Restart.. first time!

[o9lifted]

I was about 2hours in the Suzuka 1000km and I had a good report that I wrote along the road. Used my sweet GT300 RE Rx7

@ lap 39 as I wrote down some stuff for my race report this happened. I hit the RESTART button!! This is the first time I've done the mistake becouse I usually hit the O button to continue the race...

Just wantet to share my mistake and Im sure Im not the only one whos done it.. To you whos done this mistake during a good race/ endurance etc holla in here, leave a post. Im going out for a walkt dont know if I be back

 

[dabest2500]

1 hour into the Nurburgring 4 hour.
I happily just did it again

 

[Wiegert]

I did it 1 hour into the Laguna Seca endurance. Not the worst accidental restart that could have happened, but I was still kind of annoyed.

 

[o9lifted]

Yea I will do it again but not today I had time it so with breaks I could be done by the evening but theres no chanse I'll get it trough til tonight. Afterall with a car much weaker then the FGT I bet this race will take about 5-7 hours.. maybe 8 with 15min or longer breakes each hour or each pitstop..

EDIT: IT was a really good race though. But I somehow having trouble imaginating that a stock gt300 class car can beat gt500's lol

 

[zedextreme8177]

I've never done it as of yet, I always double check which button I'm about to press.

It might happen to me anytime though

 

[freight48]

Press start! Not anything else. And keep your feet away from the pedals as the accelerator is "X".

 

[RikkiGT-R]

Have yet to do that, thankfully. I'm sure it'll happen though, sometime

 

[nismo33]

Um.......race report?? Writing stuff down??

 

[BloodyPenguin]

Have yet to do that, thankfully. I'm sure it'll happen though, sometime

^This^. I know it will happen, just have lucked out so far...

..

 

[Bloodmack]

had it happen to me on a b-spec race except it was quit not restart

 

[o9lifted]

Um.......race report?? Writing stuff down??

lmalolol yea just quick notes like when i lapped the AI etc when i pitted how much I refuelled etc I've seen some good race-reports here at this forum and I coulda served ya'll a good report from the Grand Valley 300 and INDY 500 as I had some pretty good and even races etc but I couldnt remember **** off it so I thought I should make a nice report of it as I was sure I would never race it again (6-8hours agains AI??) with pics n sh.. stuff..

We'll see if there will be an report next time..

EDIT: btw I had two breaks one during pit and the other one before I restarted the dang thing and I was 2h in the race..yea yea

 

[Sele1981]

Happened to me in some short races, especially because my GT3 V2 does not show wich button I´m pushing. But in endurance race, damn dude thats hard...

You got to confirm it 18 times that you want to buy this upgrade but there is no confirmation for the restart :/

 

[Yev]

Did it in 197th lap of Rome endurance race in GT2.
Funny. xD

 

[altaboy]

I hear so many horror stories about this. Not looking forward to my first enduro.

And I feel for you!

 

[o9lifted]

Happened to me in some short races, especially because my GT3 V2 does not show wich button I´m pushing. But in endurance race, damn dude thats hard...

You got to confirm it 18 times that you want to buy this upgrade but there is no confirmation for the restart :/

Lol so true! We need an confirm button followed up by are you sure button followed up by ok/cancel confirmation for the restart I've seen too many ppl done this mistake..

 

[Yev]

Lol so true! We need an confirm button followed up by are you sure button followed up by ok/cancel confirmation for the restart I've seen too many ppl done this mistake..

This.
But on the otherhand, this game is made for tryhards, some events have to be restarted 10+ times, so putting a confirm button would not save time.
B)

 

[mrluongha]

Eh, I was doing the miata 4 hours on tsubuka. 3 hours in and I had to pause for moment. Then accidentally pushed the L3 right on the controller and hit 'X' and boom, 3 hours of work gone . I haven't attempted the same race 'til this day and learning to not use 'X' to continue any race haha.

 

[Turbo-Kai]

this reminds me of a story posted in the german forum:
a guy did the 24hours nürburgring at gt4 with b-spec...
he let the console "on" during he went to work...
when he came back the cleaner had turned "off" the ps3 and left a note:
"""hello...you forgot to turn off your ps3...so i did it for you"""

big ROFL

 

[Meoricin]

Fortunately I'd only been driving for 40mins when I did this yesterday - paused to go to the options and disable all of the display stuff, but I was trying to do it a little quickly - a tiny amount of menu lag, and I find myself pushing x just as the cursor passes over the 'restart' instead of the options.

It really does need a second confirmation screen.

 

[W3H5]

lmalolol

Please use English, I've no idea what this ^ means.

I paused for a smoke almost 15 laps from the end of Laguna and hit the restart buttin. Not cool.

 

[o9lifted]

Eh, I was doing the miata 4 hours on tsubuka. 3 hours in and I had to pause for moment. Then accidentally pushed the L3 right on the controller and hit 'X' and boom, 3 hours of work gone . I haven't attempted the same race 'til this day and learning to not use 'X' to continue any race haha.

Yea same as me i somehow touched the L3 right before I hit X 👎

lmalolol

Please use English, I've no idea what this ^ means.

I paused for a smoke almost 15 laps from the end of Laguna and hit the restart buttin. Not cool.

LOL big time!

 

[Crumpet]

10 minutes from finishing the Miata 4 hour

 

[Bonefork]

I signed up to post this.

My biggest gripe with this game (and most Japanese software does it) is that to restart a 4 hour race at 3:59:59 there's no confirmation prompt, yet to put a car in your garage that you won in a race takes four prompts.

It's absurd and unintelligent. No exaggeration: I restarted a B-spec 8-hour race in the last few minutes of the 7th hour by having my controller simply slide off the arm rest of my slippery leather recliner (the game wasn't paused and the cursor was over the driver command button). Another time I accidentally restarted the Miata 4-hour race at the 2-hour mark in A-spec. These among others, but this has happened to me more times than I can count on one hand, no matter how much I repeat "do not press 'X' to continue the race" to myself while paused.

This is pathetic software design, and in the UI Designer's world, strictly and completely and objectively wrong.

GT5 user interface may have nice aesthetics, but at it's core it's pure Japanese menu crap with obnoxious loading stalls between menu screens and terrible prompts that could have been handled better by a group of college interns from ITT Tech. Unfortunately, I could identify a few other aspects of the game's software design that are equally flawed.


I love GT5 when it's not restarting my races; but waiting for B-Spec Bob to go from level 35 to 40 by running the same 24-hour race 8 days in a row, having no new Seasonal Events this week, and not wanting to do the last few endurance races with the looming restart button, I ended up reading this board while waiting and discovering Forza. I had grabbed Forza 2 for $5 a while back, actually, but never played it until this board displayed such praise for it.

So GT5 may be a great game when you're in the cockpit driving, but the software is so bad and the last legs of the career so poorly managed that it literally led me to Forza... and I'm only on Forza 2, next is 3 and 4 is right around the corner... meanwhile GT5 has little left to offer unless I want to do the same endurance race over and over to get to the next level.

And, no, I don't have any interest in racing online with brats and griefers and cheaters.