Surprise during Nurburgring 4H

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Okay. So I am doing Nurburgring 4 Hour Endurance race right now. I was thinking, what car should I choose. Well, after some thinking, I decided to participate in the event with R.E. Amemiya AsparaDrink RX-7. The car is awesome. Just a little bit slower than the others, but corners amazingly :).

So after 2 hours into the race, I've noticed, that car switched itself to neutral gear. I just thought 'what the hell?' and continued racing. After lap 20 it started to repeat pretty often. Huh. So mechanical damage works in GT Life after all.

The random shifting to N gear was happening more and more till I decided to try the car with Clutch and Mechanical transmission. It was struggling to keep on the gear from time to time, but because that gear was pushed in the G25's gearbox, car continued to drive.

On lap 22, my clutch just BROKE. No matter what gear I switch to, it just doesn't run and engine keeps working at full revs. No sequential or mechanical shifting could fix it. I thought 'I just wasted 3 hours FFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUU-', but after that I just tried to drive with a controller, what if it magically fixes?

Well what do you know? After I plugged out my wheel and turned on my Sixaxis, car seems to drive without 'gear choking'. But there is one small problem. GT5's HUD always shows 'N', no matter what gear are you in. Though car's HUD shows current gear. Now this is WTF moment. WTF is this? Had some one experienced this? :indiff:
 
Really weird occurrence, i dint have a g series wheel so can't commen fully but intrude one out at a local game shop & hated it. For some reason it totally ignored my gear selection and revved like crazy in 3rd
 
Everything works fine in this wheel, but I wonder, did PD did tha on purpose? I mean like drivers retire because of electronical/mechanical defecs and such. So PD implement that? That's way too much realism.
 
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Everything works fine in this wheel, but I wonder, did PD did tha on purpose? I mean like drivers retire because of electronical/mechanical defecs and such. So PD implement that? That's way too much realism.
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Maybe this was implemented as realism, I don't know because I don't have a wheel, but if it was then to me it would seem strange.

Why implement something like this to reflect a real life situation, and then have something like tyres (slicks giving more grip in the rain than wets, or hard tyres having similiar durability as soft) or brakes (a 1950's car with ABS and brake bias controller as standard)?

That would defiinately be a case of serious double standards, bordering on the ridiculous.
 

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