Super License Poll

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I bronzed all except the last one which i silvered, and somehow managed to get gold with the Viper, which seemed the easiest by far. I just love that car, and the power it has. I didnt try for this, all of these were done with just one run on each, excpet the last one which i tried several times to no avail, and then managed to grab a silver.
 
Originally posted by SnowbordrWRX
after a bit of perseverence, I got the S-License. But I wouldn't call myself an average player either...better than average, I know I can complete about 90% of the game without too much difficulty. I can't say I'm really good until I can complete the F1 series and the time trials. Those are the races I have to rely almost entirely on my driving skills and not on the car or tuning
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When I finished my first 100%, I'd have to say I was a crappy driver.

I say that because after that I went to the all golds quest and after I finished that, I went and did the whole game again.

The difference was night and day. Races that had previously been painfully difficult were easy. I remember my first time through, I barely beat Cote d'Azur in the Formula GT Championship after many tries. In the next game save (after achieving all golds), I lapped the lead AI car 3 times.

I'm still afraid to call myself good. That is because I have compared my license times to those at gt3times.com and racing-line.org. My golds are almost embarrasing compared to the top times there. I can't even break the top 20. For some I can't even break the top 100. I'll just say I'm decent :)
 
well i can get bronze in the s license without trying however when i first started i had the most trouble on S 2 at seattle.
 
Originally posted by vat_man

...and yes, I mean the hairpin turns. The GT-One fries its tyres in 1st and 2nd, so running it in third is just as effective, without the danger of spinning under power, it's like mechanical traction control.
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Vat_man,
There is still the chance of the GT-One spinning in third gear. I was doing S8 last night and had several spins when coming out of the hairpins in third gear. It only happened a few times in 90 minutes but there was a total loss of traction and the car redlined in 3rd when I was pulling away at about 50-60 kmh. Maybe I had fractionly hung the car on the curbing and lost traction that way.
Anyhow I managed a 1:27.822 after approx 45 minutes (PAL gold time is 1:27.800). I took a further 45 minutes to improve on this time, usually losing time to my ghost by making a mistake at the chicane after the tunnel. I finally managed a half decent run and clocked a 1:27.093 for my gold time.
Just for interest that time would put me in position 35 at Racing Lines' site for S8.
As overpowered said it is certainly easier the second time around.

Edit: 14/05/04.

Completed Gold at S6 last night in approx 2.5 hours.
So I guess S8 is easier to gold than S6.
Took 45 minutes to get close to gold (S6 PAL is 1:16.800) with a 1:16.896. Then took another 1.75 hours to try and go a fraction faster. Finally got all corners mostly right and just squeaked in with a 1:16.6**.
I think I was trying a bit to hard!.
 
I passed S5 first try. However, I never managed to pass S7. The car wwent from understeer to oversteer to understeer to my blood presure hitting 5000.
 
Well I guess it really depends on who you're comparing yourself to. If I were to compare myself only to the real hard-core drivers, I'd say yeah, I'm probably crappy. But if I compared myself to EVERY person that has played GT3, (not just once, but played it for a couple months at least) I'd say I'm better than average. Just my guess though...I know I can drive better than my brother; he hasn't played for awhile.
 
S8 actually wasnt that hard for me. Of course I'm biased though because i golded it on Friday. But I think S2 is very hard because I am used to it *just* turning, know what I mean?
 
After 5 (and 3 hours per day) days of trying I gave up on S2 and used the codebreaker.. Yeah, I know, pretty weak:lol:

I was pretty close too, came within like 3 thousanths of a second from winning it.
 
I decided that I would not even attempt the Special License tests until I had completed every tournament that does not require it. However, I got more than slightly bored with all of the specific cups (Clio, Elise, Tuscan trophies), and decided to give them a try.

S1, S4 and S6 gave me no problems whatsoever; I completed them within a couple of attempts. As soon as I can set myself some realistic check times, and then follow them, it's not too difficult. S6 I have to say seemed the easiest - The Viper Team Oreca is a car that I'm very familiar with, and Laguna Seca is surely the simplest of tracks. No problem. S4 and S1 were the same story - very simple courses with adequate cars meant they didn't really pose a serious problem.

Those are the only ones I've seriously attempted so far - I only completed them this week. I had a couple of goes at the Special Track one in the rain, which I actually found pretty difficult, and gave up on it after a couple of tries, so I voted that one. I'll attempt it again tonight and see what I can do with it, and hopefully also move on to Seattle and Trial Mountain if I can get it done. Reading some of you guys replies I'm not too confident on the Seattle course, however.

The previous licence tests did seem pretty easy, but then as somebody already said, it's probably because they are so short. I'm probably never going to attempt to get all the golds, mainly because it offers no real benefit. I just got the Concept Viper from the Allstars Championship yesterday, and every other car on offer from the Licence Tests I have. The only reason I would ever try would be for pride or boredom.
 
Welcome to GTP, markj. Enjoy your stay with us!

I didn't worry about golds until I'd made 100%. Since then I've been chipping away at them (I have a bout 18 golds out of 20 or so that I've tried golding). I use them as fill ins when I don't know what else to run or when I only have a short window in which to play.
 
Well, apparently I'm the only one who thought S4 was the hardest... but I'm also the only one around here who hates Skylines.

I remember way back the first time I did them. S2 and S8 seemed to be the only really hard ones. I would say S8 was the hardest one to bronze.

S2, S4, S6 were definitely the hardest ones to gold.

S2 wasn't that bad, because it's all about doing well in the first few turns and coming out of those box turns with a really good exit speed. You can easily restart until you get the first section perfect, then you just have to not screw up horribly.

S6 is hard, but you really just have to get your braking point points right and get the right entry angle into the corkscrew.

S4 just absolutely sucked, I thought. The first part is so easy. You just have to get your speed right through the first turn and your braking point before the tunnel, and it's easy to fly through the whole track until you get to that last big hairpin before the last tunnel. I would always either be going way too slow through that corner or else completely lose it. It was by far the most annoying test, because the only hard part is at the end, and you have to redo the whole test just to get to that last important corner. For me, it was as frustrating as if B8 made you wait a minute every time you restarted.

S7 and S8 are really easy to gold if you use a manual and listen to the tips on the board. I got silver my first run on S7, and it only took me about 3 runs of S8 to get gold after I switched to manual.
 
After not being able to get on GT3 for a few days, I finally got around to attempting to complete the Special License tests last night. I managed S2, S3, S5, and S7 within about half an hour; S2 was the one which gave me the most difficulty, but if you can brake and then accelerate out of the box corners with the proper timing, it's not too difficult (to bronze anyway).

S8 then became available to do, and I had remembered from here that this was the one which had given lots of people big problems. However, I was quite confident, being on a role since the last tests. I started the test and spun at the first corner. Then I did it again. And again. I then spent about 3 hours trying to get the damn thing done, but I was consistently screwing up the last sector. I could get T1 times of less than 24 seconds, T2 times of less than 1'08, but still finished in over 1'35. Then I remembered you guys saying to switch to manual gearing, and stay in third. I was a little wary, because in the past, me and manual gearing have not always got along. But anyway, I tried it, and in less than half a dozen attempts, I had got a time of 1'31.979. Cheers guys!
 
I think that S6 with the Viper is by far the hardest to Gold.
I even kept all the Gold lap ghost replays from my last game so I could follow them round, some of the licences I went through Gold in 2 or 3 attempts, whereas Laguna took some doing! 2 or 3 days worth! Not actually that Laguna is such a tricky circuit, but there's so much time can be lost easily in 3 parts of the track, i.e., the 1st hairpin, the Corkscrew and that nasty sharp left onto the Start/Finish straight, with the heavy yet powerful Viper!
 
Most difficult so far would have to be Seattle by miles. 95% of the time I couldn't even finish the course never mind pass it, I'd end up crashing into the barriers, usually the first one on the first bend/chicane. The demo car just blips the brake and flies through I couldn't manage anything near that, hard on the brake in and out of the corner for me. After trying for about 5 hours I finally managed to bronze it.

Cote d'Azur is proving probably as tough but at least you actually get to finish the track rather than having to restart every few seconds due to barriers getting in the way. It is damn hard to get a fast time, but I would have to say that after trying the tip mentioned here of choosing manual and driving round in 3rd gear is really no help at all to be honest, using that it's only possible to do 1.40 and bronze is like 1.35 but after a few weeks practise I'll probably crack it eventually.
 
S2 - Ford GT40 @ Seattle Circuit II was definitely the hardest test for me. Honestly it was this test that made me give up GT3. I just recently started playing again and thankfully was able to pass this test as well as S8 but not without a lot of patience and about 3 weeks of practice.
 
god the first time I played GT3 and tried to get my s-license it must have taken me a good 2 months to bronze the GT40 @ seattle. it almost reduced me to tears at times. I finally got it and all was happy happy. 2 years later I can bronze it in 1 or 2 tries but it took me a few days to gold it recently when I started a new game.

I still think the Camero at the blind corner @ Seattle in the I-B (?) tests was the worst, that one still takes me a few days to gold.
 
Not to boast, but I didn't find any tests took me more than 2 tries to bronze. I had already golded B, A, I-B and I-A licenses before I even started the S-license, so it was straight onto trying to get all golds for me. My guess is that most people here simply jumped in head first trying to get their licenses so they could do the big boy races, and that's why they struggled to even pass.

As someone who has played GT1 in the distant past, I knew what to expect. I know there are only 2 things to do in GT. Licenses, and races. And the AI suck in the races. The licenses are more challenging and interesting, and you will learn far more from them. This might sound weird, but the first thing I did when I got GT3 was try and get all golds on the licenses, only doing a few races to have some variety. It took me week to do it.

The only ones that I didn't pass on the very first lap I drove were S3 and S8. Both of them I just missed bronze by a few thousandths on the first try, the second try I passed by a few seconds.

Out of those two the hardest to gold was S3, so I would vote for that. The reason it was hard was because the car felt like it was meant to be driven smoothly. Now I'm a fairly smooth driver, but I like to drive a pointy, slidy car, not an underpowered one that feels like it's on rails. I guess I just don't like the tests in slow cars.

The tests I found the easiest were S1, S4, and S6.
 
I'm really not that obsessive, sorry, dedicated, enough to want to spend every spare hour of every day trying to gold the tests. A pass is enough for me. Yeah I know what you mean about learning from the tests they do teach you more about driving than anything but I just want to get on with the game. I do go back to the tests though I perservered and managed to get 6 golds on the B licence test I couldn't quite manage gold on B-7 the best I managed was 0.07 seconds outside of gold! How annoying! B8 though I can only bronze Trial Mountain is not my favourite track after GT 1 they changed the physics of the car handling and tracks for GT 2 & 3 and I've never gotten used to it. I did try hard on GT 1 to do the best in all the licences and got all Gold in the B, all Silver in the A and all bronze in the I-A licences which kind of says it all really.

It's not simply about how much practise you put in. If I spend 4 hours trying to do better than bronze in a licence test, and I have, and failing then there comes a point when you just have to accept that it ain't gonna happen and not for want of trying. It's just not meant to be. There are some people out there who are lucky enough to have been given a gift, a talent for it. But for us normal folks it just has to be accepted that it ain't us.
 
S2 is all (well not all but a lot) about what you do when the car understeers, if you can cope with it you can gain lots of time. I find a good tip is to not instantly apply lots of lock as you go into a corner, but rather coax the car in gradually at first, and increase the lock as you turn the corner, to 'kill' the understeer.
 

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