Save option in endurance races

[StevenDunn99]

i just simply wont let my ps run gt5 like few days in row one for one race, i dont wanna risk it brakes down

Do not do Bspec then. Many of us have left our PS3s on continuously for many days (well 2+ weeks in my case).

It will be fine, just do not accidentally exit the race whenever you resume after pausing.

 

[highlightshadow]

Do not do Bspec then. Many of us have left our PS3s on continuously for many days (well 2+ weeks in my case).

Many of us can't !!

I work away from home 5 days a week and get a few precious GT5 hours a week. During the week my wife uses the PS3 as our DVD player, iPlayer (UK BBC thing) and fitness games etc.

So even *if* i could leave me PS3 on unattended while on pause it would take about 4 or 5 weekends to get a 24h race done, now I would be prepared to do it if i could save but it feels unfair that parts of the game are simply blocked from certain user cases.

The whole '24h is about endurance' arguement is BS too anyway ... no single driver does 24h, its split over 2 or 3 driver teams doing short stints... plus players who pause are 'saving' the game in a manner of speaking..

 

[StevenDunn99]

Many of us can't !!

Fine and I understand that may be the case for some, but I was responding to someone concerned about reliability. Agree with your other comments.

 

[DanDiplo]

[I posted this in another thread that got locked]

I agree that a save facility would be welcome. There is no way on Earth I would bother with a 24 hour endurance race without one.

Technically, though, save games can be problematic to implement in a game like GT. Think of a scenario like this:

You are half-way through a 24 hour endurance race so save your game.
You then do a couple of A-Spec races, buy a couple of cars, perhaps play a Seasonal Event.
You then resume your 24 hour endurance race - but what happens to all the money, XP and cars you have bought since then?

The problem is that GT saves state as you go along. Modify a car - the game saves. Play a race - the game saves. This makes it really difficult to have saved games you return to without unintended side-effects.

 

[StevenDunn99]

Technically, though, save games can be problematic to implement in a game like GT.

Agreed, that is what I suggested earlier, ie GT Life is why we have no endurance save option.

The only game I have played with Endurances and a save option was 24hr Le Mans (PS2). When you entered the pits you had an option to save game. If you saved you then went back to the top menu and had a choice of resume game (you go straight back to the pits), start new game or exit game.

GT Life gives you no 'top' menu as such and hence why I just do not see Endurance saves being possible.

 

[ASH32]

Agreed, that is what I suggested earlier, ie GT Life is why we have no endurance save option.

The only game I have played with Endurances and a save option was 24hr Le Mans (PS2). When you entered the pits you had an option to save game. If you saved you then went back to the top menu and had a choice of resume game (you go straight back to the pits), start new game or exit game.

GT Life gives you no 'top' menu as such and hence why I just do not see Endurance saves being possible.

They could just make it so you can't enter any other races until it's finished, like the mid-championship save you could do in GT4.

 

[zustic]

I remember seeing talk of a mid-endurance race save being featured but I think that was from some representative at a trade show a few months before the game released. The story was on here somewhere.
Has there been any word from PD or Kaz regarding this? Surely if they could implement this in a way that if you do save during an endurance race then when you go back into the game all you can do is carry on with that race and not do anything else in GT Life, no buying cars, no going off and doing other races, hell even no online racing.
If they don't put the save function in then I will never be able to do anything above the 4hr races........ effectively blocking a chunk of the game which I have paid money for.
I also vote for mid championship saves as well, again blocking any other racing or GT life 'stuff' until that championship was completed or abandoned.

 

[hilde86]

They could just make it so you can't enter any other races until it's finished, like the mid-championship save you could do in GT4.

Totally agree! I'll do the 24h races only when PD gives us a save optiion. It's so ridiculous in times like nowadays to force gamers to play 24 hours non stop or let their PS3 running for days and weeks. Kaz drove a 24h race on the ring by himself, so I thought he learned something about endurance races but it seems like he doesn't, unfortunately.

 

[highlightshadow]

One possible solution to the comment about stopping people restarting a race or championship from a save to cover a mistake could be this:

Add an extra menu on a pause or pit menu (for endurance races) or in the mid-race results page for championship called 'Suspend Event'

This would simply quit you back to GTLife but create a resume point for that event... so if you go back into the same race/event it pops up saying 'Start from last point?' with a 'yes or restart' option.

This would be separate from your main save but include details about the event, and the car + setup you had so you couldn't quit mid-race and bump the specs of the car or oil change it etc... If you quit the race after this start point you would just get your resume point saved at the point you quit rather than going back to the previous one.

Probably not straight forward to code but would offer an easy end-user solution and would only be 1-way resumption ...

 

[evil_c5]

I am at the point where I have the Formula GT on aspec and above, and probably have no desire to go much further. I cannot sit for ~6 plus hours for FGT, and certainly do not want to do the endurance races without a save option.

I just cannot give that much time to a game, there are far more important things to do most of the week and an hour or 2 of gt5 per night is about my limit.

 

[SuperCobraJet]

It can't be that difficult to have a save option.

The other day I had paused at 110 laps, over half way during the Indy 500, to take a break. When I came back to contnue, the stick on the controller had apparently gotten bumped somehow and when I hit X it was on restart

If I could have, I would have saved before stopping.

 

[chances14]

They could just make it so you can't enter any other races until it's finished, like the mid-championship save you could do in GT4.

exactly. problem solved.

if a game like nascar 08 can have mid race saves, so can gran turismo. i mean they are going allow you to run b spec races from your computer. you can't tell me they couldn't put in mid race saves

 

[Denzo21]

I think Kaz and his guys simply ran out of time. Sony put their foot down and demanded the game be released. We know that Kaz wants everything and more in his game plan and he simply bit off more than they had time or staff to create. They probably had plans for saving partial endurance races and more but, did not have the time to implement it all when Sony and the public demanded they release the game!

 

[GT5 Master]

Maybe Sony forced PD to leave the saving feature out so people would end up leaving their PS3 on for over a week, causing more PS3s to break and an increase in the sales of their PS3s

 

[ApexVGear]

KAZ & Crew! PLEASE add the ability to "suspend" endurance races while pitting!

I'm at 99% completion of GT5--the only event left is the 24-hour Nurburgring event. This holiday weekend (4th of July--three day weekend) I decided to commit to completing the game by finishing this last event. Started Friday afternoon, pausing a few times to take breaks, and using the Red Bull 2010 so I could out-lap the other cars and park it for a while so the time could keep running.

This morning (Sunday) just over 16 hours into the event, less than eight hours to go, my power went out for about a minute (maybe Summer heat, maybe a Sunday electrical company quick-repair or something). I have no UPS on this system, so all that time I invested, all that driving (several hours in the rain) is all gone. I doubt I will have the opportunity to attempt this again for several months.

Even if there's a stipulation that you can't do anything else in GT5 until you reload and finish your suspended endurance races, this MUST be added. Ridiculous that it isn't in there already.

At this time, I don't even feel like reloading GT5 to do any racing, even to race the new seasonal event. I just looked up information about ordering the new Fanatec wheel so I can get ready for Forza 4. It's being released within two years of the previous release (not over six), and I'm sorry GT fans (me being a former one), with a good wheel (Fanatec), I still think Forza is it for me--and Forza 4 looks to be even better than 3.

 

[dylansan]

I'm bumping this topic because it became the subject of discussion in the Kaz Tweets thread. I'd just like to say what I think is the best solution: Have the event give out more money and experience if you don't reload a save from the middle of the race. You should be able to save all you want, in case there's a power outage or something, but the less you actually have to reload, the more rewards you should get. Just my opinion. It sort of worked that way in GRiD. Setting the options so you couldn't restart the race if you were doing badly meant that you received better rewards when you finished.

 

[yukicore]

Is in-race save available now, because i am stumped, i don't know what to do, i wouldn't want to play 24Hours one race, nor leaving my PS3 on for a week (in the best case)

 

[noisiaturismo]

No it isn't, wait 3 weeks and maybe it is. You can also check the news.

 

[yukicore]

That's too bad, thx for reply.