What did you do in GT7 today?

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Tenacious D
I've barely touched GT7 the past few days since... whenever it was. I've been immersed in writing fiction, a novel based in the No Man's Sky universe, and it has been way more satisfying than any video game. Those who create artistically - writing, art or music, I do all three - will understand. And it's been a lot of fun to consider how the only Human being in a galaxy full of aliens would feel. As long as I have the steam to create, that's where I'll be spending most of my day. I've posted a whole mess of it over at the atlas-65 dotcom forums.

However, I have been racing, though it was the usual Tokyo grind which I used to Tomahawk Chop. Two or three races a day. I've been trying out a few cars and settled on the Aston Martin DP100 two days ago, since a few people have been crowing about it. At first I thought I'd wasted a million credits on it, as it performed about the same as many others. But then I began to see how the power band was working, and that it had a lot of grunt lower in the band, most likely helped with the Power Restrictor. It also made it sip fuel, amazingly so, and soon I was laying down some of my fastest laps yet - outside of the Tomahawk. I have no images to share as the car is rather homely to me, and I can barely remember what cars I've bought over the past few days, but they include
  • Third Ford GT '06 from the Used Lot
  • 2x Ford GT40 Mk1 '66 from Hagerty's, plus
  • 3x Ferrari 288 GTO '84
Sadly, I missed the Mercedes Sauber C9 and McLaren F1. Oh well, looks like I'll be saving a lot of money for the F40 and other goodies coming up.

Quick edit: sorry "cool kids," I still love the game. It's just that I'm a creator in my soul, and I truly love bringing worlds and people to life through prose. Love making music and art too, but writing is a lot easier.
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I am also an amateur artist. Maybe that's why I have found myself spending more time in the GT7 livery editor than actually racing. I do enjoy the racing, though, but I like to take breaks from it.
 
Grind the WTC 700 Le Mans using the trusty OP 787b. Half way the weather suddenly changes to full heavy rain (which is something I hate, no transition somehow). Me and the AI were all over the place which was hilarious seeing a 787B, a Swift Gr. 4, a Genesis Gr. 4, a Corvette Gr. 4 and a Huracan Gr. 4 braking and sliding to the wall just before the chicanes on Mulsanne straight. I forgot to watch the replay though.
 
WRP001
Also completed the last Circuit Experiences (Fuji). Have gold in everything now: events, missions, circuit experience.
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You guys in the same situation are really good... Well played all! I do not consider myself as a bad player, but some events/CE are just too hard for me. What I'm mostly doing is enjoying my daily WTC 700 LM race with a lot of different cars (we need a lot more LM like races though)
 
I got stuck into the Gr.1 @ Suzuka with my trusty (read: my only VGT) McLaren. I'm absolutely loving the challenge, and I know there's an easy win in there for me if I can cut out the mistakes. Especially when the rain comes down, it takes some virtual cojones to trust the grip!
Probably an hour's worth attempting the full race, not proud of my multiple rage quits, yielded a 3rd-placed best. I think I messed up bad on the last lap and gave away my victory.

Saying that trying to race a beast like that at 3am after a 9 hour shift probably isn't optimal, so I'll try again today.
 
Tenacious D
I've barely touched GT7 the past few days since... whenever it was. I've been immersed in writing fiction, a novel based in the No Man's Sky universe, and it has been way more satisfying than any video game. Those who create artistically - writing, art or music, I do all three - will understand. And it's been a lot of fun to consider how the only Human being in a galaxy full of aliens would feel. As long as I have the steam to create, that's where I'll be spending most of my day. I've posted a whole mess of it over at the atlas-65 dotcom forums.

However, I have been racing, though it was the usual Tokyo grind which I used to Tomahawk Chop. Two or three races a day. I've been trying out a few cars and settled on the Aston Martin DP100 two days ago, since a few people have been crowing about it. At first I thought I'd wasted a million credits on it, as it performed about the same as many others. But then I began to see how the power band was working, and that it had a lot of grunt lower in the band, most likely helped with the Power Restrictor. It also made it sip fuel, amazingly so, and soon I was laying down some of my fastest laps yet - outside of the Tomahawk. I have no images to share as the car is rather homely to me, and I can barely remember what cars I've bought over the past few days, but they include
  • Third Ford GT '06 from the Used Lot
  • 2x Ford GT40 Mk1 '66 from Hagerty's, plus
  • 3x Ferrari 288 GTO '84
Sadly, I missed the Mercedes Sauber C9 and McLaren F1. Oh well, looks like I'll be saving a lot of money for the F40 and other goodies coming up.

Quick edit: sorry "cool kids," I still love the game. It's just that I'm a creator in my soul, and I truly love bringing worlds and people to life through prose. Love making music and art too, but writing is a lot easier.
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Musician here. I produce my own tracks.

I tend to go back to GT7 on the days my creativity just isn’t there. It’s a fickle thing, as I’m sure you know. I can wake up one day feeling really positive and energetic about working on a project, but then creative block happens. Other days, with an hour spare, I’ll quickly go into a project to make a few simple changes or revisions and suddenly I’m right in the zone and the creativity just flows. That’s when I embrace it, knowing I might well be hitting those brick walls a day later. We simply can’t pick and choose when our brains tune in to that creative frequency!

So yeah, GT7 is there for the times my mind has decided to tune out.

Good luck with your projects 😊
 
I checked out the new races for the week, on here that is. Don't feel enticed to fire up GT7 for another week. Suzuka is a good circuit but was way overused in GT Sport. I hope it won't be the same in GT7...

Also driving it now will just make me long for the more interesting combos we had in GT Sport on Suzuka with the SF19, GR.1 and GR.2 races. GR.3 with max 16 players, worse matchmaking (lower player count and split between ps4 and ps5) no weather and I guess no fixes to the penalty system, not compelling at all.

Since I can't vote with my wallet anymore (already bought the game) I'll vote with my time. Not contributing to engagement numbers to justify the lackluster handling of GT7. Guess I'll become a patch racer, do the 3 new races after the monthly updates and disappear again for the rest of the month :lol:
 
Today was a love hate relationship with gt7. Did the usual grind at spa, with the newly bought CLK LM. Great pleasure, i love this track with the rain. In cockpit no assist, this is why i do it! Why cant we have more 1h race with weather trown in at other track,how hard can it be. Would love to see suzuka or fuji, nuremburgring, red bull ring and the brazil track get a 1h race. Then went online for the first time in ages. Did the suzuka gr3 race from 14th because no qualify. Went all the way up to 2nd after a great battle with a guy named MIT, loved it! Then tried the same thing again, got taken of the road and blocked at every oppertunity, hated it. Did a 4 lap qualy to see if i could start at a better place, got it down to a 59.7 and started second. Came in the pits and somehow i got a ****ing 3 second penalty for driving across a whit line on entry... Yeah right. Then bottled it to 7th place by keep making mistakes cause i was angry, then quit. Still in B licence, i keep making to many mistakes or i just dont bother with the stupid qualifying system...
 
TFSI400
We simply can’t pick and choose when our brains tune in to that creative frequency!
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I started a new chapter back in... February I believe, and a couple of weeks into it, I stopped at a point in one scene for the day, and the next day I just stared at it and quit. The next sentence just wouldn't come to me. For months. Thank God, I pushed through the scene last week, and the dam was busted. I still have unfinished art to get to, three pieces, though music is truly frustrating me. I do the one man band thing, emulating other musicians with my keyboards. But that muse is truly elusive, and my keyboard chops have just about died. One day, I'll get back to it. I'm an engineer / producer too, recorded a multi-instrumentalist friend for two albums. A man of many talents, a polymorph I call myself. :D

GT7 wise, I'm probably going to just do the Tokyo grind for new cars - I see the CLK is back on the shelves, which I need to do more than a few races a day to afford. Knowing me, after that dry spell I'll probably keep writing till I hit the next drought, and GT7 will have to wait its turn. /chat
 
Today I finally got 1st at Tokyo 😁

In the Huracan road car, same setup as before. The difference this time was better fuel management and - crucially - making no mistakes.

Having said that, I almost messed it up right at the end. One area you can get past opponents is the double right hairpin; if you can get inside them there and accelerate just right you pull away from them easily onto the straight. Well on the last lap I overshot my braking point for the hairpin, tried to go around the outside of Gallo, which failed. But I had good drive out of the corner, got in his toe at the start of the straight, and sailed past him on FM1 to the flag.

I don’t know whether I was very fast in the grand scheme of things, but I posted a 2:13 lap. Tokyo is all about flow, and keeping momentum, and today I managed that.

Great race. Every now and then - despite often being infuriatingly nonsensical and frustrating - this game really shines. I just wish it was always this good.
 
In todays news, the Toyota TS050 went to Spa and won by 1:53. So much rain in Belgium today that it was purple. Necessarily, this occasioned more than 1 pit stop. Rained early doors (lap 4) just as I approached the pit. Stopped for LM & fuel. Rain stops lap 8. Another couple of laps, I thought, before pitting again for RH. Just as I'm pitting, I can see the rain on the radar. New IM it is then. Rain finally stops lap 17. Never seen so much rain. As it happens, new RH lasted the rest of the race.
Went around the world completing races that I'd not won previously, then went to Sardegna with the Chapparal 2J and took it easy on the rest of the pack.
Honest Tony is so getting on my nerves now, still no new stock in Used Cars & Mr Hagerty occasioned the parting of ways of 6 million credits for a 2nd hand Mercedes CLK LM. He must be absolutely rolling in credits that Hagerty bloke..
Ttfn
 
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Spent time yesterday grinding 12 lap Tokyo event in my newly tuned RCZ GrB car, won with it when I could run clean. Then decided to immerse myself in my passion for Porsches. I built up a 997 to run the 600pp 12 lapper but decided to fine tune it by running the 700pp Shwarzwald events and man it is quick in 600pp tune. Did the 12 lapper at Tokyo and with a spin, and two penalties (one from the spin) won by 8 seconds. Wow.

Before bedtime I created a 600pp 964 and put a livery on the GT4 Cayman. Tonight I will try the 964 in the 12 lapper and run the Cayman at Lemans in the Gr4 race. If that all goes well I will see where else I can run the 997 and the 964. I'm going to spend this week focusing just on this brand and create a couple more 600pp monsters. I want to run the 991 stock in some races and see how it does too.

Usually in GT games I have a couple go-to weapons that I used for game progression and grinding. I haven't really done that yet with this game. I would like to sort one of my 911's into that weapon.
 
On the GTP account, I did the Tokyo rain dance on a no-stop strategy with the R33 (FM4, best unassisted lap of 2:15.7x) for a 17-second win over Suswillo (and Gallo 3 seconds behind that) in 27:47, basically the same as a one-stop strategy with the same car. The 2-star marathon roulette gave...wait for it...wait for it...the small-cash 5,000 Cr. prize.

On the Plus account, I forgot how hard the Tsukuba Clubman Cup Plus is and finished a disappointing 8th in a stock Radical. I tried again in the R34 after equipping it with SS tires and got 3rd. I then remembered I did this earlier on the GTP account with Exeter's 550PP tune of the Evo IV, and, after adding some weight and taking away power to get back to exactly 550.00 PP, did a dirty win.

I was still short of the marathon Wheel of Despondency ticket, so I took the Evo to Mount Panorama to clean up the Japanese 4WD Challenge I previously finished 2nd in with the R34. The 4-star marathon roulette gave me...wait for it...wait for it...the small-cash 10,000 Cr. Prize for the second time in 3 days. On the Plus account, that's 11 small-cash prizes in a row (4 of the last 6 being 5,000 Cr., on a 3-star, two 2-star and a 1-star) and 22 since either the small-cash prize or a worthless invite (with the most-recent invite disappearing early).
 
Continuing the regular car saga, today was an experiment to see just how well that old Gran Turismo mainstay, the Mazda Miata / Eunos, could destroy other cars while maintaining it's stock horsepower. The findings? With 117 horsepower, the stock handling on this thing makes a mockery of it's competition. It's like a Mini. Able to be driven around corners close to flat out. Then I added better suspension, tranny and sport or racing softs and made the other cars cry. All without touching the original power output. To cap things off, the wheel of misfortune gave me another free Civic.
 
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Did a couple of races to build up some cash in my CLK. Love driving that car at 800PP. I realised I hadn't driven it stock for a while, so I created a new setting sheet and it took for a time trial at LeMans. 4 laps in and I have a 3:33.8 with an optimal lap of 33.2. I know there's a 32 in there somewhere, just need to stop being cautious and focusing too much on keeping the lap clean.

This car was good to drive at 800PP, but stock at 830 it's a completely different animal!

Edit: Shame this car can't enter the VGT 850PP races, it would destroy them.
 
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Got around to painting up my AE86 clones after a short break
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Created a Gr.4 spec Hyundai Genesis Track coupe and went to the multiplayer lobby for the first time. Found an open 650pp lobby “Race for fun” on Brands Hatch. Entered the lobby, just the host and me, raced and not only it was a clean race, I won it, it was close and real fun! Went back again us two, this time he’s on a Scirocco and me on my ‘88 Supra Gr.4 tune, and he won that one. Went a third time, he’s on a ‘83 GTI and me on a Focus RS also on a Gr.4 tune by @Stakado and it went neck by neck the whole time trading 1P, and he won by only a second ahead of me! Gotta admit that was the most fun I’ve had in this game in a very long time!!
 
BigJimmy
Like above I'm still having fun with custom GR4 builds. Currently trying to win the Deep Forest 700PP GR4 race. Best I have managed is 2nd in the Radical and 350Z. Fuel consumption is the killer for most of these custom GR4s. Its great fun though.
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Just won the WTC700 at Laguna Seca in a tuned Celica GT Four (around 650PP). I seem to remember struggling with this in a proper Group 4 car.

I did the first 7 laps on FM6, then after a pit stop did the remainder on FM1. Traction was fully off - I seem to have found a setup that’s quite loose, but controllable, and lots of fun. Any corner I could I’d get it sideways 😁
 
TRB1999
Logged on, did my daily marathon through a run around Le Mans in the WTC700 with my Nomad Diablo replica, got a one-star ticket that netted me 5,000 credits, logged off.

You shouldn’t get one-star tickets at collector level 50, just saying.
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When I initially got to level 50 I immediately had a run of good tickets. 4s and up. I felt like it was really advantageous to finally be at level 50. It was paying off. But…

Fast forward a few weeks to now, and all I seem to be getting is low star tickets. 2s, 3s if I’m lucky. It’s as if my Collector Level suddenly means nothing. Quite frustrating 😐
 
I spent my first hour at Spa using a wheel last night, and it was a mixture of great fun and embarrassment - but there's no doubt that it is so much more realistic and it is a completely new experience to actually feel the behaviour of the car as you take various corners. Blanchemont is a bit tricky at the best of times, but last night I was almost comically bad at it - I think it is going to take some time to basically unlearn how I've been playing the game with a controller - not easy since that is basically 25 years' worth - but I was almost always entering a corner too fast with a wheel and then struggling for control afterwards.

I have won a couple of (very) low grade races with the wheel, but stepping up to the WTC 600 race was a bit of an eye-opener... best I could manage with a Nissan GT-R was 5th thus far, although at least I did manage an entire 4 laps without spinning - eventually.
 

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