely, there’s no perfect sim on the market, and GT is absolutely great for jumping into a car, getting into a lobby and race your heart out. When it comes to Sport Mode though, the picture is quite different.
For one, the selection of car/track/wear combinations is so off at times that you have to doubt PD‘s responsible team‘s sanity. They seem to have external advisors, actual drivers, too, but it sure seems that sanity checking these combinations is no task assigned to them or PD just blatantly ignores their input.
Just look at last nights‘ Nations‘: No one with a fundamental wish to not crush his SR would do that race, ever, and even in the top split people suffered severe SR losses down to A. In the lower tiers I‘ve heard that quite a few suffered DR resets as they went below an SR threshold.
Looking at the daily races it’s a mixed bag, too. There, due to the, say, outlandish penalty system it‘s down to pure luck to surviving a midfield start unblemished. I personally do Dailies now only if I‘m completely superior in my quali time and can start from pole. Even then the following cars manage to kill me from time to time with senseless divebombs and overall crappy driving.
Since PD seems reluctant enough to do anything about only those two aspects mentioned (we‘re not even going to touch the points system in Sport Mode etc.), like rethink the current DR/SR system in order to better separate between differentiating driver skills, the logical step for anyone with a higher standard than „just drive“ is to look over the fence.
I personally will be getting into iracing increasingly. I will be racing in GT also, but more as a means of relaxation than to aspire to a competitive level. I know a lot of people are pondering that now. I‘ll always be open to any changes in GT that insure or enforce good competitive clean racing. There are a lot of nice sims out there, and iracing certainly is not the cure all, but from a certain license and irating onwards it seems that their system ensures enjoyable and demanding competition in a well thought out way.
It‘s a shame really as to some of the current problems in GT the solution seems to be relatively simple. But since I‘m not seeing the necessary steps being taken, actually more a kind of unreasonable stubbornness to maybe depart from the set (or beaten) path to counter obvious shortfalls, I‘ll have to look for my luck elsewhere.
After a year of GT Sport PD has succeeded in seeding substantial doubt in me about their will to cater to a more professional and therefore demanding target group.
Surely, there’s no perfect sim on the market, and GT is absolutely great for jumping into a car, getting into a lobby and race your heart out. When it comes to Sport Mode though, the picture is quite different.
For one, the selection of car/track/wear combinations is so off at times that you have to doubt PD‘s responsible team‘s sanity. They seem to have external advisors, actual drivers, too, but it sure seems that sanity checking these combinations is no task assigned to them or PD just blatantly ignores their input.
Just look at last nights‘ Nations‘: No one with a fundamental wish to not crush his SR would do that race, ever, and even in the top split people suffered severe SR losses down to A. In the lower tiers I‘ve heard that quite a few suffered DR resets as they went below an SR threshold.
Looking at the daily races it’s a mixed bag, too. There, due to the, say, outlandish penalty system it‘s down to pure luck to surviving a midfield start unblemished. I personally do Dailies now only if I‘m completely superior in my quali time and can start from pole. Even then the following cars manage to kill me from time to time with senseless divebombs and overall crappy driving.
Since PD seems reluctant enough to do anything about only those two aspects mentioned (we‘re not even going to touch the points system in Sport Mode etc.), like rethink the current DR/SR system in order to better separate between differentiating driver skills, the logical step for anyone with a higher standard than „just drive“ is to look over the fence.
I personally will be getting into iracing increasingly. I will be racing in GT also, but more as a means of relaxation than to aspire to a competitive level. I know a lot of people are pondering that now. I‘ll always be open to any changes in GT that insure or enforce good competitive clean racing. There are a lot of nice sims out there, and iracing certainly is not the cure all, but from a certain license and irating onwards it seems that their system ensures enjoyable and demanding competition in a well thought out way.
It‘s a shame really as to some of the current problems in GT the solution seems to be relatively simple. But since I‘m not seeing the necessary steps being taken, actually more a kind of unreasonable stubbornness to maybe depart from the set (or beaten) path to counter obvious shortfalls, I‘ll have to look for my luck elsewhere.
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Only the optimum will do. Can’t help it. Pills didn’t help either *shrug*
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