Tsukuba - Overrated Online?

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Tsukuba Overrated?

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JaiAE86
Nothing wrong with Tsukuba, it's a fun little track for any car in my opinion.
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Totally agree.

I'm going to start hosting 200hp races here again. I sometimes forget about this track.
 
Offline -- I love this track. Its great for practicing trail braking and for trying out new cars. However I have found that tuning on this track usually leads to a 1-trick-pony. I can't transfer a tune from this track to the 'ring or trial mountain.

Online -- I rarely find clean racing on this track. Too many dive bombers knocking you off your line. I can run the track quick but everyone always thinks they can out brake you. It is very difficult to pass unless someone makes a mistake and runs wide. I've had people run through the grass on turn 2 in attempt to get around me...and it usually works because they go wide and push me off the track. Brake early, you get rammed. Brake late, you still get rammed. It just isn't a good track for clean racing.
 
chuyler1
Online -- I rarely find clean racing on this track. Too many dive bombers knocking you off your line. I can run the track quick but everyone always thinks they can out brake you. It is very difficult to pass unless someone makes a mistake and runs wide. I've had people run through the grass on turn 2 in attempt to get around me...and it usually works because they go wide and push me off the track. Brake early, you get rammed. Brake late, you still get rammed. It just isn't a good track for clean racing.
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Sounds like you need to find some clean people to race with. I hate when races go that way as well but with how wide the track is if you have a room full of clean and honest racers collisions should be minimal.
 
I love Tsukuba. Despite being a small track it does have abit of everything and doesn't favour one certain car....

* tight bends which really test your braking and traction
* a couple of bends which test a cars ability to change direction quickly
* a straight long enough for powerful cars to make some ground
* the last bend is a great test of a cars out and out grip and stability

In lower hp races fwd, rwd and 4wd cars are all very competitive. Over 500hp and it tends to suit 4wd cars as they have the traction out of those tight bends.
 
ZZYZX
go watch this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnnIW06HabM


Fastest lap in a 911 is 1.07 Probably on Sport tires.

In the video the track feels bigger than ingame.
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Great video. I love the variety of cars. Track looks bigger outside the car on the panning shots, but the cockpit camera angles reveal that real vs game scale is pretty accurate. You can run 2-wide through turn 1 in-game but only if the other racers are aware of their surroundings and know not to track-out when someone is beside them. Online everyone knows the fastest line but they don't know how to race wheel to wheel. It makes for dirty racing.
 
There is no such thing as overrated. People must have their reasons for liking it and those who do will probably say it's underrated. No one is to decide who is right.
 
No way in heck is it overrated. Best Motoring gives you real life Gran Turismo races on that track! Maybe people want to re-create the races from the show?

 
I kinda think it's overrated. I always found it to be too bland too onesided, in that it favours handling over powwer (to an extend).
I actually like to drive it for aa bit every now and then, but due to the shortness of the track, it gets somewhat boring rather fast. I mean, you'll be running two to three times the amounts of laps compared to other tracks (in case of the 'Ring, six to seven, even)...
 
After doing the mind numbingly boring roadster endurance, going round Tsukuba 235 times, I never want to see this cramped, slow, dull, claustrophobic track ever again...
 
brambos
After doing the mind numbingly boring roadster endurance, going round Tsukuba 235 times, I never want to see this cramped, slow, dull, claustrophobic track ever again...
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This is basically what I was talking about. Considering the amount of laps you're doing on it, it's bound to beecome boring.
 
Luminis
II always found it to be too bland too onesided, in that it favours handling over powwer (to an extend).
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This is absolutely true, which is why tuners love it. Anyone can slap hp on their virtual cars. Getting them tuned for speed around a short track takes skill. Then it takes skill to race wheel to wheel around it. However, anything short of 10 laps on this track is a waste. A 3 lap sprint usually results in bumper car driving to get to the front.

Personally I enjoy running warm up laps and chatting with other drivers about setups and lap times. Spend 15 minutes in free run and watch that top time drop. Do your best to keep within a second or two and then start the race to see who can maintain quick laps in a pack.

It's a fun course...but its for technical drivers, not hp pedal to the metal drivers.
 
brambos
cramped, slow, dull
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That's a pretty good summary. To put things into perspective a GT500 car running on racing softs is hard pushed to achieve an average speed of 140 km/h while "proper" racing circuits like Suzuka easily enable 170 to 190 km/h. Tsukuba isn't much more than a bunch of hairpins connected by short straights and while it produces close racing (as there's no spot to gain any difference) it's quite horrid for actual driving unless one has a thing for hairpins.
 
I think it's a perfect track if you want some intensive close battles in cars with less than 500hp.

When I race with my friends we often choose Tsukuba, and we all use the same car. I think a track doesn't need to be very technical or long to be fun, for me racing is more about finding a gap so can overtake cleanly, a close race that is say:)

If we are talking about overrated tracks, haven't anybody mentioned Nurburgring? Yes, I think it's the best tracks in the game and one of the best in the world. Feels like everybody likes it because everybody choose it when you play online. The problem is that, you rarely have any close races there, cause half of your opponent mess up in the first corner.
 
In my opinion the reason it's overused online is the lack of short mid-low speed tracks in GT5 where on a power-to-weight basis (or PP rating) pretty much all cars can compete evenly.
Most tracks in GT5 are fast, with excessively long straights or high average speeds. Not exactly the homeground of light, nimble cars short on power.
 
brambos
After doing the mind numbingly boring roadster endurance, going round Tsukuba 235 times, I never want to see this cramped, slow, dull, claustrophobic track ever again...
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Oh god - THAT race was pure torture.
 
Its a unique track suited for low powered cars. You will never go past 140 MPH. Its not fun when the online room is set up for high powered super cars and your coasting through hair pins with Enzo's, McClarens, Gallardos etc.
 
SHIRAKAWA Akira
In my opinion the reason it's overused online is the lack of short mid-low speed tracks in GT5 where on a power-to-weight basis (or PP rating) pretty much all cars can compete evenly.
Most tracks in GT5 are fast, with excessively long straights or high average speeds. Not exactly the homeground of light, nimble cars short on power.
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The Nurburgring GP/D while not exactly short (of short means circa 1 minute per lap) is great track that works beautifully with the PP rating.
 
I never really liked this track. It felt like they were given a plot of land to make a racetrack and ran out of space after they made the first straight. Then after spending a total of 14 goddamn hours going around it, I loathe the place.

As said before, cramped, claustrophobic, dull...
 
///Mikucki
its a track for people with no skill. they pick it so they dont forget were is the next turn plus its wider then the nurburgring.
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you truely have no idea what you are talking about. Anybody who respects Japan and it's automotive culture understands the significance of this track. YOU probably like it because you can memorize it, but I like it for the times it produces that I can easily compare cars and settings to. It's brilliantly simple, very dull, but easy to turn a fast time consistently. so stop making generic statements before I lump you in with my stereotypical NYer
 
I haven't really experienced this phenomenon. I will say, though, that whenever I look at the Tsukuba events, everything is drifting.

I don't really care for it anyway, so that's fine with me. I remember about a year and a half ago when I first joined I was trying to do the Roadster 4h in GT4 and that track got old quickly. Give me Eiger Nordwand over Tsukuba any day.

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dougdoberman
Can't stand this booooooring track.
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