Unreleased Feature Battle! Which do you want most? (Course Maker, B-Spec, etc)

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Which unreleased GT6 features you want most?

  • Course Maker

  • B-Spec

  • Shuffle Racing

  • Mobile App Companion

  • More tracks/real cars DLC

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ron86
What games are you talking about?


Hmm, they didnt break the promise yet or did they?

And why did GT5/6 show PD´s true colour? Because they updated the game for years with new features and patches which they couldnt do with GT4? Because they made everything better in GT5 than in GT4 and added a ton of new features?
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It's been over a year since GT6 was released, GT6 was based off the work they had done with GT5. It's been MORE than enough time for PD to release developed features.

GT5/6's shortcomings are purely poor development choices and where they put their resources. If RAM was an issue on PS3 then PD should have sacraficed some graphical quality to ensure a complete and well rounded game. It's comparable to taking a car than needs body and suspension work and choosing to spend your budget fixing the body so it looks pretty but underneath it's a POS.

It's been so long now, pCARS is a month away. No one is going to want to play an outdated game with features still missing when there is a better looking, better driving, and all around better racing game. Especially when pCARS has been openly working with the community to make the game better, unlike PD who has consistently ignored and flat out insulted it's fans and supporters (look at the Kaz Q&A thread that Jordan voluntarily closed from lack of response, after PD themselves reached out to people.)
 
TonyLomas
Edit:What would be cool with the course maker and GPS app would be if people can share courses that they've made.
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That's what I've been saying for the past few years, have a track creator that allows me to freely design tracks as well as share them online and search for other player's tracks. Modnation Racers did that 5 years ago on PS3 before GT5 was released.
 
LVracerGT
It's been over a year since GT6 was released, GT6 was based off the work they had done with GT5. It's been MORE than enough time for PD to release developed features.

GT5/6's shortcomings are purely poor development choices and where they put their resources. If RAM was an issue on PS3 then PD should have sacraficed some graphical quality to ensure a complete and well rounded game. It's comparable to taking a car than needs body and suspension work and choosing to spend your budget fixing the body so it looks pretty but underneath it's a POS.

It's been so long now, pCARS is a month away. No one is going to want to play an outdated game with features still missing when there is a better looking, better driving, and all around better racing game. Especially when pCARS has been openly working with the community to make the game better, unlike PD who has consistently ignored and flat out insulted it's fans and supporters (look at the Kaz Q&A thread that Jordan voluntarily closed from lack of response, after PD themselves reached out to people.)
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Hmm, i for one am not really interested in PC because there are mostly (or only?) racecars and no normal cars. (And there are many many reasons more)
So i am the one who will still play that outdated game ;)
 
There are normal cars, they just only use the popular speedsters.
 
ron86
Hmm, i for one am not really interested in PC because there are mostly (or only?) racecars and no normal cars. (And there are many many reasons more)
So i am the one who will still play that outdated game ;)
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Um, pCARS is coming for PS4 and Xbox One. There's also road cars, broken up into categories. Road cars, track specific road cars (i.e. BAC Mono), and supercars. There's also karts, and a host of open wheel cars from entry level formula ford's to F1, and they've announced an IndyCar license coming sometime after release with a full Indy 500 event like they're doing with LMP and GT cars at Le Mans.
 
LVracerGT
Um, pCARS is coming for PS4 and Xbox One. There's also road cars, broken up into categories. Road cars, track specific road cars (i.e. BAC Mono), and supercars. There's also karts, and a host of open wheel cars from entry level formula ford's to F1, and they've announced an IndyCar license coming sometime after release with a full Indy 500 event like they're doing with LMP and GT cars at Le Mans.
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Which type of road cars? I am very sure there are just a handful or two of (new) road cars which destroys the game for me already!

But thats just my personal opionion because i mostly want to drive street legal cars from 20 to 600 hp and i am not very interested in supercars and racecars.
If PC would host a good amount of old american cars they could catch me.
 
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ron86
Which type of road cars? I am very sure there are just a handful or two of (new) road cars which destroys the game for me already!
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A quick google search will tell you. It's ironic however, that you bash project CARS for not having anything but race cars, then bash it for "only having a handful" when you haven't even done the research.

EDIT: Here's the link, in case you were quick to type another ill informed response. There's more than a few, by the way.

http://www.projectcarsgame.com/cars.html
 
Course Maker is the only update I care about, aside from the rest of the VGT's and maybe the FIA thing if it comes to GT6.
 
LVracerGT
No one is going to want to play an outdated game with features still missing when there is a better looking, better driving, and all around better racing game.
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That's not strictly accurate... lots of people will continue to play GT6 - if for no other reason than, like me, they're still on a PS3. If, and it's a big IF, I decide to go for a PS4 and get pCars, it's only going to be because it has a couple of cars that are missing from GT, but then there are plenty or cars (and tracks) that I like missing from pCars, so I'd still go back to GT for those.
 
The Course maker of course, those other features don;t even come close.

The mobile app if it has the GPS course creator linked to it would be great otherwise useless.
B-Spec would do nothing for the game at this late stage. Would have been nice to have had it at launch or within the 1st 30 days after that the need for it was pretty much gone.
Cars are always cool no matter if they be concept, VGT, Race or production. Tracks also cool be they real world or original but again at this stage in the game it is a bit late for that. If they are free then fine but I would have a hard time paying for any DLC at this point.

The course maker if done well could be a reason to come back to the game, the others not so much.

As many here likely already know I think a proper leaderboard system is a huge omission. If they were to add that it would go a long way towards bringing some of us back and keeping us interested as well as giving us more hope for GT7, if the course creator was to come also and be linked into that leaderboard system that would be great.

Shuffle racing is cool and was a nice touch in GT5 one that they should have kept but if it were added now would make no difference to me nor my friends. Course maker and/or leaderboards is about the only things they could add that would make me actually want to devote some time to the game again.

One other thing they could do would be to improve the online racing options, let users drive stock cars that they do not own in an online race but not be able to modify them in any way. Allow more options for restricting the types of cars allowed in online races, allow and option to not allow using the power limiter or set limits on how much power can be limited, allow for collisions to be turned off in online races via options and allow for several options to be selected at once to work together. For example be able to set car type, year range, drivetrain, max HP, min weight max PP, max power limiter, manufacturer or country and any other options one can think of. If the race restrictions had more of these options a bit like Forza it would make for better online lobbies and more fun.
 
HBR-Roadhog
... I think a proper leaderboard system is a huge omission. If they were to add that it would go a long way towards bringing some of us back and keeping us interested ...
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I've heard this a few times and I always wonder why it's important? We have leaderboards on all the seasonal time trials. I know they disappear but there are also leaderboards on the licences, sierra and others that don't disappear. But they're only for friends. I guess you want a leaderboard of everyone to remain for ever. But why, what am I missing? Maybe it's because I never get near to the top.
 
TonyLomas
I've heard this a few times and I always wonder why it's important? We have leaderboards on all the seasonal time trials. I know they disappear but there are also leaderboards on the licences, sierra and others that don't disappear. But they're only for friends. I guess you want a leaderboard of everyone to remain for ever. But why, what am I missing? Maybe it's because I never get near to the top.
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Leaderboards are important for pretty much all online games and extremely important for online racing games. What we have now does not qualify as leaderboards.All we have are boards on time trials that only allow times posted for a very short period and then they go away.

Having a full set of leaderboards means that you can post a time on any track in any car at any time and those times will stay up until you beat them. On Forza myself and many of my friends spent a lot of time hot lapping and posting times. Some of us went so far as to post a time on every track in every class and on some tracks run hundreds or even thousands of laps over the life of the game posting the best times possible.

As is if I want to post a hot lap on Nurburgring in my DTM car I can see what time I get, I know if that is good or bad for me and I know how it compares to my friends but only because I race with them and/or ask what lap times they get, there is no record of it. I have no idea how it compares to times others are getting unless I go online and do a search where I may or may not find some times posted by other users that may or may not be legit and definitely not a true sample of what all users are getting there.

To me and many of my friends this is the single most important thing they could do to the game and as I have stated in other threads GT6 will be the last GT I buy until they address this glaring omission.

The leaderboards for the license tests while a nice novelty item are pretty much useless, most of us just want to get through those as fast as possible and never look back. The Sierra events can only be won once so there is not much reason to run those over and over plus they are not a good sample of a lap time due to the other cars and use of nitrous. Time trials are to restrictive and get removed.

I would like to be able to drive many different cars in several different PP ranges on several different tracks and post times that will stay put. Forza does this well. GT doesn't do it at all.
 
TonyLomas
I've heard this a few times and I always wonder why it's important? We have leaderboards on all the seasonal time trials. I know they disappear but there are also leaderboards on the licences, sierra and others that don't disappear. But they're only for friends. I guess you want a leaderboard of everyone to remain for ever. But why, what am I missing? Maybe it's because I never get near to the top.
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It isn't just about getting near the top.

Having properly implemented leaderboards for every track means you can go to time trial, do laps with any car you want at any track you want, and compare your time with others that have a similar lap time, see which cars they use, whether they use stock cars or upgraded cars, which driving aids they use, and so forth. You could also set the leaderboards to show only players that use cars within a certain class, or stock cars only, or restrict to only players who used the same car you're using. You can download ghosts of other players, watch their replays and see where they're faster than you (one can learn a lot more watching ghosts of good players than doing silly license tests with cars you'll never use). You can see which upgrades they use, which setup they use, and hopefully learn for them.

If PD did something like Forza's rivals mode you could do all of the above, have fun competing against your friends & strangers even when they're not online, and earn credits for it.
If PD included leaderboards for career mode like Shift 2 did you could compare yourself to your friends, see which cars they use for each career event, and earn bonus credits for beating their best career results.
All of that makes the game more interesting and increases replay value.
 
Course maker...
More (real) tracks would be welcome too.

But I fear we will not be getting any of these choices...
 
FS7
If PD included leaderboards for career mode like Shift 2 did you could compare yourself to your friends, see which cars they use for each career event, and earn bonus credits for beating their best career results.
All of that makes the game more interesting and increases replay value.
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Forza 2 had career leaderboards as well. I have no idea why they removed them after 2. Some of my friends were running the career races multiple times to get the best overall time they could and we had fun leap frogging on the board there as well as in the hot lap parts. It made the game more interesting and fun as well as replayable. Not only that but last I checked the Forza 2 leaderboards were still online even well after Forza 4 was released.

While Forza is not perfect they did do some things very well and GT really should mimic some of that. The online play in Forza 2 is the best I have saw on any console racer.

FM2 also had local leaderboards broken down by class and track so you could see your own top 10 times in each case.
 
I can unfortunately see the rational for not having leader boards. Friendly competition is fine, but I think we all know how that usually devolves online...just sayin' :sly:
 
Fanapryde
Course maker...
More (real) tracks would be welcome too.

But I fear we will not be getting any of these choices...
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I agree with you. Gran Turismo 6 has been out for a year and a half now, and there are no signs of these features at all. Because of all the past updates and VGT cars added, I can not imagine enough hard drive space for these features. Also, PD is probably beginning to focus on GT7 more than GT6 by this point...
 
They actually need to give us some type of course maker else they would be open to a class action suit that could cost them millions.
I can unfortunately see the rational for not having leader boards. Friendly competition is fine, but I think we all know how that usually devolves online...just sayin' :sly:
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How would it devolve online? It is simply a place that records lap times on various tracks in various cars. Sure there will always be those you find a way to cheat in an effort to get to the top and sometimes those things need to be dealt with but not giving us leaderboards and expecting us to write our times on paper and/or create a thread on a forum such as this to compare our lap times is just ridiculous.

Sure some would not be interested in hot lapping and some do not care to compare their lap times but many of us do and IMO that is almost as important in a racing game as tracks and cars and way more important than paint or gauges or B-Spec or livery editor and many other things.
 
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